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Policy discussions in Houston will help influence new legislation and create federal policy asks in support of the people behind America's food culture
HOUSTON, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Over three days from January 29-31, some of the nation's best chefs, advocates, and leaders—many of whom are alumni of the James Beard Foundation Chef Bootcamp for Policy and Change—will come together in Houston, Texas for the Foundation's preeminent Chef Action Summit. In support of the people behind America's food culture, as well as a thriving, more equitable, and sustainable food system—this is only the second time the James Beard Foundation (JBF) has held a summit of this magnitude.
The James Beard Foundation, in partnership with Houston First Corporation, will host the pivotal event—resulting in a set of chef-driven policy recommendations for the 2023 Farm Bill. The Farm Bill is widely regarded as one of the most important pieces of food and agriculture policy that Congress passes about every five years. The bill has considerable ramifications for national food security and access, the environment, and support for our farmers and rural America. Following the event, the recommendations will be shared with policymakers responsible for drafting the 2023 Farm Bill.
Summit participants will also influence the development of blueprints for local and state-based action, as it relates to America's food and agriculture system.
During the event, participants will have the opportunity to hear and engage with influential leaders from the policy, culinary, nonprofit, and corporate industries to address key issues such as:
- Nutrition Security and Hunger
- Conservation and Sustainability
- Improving Equity in the Industry
Featured speakers—with more to be announced soon—include:
- Anne Biklé, Biologist, Science Writer, and Co-Author, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations; The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health; and Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
- Joel Berg, CEO, Hunger Free America
- Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary for USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
- Lisa Helfman, CEO, Senior Director, Public Affairs, H-E-B, and Founder and Board Chair, Brighter Bites
- Adrian Lipscombe, Founder, 40 Acres Project
- Michel Nischan, Co-Founder and Chairman, Wholesome Wave and Founder and President, Wholesome Crave
- Karen Washington, Farmer, Activist, and Co-Owner, Rise&Root Farm
"Across our food system—from nutrition to hunger, conservation and agriculture, worker or supply chain issues—the stakes have never been higher. The James Beard Foundation is honored to bring together chef advocates, policy and industry leaders, and key stakeholders for critical dialogue and commitment pertaining to some of this country's most pressing food issues," said Clare Reichenbach, CEO of The James Beard Foundation. "Chefs—with their unique ability to influence the way we think about and consume food, and as pragmatic problem solvers—have proven time and again that they are the critical champions we need for our communities and broader food system. The Foundation, through initiatives like the Chef Action Summit, is committed to ensuring they have the tools and training needed to drive change. We thank Houston First for being an incredible host and partner and look forward to presenting our policy recommendations in support of a more sustainable, equitable, and thriving food system in early spring."
The second JBF Chef Action Summit will take place at three distinct Houston institutions: The University of Houston Hilton Hotel and Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality, POST Houston, as well as The Power Center Houston.
The Summit, taking place just off the heels of the 10 year anniversary of the Foundation's groundbreaking Chef Bootcamp for Policy and Change, features refreshers on the program, as well as new training, including: updated tools for working with one's local representatives, as well as municipal and state lawmakers; advocacy training for social media strategies to move the needle in obstinate cities and states; tactics on fostering peer-to-peer support and networking; and deep-dive discussions around key sustainability issues.
"What is taking place in Houston this January will impact everyone," said Houston First Corporation President and CEO Michael Heckman. "Not only will the 2023 Chef Action Summit drive important policy discussions that will influence 2023 legislation, the contents of those conversations will directly affect how our food supply remains safe, abundant, and accessible to all. We applaud the James Beard Foundation for their continued commitment to addressing these difficult issues and look forward to hosting this influential group in Houston."
The Chef Action Summit is by pre-registration only. Programming will begin on Sunday, January 29 at 4 p.m. at the University of Houston Hilton hotel. Later that evening, a special welcome reception for participants and speakers, hosted by Houston First Corporation, will happen on the rooftop of POST Houston, kicking-off the three-day series of events. Keynote panels, programming, and policy discussion will follow from January 30-31, with Chef Christopher Williams—a 2022 James Beard nominee for "Outstanding Restaurateur"—closing out the Summit with a special tour and lunch at The Power Center.
The second Chef Action Summit—part of the James Beard Foundation's advocacy programs—is hosted by the Houston First Corporation. Program sponsors include the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, Best Made, Deloitte, Distinguished Vineyards, TABASCO® Brand, Tequila Patrón, and YETI. The James Beard Foundation's programs are also supported by American Airlines, the official airline of the James Beard Foundation; Capital One, the official credit card and banking partner of the James Beard Foundation; and Windstar Cruises, the official cruise line of the James Beard Foundation.
To learn more about the discussions happening at the 2023 JBF Chef Action Summit in Houston or to obtain more details about the participants and speakers at the event, visit https://www.jamesbeard.org/2023-chef-summit.
The James Beard Foundation (JBF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that celebrates and supports the people behind America's food culture, while pushing for new standards in the restaurant industry to create a future where all have the opportunity to thrive. Established over 30 years ago, the Foundation has highlighted the centrality of food culture in our daily lives and is committed to supporting a resilient and flourishing industry that honors its diverse communities. By amplifying new voices, celebrating those leading the way, and supporting those on the path to do so, the Foundation is working to create a more equitable and sustainable future—what we call Good Food for Good®. JBF brings its mission to life through the annual Awards, industry and community-focused programs, advocacy, partnerships, and events across the country. Coming soon, for the first time in the Foundation's history, exceptional culinary talent, industry leaders, and visitors from NYC and beyond can experience unforgettable dining and educational programming at Pier 57—inspiring food and beverage devotees for decades to come. Learn more at jamesbeard.org, sign up for our newsletter, and follow @beardfoundation on social media.
Houston First Corporation (HFC) is a local government corporation and the official destination marketing organization for the country's fourth largest city. In addition to serving as operator for the George R. Brown Convention Center and some of Houston's most prominent art, entertainment, and event venues, HFC is focused on promoting the city's vibrancy and rich tapestry of culture. By harnessing the city's collective energy, ambition, and creativity, including its diverse culinary scene, world-renowned performing arts, medical and space innovation, and elite filming locations, HFC is solidifying Houston as a premier national and global destination. For the latest news and info regarding HFC, visit www.houstonfirst.com.
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Woman Charged in Flint International Academy Parking Lot Shooting
A shooting in a school parking lot in Flint on Monday has resulted in several felony charges for the suspect.
Police say 27-year-old Chandra Cole-Weekly was in her vehicle at Flint International Academy around 3:30 p.m. when the 30-year-old victim poured a liquid on her car. Police say video footage of the incident shows glass then breaking from the passenger side window and the victim returning to her vehicle and driving away. The victim contacted police at a nearby business saying she had been shot. No one else was injured.
Police arrested Cole-Weekly at the school. The victim was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. Initially listed in critical condition, she has been upgraded to good condition.
Cole-Weekly is charged with assault with intent to murder, felony firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, and a misdemeanor count of possessing a firearm in a weapon-free school zone. | https://www.wsgw.com/woman-charged-in-flint-international-academy-parking-lot-shooting/ | 2023-05-04 14:15:32 | 0 | https://www.wsgw.com/woman-charged-in-flint-international-academy-parking-lot-shooting/ |
There are stars to be found in the final rounds of the NFL draft. They're just not easy to spot.
Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott and Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins both were taken in the fourth round and went on to become Pro Bowl passers.
The Chiefs drafted All-Pro receiver Tyreek Hill, now with the Miami, in the fifth round in 2016.
You might have heard, but Tom Brady was sixth-round pick by the Patriots in 2000, No. 199 overall.
Heading into Day 3 of the draft Saturday, there's plenty of talented players and potential starters out there. And maybe a few hidden gems.
The six most intriguing players left on the board.
Sam Howell, QB, North Carolina
There was a point last summer when it wasn't a stretch to think Howell could be the first quarterback taken in this draft. That seems like a long time ago.
He gets compared to Baker Mayfield because of his size (6-feet, 218 pounds) and moxie, but he's probably a better athlete than the former first overall pick —- but not as polished a passer.
Howell had three games last season of 300 yards passing and 100 yards rushing.
He is the odds-on favorite to be the next quarterback taken, though Nevada's Carson Strong, a big pocket passer who has had some issues with his knee, could be tempting for upside.
Tariq Woolen, CB, UTSA
The final few rounds of the draft tend to be corner heavy, with teams stocking up on the best athletes available at highly valued position.
Woolen has all the measurables. At 6-4 and 205 pounds, Woolen ran a 4.26 in the 40 at the combine. He has a lot of work to do on technique and fundamentals, but physically he is the prototype.
For teams looking for more of a finished product at cornerback, Cincinnati's Coby Bryant won the Thorpe Award as the nation's best defensive back, seeing a lot of action playing across first-round pick Sauce Gardner last season.
Daniel Faalele, OT, Minnesota.
The biggest prospect in the draft at 6-8 and 384 pounds. The Australian was a rugby player growing up before sliding over to football after coming to the states.
He is a bit stiff and still relatively new to the game, but he is a mountain of a man with enough athleticism to start 31 games in three college seasons.
Kentucky's Darian Kinnard is probably a safer bet to be a productive pro, even though most teams have the college tackle sliding inside to play guard in the NFL.
Dameon Pierce, RB, Florida
Only six running backs have been taken so far, all on Day 2. Expect a whole bunch more on Day 3 as teams look for complimentary players with potential to be lead backs.
Pierce was a player who probably didn't get the ball enough during his time at Florida. He had just 374 combined carries and catches in four seasons, but averaged 6.0 yards per touch and scored 28 touchdowns.
He runs hard and weighs 215 pounds.
Texas A&M's Isaiah Spiller is a similar power back who figures to be taken sometime in round four or five. Notre Dame's Kyren Williams has a more diverse skill set.
Justyn Ross, WR, Clemson
There will be more receivers taken. Plenty more, including Ross. The 6-4, 205-pounder looked like a potential first-rounder as freshman, helping Trevor Lawrence and the Tigers win a national title in 2018.
His sophomore year wasn't quite as good, and a neck injury sideline him for all of 2020. He returned last season, but like Clemson's entire offense showed only flashes of his talent. He had 46 catches for 514 yards and three touchdowns. Is there a Tee Higgins-type receiver still in there?
Memphis' Calvin Austin III and Boise State's Khalil Shakir should be among the first receivers to go on Day 3.
Matt Araiza, P, San Diego State
The “Punt God” is a field-flipping weapon and touchback machine on kickoffs. As a field goal kicker he is strong-legged, but inconsistent.
Araiza set the major college football record with a 51.19-yard average punt last season.
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The use of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin has been a source of controversy since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when celebrities and popular influencers began touting the effectiveness of using ivermectin to treat the coronavirus, despite a lack of evidence to support the claims.
People on social media are now sharing a screenshot of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website, claiming the medical research agency has listed ivermectin as an antiviral treatment for COVID-19.
One of the Facebook posts with the screenshot of the website says: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has quietly added ivermectin to their list of antiviral therapies for their COVID-19 treatment guidelines.”
A tweet with more than 17,000 retweets said: “Suddenly Ivermectin shows up on the NIH website for treating Covid. After years of denial, blocking, interference, villification [sic], ruining social media accounts, killing people, etc. they silently add it to their antiviral protocol.”
THE QUESTION
Did the NIH add ivermectin to its list of antiviral therapies used to treat COVID-19?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, the NIH didn’t add ivermectin to its list of antiviral therapies used to treat COVID-19. The federal agency continues to recommend against using the drug to treat COVID-19.
WHAT WE FOUND
The screenshots being shared of the NIH website are real, but they do not show that the NIH approved ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. People on social media are sharing the screen shots out of context.
The screenshots show a list of antiviral medications that have been evaluated by a NIH panel, and when someone clicks on the name of a drug, it redirects to a page that has information on whether they work or not to treat COVID-19.
The NIH panel was formed to answer questions about various treatments of COVID-19 and provide physicians and the public with guidance on what drugs someone should or shouldn’t take to treat the coronavirus.
The NIH told VERIFY ivermectin has been listed on their treatment guidelines page for some time – the site was last updated in April – and the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines panel recommends against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.
More from VERIFY: Yes, COVID-19 vaccine boosters for omicron are available to the public
Ivermectin is included in the list so people can easily see the results of studies on the drug’s efficacy, the drug’s side effects and so the NIH can urge people to not take it to treat COVID.
“Although there have been many ivermectin studies, only a few trials have been adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted. More recent clinical trials address the limitations of earlier studies but fail to show clear evidence that ivermectin reduces time to recovery or prevents COVID-19 disease progression,” the NIH says.
“For this reason, and because several medications now have demonstrated clinical benefit for the treatment of COVID-19, the Panel recommends against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19, except in a clinical trial … Additional adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted trials are needed to evaluate the effect of ivermectin on COVID-19,” the NIH says.
Ivermectin is approved by the FDA for human use to treat infections caused by some parasitic worms and head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Some forms of animal ivermectin are approved to prevent heartworm disease and treat certain internal and external parasites.
For a list of approved COVID-19 treatment Q , the Department of Health and Human Services has a list here.
As always, if you have questions, please consult your local physician. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/verify/coronavirus-verify/no-the-national-institutes-of-health-didnt-approve-ivermectin-as-a-covid-19-treatment-fact-check/536-141ec9bf-7b1e-422d-8a19-155ff75b8f58 | 2022-09-13 22:44:41 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/verify/coronavirus-verify/no-the-national-institutes-of-health-didnt-approve-ivermectin-as-a-covid-19-treatment-fact-check/536-141ec9bf-7b1e-422d-8a19-155ff75b8f58 |
Oregon lawmakers heard about two hours of emotional testimony on Tuesday about a proposed constitutional amendment that would shore up abortions rights and ban discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity.
Senate Joint Resolution 33, discussed in the Senate Rules Committee, would go to voters in the 2024 election if the Legislature passes it. The goal of the measure is to protect existing rights of Oregonians to make decisions about their marriages, families and health care, including gender-affirming care and reproductive health care.
The amendment would clarify that Oregonians, regardless of gender, gender identity and sexual orientation, are protected against discrimination in housing, employment and state services.
The proposal comes amid a wave of anti-abortion bills in state legislatures following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year that overturned Roe v. Wade, rescinding national right to an abortion.
Oregon has no barriers to obtaining an abortion, unlike most other states. But supporters say the proposed amendment is necessary to ensure Oregon does not adopt abortion restrictions or anti-LGBTQ laws in the future. Opponents, many of them anti-abortion, say the measure goes too far and could have unintended consequences.
The proposal is one of the most divisive of the session.
Senate Majority Leader Kate Lieber, D-Beaverton and the first openly lesbian Oregon senator, called for civility from both sides during the hearing.
“Words have an impact far beyond these walls,” said Lieber, who introduced the bill in the committee. “People are watching and it is impactful for them what you say.”
Supporters weigh in
Supporters include Democratic lawmakers, advocates, health providers and others who say they want to safeguard their future rights – and those of their transgender children.
“As the only LGBTQ member in the Senate, this bill is personal,” said Lieber, the committee chair. “I know how it feels to live somewhere that doesn’t accept you for who you are. From bans on abortion to bans on medical care for transgender people, hate is on the rise across the country, and this is Oregon’s opportunity to respond with hope and our values.”
Other chief sponsors of the amendment are Senate President Rob Wagner, D-Lake Oswego; and Sen. Lew Frederick, D-Portland.
Sandy Chung, executive director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon said the organization believes people should have the right and freedom to make private decisions, including who they marry and what health care they have without “undue political control.”
“With the recent years’ attacks on trans rights, abortion access and signals to incoming attacks on same-sex marriage, the time is now to enshrine Oregon’s values in our state constitution,” Chung said.
Voters deserve the chance to make their voices heard, said Jennifer Williamson, interim executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon.
“In Oregon, we trust people to make decisions about their bodies,” Williamson said.
The measure would eliminate language in the state constitution that defines a marriage as between a man and a woman. While same-sex marriage is allowed in Oregon, that language has remains unchanged.
