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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
136 PM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central
Fairfield and eastern Putnam Counties through 200 PM EDT...
At 136 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Lake Carmel, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Lake Carmel, Sherman, New Fairfield, Carmel, Patterson and Putnam
Lake.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
southern Connecticut...and southeastern New York.
LAT...LON 4166 7350 4166 7349 4165 7349 4164 7350
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TIME...MOT...LOC 1736Z 237DEG 30KT 4146 7370
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Ten people talk about why they had an abortion, how they feel about it years down the road, and how they felt when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Plus, what it's like telling your abortion story as a comedian. Alison Leiby, a Brooklyn-based writer and comedian, created her show, "Oh God, A Show About Abortion," which premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in April of 2022.
The phone number for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) is 1-800-656-4673. That line is open 24/7.
GUESTS:
- Janice Wolf: Had her abortion 15 years ago after the fetus was diagnosed with cystic hygroma
- Emily Woodward Tracy: Had her abortion after an unplanned pregnancy when she was 16
- "Anastasia" (pseudonym): Had her abortion when she was in her early 20's after being drugged and raped
- Katrice Claudio: Had her abortion at 23 years old after an unplanned pregnancy
- Linda Storms: Had her abortion after she had an "incomplete miscarriage"
- Ryan Lindsay: Had her abortion after an unplanned pregnancy
- Amy Philips: Creator of the Facebook group, “I Regret My Abortion”. She had hers after an unplanned pregnancy when she was 22
- Serena Dyksen: Had an abortion at 13 years old after being raped by her uncle
- Jarrell Prichard: When he was in high school, was the partner of his teenage girlfriend who had three abortions
- Alison Leiby: A comedian who has a show called "Oh God, A Show About Abortion". She had hers after an unplanned pregnancy when she was 35
Jessica Severin de Martinez, Catie Talarski, Anya Grondalski, and Mira Raju contributed to this show.
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Seasoned Leader of Business Growth Brings Expertise to HR Technology
NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Apploi, the leading human capital management platform for healthcare employers, today announced that Natalie Lambert joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing Apploi's customer success and sales teams. Lambert comes with twenty years of experience in both the healthcare and human capital management space, with particular expertise in helping employers recruit within specialized markets.
Lambert is no stranger to mission-driven talent acquisition and management platforms. In addition to her four years as Upwork's Vice President of Enterprise Success and Marketplace Growth, she has held positions as Hireology's Vice President of Success, and as Vice President of Sales for Brooksource, a human capital management solution for technical resources.
"Natalie is a proven leader, both of people and of processes," said Apploi CEO Adam Lewis. "All the way from startups to Fortune 100 companies, she's seen it all, and she's scaled it all. She's already got Apploi's mission in her DNA, and we couldn't be more excited to welcome her to the team."
For Apploi's customers, the fight for quality healthcare talent is especially pressing. Healthcare is experiencing worker shortages far more extreme than average, with staff shortages causing ripple effects across patient care and the entire industry's reputation.
Apploi offers a solution, with tools that support super-speed hiring and onboarding, multi-channel job distribution, and automated hiring workflows. But to keep up with healthcare's formidable needs, Apploi also has to keep on scaling. That's where Lambert comes in: to help position Apploi for long-term success.
"After years of working with employers to find new and specialized talent, you start to see patterns," said Lambert. "The same challenges persist, leaving both employers and skilled talent frustrated. It's been the greatest reward in my career that I can help flip that script and actually help businesses go from a really tough spot to being fully staffed and thriving. With Apploi, the impact is so clear. We make finding talent easier for our clients so they can focus on quality healthcare for their patients and their communities. I couldn't ask for anything better."
Apploi is the leading human capital management platform specializing in high-volume people hiring for healthcare. Apploi streamlines the hiring process from candidate acquisition to hired. Working with 7,000+ healthcare organizations across the US today, Apploi simplifies the hiring process to reduce days-to-hire and get more healthcare workers into roles faster. To learn more about Apploi, visit: www.apploi.com.
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The city of Annapolis is implementing new security measures at City Hall.
Starting Friday, all visitors will be required to pass through a “100% security checkpoint” at the entrance of the seat of city government located at 160 Duke of Gloucester St.
Annapolis police officers will conduct the new screening measures on all visitors who can either choose to pass through a magnetometer or submit to a wand screening. The process will be similar to procedures currently used at courthouses and state and county government buildings in Annapolis, said City Manager David Jarrell.
“It is crucial that we maintain the security of our buildings and operations for the safety of our employees as well as the public,” Jarrell said in a news release. “We are the last main government building in Maryland’s capital city to implement these measures. It is my hope that the public will not be greatly inconvenienced, but will feel safer in our buildings.”
The security measures are the result of an audit conducted in 2019 that showed a need for a checkpoint, which was initially supposed to be installed in early 2020 but was delayed by more than two years because of the pandemic. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/anne-arundel/annapolis/ac-cn-annapolis-city-hall-security-20220721-z3s2ube7ozb7zdwper36xgboiy-story.html | 2022-07-21T18:50:08Z | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/anne-arundel/annapolis/ac-cn-annapolis-city-hall-security-20220721-z3s2ube7ozb7zdwper36xgboiy-story.html | true |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A grand jury in Ohio has indicted the man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion that became a flashpoint in the national debate over access to the procedure.
The 27-year-old defendant is charged with two felony counts of rape in an indictment filed Thursday in county court in Columbus.
The case drew national attention when an Indianapolis doctor said the child had to go to Indiana because Ohio banned abortions at the first detectable “fetal heartbeat” after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.
Before the criminal case against the suspect was revealed, Ohio's Republican attorney general and a GOP congressman from the state were among conservatives who publicly questioned whether the story about the girl was true. Democratic President Joe Biden highlighted the girl's case at the signing of an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion.
Court records listed no attorney for the rape suspect after the indictment. His arraignment is scheduled for Monday.
Initial court records didn't specify whether or how the suspect knew the girl, and authorities haven't provided comment or additional details in response to requests about that. The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify victims of sexual assault and, for now, is not naming the suspect to avoid inadvertently identifying the girl. | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Man-indicted-in-rape-of-girl-10-who-traveled-17320254.php | 2022-07-21T18:50:31Z | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Man-indicted-in-rape-of-girl-10-who-traveled-17320254.php | true |
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Jonas Vingegaard showed class when he waited for defending champion Tadej Pogacar after a fall, before going on to beat his Slovenian rival by over a minute on the Hautacam mountain on stage 18 of the Tour de France on Thursday.
The stage win leaves Denmark's Vingegaard with an advantage that, barring disaster or a bad fall, should see him ride up the Champs Elysees to win the 2022 title on Sunday.
"I don't want to talk about winning the Tour yet, let's talk about it in Paris, there are three days to go," Vingegaard said at the line.
The pair have been shadowing each other the entire race, with Pogacar winning three stages and taking the overall leader's yellow jersey by stage seven, before Vingegaard took it off him in the baking heatwave in the Alps.
Since then Pogacar has relentlessly attacked the Dane in a stubborn effort to close the gap.
The loss of four of his UAE teammates to positive Covid tests and falls however hurt those chances.
On Thursday, Vingegaard's Jumbo teammate Wout van Aert acted as a sherpa for his team leader on the final climb, and it was at that moment that Pogacar finally cracked.
Earlier and likely equally as damaging, some 28km from home, Pogacar misjudged a corner and Vingegaard cut inside him, spooking the Slovenian who then wobbled and slipped off into a gutter.
The champion swiftly picked himself up, ignoring the gash on his left hand as he hammered the pedal down in pursuit.
Vingegaard, after at first attacking the opportunity, had a change of heart, waiting for his rival, before the two grasped each other's hand as Pogacar drew up alongside.
"We like each other, we get on and we respect each other," said the Dane.
The gesture will likely serve Vingegaard's reputation well, within the cycling code of honour, and with the wider public.
Vingegaard now leads Pogacar by 3 minutes and 26 seconds, while Ineos veteran Geraint Thomas is still third at 8min exactly, three minutes ahead of fourth-placed David Gaudu.
This was the sixth stage finish on this iconic Pyrenean climb, with Vingegaard's fellow Dane Bjarne Riis in 1996 and Italy's Vincenzo Nibali in 2014 both going on to win the Tour after winning at the summit.
Stage 19 runs through the isolated Tarn region and will likely end in a bunch sprint.
Saturday's stage however is a brutal 41km individual time trial, leaving a glimmer of hope for Pogacar, who won the 2020 Tour with a last-gasp turnaround.
Stage 21 is a largely ceremonial run into Paris, ending with eight laps of the Champs Elysees. | https://www.beinsports.com/en/cycling/news/vingegaard-beats-pogacar-to-put-one-hand-on-t/1919833 | 2022-07-21T18:52:43Z | https://www.beinsports.com/en/cycling/news/vingegaard-beats-pogacar-to-put-one-hand-on-t/1919833 | true |
She's emerged as a ray of hope for our citizens, PM Modi on Draupadi Murmu's Victory
BJP-led NDA nominee Draupadi Murmu is all set to be the 15th President of India, as she defeated opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha by a huge margin.
New Delhi: BJP-led NDA nominee Draupadi Murmu is all set to be the 15th President of India, as she defeated opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha by a huge margin. On Thursday evening, Draupadi sealed her victory after the second round of counting by getting nearly 72 percent of the total votes of all MPs and MLAs of 10 states counted so far.
Congratulatory messages have poured in from various party leaders after Murmu's victory became evident. Outgoing President Ram Nath Kovind extended congratulatory wishes to Murmu. Kovind will step down from his position on July 24th. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party president J.P. Nadda met Murmu as fireworks and cheers and celebrations were observed outside her residence.
Prime Minister Modi, on Murmu's victory, said, "India scripts history. At a time when 1.3 billion Indians are marking Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, a daughter of India hailing from a tribal community born in a remote part of eastern India has been elected our President."
P.M Modi also stated that given Murmu's political legacy and her tenure as the Jharkhand governor, he is confident that she will strengthen India's development journey. He also stated that the President-elect has emerged as a ray of hope for India's citizens, especially the poor, marginalised and the downtrodden.
Meanwhile, Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha has tweeted, "I heartily congratulate #DroupadiMurmu on her victory in Presidential Election 2022. I hope—indeed, every Indian hopes—that as 15th President she functions as Custodian of Constitution without fear or favour. I join fellow countrymen in extending best wishes to her."
BJP President J.P. Nadda also took to Twitter and said, "Hearty congratulations to Mrs. Draupadi Murmu ji on being elected as the 15th President of the country.
Reaching the presidency of a woman from a tribal society is a golden moment for the country, I am sure that the nation will get immense benefits from your experience and efficiency in administrative and social work."
It has been reported that locals of Murmu's hometown Rairangpur have prepared 20,000 ladoos for distribution among the people and hoardings have been put up congratulating "Odisha's daughter."
The new president is set to take oath on July 25th. Murmu is the second woman, after Pratibha Patil, to hold the position of President of India. She is the first Tribal female to be elected to the highest office. Polling for the presidential election was on July 18th held between 10am to 5pm. The crucial elections were held at 31 locations including the Parliament house and 30 centres within state legislative assemblies.
Political leaders such as Union Minister Anurag Thakur, Tamil Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu also congratulated her on becoming the next President of India. | https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/shes-emerged-as-a-ray-of-hope-for-our-citizens-pm-modi-on-draupadi-murmus-victory-754500 | 2022-07-21T18:53:15Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/shes-emerged-as-a-ray-of-hope-for-our-citizens-pm-modi-on-draupadi-murmus-victory-754500 | false |
CLEVELAND, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Demand for molded pulp packaging is forecast to increase 6.2% per year through 2026, finds a new Freedonia Group analysis. This relatively small, but quickly expanding segment of the larger packaging market is seeing increased growth due primarily to the environmental benefits of molded fiber products, including its:
- recyclability
- biodegradability
- compostability (in commercial composting facilities)
Manufacturers of food products and consumer and industrial packaged goods, along with e-commerce and shipping providers, are increasingly implementing strategies to improve their environmental footprints, as commitments to eco-friendliness are important to many of their customers. In addition to packaging reduction strategies, a key means of improving sustainability has been the use of more environmentally friendly materials like molded fiber.
In addition to trends favoring molded fiber packaging's excellent environmental profile, key factors supporting strong demand increases include:
- expanding recognition of molded pulp's performance properties, including excellent cushioning, bracing, and blocking
- the development of molded fiber products that are more competitive with plastic alternatives in terms of cost, performance, and aesthetics, such as rigid packaging made from molded bamboo or molded sugarcane
- backlash against single-use plastic products manufactured from expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam, as well as bans on certain EPS foodservice products in a growing number of cities
- increasing domestic manufacturing capacity for molded fiber, which will help keep prices more competitive
- healthy growth in a number of key applications for molded fiber packaging, including e-commerce and foodservice
- R&D to develop new applications for molded fiber, specifically in nonfood primary packaging markets
Sustainability in Packaging is focused on identifying key trends in sustainability in the packaging industry, including:
- shifts in material mix toward more sustainable alternatives to virgin plastics (e.g., paper, bioplastics, molded fiber, recycled materials, reusable packaging)
- packaging producer and end user sustainability efforts and target goals
- product innovation in compostable, biodegradable, recyclable, and lightweight packaging
- expansion of packaging reuse programs
- supply and demand for recycled content
- regulatory changes affecting demand for sustainable packaging
Sustainability trends are analyzed by leading packaging material (plastic, paper and paperboard, metal, glass, molded fiber) and in terms of packaging producer and end user sustainability goals. Historical data and forecasts for overall packaging demand and key market segments (food, beverage, pharmaceuticals, foodservice disposables, and other markets including e-commerce) are also provided. Additionally, profiles of select packaging products, markets, and materials are highlighted. Consumer survey data related to packaging sustainability collected by The Freedonia Group are also presented.
About the Freedonia Group - The Freedonia Group, a division of MarketResearch.com, is the premier international industrial research company, providing our clients with product analyses, market forecasts, industry trends, and market share information. From one-person consulting firms to global conglomerates, our analysts provide companies with unbiased, reliable industry market research and analysis to help them make important business decisions. With over 100 studies published annually, we support over 90% of the industrial Fortune 500 companies. Find off-the-shelf studies at https://www.freedoniagroup.com/ or contact us for custom research: +1 440.842.2400.
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Former Washington safety Deshazor Everett pleaded guilty to reckless driving for his role in a December crash that killed his passenger.
Everett was initially charged in Virginia with felony involuntary manslaughter in January after an investigation found he was speeding before his sports car slammed into trees and rolled over on the night of Dec. 23.
Reckless driving is a misdemeanor in Virginia punishable by up to a year in jail. He’s scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 8 in General District Court in Loudoun County.
Everett’s plea to the reduced charge was entered Tuesday. Messages sent to Everett’s attorney and a spokesperson for the Commonwealth’s Attorney on Wednesday were not immediately returned.
Everett was treated for serious injuries after the crash. His passenger, Olivia S. Peters, 29, of Las Vegas, died at a hospital.
Washington placed Everett on injured reserve after the crash and released him after the season.
Everett, who turned 30 in February, was a special teams captain in 2018 and played seven NFL seasons, all with Washington. He played in 14 games last year before the crash along a road in Chantilly, Virginia.
An investigation determined Everett was driving at more than twice the 45 mph (72 kph) speed limit on Dec. 23 when his Nissan GT-R left the roadway, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office after Everett turned himself in at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center in February.
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Kelson Row - Mixed Use Development Underway
ROCKY HILL, Conn., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Belfonti Companies recently purchased a 12.65 acre site which formerly housed the now defunct Ames headquarters in Rocky Hill, CT. The land loan with Bankwell Bank (www.mybankwell.com) closed in June of 2022.
Bob Palermo, the Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending for Bankwell, said that this is the second loan that Bankwell has done with the Belfonti Companies. "We previously provided a construction loan for Michael Belfonti's project in Cromwell, and we are pleased to be working with his team again as the lender for this new venture in Rocky Hill," said Mr. Palermo.
The developer (Belfonti) plans to erect a mixed use residential and commercial property on the site which will include 213 residential units, 5,000 square feet of office space, and 15,000 square feet of retail. Demolition of the Ames building is already underway, and the Belfonti team has been busy with an extensive branding and interior design process that has included input from Rocky Hill town officials as well as two professional companies: Stantec (www.stantec.com) and Helen Piteo Interiors (www.helenpiteointeriors.com). By unanimous decision, the new residential development will be called "Kelson Row" and the retail portion will be called "The Shoppes at Kelson Row".
"The choice of name comes from the town of Rocky Hill's historical significance as a ship-building community," said Ray Carpentino, the Economic Development Director for the Town of Rocky Hill. "The word 'kelson' is a derivative of 'keelson', which is the reinforcing structural member or backbone on top of the keel in the hull of a wooden vessel," he explained.
"We liked the name because it is our expectation that Kelson Row will be a supporting member strengthening the entire Rocky Hill community," added Lisa Marotta, the Mayor of the town of Rocky Hill.
Belfonti has also chosen the well-known professional firms Studio Architects (www.studioarchitects.us) for the architectural services and SLR Consulting (www.slrconsulting.com) for the engineering services for Kelson Row. "These professional teams will help us to deliver yet another 'best in class' residential and retail community," said the developer, Michael Belfonti.
About Belfonti Companies: Belfonti Companies, LLC (headquartered in Hamden, Connecticut) actively pursues real estate development and investment opportunities throughout the United States and internationally. Belfonti Companies is a family of organizations that focus on investment, development and management of real estate, thus playing a significant and multi-faceted role in the real estate market. Under the leadership of Michael Belfonti (the company's founder, President and CEO), the company has successfully owned and managed millions of square feet of real estate over the years and has completed billions of dollars' worth of transactions. At the present time the group's portfolio contains a wide variety of assets including residential apartment communities, office buildings, retail centers and industrial parks. www.belfonti.com
Belfonti Companies, LLC
2319 Whitney Avenue, Suite 1A
Hamden, CT 06518
Phone: (203) 230-1600
Fax: (203) 281-3366
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- Company heightens vegetation management practices to protect endangered wildflower, threatened lizard in Marion County
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its commitment to support the vitality of a healthy ecosystem, Duke Energy Florida has aligned efforts with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), among other agencies, to protect a population of federally endangered wildflowers in central Florida.
Earlier this spring, Duke Energy environmental scientists joined various agencies and stakeholders to maximize the preservation and protection of the federally endangered clasping warea (Warea amplexifolia) and the federally threatened sand skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) found in an unincorporated community in Marion County, near Ocklawaha.
The annual wildflower occurs nowhere else in the world other than the central ridges in Florida, with the Ocklawaha population being among one of the largest of identified populations. By protecting the plant's habitat, the team is supporting other species that depend on it, like the sand skink.
"Powering the lives of our communities extends far beyond keeping the lights on for our customers," said Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida state president. "Duke Energy is proud to work alongside our community allies to protect Florida's most-treasured species and the habitats they depend on."
A first for Duke Energy in Florida, the company is installing "sensitive habitat" management signage within its rights-of-way corridors to alert contractors and crews working in these areas. The company has also shifted its vegetation management practices to limit mowing and lower the volume of herbicide used in targeted areas to help the plants grow and flourish.
"Duke Energy Florida's willingness to support management of the endangered clasping warea on its lands alongside the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program speaks volumes," said USFWS' Partners for Fish and Wildlife/Coastal Program Coordinator Chad Allison. "The cooperation inspires and engages a network of state and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and private landowners alike proving conservation and industry can not only coexist but can ultimately thrive."
The collaboration furthers Duke Energy and Duke Energy Foundation's commitment to environmental stewardship and community engagement. Since 2015, the Duke Energy Foundation has provided more than $188,000 in grants to the Rare Plant Conservation program at Bok Tower Gardens to establish new populations of the clasping warea through seed preservation, habitat quality improvements, biological research and increasing plant numbers in the wild.
Among the project team leading these efforts are Duke Energy Florida, USFWS, Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS), Bok Tower Gardens, FNPS-Marion Big Scrub Chapter, Putnam Land Conservancy, as well as volunteers and private landowners.
The team will continue to engage landowners in the area, bringing awareness to the ways they can support and protect the species now and in the future.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. For more information on our work and the people who make it happen, visit fws.gov. Connect with our Facebook page at facebook.com/usfwssoutheast, follow our tweets at twitter.com/usfwssoutheast, watch our YouTube channel at youtube.com/usfws, and download photos from our Flickr page at flickr.com/photos/usfwssoutheast.
Duke Energy Florida
Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 10,300 megawatts of energy capacity, supplying electricity to 1.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across a 13,000-square-mile service area in Florida.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
Duke Energy media contact: Audrey Stasko
Cell: 315.877.3031
Media line: 800.559.3853
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service media contact: Renee Bodine
Phone: 352.451.8126
Email: renee_bodine@fws.gov
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Services for retired 190th Sgt. killed in plane crash to be held July 29
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Services for a Topekan who was an active member in the Kansas aviation scene and ultimately passed away in a Shawnee Co. plane crash will be held on Friday, July 29.
Steven Dale Stucky, 74, of Topeka, passed away in a tragic plane crash on Saturday, July 16, in Shawnee Co. when his plane engine stalled sending the aircraft nose first into the ground.
According to Stucky’s obituary, he attended Haven High School and graduated in 1966 before attending both Hutchinson Community College and Pittsburg State University.
The obituary noted that Stucky began his military career with the Kansas Air National Guard in 1967 as an avionics technician. In 1977, he transitioned to an in-flight refueler - boom operator - as the 190th Air Refueling Wing started its mission to refuel KC-135 aircraft. He was honored with the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1992 and served as Chief Boom Operator for the 117th Air Refueling Squadron. He was also named Chief Master Sargent in 2001 before he retired in 2004 after 36 years of military service.
The obituary also indicated that Stucky was an experienced pilot and held multiple ratings including Visual Flight Rules, Commercial, Formation Flying Inc., and Dynamic Maneuvering with the International Council of Airshows.
Stucky was known to have built two planes - a Vari-EZE (N282S) which is now on display at the Coffeyville Aviation Heritage Museum and an RV-7 (N283S).
The family noted that with his RV-7, Stucky enjoyed flying formation as a member fo the KC Flight Formation Team and performed at shows national.
The obituary also indicated that Stucky was a member of the First United Methodist Church and volunteered at the State Street School.
A memorial service will be held for Stucky at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 29, at Dove Funeral Home’s Southwest Chapel, 3700 SW Wanamaker Rd. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. the night before on July 28.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorial contributions be made to the Combat Air Museum and the Topeka Rescue Mission.
The obituary notes that Stucky is survived by his wife of 51 years, Patricia, and his son, Brian.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery officials on Thursday raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $660 million, giving players a shot at what would be the nation's ninth largest jackpot.
The jackpot for Friday night's drawing has grown so large because there hasn't been a winner in three months. Those 27 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all six numbers has allowed the jackpot to gradually grow from its $20 million starting point in April.
Even as the big prize has increased, the odds of winning all that money have remained the same — a staggering one in 302.5 million.
The highlighted pre-tax $660 million prize is for a winner who takes an annuity option, paid out in 30 annual payments. Most players choose the cash option, which for Friday's drawing would be $376.9 million.
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Stocks are ticking higher Thursday and building on their winning week as Wall Street sifts through a deluge of news about the economy, interest rates and corporate profits.
The S&P 500 was 0.6% higher in afternoon trading after shaking off an early stumble, returning to its highest level in six weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was wavering between small gains and losses. It was up 1 point, or less than 0.1%, at 31,877, as of 2:17 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1% higher as Tesla and technology stocks led the market.
Much of Wall Street’s focus was on Europe, where a yearslong experiment with negative interest rates came to a close. In the United States, reports suggested the economy is slowing more than expected, while a better-than-expected profit report from Tesla headlined a mixed set from the nation’s biggest companies. Stocks briefly lost ground after President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID, but only by a bit.
At the center of this year’s sell-off for financial markets has been the world’s punishingly high inflation, and the moves made by central banks to squash it. On Thursday, the European Central Bank surprised markets when it raised interest rates by more than expected, its first increase in 11 years.
As with the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is set to raise rates next week for a fourth time this year, the hope is that higher rates will slow the economy enough to beat back high inflation. The risk is that higher rates push down on investment prices, and too-aggressive hikes could cause a recession.
In the U.S., some areas of the economy have already begun to soften.
The highest number of workers filed for unemployment benefits last week in eight months, though it remains low compared with history. A separate report released Thursday morning showed manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region weakened by significantly more than economists expected.
The discouraging data helped pull Treasury yields lower and could steer the Federal Reserve toward less aggressive hikes on interest rates. That in turn could help support stocks.
The two-year Treasury yield, which tends to move with expectations for the Fed, slumped to 3.12% from 3.25% late Wednesday. Forecasts among traders for what the Federal Reserve will do at its meeting next week have tilted toward an increase of 0.75 percentage points and away from a colossal hike of a full percentage point.
The 10-year yield, which influences mortgage rates, fell to 2.93% from 3.03%.
The primary reason stocks have rallied this week on Wall Street has been strong profit reports from big U.S. companies. If they can deliver continued growth despite high inflation, that would prop up one of the two main levers that set stock prices. The other depends on where interest rates go.
Tesla climbed 10.2% in the first trading after the electric-vehicle maker reported results for the spring that were better than analysts expected. It was the biggest single force pulling the S&P 500 higher.
Steelmaker Nucor jumped 7.3% after its results topped forecasts. Philip Morris International, the tobacco company, rose 3.9% after reporting stronger profit than expected.
On the losing side were airlines following some disappointing reports.
United Airlines tumbled 9.5% after its profit and revenue fell short of expectations. It also scaled back its plans for growth later this year. American Airlines fell 7.7% after it reported weaker earnings than expected, though its revenue topped forecasts.
AT&T sank 7.2% even though it reported better profit and revenue than Wall Street forecast. It cut its forecast for the amount of cash it will generate this year.
Stocks of energy companies also fell after crude oil prices slid by more than 2%.
European stocks were mixed, with several events keeping the continent in the market’s spotlight beyond the European Central Bank’s momentous moves.
A key pipeline carrying natural gas into the region reopened Thursday, though worries continue that Russia may restrict supplies to punish allies of Ukraine. In Italy, Premier Mario Draghi resigned after his ruling coalition fell apart. That adds more uncertainty as Europe contends with the war in Ukraine, high inflation and the potential for trouble in Europe’s bond markets.
In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 0.4% after the Bank of Japan announced no major policy changes after a two-day meeting, as was widely expected. It’s been a holdout in the global rush to raise interest rates.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of her contribution to the staffing and recruiting industry, Jagriti Kumar, Chief Financial officer, NLB Services was named on the Staffing Industry Analysts' (SIA) 2022 40 Under 40 list, in its 6th annual announcement of the list.
As a global advisor on staffing and workforce solutions, SIA publishes this annual list to identify and honor staffing industry leaders of today and tomorrow. The 2022 class has indeed prioritized "building back better" with a reinvigorated focus on candidate care - a trend and an imperative for the post-pandemic staffing industry.
Elated at this incredible achievement of Jagriti Kumar, Sachin Alug, Chief Executive Officer, NLB Services, said, "It is a proud moment for the entire NLB team, and especially for the women working with us. Jagriti's win is a testament to her grit, perseverance, commitment and thrust on excellence. We are confident that it is just a start and we will see many more achievers on international forums going forward."
Sharing her joy, Jagriti Kumar, Chief Financial Officer, NLB Services, said, "I am deeply honored to have been chosen. I am extremely grateful to the team at NLB for giving me an opportunity to explore my full potential. The award truly belongs to the entire NLB family for being an integral part of every step we take."
"SIA's 2022 40 Under 40 shares some extraordinary differentiators from those of other industries," said Subadhra Sriram, editor and publisher at SIA. "They have helped transition the industry from its pre-pandemic model of work to one that is more candidate-friendly and flexible. It takes both resilience and a vision to do that. In addition, this group loves working with people and placing them in jobs. These rising stars have seized the opportunity to build back better."
Jagriti, as the Chief Financial Officer, has been playing a pivotal role in the strategic growth of NLB Services including structuring customer-facing deals, ensuring compliance across continents (North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe), managing strategic expansion into new lines of business, and developing robust internal policies and governance systems.
She has also been instrumental in guiding the company to navigate the impact of the coronavirus crisis. She has been a pillar of strength of NLB's thriving growth and success. Jagriti was the winner of Gold Globee® in the "Executive Hero of the Year" category, and won Silver Globee® in "Outstanding Female Professional of the Year - Accounting & Finance" category, in the 14th Annual 2021 Women World Awards®.
About NLB Services
Founded in 2007, NLB Services is one of the fastest-growing transformational workforce solution providers. Our comprehensive range of talent solutions is backed by our deep understanding of our client needs and rich industry experience.
Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, our vast global presence and unyielding customer centricity have enabled us to forge strategic partnerships with leading Fortune 500 companies, worldwide. We are a strong team of over 8000 professionals with unparalleled domain depth and exceptional digital expertise.
To know more please visit https://www.nlbservices.com.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
211 PM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Washington and northeastern Rensselaer Counties through 245 PM EDT...
At 211 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Mechanicville, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph, penny size hail, and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible. Heavy rains could cause flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Cambridge, Greenwich, Lee, White Creek, Easton, Schaghticoke, Valley
Falls, Center White Creek, West Cambridge, Post Corners, Center
Falls, Johnsonville, East Buskirk, Eagle Bridge, Middle Falls, North
Cambridge, Fly Summit, North Easton, Crandall Corners and Millertown.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
east central New York...and southern Vermont.
LAT...LON 4294 7328 4288 7362 4294 7364 4295 7363
4297 7363 4298 7361 4300 7361 4301 7359
4304 7359 4315 7348 4296 7327
TIME...MOT...LOC 1811Z 237DEG 15KT 4294 7361
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Satellite images from NASA show water loss at Lake Mead since 2000
LAS VEGAS (FOX5/Gray News) - NASA has released new satellite images that show the rapid decline of water at Lake Mead since 2000.
In the release of the photos, NASA noted that water levels at Lake Mead currently stand at the lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time.
As of July 18, Lake Mead was filled to just 27% of capacity.
Additionally, NASA said the water elevation at the Hoover Dam was 1,041.30 feet above sea level as of July 18; the water elevation at the end of July 2000 was 1,199.97 feet.
“Lake levels at the dam should stay above 1000 feet to continue operating hydropower turbines at normal levels,” NASA said.
Lake Mead provides water to roughly 25 million people in Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico.
To read more, visit NASA’s website.
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Cousins Maine Lobster
Cousins Maine Lobster
Lobster and Roll Prep
Remove Maine lobster meat from packaging and place into colander and drain for 2-3 minutes. Warm skillet over medium heat. Brush sides of rolls with melted butter & lightly toast each side until golden brown.
Connecticut Roll
Bring a skillet to medium heat with melted butter. Sauté Maine lobster meat in butter for 30-45 seconds until warm. Place warmed Maine lobster meat gently inside toasted roll. Drizzle with drawn butter and a squeeze of lemon and enjoy!
Maine Roll
Delicately line inside of toasted roll with mayo. Place chilled Maine lobster meat gently inside toasted roll. Serve with a lemon wedge and enjoy!
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Which cat nail clippers are best?
Bringing a sharp or potentially harmful gadget close to any animal is sure to make it run for the woods. Sometimes, you can’t even say the word “v-e-t” out loud before your cat scurries away to a safe place. But if you need to clip your cat’s nails and want clippers that are simple to use, the JW Pet Gripsoft Deluxe Cat Nail Trimmer is an excellent choice.
What to know before you buy cat nail clippers
It will be a struggle
You should trim your cat’s nails from when they are young, to get them used to the actions and the feeling. If it’s something new that you are trying with an adult cat, you might end up with more scratches and hisses than clippings.
The most important aspect is to show your cat that it isn’t in any danger and that what you’re doing won’t hurt — unless you do it wrong. Positive reinforcement can also work wonders, offering a treat for each nail successfully clipped.
There are different kinds
To many people, any clippers are simply clippers. But there are three kinds of clippers for cat claws, and you might have to go through each to find the type that works for you and your cat.
- Scissors cut is exactly what it sounds like. It resembles garden scissors and you place the nail in between the blades and press down, just like you would with regular paper scissors. These are the best for long nails that are starting to curl back into the toe pads.
- Guillotine-type sounds extreme, but it’s easier to handle if you know the correct technique. On the business end, there is a metal ring through which the nail goes. As you squeeze down on the handle, a sharp blade slides over the ring to clip the nail.
- If neither of those work, there are always human nail clippers. You hold and use them just like on your own nails, and surprisingly, human nail clippers are often the easiest to operate, with the Guillotine-type a close second.
Work on your technique
Consider your cat’s personality, and work on a technique as stress-free as possible for both involved. However, a few things will make the experience manageable and (almost) pleasant.
- Squeeze it: Cat claws retract, so you’ll have to gently squeeze the paw to expose them.
- Top-down: The correct way is to trim the nail from the top downward. The blade should come from above the nail, go straight down and leave a neat cut. If you trim from side to side, the nails can splinter and cause discomfort.
- File it: While most cats might not tolerate it, you can also smooth out any roughness or snags with a human nail file.
What to look for in quality cat nail clippers
Anti-slip handle
The mere thought of trimming your own nails and the clipper jolting sideways is nightmare-inducing. Imagine, then, how your cat will experience it. For that reason, good-quality cat clippers have a handle with anti-slip grips. These can either be non-slip plastic or ridges in the handle to prevent slippage.
Blades that stay sharp
It will cause more trauma to your relationship with your cat than actual harm, but blunt blades on clippers are never good. Instead of cutting through the hard nail cleanly, blunt blades essentially crush through the nail with force. Good-quality cat clippers have blades that can either be sharpened, replaced or made from a material that remains sharp even after many clips.
How much you can expect to spend on cat nail clippers
They’re relatively inexpensive, with a simple scissor-type retailing for $5-$10. Larger clippers suitable for both cats and dogs sell for $10-$15, while pet nail grinders cost $20-$30.
Cat nail clippers FAQ
Should you trim your cat’s nails?
A. There is heavy debate over whether you should trim a cat’s nails, but when it becomes an obvious problem, you have to step in. It is more an issue with indoor cats who don’t have the natural environment to shed old claws so that healthier ones can grow. However, trimming the nails can speed up the shedding process, letting stronger nails come through.
How often should you trim the nails?
A. While it varies depending on the cat’s age and activity, you should aim to trim every three to four weeks. Keep an eye on the nail growth and trim when necessary, instead of sticking to a rigid schedule.
What are the best cat nail clippers to buy?
Top cat nail clippers
JW Pet Gripsoft Deluxe Cat Nail Trimmer
What you need to know: These guillotine-type clippers are easy to use and made from sturdy materials.
What you’ll love: The spring for the blade is hidden in the top handle, so there is no worry about catching loose hair or fibers. The blade is made of stainless steel and cuts through nails quickly and easily.
What you should consider: While the handles are plastic, they don’t have an anti-slip coating or textured grip.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Top cat nail clippers for the money
Pet Republique Cat Nail Clipper
What you need to know: Made of stainless steel with an easy-to-use scissor action, these clippers trim nails effortlessly.
What you’ll love: The plastic handles are textured on the inside for improved grip and the blade stays sharp for a long time.
What you should consider: The finger holes in the handles are relatively small, so people with larger hands might struggle.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Worth checking out
Resco Original Cat Nail Clippers
What you need to know: These heavy-duty cat nail clippers are made of solid steel and chrome plating.
What you’ll love: The guillotine-type clippers are easy to handle and the cutting action is smooth. The blade is replaceable when it becomes blunt.
What you should consider: You must grip the handles tightly in your palm, as there are no textured ridges or anti-slip covers.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
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President Joe Biden’s speech at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts led to widespread claims on social media that he made a significant announcement not about climate change, but about his health.
Conservative politicians and political commentators focused on a clip from Biden’s Wednesday speech, in which he told a story about growing up near Delaware oil refineries, to assert that the president announced that he has cancer.
In response, a White House spokesperson confirmed reports that Biden was referring to previously disclosed skin cancer that was removed before he became president — not announcing a new diagnosis.
Here are the facts.
CLAIM: Biden announced that he has cancer.
THE FACTS: Biden appeared at the Somerset, Massachusetts, power station to announce new steps to combat climate change, calling it “an emergency” and promising more robust action.
At one point during his speech, he discussed the impact of environmental pollution from oil refineries near his hometown, sharing an anecdote about his childhood.
“And guess what? The first frost, you knew what was happening. You had to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window,” Biden said, according to a White House transcript of his remarks. “That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up (with) have cancer and why can — for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.”
Right-wing accounts quickly began sharing a clip of this remark with the claim that Biden was revealing that he had cancer.
“BREAKING: JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES HE HAS CANCER!!,” a Republican running for Congress in Florida wrote.
“President Biden just said he has cancer. Is it true? Or is the Commander in Chief confused? Who knows!!,” another widespread tweet stated.
But Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson, confirmed on Twitter that Biden was referring to the publicly disclosed fact that he had skin cancer removed before he became president.
In a November 2021 memo summarizing Biden’s health, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician for more than a decade, acknowledged that Biden had “several localized, non-melanoma skin cancers removed with Mohs surgery before he started his presidency.”
“These lesions were completely excised, with clear margins,” the report continued.
Though Biden suggested emissions from oil refineries were responsible for his cancer, his doctor previously linked it to sun exposure.
While discussing the cancer in his memo, O'Connor wrote that it is “well-established that President Biden did spend a good deal of time in the sun in his youth.”
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During the virtual event, the Star Atlas team unveiled the latest Star Atlas Summer updates including a new galactic NFT marketplace and more
MIAMI, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Star Atlas, a next-gen metaverse with triple-A game design and Unreal Engine 5 graphics built on the Solana blockchain, today hosted their community-focused 426LIVE event announcing a series of updates, including the highly-anticipated launch of the Star Atlas Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).
Michael Wagner, Co-Founder of Star Atlas and CEO of ATMTA, Inc., commented, "The vision for Star Atlas is a DAO of DAOs, operating at these various levels of the game, utilizing a variety of on-chain tools to manage in-game assets and treasuries, coordinating activities using the blockchain's trustless and decentralized nature. We are committed to building these tools and delivering them to our community over the next months and years."
As many members of the Star Atlas community predicted, 426LIVE deployed the first version of the DAO structure, namely the Star Atlas DAO. POLIS is Star Atlas' governance token, and in the future, this DAO will allow players within the metaverse to participate in its governance on all levels. The long-term vision of the Star Atlas metaverse is an autonomous, player-owned game, fully controlled and funded by decentralized governance. This allows players to determine the future of the metaverse, enabling them to steer the course of the project over time. Players can go to govern.staratlas.com to participate.
The Star Atlas DAO, however, is not the only DAO planned for the Star Atlas metaverse. Each of the three in-game factions will have its own DAO, which will be used for various purposes such as setting and distributing taxes for their respective controlled regions.
With the launch of the Star Atlas DAO, POLIS locking was also announced. POLIS holders will be able to commit their tokens for any amount of time up to five years. This voting-escrow model is designed to favor community members with long-term conviction in the Star Atlas vision, to help the Star Atlas team deliver a fun game and a framework for developers and content creators to build in the metaverse.
Additional Star Atlas Summer announcements include:
Galactic Marketplace: Since its launch in 2021, the Galactic Marketplace has been the hub of the metaverse economy. Today, Star Atlas is pleased to announce a complete revamp of the marketplace, with new DAO-enabled gaming foundations, a smooth user experience, and a new interface that brings the platform closer to the feel of an in-game experience on both larger desktop screens and mobile. Additionally, players will now be able to buy and sell assets directly with other players, giving the marketplace a true MMO-style community feel.
Star Path Program: The Star Atlas team also announced their new next-gen web3 referral initiative, StarPath, focused on building and sustaining the Star Atlas ecosystem by rewarding space explorers who enlist new recruits. The referral program is designed to reward not only the players bringing other active players to Star Atlas, but also to fuel competition between in-game factions to be the top recruiting force. Individual players can redeem their points, or Prosperity Marks, for ships or other in-game assets, and the most successful faction will receive in-game buff – allowing players to enhance their characters. Going forward, the StarPath program will also unlock a range of blockchain-enabled perks and access to otherwise unattainable resources.
iBUYPOWER Tech Store: Finally, after announcing iBUYPOWER as the official computer hardware provider of Star Atlas, Star Atlas and iBUYPOWER today launched the iBUYPOWER Tech Store which will feature a full line of Star Atlas branded high-end hardware, with top-quality designs selected by the Star Atlas community. The Gaming PC systems aim to include liquid coolers with STAR ATLAS "Power to the People" custom animation, Intel Core i9 12th Gen Processors, a Z690 Motherboard, 16GB of RAM and the latest generation NVIDIA 30-Series graphics cards as a standard specification. Once confirmed, Star Atlas certified PCs are slated to be available in the tech store: https://www.ibuypower.com/community/partners/star-atlas.
"We're very excited to be able to offer these new features to our community," commented Pablo Quiroga, co-founder of Star Atlas and CRO of ATMTA, Inc. "We value each and every member, and we always want to put our community first. We want to continue to empower the Star Atlas community, and we're happy to be able to reward them during Star Atlas summer. The Star Atlas DAO and locking, Galactic Marketplace, iBUYPOWER Tech Store, and StarPath referral program are just the beginning, and we can't wait to show the community what's coming next."
426LIVE is the first in a series of community events during Star Atlas summer. It will be followed by additional product releases throughout the next few months, with more to be announced on the Star Atlas Discord.
Star Atlas is a next-gen gaming metaverse emerging from the confluence of state of the art blockchain, real-time graphics, multiplayer video game, and decentralized financial technologies. Real-time graphics technology using Unreal Engine 5's Nanite allows for cinematic quality video game visuals. Blockchain technology using the Solana protocol establishes a largely serverless and secured gameplay experience.
Non-fungible tokens obtained and traded within Star Atlas creates an economy that replicates the tangibility of real world assets and ownership.
To learn more, visit StarAtlas.com, join a faction at Play.StarAtlas.com and send your spaceships to the stars.
M Group Strategic Communications (for Star Atlas)
Kevin McGrath
staratlas@mgroupsc.com
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George Bartlett’s first LV= Insurance County Championship half-century of the season cemented a strong Somerset position on the third day of the match with Yorkshire at Taunton.
Having seen hopes of a big summer hit by an early shoulder injury, the 24-year-old top-scored with 88 not out as his side ran up 225 for six in their second innings to lead by 373. Tom Lammonby made 46.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore had earlier been dismissed for 100 in a Yorkshire first innings total of 276, replying to Somerset’s 424. Jonathan Tattersall contributed 43, while Kasey Aldridge claimed three for 23 and Jack Brooks three for 73.
Much depended on Kohler-Cadmore, unbeaten on 68 against the county he will join next season, when Yorkshire began the day on 167 for four in their first innings, 257 runs behind.
Matthew Waite again offered solid support as the pair extended their fifth-wicket stand to 65.
It was broken with the total on 194 when Waite, on 21, was caught at short mid-wicket by the shrewdly-placed Bartlett off Aldridge.
Kohler-Cadmore was becalmed in the nineties, partly by Jack Leach’s miserly spell from the River End, but reached a largely untroubled hundred off 199 balls, guiding a Lewis Gregory delivery to third man for two.
The 27-year-old, who had struck 4 sixes and 9 fours, received warm applause from Somerset fans, as well as those from Yorkshire, their appetites whetted for next summer.
It took the introduction of part-time off-spinner Matt Renshaw shortly before lunch to undo Kohler-Cadmore, beaten by a ball that turned and trapped lbw on the back foot.
At the interval, the scoreboard read 228 for six. With six runs added, the second new ball became available.
Tattersall’s important 108-ball innings ended when he edged Marchant de Lange to 18-year-old wicketkeeper James Rew, who claimed his maiden first class catch for Somerset.
Dom Bess drove a catch to cover off Aldridge and when Jordan Thompson was bowled be de Lange, Yorkshire still required one run to avoid the possibility of following on.
A Shannon Gabriel single averted that danger, although Somerset may well have batted again anyway, and the deficit was 148 when he was last man out, skying a catch off de Lange.
Openers Renshaw and Lammonby wasted no time building on Somerset’s advantage, taking their second innings score to 57 by tea, Lammonby lofting sixes off Thompson and Waite.
Their stand had extended to 65 when Renshaw made a hash of an attempted reverse sweep off Jack Shutt and Kohler-Cadmore held a simple chance at slip.
Undeterred, Lammonby soon cleared the ropes again, dispatching Bess over long-on. Another six followed off Shutt, but the next ball saw the left-hander get a leading edge to cover where Harry Brook pouched the catch.
Lammonby had made his runs from just 47 balls and Somerset led by 236. Bartlett joined the sixes spree, lifting Shutt over wide long-on.
First innings centurion Tom Abell made only ten before falling to another Kohler-Cadmore slip catch, attempting to cut a ball from Bess.
But Lewis Goldsworthy helped Bartlett add 48 in sensible fashion before a lapse in concentration on 18 saw him slog-sweep a catch to square leg off Bess. At 162 for four, Somerset led by 310.
Bartlett went to fifty off 86 balls, with 2 sixes and 4 fours, a timely reminder of the form that saw him first establish a regular place in Somerset’s red ball side in 2019.
Rew and Gregory fell cheaply, but two more Bartlett sixes off Matthew Revis left the hosts reached well placed for a final day declaration.
Yorkshire centurion Kohler-Cadmore said: “I was annoyed to get out so soon after getting to a hundred. But the ball hit my shin and it was the first time I have ever walked for an lbw, so I don’t think there was much doubt about it.
“My main focus now is to score as many runs as I can in the remainder of my time with Yorkshire and finish on a high because I love the lads and want to give my all for them.
“It’s important that whatever target we face tomorrow, we just go out and bat. If you try to defend for 96 overs it can be tough, but if we play well we can make the final session a great spectacle to watch.
“I think we will have a chance chasing. If we can get to teatime with a chance of winning, you never know.” | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/cricket/somerset-v-yorkshire-ccc-day-three-i-think-we-will-have-a-chance-chasing-says-kohler-cadmore-3773610 | 2022-07-21T19:14:47Z | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/cricket/somerset-v-yorkshire-ccc-day-three-i-think-we-will-have-a-chance-chasing-says-kohler-cadmore-3773610 | true |
WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
231 PM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Lewis
and northeastern Oswego Counties through 315 PM EDT...
At 230 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Pulaski, or 11 miles southeast of Sandy Island Beach State Park,
moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Pulaski, Central Square, Redfield, Hastings, Richland, Williamstown,
Orwell, Parish, Altmar, Osceola, Smartville, Amboy Center, Salmon
River Reservoir, Kasoag, and North Osceola.
This includes Interstate 81 between exits 32 and 36.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4348 7581 4333 7589 4332 7586 4328 7587
4329 7631 4362 7613 4372 7561 4342 7554
TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 262DEG 31KT 4350 7605
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Dozens of people were arrested by U.S. Capitol police on Tuesday, July 19 during a protest for abortion rights at the U.S. Supreme Court.
On the same day, photos included in a viral tweet appeared to show police officers leading Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) away from the protest. Ocasio-Cortez had her hands behind her back but did not appear to be handcuffed, leading the poster to claim she was “pretending to be arrested.”
Other people on Twitter also claimed that the arrests of Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) were staged.
THE QUESTION
Were Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Congress members arrested at an abortion rights protest?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Congress members were arrested at an abortion rights protest.
WHAT WE FOUND
U.S. Capitol Police confirmed in a press release that 35 people, including 17 members of Congress, were arrested on July 19 for blocking traffic near the U.S. Supreme Court.
“It is against the law to block traffic, so officers gave the demonstrators three standard warnings to get out of the street,” the press release said. “When the demonstrators refused to get out of the street, the officers arrested them for Crowding, Obstructing or Incommoding.”
The Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPD/A), an advocacy organization, organized Tuesday’s protest against the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to an abortion in the United States.
In a press release, CPD/A provided the names of Congress members who were arrested during the protest, including Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Omar.
Here is the full list:
- Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-14)
- Rep. Katherine Clark (MA-05)
- Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-12)
- Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-53)
- Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-13)
- Rep. Madeleine Dean (PA-04)
- Rep. Cori Bush (MO-01)
- Rep. Rashida Talib (MI-13)
- Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
- Rep. Nydia Velázquez (NY-7)
- Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)
- Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5)
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)
- Rep. Andy Levin (MI-11)
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-7)
- Rep. Alma Adams (NC-12)
- Rep. Veronica Escobar (TX-16)
Capitol Police did not provide VERIFY with a list of those who were arrested.
A Twitter account run by Ocasio-Cortez’s staff shared a 16-second video of her arrest at the protest, writing, “Today, Rep. AOC was arrested along with other members of Congress outside the Supreme Court for protesting in support of abortion rights.”
Omar also confirmed her arrest in a tweet, which included a photo of her being escorted away from the protest with her hands behind her back.
"Today I was arrested in a civil disobedience action at the Supreme Court to protest Roe v Wade getting overturned and the assault on reproductive rights across the country," Omar said in a press release. "Our reproductive rights are under assault across the country, thanks to an extremist court with little regard for precedent or our basic rights. I will do whatever it takes, including putting my body on the line, to protect our reproductive rights."
Why wasn’t Ocasio-Cortez handcuffed during her arrest?
Many of the social media claims point to a staged arrest because Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t placed in handcuffs during her arrest.
VERIFY took the question about handcuffs directly to Capitol police. A spokesperson explained that people arrested on July 19 were “ticketed and released on-site,” which is “standard for peaceful, planned protests.”
“Nobody was handcuffed as is standard for a noncustodial arrest,” the spokesperson wrote in an email.
In a noncustodial arrest, a person is allowed to leave the scene.
Those who were arrested at the abortion rights protest have up to 15 days to pay a $50 fine or they can have a hearing, according to the Capitol police spokesperson.
Ocasio-Cortez also addressed why she placed her hands behind her back if she wasn’t in handcuffs.
“Putting your hands behind your back is a best practice while detained, handcuffed or not, to avoid escalating charges like resisting arrest,” she wrote in a tweet. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/verify/crime-verify/aoc-other-congress-members-actually-arrested-abortion-rights-protest/536-30a718db-c7fa-4429-8a2a-4097c454a3df | 2022-07-21T19:15:09Z | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/verify/crime-verify/aoc-other-congress-members-actually-arrested-abortion-rights-protest/536-30a718db-c7fa-4429-8a2a-4097c454a3df | false |
Kelson Row - Mixed Use Development Underway
ROCKY HILL, Conn., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Belfonti Companies recently purchased a 12.65 acre site which formerly housed the now defunct Ames headquarters in Rocky Hill, CT. The land loan with Bankwell Bank (www.mybankwell.com) closed in June of 2022.
Bob Palermo, the Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending for Bankwell, said that this is the second loan that Bankwell has done with the Belfonti Companies. "We previously provided a construction loan for Michael Belfonti's project in Cromwell, and we are pleased to be working with his team again as the lender for this new venture in Rocky Hill," said Mr. Palermo.
The developer (Belfonti) plans to erect a mixed use residential and commercial property on the site which will include 213 residential units, 5,000 square feet of office space, and 15,000 square feet of retail. Demolition of the Ames building is already underway, and the Belfonti team has been busy with an extensive branding and interior design process that has included input from Rocky Hill town officials as well as two professional companies: Stantec (www.stantec.com) and Helen Piteo Interiors (www.helenpiteointeriors.com). By unanimous decision, the new residential development will be called "Kelson Row" and the retail portion will be called "The Shoppes at Kelson Row".
"The choice of name comes from the town of Rocky Hill's historical significance as a ship-building community," said Ray Carpentino, the Economic Development Director for the Town of Rocky Hill. "The word 'kelson' is a derivative of 'keelson', which is the reinforcing structural member or backbone on top of the keel in the hull of a wooden vessel," he explained.
"We liked the name because it is our expectation that Kelson Row will be a supporting member strengthening the entire Rocky Hill community," added Lisa Marotta, the Mayor of the town of Rocky Hill.
Belfonti has also chosen the well-known professional firms Studio Architects (www.studioarchitects.us) for the architectural services and SLR Consulting (www.slrconsulting.com) for the engineering services for Kelson Row. "These professional teams will help us to deliver yet another 'best in class' residential and retail community," said the developer, Michael Belfonti.
About Belfonti Companies: Belfonti Companies, LLC (headquartered in Hamden, Connecticut) actively pursues real estate development and investment opportunities throughout the United States and internationally. Belfonti Companies is a family of organizations that focus on investment, development and management of real estate, thus playing a significant and multi-faceted role in the real estate market. Under the leadership of Michael Belfonti (the company's founder, President and CEO), the company has successfully owned and managed millions of square feet of real estate over the years and has completed billions of dollars' worth of transactions. At the present time the group's portfolio contains a wide variety of assets including residential apartment communities, office buildings, retail centers and industrial parks. www.belfonti.com
Belfonti Companies, LLC
2319 Whitney Avenue, Suite 1A
Hamden, CT 06518
Phone: (203) 230-1600
Fax: (203) 281-3366
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The cloud-based security and compliance solutions provider was named the No. 8 fastest-growing company in Ingram's 2022 Corporate Report 100.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BARR Advisory has been named the No. 8 fastest-growing business in Kansas City in Ingram's 2022 Corporate Report 100.
Published this week, the 37th annual report from Ingram's—Kansas City's premier business magazine—recognizes the 100 fastest-growing companies headquartered in the greater Kansas City region that achieved significant growth over a three-year period from 2018 to 2021.
BARR Advisory is featured in Ingram's annual Corporate Report 100 for the first time this year, an achievement eclipsed only by the company's placement among the top 10.
"This recognition is a testament not only to the hard work and dedication of our team, but also to the growing interest among business leaders worldwide in prioritizing data security and achieving lasting cyber resilience," said BARR Advisory founder and president Brad Thies.
A look at past reports shows competition for the prestigious recognition has grown substantially over the last several years. In 2021, less than half of the companies spotlighted by Ingram's saw growth of more than 100%. Just a year later, Ingram's latest Corporate Report 100 reveals a full 60 companies saw triple-digit growth.
For its part, BARR Advisory experienced growth of more than 438% from 2018 to 2021—an average annual growth rate of just over 146%.
"We're proud that our commitment to simplifying cybersecurity and compliance has placed us among some of the fastest-growing and most competitive businesses in Kansas City," said Thies.
Learn more about BARR Advisory: barradvisory.com
BARR Advisory is a cloud-based security and compliance solutions provider specializing in cybersecurity consulting and compliance for companies with high-value information in cloud environments like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. A trusted advisor to some of the fastest-growing cloud-based organizations around the globe, BARR simplifies compliance across multiple regulatory and customer requirements in highly regulated industries including technology, financial services, healthcare, and government.
BARR Advisory services include:
- Compliance Program Assistance
- SOC 1 Examinations
- SOC 2 and 3 Examinations
- SOC for Cybersecurity
- PCI DSS Assessment Services
- ISO 27001 Assessments
- FedRAMP Security Assessments
- HIPAA/HITECH Services
- HITRUST Services
- Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments
- Virtual CISO Services
- People and Culture Services
BARR ADVISORY MEDIA CONTACT
Michelle (Smith) Carson
BARR Advisory
785-979-8874
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HAMILTON - New mapping shows the lightning-sparked Hog Trough Fire burning on the Bitterroot National Forest has grown to 500 acres.
Fire managers note an Infrared flight determined that the blaze has grown by 237 acres.
The fire is burning 17 miles east of Hamilton and seven miles southwest of Skalkaho Falls.
It is in the Sapphire Wilderness Study Area (WSA) approximately five miles east of Black Bear Campground.
The blaze — which was discovered on July 17 — is burning in rugged and remote terrain in an old burn fire scar from the 2000 fires.
No structures are currently threatened. However, smoke from the Hog Trough Fire can be seen across the Bitterroot.
Fire managers are aiming to keep the fire to the south of Highway 38 and east of USFS Road 75.
A Type 1 helicopter is expected to arrive Thursday and perform water drops on the eastern edge of the fire.
Additionally, ground crews will be thinning along the 5071 Road to prepare it as a potential containment line.
A Type III Incident Management Team has taken over management of the Hog Trough Fire.
Closures:
- Railroad Creek, National Forest System Trail #77 to Trail#313 at the gate.
- Weasel Creek, National Forest System Trail #156 from milepost 0.00 at its junction with NFSR #461.
- A section of the Chain of Lakes Trail #313, National Forest System Trail #313 where it intersects Trail #77 Railroad Creek, Weasel Creek Trail #156.
- Skalkaho Creek -Jerry Lake Trail #503, National Forest System Trail #503
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Love Island' s Danica Taylor has been warned against bombshell Jamie Allen's advances as a friend of the footballer has reportedly claimed he is just "desperate for fame".
The 27-year-old arrived in the villa alongside three other bombshells in a bid to woo the current Islanders away from their couples.
Jamie immediately made a beeline for Danica and the pair are set to enjoy a date and a steamy kiss during tonight's episode.
Danica, who has struggled to find love in the villa after a series of failed entanglements - the most recently being Billy, should stay on guard around Jamie... according to a pal.
A source told The Sun : "Jamie's been single for ages but always has a girl on the go - he's a bit of a player like that. He's not looking to fall in love - everyone thinks he just wants to be famous and be on TV."
They added that no one can understand why he has ditched his football career to go on a show with only a few weeks left.
The Mirror has reached out to ITV for comment.
However, Jamie previously insisted that he was joining the show because he wanted to find a genuine connection and fall in love.
Ahead of entering the villa, he said: "Now I am 27, I want to find someone, have a genuine connection and fall in love so Love Island is the perfect place for me to find that."
It comes after it was revealed Jamie walked out on pre-season training with FC Halifax Town so that he could appear on the ITV2 dating show.
Ahead of walking into the villa, Jamie teased about his prospects: "I shoot, I usually score, if I want something, I’ll go and get it.”
The club he left behind feel that Jamie may have scored an own goal as they released a statement via Twitter, which showed that he hasn't arrived on the show with their blessings.
FC Halifax tweeted: "Jamie Allen has decided to join the cast of [heart emoji] Island 2022, making his intentions clear that the opportunity is very important to him.
“The matter will be reviewed on his return.”
Jamie had better hope that he returns with the love of his life as his football career may be in a cul-de-sac after he chose to pursue his dream of the perfect partner ahead of bonding with his teammates.
The bombshell was more of a lead balloon among Halifax fans, with one tweeting: "Jamie Allen from Halifax to Love Island on a short term loan."
Another was more cutting as they bemoaned in a tweet: "Jamie Allen, who signed a new contract at Halifax 11 days ago, f***s off to join the cast of Love Island.”
*Love Island airs tonight at 9pm on ITV2
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Tech innovator wins $1.7M to bring training & maintenance into the 21st century
GRAPEVINE, Texas, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Air Force wants the same 3D technology Weber provides customers for help assembling their grills. But instead of barbecuing steaks, airmen will learn to do their jobs faster. AFVentures/AFWERX is awarding BILT Incorporated a $1.7M Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) to extend their investment in 3D Intelligent Instructions®. The innovation will increase readiness by improving efficiency and reducing errors.
A TACFI allows Air Force leadership to accelerate strategic investment in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) companies that generate the most demand across the force. Interactive instructions are gaining traction with end users like maintainers and technicians; with thousands of commercial products on BILT, the number of military members exposed to the app's capability is increasing. One airman used BILT to install a ceiling fan and immediately recognized the impact it could have on military maintenance.
"Innovation is critical to mission readiness," says BILT President & COO Ahmed Qureshi. He says BILT will work closely with Air Force leaders to continue testing the 3D solution in order to maximize user progress and competency. BILT's portal allows operations analysts to gather data on performance as well as user feedback. New recruits may not come as mechanically proficient as past generations, he says, "but their sweet spot is tech. They can teach themselves anything with the right tools…but those tools are not technical manuals."
BILT recently completed work on an Air Force SBIR Phase II contract. One of the primary TACFI requirements is to secure investment from the private sector. Silverton Partners, an Austin-based venture capital firm, invested in BILT last year, providing the matching funds.
"There's a valley of death between SBIR Phases II and III," says Silverton Principal Matthew Saitta. "But we're going to bridge that gap, because our service members deserve BILT."
BILT Intelligent Instructions revolutionize assembly, installation, maintenance, and repair. Users can manipulate 3D animated images on a touchscreen for optimum understanding. They can replay steps instantly or skip ahead to where they need help. For more information, download BILT on iOS or Android or go to BILTapp.com.
Contact:
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WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
204 PM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...Strong thunderstorms moving into the Connecticut River Valley
region through 300 PM...
At 200 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Heath Massachusetts southward to around
New Milford Connecticut. Movement was northeast at 20 mph. These
thunderstorms may strengthen, so pay close attention to changing
weather conditions.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Strong winds could cause minor damage such as downed
branches.
Locations impacted include...
Springfield, Hartford, New Britain, West Hartford, Bristol,
Manchester, Chicopee, East Hartford, Enfield, Southington, Westfield,
Holyoke, Amherst, Glastonbury, Newington, Vernon, Windsor,
Northampton, Agawam and West Springfield.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Get indoors when you hear thunder. Do not resume outdoor activities
until at least 30 minutes after the storm has passed.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
northern Connecticut...and western Massachusetts.
LAT...LON 4227 7300 4232 7304 4274 7287 4272 7235
4162 7248 4165 7251 4164 7266 4155 7282
4157 7285 4154 7285 4156 7295 4163 7293
4164 7299 4180 7302 4181 7295 4197 7289
4197 7303 4204 7301 4204 7306 4211 7307
TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 241DEG 17KT 4273 7284 4165 7327
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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President Joe Biden’s speech at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts led to widespread claims on social media that he made a significant announcement not about climate change, but about his health.
In response, a White House spokesperson confirmed reports that Biden was referring to previously disclosed skin cancer that was removed before he became president — not announcing a new diagnosis.
Here are the facts.
CLAIM: Biden announced that he has cancer.
THE FACTS: Biden appeared at the Somerset, Massachusetts, power station to announce new steps to combat climate change, calling it “an emergency” and promising more robust action.
At one point during his speech, he discussed the impact of environmental pollution from oil refineries near his hometown, sharing an anecdote about his childhood.
“And guess what? The first frost, you knew what was happening. You had to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window,” Biden said, according to a White House transcript of his remarks. “That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up (with) have cancer and why can — for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.”
Right-wing accounts quickly began sharing a clip of this remark with the claim that Biden was revealing that he had cancer.
“BREAKING: JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCES HE HAS CANCER!!,” a Republican running for Congress in Florida wrote.
“President Biden just said he has cancer. Is it true? Or is the Commander in Chief confused? Who knows!!,” another widespread tweet stated.
But Andrew Bates, a White House spokesperson, confirmed on Twitter that Biden was referring to the publicly disclosed fact that he had skin cancer removed before he became president.
In a November 2021 memo summarizing Biden’s health, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s physician for more than a decade, acknowledged that Biden had “several localized, non-melanoma skin cancers removed with Mohs surgery before he started his presidency.”
“These lesions were completely excised, with clear margins,” the report continued.
Though Biden suggested emissions from oil refineries were responsible for his cancer, his doctor previously linked it to sun exposure.
While discussing the cancer in his memo, O’Connor wrote that it is “well-established that President Biden did spend a good deal of time in the sun in his youth.”
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Shein clothing line drops Maya blouse as Mexico complains
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The fast-fashion online clothing seller Shein has dropped an embroidered floral blouse after the Mexican government complained it appropriated designs made for generations by Mayan women on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The bold-colored, heavily embroidered flowers and swirls are normally used by Mayan women on loose-fitting, calf-length white cotton shifts that are ideal for the region’s heat. The version offered by Shein more resembled a traditional blouse. Shein said Thursday that it dropped the item from its website, saying that “it is not our intent to infringe anyone’s valid intellectual property and it is not our business model to do so.” Mexico’s Culture Department had said Wednesday that it sent a letter to Shein demanding an explanation. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/07/21/shein-clothing-line-drops-maya-blouse-as-mexico-complains/ | 2022-07-21T19:28:46Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/07/21/shein-clothing-line-drops-maya-blouse-as-mexico-complains/ | false |
The canvass of mail-in ballots got underway across Maryland Thursday, the first day of what could be a lengthy process to decide key races both local and statewide.
To this point, Marylanders have seen only half the picture from the state’s gubernatorial primary Tuesday. Returns from the state’s weeklong early voting window were released Tuesday night, as were most returns from polling places on primary day. About 637,760 voters cast ballots in person, a roughly 17% turnout thus far.
But at least 230,000 more voters across the state voted via mail-in ballots this year, leaving several key races up in the air. Before mail-in ballots started to be counted, Democrat Wes Moore emerged from a crowded field of gubernatorial candidates with an 35,078-vote lead over Tom Perez, the next closest candidate. The 182,678 mail-in ballots cast by Democrats have the power to shift that positioning.
Canvassing kicked off shortly after 10 a.m. across that state after local boards of elections convened and swore in staff members to take on the tedious process of opening ballots, sorting them by precinct and feeding them through ballot scanners.
In Baltimore, where the race for state’s attorney remains undecided, officials counted about 1,600 ballots during the first half of the day, setting a pace of about 500 per hour. Elections Director Armstead Jones said he expects the pace to increase with the addition of a second ballot scanner. Only one scanner ran Thursday morning.
Jones said the city will continue counting through Saturday, but will take a break on Sunday. Baltimore started the day with about 23,000 ballots to count from city voters, the vast majority from Democrats.
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Midday returns in the state’s attorney’s race showed challenger Ivan Bates was the favorite. Bates collected 658 mail-in votes, while fellow challenger Thiru Vignarajah secured 536. Embattled incumbent State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby trailed with 311 votes.
Bates, who was leading the race heading into Thursday by a 4,149-vote margin, started his day at Baltimore’s elections warehouse watching the vote counting. The defense attorney, who was defeated in his first attempt to challenge Mosby in 2018, said Thursday he was “cautiously optimistic.”
Bates compared the process to jury deliberations during a trial. “The case is in the jury’s hands,” he said.
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By law, counting of mail-in ballots in Maryland cannot start until 10 a.m. on the Thursday following an election, a rule that predates the widespread use of mail-in ballots that began amid the coronavirus pandemic.
State legislators had hoped to start the process sooner, passing legislation allowing local election boards to begin counting before the election with results embargoed until Election Day. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed the measure, citing objections to other parts of the proposed law.
Election results will be posted daily on the Maryland State Board of Elections website as local boards of elections finish canvassing for the day and upload results. Only Somerset County, which had 622 mail-in ballots to canvass, had posted results by Thursday afternoon.
Across the state, almost 500,000 mail-in ballots were requested by voters, while only 230,000 were returned as of Wednesday. The numbers could still increase as ballots returned via mail are added to the total. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-ci-maryland-ballot-counting-20220721-yvp4h4l7krfdvkwjmevbmhi35u-story.html | 2022-07-21T19:29:22Z | https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-ci-maryland-ballot-counting-20220721-yvp4h4l7krfdvkwjmevbmhi35u-story.html | false |
Thursday’s House hearing on the attack of Jan. 6, 2021 will look into what former President Trump did and did not do in response to the insurrection.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Congresswoman Elaine Luria, Democrat of Virginia, who is serving on the House committee investigating Jan. 6.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Film music historian Jon Burlingame speaks with Here & Now producer Lynn Menegon about why the music score of the “Jaws” movie is so effectively frightening.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Report: The State of Organic Marketing in 2022
A survey of top marketers to understand best practices, pain points, and future plans for success.
Digital Marketing Depot on July 21, 2022 at 12:31 pm
Organic marketing is a crucial and growing part of any organization’s digital toolkit. Unlike other forms of digital marketing, organic is earned, not paid. It doesn’t require paying to get in front of potential customers. SEO is all about answering peoples’ questions and providing value.
In this report, you’ll learn about the state of organic marketing and where it’s headed. Conductor asked hundreds of top marketers all about their organic programs, from headcount to process to technology. Then they analyzed their responses to answer critical questions that will inform organic marketing strategy next year and beyond.
Learn more. Visit Digital Marketing Depot to download “The State of Organic Marketing in 2022.”
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LAPLACE, La. (WGNO) — A local resident celebrated her 100th birthday with the ride of her life. Angela Johnson, a Laplace native has been living in New Orleans since WWII and decided to celebrate 100 years of life by experiencing the city with a birds-eye view at Zip NOLA.
According to Zip NOLA, Johnson completed a record-breaking zip right through the New Orleans swamps. She is now considered one of the oldest American women to ride a zipline says a spokesperson from Zip NOLA.
Three generations of family members joined in on her adventure. Johnson is described as a very active woman by her family. Her daughter, Nancy O’Leary said that being active is the secret to staying young.
Angela said she agrees, she said not to take life so seriously.
“Do not take life too seriously. You don’t make a big thing out of little things,” Johnson said. “Your health is an everyday thing. Use it. Enjoy it.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/louisiana-news/woman-celebrates-100th-birthday-at-zip-nola/ | 2022-07-21T19:33:43Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/louisiana-news/woman-celebrates-100th-birthday-at-zip-nola/ | true |
Kelson Row - Mixed Use Development Underway
ROCKY HILL, Conn., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Belfonti Companies recently purchased a 12.65 acre site which formerly housed the now defunct Ames headquarters in Rocky Hill, CT. The land loan with Bankwell Bank (www.mybankwell.com) closed in June of 2022.
Bob Palermo, the Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending for Bankwell, said that this is the second loan that Bankwell has done with the Belfonti Companies. "We previously provided a construction loan for Michael Belfonti's project in Cromwell, and we are pleased to be working with his team again as the lender for this new venture in Rocky Hill," said Mr. Palermo.
The developer (Belfonti) plans to erect a mixed use residential and commercial property on the site which will include 213 residential units, 5,000 square feet of office space, and 15,000 square feet of retail. Demolition of the Ames building is already underway, and the Belfonti team has been busy with an extensive branding and interior design process that has included input from Rocky Hill town officials as well as two professional companies: Stantec (www.stantec.com) and Helen Piteo Interiors (www.helenpiteointeriors.com). By unanimous decision, the new residential development will be called "Kelson Row" and the retail portion will be called "The Shoppes at Kelson Row".
"The choice of name comes from the town of Rocky Hill's historical significance as a ship-building community," said Ray Carpentino, the Economic Development Director for the Town of Rocky Hill. "The word 'kelson' is a derivative of 'keelson', which is the reinforcing structural member or backbone on top of the keel in the hull of a wooden vessel," he explained.
"We liked the name because it is our expectation that Kelson Row will be a supporting member strengthening the entire Rocky Hill community," added Lisa Marotta, the Mayor of the town of Rocky Hill.
Belfonti has also chosen the well-known professional firms Studio Architects (www.studioarchitects.us) for the architectural services and SLR Consulting (www.slrconsulting.com) for the engineering services for Kelson Row. "These professional teams will help us to deliver yet another 'best in class' residential and retail community," said the developer, Michael Belfonti.
About Belfonti Companies: Belfonti Companies, LLC (headquartered in Hamden, Connecticut) actively pursues real estate development and investment opportunities throughout the United States and internationally. Belfonti Companies is a family of organizations that focus on investment, development and management of real estate, thus playing a significant and multi-faceted role in the real estate market. Under the leadership of Michael Belfonti (the company's founder, President and CEO), the company has successfully owned and managed millions of square feet of real estate over the years and has completed billions of dollars' worth of transactions. At the present time the group's portfolio contains a wide variety of assets including residential apartment communities, office buildings, retail centers and industrial parks. www.belfonti.com
Belfonti Companies, LLC
2319 Whitney Avenue, Suite 1A
Hamden, CT 06518
Phone: (203) 230-1600
Fax: (203) 281-3366
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BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Sitting outside her tent in a camp in eastern Lebanon, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee contemplated the sunset and her worsening options.