“It’s time to amend the shameful anti-gay history that’s still written, in black and white, in that constitution,” said Margot Martin, deputy executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, a Portland-based advocacy group for all sexual and gender identities.
Another person who testified, Marian Hammond, CEO of Brink Communications in Portland, told lawmakers she’s the proud parent of two transgender children.
Her children are thriving and happy teenagers, she said.
But she said they talk almost daily about their fears for children in other states, Hammond said. One child asked her if she could get arrested for being his mom when the family was on a layover at the Houston airport during a vacation trip, she said in submitted testimony.
“While I assured him that there wasn’t a troop of gender police waiting at the arrival gate, I felt the fear, too,” Hammond said.
Opponents urge caution
Opponents criticized the proposal, especially the abortion protections. They favor adoption instead.
One woman, Amy Miles of Astoria, testified she shouldn’t be alive. She survived a botched abortion in 1980, developing cerebral palsy because of the procedure.
“The day that I celebrate as my birthday was actually the day I was accidentally born alive,” Miles said.
She urged lawmakers to reconsider embedding abortion rights in the constitution.
Lois Anderson, executive director of Oregon Right to Life, an anti-abortion organization, said the measure would codify discrimination against “developing babies under the guise of women’s rights.”
“We know that each child developing in her mother’s womb is a distinct human being,” Anderson said. “Each baby has a purpose and a future that is not ours to determine.”
Rep. Court Boice, R-Gold Beach, said he opposed the measure as someone who is “staunchly pro-life and pro-adoption.”
“I ask you to please stop this bill,” he said. “It’s not the way to bring us together in my strong opinion.”
Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend and vice chair of the Rules Committee, asked the legislative counsel about implications of the proposal.
Would it allow the Legislature to pass a law that only allows biological women to participate in women’s sports? he asked.
Would it allow schools to legally separate bathrooms by gender?
He said those questions need to be answered.
“If we don’t know the answer to that, it seems that the measure should be written in a way that it is clear,” Knopp said.
The measure faces a committee vote on Thursday.
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Dobbins sat out due to deal, but lacks leverage
June 16, 2023 08:51 AM
Mike Florio and Myles Simmons try to make sense of J.K. Dobbins’ decision to sit out over the lack of a new deal, but explain why the RB position just doesn’t have the same pull as other positions. | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nfl/profootballtalk/what-commanders-offer-means-for-russell-wilson | 2023-06-28 11:42:04 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nfl/profootballtalk/what-commanders-offer-means-for-russell-wilson |
TORONTO, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - RDARS Inc. ("RDARS" or the "Company") (CSE: RDRS), an autonomous robotics and drone technology company developing advanced autonomous drone and robotic systems for alarm system augmentation and surveillance, is pleased to announce the completion of its first production run of its all-new Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest products at the Company's manufacturing plant in Ontario, Canada, further to the Company's press release dated September 13, 2022. The new Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest systems are being prepared for immediate deployment at locations in North America and will be central to RDARS' strategy for seeking beyond visual line of sight environment (BVLOS) approvals with Transport Canada and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States.
"These systems are rolling off the assembly lines and our Company is on a roll," commented Charles Zwebner, Chief Executive Officer of RDARS. "We are really excited about this milestone and we look forward to executing on our business plans," added Charles.
The new v2.5 upgrade brings significant improvements to the capabilities of Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest. Eagle Eye v2.5 includes significant upgrades to its "Detect and Avoid" capabilities, propeller shrouds, and other additional features designed to ensure that regulatory agencies feel confident in the safety and operation of the platform. Eagle Nest v2.5 also sees significant changes including more robust weather protection, 360-degree visual views at both daytime and nighttime, as well as the addition of long range (LoRa) radios to communicate at range with other Eagle Watch Platform technologies. "This new version was produced in record time at our new facility in Ontario, Canada, and I am really proud of my team for meeting these milestones," said Jason Braverman, Chief Technology Officer of RDARS. In addition, RDARS has further refined its manufacturing process resulting reduced manufacturing time and increased durability for its Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest.
These milestones are key achievements for RDARS as it follows its roadmap for design, development, testing and production of the first commercial "Autonomous Drone in a Box" solution which is tailor made for regulatory agency approval. The RDARS technology team has implemented and designed unique and novel solutions to help regulatory agencies feel confident in the solution and prepare the market for deployments across the North America at scale. Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest v2.5 both represent one of the most advanced systems of this type to be deployed. RDARS expects to file for the FAA Part 107 BVLOS waivers in the coming months as it tests these systems for general sale in North America and with limited commercialization anticipated for mid 2023.
RDARS possesses a disruptive technology that is advancing the security industry's approach to protecting commercial, industrial, and residential properties, by introducing protection with autonomous artificial intelligence systems that allows for real time response, situation awareness, verification, intervention, evidence recording, data capture, analysis, and immediate downstream transmissions to public safety agencies. RDARS has the ability, upon a property security breach, in real time to receive, analyze, and downstream the data and inform public safety agencies who the perpetrators potentially are before they even arrive at the property.
Founded in 2019, RDARS is an original equipment manufacturer of its flagship product, the Eagle Watch Platform, comprised of Eagle Eye, a drone, Eagle Nest, a drone station, Eagle Rover, an indoor robotic system, and Eagle Watch Command & Control Software. The Company's autonomous robotic systems provide situational awareness in a cost effective and reliable manner. The Company's mission is to improve alarm response and situational awareness by obtaining required approvals from federal regulatory agencies for BVLOS operations. RDARS is currently developing its technology for private and enterprise customers in the United States and Canada, where these customers require a more reliable and advanced understanding of their property security. For more information about RDARS, please visit its website at www.rdars.com and its profile page on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange (the "CSE") nor its Market Regulator (as such term is defined in the CSE policies) has reviewed or accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Certain information in this news release constitutes forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. Any statements that are contained in this news release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as "may", "should", "anticipate", "expect", "potential", "believe", "intend" or the negative of these terms and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this news release include statements relating to: the Company's business objectives and milestones and the anticipated timing of, and costs in connection with, the execution or achievement of such objectives and milestones; the Company's future growth prospects; the development of the Company's business and future activities following the date hereof; expectations relating to market size and anticipated growth in the jurisdictions within which the Company may from time to time operate or contemplate future operations; expectations with respect to economic, business, regulatory and/or competitive factors related to the Company or the autonomous drone and robotic industry and security industry generally; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's current and future operations; the market for the Company's current and proposed product offerings, as well as the Company's ability to capture market share; the Company's strategic investments and capital expenditures, and related benefits; the distribution methods expected to be used by the Company to deliver its product offerings; the competitive landscape within which the Company operates and the Company's market share and reach; the performance of the Company's business and the operations and activities of the Company; the Company's ability to obtain, maintain, and renew or extend, applicable authorizations, including the timing and impact of the receipt thereof; the Company's technology making an impact on the autonomous drone and robotic industry and security industry; the Company's products providing its consumers with the benefits as described herein; the Company continuing its research and development in its products; the Company's plans for the Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest to be deployed in North America; Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest being central to the Company's plans in seeking BVLOS approvals with Transport Canada and the FAA; the stated milestones being key achievements for the Company; the Company to follow its plans as stated; the Company's implementation and design of solutions that will promote regulatory and market confidence in its products; the Company's plans to apply for the FAA's Part 107 BVLOS waivers in the coming months; and the Company's plans for limited commercialization to occur in mid 2023.
Forward-looking information in this news release are based on certain assumptions and expected future events, namely: the Company's financial condition and development plans do not change as a result of unforeseen events; there will continue to be a demand, and market opportunity, for the Company's product offerings; current and future economic conditions will neither affect the business and operations of the Company nor the Company's ability to capitalize on anticipated business opportunities; current and future members of management will abide by the Company's business objectives and strategies from time to time as established by the Company; the Company will retain and supplement its board of directors and management, or otherwise engage consultants and advisors having knowledge of the industries (or segments thereof) within which the Company may from time to time participate; the Company will have sufficient working capital and the ability to obtain the financing required in order to develop and continue its business and operations; the Company will continue to attract, develop, motivate and retain highly qualified and skilled consultants and/or employees, as the case may be; no adverse changes will be made to the regulatory framework governing beyond visual line of sight operations, taxes and all other applicable matters in the jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business and any other jurisdiction in which the Company may conduct business in the future; the Company will be able to generate cash flow from operations, including, where applicable, distribution and sale of its products; the Company will be able to execute on its business strategy as anticipated; the Company will be able to meet the requirements necessary to obtain and/or maintain authorizations required to conduct the business; the Company's continuing ability to meet the requirements necessary to remain listed on the CSE; general economic, financial, market, regulatory, and political conditions, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, will not negatively affect the Company or its business; the Company will be able to successfully compete in the autonomous drone and robotic industry and security industry; prices offered by competitors will not decline materially; the Company will be able to effectively manage anticipated and unanticipated costs; the Company will be able to conduct its operations in a safe, efficient and effective manner; general market conditions will be favourable with respect to the Company's future plans and goals; the Company's products providing its consumers with its benefits as described herein; the Company continuing its research and development in its products; the Company continuing its research and development in its products; the Company's will deploy the Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest in North America; Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest will be central to the Company's plans in seeking BVLOS approvals with Transport Canada and the FAA; the stated milestones will be key achievements for the Company; the Company will follow its plans as stated; the Company's implementation and design of solutions will promote regulatory and market confidence in its products; the Company will apply for the FAA's Part 107 BVLOS waivers in the coming months; and the Company will achieve limited commercialization occur in mid 2023.
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including but not limited to: the risks associated with the autonomous drone and robotic industry and security industry in general; the inability of the Company to obtain requisite approvals; the Company's inability to attract and retain qualified members of management to grow the Company's business and its operations; unanticipated changes in economic and market conditions (including changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic) or in applicable laws; the Company's inability to secure or maintain required authorizations necessary to conduct the business and operations and meet its targets; the Company's inability to effectively manage unanticipated costs and expenses, including costs and expenses; the risk's associated with the Company's in meeting its business objectives and milestones and the anticipated timing of, and costs in connection with, the execution or achievement of such objectives and milestones; the inability of the Company's to identify and secure future growth prospects; the Company's inability to develop its business and future activities following the date hereof; the Company's inability to meet or exceed expectations relating to market size and anticipated growth in the jurisdictions within which the Company may from time to time operate or contemplate future operations; the Company's inability to meet the requirements necessary to remain listed on the CSE; the Company's inability to meet or exceed expectations with respect to economic, business, regulatory and/or competitive factors related to the Company or the autonomous drone and robotic industry and security industry generally; the Company's inability to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's current and future operations; the risks associated with the market for the Company's current and proposed product offerings, as well as the Company's inability to capture market share; the risks associated with the Company's strategic investments and capital expenditures, and related benefits; the risks associated with the distribution methods expected to be used by the Company to deliver its product offerings; the risks associated with the competitive landscape within which the Company operates and the Company's market share and reach following the date hereof; the lack of performance of the Company's business and the operations and activities of the Company following the date hereof; the Company's inability to obtain, maintain, and renew or extend, applicable authorizations, including the timing and impact of the receipt thereof; the Company's technology making an impact on the autonomous drone and robotic industry and security industry; the inability of the Company's products to provide its consumers with its benefits as described herein; the Company inability to continue its research and development in its products; the Company's products providing its consumers with its benefits as described herein; the Company continuing its research and development in its products; the Company's inability to deploy the Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest in North America; Eagle Eye and Eagle Nest will not be central to the Company's plans in seeking BVLOS approvals with Transport Canada and the FAA; the stated milestones will not be key achievements for the Company; the Company will not follow its plans as stated; the Company's implementation and design of solutions will not promote regulatory and market confidence in its products; the Company will not apply for the FAA's Part 107 BVLOS waivers in the coming months; and the Company not will achieve limited commercialization occur in mid 2023.
Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated.
Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and reflect the Company's expectations as of the date hereof and are subject to change thereafter. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, estimates or opinions, future events or results or otherwise or to explain any material difference between subsequent actual events and such forward-looking information, except as required by applicable law.
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Mild Monday, rain and snow return midweek
Quiet weather for the start of the week ahead of our next storm system
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Meteorologist Peyton Sanders says that it will remain mild on Monday before our next storm system arrives midweek, bringing rain and snow to Kansas.
A weak storm system will pass through Kansas tonight, which could bring a few rain and snow showers to northwest Kansas. Minimal accumulation is expected.
It will be a chilly start to the day Monday with morning low temperatures in the 30s to near 40. Afternoon highs will reach the 50s to near 60 under a mostly sunny sky. The winds will still be a bit breezy throughout the day, but they will not be quite as strong as the past couple of days.
Tuesday will be a bit cooler with highs falling into the 40s over northern Kansas with 50s over southern Kansas. The winds will be lighter statewide.
Our next storm system will arrive Tuesday night and Wednesday, bringing both rain and snow. Wichita will have mostly rain with this system, but some light snow could eventually develop Wednesday evening.
Western and northern Kansas will have the highest chance for accumulating snow, which could lead to travel impacts throughout the day Wednesday. It is still a bit too early to know exactly how much snow will fall. Be sure to check back for later forecasts for more details.
WICHITA AREA FORECAST
Tonight: Decreasing clouds. Breezy. Wind: S/SW 15-25; gusty. Low: 42
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. Breezy. Wind: W 10-20; gusty. High: 61
Tomorrow Night: Mostly clear. Wind: W/N 5-10. Low: 32
Tue: High: 54 Increasing clouds; rain overnight.
Wed: High: 45 Low: 35 Rain likely; rain/snow mix early overnight.
Thu: High: 43 Low: 26 Partly cloudy to sunny.
Fri: High: 46 Low: 23 Increasing clouds.
Sat: High: 41 Low: 26 Mostly cloudy.
Sun: High: 44 Low: 25 Partly cloudy.
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Marcel Clark recorded a big performance with 24 points and 22 rebounds to lead American History over Bard 69-49 in Newark.
American History (8-3) jumped out to a 32-23 lead at halftime before opening up the game in the third quarter outscoring Bard 19-7. David Medina added 15 points, four rebounds, and four assists.
Ariel Quinteros led Bard (5-4) with 10 points.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An increase in turnout among Democrats and independents and a notable shift in Republican-leaning counties contributed to the overwhelming support of abortion rights last week in traditionally conservative Kansas, according to a detailed Associated Press analysis of the voting results.
A proposed state constitutional amendment would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban abortions outright. But Kansas voters rejected the measure by nearly 20 percentage points, almost a mirror of Republican Donald Trump’s statewide margin over Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to repeal a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, the threat of new restrictions in the state galvanized Democrats and independents more than anticipated. At the same time, Republicans showed less interest in turning out to support the measure.
The findings reinforce a sense in both parties that the Supreme Court’s decision may have altered the dynamics of this year’s midterm elections. Here’s how it played out:
‘OVERPLAYED THEIR HAND’
In 2020, Trump carried Kansas by 18 points. Last week, not a single county in the state favored the ballot measure as much as it had supported the former president, the AP found.
In 99 of the state’s 105 counties, support for the abortion measure was more than 10 percentage points lower than its support for Trump against Biden. In 29 of those counties, that difference was more than 20 points.
And in 14 Kansas counties that Trump won, majorities rejected the amendment.
“The anti-abortion politicians have just overplayed their hand on these bans,” said Tamarra Wieder, director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates in Kentucky, where another abortion measure will be on the ballot in November.
The Kansas county with the largest drop from the presidential election to the abortion referendum was Greenwood, in rural southeast Kansas. Trump won nearly 80% of the vote there in 2020, but there was about a 30-point shift on abortion, with voters narrowly favoring “no,” the position that leaves abortion rights in place for women in Kansas.
Beyond counties that flipped entirely, dozens of deeply Republican counties saw voters favor the abortion amendment as expected, but by much narrower margins than their preference for Trump two years ago. Near Topeka, for example, 72% of voters in Pottawatomie County backed the former president’s re-election, while just 57% supported the amendment.
Abortion opponents said they were stunned by the margin of the results.
“I was surprised for sure,” said Ruth Tisdale, executive director of the Advice and Aid Pregnancy Center. “I thought that it would be a closer outcome either way. I didn’t have a strong sense of whether it would pass or not, but I thought that it would be closer, you know, 51 to 49 kind of thing. … It was very sad.”
HUGE TURNOUT, SURGE OF INDEPENDENTS
It wasn’t just the amendment’s margin of defeat that jolted the political consciousness. It was also the seam-busting turnout in what otherwise should have been a normal, low-turnout primary in a midterm election year.
The latest AP tallies show that more than 922,000 votes were cast by Kansas voters on the abortion referendum. That’s roughly twice as many voters as turned out for the state’s previous midterm primary election in 2018, and it’s about as many as turn out for Kansas’ midterm general elections in some years. Overall turnout — 48% of registered voters — outpaced the 34% turnout for the 2020 presidential primaries.
The most recent electorate also was considerably less Republican than in a typical Kansas primary. From 2010 through 2020, Republican primary ballots outnumbered non-Republican ballots by about 2-to-1. In last week’s election, according to the Kansas secretary of state’s office, the two groups turned out in nearly equal numbers.
Advocates on both sides of the amendment spent more than $14 million blanketing Kansas with ads and signs, knocking on doors and calling voters, according to state campaign finance reports.
That effort helped attract an unusual variable in Kansas primaries: independent voters. That group is eligible to vote on referenda but not for candidates running in any party primary. But campaign ads emphasized that “no affiliation” voters could indeed vote on the abortion question. It worked: Around 184,000 more votes were cast for the abortion amendment than voted for governor, a likely barometer to measure their portion of the electorate.
“The decision to overturn Roe really was a wake-up call for more moderate voters,” said Ashley All, a spokesperson for Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, a group that fought against the ballot measure.
‘ENERGY AROUND BALLOT MEASURES’
The result from Kansas is rippling into numerous other states.
In Georgia, the membership for NARAL Pro-Choice America jumped from 53,000 to more than 80,000 and could hit 100,000 by the November election, said Alicia Stallworth, the director of NARAL campaigns in the Southeastern U.S.
“I don’t think this is something that disappears,” Stallworth said of the current energy among abortion rights advocates.
Abortion-rights advocates said the decision to strike down Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 case that recognized a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, energized many voters who had assumed abortion access was safe.
“It was such a beacon of light in this moment,” said Heather Shumaker, director of state abortion access at the National Women’s Law Center, of the Kansas vote. “I think there is energy around ballot measures for the foreseeable future.”
In Ohio, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Nan Whaley has called for a statewide ballot question on a state constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights as soon as 2023.
In South Dakota, a group called Dakotans for Health is pushing a similar ballot initiative in 2024. And in Colorado, advocates want a 2024 referendum that could allow public funding for abortion.
But getting measures on ballots without going through a state legislature can be difficult. The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which advises liberal groups on initiative campaigns, advises the process could take three years.
‘WHY WE’RE LOSING’
In half of the states, including Kansas, only lawmakers can put propositions on the statewide ballot. That means in Texas, which bans most abortions, the only options are to wait for legislators to put an initiative to a vote—as anti-abortion lawmakers did in Kansas — or vote out the incumbents.
“In Texas we know that’s why we’re losing,” said Delma Catalina Limones, communications director for Avow, an abortion-rights group in that state.
But despite the apparent confidence of Kansas legislators to put the abortion amendment on the ballot this month, their expectations were upended by the resounding defeat.
Value Them Both Coalition, the main group in Kansas that fought in favor of the amendment, called it a “temporary setback” and promised in a statement that “our dedicated fight to value women and babies is far from over.”
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Kessler and Dolby reported from Washington. Hollingsworth reported from Kansas City, Missouri. Tom Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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Partnership Brings Android and iOS Cyber Defense Automation Inside the GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipeline
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Appdome, the mobile app economy's one and only Cyber Defense Automation platform, today announced that it has integrated its platform with GitHub – the complete developer platform – to build, scale, and deliver software. GitHub Actions is now part of the Appdome Dev2Cyber Agility Partner Initiative to accelerate the delivery of secure mobile apps globally. With this new integration, GitHub users can leverage Appdome's configuration-as-code ease from inside GitHub and build any of Appdome's security, anti-fraud, anti-malware, anti-cheat, and other cyber defenses into Android and iOS apps.
Appdome's cyber defense automation platform streamlines delivery and accelerates release times by using technology to build cyber security defenses into iOS and Android apps - including runtime application self-protection (RASP), code obfuscation, mobile data encryption, jailbreak detection, root detection, man-in-the-middle attack prevention, on-device anti-malware, anti-fraud, anti-cheat, anti-bot and other protections. Manual methods of cyber defense implementations in Android and iOS apps are complex, slow and brittle. This solves mobile brands' need for technology platforms to automate the delivery of cyber defense in mobile apps and to keep pace with modern DevOps pipelines.
"Our recent global survey shows that mobile consumers' preferred way to interact with brands, which increases the urgency for development teams to create and update apps frequently to remain competitive. They're working in an environment that is continuous, agile and fast-moving," said Tom Tovar, Co-Creator and CEO of Appdome. "Development teams need a cyber defense solution for mobile app development that takes advantage of and integrates with mobile development best practices and tooling. In this way, they can deliver the protections end-users desire in their iOS and Android apps, build by build and release by release."
Today, global consumers demand more protection than ever in their mobile app experiences. As Appdome's recent survey, Global Consumer Expectations of Mobile App Security, revealed, 94% of global consumers said they would promote a brand if the mobile apps protected them against security, fraud and malware risks. 68% also indicated they would abandon brands that offered no protection.
"GitHub is a key development platform for mobile apps, and developers using GitHub need to be able to build security protections into these apps rapidly from within the platform," said Karen Hsu, SVP of Mobile DevOps and Security Solutions. "This integration with GitHub enables brands and their development teams to meet growing demands from mobile users for stronger protection."
For more information on how to use Appdome's GitHub Actions workflow, please see this knowledge base article.
About Appdome
Appdome's mission is to protect every mobile app in the world and the people who use mobile apps in their lives and at work. Appdome provides the mobile industry's only mobile application Cyber Defense Automation platform, powered by patented artificial-intelligence based coding engine, Threat-Events™ Threat-Aware UX/UI Control and ThreatScope™ Mobile XDR. Using Appdome, mobile brands eliminate complexity, save money, and deliver 300+ Certified Secure™ mobile app security, anti-malware, anti-fraud, mobile anti-bot, anti-cheat, MiTM attack prevention, code obfuscation and other protections in Android & iOS apps with ease, inside mobile DevOps and CI/CD pipeline. Leading financial, healthcare, government, and m-commerce brands use Appdome to protect Android & iOS apps, mobile customers, and mobile businesses globally. Appdome holds several patents including U.S. Patents 9,934,017 B2, 10,310,870 B2, 10,606,582 B2, 11,243,748 B2, and 11,294,663 B2. Additional patents pending.
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WA Seattle WA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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193 FPUS56 KSEW 261007
ZFPSEW
Zone Forecast Product for Western Washington
National Weather Service Seattle WA
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Friday.
WAZ558-262300-
Seattle and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Seattle, Shoreline, Federal Way, and Kent
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
Highs in the 60s. Northwest wind to 10 mph becoming west in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch
possible. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Southwest wind 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 50. West
wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an
inch likely. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. North wind to
10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then showers
likely after midnight. Lows near 50.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows
near 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Seattle 66 52 62 / 70 70 50
$$
WAZ559-262300-
Bremerton and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bremerton and Silverdale
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
Highs in the 60s. Light wind becoming south to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Lows near 50. South wind around 10 mph becoming
southwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Light wind
becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then showers likely
after midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bremerton 64 49 61 / 70 70 40
$$
WAZ507-262300-
Everett and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Everett, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville,
and Arlington
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
Highs in the 60s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. South wind to
10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. South wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 50.
Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an
inch likely. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Light wind
becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
then showers likely after midnight. Lows near 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Lows near 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Edmonds 64 52 62 / 70 70 40
Everett 65 51 61 / 60 70 50
$$
WAZ509-262300-
Tacoma Area-
Including the cities of Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, and Sumner
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
Highs in the 60s. Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch
possible. Lows near 50. Southwest wind to 10 mph increasing to
10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid to
upper 40s. West wind 10 to 15 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain at times. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter
of an inch possible. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Light
wind becoming north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then showers
likely after midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in
the upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Puyallup 68 52 63 / 70 70 50
Tacoma 66 51 62 / 70 70 50
$$
WAZ556-262300-
Bellevue and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and Issaquah
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming southwest
to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch
possible. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Southwest wind around
10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 50.
Southwest wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an
inch likely. Highs near 60. Light wind becoming northwest around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then showers likely
after midnight. Lows near 50.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows
near 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellevue 68 53 63 / 70 70 50
$$
WAZ555-262300-
East Puget Sound Lowlands-
Including the cities of Gold Bar, Enumclaw, North Bend,
and Buckley
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming west to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after midnight.
Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch possible. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. South wind to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Numerous showers. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter
of an inch possible. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. South
wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Showers likely in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of rain after midnight. Rainfall amounts less than
a tenth of an inch likely. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
Southwest wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Light wind
becoming northwest to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then showers likely
after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in
the upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the morning, then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Gold Bar 71 53 63 / 70 80 70
Enumclaw 67 51 61 / 70 80 60
North Bend 71 52 64 / 70 80 70
$$
WAZ503-262300-
Western Whatcom County-
Including the cities of Bellingham, Blaine, and Lynden
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then cloudy with a chance
of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s. East wind to 10 mph
becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after midnight.
Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch possible. Lows near 50.
Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Numerous showers. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half
inch possible. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Southwest wind
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid to
upper 40s. Southwest wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an
inch likely. Highs near 60. Light wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows near 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellingham 65 52 60 / 50 80 70
Sumas 69 52 60 / 60 80 80
$$
WAZ506-262300-
Western Skagit County-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley,
and Burlington
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the 60s. Light wind becoming southwest to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch possible.
Lows near 50. Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming southeast after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Numerous showers. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter
of an inch possible. Highs near 60. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. North wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an
inch likely. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Light wind
becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows near 50.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows near 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Anacortes 62 51 59 / 50 80 50
Mount Vernon 67 53 62 / 50 80 60
$$
WAZ001-262300-
San Juan County-
Including the cities of Friday Harbor, Eastsound,
and Roche Harbor
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then rain likely in the
afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Light wind becoming south to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then cloudy with a
chance of rain after midnight. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a
quarter of an inch possible. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
South wind to 10 mph becoming west after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs near 60.
Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. West wind 10 to 15 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an
inch likely. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Light wind
becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s to
lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Friday Harbor 60 47 60 / 60 80 50
Eastsound 58 49 57 / 50 80 60
$$
WAZ510-262300-
Admiralty Inlet Area-
Including the cities of Port Townsend and Port Ludlow
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the 60s. Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Northwest
wind 10 to 15 mph becoming south 10 to 20 mph with gusts to
30 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. South wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid
40s to lower 50s. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to
10 mph or less after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an
inch likely. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. East wind to
10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oak Harbor 61 50 60 / 50 70 50
Port Townsend 60 48 58 / 60 70 40
$$
WAZ511-262300-
Hood Canal Area-
Including the cities of Hoodsport and Brinnon
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then rain likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch likely. Highs in the 60s. Light wind
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Southwest
wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the mid
50s to lower 60s. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid to
upper 40s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Rain at times. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter
of an inch possible. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s. Light wind
becoming north 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then showers
likely after midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Shelton 65 48 61 / 70 80 50
$$
WAZ504-262300-
Southwest Interior-
Including the cities of Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Centralia,
and Toledo
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then rain likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch likely. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch
possible. Lows near 50. South wind to 10 mph becoming southwest
after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs near 60.
Southwest wind to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the mid to
upper 40s. West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain at times. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half
inch possible. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Light wind becoming
north to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then showers
likely after midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Chehalis 66 51 62 / 70 70 40
Olympia 65 49 62 / 70 70 40
$$
WAZ512-262300-
Lower Chehalis Valley Area-
Including the city of Montesano
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then rain likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts a
tenth to a quarter of an inch possible. Highs in the 60s. East
wind to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch possible.
Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. West wind to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the mid
50s to lower 60s. Southwest wind to 10 mph increasing to 10 to
15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the 40s.
West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch
possible. Highs in the 50s. East wind to 10 mph becoming
northeast in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then showers
likely after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
$$
WAZ514-262300-
Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca-
Including the cities of Sequim and Port Angeles
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then rain likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch likely. Highs near 60. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Light wind becoming west 10 to
15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the mid
50s to lower 60s. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming variable to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the 40s.
Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming light after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an
inch likely. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Wind variable to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid to upper
40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Port Angeles 59 47 58 / 60 80 50
Sequim 62 47 59 / 60 70 40
$$
WAZ515-262300-
Western Strait of Juan De Fuca-
Including the cities of Joyce and Clallam Bay
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain in the morning, then rain
likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Light wind
becoming variable to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of rain after midnight. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a
half inch possible. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Wind variable
to 10 mph becoming west 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the 50s.
Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the 40s.
Wind variable to 10 mph becoming light after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Rain likely. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Highs in the lower to mid 50s. East wind 10 to
15 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid
40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs near 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Sekiu 57 47 55 / 70 80 50
$$
WAZ517-262300-
Central Coast-
Including the cities of Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Westport,
and Ocean Shores
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then rain likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch likely. Highs in the upper 50s to mid
60s. East wind to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain at times in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a chance of rain after midnight. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a
half inch possible. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. South wind
10 to 15 mph becoming southwest 10 to 20 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the 50s.
Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the
evening, then rain likely after midnight. Rainfall amounts less
than a tenth of an inch likely. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming east after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Rain. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch
possible. Highs in the 50s. East wind 10 to 15 mph becoming
northwest in the afternoon. Gusts to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs in the
mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hoquiam 63 51 58 / 70 80 50
$$
WAZ516-262300-
North Coast-
Including the cities of Neah Bay, La Push, and Forks
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the morning, then
rain at times in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a
quarter of an inch possible. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Light wind becoming south to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then cloudy with a chance of rain
after midnight. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch
possible. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. South wind 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Breezy. Cloudy with scattered showers. Highs in the
50s. South wind 15 to 25 mph becoming southwest 10 to 20 mph in
the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the 40s.
Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph becoming east
after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Rain at times. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter
of an inch possible. Highs in the 50s. East wind 10 to 15 mph
becoming northwest with gusts to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Forks 59 47 56 / 80 70 50
$$
WAZ513-262300-
Olympics-
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then rain likely in the afternoon. Snow level near
8000 feet. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch
possible.
.TONIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain and snow likely after
midnight. Snow level near 7000 feet. Rainfall amounts a half inch
to one inch possible. No snow accumulation near Hurricane Ridge.
.FRIDAY...Numerous showers. Snow level near 4500 feet. Rainfall
amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch possible.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow
level near 4500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow. Snow level near 4500 feet. Rainfall
amounts a quarter to a half inch possible.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Snow level near
4500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level near
5000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Snow level near 5500 feet.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 9500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hurricane Ridge 46 33 40 / 60 80 50
$$
WAZ567-262300-
Cascades of Whatcom and Skagit Counties-
Including the cities of Marblemount and Concrete
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then rain and snow likely
in the afternoon. Snow level near 7500 feet. Rainfall amounts
less than a tenth of an inch likely. No snow accumulation.
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow in the evening, then rain and snow
likely after midnight. Snow level near 8000 feet. Rainfall
amounts a half inch to one inch possible. No snow accumulation.
.FRIDAY...Widespread showers. Snow level near 5500 feet. Rainfall
amounts a quarter to a half inch possible. Snow accumulation up
to 1 inch.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Showers likely in the evening, then rain and snow
likely after midnight. Snow level near 5000 feet. Rainfall
amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch possible.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow likely. Snow level near 4500 feet.
Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch likely.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Snow level near
5000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level near
5000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Snow level near 6000 feet.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers.