Umm Jawad fled to Lebanon in 2011 to escape a Syrian government siege of her hometown of Homs. She managed to survive over the past decade, despite Lebanon’s devastating economic meltdown and souring attitudes toward Syrian refugees.
But now Lebanon wants to send her and a million other refugees back to Syria, claiming that much of the war-shattered country is safe. She is terrified. Life in Lebanon is difficult, but she fears returning to Syria could be fatal.
She’s considering a risky escape to Europe by sea with her husband and their children, ages 11 and six. There, she could complete her accounting degree, put the children back in school and secure a steady supply of medication for her epilepsy.
“They (the Europeans) live a better quality of life,” said Umm Jawad, who asked to be identified by her nickname, which means mother of Jawad in reference to her older son’s first name, to speak freely about her family and plans. “But here, my children, husband, and I live in a tent.”
Lebanon’s economic meltdown -– one of the worst in modern history — has pushed a growing number of Lebanese and Syrians to attempt the perilous journey by sea to Europe.
The Lebanese government’s recently announced plan to deport 15,000 refugees per month to Syria appears set to push more people to make that journey, at a time when Europe is struggling with millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the months-long war in their country.
The Lebanese Army and other security agencies report foiled migration attempts off the coast of the northern coasts on a weekly basis. At least seven migrants drowned following a confrontation between a boat of Lebanese and Syrian migrants and the Lebanese Army in April.
“The Lebanese are not happy with their life here and are trying to leave, so what does that mean for Syrians?” said Umm Jawad. “May God help both the Lebanese and Syrians out of this crisis.”
Umm Jawad lives in a Syrian refugee camp near Lebanon’s eastern border crossing with Syria, On a recent day, children played soccer in the camp’s labyrinth of alleys, while some residents bartered with a street vendor who passed by with his cart carrying produce. One man set up a makeshift barbershop inside a tent.
Life in the camp has been getting harder. Donor fatigue, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Lebanon’s crippling economic crisis have forced more refugees to go into debt to afford food, medicine, and rent.
Lebanon, a country of five million people, says it can no longer afford to host more than a million Syrian refugees, and is adamant to start deporting them within months, despite opposition from the United Nations and rights groups.
The Lebanese authorities have supported forced refugee returns for years but had not come up with a comprehensive plan until recently. In justifying such measures, they say Syrian officials have assured them there are now many safe areas refugees can return to.
In a Lebanese government document obtained by The Associated Press, Damascus assured Beirut in April that returnees would be able to secure identification cards, birth certificates, social services, temporary housing, and a viable infrastructure. Syrian officials also wrote that returnees would benefit from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s pardons of political opponents and military draft evaders.
In reality, the Assad government has struggled to rebuild areas it has reclaimed through devastating sieges and air raids, and Syria’s economy, like that of Lebanon, is in tatters. Western-led sanctions on Damascus following the government’s brutal crackdown on political opposition in 2011 have further exacerbated the economic downturn.
Many Syrian refugees fear for their safety if forced to return, including the oppressive omnipresence of their country’s notorious security services.
Human Rights Watch has documented cases of Syrian refugees facing detention, torture, and a host of human rights violations upon their return, even with security clearances from the Syrian government, said Lama Fakih, the Middle East and North Africa director at the watchdog group.
Umm Jawad worries her husband could be forced to return to the military. “You have check points every few hundred meters, between every neighborhood, and crime is rampant. You just can’t feel safe even in your own home,” she said.
Hassan Al-Mohammed, who works in the fields of Lebanon’s lush Bekaa Valley, along with several of his 12 children, said he dreams of going home, but that now is not the time. He said his hometown southwest of the city of Aleppo is still a frontline. “Should I flee an economic crisis just to have my family slaughtered?” he said, sitting in his tent.
At the same time, many Lebanese feel that sending the Syrians home would ease the economic crisis in Lebanon, wherethree out of four people now live in poverty.
Tensions between Lebanese and Syrians are increasingly palpable.
Al-Mohammed says bakeries would sometimes prioritize Lebanese nationals for their bundle of bread and make Syrians and non-Lebanese wait for hours. He is frustrated by claims that refugees have been benefitting economically at the expense of Lebanese. “They reduced aid, so we’re working to eat. The money we make is to buy bread,” he said.
Lebanese ministers in recent months have proposed that the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees redirect refugee aid to Syria, as a way of improving the situation there and encouraging returns.
But those calls have so far fallen on deaf ears. The U.N. refugee agency, along with Europe, the United States and several rights groups, say that Syria simply isn’t safe yet.
Lebanese officials expressed their frustration.
The U.N.’s refusal to redirect aid deters refugees from returning, Issam Charafeddine, the Cabinet minister dealing with refugee issues, said in an interview earlier this month. He also said reports of an imminent start of deportations amount to an unfounded “fear campaign.”
Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, a member of the Lebanese government’s refugee returns committee, told reporters last week that “it seems the international community doesn’t want the Syrians to return to their country.” | https://phl17.com/news/ap-top-headlines/syrian-refugees-anxious-over-lebanons-plans-to-deport-them/ | 2022-07-21T19:36:39Z | https://phl17.com/news/ap-top-headlines/syrian-refugees-anxious-over-lebanons-plans-to-deport-them/ | true |
Study reveals key findings on workforce mobility from more than 2,100 frontline employees
CHICAGO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cara Collective, a leader in poverty alleviation, is proud to announce the release of a national study on upward mobility for frontline employees: Bridging the Advancement Gap: What Frontline Employees Want—and What Employers Think They Want. The study was led by Cara Collective's expansion arm, Cara Plus, thanks to analysis from McKinsey & Company and with support from Walmart.
Bridging the Advancement Gap is one of the largest national studies on frontline worker upward mobility. More than 2,100 frontline employees and 300 employers of various sizes, industries, and geographies were surveyed around topics including what frontline workers care most and least about with career advancement, employer misconceptions around opportunities for mobility, and how the COVID pandemic impacted frontline worker priorities, among others.
Key findings include insights on the priorities of frontline worker advancement such as opportunity for growth and better alignment of pay and skills. The study also shows stark differences between what resources frontline employees believe are available versus what their employers report, while also offering strategic, concrete actions employers can take.
"When we started exploring how to strengthen frontline worker upward mobility, we knew we had to start with frontline workers themselves," said Sara Wasserteil, Managing Director of Expansion & Integration at Cara Collective. "Lifting up their experiences and priorities – and juxtaposing those alongside what employers perceive is happening in the workplace – provides a starting point for how we can close the advancement gap for frontline workers, and strengthen equity when it comes to who does and doesn't advance in the workplace."
In addition to drawing out trends from frontline workers across diverse industries and demographics, the report also uplifts themes from populations that have historically been given limited access to economic opportunity and mobility. This includes employees without a four-year degree, those who have been justice system-involved, and those who have been impacted by homelessness or recovery. The findings will illuminate how employers can better advance into these often-untapped talent pools.
"What we found when we looked at these populations, is that they are highly motivated to advance in their careers, and yet often have fewer opportunities to get ahead," added Wasserteil. "If employers are willing to rethink who they hire and how they invest in them, they can unlock a highly motivated workforce ready to stay and grow in their firms. For example, as evidenced by this study, individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice system advanced at a greater rate than any other demographic – across race and gender."
The study furthers the work of Cara Plus' inclusive employment portfolio, which helps corporations drive actionable change to hire and cultivate talent that has been historically sidelined from economic opportunity. The work leverages parent-organization Cara Collective's 30-year history connecting untapped talent to more than 13,000 jobs at 70% same-firm, one-year retention rates.
Bridging the Advancement Gap: What Frontline Employees Want—and What Employers Think They Want can be read in its entirety at www.caracollective.org/frontline.
As an entity of Cara Collective, Cara Plus engages companies and nonprofits across the nation to build, launch, and grow workforce solutions so that people experiencing poverty can find and keep quality employment. Since our launch, Cara Plus has worked with more than 20 companies and 50 nonprofits in 24 states to adopt and adapt our methodology and create more inclusive employment pathways around the country. To learn more, please visit www.caraplus.org.
Cara Collective seeks to fuel a courageous national movement to eradicate relational and financial poverty. Through our four entities – Cara, Cleanslate, Cara Connects, and Cara Plus – we engage job seekers, employers, and other organizations across the country to break the cycle of poverty through the power and purpose of employment. Since 1991, we've helped more than 8,000 people get placed into more than 13,000 jobs and get started on their path to real and lasting success. To learn more, please visit www.caracollective.org.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
5-7-3-0
(five, seven, three, zero)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
5-7-3-0
(five, seven, three, zero) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Day-game-17320384.php | 2022-07-21T19:37:26Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Day-game-17320384.php | true |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified on Thursday that he bears no responsibility for the safety gaps that led to a deadly stampede that killed 45 people last year.
The incident, which was the worst civilian disaster in the country’s history, took place on Mount Meron in northern Israel during a Jewish festival in April 2021. Around 100,000 worshipers, mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews, attended festivities despite coronavirus regulations limiting outdoor assemblies to 500 people, and in spite of longstanding warnings about the safety of the site.
“I didn’t deal with safety,” Netanyahu testified to an independent commission investigating the tragedy, saying he only stepped in because of the coronavirus pandemic. As for other safety gaps or measures, he said, “The prime minister doesn’t deal with that.”
The independent commission of inquiry launched after the disaster last year is investigating major safety lapses and overcrowding at the mountaintop site and has recommended limiting attendance and revamping safety protocols and infrastructure.
In his testimony to the state commission, Netanyahu said that ordinarily the prime minister is not involved in preparations for annual celebrations at Meron, but he said he weighed in due to the coronavirus pandemic restrictions in place at the time.
“I did more than my predecessors to deal with the issues,” Netanyahu said, when pressed about warnings there were gaps in safety regulations before the event.
In last year’s incident, hundreds of people bottlenecked in a narrow passageway descending the mountain, and a slippery slope caused people to stumble and fall. The resulting human avalanche killed 45 people and injured at least 150.
The site is believed to be the burial place of prominent second century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. The annual springtime celebrations are marked by the lighting of large bonfires, singing and dancing.
Last week, Israel Police Northern District Chief Shimon Lavi resigned, accepting responsibility for the disaster.
Netanyahu is currently leader of the opposition and hopes to regain the premiership as Israel heads into another election cycle, what will be the country’s fifth election in just under four years. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/former-israeli-pm-denies-blame-for-deadly-stampede/ | 2022-07-21T19:37:46Z | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/former-israeli-pm-denies-blame-for-deadly-stampede/ | true |
Nov. 2, 1979 - July 15, 2022
MARY ESTHER, Florida — Matthew Laurence Kirby, 42, of Mary Esther, FL, formerly of Decatur, IL, passed away at his residence on July 15, 2022.
Matthew was born November 2, 1979 in Decatur, IL, the son of Gary and Kathy (Hayes) Kirby.
Matthew was a plant manager for US Meltblown, manufacturing N-95 masks. He served this company for two years.
He was a past member of Holy Family Catholic Church. He also loved spending time with his family, spending time by the ocean, and fishing.
Surviving are his parents; children: Landon Kirby of Decatur, IL, Addison Kirby of Florence, KY, Jaxon Kirby of Florence, KY; siblings: Jason Kirby (Shannon) of Decatur, IL, Kevin Kirby (Michelle) of Decatur, IL, Laura Woolington (Kyle) of Decatur, IL; several nieces and nephews: Tyler, Taylor, Keely, Ella, Mila, Destini, Kaylee, CJ; and great-nieces: Briella and Annalise.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents; uncles: Kevin Hayes, Pat Hayes; cousins: Brad Kirby and Adam Carter.
Mass of Christian Burial 10:00 AM Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at Holy Family Catholic Church. Visitation will be from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Monday, July 25, 2022, at Holy Family Catholic Church. Burial will be at Mt. Gilead Cemetery.
Memorials to the family of Matthew Kirby for his children.
Condolences may be left to Matthew's family at www.gracelandfairlawn.com. | https://herald-review.com/obituaries/matthew-laurence-kirby/article_a3f4dd0e-df0d-5f4a-b60e-40b61088fac2.html | 2022-07-21T19:38:52Z | https://herald-review.com/obituaries/matthew-laurence-kirby/article_a3f4dd0e-df0d-5f4a-b60e-40b61088fac2.html | true |
Baseball Hall of Fame and mission-driven affordable housing developer partner to provide children from Los Angeles community the opportunity to meet Major League Baseball players and enjoy interactive, educational activities at Play Ball Park. Additional photos available upon request.
LOS ANGELES, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lincoln Avenue Capital ("LAC"), a mission-driven acquirer and developer of affordable housing, continued its longstanding partnership with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Hall of Fame) and Morgan Stanley to support youth development. The organizations sponsored a field trip to Play Ball Park for children and parents in the local Chatsworth community.
The interactive visit to Play Ball Park, part of the 2022 MLB All-Star Week events in Los Angeles, marks LAC and the Hall of Fame's latest joint effort to provide educational opportunities in lower-income communities. In fall 2021, the companies launched an afterschool program, supported by a grant from Morgan Stanley, that provides an engaging learning experience for students through the lens of baseball—including at LAC affordable housing properties across the country.
"Lincoln Avenue Capital takes a resident-first approach that directly benefits local communities," said LAC CEO Jeremy Bronfman. "We are grateful to continue working with the Hall of Fame and Morgan Stanley to support our young residents and enrich their education through innovative programs."
Children from Waterstone Apartments, a 354-unit affordable- and workforce- housing property under LAC ownership, attended the interactive event on Tuesday. They participated in educational activities including baseball trivia and a "Tools of the Trade" history of baseball equipment over the years. Students had the opportunity to tour a pop-up exhibit with artifacts from the Hall of Fame that have traveled cross country specifically for Play Ball Park. Attendees also celebrated "Legacy Day," as 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier.
"The Play Ball Park experience from Lincoln Avenue Capital and Hall of Fame was amazing! We are beyond grateful for the opportunity to enroll our son in the Baseball Hall of Fame Program at Waterstone," said Samesha Carruth, resident and parent at Waterstone Apartments.
"Today's event at Play Ball Park served as a representation of the Hall of Fame's fun and engaging efforts to foster youth education," said Hall of Fame President Josh Rawitch. "The Hall of Fame's outreach initiatives with Morgan Stanley and Lincoln Avenue Capital allow us to support lower-income children across the country with our award-winning educational curriculum that teaches key history and culturally relevant topics through the lens of baseball."
About LAC: Lincoln Avenue Capital is one of the nation's fastest-growing developers, investors, and operators of affordable and workforce housing, providing high-quality, sustainable homes for lower- and moderate-income individuals, seniors, and families nationwide. LAC is a mission-driven organization that serves residents across 21 states, with a portfolio of 109 properties comprising 20,000+ units.
About Hall Of Fame: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an independent, non-profit educational institution dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the historical development of baseball and its impact on our culture by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting its collections for a global audience and honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to our national pastime.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A grand jury in Ohio has indicted the man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl who traveled to Indiana for an abortion that became a flashpoint in the national debate over access to the procedure.
The 27-year-old defendant was indicted on rape charges Thursday in Columbus.
Court records listed no attorney for him.
The case drew attention when an Indianapolis doctor said the child had to go to Indiana because Ohio banned abortions at the first detectable “fetal heartbeat” after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Best educational games for Math Playground fans
Math Playground came out in 2002, and has since provided kids of all ages an excellent way to learn new math concepts using fun games. However, some parents may not want their kids to look at a computer screen all day. Luckily, there are tons of fun math games out there that make learning just as fun as the games on the Math Playground website. If you’re in the market for a new math game for your child, it’s a good idea to compare some of the most popular games for the best fit.
Best math games
Learning Resources Sum Swamp Game
This exciting board game asks learners to travel through a swamp, where they solve math problems and meet wacky creatures along the way. Learning Resources designed Sum Swamp for kids five and older, and up to four players can join in on the fun. Rather than using regular dice, the game has a third six-sided-die with three subtraction signs and three addition signs. The players must solve the equation to determine how many spaces they can move forward during their turn. This game offers a fun way to improve addition and subtraction skills.
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Educational Insights 1-2-3 Froggies Game
This math game is perfect for younger children learning how to count. In the 1-2-3 Froggies game, children roll dice and then count the number of flies showing. The first player to find a card with the matching number of frogs wins that round. This easy-to-understand game is an excellent way for children ages 3 and older to learn how to count quickly.
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Proof! – The Fast-Paced Game of Mental Math Magic
In this math game, players race to find equations amongst the nine cards laid out on the table. When a player finds an equation, they shout the answer, show their work and then add the solved card to their hand. The player with the most cards in their hand by the end wins the game. This fast-paced math game is a great way to teach kids to add, subtract, multiply and divide.
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Educational Insights MathShark Electronic Math Game
This electronic game has eight skill levels, making it perfect for kids of all ages. The MathShark displays mathematical equations to your child and gives them the ability to punch in the answer to move to the next round. This fun device helps children learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions and even percentages. Some parents felt that the screen was too dark, while others liked the dimmer screen.
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School Zone Math War Multiplication Game
This reimagined version of the classic card game War gives kids a chance to practice multiplying numbers while trying to beat their opponent. The cards are relatively large, making them easy to see and hold. If you as a parent or caretaker are familiar with the rules of War, this is an excellent game to play with a child.
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If your child is a fan of the famous “PJ Masks” series, they’ll love this interactive phone. This device provides several educational games, including math. Kids play by either using the buttons on the phone or voice commands. The VTech PJ Masks Phone also includes a photo gallery and allows children to learn more about the various characters in the show.
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Learning Resources Math Mat Challenge Game
The Math Mat Challenge Game is perfect for when you want your kid to get up and exercise their mind and body. In this game, the device says an equation out loud. Players then have to find and step on the correct answer on the mat. If your kid needs to hear the question again, they can step on the question mark to repeat it.
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This stylish math game is great for kids that love a challenge. In Prime Climb, players each have two pawns they use to try to get to the number 101 at the center of the board. Players begin each turn by rolling two 12-sided-dice. They then choose how they want to apply the numbers on the dice to the number to move their piece on the game board. For example, suppose a player rolls a two and a five, and their game piece is currently on the number seven spot. In that case, they could add two to seven and move to the number nine spot on the board. They could also add a five to the seven, multiply the seven by two or five or even subtract or divide. However, because players can’t go past 101, the game really challenges players to develop unexpected ways to get to the center of the board.
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Melissa & Doug K’s Kids Fish & Count Game
This unique math toy offers multiple ways for your child to play and learn. One side of the board has numbers, and the other side has shapes, making it perfect for young children learning how to count or match shapes. The end of the fishing line has hook-and-loop tape that attaches to the fish in the pool — once a player catches a fish, they should count to the number noted on the fish, then place it in the correct spot. Some parents felt that the hook-and-loop tape didn’t stick to the fish as well as it should have.
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Educational Insights Math Whiz Electronic Math Game
The Math Whiz Electronic Math Game features three different modes of play and eight different skill levels. Kids can take it slow with simple math equations. If they want to step it up, they can use timed rounds or play the exciting “drill mode,” which becomes more difficult with each round.
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NORFOLK, Va., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion DMS announces Mike Bozeman as its new Chief Technology Officer with over 25 years of IT experience in software companies.
Mike worked for Dominion Enterprises for more than a decade in another division and was most recently Vice President at CoStar Group. An Army veteran, Mike was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division.
"Mike's vast knowledge and experience are a welcome addition to the Dominion DMS team. Mike's leadership will be critical as Dominion DMS continues to quickly grow its VUE DMS market share of franchised automotive dealerships in the United States," said Sharon Kitzman, Dominion DMS President.
Mike has three daughters and lives in Virginia Beach with his wife of 22 years, Jenn. He loves to golf when he's not improving business technology.
This announcement is another reason for dealers to reconsider their current DMS relationship and consider what VUE DMS can offer.
To learn more about VUE and future integrations, visit VUEDMS.com.
VUE DMS, a new cloud-native dealer management system solution, gives US-based retail automotive dealers the digital security, flexibility, and efficiency to meet today's rapidly changing market. Built on Microsoft Azure Cloud and decades of experience serving dealerships, VUE DMS enables dealers to deliver a superior buying experience, reduce costs and protect their business. Learn more at VUEDMS.com.
Dominion Dealer Solutions prides itself on providing the automotive industry's most innovative technology. Products include the new cloud-native dealer management system solution offering modern digital security, flexibility, and efficiency (VUE DMS), inventory management and merchandising (Dealer Specialties) and vehicle data solutions (DataOne), vehicle registration reporting (Cross-Sell), and AI-powered Customer intel platform for sales and service, (Activator Dealer Solutions). Every OEM and more than 6,000 dealer partners depend on Dominion's foundation of innovation, integrity, excellence, and teamwork to deliver outstanding results. For more information, visit our website, like us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube, and follow us on Twitter.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
211 PM EDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Washington and northeastern Rensselaer Counties through 245 PM EDT...
At 211 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Mechanicville, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph, penny size hail, and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible. Heavy rains could cause flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Cambridge, Greenwich, Lee, White Creek, Easton, Schaghticoke, Valley
Falls, Center White Creek, West Cambridge, Post Corners, Center
Falls, Johnsonville, East Buskirk, Eagle Bridge, Middle Falls, North
Cambridge, Fly Summit, North Easton, Crandall Corners and Millertown.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
east central New York...and southern Vermont.
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4297 7363 4298 7361 4300 7361 4301 7359
4304 7359 4315 7348 4296 7327
TIME...MOT...LOC 1811Z 237DEG 15KT 4294 7361
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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MILWAUKEE, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wisconsin Electric board of directors today declared a quarterly cash dividend of 90 cents per share on the company's Preferred Stock, 3.60% Series, payable Sept. 1, 2022, to stockholders of record on Aug. 12, 2022. The board also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.50 per share on the company's Six Per Cent Preferred Stock, payable Oct. 31, 2022, to stockholders of record on Oct. 14, 2022.
Wisconsin Electric Power Co., doing business as We Energies, is a subsidiary of WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC). The company serves more than 1.1 million electric customers and more than 490,000 natural gas customers in Wisconsin. Visit the We Energies website at we-energies.com.
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President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, is experiencing mild symptoms and has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral pill treatment.
A look at what we know about the president and his coronavirus infection:
HOW’S HE FEELING?
Biden is reporting a runny nose, fatigue and an occasional dry cough, according to a memo from Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s doctor. Biden’s symptoms started Wednesday evening. Biden tweeted Thursday: “Folks, I’m doing great. Thanks for your concern.”
WHAT KIND OF TEST DID HE USE?
Biden is routinely screened for coronavirus. His infection was detected first with an antigen test, the same type that many Americans use at home. It was then confirmed with a PCR test, the president’s doctor said. The president’s last previous test for COVID-19 was Tuesday, when he had a negative test result.
IS HE VACCINATED?
Yes. The president is fully vaccinated and twice boosted. Biden got two doses of the Pfizer vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose March 30.
IS HE GETTING TREATMENT?
Biden is taking Paxlovid, which was authorized in the U.S. regulators late last year. In older people and other high-risk patients, the drug was shown to reduce the chances of hospitalization or death from COVID-19. The pills work best if taken within five days of the start of symptoms. The president’s doctor said Biden’s vaccination status and early treatment with Paxlovid should keep him out of danger.
WHAT’S THE ISOLATION PLAN?
Biden will work in isolation until he tests negative, the White House said. Once he tests negative, he will return to in-person work. The White House said it will provide a daily update on the president’s status.
HOW DOES THE VIRUS AFFECT OLDER PEOPLE?
At age 79, Biden is in a high-risk group for severe illness. About 8 in 10 COVID-19 deaths occur in people over age 65, with risk increasing with age. Also among the most vulnerable are those with other health issues such as diabetes and heart conditions.