Snow level near 6500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Snow level near 7500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Snow level near 7500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mount Baker 51 38 42 / 60 90 80
$$
WAZ568-262300-
Cascades of Snohomish and King Counties-
Including the cities of Snoqualmie Pass, Darrington, and Index
306 AM PDT Thu May 26 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then rain and snow likely in the afternoon. Snow level
near 8000 feet. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch
likely. Afternoon pass temperatures in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
Light wind in the passes becoming west around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level near 8000 feet. Rainfall
amounts a half inch to one inch possible. No snow accumulation.
West wind in the passes around 10 mph becoming southwest after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Numerous showers. Snow level near 5500 feet. Rainfall
amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch possible. No snow
accumulation. Afternoon pass temperatures in the mid 40s to lower
50s. Southwest wind in the passes around 10 mph becoming west in
the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Showers likely in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow level near
5000 feet. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch
possible. West wind in the passes around 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow likely. Snow level near 5000 feet.
Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch possible.
Afternoon pass temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. Light wind
in the passes.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely in the evening, then
showers likely after midnight. Snow level near 5000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Snow level near
4500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Snow
level near 5500 feet.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Snow level near 6000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Snow level near 7000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 9500 feet.
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Snoqualmie Pass 61 42 50 / 40 90 60
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.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then rain and snow likely
in the afternoon. Snow level near 8500 feet. Rainfall amounts
less than a tenth of an inch likely.
.TONIGHT...Rain and snow. Snow level near 8000 feet. Rainfall
amounts a quarter to a half inch possible. No snow accumulation.
.FRIDAY...Numerous showers. Snow level near 5500 feet. Rainfall
amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch possible. Snow
accumulation up to 1 inch.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Showers likely in the evening, then a chance of
rain and snow after midnight. Snow level near 5500 feet. Rainfall
amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch possible.
.SATURDAY...Rain and snow. Snow level near 5000 feet. Rainfall
amounts a quarter to a half inch possible.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow in the evening, then showers
likely after midnight. Snow level near 5000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely. Snow level near 4500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers after midnight. Snow
level near 5500 feet.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers.
Snow level near 5500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Snow level near 7000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 9500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 9500 feet.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The man who admitted to killing a man on the Pajarito Mesa back in 2018 will spend the next 12 years behind bars. Jonathan Herrera helped beat 30-year-old Ivan Bocanegra to death, then ran over his body and tried to burn the evidence, including Bocanegra’s body.
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The victim’s father spoke before sentencing, asking for justice. “It shouldn’t be possible for them to be on the street. They should be kept in for years so that they’re not on the streets. We put this all in your hands, your honor, so that you can bring justice,” said Bocanegra’s father.
Herrera apologized before his sentencing, saying he was friends with Bocanegra and made a terrible decision. Ultimately, the judge sentenced him to 15 years with three years-credit for time served. Herrera’s cousin, 15 years old at the time, also admitted to the killing. He served time and is already out. | https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/man-who-admitted-to-pajarito-mesa-murder-sentenced/ | 2022-10-03 21:34:48 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/man-who-admitted-to-pajarito-mesa-murder-sentenced/ |
Recognition is a validation of Sabre's holistic, collaborative strategy to enable personalized retailing by going beyond the NDC standard
SOUTHLAKE, Texas, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, has been recognized as a system provider for both airlines and travel sellers in the International Air Transport Association's (IATA's) Airline Retailing Maturity (ARM) index. This recognition is a testament to Sabre's focus on developing scalable capabilities to power more personalized travel retailing that benefits the travel ecosystem.
"Airline retailing means placing the customer at the center of the air travel shop/order/pay ecosystem. We are excited to see Sabre's strong alignment with this vision as a recognized System Provider in the ARM index," said Yanik Hoyles, IATA's Director Distribution.
Designed to assess the maturity of industry players in the journey to airline retailing, the ARM index replaces the previous IATA New Distribution Capability (NDC) and ONE Order certifications and expands the scope of the program beyond technical standards to recognize the benefits of value chain collaboration and value creation. Introduced in November 2021, the program is built on three pillars: Capabilities Verification to measure the technical abilities for shop, order, pay, settle, account, and set up; Partnerships Deployment to determine the scalability of NDC-enabled offers across the value chain; and Value Capture Compass to track potential value captured along the retail transformation journey.
"We are very proud of Sabre's inclusion in the ARM index and we wholeheartedly welcome IATA's move toward a more layered and multi-faceted view of airline retailing", said Kathy Morgan, Vice President, Channel Delivery, Sabre Travel Solutions. "From its early days, we've approached NDC as a technical basis to deliver a more personalized traveler experience. We named our program "Beyond NDC" to signal a focus not only on ticking boxes on a technical capability checklist, but also on a longer-term retailing vision. Sitting at the crossroads of travel, we seek to listen to our customers on both the supply and demand sides of our travel marketplace, integrate their feedback, and innovate across our portfolio so that our products scale end-to-end, not just for individual players in the ecosystem."
Sabre has a busy NDC roadmap laid out for the remainder of 2022 to continue to advance our capabilities. Dynamic air pricing for NDC offers will become available with the recently launched Air Price IQ ™ product within the Sabre Retail Intelligence suite, enabling airlines to optimize offers in real-time with leading machine learning and data analytics capabilities. Support for exchanges will be added to the current cancel, void and refund capabilities, providing robust servicing functionality. Radixx, which provides solutions for low-cost carrier airlines, is expected to also become certified under the ARM index later this year as an airline IT provider.
Sabre is in discussions with more than 25 leading airlines about selling their NDC offers through its marketplace. In addition to Singapore Airlines and Qantas – which combined are active in 50 countries and are starting to roll out their NDC content across North and South America – Sabre is actively engaged many other airlines. NDC offers from these airlines will be available in the coming months through Sabre's Offer and Order APIs, agency point of sale, Sabre Red 360, and online booking tool, GetThere.
About Sabre Corporation
Sabre Corporation is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, serving a wide range of travel companies including airlines, hoteliers, travel agencies and other suppliers. The company provides retailing, distribution and fulfilment solutions that help its customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences. Through its leading travel marketplace, Sabre connects travel suppliers with buyers from around the globe. Sabre's technology platform manages more than $260B worth of global travel spend annually. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre serves customers in more than 160 countries around the world. For more information visit www.sabre.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
7-5-9-3, FIREBALL: 3
(seven, five, nine, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
7-5-9-3, FIREBALL: 3
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MISSISSAUGA, ON, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Covalon Technologies Ltd. (the "Company" or "Covalon") (TSXV: COV) (OTCQX: CVALF), an advanced medical technologies company, will release its Q3 Fiscal 2022 financial results on Monday, August 29th, 2022, before markets open. A conference call and webcast to discuss the financial results will be held on Monday, August 29th, 2022, at 9:00am EST.
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A recording of the call will be available by calling 1-888-390-0541 or 416-764-8677 and entering the encore replay entry code 297097# until September 12th, 2022. A recording of the call will also be available on www.covalon.com under News & Events on the Investors tab.
Copies of Covalon's financial statements and MD&A can be obtained on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and under Sedar Filings on the Investors tab of Covalon's website.
Covalon Technologies Ltd. is a researcher, developer, manufacturer, and marketer of patent-protected medical products that improve patient outcomes and save lives in the areas of advanced wound care, infection management and surgical procedures. Covalon leverages its patented medical technology platforms and expertise in two ways: (i) by developing products that are sold under Covalon's name; and (ii) by developing and commercializing medical products for other medical companies under development and license contracts. The Company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, having the symbol COV and trades on the OTQX Market under the symbol CVALF. To learn more about Covalon, visit our website at www.covalon.com.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release contains forward-looking statements which reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events. The forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek", "anticipate", "plan, "estimate", "expect", "intend" and statements that an event or result "may", "will", "should", "could" or "might" occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, including the difficulty in predicting product approvals, acceptance of and demands for new products, the impact of the products and pricing strategies of competitors, delays in developing and launching new products, the regulatory environment, fluctuations in operating results, the impact and timing of COVID-19 on operating activities and market conditions, and other risks, any of which could cause results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from the results discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Many risks are inherent in the industry; others are more specific to the Company. Investors should consult the Company's ongoing quarterly filings for additional information on risks and uncertainties relating to these forward-looking statements. Investors should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, further events or otherwise.
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Def Comedy Jam alum and “How to be a player” star Bill Bellamy stopped by the Lemonade stand with Leah Henry ahead of his new book “Top Billing.” Bill gave his thoughts on the Chris Rock’s stand up special on Netflix. The comedian also talked about why IG comedians may struggle in the stand up arena. To see me. teach Bill some new vocabulary, grab your glasses and sip on this interview.
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Group home closures put many disabled Minnesotans at risk, advocates say
Published 6:24 pm Tuesday, June 28, 2022
By Sarah Gelbard
Minnesotans with a range of disabilities face a worrisome future as a wave of group home closures hits the state, driven by staff shortages and low wages for direct support professionals, advocates say.
More than 170 group homes across Minnesota have closed since the fall, said Sarah Abbott, a director at ACR Homes, which serves residents who need wheelchair-accessible housing and individualized medical care.
That’s more than 4 percent of the state’s group homes closing in less than a year, according to ARRM, a Minnesota nonprofit that represents home and community-based service providers.
Abbott joined staff, parents, family members and disabled residents at a rally Friday outside the governor’s residence in St. Paul to get their concerns in front of Gov. Tim Walz and press for a special session for more funding.
“When we’re asking people to sign up to do physical labor working in challenging health care environments, and at a wage that is less than what you can get working at a fast food restaurant, at some point — we have to stop kidding ourselves,” said Kevin Zabel, communications director at ARRM.
He said for direct support professionals, the state and federal government reimburses through Medicare and Medicaid at roughly $14 an hour. Some organizations that oversee group home care can supplement those wages through charitable foundations or additional revenue, and others do not, he added.
At the legislative session that ended in May, lawmakers failed to agree on a proposal that could add about $250 million to the state disability budget, with some of those funds intended to increase wages for direct support professionals.
“Nothing — nothing — came through for disability services, which was very frustrating for residential providers, because legislators know of the really, really scary situation our industry is in right now,” Zabel said.
In the meantime, when homes close down, residents have to move into large facilities temporarily, or stay with aging parents who might not be able to quit their jobs and provide all necessary care. Advocates worry residents will be left without safe alternatives.
Attendees at Friday’s rally held signs reading “Where will I live?”, “Better pay for our hardworking staff!” and “Don’t make the disabled homeless.”
“The reason why you have to stop and take a look at these wheelchairs is they have one-to-one medical needs,” said Sarah Christensen, a group home resident who came to the rally with her mother, Ann. “Some of them have [feeding] tubes. Some of them have [tracheostomies].”
A few years ago at Christensen’s house, there were two staff members assigned to four residents living together. Then, there was only one staff member to assist all four residents. Many group homes are set up like this, with four residents sharing small, community-oriented spaces. Christensen’s house has closed down, and she’s moved to a large assisted living facility.
It isn’t home, and there still isn’t enough staff to help residents like Sarah with community outings, said Melisa Stuckmayer, an ACR Homes nurse.
“We’ve really had to cut back to bare bones staffing. It’s just unfortunate for everyone.”
Stuckmayer said it’s difficult to spend so much time training direct support professionals only to lose them because wages are low.
“As a woman with disabilities, I see firsthand how critical this situation is,” said Shaina Briscoe.
Like Sarah, she’s in her 30s. She said she was injured in a car accident while riding her bike. She has been staying at a facility temporarily, but she wants to go home.
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BERLIN (AP)Hertha Berlin surprisingly fired its head of sport, Fredi Bobic, on Saturday after the team lost to Union Berlin 2-0 in the city derby.
Bobic’s departure was unexpected as he was seen as the Bundesliga club’s main hope to clean up others’ mistakes after a botched big-money bid to turn Hertha into a ”big city club” left it, instead, as a perennial relegation candidate with little to spend.
Bobic had been in charge since June 2021 and was responsible for signings and squad building. Lately, he had been overseeing more departures than arrivals as he sought to bring down expenses at the cash-strapped club.
The loss to Union was Hertha’s third straight defeat to start 2023 and it left the team second-to-last in the relegation zone. It has fewer points than at the same stage last season, when it escaped the drop thanks only to a nervy playoff win.
Despite the team’s travails, Bobic escaped criticism as he was seen to be doing all he could with limited means. He was even linked recently with the vacant position for the German national team’s sporting director. The position ultimately went to former Germany striker and coach Rudi Voller.
Kicker magazine reported there was discontent internally with Bobic for months, however. Bobic was responsible for ousting club favorite Pal Dardai as coach last season and replacing him with the luckless Tayfun Korkut. He coaxed Felix Magath out of retirement to save it from relegation.
Bobic, who enjoyed a successful five-year spell in a similar role at Eintracht Frankfurt, failed to have the same luck at Hertha. His transfers have not worked out as hoped.
It’s unclear if the derby loss had any influence on Hertha’s decision to fire Bobic due to the internal bureaucracy involved in taking such a step, but the announcement came a couple of hours after the game.
”The presidium, together with the supervisory board of Hertha BSC e.V. decided unanimously to release its head of sport, Fredi Bobic, from his duties with immediate effect,” the club said in a statement.
Hertha said it was going to hold a news conference on Sunday and gave no further details.
Bobic’s tenure was marked by turmoil from the moment he took over – and before.
Former general manager Michael Preetz was fired in January 2021, ending his 25-year association with the club. Former Sky Germany CEO Carsten Schmidt lasted less than a year as managing director before leaving for personal reasons in October 2021. Sporting director Arne Friedrich also quit the club.
Hertha has been in a state of upheaval since millionaire backer Lars Windhorst first invested in the club in June 2019. Windhorst pumped 374 million euros ($408 million) into Hertha as he dreamed of turning it into a Champions League contender.
It didn’t happen. Bobic said last year the money was gone.
Windhorst in November agreed to sell his 64.7% stake to Miami-based 777 Partners after falling out with club president Kay Bernstein. That dispute followed allegations that Windhorst hired an Israeli detective agency to force out the previous president, Werner Gegenbauer. The deal with 777 is still subject to approval from Hertha’s board and the German league.
Hertha coach Sandro Schwarz is the team’s eighth since 2019.
Bobic said before Saturday’s loss that Schwarz was in no danger of losing his job – regardless of how it went.
Instead, it’s Bobic who’s gone.
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Epson Robots Will Showcase High-Power-Density GX-Series Robots and Integrated Solutions for Automation Professionals
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
Who: Epson Robots, the #1 SCARA robot manufacturer in the world, will be demonstrating its lineup of robotic solutions at ATX West, the leading annual automation technology show, in booth #4432.
What: Epson solutions help satisfy the needs of automation users who require the highest levels of performance in the medical device, electronics and consumer electronics markets. At ATX West, Epson will demonstrate its high-tech automation solutions, including:
- High-power-density GX-Series SCARA robots with patented GYROPLUS Technology, designed for complex and demanding tasks
- Compact, high-performance 6-Axis robots, optimized for flexibility and reliability
- No-code, easy-to-use RC+® Express application development software for simple and effective integration
Event attendees will also have a chance to experience demos of Epson's integrated IntelliFlex™ Parts Feeding System, including machine vision and parts handling.
When: ATX West will take place February 7-8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST and February 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST.
Where: Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif.; Epson booth #4432
Why: Epson is dedicated to helping both new and experienced automation professionals succeed by providing essential information and education and delivering the latest robot technologies and innovations required to meet their factory automation needs. For more information, visit www.epsonrobots.com. For more information on the GX-Series SCARA robots, please visit https://epson.com/gx-scara-robot-series. For more information on RC+ Express industrial automation software, please visit https://epson.com/no-code-industrial-automation-robot-programming-software. For more information on the IntelliFlex Parts Feeding System, please visit https://epson.com/robots-intelliflex-parts-feeding.
About Epson Robots
Epson Robots is a global leader in PC-controlled precision factory automation, with well over 150,000 units sold worldwide1 and a product line of hundreds of models of easy-to-use SCARA and 6-Axis robots based on a common PC-based platform. Building on four decades of experience, Epson Robots delivers robots for precision assembly and material handling applications in the aerospace, appliance, automotive, biotechnology, consumer product, electronics, food processing, medical device, pharmaceutical, plastics, semiconductor, and telecommunication industries. For more information, visit www.epsonrobots.com
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader whose philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of more than JPY 1 trillion. global.epson.com/
Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson's regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (twitter.com/EpsonAmerica), YouTube (youtube.com/epsonamerica), and Instagram (instagram.com/EpsonAmerica).
1 Epson internal sales data through 2021.
EPSON and Epson RC+ are registered trademarks and EPSON Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark of Seiko Epson Corporation. IntelliFlex is a trademark of Epson America, Inc. All other product and brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks. Copyright 2023 Epson America, Inc.
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During the pandemic, California took major steps to boost cell phone and internet access to vulnerable communities throughout the state, especially to low-income households.
In July 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a $6 billion statewide plan to expand high-speed internet infrastructure in rural and other under-resourced regions.
And from May 2021 until March of this year, the state allowed low-income families to leverage up to $75 a month in discounts from state and federal subsidy programs, to buy internet and cell phone services. Qualifying households could “stack” the subsidies from three programs, two federal and one state, to reap those savings.
This month state regulators are considering curtailing some of their savings.
The California Public Utilities Commission is expected to vote on a new rule that would limit how much communication companies could make from the state’s Lifeline program, which provides discounts to low-income households for home phone and cell phone services.
Under the new rule, low-income California households who qualify for federal help to pay for phone service and internet access would lose some or all of their California Lifeline monthly discounts. The result: Instead of being able to stack three discounts, most California Lifeline users would be limited to two, for a total of up to $39.25 in discounts a month.
The companies that serve Lifeline customers, and some of their clients, are contesting the change, contending that it would cost low-income consumers money and limit what cell and internet services they can buy.
The outcome of the proposal “is perverse, elitist, discriminatory and profoundly harmful to California’s low-income consumers,” six California Lifeline providers and the National Lifeline Association recently wrote to the commission.
‘A windfall to wireless’
Some 1.7 million California residents are enrolled in the state’s Lifeline program, which is an offshoot of the federal Lifeline program. Commission staff predicted the proposed change could result in more money being available to spread services to more low-income residents.
State officials also argued that the two federal discounts are enough to satisfy most consumer needs and in many cases are paying for excess, unused data capacity. Stacking three subsidies, the commission’s staff wrote, “would result in a windfall to wireless providers and constitute waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Most Californians who own a phone pay for these subsidies via a 4.75% charge on their monthly bill.
Nationwide phone surcharges fund emergency services such as 911 and what is called the Universal Service Fund, which keeps the federal Lifeline program afloat. The federal government set up its Lifeline subsidy in 1984 to extend phone service to the poorest Americans. Now it pays provider companies $9.25 a month to help fund phone and cell services for households with incomes below 135% of the federal poverty line — or less than $37,463 for a family of four — and for people who receive public assistance.
During the pandemic, in May 2021, the federal government also created a $50-a-month Emergency Broadband Benefit to help keep families connected to the internet as schools closed, people worked from home and many others lost jobs. In late 2021 Congress’ Infrastructure and Jobs Act swapped that emergency benefit for what is now called the Affordable Connectivity Plan, which provides a $30-a-month discount instead of $50.
Meanwhile California continued its own Lifeline program — one of three states to do so — with a $16.23-a-month discount for low-income households or those receiving public assistance. A family of four making $40,600 or less qualifies, for instance.
‘One more expense’
At the height of the pandemic, Californians could stack the three discounts to purchase service from Lifeline providers, but that ended in March.
Now, at best, consumers can apply one Lifeline plan and one Affordable Connectivity Plan discount per household. The commission is considering making that limit permanent.
Commissioner Genevieve Shiroma argued that bundling all three programs provided people with more data than the minimum required by law.
“California Lifeline subsidies should be designed to ensure that ratepayer funds are used prudently and in a fiscally sound manner,” the proposal states. Shiroma’s staff said she was not available to answer questions about the proposal.
At least 30 members of the public wrote to the commission opposing changes to the discounts and defending their use of data.
“California Lifeline subsidies should be designed to ensure that ratepayer funds are used prudently and in a fiscally sound manner.”CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION’S PROPOSAL
Christina Moore, a Lifeline user in Los Angeles, pleaded with the commission.
“I use my phone for job hunting … I use it to talk to my doctor for my condition…This phone has been a blessing from the good Lord for me particularly in the pandemic,” she wrote. “Please do not cut our benefits and please let us use the maximum minutes and benefits from all levels of government!”
Kristin Morris, from Mission Viejo, worried about losing options for her family.
“How is it that the CA is finding new ways to make it more difficult for consumers to stay connected,” she wrote. “My kids need phones and tablets to keep up in school and complete their homework. By limiting the service plans available to low-income folks — you are making the problem worse for us, not better. This has been so important for my family —- please find a way to give us more and better service not less! With all the rising costs this is just one more expense we can’t afford.”
‘Failure to provide’
Todd Snyder from San Francisco said that restricting internet options for low-income Californians would be unfair.
“This proposed decision would exacerbate inequality and expand the digital divide for low-income Californians struggling to compete in today’s rapidly changing digital economy,” he wrote.
A few consumer advocacy groups took the opposite position, supporting the commission’s plan. They said some California Lifeline providers were charging high monthly fees for data plans that varied drastically in quality and services, and consumers weren’t always getting what they paid for.
“This proposed decision would exacerbate inequality and expand the digital divide for low-income Californians.”TODD SNYDER, SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT
“Some providers’ failure to provide … Lifeline service of good value to customers is part of the reason why the commission is considering not allowing providers to stack California Lifeline subsidies with (Affordable Connectivity Plan) subsidies,” said Ashley Salas, an attorney for the consumer advocacy group The Utility Reform Network, based in San Francisco.
The Federal Communications Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission have set minimum service standards for Lifeline plans. Currently they call for unlimited voice and text and 6 gigabytes of data per month.
A 6GB plan allows you to browse the internet for three days, stream 1,200 songs, or watch 12 hours of standard videos, according to Reviews, a Paris-based product review website. The average American smartphone user consumed 11GB or more of data a month in 2020, but that’s expected to rise with the spread of 5G, according to Ericcson, a Swedish telecommunications giant.
Some objectors to the commission’s plan said today’s Zoom meetings, online courses and telemedicine sessions already require more than 6GB a month.
State officials countered that most Lifeline users don’t use all their data and the industry has failed to prove otherwise.
Nuanced views
Nathan Johnson, CEO of TruConnect, a Los Angeles-based wireless company that offers Lifeline, said many low-income people do need more data and for that reason many do not even enroll in Lifeline.
A 2019 report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office said only 40% of eligible California families enroll in Lifeline. The report posited several reasons: Families may not know about the program, they may prefer non-Lifeline plans or carriers, or they have difficulty with the program.
Johnson said TruConnect’s low-income customers often use more than 6GB a month when they are offered higher data plans, adding that the utilities commission should be more flexible.
“Why should Californians get less when they deserve more?” he asked.
Other consumer groups don’t necessarily agree. Vinhcent Le, a lawyer at the Oakland-based Greenlining Institute, said advocates’ views are more nuanced. They’re considering not just consumers of Lifeline services, but other consumers who are paying the surcharges.
“It wasn’t an easy decision to support” the commission, he said. “It always looks bad when you can’t apply more subsidies … But I think what the CPUC is trying to do here — and why we supported it — is to create a pathway where you can use your discounts more effectively and make sure there’s funding so we don’t have to increase surcharges on California consumers.”
And if Lifeline funds are used more efficiently, he said, perhaps California could lower its surcharge on its other consumers.
The commission is set to vote on the issue September 15.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A battering winter storm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across the United States on Saturday, left millions more to worry about the prospect of further outages and crippled police, fire departments and an airport in snow-blown New York state.
Across the country, officials have attributed at least 17 deaths to exposure, icy car crashes and other effects of the storm, including two people who died in their homes outside Buffalo, New York, when emergency crews couldn’t reach them amid historic blizzard conditions.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday that the Buffalo Niagara International Airport will be closed through Monday morning and almost every fire truck in Buffalo was stranded in the snow.
“No matter how many emergency vehicles we have, they cannot get through the conditions as we speak,” Hochul said.
Blinding blizzards, freezing rain and frigid cold also knocked out power from Maine to Seattle, while a major electricity grid operator warned the 65 million people it serves across the eastern U.S. that rolling blackouts might be required.
Pennsylvania-based PJM Interconnection said power plants are having difficulty operating in the frigid weather and has asked residents in 13 states to refrain from unnecessary use of electricity. The Tennessee Valley Authority, which provides electricity to 10 million people in Tennessee and parts of six surrounding states, directed local power companies to implement planned interruptions but ended the measure by Saturday afternoon.
Across the six New England states, more than 329,000 electric customers remained without power on Saturday morning, with Maine the hardest hit and some utilities warning it could be days before power is restored. PJM Interconnection, which covers all or parts of 13 states and and Washington, D.C., also warned rolling blackouts might be required.
In North Carolina, 265,000 customers were without power Saturday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us. They included James Reynolds of Greensboro, who said his best friend and housemate, a 70-year-old with diabetes and severe arthritis, spent the morning bundled beside his kerosene heater.
“The bedrooms and much of the house temperatures are hovering in the 50s,” Reynolds told The Associated Press.
In the Buffalo, New York suburb of Cheektowaga, two people died in their homes on Friday when emergency crews could not reach them in time to treat their medical emergencies, according to Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz.
“This may turn out to be the worst storm in our community’s history,” Poloncarz said Saturday morning. “There are still likely hundreds of people stuck in vehicles.”
Colleen Darby, 59, of Williamsville outside Buffalo, says she had planned to host a Christmas party for family and friends, but the storm will keep her and her daughter at home with a refrigerator full of food.
“I’ve never seen the likes of this kind of storm,” said Darby, a lifelong resident of the area. “I can’t even get out of my house right now. The snow is up to my chest.”
Poloncarz said there is no emergency service available in Buffalo and several populous communities surrounding it because so many emergency vehicles are snowbound. He said a doctor had to talk a woman and her pregnant sister through the delivery of the sister’s baby.
The Christmas weekend storm follows another blizzard that dumped more than 6 feet (about 1.8 meters) of snow in western and northern New York, resulting in three deaths, just over a month ago. New York often sees dramatic lake-effect snow, which is caused by cool air picking up moisture from the warm water, then releasing it in bands of windblown snow over land.
On the Ohio Turnpike, four died in a massive pileup involving some 50 vehicles. A Kansas City, Missouri, driver was killed Thursday after skidding into a creek, and three others died Wednesday in separate crashes on icy northern Kansas roads.
A utility worker in Ohio was also killed Friday while trying to restore power, a company said. Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative said the 22-year-old died in “an electrical contact incident” near Pedro in Lawrence County.
A woman in Vermont died in a hospital Friday after a tree broke in the high winds and fell on her. Police in Colorado Springs said they found the dead body of a person who appeared to be homeless as subzero temperatures and snow descended upon the region. In Madison, Wisconsin, a 57-year-old woman died Friday after falling through the ice on a river, the Rock County Sheriff’s Office announced.
In Lansing, Michigan, an 82-year-old woman died after being found Friday morning curled up in the snow outside of her assisted living community, Bath Township police reported. A snowplow driver found the woman as temperatures hovered around 10 degrees.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said one person died in a traffic accident attributed to the weather in western Kentucky and a homeless person died in Louisville.
Along Interstate 71 in Kentucky, Terry Henderson and her husband, Rick, were stuck in a massive traffic jam caused by several accidents for 34 hours. The truck drivers weathered the wait in a rig outfitted with a diesel heater, a toilet and a refrigerator but nonetheless regretted trying to drive from Alabama to their home near Akron, Ohio, for Christmas.
“I wish we should have stayed,” said Terry Henderson, after they got moving again Saturday. “We should have sat.”
The storm was nearly unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico. About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said.
As millions of Americans were traveling ahead of Christmas, more than 2,360 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled Saturday, according to the tracking site FlightAware. While in Mexico, migrants camped near the U.S. border in unusually cold temperatures as they awaited a U.S. Supreme Court decision on pandemic-era restrictions that prevent many from seeking asylum.
Forecasters said a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — had developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow.
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HONOLULU (AP) _ First Hawaiian Inc. (FHB) on Friday reported third-quarter earnings of $69 million.
The Honolulu-based bank said it had earnings of 54 cents per share.
The results met Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was also for earnings of 54 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $222.2 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $208.6 million, missing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $210.3 million.
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(NewsNation) — A vape shop manager in downtown Moscow, Idaho, says that Kaylee Goncalves’ friends implied she had a stalker during a visit to the shop three weeks prior to her murder.
He said Goncalves and Maddie Mogen — two of the four University of Idaho students killed on Nov. 13 — always came into the store with a group.
“You could tell they were all obviously trying to keep Kaylee safe and be there for her as good friends,” the manager told News Nation.
Goncalves apparently told him the stalker was present at night when she was going to or from bars, “either by the campus or down on Main Street.”
Several rumors have swirled online about the Idaho murders, including a theory that Goncalves had a stalker.
At the beginning of December, while sitting down for an interview, the Goncalves family said they are not aware of any stalker.
However, the vape store manager said the alleged stalker was “apparently something that Kaylee had tons of issues with. Apparently, she always had somebody who was constantly walking behind her like that.”
Goncalves, 21, along with Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in a rental home near the University of Idaho Campus on Nov. 13. Police have yet to identify any suspects.
Investigators are still looking for context and clues surrounding the quadruple murder case. Information can be submitted to detectives via hotline, at 208-883-7180, or by emailing the city of Moscow’s tip line at tipline@ci.moscow.id.us. Tips can also be submitted digitally at the FBI’s tip portal. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/idaho-store-manager-says-murder-victim-complained-of-stalker/ | 2022-12-16 22:22:58 | 0 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/idaho-store-manager-says-murder-victim-complained-of-stalker/ |
Biden’s next climate hurdle: enticing Americans to buy green
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden persuaded Democrats in Congress to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change. Now comes another formidable task: enticing Americans to buy millions of electric cars, heat pumps, solar panels and more efficient appliances.
It’s a public relations challenge that could determine whether the country meets Biden’s ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
Relying on tax credits and rebates made the climate legislation — it was approved in August with only Democratic votes — more politically palatable than regulations that force wholesale changes in polluting industries.
But it also means the administration’s battle against global warming will be waged “one household at a time,” said Shannon Baker-Branstetter, who works on energy issues at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank closely aligned with the White House.
“It is very incremental,” she said. “So it requires a very sophisticated communications strategy.”
Biden acknowledged the hurdle during a recent Cabinet meeting as he talked about the incentives that are becoming available this year.
“Folks need to know how to take advantage of these benefits that we passed. That’s on all of us around the table here to make sure we get that message out clearly,” he said.
The White House says it is piecing together a plan to partner with state governments, contractors, retailers and social media influencers to get the word out. “Lowering utility bills is going to be a key driver,” said Josh Peck, a senior policy adviser on clean energy issues.
It’s also collaborating with Rewiring America, a nonprofit focused on ways to electrify homes and businesses, and companies like Airbnb, Redfin and Lyft. As part of the effort, Rewiring America created an online calculator that shows what credits or rebates homeowners might be eligible for, depending on their ZIP code and income.
Buying a heat pump or installing solar panels is “a major expense line and a major opportunity for savings,” said Ari Matusiak, the group’s founder and CEO. “So it’s really important to make sure people are aware of the resources they have available and the benefits they can unlock in terms of bringing energy bill savings.”
But the White House faces an uphill battle.
Polling shows that while Americans support action to slow climate change, they are broadly unaware of the Inflation Reduction Act, the massive legislation that includes financial incentives to lower emissions, and skeptical of their own role in the climate crisis.