DID HE GET THE BA.5 VARIANT?
It’s unclear which variant Biden has contracted. But the dominant virus variant in the U.S. is the omicron mutant BA.5, which is also prominent worldwide. The variant accounted for three-quarters of new infections reported in the U.S. last week. It’s also been gaining ground globally, making up more than half of sequenced omicron cases. Experts say BA.5 is one of the most transmissible variants yet but they haven’t seen an increase in severity compared with previous omicron variants.
WHERE DID HE CATCH IT?
That’s unclear. Symptoms can start two days to two weeks after exposure to the virus. Biden has kept a busy travel schedule lately. During his recent Middle East trip, the president was seen fist-bumping, handshaking and even occasionally hugging. He returned to Washington late Saturday and kept a low profile for the next three days, leaving briefly to attend church in Washington and for a Tuesday appearance outside the White House with Ukraine’s first lady. He traveled to Massachusetts on Wednesday to announce modest new steps to combat climate change.
WHAT ABOUT JILL BIDEN?
The first lady said Thursday that she tested negative earlier in the day. She will follow CDC guidance on masking and distancing during scheduled visits to Michigan and Georgia on Thursday, said Michael LaRosa, her spokesperson.
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Parliament proceedings | India called upon Russian, Ukrainian sides to return to path of diplomacy, dialogue: Govt.
Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, India has consistently called for immediate cessation of hostilities and an end to the violence, Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan said
India has called upon the Russian and Ukrainian sides to return to the path of diplomacy and dialogue, and also expressed its support for all diplomatic efforts to end the conflict between the two countries, the government told Rajya Sabha on July 21, 2022
In a written reply to a question on whether the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted for launching an enquiry into alleged serious violations committed by Russian troops in Ukraine, Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan said the UNHRC at its 49th session in March adopted a resolution by vote to urgently establish an independent international Commission of Inquiry, with the mandate to, among other things, investigate all alleged violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, and related crimes.
The Commission of Inquiry's mandate is to establish the facts, circumstances, and root causes of any such violations and abuses and to make recommendations, in particular on accountability measures, all with a view to ending impunity and ensuring accountability, he said.
On the reasons India chose to abstain from voting, Mr. Muraleedharan said India had abstained on the resolution in view of our policy to support dialogue and diplomacy and taking into consideration the totality of the circumstances on ground.
Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, India has consistently called for immediate cessation of hostilities and an end to the violence, he said.
"Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) has spoken to the Presidents of Ukraine and Russia on multiple occasions and advocated India's position. India has called upon both sides to return to the path of diplomacy and dialogue, and also expressed its support for all diplomatic efforts to end the conflict," the Minister said.
India has also been providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and its neighbouring countries, he said.
Minister of State for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, to a separate question on the list of the most favoured nations and details of initiatives taken by Government to strengthen ties in the last three years to enhance mutual cooperation with them, said India, as a Member of World Trade Organisation (WTO), extends MFN status to all other members of the WTO, except Pakistan.
The government's consistent position has been that India desires normal relations with all its neighbours and is committed to addressing issues, if any, bilaterally and peacefully in an atmosphere free of terror, hostility and violence, the minister said.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A successful Rhode Island high school basketball coach was criminally charged Thursday by authorities who say that for years he asked male student-athletes to remove their clothes while alone with him so he could check their body fat.
Aaron Thomas, 55, who coached at North Kingstown High School from the 1990s until he resigned last year, faces second-degree child molestation and second-degree sexual assault charges, Attorney General Peter Neronha and North Kingstown Police Chief Patrick Flanagan said in a statement.
Arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 19.
A message was left for Thomas’ lawyer, John E. MacDonald. MacDonald has previously said that his client denied unlawful conduct and that the tests were designed to help student-athletes improve their performance, were voluntary and required written parental consent.
Although Thomas is alleged to have performed the tests on multiple students, the charges relate to alleged sexual contact with two, authorities said. One was under age 14 at the time of the alleged crime between September 2000 and February 2002, authorities said.
The other case dates to some time between September 2019 and February 2020, they said.
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TX Austin/San Antonio TX Zone Forecast for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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699 FPUS54 KEWX 211904
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Zone Forecast Product for South Central Texas
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
TXZ192-220815-
Travis-
Including the city of Austin
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Highest heat index readings up to
106 early this evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Clear, hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs
around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up
to 105.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 100.
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TXZ205-220815-
Bexar-
Including the city of San Antonio
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear this evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 99. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around
100. Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot
with highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ183-220815-
Val Verde-
Including the city of Del Rio
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear. Highs in the upper 90s. Lows in
the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ220-220815-
Atascosa-
Including the city of Pleasanton
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 101. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Clear, hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs
around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ187-220815-
Bandera-
Including the city of Bandera
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph this evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ193-220815-
Bastrop-
Including the city of Bastrop
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up
to 105.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Highest
heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ190-220815-
Blanco-
Including the city of Blanco
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Clear, hot. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ172-220815-
Burnet-
Including the city of Burnet
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Clear, hot. Highs around 100. Lows in
the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ208-220815-
Caldwell-
Including the city of Lockhart
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up to
105.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up
to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ206-220815-
Comal-
Including the city of New Braunfels
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear this evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the lower 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ224-220815-
De Witt-
Including the city of Cuero
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Highest heat index
readings up to 105.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Highest heat index readings up to 107.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Humid with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Highest
heat index readings up to 110.
$$
TXZ228-220815-
Dimmit-
Including the city of Carrizo Springs
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Breezy with lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to
25 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. Highest heat
index readings up to 106 early this evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 103. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs 100 to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear, hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs 100 to 105. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs 100 to 105.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ184-220815-
Edwards-
Including the city of Rocksprings
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ209-220815-
Fayette-
Including the city of La Grange
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 100. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Highest heat
index readings up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around
100. Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Highest heat
index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ219-220815-
Frio-
Including the city of Pearsall
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Highest
heat index readings up to 105 early this evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 103. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs 100 to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs 100 to 105.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ188-220815-
Gillespie-
Including the city of Fredericksburg
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ223-220815-
Gonzales-
Including the city of Gonzales
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 100. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ207-220815-
Guadalupe-
Including the city of Seguin
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear this evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 30 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up to
105.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs around
100. Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ191-220815-
Hays-
Including the city of San Marcos
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear this evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 100. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows
in the lower 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings
up to 105.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Highest heat
index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ222-220815-
Karnes-
Including the city of Karnes City
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Highest heat
index readings up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Clear, hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs
around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up
to 105.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ189-220815-
Kendall-
Including the city of Boerne
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ186-220815-
Kerr-
Including the city of Kerrville
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows around 70.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 90s. Lows
around 70.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ202-220815-
Kinney-
Including the city of Brackettville
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Highest heat index readings
up to 105 early this evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ225-220815-
Lavaca-
Including the city of Hallettsville
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to
20 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 100. South winds 15 to 20 mph. Highest heat index
readings up to 107.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to southeast 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Highest
heat index readings up to 108.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Highest heat
index readings up to 110.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Clear, hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs
around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 110.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up to
110.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Highest
heat index readings up to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Highest
heat index readings up to 110.
$$
TXZ194-220815-
Lee-
Including the city of Giddings
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 105 early this evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Clear, hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs
around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up
to 105.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Highest
heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ171-220815-
Llano-
Including the city of Llano
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear, hot. Highs around 100. Lows in
the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ217-220815-
Maverick-
Including the city of Eagle Pass
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 108 early
this evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 103. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear, hot. Highs 100 to 105. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index
readings up to 105 early in the evening.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the upper 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ204-220815-
Medina-
Including the city of Hondo
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ185-220815-
Real-
Including the city of Leakey
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 70.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ203-220815-
Uvalde-
Including the city of Uvalde
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 101. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the lower 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100.
$$
TXZ173-220815-
Williamson-
Including the city of Georgetown
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 100. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Clear, hot. Highs around 100. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
$$
TXZ221-220815-
Wilson-
Including the city of Floresville
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 100. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then becoming mostly
sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Highest heat
index readings up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Clear, hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs
around 100. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up
to 105.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Highest heat index readings up
to 105.
$$
TXZ218-220815-
Zavala-
Including the city of Crystal City
204 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph. Highest heat index readings up to 106 early
this evening.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Hot with
highs around 102. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with
gusts up to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs 100 to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s. Highest heat index readings up to 105.
$$
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How two popular respirators are alike and different
When protecting yourself from airborne pathogens, just about any mask is better than no mask. However, for maximum safety and peace of mind, it’s better to go with a respirator that’s been tested and certified to live up to its performance claims.
In the United States, the N95 face mask is the gold standard for healthcare workers in hazardous conditions. In particular, N95 masks certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health promise the best protection of anything on the market. However, there’s also the KN95 respirator to consider. Because they look so similar to N95 masks, it’s easy to get confused between the two.
The most basic difference between N95 and KN95 masks is that N95 masks are certified for use in the USA, while KN95 masks are certified for use in China. Of course, that’s just related to the market they end up in, and the vast majority of both are still made in China. The main takeaway is that while the standards are nearly identical, N95 masks have some advantages over KN95 masks, mostly in the consistency department. To understand the functional differences between the two masks, it helps to start with an understanding of how both types work in general.
N95 and KN95 masks filter out the tiniest pathogens
Both respirator types are made with multiple layers of non-woven polypropylene fibers rated to remove 95 percent of particles measuring 0.5 microns — that’s where the “95” part of the name comes from. Contrary to one popular belief, both types can also be effective at filtering germs and viruses smaller than that, and that’s not just speculation; multiple studies actually back it up over the past 4 years.
There are a few reasons why N95 and KN95 masks are effective at filtering pathogens as small as roughly 0.1 microns. The biggest one is that airborne germs and viruses — particularly the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 — often cling to other foreign particles significantly larger than 0.3 microns, such as dust and moisture.
Even if you did encounter a lone virus floating free in the air, a properly fitting mask will probably still capture it. This is because of a phenomenon called Brownian Motion, which describes how particles move in the air when they contact other particles. This is heavily simplified, but essentially, if a 0.1-micron virus makes it through the first layer of a respirator, it will still at some point come into contact with one of the layers. Then, instead of bouncing through the mask and exposing the wearer, the minuscule particle would very likely just bounce into another layer of the mask, where it would be trapped, keeping the wearer safe.
What’s the difference between N95 and KN95 masks?
One big difference here is the same reason why some masks are better than others in general: The better a mask fits, the better it will be at consistently filtering out pathogens. One major reason why N95 masks are considered slightly more reliable is that an authentic, NIOSH-approved N95 mask will almost always have a pair of headbands instead of ear loops. KN95 masks, on the other hand, almost exclusively use ear loops. As you might imagine, affixing a mask to your skull is significantly more sturdy than attaching it to your ears.
Another reason that N95 masks are mandated for healthcare use is less obvious but arguably more important. As the Emergency Care Research Institute published in September 2020, only 70% of tested KN95 masks met the fitment and filtration standards they’re marketed to meet.
That’s in addition to scattered reports from healthcare workers across the country during early 2020 who claimed that the KN95 masks that were (at the time) authorized for emergency use showed signs of inconsistent production quality and at times, did not fit well. While those claims were and still are anecdotal, they’re still important because they came from professionals and were ultimately backed up by research.
To learn more about some of the best N95 masks and their properties, check out the buying guide on BestReviews.
KN95 masks work, but N95 masks are better
Both N95 and KN95 masks share a common feature: They are meant for single use only. While some people have documented that washing, sanitizing, and reusing a KN95 mask can still be effective, objective research has not backed up. Neither mask type should be reused if you want to be protected.
With that in mind, both N95 and KN95 masks offer good protection from airborne pathogens compared to cloth or surgical masks, but selecting an N95 mask is a better way to make absolutely certain that you’re getting a good one. Unfortunately, there’s currently no real reason to opt for a KN95 mask in the United States. The biggest reason they were so popular in the USA in 2020 was that supplies of certified N95 masks were running low in virus-plagued hospitals. With that no longer the case, there’s no point in choosing a mask that isn’t guaranteed to be of hospital-grade quality.
How to spot a fake N95 mask
- Missing or misspelled NIOSH markings
- No TC approval number on the mask or bands
- Colored or decorative fabric or additions
- Claims that it’s certified for children
Best N95 masks
This mask is made out of five layers of non-woven synthetic material and officially certified by the NIOSH, and if it’s good enough for doctors, it’s good enough for regular folks too. It’s durable enough to last through an entire day of construction and comes in a variety of bulk packages ranging from 10 units up to 1,000.
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If you need to outfit an entire office of doctors or business workers, this pack of 120 highly effective and CDC-approved masks is a great choice. They fold flat and are about as comfortable as N95 masks get, and each one is individually packaged so you can be sure that it’s brand new and uncontaminated. If you need more than 120, there’s a 440-count case that significantly reduces the price per unit.
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In case you find that other styles get in the way of talking or breathing or rub off too much of your makeup, consider this CDC-approved option. Its round and more rigid construction makes it significantly more comfortable for some users. We’ve highlighted the medium/large size, but there’s also the Makrite 9500-N95S for people with smaller heads.
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This one’s a little different from the rest. It sports a valve on the front that opens when you exhale, which massively reduces the heat and moisture your face is subjected to. However, this makes it mostly unsuitable for use in preventing the potential spread of disease because it won’t filter anything from the air you breathe out. But, if you need a powerful N95 mask for a long day at a construction site or in a workshop, this is one of the most effective and comfortable options.
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US Postal Service to make 40% of its delivery trucks electric
Published: Jul. 21, 2022 at 2:44 PM CDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
(CNN) – The United States Postal Service will worry less about gas prices next year.
On Wednesday, the Postal Service announced it is increasing its order of electric mail trucks.
Officials with the agency said at least 40% of its new fleet would be electric, an increase from the 10% it originally planned.
The small percentage drew backlash from the White House and others hoping to steer the post office toward zero-emission vehicles.
The Postal Service said it plans to buy 33,800 electric delivery vehicles, adding to its total of 84,500 new vehicles.
These new vehicles could be seen on mail delivery routes as soon as late 2023.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
1-1-0
(one, one, zero)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
1-1-0
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A devil in a new dress, courtesy of Kanye West's clothing line with Gap.
For the first time ever, the rapper's Yeezy collaboration with the fashion giant will be available for purchase IRL. There's just one teeny-tiny catch: Gap's flagship store in New York's Times Square is the only location offering a selection of the Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga collection.
In fact, the space was redesigned by the musician, making it the ultimate experience for fans.
According to a press release, the store "has been reengineered and distilled to its most essential form in Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga's vision of utilitarian design."
But don't grab the tissues just yet if you aren't in the Big Apple. The brand announced its collab with Ye will soon expand into other stores and hit shelves across the U.S. The line, which features hoodies, shirts and other utilitarian pieces, is also available online.
Kanye previously gushed over his partnership with Gap and what he hoped to bring to the market.
He told Vogue in January that "It is a vision come true to work with Gap and Demna [Gvasalia], the creative director of Balenciaga, to make incredible product available to everyone at all times."
As if that wasn't exciting enough, the fashion retailer announced its new digital game concept imagined by Yeezy Gap and Balenciaga.
The digital game, according to a press release, "allows the user to become the avatar," which first debuted earlier this year.
This isn't the only fashion expansion the Donda rapper plans to have. Earlier this week, E! News obtained documents that revealed Kanye and his legal team filed to have "YZYSPLY" in retail stores, online ordering services and online retail store services.
So, what exactly does that mean? It appears the Grammy winner start selling his Yeezy Supply merch in brick-and-mortar stores, in addition to his website. While it's unknown what pieces Kanye will produce, he filed trademarks for G-strings, shirts, hats, visors, tennis wear and more.
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Study reveals key findings on workforce mobility from more than 2,100 frontline employees
CHICAGO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cara Collective, a leader in poverty alleviation, is proud to announce the release of a national study on upward mobility for frontline employees: Bridging the Advancement Gap: What Frontline Employees Want—and What Employers Think They Want. The study was led by Cara Collective's expansion arm, Cara Plus, thanks to analysis from McKinsey & Company and with support from Walmart.
Bridging the Advancement Gap is one of the largest national studies on frontline worker upward mobility. More than 2,100 frontline employees and 300 employers of various sizes, industries, and geographies were surveyed around topics including what frontline workers care most and least about with career advancement, employer misconceptions around opportunities for mobility, and how the COVID pandemic impacted frontline worker priorities, among others.
Key findings include insights on the priorities of frontline worker advancement such as opportunity for growth and better alignment of pay and skills. The study also shows stark differences between what resources frontline employees believe are available versus what their employers report, while also offering strategic, concrete actions employers can take.
"When we started exploring how to strengthen frontline worker upward mobility, we knew we had to start with frontline workers themselves," said Sara Wasserteil, Managing Director of Expansion & Integration at Cara Collective. "Lifting up their experiences and priorities – and juxtaposing those alongside what employers perceive is happening in the workplace – provides a starting point for how we can close the advancement gap for frontline workers, and strengthen equity when it comes to who does and doesn't advance in the workplace."
In addition to drawing out trends from frontline workers across diverse industries and demographics, the report also uplifts themes from populations that have historically been given limited access to economic opportunity and mobility. This includes employees without a four-year degree, those who have been justice system-involved, and those who have been impacted by homelessness or recovery. The findings will illuminate how employers can better advance into these often-untapped talent pools.
"What we found when we looked at these populations, is that they are highly motivated to advance in their careers, and yet often have fewer opportunities to get ahead," added Wasserteil. "If employers are willing to rethink who they hire and how they invest in them, they can unlock a highly motivated workforce ready to stay and grow in their firms. For example, as evidenced by this study, individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice system advanced at a greater rate than any other demographic – across race and gender."
The study furthers the work of Cara Plus' inclusive employment portfolio, which helps corporations drive actionable change to hire and cultivate talent that has been historically sidelined from economic opportunity. The work leverages parent-organization Cara Collective's 30-year history connecting untapped talent to more than 13,000 jobs at 70% same-firm, one-year retention rates.
Bridging the Advancement Gap: What Frontline Employees Want—and What Employers Think They Want can be read in its entirety at www.caracollective.org/frontline.
As an entity of Cara Collective, Cara Plus engages companies and nonprofits across the nation to build, launch, and grow workforce solutions so that people experiencing poverty can find and keep quality employment. Since our launch, Cara Plus has worked with more than 20 companies and 50 nonprofits in 24 states to adopt and adapt our methodology and create more inclusive employment pathways around the country. To learn more, please visit www.caraplus.org.
Cara Collective seeks to fuel a courageous national movement to eradicate relational and financial poverty. Through our four entities – Cara, Cleanslate, Cara Connects, and Cara Plus – we engage job seekers, employers, and other organizations across the country to break the cycle of poverty through the power and purpose of employment. Since 1991, we've helped more than 8,000 people get placed into more than 13,000 jobs and get started on their path to real and lasting success. To learn more, please visit www.caracollective.org.
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The One Show viewers were calling for the BBC to employ new presenters on the magazine-style show as Tom Daley stepped up to host. The Olympic diver was joined on the famous green sofas by former Boyzone star Ronan Keating for Thursday night's episode (July 21).
But some viewers were less than happy with his appearance as they called for him to "stick to the swimming". Others demanded the BBC "get some proper presenters" to front the show.
@Lost_In_Films_ said: "Dear #TheOneShow please get some proper presenters and not just celebs from other fields looking to take over tv. Plenty of trained media graduates looking for work." They added: "Tom Daley is an awful interviewer he's far too self aware of himself, oh now he's talking about his husband, obviously it's the Tom Show not #TheOneShow."
Read moreMargot Robbie's eye-watering salary for Barbie movie revealed
@Bellman49 echoed: "#TheOneShow seems to be targeting a younger audience. They should dump #JermaineJenas #RomanKemp, #AlexScott and #TomDaley and bring in some professional presenters, even if they are a little older."
@Poplifer73 wrote: "I had to turn off @BBCTheOneShow. I’m sorry but Tom Daley is an exceptional sports personality but an absolute dreadful host! #TheOneShow #BBCOne #BBCOneShow."
@socialmediajon1 asked: "Can we have Alex Jones back please? Thanks Everyone #TheOneShow." And @Sheltie_Dreams added: "#TomDaley stick to the swimming please #theoneshow"
But others congratulated the spotsman on his appearance. @TheRealDeclanK1 said: "@TomDaley1994 I must say is doing really well presenting on #TheOneShow."
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Love Island viewers baffled by Paige Thorne's odd bedtime habit
Katherine Ryan announces she's pregnant with third child
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Mindshare Selected to Lead Full-Funnel Media and Marketing Approach
CHICAGO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Discover Financial Services has selected Mindshare, the media services company that is part of WPP, as their US media agency of record, in leading audience and media strategy, planning, investment, measurement, and data and analytics.
Mindshare will partner closely with Discover to drive a full-funnel marketing and media approach across the full customer journey from awareness through account opening through retention. Mindshare is particularly suited to this work, having successfully completed its integration with global performance agency Neo earlier this year, providing clients with a broader range of transformative media services.
"We are thrilled to partner with Discover, a financial services powerhouse that always puts their customers first," says Amanda Richman, North America CEO, Mindshare. "Together, we will help Discover drive business transformation, by connecting brand to performance and purpose to deliver Good Growth."
"Working with Mindshare gives Discover a fresh perspective on our media approach and allows us to tap into their strong thought leadership, analytics and measurement capabilities," said Kate Manfred, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Discover. "As we continue Discover's mission to help people spend smarter, manage debt better and save more so they achieve a brighter financial future, while also pushing to be the leading digital bank and payments partner, it is important to develop a holistic media vision that is appropriate for our highly disruptive industry, and Mindshare is the partner to help us continue to push our thinking."
Mercer Island Group led an extensive competitive review of the account.
Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients in the age of transformation. Good Growth is business growth that is enduring and sustainable while also helping to shape society and the world for the better. We accelerate it for our clients by using media as a multiplier to drive sales and maximize marketing investments. We use Precisely Human Intelligence that combines data science and behavioral science to understand consumers and their motivations better and we act on that intelligence by planning media with intention to connect brands with consumers around their shared values. We were the first purpose-built company created by WPP and today our 10,000 people operate in 116 offices in 86 countries, helping to drive Good Growth for our clients, our people, the industry and the world.
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Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) is a digital banking and payment services company with one of the most recognized brands in U.S. financial services. Since its inception in 1986, the company has become one of the largest card issuers in the United States. The company issues the Discover® card, America's cash rewards pioneer, and offers private student loans, personal loans, home loans, checking and savings accounts and certificates of deposit through its banking business. It operates the Discover Global Network® comprised of Discover Network, with millions of merchants and cash access locations; PULSE®, one of the nation's leading ATM/debit networks; and Diners Club International®, a global payments network with acceptance around the world. For more information, visit www.discover.com/company.
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Hobie Billingsley, a national diving champion in college, built the Indiana University diving team into a powerhouse during his three decades as coach. He molded a legion of Olympic divers, trained a generation of instructors and became, in the description of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, “one of the greatest, most beloved diving coaches in the world.”
Mr. Billingsley, 95, died July 16 at a hospice center in Bloomington, Ind. His story, as he told it, was one of success beyond anything he could have imagined when he was growing up during the Depression in Erie, Pa., the son of a single mother who nearly placed him in an orphanage because she was too poor to provide for him.
“For the sake of my life,” Mr. Billingsley wrote in an autobiography, “Challenge: How to Succeed Beyond Your Dreams,” the downtown Erie Y.M.C.A. gave him a free one-year membership when he was 7 years old. It was a ticket off the streets and into a world of wholesome fun, of ping-pong with other boys, and cartwheels and handsprings on the tumbling team.
It was also his ticket to hours of practice in the pool, where Mr. Billingsley taught himself to swim at age 9 by flapping his arms and thrashing his legs to propel himself across the shallow end of the water. He was essentially an autodidact in diving as well, having used primitive diagrams on a bulletin board at the Y as his only early guides.