An AP-NORC poll released in September, one month after the law was signed, found that 61% of U.S. adults said they knew little to nothing about the legislation. And despite the multibillion-dollar investment in climate solutions, only a third said it would help climate change; about half said it wouldn’t make a difference.
The White House says it’s not rattled by the results. The goal is to make sure consumers know the financial benefits of energy efficient products at the moment that they’re making key decisions on which products to buy, Peck said.
“One of the challenges here is trying to meet consumers where they are when they make decisions about these purchases,” he said.
Majorities of U.S. adults said they are unlikely to install solar panels or buy an electric vehicle in the next three years, according to the AP-NORC poll. Among those, at least half said financial incentives would not make a difference in their decision.
Homeowners typically are reluctant to swap out furnaces or water heaters until they absolutely have to shell out the money for them.
“One day the heat won’t turn on and it’s negative 10 (degrees) outside and you say, ‘Oh crap, I’ve got to get a furnace,’” said DR Richardson, co-founder of Elephant Energy, a Colorado company that helps homeowners install electric heat pumps and other appliances. “So the biggest challenge from our perspective, and from a climate perspective, is to get people to think ahead of time about how to replace these assets.”
Most homeowners don’t understand what equipment qualifies for a rebate or a tax credit — and even contractors are not always aware, Richardson said. While some heat pumps qualify for a full rebate, others do not or are only eligible for partial rebates.
“So it’s just a nightmare if you’re not used to working in building spreadsheets to analyze and understand all this stuff,” he said.
Not all of the incentives are ready either. While people can get a tax break on the cost of an electric car, solar panels or heat pump, rebates for low- and middle-income Americans seeking to make their homes more energy efficient are not yet available. The Energy Department is still developing the system to distribute that money.
Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council in the Obama administration, said she learned in her tenure that it’s critical for government to invest in the delivery of policies.
“Too often we as advocates and policymakers applaud when policy gets enacted and then stop paying attention,” she said. Instead, they need to design ways to target people directly to help them “understand the steps that they can take and the ways that the government is going to make it easy.”
The Energy Department has begun releasing information to states about their allotment of $9 billion to support household energy upgrades, including weatherizing homes and installing heat pumps.
And Biden, a self-described “car guy,” has been doing his part to promote electric vehicles, making appearances at the Detroit car show in September and on the TV series “Jay Leno’s Garage.’’
Donnel Baird, founder and CEO of BlocPower, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company that partners with utilities, government agencies and building owners to improve energy efficiency, has worked with Lowe’s and other retailers to promote green appliances.
The idea, Baird said, is that “the checkout person says, ‘You know, you can get a tax credit if you don’t get that gas lawn mower and get a green one instead.’” While such engagement may not have immediate results, Baird said he’s confident the tax credits and other benefits of the climate law will become better known.
“It took years for the ACA to get going,” he said, referring to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. “I think the same thing could happen with this law.”
Dan Pfeiffer, a former top communications adviser to President Barack Obama, sees another lesson in the Affordable Care Act.
“The ACA got more popular the more that Republicans tried to repeal it,” he said, suggesting that Biden take advantage of any Republican efforts to roll back to the Inflation Reduction Act to draw more attention to the law’s benefits.
“I have no doubt the White House has thought of all of this,” Pfeifer said. “But the problem is that none of it is easy.”
He added: “The bulk of the work starts now.”
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has been named by the Los Angeles Chargers to serve as the exclusive healthcare provider for eligible Former NFL Players as part of the NFL Dedicated Hospital Network Program (The Program).
This first-of-its-kind program features high-quality healthcare providers selected by each NFL team in every NFL city to provide primary medical care and other health services to eligible former players. The goal of the Program is to help eligible former players maintain their health and wellness beyond their NFL playing careers.
Building upon the established relationship with Hoag as the Official Healthcare Provider of the Los Angeles Chargers, the team has selected Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian as their health system partner for the NFL Dedicated Hospital Network Program. In addition to the Los Angeles Chargers, all eligible former NFL players, regardless of which NFL Club they played for, are welcome to visit Hoag's participating facilities to receive care through this program.
"The Chargers and the NFL work year-round to support the health and wellness of our players and legends," said John Spanos, Los Angeles Chargers President of Football Operations. "We are proud to partner with Hoag through the NFL Dedicated Hospital Network Program to provide our legends with preventive screenings and other services."
"As an exclusive healthcare provider for the Los Angeles Chargers, we take great pride in being part of the Chargers and the NFL organizations," said Dr. Eugene Yim, Director of Hoag Sports Medicine. "We are honored to be able to provide the same world-class care to players during their careers and throughout their post-NFL lives."
The NFL Dedicated Hospital Program is administered by Cigna and was created in consultation with Former Players during 2020 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiations to benefit their health and wellness following their NFL careers. Covered healthcare services include Primary Medical Care, Preventive Care and Mental Health Services.
ABOUT HOAG
Hoag is a nonprofit, regional health care delivery system in Orange County, California. Delivering world-class, comprehensive, personalized care, Hoag consists of 1,800 top physicians, 15 urgent care facilities, 10 health & wellness centers, and two award-winning hospitals. Hoag offers a comprehensive blend of health care services that includes six institutes providing specialized services in the following areas: cancer, digestive health, heart and vascular, neurosciences, women's health, and orthopedics through Hoag's affiliate, Hoag Orthopedic Institute, which consists of an orthopedic hospital and four ambulatory surgical centers. Hoag is the highest ranked hospital in Orange County by U.S. News & World Report and the only OC hospital ranked in the Top 10 in California, as well as a designated Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). For more information, visit hoag.org.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Residents in Volusia and Lake counties will have a chance to pick up food items at no cost Saturday morning.
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Farm Share, a nonprofit that aims to help food-insecure residents in Florida, will distribute free, fresh produce and non-perishable canned goods in DeLand and Clermont.
At 9 a.m., organizers will join Houses of Hope to distribute food in DeLand.
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The July 29 event will be held at:
- 1640 East Voohis Avenue in DeLand, Florida 32724
See the map below for event location:
Volusia Farm Share Flyer by Gene Saladna on Scribd
Then, starting at 10 a.m. in Clermont, Farm Share will be teaming up with local community organizations to give away food as part of the Back 2 School Backpack Bash.
READ: 9 things to do this weekend: Food and Wine starts, Back-to-School bash
The event will happen at East Ridge High School, located at:
- 13322 Excalibur Road, Clermont, Florida 32711
See the map below for event location:
Clermont Farm Share Flyer by Gene Saladna on Scribd
Farm Share said it helps to fight hunger “by working hand-in-hand with local farmers to recover and redistribute produce that would otherwise be thrown away due to aesthetic imperfections.”
Both distribution events will be drive-thru style.
Attendees should arrive in a vehicle with a trunk or cargo bed, organizers said.
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Saturday’s food giveaways will be on a first-come, first-served basis and will operate until supplies run out.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
8-1-4, FIREBALL: 8
(eight, one, four; FIREBALL: eight)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
8-1-4, FIREBALL: 8
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Meteors and Taurid fireballs lit up the Tuesday night sky in Alabama
"Quite a show" in Tuesday night's sky.
"Quite a show" in Tuesday night's sky.
Did you see the bright flash in the sky over Alabama on Tuesday night?
A total of seven bright meteors lit up the sky over the Eastern United States on Election Night 2022 starting with one squarely over Central Alabama just after 8:30 PM.
Dr. Bill Cooke, director of the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, tells WVTM 13 News:
"The first of these was seen at 8:38 PM Central Daylight Time over the Jasper, northeast of Birmingham, moving to the southeast at 63,000 miles per hour. Surprisingly, it was not a Taurid; the orbit indicates that it was a cometary fragment from the outer Solar System, perhaps as far away as the Oort Cloud, a vast reservoir of comets almost a light year distant from the Sun."
That fireball showed up on one of NASA's sky-watching cameras in Huntsville, AL:
Reports of greenish-blue flashes and meteor sightings came in from all over central Alabama as well as Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and even as far away as Columbus, Ohio by 9 p.m. Central Standard Time.
The Alabama fireball was just the beginning. Six others flashed across the night sky Tuesday evening according to Dr. Cooke:
"The next fireball occurred at 9:02 PM Central Daylight Time over the Lexington, Kentucky area and was very bright. In fact, it was so bright that it was seen from middle Michigan to central Alabama and from Maryland to Missouri. It was also detected by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper on the GOES-16 satellite.
"As of this time, this meteor is a probable Taurid, but there is some difficulty reconciling the camera data. This meteor was brighter than the Full Moon at its peak, indicating that it was caused by a piece of a comet over a foot in diameter with a weight of about 100 pounds.
"The third bright event happened two minutes later over central Tennessee (Murfreesboro area). This fireball was definitely a Taurid, moving to the west at 67,000 miles per hour. It disintegrated 44 miles above Midland.
"There were also four other bright meteors detected, but they were much less intense than the above three. This increased fireball activity, caused by pebble-sized fragments from an ancient comet breakup, should continue over the next few days, diminishing as the month progresses."
Fireball season?
Late October to early November is the prime season for catching a glimpse of a 'fireball' in the night sky because of the Taurid meteor shower.
The American Meteor Society defines a fireball as "a very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude -4, which is about the same magnitude of the planet Venus in the morning or evening sky. A bolide is a special type of fireball which explodes in a bright terminal flash at its end, often with visible fragmentation."
Your chances of seeing a fireball are better than winning the lottery, but you still have to be in the right place at the right time! An experienced observer may see one bright fireball for roughly every 200 hours of sky-watching. Lesser magnitude ones are more common; according to the American Meteor Society, you can generally expect to see one smaller fireball for every 20 hours of observing the night sky. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/meteors-and-taurid-fireballs-light-up-the-tuesday-night-sky-meteor-alabama-tennessee-georgia/41914758 | 2022-11-09 21:58:08 | 0 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/meteors-and-taurid-fireballs-light-up-the-tuesday-night-sky-meteor-alabama-tennessee-georgia/41914758 |
Excelsior! On the anniversary of what would have been comic book icon Stan Lee's 100th birthday, fans found out that a documentary about the titan of Marvel Comics is coming soon.
Marvel announced on Wednesday that a documentary exploring the life, career and indelible legacy of the legendary creative powerhouse will be coming to Disney+ in 2023.
Marvel also dropped a teaser trailer for the documentary, comprised mostly of Lee's famed movie cameos -- which he made in every film in the MCU franchise before his death in 2018.
Lee is famously the only person to appear in every single installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, as well as in a slew of other Marvel big-screen adaptations.
Alongside some of Marvel's most iconic artists -- including Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Bill Everett, to name a few -- Lee is responsible for co-creating dozens of Marvel's most iconic characters, including Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, the X-Men, Ant-Man, the Fantastic Four, Black Widow, Black Panther, and Scarlet Witch, among others.
Lee died on Nov. 12, 2018, one month before his 96th birthday. For more on Lee's lasting impact on pop culture, check out the video below.
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Payment apps such as Venmo, PayPal and Cash App were tasked under the American Rescue Plan of 2021 with sending 1099-K tax forms to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and to people who earned at least $600 via the platforms.
People were supposed to start receiving the forms in January 2023 in time for the 2022 tax filing season. But a viral tweet posted on Dec. 23 claims the IRS has delayed the reporting requirement.
“Cash App, Venmo, and Paypal are no longer required to send you a 1099-K for $600 transactions,” the tweet says. “Instead, it will be $20,000.”
Recent online searches also show some people are wondering whether the tax reporting rule has been delayed.
THE QUESTION
Did the IRS delay the $600 tax reporting rule for payment apps?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, the IRS delayed the $600 tax reporting rule for payment apps.
WHAT WE FOUND
Third-party settlement organizations, including payment apps such as PayPal, Cash App and Venmo, won’t be required to send 1099-K forms to everyone who earned at least $600 in 2022 via those apps, the IRS announced on Dec. 23.
A 1099-K form is “used to report tax information to you and the IRS” about your transactions through a payment app or other online service, tax preparation service H&R Block explains. The payment app or online platform will send a copy of the 1099-K form to you for preparing your taxes and another to the IRS.
The lowered $600 reporting threshold was included in the American Rescue Plan of 2021, a measure intended to prevent people from underreporting income. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that this change to reporting requirements would increase tax revenue by $8.4 billion from 2021 to 2031.
Prior to the American Rescue Plan’s passage, payment platforms were only required to send 1099-K forms to anyone who earned over $20,000 from more than 200 transactions.
Since the IRS is delaying implementation of the $600 reporting threshold, the previous threshold will remain in place through Dec. 31, 2023, National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins wrote in a blog post.
Similar to prior years, PayPal and Venmo will continue to report $20,000 from over 200 transactions, PayPal told VERIFY. Cash App did not respond to a request for comment.
This new reporting requirement doesn’t mean people can avoid paying taxes. The IRS requires people to report all taxable income they receive, regardless of whether they receive a 1099-K form from a payment app or other online platform – that’s not new.
The IRS announcement comes as some taxpayer advocates, including Collins, have raised concerns over taxpayer confusion and the ability of third-party settlement organizations to comply with the new $600 reporting threshold.
Collins said some taxpayers could receive a 1099-K form under the new rule if their payments are incorrectly classified as income, even though the law isn’t aimed at tracking personal transactions such as paying friends or family for meals or household bills.
“Lowering the threshold from $20,000 to $600 substantially increases the number of Forms 1099-K that will be issued,” Collins said. “The postponement should provide taxpayers additional time to familiarize themselves with the rules, and more importantly, to properly identify personal versus business payments to prevent misidentified payments being reported on a Form 1099-K at year-end.”
The $20,000 1099-K reporting threshold is a federal rule imposed by the IRS. Some states have their own lower reporting thresholds, as PayPal and Meta note on their websites.
In Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia and Maryland, the 1099-K reporting threshold is $600 annually, regardless of the number of transactions. The threshold in Illinois is $1,000 in a year with at least four payment transactions processed.
Anyone who meets the reporting thresholds in these states will receive a 1099-K form.
When using payment apps, Collins recommends making sure that personal payments like gifts or reimbursements are classified as something other than goods and services. You can also create separate personal and business accounts to keep those transactions separate.
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BROOKLYN PARK, Minn., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Everlight Solar is thrilled to invite customers and the community to their grand opening and ribbon cutting on Friday, September 23rd at 12pm. As proud members of the MetroNorth Chamber of Commerce, Everlight Solar is excited to help the residents of the north metro and surrounding areas go green!
Join the celebration with games such as cornhole, ping-pong, billiards, and even basketball! Lunch will be provided.
In addition, Everlight Solar will host a food donation drive for the Second Harvest Heartland! Their mission is to end hunger together. In 2020, they provided 105 million meals to more than 1,000 food pantries that serve Minnesota and Wisconsin. They accept all unopened items and are in need of peanut butter, pasta, rice, soups, personal hygiene item, diaper, juice, coffee, and snack foods currently.
Everlight Solar is the fastest-growing solar company in the Midwest, with operations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming. To learn more about open jobs or about going solar for your own home, visit www.everlightsolar.com.
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THE BEST LITTLE MERMAID TOYS, APPAREL AND OTHER COOL MERCH
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Funko Pop! Disney: The Little Mermaid Ursula
- Mattel Disney The Little Mermaid Deluxe Mermaid Ariel Doll
- Disney The Little Mermaid Ursula Fashion Doll
The Little Mermaid was a big hit in the 80s and is credited with sparking the resurgence of Disney’s golden era of modern animated films. It’s recently undergone the remake treatment, which has proven to be a big success after it raked in $117 million on opening weekend.
The Little Mermaid is crushing it at the box office, meaning that for the foreseeable future, Little Mermaid merch, such as toys, clothing, costumes and other neat items inspired by the movie, will be a hot buy for the next generation of fans.
WHAT KIND OF THE LITTLE MERMAID MERCH IS AVAILABLE?
Since The Little Mermaid is a kids’ movie, it’s fair to say that the most popular merch is toys including action figures, dolls, plush toys and games. Apparel is also popular merch for any Disney film, and you can find plenty of terrific clothing inspired by the film, including shirts, shorts, pants and hats. Most apparel will have details or illustrations of characters such as Ariel and King Triton or a phrase from the movie. Also, miscellaneous merchandise such as bed sheets and décor items are available.
BEST LITTLE MERMAID MERCH
Funko Pop! Disney: The Little Mermaid Ursula
With a menacing look inspired by the film’s villain, this Funko Pop! Ursula toy is an excellent buy for any fan of The Little Mermaid. Many people are enthusiastic about collecting Funko Pop! figures, and this one is the perfect way to help any young fan get started on their collection.
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Mattel Disney The Little Mermaid Deluxe Mermaid Ariel Doll
This Ariel doll is hands down one of the best, as it accurately reflects her signature underwater appearance in the new film. The arms, wrists, elbows, feet and legs can be moved to create multiple poses, and her long red hair is accompanied by jewelry for different hairstyles and looks.
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Disney The Little Mermaid Ursula Fashion Doll
Those with an Ariel toy might want to complement it with this stunning poseable doll of her nemesis Ursula. It boasts an impressive look that resembles her appearance in the film and features her trademark tentacles, a necklace and sparkling details throughout the body.
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The Little Mermaid 3-Set Ariel, King Triton and Ursula Dolls
This three-pack of The Little Mermaid fashion dolls includes Ariel, King Triton and Ursula figures. Each doll is poseable, as Ariel and King Triton can move their arms and legs, while Urula can move her tentacles and arms. It comes with neat accessories such as King Triton’s trident and Urusla’s necklace.
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Funko Pop! Disney: The Little Mermaid Ariel
That pivotal moment in the film when Ariel trades her fin for a set of human legs completely transforms her, and this Funko Pop! accurately reflects it. As with most Funko Pop! figures, it’s an excellent collector’s item, and the details are fantastic.
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Disney Princess Little Mermaid Small Plush Sebastian
This Sebastian plush toy is perfect for younger fans of the movie who might not yet be old enough to play with action figures or poseable dolls, and it makes for a cuddly nighttime companion. The toy is approximately 4 inches wide, so it fits easily into most bags and is also suitable for displaying.
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Disney The Little Mermaid Find Your Voice T-shirt
Show off your love for The Little Mermaid with this flattering “Find Your Voice” T-shirt. It’s made with breathable and lightweight materials for a comfortable feel, and it features a memorable phrase from the movie across the torso in a colorful font with details in the background.
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Disney Princess Ariel Girls Tank Top and Dolphin Shorts
Comfortable clothing is a must during the summer, making this two-piece set an excellent buy for young fans. The sleeveless tank top features a screen print design of Ariel across the front, and the matching shorts have an elastic waist and are clad with starfish to complete the sea-inspired look.
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Disney Little Mermaid Ariel T-shirt
It’s a simple T-shirt, but it’s made from a blend of polyester and cotton that give it a comfortable feel and a flattering short-sleeve design. Plus, it features a design of Ariel across the front next to a phrase that represents what the heroine of the film is all about.
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Franco Disney’s The Little Mermaid Comforter and Sheet Set
Fans of the film who want a super-soft comforter and sheet set will not be disappointed. This seven-piece set is made for standard full-size beds and includes a fitted sheet with deep pockets, a flat sheet, two pillowcases, two pillow shams and a reversible comforter.
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Open Road Brands Disney The Little Mermaid Ariel Find Your Voice Hanging Wood Wall Decor
Make your home more warm and welcoming with this hanging wood wall decoration. It’s lightweight with a rope at the top for quick and effortless hanging, and it features the trademark phrase of the film, “Find Your Voice,” and images of bubbles, a flower, coral, a starfish, King Triton’s trident and Ariel.
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Northwest Disney’s Little Mermaid Pillow
This throw pillow is soft and cozy with 7 inches of support and a silky smooth polyester exterior. It has an 18 by 18-inch design and is available in six styles, each with a unique, inspirational phrase. Plus, it’s made with high-quality materials and is easy to spot clean.
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Summary:
- 1,045 new cases
- No new deaths recorded, 11 added to state system
- 15,744 total deaths;
- 609 hospitalized patients, 84 in ICU
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported an additional 1,045 new COVID-19 cases. The state has averaged 1,024 new cases per day in the last week.
On this day last year, there were 4,173 new cases, and a 7-day average of 3,353 cases per day. In 2020, 1,428 cases were recorded, with a 7-day average of 2,775 cases per day.
Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
No new deaths were recorded, but 11 were added to the state system, putting the total Wisconsin death toll at 15,744 overall. A lag in death reporting statewide has affected these numbers.
In Milwaukee County, there were 262 new confirmed cases reported and have been 330,894 total cases in the county since the pandemic began. The 7-day average in the county is 238 cases per day. No deaths were attributed to Milwaukee County, putting the county death toll at 2,423 since the beginning of the pandemic.
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JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — There’s a lot that Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara likes about Major League Baseball’s new rules, such as the limitation on infield shifts.
“Last year I got so mad sometimes because they move the position player and the ball was right there,” the NL Cy Young Award winner said.
One of the biggest ways the sport is addressing its slowly moving product is the introduction of a pitch clock. Pitchers now get 15 seconds between deliveries if there’s no runner on base, 20 seconds if someone is aboard. And it’s 30 seconds to resume play between batters.
The pitch clock will take some getting used to, Alcantara said, though he’s not too worried about the adjustment because he’s used to working pretty quickly. But working with the new pitch timer in spring training has taken more energy out of him than he expected.
“Especially when it’s hot like today,” Alcantara said after pitching two innings against the New York Mets in Jupiter, Florida, where temperatures were in the upper 80s. “I mean, I was trying to take my time because I was getting tired when I throw pitch by pitch by pitch.”
That’s an early adjustment that many pitchers are grappling with. Most have been pleased with the faster pace of play, which has dropped from 3 hours, 1 minute last spring to 2:39. The Mets beat the Marlins 8-4 Wednesday in 2:37.
But with less time between innings and pitches, players have expressed worries about rushing, as some are getting winded from running back and forth after certain plays.
“Kind of tough to get your breath after backing up third base and you know you only have 25, 30 seconds to get back on the mound,” Miami left-hander Jesús Luzardo said.
After about a week of spring training, pitch clock violations are being called at a rate of 1.63 per game.
Already, it’s become a new sign of the times in baseball — an umpire pointing to his wrist, indicating a pitcher dawdled too long.
Mets ace Max Scherzer, who is eagerly testing the range of what’s allowed, was called for a balk after going too quickly. New York Yankees reliever Wandy Peralta, meanwhile, recorded a three-pitch strikeout in a lightning-fast 20 seconds.
Marlins manager Skip Schumaker likened the new pace to conditioning in the weight room.
“You lift the most weight when you have a little bit of rest,” he said. “If you’re maxing out, you’re waiting a couple of minutes before your next rep. If you’re not conditioned, that next rep isn’t as good as the first rep. That goes with pitching, too. How sharp are you going to be if you’re not conditioned?
“Going behind home plate, backing up third, sprinting to first, all that is real. How about covering first base in St. Louis in July when it’s 110 degrees and it’s the sixth inning and you’re 85 pitches in?”
As for other instances when pitchers could be winded, Schumaker said it could come into play when relievers enter from the bullpen.
“Colorado is my concern,” he said. “It’s at altitude and it’s in right-center-field, and when you’re running in from there, you’re pretty tired. I wonder what that looks like.”
Miami reliever Matt Barnes wondered if the shorter time between innings will tempt pitchers to throw fewer warmup pitches.
“Say you’ve got a long run in in Chicago. It’s April 15 and it’s 30 degrees out, and you get out there,” Barnes said. “Are they going to say you have one more (warmup pitch) or you’re going to throw a ball, and you only get four pitches, and now you’re risking injury?”
Arizona left-hander Joe Mantiply was assessed an automatic ball in a game against the Cubs because he didn’t finish his warmup pitches quickly enough after entering as a reliever.
“We’re trying to train for it,” Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “Everything that we’re doing off the mound we are doing with a clock. So, bullpens, lives (live batting practice), obviously the games, we’re going to make sure that these guys get used to pitching at the pace in which they’re going to have to pitch.”
Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks said he could see pitchers becoming winded in certain situations.
“When I ran in last year from the bullpen — that’s pretty far — and I’d throw all my (warmup) pitches, I’d be out of breath without the pitch clock.”
Known for his blazing fastball, Hicks said he has thought about ways of slowing things down this season.
One option, he said, is to back away and use one of his step-offs to catch his breath. Under the new rules, pitchers can disengage from the rubber — either to call timeout or to attempt a pickoff throw — twice per plate appearance.
“You could walk around the grass and grab the rosin. I’m sure if it gets too deliberate, where they say, ‘Oh, you’re avoiding the rules,’ then they’ll probably say something. But if you’re quick about, that’s an extra three seconds right there.”
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AP freelance writers Mark Didtler and Rick Hummel contributed to this report.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today it was awarded a $20 million contract by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory (ASL) for sustained support of more than 330 operational or proposed stations in 69 countries, including approximately 230 stations in the continental U.S.
Under the scope of this cost-plus-fixed-fee recompete contract, KBR will provide support for the deployment, operation, maintenance, and repair of USGS domestic and global seismographic systems. The KBR team will support the installation and operation of the USGS component of the Global Seismographic Network, a permanent digital network of more than 150 seismological and geophysical sensors.
This work will take place out of the USGS ASL in Albuquerque, New Mexico, adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base. KBR will also provide support to the US N4 Network, the Advanced National Seismic System backbone network, additional regional networks, and earthquake aftershock deployments. Along with operational support to these networks, KBR support will ensure the quality and integrity of the data. This data is used for real-time seismic monitoring by the USGS National Earthquake Information Center, for tsunami warnings by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Tsunami Warning Centers, for nuclear test monitoring by both the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization and the U.S. Air Force, as well as for scientific research by a broad community of international users.
This tech-heavy contract also includes support for instrument testing and development, depot operations, data collection and quality control, inventory management, shipping coordination, software engineering, and warehouse logistics. The strategic win for KBR includes one base year, four option years, and one six-month extension option.
"KBR scientists and engineers are changing how we learn about and protect our planet every day," said KBR Government Solutions U.S. President Byron Bright. "This crucial research never ends, and we are excited to continue supporting important studies of the landscape of the Earth, its natural resources, as well as the natural hazards that threaten it."
KBR has supported USGS seismic networks for 39 years. Throughout its experience in environmental monitoring, KBR has also worked with government agencies including NOAA, the National Weather Service, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to support their Earth and planetary science and data processing, analysis, and visualization operations.
About KBR
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission-critical roles in 34 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
Visit www.kbr.com.
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Q: I did it. I'm 27 and I have the career opportunity of my dreams. After failing my first company and landing in debt, I now sit in the C-suite of a Series A business I co-founded alongside people I respect deeply and a team I love working with. Er, except for one.
I should have been a little more specific with my three magic genie wishes, because I'm in a partnership with a co-founder and CEO I cannot stand. I'll save you the details of his frequent outbursts and focus on the fact that I wake up in dread nearly every morning. I avoid going into the office. My enthusiasm for the business is completely deadened. And in my spare time I daydream about new businesses I could start solo. I am being neither the founder nor partner I know I can be.
For the last six months, I've tried a host of tactics, from setting boundaries to leaning in harder to communicating directly with my partner. When I read old journal entries, I sound like I'm in a toxic relationship, riding a roller coaster of high potential and steep dips back to reality. But like many who find themselves in toxic relationships, I feel dependent on the very person who is causing me pain. I have a great title, great money, great equity, and a trajectory I feel great pride in. My ego is fully satisfied. And for all of his personal faults, he knows how to build a business.
There's a voice in my head that questions whether I could make this success happen on my own. I question how leaving will reflect upon me externally. I'm spiraling, and my self doubts are keeping me tightly put.
Is there anything left to salvage here or is it best to cut my losses and start over?
- Spiraling
A: Realizing that you need to dissolve a work relationship tied to so many aspects of your identity is not easy. Losing yourself over a toxic relationship of any kind is worse.
Your reasons to walk are screaming off the page. But it seems like you are still wrestling with the truth of your situation because of fear and shame. The longer you wait to work through your feelings and act on what you already know, the more wreckage there may be. And your fear of another perceived failure may be holding you back from even bigger success down the line.
Reframe your circumstances. This isn't about him as much as it's about you and your needs not being met. Honor your needs and walk away knowing this isn't your loss. It's a win in the making. Stepping away from a toxic work dynamic that is not just stealing your joy but sapping your ambition doesn't sound like failure to me - it sounds necessary. Think about all you've learned in this process that will make you an even better business person in your next venture. Take advantage of the ripe opportunity to turn this challenge into a win.
You mentioned daydreaming about different solo business ventures. Are any of those ideas worth spending more time with? If so, redirect the energy you're spending lamenting your current situation to start focusing on your next best move. Build out your other options as much as you can to determine what the most viable next step is. It's easier to walk away from something that no longer serves you when you are walking toward a defined vision.
If you can't build out your next dream with this dark cloud of indecision looming, I get it. Let's take it one step at a time. It's pretty clear this current setup isn't working for you. My advice is to start by disentangling yourself from this co-founder.
Breakups of any kind suck, but you've done your part to try to change the situation for the better. Because your partner isn't willing to change in response to your feedback, it means you have to. While this process can be painful, remember that growth is often uncomfortable.
Co-founder divorces are not unlike marital divorces in that they can feel deeply destabilizing and may even require legal intervention. Work splits can also come with a lot of grief and shame. But know that you're not alone. In fact, they are much more common than you may think. And that's what partnership agreements are for.
Do you have a partnership agreement in place and, if so, what does it say about how to approach this? These agreements are like a prenup for business partners and provide a blueprint for navigating a separation. If you need legal counsel, it would be wise to line it up before initiating the conversation with your co-founder, especially if you anticipate one of his "frequent outbursts."
No matter how messy this breakup gets, remember that you've bounced back from professional setbacks before and you will do so again.
Success doesn't have to come at the cost of your soul, your sanity or your health. In fact, if it does, I would question your definition of success.
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The Texas ruling against the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, a pill that can be used for an abortion up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, could have major implications for abortion access throughout the country.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued his ruling, which could stop the prescribing and distribution of mifepristone, after deciding that the FDA improperly rushed the approval process for the drug and allowed a dangerous drug regimen to make it to market.
The Biden administration plans to challenge the ruling, and higher courts will likely step in to settle the case after a separate ruling from another case upheld access to the pill in certain states.
Here’s four things to know about the Texas abortion pill ruling:
Invalidates the FDA’s 23-year-old approval of the drug
The FDA originally approved mifepristone, one of two pills approved for abortions, in 2000 after a four-year approval process.
The agency said in a statement that it approved the pill following a “comprehensive review” of the available scientific evidence and determined that it was safe and effective. It said it is standing by its approval of the drug.
“FDA stands behind its determination that mifepristone is safe and effective under its approved conditions of use for medical termination of early pregnancy, and believes patients should have access to FDA-approved medications that FDA has determined to be safe and effective for their intended uses,” the agency said.
But Kacsmaryk sided with an antiabortion group in the case, finding that the agency rushed the process and violated federal standards.
“The Court does not second-guess FDA’s decision-making lightly. But here, FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns — in violation of its statutory duty — based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions,” his ruling states.
Kacsmaryk also hinted that the agency might have given in to political pressure to approve the drug and alleged that it “stonewalled” any potential challenges to its approval.
Could have a far-reaching impact on abortion nationwide
The case only directly concerned the Northern District of Texas, a relatively small geographic area compared to the entire country, but its impact could affect abortion access in the entire country if the ruling stands.
Kacsmaryk’s ruling found that the approval process for mifepristone was flawed, which would revoke access not just in the district where the case happened but the entire country.
Democrats who have criticized the ruling have specifically noted that just one judge issued the ruling that potentially has nationwide implications for abortion rights.
“Today a single federal district judge in Texas ruled that a prescription medication that has been available for more than 22 years, approved by the FDA and used safely and effectively by millions of women here and around the world, should no longer be approved in the United States,” President Biden said. “The Court in this case has substituted its judgment for FDA, the expert agency that approves drugs.”