As a high school senior in 1943, Mr. Billingsley finished third in a national diving championship. He went on to Ohio State University, where he competed under the celebrated swimming and diving coach Mike Peppe. Only Peppe, according to the swimming hall of fame, would win more individual diving titles as coach than Mr. Billingsley did during his career at Indiana.
He joined IU as diving coach in 1959, working with James “Doc” Counsilman, who led the swimming team. By 1968, Sports Illustrated declared Mr. Billingsley “far and away the best collegiate coach in the country.” His divers claimed six NCAA and more than 20 Big Ten team championships, as well as 115 individual national titles, before his retirement in 1989. He was recognized as U.S. diving coach of the year seven consecutive times between 1964 and 1970.
Mr. Billingsley developed a methodical approach to diving, an athletic form that Sports Illustrated described in 1966 as “an ascetic, artistic pursuit that is ridden with classical precepts and fixed ideas.” Despite a failing grade on his college physics exam, Mr. Billingsley sought to replace those “classical precepts” with Newton’s laws of motion.
“Diving is no longer an art, it is now an art and a science,” he told the magazine. “Newton was the greatest diving coach who ever lived.”
Mr. Billingsley was the U.S. women’s diving coach at the 1968 Olympics and the U.S. men’s coach at the 1972 Games. He coached the Austrian team in 1976 and the Austrian and Danish teams in 1980. Among the Olympians who trained and competed under him were Jim Henry, Rick Gilbert, Cynthia Potter, and Lesley Bush and Ken Sitzberger, both gold medalists at the Tokyo Games in 1964. Mr. Billingsley also coached Mark Lenzi, an IU alumnus who won a gold medal at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
Such was his enthusiasm for his athletes, Mr. Billingsley recalled, that he once “went to congratulate a diver on winning and ran smack into a wall.”
Hobart Sherwood Billingsley was born in Erie on Dec. 2, 1926. His father was not present in his life, leaving Mr. Billingsley’s mother to bring up their two children.
She placed her older son with grandparents, but the grandparents refused to take Mr. Billingsley, his daughter Elizabeth Bender said, because he was too “rambunctious.” In her desperation, the mother took Mr. Billingsley to a local orphanage, St. Joseph’s Home for Children, and got as far as the steps before deciding that she could not give up her son.
Mr. Billingsley spent part of his childhood living in an apartment behind a barber and adjacent to a bar. Noise from the ruckus next door easily passed through the thin wall, Mr. Billingsley wrote in his memoir, which was published in 2017. He once overheard a fatal shooting. During the frigid winters, when the wind whipped off Lake Erie and icicles extended down from rooftops like Roman columns, he and his brother scavenged for firewood for their wood stove. Mr. Billingsley recalled picking up public food handouts in his wagon or sled.
He was walking home from school one day in a blizzard when a driver, blinded by the snow, struck him. The accident easily could have be fatal but left Mr. Billingsley with only “a few stitches” and a headache, he wrote, as well as the conviction that “God had a purpose for me.”
Mr. Billingsley’s mother could not afford the Y.M.C.A.'s $6 annual dues after his introductory membership expired. For nine years thereafter, he sneaked into the club, where staff either did not know of his status or turned a blind eye to it.
For all the kindness he encountered at the Y, the place did not protect him entirely from the slights that sting long past childhood. Despite his skill on the diving board, the swimming coach declined to take him on a team trip to Buffalo, which was also to include a visit to Niagara Falls. The coach, Mr. Billingsley wrote in his memoir, “didn’t think I was cut out to be a diver.”
“That kind of rejection was very painful for a twelve-year-old boy,” he wrote, “and it really hurt when I went to the 'Y' the next morning and watched all my friends board the bus while carrying their lunches and swim gear and whooping it up. Broken hearted, I stood on the sidewalk crying my eyes out, and waved at them as the bus drove off. That was another painful lesson I would never forget, and I wanted to make sure I’d never do anything like that to anyone.”
He also decided that he would prove the coach wrong and began diving three or four hours a day, he wrote.
After service in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific, Mr. Billingsley received a bachelor’s degree in physical education from Ohio State in 1951. He won both the low and high NCAA springboard titles as a freshman in 1945, according to the hall of fame.
He received a master’s degree, also in physical education, from the University of Washington in 1953. After working as a high school gym teacher and swimming, diving and gymnastics coach, he coached briefly at Ohio University in Athens before being hired at IU in 1959.
In addition to his coaching, Mr. Billingsley traveled the country performing in comedic water shows with fellow divers Bruce Harlan, a gold medalist in diving at the 1948 London Olympics, and Dick Kimball.
Mr. Billingsley’s marriage to Mary Drake ended in divorce. They had three children. Besides Bender, of Bloomington, survivors include two other children, James Billingsley, also of Bloomington, and Nancy Farmer of Clermont, Fla.; nine grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Bender confirmed her father’s death and said the cause was complications from myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease.
Among his other contributions to his sport, Mr. Billingsley was the author of a manual, “Diving Illustrated,” that spared future athletes the struggle of learning to dive with nothing more than a few pictures on the wall at their local pool.
He wrote in his autobiography of his abiding gratitude to two men at the Y.M.C.A., the director of the boys’ department and his assistant, who he said were “largely responsible for the person I turned out to be.”
“I was thankful to the 'Y' and those men,” Mr. Billingsley continued, “for taking a kid like me in who was caught up in the grips of the Depression, or I probably would have ended up in prison.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/21/hobie-billingsley-diving-coach-dead/ | 2022-07-21T20:04:47Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/21/hobie-billingsley-diving-coach-dead/ | false |
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends' posts in chronological order.
The new feature is the company's latest attempt to keep people coming back to its social network amid intensifying competition with its trendier rival TikTok.
The changes announced Thursday will offer up two different perspectives. When Facebook users open the app, they will initially see the usual news feed featuring posts selected by an algorithm that the company says is designed to highlight topics and friends most likely to appeal to each individual's tastes and interests. The main feed on the newly dubbed “Home" section will also include an option to look at short videos called Reels — Facebook's clone of TikTok.
But many users have expressed frustration with the feeds forced upon them by Facebook, while critics of the Menlo Park, California, company have blasted the algorithm for spreading misinformation and creating polarizing echo chambers.
Facebook, owned by Meta Platforms, is trying to address those concerns with a new Feed tab located to the left of the notifications tab on the shortcut bar in both the iPhone and Android versions of its mobile app.
After clicking on the Feed tab, users will be able to toggle over to a chronological presentation of their Facebook favorites, Facebook groups they have joined or feeds consisting exclusively of posts from all their Facebook friends in the order they were shared.
The new option is designed to address complaints from users who believe they have been missing interesting posts because Facebook's algorithm omitted them from their feeds.
“One of the most requested features for Facebook is to make sure people don’t miss friends’ posts," Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the announcement.
Facebook is giving users more control at a time when it has been struggling to grow, partly because other social media such as TikTok have become more popular, particularly among young generations. That stagnation, in turn, is making it more difficult for corporate parent Meta to boost its profits from the digital ads that appear in users' feeds. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Facebook-gives-users-new-way-to-see-all-their-17320407.php | 2022-07-21T20:05:29Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Facebook-gives-users-new-way-to-see-all-their-17320407.php | false |
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The Arizona Cardinals have locked up their star quarterback long term.
Kyler Murray and the Cards agreed to a five-year, $230.5 million extension that includes a guarantee of $160 million and runs through the 2028 season, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported on Thursday. With an average annual salary of $46.1 million, Murray is now the second-highest-paid quarterback and player in the NFL behind Aaron Rodgers ($50.3 million).
Murray, 24, had two years remaining on his rookie contract. But the new five-year pact now brings an end to a drama-filled offseason as the quarterback sought a big-money extension.
Arizona selected Murray with the first overall pick in the 2019 draft. Murray has been the Cardinals' starter since Day 1 and quickly established himself as one of the game's most lethal dual-threat weapons at the quarterback position. He won Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2019 and has been a Pro Bowler in each of the last two seasons.
In 14 games last season, Murray threw for 3,787 yards and 24 touchdowns and rushed for 423 yards and five touchdowns while leading the Cardinals to their first postseason appearance since 2015. After an 11-6 regular season, Arizona lost to the eventual Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams in the wild card round. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/nfl-rumors-cardinals-give-kyler-murray-massive-five-year-contract/3020646/ | 2022-07-21T20:08:00Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/nfl-rumors-cardinals-give-kyler-murray-massive-five-year-contract/3020646/ | false |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
242 PM CDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Heat index values between 105 and 110 are expected.
* WHERE...Portions of north central and northwest Louisiana,
southeast Oklahoma, south central and southwest Arkansas and
northeast Texas.
* WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat and humidity will significantly
increase the potential for heat related illnesses,
particularly for those working or participating in outdoor
activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 7 PM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...For the first Heat Advisory, heat index values up to
110. For the second Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 107
expected.
southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas and east and northeast
Texas.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 7 PM CDT this
evening. For the second Heat Advisory, from noon to 7 PM CDT
Friday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
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Couple says 6-month-old dog died after finding poisonous mushrooms in yard
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - A South Carolina couple says they have lost their 6-month-old dog after she ate poisonous mushrooms in their yard.
WIS reports Mike and Cindy Casto found their dog Ruffles, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, had gotten into some mushrooms over the previous weekend. They brought her to an emergency veterinary clinic, but she died a day later.
“We would never have dreamed something like this could have happened,” Cindy Casto said.
The couple said Ruffles was playing in their backyard, as she often did, but noticed she started to look lethargic and began vomiting.
When the couple brought Ruffles to the Shandon-Wood Animal Clinic, the staff said the dog was unconscious.
“Liver values were so high on the machine that it couldn’t read them,” Dr. Courtney Cauthen, an associate veterinarian at the Shandon-Wood Animal Clinic, said.
According to Cauthen, the Amanita and Galerina mushrooms are the most dangerous for pets and can cause liver failure.
Since the mushrooms can vary in color and size, she said it is best to assume all mushrooms growing in yards could be harmful to pets.
“Try to scan your yard the best that you can before you let them out, pick up as many as you can that you see and toss them away,” Cauthen said.
The couple said it has been an emotional couple of days since losing Ruffles. They had been pet parents for years and decided to adopt Ruffles after they saw a picture of her on Instagram.
“Very rambunctious, sweet little thing she really was,” Cindy Casto said.
They said they loved every second of their short time with Ruffles.
“That unconditional love for a pet is extraordinary,” Mike Casto said.
By sharing their story, the Castos said they hope others won’t have to feel the same pain.
“We’ve told our neighbors and they have dogs. We just want them to go out and check their yard and see if they see any mushrooms, get rid of them or keep their pet inside,” Mike Casto said.
Cauthen said if you see your dog eating a mushroom, you should rush them to a clinic so that they can induce vomiting and try to get the mushrooms out of their system.
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Charles Bronson - once described as "Britain's most notorious prisoner" - has become the first inmate to formally request a public Parole Board hearing. This comes after rules were changed as part of a bid to remove the secrecy behind the process of getting parole.
As of today (July 21), new reforms mean that parole hearings will be able to take place in public for the first time in the UK. These hearings are where case reviews take place, which determine whether an inmate can be freed from jail or not.
Making such hearings public will mean that victims and the press will be able to attend the Parole Board sessions. Prisoners or government ministers and officials will be able to request for them to be made public, otherwise they will remain private.
Read more:Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson who terrorised Yorkshire jail pledges to 'shock the planet'
Bronson, 70, is one of the UK’s longest serving and most notorious prisoners, including time spent in West Yorkshire 's Wakefield prison and the Rampton, Broadmoor, and Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospitals. Now that the reforms are in place, he was quick to make good on his promise to be the first prisoner to request a public parole hearing.
If his parole hearing was successful, Bronson could be free to leave prison once again, after spending much of the last 50 years in prison, often in solitary confinement or specialist units. At the moment, it is believed that Bronson is being held at high-security HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes
Bronson was first convicted and sentenced in 1974 to seven years' imprisonment for armed robbery. While in prison, additional time was added to his sentence after a series of vicious attacks on prisoners and guards. Upon his release in 1987, he had a brief careers as a bare-knuckle boxer in the East End of London.
Just a year later, Bronson returned to prison in 1988 after being convicted of planning another robbery. He continued his violent behaviour in prison and is known to have taken 11 hostages during nine different confrontations, including governors, doctors, staff and, on one occasion, his own solicitor. Eventually, his sentence was changed to life imprisonment.
The Parole Board confirmed today that a request made on Bronson’s behalf for his case to be heard in public was received and will be considered. A date has not yet been set for his next parole review, although it is expected that it could be later this year or early in 2023.
Bronson's request does not mean that the hearing will automatically be made public. The Parole Board will need to approve his request and it's not known how long this will take. In deciding whether to grant a public hearing, the board’s chairman could consider factors including the wishes of victims and their families as well as any “undue emotional stress” this could have on prisoners.
Additional rule changes introduced at the same time as the Parole Board hearing reforms have stripped officials of their ability to make recommendations to the Parole Board on whether prisoners are suitable for release or transfer. Instead, the Justice Secretary will pick cases where they want to make recommendations, having sought advice from officials.
This is known as providing a “single view” representing the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) position. Officials will provide factual information such as details of offending and risk management plans which present an “evidence-based assessment of the risk the prisoner presents”.
A Parole Board spokeswoman said: “The new Parole Board rules make it possible for parole hearings to be held in public for the first time in some cases where it is in the interest of justice to do so.
“It is important to state that the normal position will be for parole hearings to remain in private to ensure that witnesses are able to give their best evidence and that victims are not put in a position that could lead to re-traumatisation.”
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Auburn's Bryan Harsin says offseason inquiry into program was ‘uncomfortable’
Auburn went 6-7 in Harsin's first season as head coach
Auburn head football coach Bryan Harsin addressed the offseason investigation into his program on Thursday, calling the inquiry "uncomfortable" and "unfounded."
The investigation by Auburn University occurred after 18 players and five assistant coaches left the program following Harsin’s first season as head coach.
"Moving forward, that will be the last time I talk about this subject," Harsin said on Thursday at the SEC Media Days. "There was an inquiry. It was uncomfortable. It was unfounded. It presented an opportunity for people to personally attack me, my family and also our program. And it didn't work."
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Auburn began the 2021 college football season 6-2 but struggled down the stretch, losing the last five games of the season, including losses to unranked Mississippi State and South Carolina.
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Some Auburn players hopped on social media after the season to criticize Harsin’s coaching methods, leading to speculation that Harsin would not return as the head football coach. After an investigation, Auburn announced that Harsin would be retained as head coach on Feb. 11.
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"Right now our focus is on moving forward," Harsin said Thursday, according to 247 Sports. "What came out of that inquiry were a lot of positives. There was a silver lining in all of this. What I saw from our players and our coaches was leadership opportunities for them to step up, which is exactly what they did. You got a chance to see guys provide leadership. You got a chance to see coaches provide leadership.
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"What it did is it united our football team, our players, our staff, our football team. I'm really proud of our guys. I'm proud of what something like that that could be very challenging and difficult for a lot of people, how our guys stepped up and handled it."
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While Auburn did finish the 2021 season on a sour note, the Tigers came close to upsetting Alabama in the Iron Bowl, losing to the Crimson Tide in four overtimes.
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MIAMI, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fundviews Capital LLC today announced they will be joining The Female Advisor Network (FAN)'s Partner Marketplace.
Fundviews Capital, a fund management platform, provides wealth and asset managers with a solution to outsource the legal structure, back office, marketing and compliance aspects of fund management. By offering these services at FAN, Fundviews Capital is hoping to open doors for more female advisors in the alternative investment landscape.
Greg Poapst, Managing Partner at Fundviews Capital, says, "There has been an incredible push by many in the efforts of DE&I to bring new folks with new perspectives to the table across all industries. In financial advisement, we've made some progress but there is still much work to do. This starts with access to investments and providers, as well as sending the right message to young professionals and students—particularly women— that there is space for them in our industry.
Fundviews Capital is honored to be included in the Female Advisor Network's Partner Marketplace and is happy to support grass root networks that create safe and welcome spaces for all."
Nina O'Neal, Founder of The Female Advisor Network, says, "We are appreciative of the partnership and support of our mission and look forward to what can be accomplished through our collaboration with Fundviews Capital."
Founded in 2021, Miami-based Fundviews Capital LLC is a platform that provides a complete end-to-end fund management solution. For more information, visit fundviewscapital.com
The Female Advisor Network is a national membership organization for female financial advisors. The FAN mission is to empower all female financial advisors by providing a community of support, education, mentorship, and collaboration that is for female advisors by female advisors. For more information, visit femaleadvisornetwork.org
Contact: Greg Poapst, 786-386-0251, bd@fundviewscapital.com
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Couple says 6-month-old dog died after finding poisonous mushrooms in yard
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - A South Carolina couple says they have lost their 6-month-old dog after she ate poisonous mushrooms in their yard.
WIS reports Mike and Cindy Casto found their dog Ruffles, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, had gotten into some mushrooms over the previous weekend. They brought her to an emergency veterinary clinic, but she died a day later.
“We would never have dreamed something like this could have happened,” Cindy Casto said.
The couple said Ruffles was playing in their backyard, as she often did, but noticed she started to look lethargic and began vomiting.
When the couple brought Ruffles to the Shandon-Wood Animal Clinic, the staff said the dog was unconscious.
“Liver values were so high on the machine that it couldn’t read them,” Dr. Courtney Cauthen, an associate veterinarian at the Shandon-Wood Animal Clinic, said.
According to Cauthen, the Amanita and Galerina mushrooms are the most dangerous for pets and can cause liver failure.
Since the mushrooms can vary in color and size, she said it is best to assume all mushrooms growing in yards could be harmful to pets.
“Try to scan your yard the best that you can before you let them out, pick up as many as you can that you see and toss them away,” Cauthen said.
The couple said it has been an emotional couple of days since losing Ruffles. They had been pet parents for years and decided to adopt Ruffles after they saw a picture of her on Instagram.
“Very rambunctious, sweet little thing she really was,” Cindy Casto said.
They said they loved every second of their short time with Ruffles.
“That unconditional love for a pet is extraordinary,” Mike Casto said.
By sharing their story, the Castos said they hope others won’t have to feel the same pain.
“We’ve told our neighbors and they have dogs. We just want them to go out and check their yard and see if they see any mushrooms, get rid of them or keep their pet inside,” Mike Casto said.
Cauthen said if you see your dog eating a mushroom, you should rush them to a clinic so that they can induce vomiting and try to get the mushrooms out of their system.
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MILWAUKEE, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC) today declared a quarterly cash dividend of 72.75 cents per share on the company's common stock.
The dividend is payable Sept. 1, 2022, to stockholders of record on Aug. 12, 2022. This marks 80 years — spanning 320 consecutive quarters dating back to 1942 — that the company will have paid a dividend to its stockholders.
WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC), based in Milwaukee, is one of the nation's premier energy companies, serving 4.6 million customers in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota.
The company's principal utilities are We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service, Peoples Gas, North Shore Gas, Michigan Gas Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources and Upper Michigan Energy Resources. Another major subsidiary, We Power, designs, builds and owns electric generating plants. In addition, WEC Infrastructure LLC owns a growing fleet of renewable generation facilities in the Midwest.
WEC Energy Group (wecenergygroup.com) is a Fortune 500 company and a component of the S&P 500. The company has 38,000 stockholders of record, 7,000 employees and more than $39 billion of assets.
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By CHRISTINA LARSON
WASHINGTON (AP) — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers.
“It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the new listing. “This is one of the most recognizable butterflies in the world.”
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for the first time to its “red list” of threatened species and categorized it as “endangered” — two steps from extinct.
The group estimates that the population of monarch butterflies in North America has declined between 22% and 72% over 10 years, depending on the measurement method.
“What we’re worried about is the rate of decline,” said Nick Haddad, a conservation biologist at Michigan State University. “It’s very easy to imagine how very quickly this butterfly could become even more imperiled.”
Haddad, who was not directly involved in the listing, estimates that the population of monarch butterflies he studies in the eastern United States has declined between 85% and 95% since the 1990s.
In North America, millions of monarch butterflies undertake the longest migration of any insect species known to science.
After wintering in the mountains of central Mexico, the butterflies migrate to the north, breeding multiple generations along the way for thousands of miles. The offspring that reach southern Canada then begin the trip back to Mexico at the end of summer.
“It’s a true spectacle and incites such awe,” said Anna Walker, a conservation biologist at New Mexico BioPark Society, who was involved in determining the new listing.
A smaller group spends winters in coastal California, then disperses in spring and summer across several states west of the Rocky Mountains. This population has seen an even more precipitous decline than the eastern monarchs, although there was a small bounce back last winter.
Emma Pelton of the nonprofit Xerces Society, which monitors the western butterflies, said the butterflies are imperiled by loss of habitat and increased use of herbicides and pesticides for agriculture, as well as climate change.
“There are things people can do to help,” she said, including planting milkweed, a plant that the caterpillars depend upon.
Nonmigratory monarch butterflies in Central and South America were not designated as endangered.
The United States has not listed monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act, but several environmental groups believe it should be listed.
The international union also announced new estimates for the global population of tigers, which are 40% higher than the most recent estimates from 2015.
The new figures, of between 3,726 and 5,578 wild tigers worldwide, reflect better methods for counting tigers and, potentially, an increase in their overall numbers, said Dale Miquelle, coordinator for the nonprofit Wildlife Conservation Society’s tiger program.
In the past decade, tiger populations have increased in Nepal, northern China and perhaps in India, while tigers have disappeared entirely from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, said Miquelle. They remain designated as endangered.
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Industry veteran to deliver strategic sales advisory expertise to help grow emerging markets
HOUSTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JD Martin, is pleased to announce Kevin Fugate has joined the Mid-Atlantic team and will serve as a business development consultant.
In this role, Fugate will initially focus and pursue developing business opportunities in Tennessee and Kentucky. He will also be responsible for analyzing prospective expansion options and help shape future growth plans for the larger geographic region.
"Kevin's deep industry knowledge and unique expertise will support our efforts to deliver more value to new and existing customers on behalf of the manufacturers' we represent. He is a known, trusted industry leader, that brings value to our business efforts." said Lance Holmes, RVP of the Carolinas.
Over the past 40-plus years, Fugate has held multiple sales leadership roles with industry leaders such as Schneider Electric/Square D, Thomas & Betts (T&B) and ABB. Most recently, he served as a Sales VP for T&B for the southern region of the US. He has managed large cross-functional teams and multiple enterprise-wide projects including a recent SAP conversion for ABB.
Kevin graduated from Missouri University in 1982 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
JD Martin Company is an electrical manufacturers' representative agency that sells and markets premier lines of electrical products to OEM and MRO contractors, and end-user markets through wholesale distribution. For more than 68 years, we have supported industries such as oil & gas, mining, steel, waste water treatment, wind power generation and commercial construction. We offer impactful solutions and sell electrical products, through qualified electrical distributor channels, in over 15 states in territories that include Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, The Carolinas and Florida. To learn more about JD Martin click here.
Contact:
Lance Holmes
Regional Vice President, Carolinas
(800) 444-2306
lholmes@jdmartin.com
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CANTON, Ohio (WJW) – A former teacher said he is making more money as a Walmart professional.
Seth Goshorn taught for nearly six years, including at an elementary school in Canton, Ohio, before deciding to change careers. It’s a decision he said that led to an increase in pay by about $20,000 after factoring in bonuses.
Dressed in his new Walmart uniform, Goshorn recorded a TikTok video acknowledging the dramatic pay gap. He said the video unexpectedly went viral.
“I didn’t think it would be this good. I might get a couple hundred likes, so just the fact that it blew up and I’ve only been on it for like a year,” said Goshorn. “It was really cool to see just the power of the internet.”
Goshorn, who has a degree in early childhood education, is now working as a “Walmart coach” on the management track. More than one month into his new job, he said the transition was smooth.
“Last year I made about $43K teaching, so not anything terrible, but it also still left a lot to be desired,” said Goshorn.
He said he loved his time as a teacher and made lifelong friendships with families. However, he was searching for a job that would better fit his financial needs while planning an upcoming wedding with his fiancée.
Goshorn said working at Walmart provides professional growth without requiring a second degree.
“My degree doesn’t exactly translate but the skills that a lot of teachers have and the leadership ability teachers have does correlate to a lot of companies,” he said. “So, find a company that’s willing to train you for a position that might pay better.”
Goshorn does not discourage anyone from becoming a teacher and said educators need additional support through increased salaries.
“Even though they’re scheduled for 40 hours, they’re working a lot more than that, whether it’s teaching, grading after school,” said Goshorn. “I coached football and track so those were other things on the weekends. I did summer school. We don’t have all the time off that they think.”
According to data referred to by the Ohio Department of Education, the median teacher assignment salary statewide is $64,427. Salaries can vary widely depending on which county and what school district a teacher works in.
Goshorn said he hopes his story serves as a teaching moment about the power of the career pivot and the importance of supporting teachers.
“I’m going to be a lifelong teacher,” he said. “That will always be a part of my life, whether it’s at Walmart or on social media.” | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/former-teacher-says-he-earns-higher-pay-as-walmart-professional/ | 2022-07-21T20:22:48Z | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/former-teacher-says-he-earns-higher-pay-as-walmart-professional/ | false |
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Elections officials urged to prepare for shortages, delays
Elections officials from across the country meeting under heightened security in swing state Wisconsin are being urged to prepare for supply chain issues that could lead to shortages in paper used for everything from ballots to “I voted” stickers for years to come
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Elections officials from across the country meeting under heightened security in swing state Wisconsin were urged Tuesday to prepare for supply chain issues that could lead to shortages in paper used for everything from ballots to “I voted” stickers for years to come.
The summer meeting of the National Association of State Election Directors brought together nearly 200 people, including elections directors from 33 states, experts in election security, interest groups that work with elections, vendors and others.
Election security experts told elections directors to be prepared for possibly years of supply chain issues affecting paper, computer hardware and other things.
The supply chain as it affects elections may not return to normal until 2026, said Ed Smith, a longtime election technology and administration veteran who chairs a federal government-industry coordinating council that works on election security issues.
The lead time to obtain election hardware is two- to three-times longer than the norm, a delay not seen since 1999 or 2000, Smith said. Costs are also higher and elections officials should be prepared for spotty and unpredictable problems due to transportation and pandemic-related shutdowns, he said.
The supply chain issues largely sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated by worldwide closures of factories and a drop in people in the work force have been felt by a wide array of industries. Elections officials preparing for the November midterm are also bracing for their own problems that could make it difficult to get paper needed to print ballots, informational inserts and other materials needed to run an election.
“Certainly, the paper supply has been the leanest it’s ever been,” said Jim Suver, co-chair of a federal election security working group that focuses on supply chain issues. The biggest crunch will start in September, when all states are working toward the same November election, he said.
Suver said that hoarding was not an issue.
“There’s not enough paper to hoard," he said. "It is not happening.”
Elections officials were urged to order their supplies early and be prepared for shortages and delays.
The biggest risk is having an urgent request, like the need for a large number of reprints, 10 days or 15 days before an election, Suver said. It will be crucial for jurisdictions to be extremely careful in proofreading ballots so they don’t have to place reorders, Smith said.
The three-day meeting, which also covered issues such as insider threats to running elections and how to connect with hard-to-reach communities, comes as elections officials are facing increasing threats amid false claims by former President Donald Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election was stolen.
Amy Cohen, executive director of NASED, cautioned meeting attendees to wear their name tags when at the event so that security could see they belong there, but to take them off when out and about in the city.
“Don’t advertise who you are and exactly why you’re here,” she said.
Cohen said meeting organizers coordinated with federal, state and local law enforcement for the event. The group was not live tweeting or livestreaming the event, but there was no prohibition on attendees posting about it on social media.
“Please do be thoughtful about what you post and remember that some of the people in this room are dealing with serious security concerns and we need to be respectful to keep everyone safe,” Cohen said. | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/19/elections-officials-urged-prepare-shortages-delays/ | 2022-07-21T20:23:51Z | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/19/elections-officials-urged-prepare-shortages-delays/ | true |
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Casey White, the inmate who escaped from an Alabama jail before being located in southern Indiana, is now facing gun charges.
On Thursday, a federal grand jury in Evansville returned an indictment charging White with being a felon in possession of a firearm and a fugitive in possession of a firearm.
In April, White escaped from a jail in Lauderdale County, Alabama along with corrections officer Vicky White. They led law enforcement on an 11-day manhunt leading to Evansville.
The U.S. Marshals tracked the duo to a motel across from the sheriff’s office. When they saw authorities, the duo took off, resulting in a chase that ended in a rollover crash initiated by a pit maneuver by investigators.
Vanderburg County Sheriff Dave Wedding says the duo were prepared for a shootout when they were captured. Investigators found the couple carrying $29,000 in cash, four handguns and an AR-15 rifle.
The United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Indiana says Casey White was legally prohibited from possessing firearms because he was a fugitive from justice and due to his 2019 felony convictions for attempted murder and kidnapping in Limestone County, Alabama.
Casey White is currently in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections, serving a 75-year sentence. He is also charged with capital murder for the 2015 slaying of Connie Ridgeway. Police found Ridgeway stabbed to death in her living room in what they said was a murder-for-hire.
Casey White also faces charges in the murder of Vicky White. An indictment alleges that Casey White caused Vicky White’s death “in the course of and in furtherance of committing escape in the first-degree.”
Casey White will make his initial appearance in the Southern District of Indiana at a later date. If convicted, the office says Casey White faces up to ten years in federal prison on each count. | https://fox59.com/news/casey-white-faces-firearm-charges-in-indiana-after-escape/ | 2022-07-21T20:24:18Z | https://fox59.com/news/casey-white-faces-firearm-charges-in-indiana-after-escape/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD, CRTDW) ("Creatd" or the "Company"), has provided the link to join the Company's Investor Day presentation. The Company invites shareholders and all other interested parties to tune in to the presentation, which will go live at approximately 4:45PM EST today and be available at the following URL: https://creatd.com/investor-day-2022.
Creatd's Investor Day presentation will provide attendees with further insight into the Company's expansion plan as well as further details on its $40 Million Rights Offering.
Anyone who pre-registered for the virtual presentation will be notified via e-mail shortly before the presentation goes live, as well as receive the above viewing link.
About Creatd
Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) is a company dedicated to unlocking creativity for creators, brands, and consumers. We accomplish this through Creatd's four business pillars: Creatd Labs, Creatd Partners, Creatd Ventures, and Creatd Studios.
Creatd: https://creatd.com;
Creatd IR: https://investors.creatd.com;
Vocal Platform: https://vocal.media;
Investor Relations Contact: ir@creatd.com
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WASHINGTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 27, to discuss the architecture for its Mars Sample Return campaign.
NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) recently held a systems requirement review as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign's conceptual design phase -- a phase when the architecture is refined and solidified. The briefing will present the architecture proposal that is expected to be finalized in September 2022.
The Mars Sample Return campaign may revolutionize humanity's understanding of Mars by returning scientifically selected samples for study using the most sophisticated instruments around the world. This strategic partnership with ESA will be the first mission to return samples from another planet, including the first launch from the surface of another planet. The samples to be returned – currently being collected by Perseverance during its exploration of Jezero Crater, home to an ancient river-delta – are thought to be the best opportunity to reveal the early evolution of Mars, including the potential for life.
Teleconference participants include:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington
- David Parker, director of Human and Robotic Exploration, ESA
- Jeff Gramling, director, Mars Sample Return Program, NASA
- Francois Spoto, head of Mars exploration group, ESA
Media interested in participating in the call should send their full name, media affiliation, email address, and phone number to Alana Johnson no later than two hours before the start of the call at: alana.r.johnson@nasa.gov. A copy of NASA's media accreditation policy is available online.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
1-1-0
(one, one, zero)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
1-1-0
(one, one, zero) | https://www.darientimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17320359.php | 2022-07-21T20:28:46Z | https://www.darientimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17320359.php | true |
TX El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM Zone Forecast for Thursday, July 21, 2022
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National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
206 PM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
TXZ418-221015-
Western El Paso County-
Including the cities of Downtown El Paso, West El Paso,
and Upper Valley
206 PM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs 97 to 102. Southeast winds around
10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs 96 to 101. Southeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds around 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
$$
TXZ419-221015-
Eastern/Central El Paso County-
Including the cities of East and Northeast El Paso, Socorro,
and Fort Bliss
206 PM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this evening. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs around 101. Southeast winds around
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
$$
TXZ420-221015-
Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains-
Including the cities of Hueco Tanks and Loma Linda
206 PM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
morning, then scattered showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Highs in the
lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Highs in the lower
90s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ423-221015-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties-
Including the cities of Fabens, Fort Hancock, and Tornillo
206 PM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around
20 mph, diminishing to around 10 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs around 101. Southeast winds around
10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ421-221015-
Salt Basin-
Including the cities of Cornudas, Dell City, and Salt Flat
206 PM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with isolated showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds around 20 mph with gusts up to
30 mph, becoming southeast around 10 mph after midnight. Chance
of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Isolated showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, increasing to around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Highs in the
mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight
chance of showers after midnight. Lows around 70. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
$$
TXZ422-221015-
Southern Hudspeth Highlands-
Including the city of Sierra Blanca
206 PM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this evening. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds around
20 mph, becoming southeast around 10 mph after midnight. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly sunny with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.
Lows around 70.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the
upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Highs in the lower
90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Highs around 90.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
TXZ424-221015-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County-
Including the city of Indian Hot Springs
206 PM MDT Thu Jul 21 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around
20 mph, diminishing to around 10 mph after midnight. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100. East winds 10 to
15 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds around
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 90s. Lows in the
lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
mid 90s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two Republican border-state governors who are investing billions of dollars in immigration enforcement and spending hours at the podium blasting Biden administration policies have found indirect support for their arguments from two unlikely sources: Democratic Mayors Muriel Bowser, of Washington, and Eric Adams, of New York.
The mayors’ recent overtures for federal aid came in response to Texas and Arizona busing migrants away from the border, a months-old practice that has been long on political theater but short on practical impact.
While city leaders strongly criticize Govs. Greg Abbott, of Texas, and Doug Ducey, of Arizona, their requests for money have bolstered the governors' narratives about immigration putting unusual strains on American communities, even though Adams said — incorrectly — Tuesday that the two states are paying migrants to go to New York.
Washington Mayor Bowser says asylum-seekers are being “tricked" with free bus rides that don't get close enough to their final destinations, leaving many at Union Station, near the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
“This is a very significant issue,” Bowser said Sunday on CBS' “Face the Nation.”
Under pressure to provide financial support, Bowser says she wants the federal government to help. The City Council told the mayor last week that volunteer groups are “burned out and overwhelmed."
"Now that the border has come to D.C., it is our responsibility to meet the moment," the council members wrote, while also castigating Abbott and Ducey for showing "no regard for people who are exercising their human right to seek asylum."
Republicans who have sharply critical of the White House have barely contained their glee.
“Looks like Mayor Bowser is starting to feel a glimpse of what it’s like to be a border community under the #BidenBorderCrisis,” Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee wrote. “Doesn’t feel great, does it?”
Ducey seized on Adams’ incorrect statement that Arizona was busing migrants to New York, noting it was sending them only to Washington.
“Mayor Adams needs to get his facts straight and pay closer attention to what’s really occurring because our nation’s security depends on it,” he wrote on Twitter.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that the administration was looking into the mayors' concerns. She said it was “shameful that some governors are using migrants as a political tool, as a political play.”
The state of Texas has voluntarily bused more than 6,000 migrants to Washington since mid-April as Abbott casts himself as a counterweight to Biden on immigration, insisting that “every American community is a border community.”
Abbott’s busing is just one element of an increasingly aggressive expansion of his immigration enforcement powers into the traditional domain of U.S. government. Abbott authorized state forces this month to apprehend migrants and return them to the U.S.-Mexico border, where Texas has spent more than $3 billion in state funds on a massive security apparatus, without stemming the flow of migrants.
Arizona says it has bused 1,151 migrants to Washington since May. About one of every four named New York as their destination, about one in five says New Jersey, and many of the rest were headed to Georgia or stay in Washington.
The Border Patrol stopped migrants nearly 193,000 times in June, the first decline after four straight monthly increases. Those numbers, hovering near the highest levels in two decades, show how little impact the bus rides have on overall migration flows.
The United States has been the world’s top destination for asylum-seekers since 2017, according to the United Nations’ human rights agency, a daunting challenge that has dogged Biden and his immediate predecessors, Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
A pandemic-related rule denies a chance at asylum to many migrants on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19, but Title 42, as it is known, has been applied unevenly. Tens of thousands are released each month on humanitarian parole or with notices to appear in immigration court.
Adams says New York has experienced a “sharp increase” in asylum seekers entering its shelters of about 2,800 people in recent weeks, in a city with a legal obligation to provide high-quality aid to indigent people. He called for a probe into whether other states are directing asylum seekers to New York.
In New York City, asylum-seekers are fixtures at shelters as they seek out a footing in the economy.
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Lee reported from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego, Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, and Bobby Caina Calvan in New York.
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The ultimate high-society send-off: Inside New York City's exclusive undertaker to the stars that has handled funerals of everyone from John Lennon and Jackie O to Ivana Trump - and charges a princely SIX-FIGURE sum for its services
- The exclusive funeral home that has catered to Manhattan's rich and famous for over a century, including Ivana's service on Wednesday, it's where 'no request is too big' if its legal
- Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel on Madison Avenue has eulogized and prepared for burial everyone from Judy Garland to Jackie O and Biggie Smalls
- The venerable institution named after its founder opened its doors in 1898 by a young casket maker known as 'the PT Barnum of death'
- He was known for staging elaborate publicity stunts, like the time he paid mourners to faint outside the funeral of silent film heartthrob, Rudolph Valentino
- Campbell's is famous for providing privacy and discretion; they once used decoy hearse to throw the press off track for John Lennon's funeral
- To prevent paparazzi from photographing Jackie O in a body bag, the funeral home embalmed her body in her Fifth Avenue apartment
- One former funeral director recalled how she converted the chapel into Bungalow 8 nightclub for the service of an infamous party boy
- She also remembered the grisly moment, socialite Sunny Von Bulow's son requested to know if his mother's brain was still inside her corpse
- Ivana's gilded casket is priced at $125,000, in addition to funeral expenses that would have cost a minimum of $27,575 - the current national average cost for funerals is $7,848
The Trumps gathered yesterday to pay tribute to their mother, Ivana Trump, 73 who died last week from an accidental fall in her home. Befitting her glamorous existence, she was prepared for burial by New York City's legendary 'undertaker to the stars,' Frank E. Campbell
Yesterday, New Yorkers gathered to pay their last respects to Ivana Trump, the first wife of the former President who died last week from an accidental fall in her home at the age of 73.
Befitting the glamorous socialite who was a tabloid fixture for her outsize lifestyle, Ivana's memorial was hosted at Frank Campbell's Funeral Home—the last stop for 'everybody who's anybody' in New York City.
For the famous, infamous and well-heeled of Manhattan, Frank E. Campbell mortuary on Madison Avenue has been the exclusive undertaker of choice for 124 years.
Mystery extends beyond dignified façade of this venerable brownstone in the very gilded heart of the Upper East Side. The name written in unadorned gold letters above a Corinthian arch where a liveried sentry nods respectfully at the mourners as they somberly walk through its fabled doors.
They have eulogized luminaries of every stripe from Judy Garland to Notorious B.I.G, John Lennon to Joan Rivers, Jackie Onassis to Heath Ledger, Jeffrey Epstein, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, George Gershwin, Rita Hayworth, and mobster Frank Costello.
In a status conscious city, where even in death (for those who can afford it) chose to go out in style — Frank Campbell's provides the ultimate golden send-off.
Services can run in the high six figures. A silver-plated copper casket will cost you $70,000. For $2,000 to $10,000, loved ones can buy a piece of custom gold jewelry that memorializes a lock of the deceased's hair.
Ivana's funeral would have cost a minimum of $27,575 when the medium national average is $7,848.
The white glove mortuary prides itself on confidentiality and discretion. But most importantly: 'no request is too big,' provided it's legal.
A procession of Ferraris for a car lover? Sure. A replicated room from Bungalow 8 nightclub for a known party boy? Absolutely.
And when it comes to protecting the privacy of its high- profile clients, Campbell's doesn't shirk. After John Lennon was assassinated in December 1980, the home used a decoy hearse and coffin to ensure a clandestine run to the crematorium.
For Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Campbell's arranged for the former first lady to be to be embalmed in her Fifth Avenue apartment, away from the prying eyes of paparazzi who were eager to snap photos of her in a body bag. Instead, she was respectfully taken away in a casket.
Secret Service and NYPD stand outside the Frank Campbell Funeral Home yesterday as they wait for Trump's funeral procession. The mortuary has been an institution for over a century, catering to VIPs of every stripe: A-listers, movie stars, socialites, sports heroes, rockstars, politicians, and mobsters
The Trump family poses for a photo outside St. Vincent Ferrer Church during the funeral of Ivana Trump, socialite and the former president's first wife
The white glove mortuary is known for its spotless tradition of privacy and discretion. They pride themselves on accommodating the sometimes-bizarre and outlandish requests of its high profile clientele. 'No request is too big,' provided it's legal
Located in the Upper East Side, Campbell's Funeral Home has waked and eulogized everyone from Judy Garland to Rocky Graziano, John Lennon to Henry Cabot Lodge, Notorious B.I.G. to George Balanchine, John Lennon, Jackie Onassis, Heath Ledger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Epstein, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and mobster Frank Costello
The funeral home was founded by Frank E. Campbell in 1898; a young mortician from Illinois who cut his teeth building caskets for a local parlor at the age of 12.
At age 20, Campbell moved to New York City where he worked at funeral parlors owned by a minister before opening his own shop on 23rd Street and began earning his nickname as 'the PT Barnum of death.'
He had a knack for marketing, and was knowing for engaging the media with elaborate publicity stunts.
He was the first to use motorized hearses during a time when horse-drawn wagons were the standard, and scatter cremated remains by airplane over New York Harbor in 1916. Later, Campbell replaced his custom motor hearses with an all Rolls-Royce fleet. He also spearheaded the trend to use paid advertisements in newspapers that announced funeral arrangements and spoke of the deceased's life, now commonly known as the obituary.
At one point, Campbell took a $1 million insurance policy out on his teenage son, Frank Jr, to make him 'the most heavily insured boy in the country.'
Soon enough, he earned a reputation for catering to every dying wish, no matter how big, or bizarre.
One 1919 article published in the New York Herald details the story of a local woman who asked Campbell to embalm her beloved pet canary and store it until her own death. 'Embalm him, please, and whenever the Lord calls me, place him within this jewel case and in the same casket as me.'
Part mortician - part showman, Campbell's status as the 'undertaker to the stars' was cemented with the 1926 funeral of silent film star, Rudolph Valentino.
By then, Campbell has moved his parlor to an opulent location on Broadway and East 66th Street. He decorated his million-dollar death palace with rich tapestries and priceless artifacts that were once owned by Napoleon.
As news spread, a mob of 100,000 frenzied mourners swarmed the streets to see the 31-year-old silver screen heartthrob known then as, 'the Latin Lover' lay in state. He had died unexpectedly from a burst ulcer, the event was coined in the press as 'the day Hollywood wept.'
Fans smashed windows as they tried to storm the building. A riot broke out that caused 75 people to be injured. One headline from the day reads: 'VALENTINO RIOTS A MORBID ORGY.'
Adding to the hysteria, the marketing-minded mortician garnered publicity by paying women to swoon and faint outside the funeral home so that newspapers would report on it for free press.
Inside, Campbell hired actors to pose as Mussolini's blackshirts and give the fascist salute over Valentino's dead body...which was rumored to be a wax replica in order to preserve it from 'wear and tear.'
Later, newspapers reported on an anti-Fascist group that stormed the funeral to chase away Mussolini's guards. They were also hired actors.
The funeral home was founded by Frank E. Campbell in 1898. He was a master of promotion, and known for staging elaborate publicity stunts which earned him a reputation as 'the PT Barnum of death'
Funeral home president, George Amato remembered the complexity surrounding the funeral arrangements for the accidental-overdose of Heath Ledger. 'I was very closely involved with the people who were handling him, because he was going to be sent to Los Angeles and then Australia,' he told The Post. For Judy Garland's funeral (right) 20,000 diehard fans lined the streets outside the legendary funeral home to view the star in her glass-covered coffin
Sisters and socialites Lee Radiziwill (left) and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were both prepared for burial at Campbell's. In order to preserve Onassis' privacy and dignity, the funeral home arranged to have her body embalmed inside her Fifth Avenue apartment, away from the prying eyes of paparazzi who were eager to snap photos of her in a body bag
Rita Hayworth (left) and Joan Crawford are among the many silver screen legends that were prepared for burial at Campbell Funeral Home
Known for providing the utmost protection and confidentiality, the funeral home used a decoy hearse and casket to throw the press off track for John Lennon's funeral in 1980. Other funeral directors often refer their high-profile clients to Campbell’s because they don’t have the facilities to handle the necessary security and privacy
Campbell passed away on January 19, 1934 at the age of 61. His widow, Amelia Klutz Campbell ran the funeral home until she died in 1948, and the business was sold off.
In June 1969, 20,000 diehard Judy Garland fans lined the streets outside the legendary funeral home to view the star in her glass-covered coffin.
In the crowd, pop icon Andy Warhol tape recorded many of the fans conversations, and photographer Diane Arbus took pictures.
The service was attended by a who's who in showbusiness and society: Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Otto Preminger, Mickey Rooney, Bing Crosby, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, then-Mayor John Lindsay, and Garland's daughters, Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft.
The sensational 1926 death of silent screen heartthrob Rudolph Valentino put Frank Campbell's Funeral parlor on the map. 100,000 frenzied mourners lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the 'Latin lover' in repose. Fans smashed windows as they tried to storm the building. A riot broke out that caused 75 people to be injured
That same day, bereft mourners who attended the funeral headed downtown to the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village. A clash broke out between patrons and local police - becoming a flashpoint of the gay liberation movement known today as The Stonewall Riots.
Privacy and confidentiality for the deceased and mourners is the utmost concern at Frank Campbell's.
That being said cellphones are banned from the main chapel and the front door is protected by a team of private security guards.
With higher-profile clients, such as Ivana Trump, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Biggie Smalls, Campbell's will beef up their security with off-duty NYPD officers.
'We make sure our entranceway, as far as ingress and egress, is taken care of properly without having the family being inundated,' said Frank E. Campbell president, George Amato to the New York Post in 2014. '
'In the building, we have a private elevator and a private floor for the visitation that takes place. We have our security men on the front door checking the people arriving to make sure they are on the list, and they are escorted properly upstairs.'
Amato remembered the complexity surrounding the funeral arrangements for the accidental-overdose death of 28-year-old actor Heath Ledger in 2008. 'I was very closely involved with the people who were handling him, because he was going to be sent to Los Angeles and then Australia,' he told The Post.
'There was the Warner Brothers private jet that was being used for him and the family, so there was a lot of coordination to make sure that it all went exactly the way they wanted it, and we had to maintain the privacy and confidentiality that they wanted.'
With a full-time staff of 50, Campbell's will bend over backwards to accommodate the requests of their clientele. A list of services includes providing transportation, hiring clergy, buying flowers, arranging cremations, finding burial plots and building crypts.
Dominic Carella, vice president and senior counselor of the mortuary in 2011 chartered a plane to chaperone the body of salsa singer Celia Cruz to Miami in 2003. 'We had 178 people on the flight along with the remains. It was very important that the staff and her family and friends and the remains were together, he told the NYT. 'I was in constant contact with the body.'
One of the least traditional services General Manager Paul Horvath remembered was for a well-known artist whose family placed an airplane tire at the front of the chapel where attendees took turns painting it. 'Otherwise, there was not a word spoken or music played.'
He also recalled how one service featured the deceased's two Doberman Pinschers stationed like sentinels at the foot of their master's casket. 'They didn't move the entire service,' he said.
When New York Yankees manager Billy Martin died in a truck accident in 1989, baseball fans filed for hours through Campbell's chapel past a coffin blanketed in tulips depicting the Yankee logo.
Tony Bennett attends Les Paul’s funeral at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in 2009. Paul’s tour bus was parked outside during the ceremony
Judy Garland's daughters Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli leave her funeral on June 27, 1969. In the crowd, pop icon Andy Warhol tape recorded many of the fans conversations, and photographer Diane Arbus took pictures. The service was attended by a who's who in showbusiness and society: Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Otto Preminger, Mickey Rooney, Bing Crosby, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, and then-Mayor John Lindsay
The funeral that made Campbell's famous: Riots broke out among frenzied mourners eager to catch a glimpse of the silent film star, Rudolph Valentino. Adding to the hysteria, Frank Campbell paid women to swoon and faint outside the funeral home so that newspapers would report on it for free publicity
Campbell hired a press agent to create buzz for Valentino's funeral. He rounded up dozens of people from local saloons and flophouses and paid them $1 each to stand in the rain outside the funeral home. Crowds gave rise to bigger crowds. Mourners jammed Broadway as news spread of the star's death. By the next day, more than 100,000 mourners collected outside Frank Campbell's, causing cops to billy club the crowds back as they punched and kicked one another. Eventually they broke through the glass window and flooded the upstairs room to pay their last respects to the famed 'Latin lover'
The body of the 31-year-old screen idol rests at Campbell's Funeral Parlor in New York. Outside, fans smashed windows as they tried to storm the building. Inside, actors posing as Mussolini's blackshirts gave the fascist salute over the body – which was alleged to be a wax dummy to save it from 'wear and tear'
Fans of Judy Garland wait outside the funeral home to pay tribute to the star. That same day, bereft mourners headed downtown to drown their sorrows at an underground gay bar which became a flashpoint of the gay liberation movement known today as The Stonewall Riots
For the R&B singer Aaliyah's funeral, Campbell's funeral home arranged a horse-drawn carriage to carry her coffin to St. Ignatius Loyola Church
Heath Ledger's body is moved from the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home to the Upper East Side on January 25, 2008. President George Amato told the NY Post: 'There was the Warner Brothers private jet that was being used for him and the family, so there was a lot of coordination to make sure that it all went exactly the way they wanted it'
Melissa Rivers says goodbye to her mother, comedian Joan Rivers in 2014
More shocking are the revelations made in Elizabeth Meyer's 2015 memoir, 'Good Mourning.' The New York Socialite pulls back the velvet curtain on some of the bizarre requests, famous cadavers and grisly circumstances she encountered while working as a funeral planner at Campbell's.
She recalled how royalty, rockstars and socialites congregated for the funeral of a prominent Latin American party boy, whose family buried him alongside his favorite treasures: green sneakers, a Snoopy shirt, and a bottle of absinthe. She watched the funeral director 'delicately place the dead hands around the bottle.'
Meyer converted the chapel into 'Bungalow 8' - complete with palm trees and a DJ. The funeral lived up to the hype, she said, 'Hundreds of people came, arriving in their Bentleys and Rolls-Royces.'
Robert Kennedy was one of the many politicians whose status funeral was staged by Frank Campbell after he was assassinated in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
She wrote: 'It all felt a little empty. My fears were confirmed when I saw guests coming out of the bathroom with red noses. Suddenly it made sense why the family had asked if the upstairs bathroom had marble countertops.'
For an exotic car collector she staged a procession of Lamborghinis and arranged for his beloved $100,000 sports car to be placed in a glass box near his casket. For the guitarist Les Paul, she was asked to secure a tour bus.
Meyer also wrote about the time she organized a funeral for a man who was living a double life. Two women called for the same husband so Campbell's organized two wakes but— strangely enough— both widows rode to the cemetery in the same vehicle.
Similarly, she recalls the requests of another client who wanted to preplan a service for himself, his wife, and his mistress. 'It was important to him to know that they would all be buried together whenever that time came.'
Perhaps her most surreal request was when the son of socialite Sunny Von Bulow called to double check that his mother's brain was in her head.
Sunny has been in a vegetative coma for 28 years until she finally passed away in 2008. Her husband, Claus, was famously tried twice for having poisoned her with insulin, before he fled to Europe.
Meyer confirmed via the autopsy report that Sunny's brain was indeed still inside her body. But an autopsy report wasn't good enough for her grieving son, who wanted visual confirmation that the brain was there, and said he would wait on the phone while she checked.
Meyer asked the embalmer to cut open Sunny's skull and braced herself 'for an eyeful of brains' - instead, an 'accordion' of Bounty paper towels fell out in its place. When the embalmer checked Sunny's stomach (a common place for a medical examiner to store the organs after an autopsy), the brain was missing there too.
Meyer broke the news to her son, and never heard about it again.
Campbell's earned a reputation for catering to every dying wish, no matter how big, or bizarre. An 1919 article in the New York Herald reports a woman's dying request to embalm her beloved pet canary and add it to her coffin when her time comes
Both Biggie Smalls and Joan Rivers were eulogized at Frank Campbell's Chapel
Security was tight for rapper Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 funeral's after his gangland execution in Los Angeles. His funeral ended with a peaceful procession of limousines through his old stomping grounds in Brooklyn
Pallbearers for the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman leave the funeral home after the beloved actor died from an accidental drug overdose in 2014
Today Campbell's is owned by the Houston-based funeral conglomerate, Service Corporation International, the largest provider of 'death care' in the nation. With over 1,500 funeral homes, they rake in over $2.34 billion in sales annually. Frank E. Campbell is the crown jewel in their portfolio.
Eugene Schultz the former president of the mortuary called its founder, Frank Campbell the `father of modern-day funeral services' for his innovative approach to death care.
At a time when funeral services were traditionally held at home. Campbell saw an opportunity to put the undertaker's services, viewing rooms and chapel under one roof.
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Lay this hefty book aside for a moment. Consult Professor Pittock’s Wikopaedia entry, and you will be astonished the range of his activities, connections and publications. How, you may ask, can one man be so knowledgeable, so industrious, so sociable, so intellectually curious, such a master of the both the digital and established academic worlds. Is he an individual or an industry?
Perhaps the answer is simple. He is an Aberdonian, educated at the city’s Grammar School (200 years older than Eton), and deep-rooted in the North-East, a European and, if perhaps reluctantly, a grandchild of the British Empire.
No wonder he is so good on Jacobitism and Jacobite exiles in Europe, for the north-east was the cradle of intellectual Jacobitism, and on Robert Burns, whose family roots were in The Mearns, and who spoke for the Brotherhood of Man while also, till the success of the Kilmarnock edition of his poems changed his fortune, intending to take up post on a sugar estate, worked by slave labour, in Jamaica.
There is scarcely a dull page in this book, though readers may well find the wealth of detail dizzying. Yet the detail is as necessary as it is fascinating, for the key to Scottish success in Europe and the wider world is the national – clannish or familial – gift or enthusiasm for networking, whether in Europe, the Empire, the USA, Latin America , and of course London, Oxford and Cambridge.
Pittock may, like so many of a nationalist tendency, be ambivalent about Scots in England and those described, not always correctly, as Anglo-Scots, but he would not deny their often leading role in the City of London, the upper ranks of the civil service, the Armed Forces, Fleet Street, the Reithian BBC, and the universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge.
As a north-easterner, he pricks some of the long-established certainties of Scottish history, having for instance little regard for the Covenanters, effectively questioning the myth of “the Killing Times”, demonstrating that 17th century Episcopalians were every bit as authentically Scottish as Presbyterians, and writing approvingly of the Stuart kings Charles II and James VII. He is good on Scottish writers with a global reputation: Scott as well as Burns, Stevenson and Buchan, though not Carlyle, whom he dismisses as a racist.
This is true enough, but his influence, which was by no means all repulsive, shouldn’t be neglected: Past and Present was the most acute criticism of industrialism and 19th century laissez-faire economics. It influenced Marx and led George Eliot to say that there was scarcely an important book published in England since its appearance which didn’t bear the stamp of Carlyle’s influence.
Pittock recognises the reality of Nationalist-Unionism as articulated by Professor Colin Kidd, though his work, notably Subverting Scotland’s Past and Union and Unionists are strangely absent from Pittock’s list of suggested Further Reading, as is anything by Michael Fry and Professor Christopher Harvie, even though both have moved to support for Scottish Independence, one from Toryism, the other from Labour.
But one senses that, even while noting the reality of Scottish dual identity and Britishness, Pittock is uncomfortable with the idea of that Scottish-British identity. Yet, no matter how great Scottish influence in Europe and beyond has been, it has been greater still in England and on the history of the United Kingdom. It is after all only 20 years since the predominance of Scots in the UK Government had journalists, not only Scots like Andrew Neil, writing, some boastfully, about the “Scottish Raj”.
This is a fascinating, thought-provoking book, one to read through, then dip into here and there. For me, the most interesting chapters dealt with the 17th and 18th century activities of Scots, many of them Jacobite exiles, in Europe and I learned much from these chapters.
Professor Pittock stops short of endorsing Arthur Herman’s claim that the Scots invented the modern world, but he does show we did indeed play a big part in creating it. He echoes the old cry “Wha’s like us?”
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By ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and is experiencing “very mild symptoms,” the White House said, as new variants of the highly contagious virus are challenging the nation’s efforts to resume normalcy after two and a half years of pandemic disruptions.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug designed to reduce the severity of the disease.
She said Biden has “very mild symptoms” and “will isolate at the White House while continuing to carry out all of his duties fully.” She said Biden has been in contact with members of the White House staff by phone and will participate in his planned meetings at the White House “via phone and Zoom from the residence.”
The White House released a letter from Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, that said the president has a runny nose and “fatigue, with an occasional dry cough, which started yesterday evening.”
Biden, 79, is fully vaccinated, after getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose March 30.
O’Connor wrote in his letter about the president’s treatment plan: “I anticipate that he will respond favorably” to Paxlovid “as most maximally protected patients do.”
Jean-Pierre said Biden had last tested negative on Tuesday, and he will stay isolated until he tests negative again. Biden had planned to visit Pennsylvania on Thursday to talk about his crime prevention plans and attend a Democratic fundraiser, and then spend a long weekend in Delaware. His appearances and travel are canceled.
First lady Jill Biden spoke to reporters as she arrived at a school in Detroit on Thursday, telling them she had just gotten off the phone with her husband.
“He’s doing fine,” she said. “He’s feeling good.”
The first lady, who was wearing a mask, said she tested negative earlier in the day. She will keep her full schedule in Michigan and Georgia on Thursday, though she will be following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on masking and distancing, said Michael LaRosa, her spokesperson.
The president spent much of last week in Israel and Saudi Arabia. White House officials told reporters that Biden planned to minimize contact during the trip, yet as soon as he exited Air Force One on Wednesday July 13 the president was fist-bumping, handshaking and even seen in the occasional hug.
Up to this point, Biden’s ability to avoid the virus seemed to defy the odds, even with the testing procedures in place for those expected to be in close contact with him. Prior waves of the virus swept through Washington’s political class, infecting Vice President Kamala Harris, Cabinet members, White House staffers and lawmakers. Biden has increasingly stepped up his travel schedule and resumed holding large indoor events where not everyone is tested.
A White House official said Harris tested negative for COVID-19. She was last with the president on Tuesday and spoke with him on the phone Thursday morning. Harris plans to remain masked on the guidance of the White House medical team.
Top White House officials in recent months have been matter-of-fact about the likelihood of the president getting COVID, a measure of how engrained the virus has become in society — and of its diminished threat for those who are up to date on their vaccinations and with access to treatments.
When administered within five days of symptoms appearing, Paxlovid, produced by drugmaker Pfizer, has been proven to bring about a 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe disease.
In an April 30 speech to more than 2,600 attendees at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Biden acknowledged the risks of attending large events, but said it was worthwhile to attend.
“I know there are questions about whether we should gather here tonight because of COVID,” he said. “Well, we’re here to show the country that we’re getting through this pandemic.”
Biden is far from the first world leader — and not the first U.S. president — to get the coronavirus, which has infected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and more than a dozen other leaders and high-ranking officials globally.
When Biden’s predecessor, President Donald Trump, contracted the disease in October 2020, it was a far different time. Vaccines were not available and treatment options were limited and less advanced. After being diagnosed with COVID-19 at the White House, Trump was given an experimental antibody treatment and steroids after his blood oxygen levels fell dangerously low. He was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for three days
While much of the world has resumed normal rhythms after the early lockdowns to control spikes in cases and deaths, the virus still serves as a disrupter in daily life as people are forced to change plans, isolate and calculate the risks of taking part in various activities.
And after more than two years and over a million deaths in the U.S., the virus is still killing an average of 353 people a day in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The unvaccinated are at far greater risk, more than two times more likely to test positive and nine times more likely to die from the virus than those who have received at least a primary dose of the vaccines, according to the public health agency.
The White House has faced a flurry of questions about COVID-19 protocols surrounding the president. The spring Washington outbreak came weeks after the CDC eased face-covering guidance in most of the U.S.
The highly transmissible omicron variant is the dominant strain in the U.S., but scientists say it poses a lower risk for severe illness to those who are up to date on their vaccinations. The BA.5 sub-strain, believed to be even more contagious, now makes up more than 65% of U.S. cases.
“There’s a lot of infections across America,” White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said May 18, blaming the highly-transmissible variants, as well as relaxing mitigation measures like mask requirements.
The coronavirus pandemic helped put Biden in the White House, as he pledged to handle COVID-19 better than his predecessor. After initial months of success surging the nation’s supply and availability of vaccines, the virus became a morass for the Democrat in the first year of his presidency, as he struggled to boost the country’s vaccination rate and to stay ahead of the unpredictable disease.
As cases sharply declined earlier this year, Biden again highlighted his administration’s efforts to end the pandemic and help the nation regain a sense of normalcy.
In his State of the Union address on March 1, Biden said it was safe for most Americans to resume their normal pre-pandemic activities, citing declining case rates, vaccinations and newly developed therapeutics.
“Tonight, I can say we are moving forward safely, back to more normal routines,” he said. “It’s time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again.”
Yet in recent weeks, U.S. officials have called for the public to exercise caution once again over the BA.5 variant, and appealed to the public to seek out booster shots if eligible and for most Americans to consider whether they should wear a face mask in public indoor settings.
“We should not let it disrupt our lives,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert said July 12, “but we cannot deny that it is a reality that we need to deal with.”
The White House has sought to go above and beyond public health guidelines to protect the president, with all visitors and staff, required to attest to their vaccination status or submit to daily tests. Additionally, people expected to be in close proximity to Biden are tested daily.
Still, Biden has increasingly demonstrated a willingness to participate in larger, indoor events in recent months — riskier activities for contracting the virus — and many have had people not wearing masks. White House officials say Biden was intent on showing he can fulfill his presidential responsibilities without fear of the virus, believing he was well protected against severe outcomes.
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Associated Press writer Mike Householder contributed from Detroit.
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Company's sustainability commitment reflects ongoing efforts to deliver value and grow responsibly
CARROLLTON, Ga., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwire's long-held commitment to sustainability has been evident throughout its history and was formalized with its first official sustainability report in 2007. Reflecting that commitment, the company recently launched its 2021 sustainability report, prepared in accordance with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards.
The report highlights all areas of sustainability at Southwire and showcases the company's most significant impacts by focusing on its five core tenets – Growing Green, Living Well, Giving Back, Doing Right and Building Worth – including safety performance, strategic initiatives, employee engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), community involvement and more.
"Southwire remains at the forefront of companies that are deeply committed to the environment, social welfare and governance, and we have much to be proud of as we look back at how we navigated the challenges of 2021," said Rich Stinson, Southwire's president and CEO. "Through the continued pursuit of our sustainability goals, we are confident that Southwire will continue to meet, and even exceed, the goals that we have set for our future."
Some of the company's notable activities in 2021 include achieving more than 50% progress towards its Carbon Zero goal, starting construction on its new Rod Plant to be supplied with 100% renewable electricity and increasing the proportion of its spend dedicated to diverse suppliers. Throughout 2021, Southwire's sustainability focus contributed to the company's continued revenue growth despite the challenges presented by the ongoing pandemic.
Additionally, as a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), Southwire is pleased to reaffirm its continued support and commitment to the Compact's 10 principles and their integration into the company. The Compact provides a universal language for corporate responsibility and framework to guide all businesses, regardless of size, complexity or location.
"Southwire's strategy is to help drive sustainability at all levels of interaction including local, state, national and global. In our thinking, the concepts of sustainability hold no boundaries and can be universally applied," said Burt Fealing, Southwire executive vice president, general counsel and chief sustainability officer. "We actively seek opportunities to meaningfully engage with our stakeholders to share what we know, learn from them and look for opportunities to collaborate."
Southwire is also proud to further its commitment to sustainability through the release of its Analyst Download, a consolidated document that publicly shares annual data on the company's progress in environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.
To access Southwire's 2021 sustainability report and analyst download, visit www.southwire.com/sustainability.
A leader in technology and innovation, Southwire Company, LLC is one of North America's largest wire and cable producers and an emerging influence in many important electrical markets. Southwire and its subsidiaries manufacture building wire and cable, utility products, metal-clad cable, portable and electronic cord products, OEM wire products and engineered products. In addition, Southwire supplies assembled products, contractor equipment, electrical components, hand tools and jobsite power and lighting solutions, and the company provides a variety of field and support services to customers around the world. For more information about Southwire's products, its community involvement and its vision of sustainability, visit www.southwire.com.
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Director, Communications and Giving Back
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Marga Hoggatt
Published 3:50 pm Wednesday, July 20, 2022
July 19, 1931- July 17, 2022
Memorial services for Marga Hoggatt, 90, of Natchez, MS, who died July 17, 2022, will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, at Melrose Church of Christ with Minister Michael Haggatt, Sr., officiating.
Burial will follow at Sunset View Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 until 8 p.m. on Friday
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. (PINE) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations.
The real estate investment trust, based in Daytona Beach, Florida, said it had funds from operations of $6.4 million, or 47 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 41 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $14.3 million, or $1.05 per share.
Alpine Income, based in Daytona Beach, Florida, posted revenue of $11.3 million in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $11 million.
Alpine Income expects full-year funds from operations in the range of $1.58 to $1.63 per share.
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Stocks extended their winning streak on Wall Street Thursday. The gains came amid a deluge of news about the economy, interest rates and corporate profits.
The S&P 500 returned to its highest level in six weeks.
Much of the focus was on Europe, where the central bank raised interest rates for the first time in 11 years.
In the U.S., reports suggested the economy is slowing more than expected, while a better-than-expected profit report from Tesla headlined a mixed set of earnings.
On Thursday:
The S&P 500 rose 39.05 points, or 1%, to 3,998.95.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 162.06 points, or 0.5%, to 32,036.90.
The Nasdaq rose 161.96 points, or 1.4%, to 12,059.61.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 8.74 points, or 0.5%, to 1,836.69.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 135.79 points, or 3.5%.
The Dow is up 748.64 points, or 2.4%.
The Nasdaq is up 607.19 points, or 5.3%.
The Russell 2000 is up 92.32 points, or 5.3%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 767.23 points, or 16.1%.
The Dow is down 4,301.40 points, or 11.8%.
The Nasdaq is down 3,585.36 points, or 22.9%.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
02-04-05-06-09-15-18-19-20-21-22
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GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) _ TrustCo Bank Corp. NY (TRST) on Thursday reported net income of $17.9 million in its second quarter.
The Glenville, New York-based bank said it had earnings of 93 cents per share.
The holding company for Trustco Bank posted revenue of $49.1 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $48 million, surpassing Street forecasts.
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Members of Train Share First Car Memories
Mercury Insurance's 'My First Car' takes an intimate look at music artists' first rides
Train Headlines Show at the FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA Friday (7/29)
LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercury Insurance (NYSE: MCY) and Live Nation have partnered up again to help connect music fans with the artists they love through the creation of Mercury's "My First Car" series, which provides an inside look at artists' fond memories and firsts behind the wheel.
"Most fans dream of learning more about their favorite artists," said Erik Thompson, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Mercury Insurance. "We built the 'My First Car' series with that dream in mind. There are so many memories and experiences associated with owning your first car and having that first sense of freedom. These are the memories we wanted to share with audiences everywhere, and we thought the best way to do this would be to ask artists about their first car experiences."
Train is among several artists participating in the My First Car series.
"I think my first vehicle was a 1978 Chevrolet Chevette," said Pat Monahan, lead singer of Train. "It was my mom's car and she let me drive it. It was pretty sweet! My finest memory of that Chevette was that I was allowed to do it all by myself. I was a 16 year old kid and being able to drive around and pick up [my] friends in Erie, Pennsylvania was a pretty big deal. I can't say I loved anything most about the actual vehicle, [but] the freedom of the vehicle was what I loved most."
For access to Mercury Insurance's 2022 concert series, visit https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/music/.
Watch the Train My First Car video now, at https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/myfirstcar/
See Train's headlining tour live at FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine, CaliforniaFriday July 29, 2022. Other artists performing include Thunderstorm Artis, rock band Blues Traveler, and fellow Mercury concert series artist Jewel. Learn more about the show and buy tickets at Livenation.com
About Mercury InsuranceMercury Insurance (NYSE: MCY) is a multiple-line insurance carrier predominantly offering personal auto, homeowners, renters and commercial insurance through a network of independent agents in Arizona, California, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, as well as auto insurance in Florida. Mercury writes other lines of insurance in various states, including business owners and business auto, landlord, home-sharing, ride-hailing and mechanical protection insurance.
Since 1962, Mercury has provided customers with tremendous value for their insurance dollar by pairing ultracompetitive rates with excellent customer service. Mercury has earned A ratings from A.M. Best and Fitch, as well as ranking highest in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Insurance Digital Experience StudySM and four consecutive "Best Auto Insurance Company" awards from Insure.com. For more information visit www.MercuryInsurance.com or follow the company on Twitter or Facebook.
About TrainTrain is an American rock band from San Francisco which was formed in 1993. As of 2022 the band consists of Pat Monahan, Taylor Locke, Hector Maldonado, Jerry Becker, Matt Musty, Sakai Smith, and Nikita Houston. The band achieved mainstream success with their debut album, Train. The album was released in 1998 with the hit "Meet Virginia". Train's 2001 album, Drops of Jupiter, contained the lead single "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)". The single won two Grammy Awards in 2002, and the album was certified double platinum. In late 2009, Train released the album, Save Me, San Francisco, that produced three singles—the RIAA six time platinum-certified international hit "Hey, Soul Sister", "If It's Love" and "Marry Me". The album was certified gold by both the RIAA and ARIA. For more information about Train, visit https://savemesanfrancisco.com/.
About Live Nation EntertainmentLive Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.
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Quarterly tax payments could help lessen impact of tax payments
The IRS offers online payment options
InvestigateTV - Taxes are due whenever you earn or receive income. You can pay them by withholding money through paycheck deductions or you can make quarterly estimated tax payments.
Freelancers, independent contractors, and small-business owners who expect to owe at least $1,000 in taxes from their self-employed income are required by the IRS to make estimated tax payments.
Retirees dealing with lump sums of money may also need to make an estimated tax payment.
Michael Joyce with the financial firm Agili explained at the beginning of the tax year in 2023, you can make your first three quarterly payments on April 15th, September 15th, and January 15th, 2024 before wrapping up on Tax Day in 2024.
“You can set up an online account at IRS.gov and make payments that way. Or you could just fill out a voucher, which basically just has your name and how much you’re paying in and your tax ID number,” said Joyce.
To calculate your estimated taxes, add up your total tax liability for the current year, including self-employment tax, individual income tax, and any other taxes and divide that number by four.
Joyce said make sure you withhold enough money, or you might have to pay a penalty.
If you are unsure if need to pay estimated taxes, the IRS webpage has a detailed section describing who needs to pay and how.
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