Nothing changes immediately as government and manufacturer appeal
Although Kacsmaryk’s ruling could have significant lasting effects, it did not go into effect immediately. He gave the government one week to file an appeal and request emergency relief before the ruling goes into effect.
Multiple parts of the Biden administration quickly responded by filing their appeals to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals within hours of the ruling. The FDA filed its appeal on Friday, and Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department would also appeal the ruling.
Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of the pill, also appealed the ruling.
“This is a dark day for public health, especially for reproductive rights and the reliance on science and medical expertise to guide decisions about what drugs are safe and effective and should be available to patients,” said Abby Long, Danco’s director of public affairs.
With the appeals filed, the Fifth Circuit needs to grant at least one of them emergency relief to prevent Kacsmaryk’s ruling from going into effect at the end of next week. Without the emergency relief, access to the pill could be cut off.
Will likely go to the Supreme Court
Aside from the appeals, a higher court will likely need to step in because at almost the same time on Friday as Kacsmaryk’s ruling, U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice, in the Eastern District of Washington, issued an injunction that could protect access to mifepristone.
Rice’s ruling stops the FDA from “any action to remove mifepristone from the market or otherwise cause the drug to become less available.” He ruled that the FDA cannot alter “the status quo and rights as it relates to the availability of Mifepristone” in the 17 states and Washington, D.C. that brought a lawsuit arguing that too many regulations exist on the drug.
The rulings from Kacsmaryk and Rice conflict with each other and would likely require higher courts to settle the dispute. A higher court ruling could also concern the broader authority of the FDA.
“Based on the public health and administrative considerations at issue in this case, Plaintiffs have shown the balance of the equities sharply tip in their favor and the public interest favors a preliminary injunction,” Rice’s ruling states.
Opposing sides of the case can also appeal beyond the Fifth Circuit, likely granting the Supreme Court at least the opportunity to weigh in, which it might be likely to do for a case with such major implications for abortion rights after Roe was overturned. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/texas/four-things-to-know-about-the-texas-abortion-pill-ruling/ | 2023-04-08 22:52:58 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/texas/four-things-to-know-about-the-texas-abortion-pill-ruling/ |
(The Hill) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has picked up support for his presidential campaign from what might at first appear an unlikely place: people who had worked for former President Trump’s campaign or administration or supported him.
Multiple former Trump supporters are backing DeSantis’s challenge to Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
Here are the most notable former Trumpers currently on Team DeSantis:
Ken Cuccinelli
Cuccinelli, a former senior Trump administration official who served as Homeland Security acting deputy secretary, has been among the most vocal and upfront former Trump supporters who have shifted to DeSantis.
He launched the “Never Back Down” super PAC in March to urge DeSantis to run for president. He said at the time that he had been speaking to “many grassroots conservative activists” who wanted DeSantis to run.
“Ron DeSantis doesn’t just talk, he acts, but most of all he never backs down,” Cuccinelli says in the video announcing the super PAC. “Gov. DeSantis, today I’m asking you to run for president. You’ve had our back, now we will have yours.”
The super PAC has since launched ads attacking Trump and promoting DeSantis as the leader of the country’s future. One ad last month slammed Trump as a “gun-grabber” over comments that he has made in support of gun control legislation, while another tried to position DeSantis as the rightful successor to Trump.
Cuccinelli is also reportedly part of “The Eight-Year Alliance,” a coalition of various former Trump officials supporting DeSantis.
Steve Cortes
Cortes served as a senior adviser to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, but he now works as an adviser and surrogate for Never Back Down.
He threw his support behind DeSantis earlier this month as “the best possible option to win the presidency” in 2024. He said in an op-ed in Newsweek that he did not arrive at his decision to support DeSantis lightly, having served as a spokesperson and adviser to Trump for much of the past seven years, but that the “America First movement” is bigger than any one individual.
Cortes pointed to polls showing widespread dissatisfaction with the country’s direction and that voters do not want to see a rematch of the 2020 race between Trump and President Biden.
He noted the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections in which Republicans had disappointing performances with Trump as the GOP’s leader and argued “there is no substitute for victory.” DeSantis demonstrated his appeal, Cortes and other supporters say, in a landslide victory to be reelected as Florida’s governor by almost 20 points.
Cortes also argued DeSantis has discipline and has demonstrated results in policy while avoiding the “chaos” of the Trump presidency.
“Now it’s time to take that same approach for the nation. In Ron DeSantis, Republicans can rally to a fresh, vibrant, and optimistic agenda, one that includes electoral victory followed by disciplined and focused policy achievements,” he said.
Chip Roy
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) became the first sitting member of Congress to endorse DeSantis for president in March, more than two months before DeSantis officially announced that he was running. Roy was one of a few House members to preemptively endorse DeSantis.
Roy said in an email to his supporters that the next president “must be a vibrant and energetic leader with the faith, vision, and courage to chart a new course.”
He previously supported Trump for reelection in the 2020 presidential election, and texts obtained by CNN revealed he sent messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows trying to help with Trump’s legal challenges to the election results.
But Roy had a falling out with Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, criticizing the former president for trying to pressure Republicans to reject the results.
He said in his endorsement that DeSantis rejects “woke corporate America and higher education” and takes stances that are not politically correct. He added that the GOP needs a “new generation of leadership.”
Thomas Massie
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) supported Trump during the 2020 election, but he and the former president have not always been on the best of terms in the past few years, and Massie endorsed DeSantis last month.
Trump slammed Massie as a “third rate grandstander” and called for him to be kicked out of the Republican Party in 2020 over Massie’s opposition to the $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package that passed at the outset of the pandemic.
Massie said during his 2022 reelection campaign that he expected Trump to stay out of his primary race, but Trump endorsed Massie as a “Conservative Warrior” and “first-rate Defender of the Constitution.”
Massie became the second House Republican to preemptively endorse DeSantis for 2024, saying that DeSantis is a “proven energetic leader” who has fought for economic freedom, personal liberty, fiscal responsibility and limited government.
“America needs a leader who is decisive, respects the Constitution, understands policy, puts family first, and leads by inspiring,” Massie said. “That’s why I’m endorsing Ron DeSantis for President.”
Bob Good
Never Back Down announced earlier this month that Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) was endorsing DeSantis because he has demonstrated that he can produce “effective results for every man, woman, and child.” He said at the time that he expected DeSantis to win the presidency if he decided to run.
“Courageous conservative leadership is what America needs to stand against the insanity of woke corporations, corrupt Washington politicians, and continued attacks on our faith, families, and freedoms,” he said.
Good, who received an endorsement from Trump in his 2020 race and supported Trump’s reelection bid, said DeSantis has shown “strength in the face of adversity.” | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/five-high-profile-trump-supporters-whove-switched-to-ron-desantis/ | 2023-05-28 14:24:29 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/five-high-profile-trump-supporters-whove-switched-to-ron-desantis/ |
CHICAGO (AP) — Defense lawyers at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial in Chicago sought Wednesday to portray a key government witness as a liar and extortionist, contending the man first approached the R&B star in 2001 and demanded that Kelly pay $1 million or he’d go public with video that could put Kelly in serious legal peril.
Those assertions came during seven hours of often blistering cross-examination of Charles Freeman, a former merchandizing agent for Kelly who testified Tuesday that it was Kelly who first approached him, eventually offering Freeman $1 million to recover a VHS tape featuring Kelly.
“Your entire relationship with (Kelly) centered around stealing from him and lying to him,” lead Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean, raising her voice, told Freeman Wednesday. Minutes later, she added, “You were part of a shakedown scheme, right?” Freeman shot back, “No!” He also said, “I am not a thief.”
Federal prosecutors charged Kelly with production of child pornography based in part on that recording, which they say shows him sexually abusing a 14-year-old. He and co-defendant Derrel McDavid are also accused of successfully rigging Kelly’s 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening witnesses and concealing video evidence.
Freeman’s testimony at this trial helps buttress prosecutors’ claims that both Kelly and McDavid knew that videos Kelly had lost track of in the early 2000s were incriminating and could lead to his conviction at the 2008 trial.
McDavid’s lawyer, Beau Brindley, started the cross-examination Wednesday by pacing, waving grand jury transcripts at Freeman and several times telling the 52-year-old to “be quiet and listen” to his questions as he sought to tear down Freeman’s credibility.
“How many times have you told lies about videotapes connected to Robert Kelly?” Brindley asked, using Kelly’s full first name. “It’s multiple times right?”
Freeman agreed it was.
Freeman, who is testifying under an immunity agreement, also agreed when Brindley asked if it was difficult “to trust a person who lies … who will cheat and steal to get money.”
Kelly, 55, was handed a 30-year prison sentence by a federal judge in New York in June for convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. If convicted in U.S. District Court in Chicago, he could see years added to that sentence.
Brindley also accused Freeman of lying when he testified that he found the video Kelly was looking for in Atlanta in 2001 and when he said he didn’t know its contents until he watched it later the same day. Brindley suggested Freeman never actually went to Atlanta and that he already possessed a potentially compromising video of Kelly, using it to extort Kelly.
“That’s how all this happened, isn’t it?” Brindley asked. Freeman said that wasn’t true.
Freeman said money wasn’t his only motivation for agreeing to hunt down the video, insisting he also wanted to help his friend, Kelly, whom he had known since around 1990.
Freeman conceded that he kept copies of videos for nearly 20 years. Not until a lawyer warned him in 2019 that police were poised to arrest Freeman for possession of child pornography did he finally turn them over to law enforcement, he testified.
After Freeman smiled as Brindley questioned him about holding onto child pornography for so long, Brindley asked: “Is this funny? Are you having a good time?” Freeman responded, “Yes, I am.”
“You aren’t upset with what you’ve done?” Brindley asked.
“I am not,” Freeman answered.
After acquitting Kelly in 2008, some jurors told reporters they had no choice because the girl — who then was in her 20s — did not take the witness stand to confirm it was her in the video that was at the heart of the state’s case. Last week, she testified at the federal trial in Chicago, saying she was the child in the video and Kelly was the adult man.
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CHICAGO (AP) — As the new school year swings into gear, some students carry heavier worries than keeping up with homework: Demand has been growing steadily for children’s books that address traumatic events such as school shootings.
Sales of books for young readers on violence, grief, and emotions have increased for nine straight years, with nearly six million copies sold in 2021 — more than double the amount in 2012, according to NPD BookScan, which tracks U.S. retail sales of print books.
As anxiety and depression rates have soared among young Americans, educators and advocates say children’s books can play a role in helping them cope.
“While it might be second nature to try to shield kids from the harsher realities of life and scary news, it’s proving difficult to avoid big society issues,” said Kristine Enderle, editorial director at Magination Press, the children’s book publishing arm of the American Psychological Association. “Kids face these issues and challenges in their day-to-day life.”
One book, “I’m Not Scared … I’m Prepared,” was reprinted several times to meet demand after the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May, according to the National Center for Youth Issues, the nonprofit group that published the book. The story, first published in 2014, features a teacher who shows children what to do when a “dangerous someone” is in their school.
Bookstores around the country see interest in titles from the genre rise and fall depending on local and national headlines, according to bookseller Barnes & Noble.
Some newer titles engage directly with real-world gun violence.
In “Numb to This,” a graphic novel released this month, author Kindra Neely details the 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, which she survived, and the aftermath as she tries to heal amid repeated shootings elsewhere. Initially, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers editorial director Andrea Colvin said she was shocked when Keely pitched the idea.
“I had to remember that, yes, this is what our stories are like now. This is what young people have experienced,” Colvin said.
Michele Gay, whose 7-year-old daughter Josephine was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, turned to children’s books herself to help her two surviving daughters. One picture book she read to them was “The Ant Hill Disaster,” about a boy ant who is afraid to go back to school after it is destroyed.
“It was one of many books that was of comfort to them and gave them a little bit of confidence to just face one more day, one more minute, because we can do it together,” said Gay, who advocates for improved security in schools through a nonprofit she co-founded, Safe and Sound Schools.
Parents should make sure books addressing trauma are age-appropriate and backed by psychologists, experts say.
It’s important to be aware of whether children are aware of or feeling stress about frightening things in the news, said Aryeh Sova, a Chicago psychologist who works with children who attended the July 4 parade in suburban Highland Park, Illinois, where seven people were killed in a shooting. A child asking lots of questions about an event may signify that they are anxious or fixated on it, he said.
“If it’s coming from the kid’s need, then books could be a great way for kids to learn and to read together with their parents and to review it on their own and to process it at their own speed, at their own pace,” Sova said.
But bringing up violence when a child isn’t worried about it could increase their anxiety unnecessarily, Sova said.
Some young children experience gun violence at alarmingly high rates, particularly in communities of color.
For them, it is important to start early to address the effects, said Ian Ellis James, an Emmy award-winning Sesame Street writer known by his stage name William Electric Black. He is the author of the illustrated children’s book “ A Gun Is Not Fun.” He said young children in areas afflicted by gun violence are more aware of it than parents may think.
“They know about flowers and candles and cards in the street. They walk by them every day,” he said.
Through children’s literature and theater, Black works to reduce urban gun violence. “If you start when they’re 5, and you go back when you’re 6, 7, 8, 9, you’re going to change the behavior,” he said.
In the spring, he will collaborate with New York public school P.S. 155 in East Harlem with a series of gun violence awareness and prevention workshops for early readers, using puppets, storytelling and repetition.
“They won’t even get rid of assault weapons here in this country. So my thing is, we have to go in and we’ve got to help them help themselves save themselves,” Black said. “We’re really kind of failing at that.” | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/demand-soars-for-kids-books-addressing-violence-trauma/ | 2022-10-12 12:25:36 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/demand-soars-for-kids-books-addressing-violence-trauma/ |
Former US Army reservist found guilty in Jan. 6 riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. Army reservist described by prosecutors as a Nazi sympathizer was convicted Friday of storming the U.S. Capitol to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who worked a security contractor at a Navy base when he joined the pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, was also convicted of disorderly conduct and other misdemeanors.
Hale-Cussanelli took the stand in his defense and claimed he didn’t know that Congress met at the Capitol building.
“I know this sounds idiotic, but I’m from New Jersey,” Hale-Cusanelli said, according to WUSA-TV. “In all my studies, I didn’t know there was an actual building that was called the ‘Capitol.’ It’s embarrassing and idiotic.”
Hale-Cusanelli’s trial was the fifth before a jury and the seventh overall for a Capitol riot case. The first four juries unanimously convicted the riot defendants of all charges. Roughly 300 others have pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from the riot, including seditious conspiracy and assault.
Prosecutors said Hale-Cusanelli openly espoused white supremacist and antisemitic ideology and wore an Adolf Hitler-style mustache to work. On his cellphone, investigators found photos of him with the distinctive mustache and combed-over hairstyle associated with the Nazi leader.
Hale-Cusanelli had a “secret” security clearance for his job as a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Colts Neck, New Jersey. He also lived on the base with a roommate who reported him to the Naval Criminal Investigation Service and secretly recorded a conversion about the Capitol riot.
During the trial’s opening statements Tuesday, a Justice Department prosecutor said Hale-Cusanelli stormed the Capitol because he wanted to kick off a civil war and create “a clean slate.”
Defense attorney Jonathan Crisp told jurors that “groupthink” and a desperate desire “to be heard” drove Hale-Cusanelli to follow a mob into the Capitol. Crisp described Hale-Cusanelli as a bombastic agitator prone to making “extreme statements to get attention.”
In pretrial court filings, prosecutors framed Hale-Cusanelli’s bigoted, antisemitic views as motivating factors for his participation in the Jan. 6 riot and his desire for a civil war.
One Navy seaman said Hale-Cusanelli told him “he would kill all the Jews and eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and he wouldn’t need to season them because the salt from their tears would make it flavorful enough,” according to prosecutors. Other coworkers recalled Hale-Cusanelli making derogatory remarks about women, Black people and other minorities, prosecutors said.
Before the trial, Crisp argued that any testimony about Hale-Cusanelli’s alleged statements about Jewish people and their role in the U.S. government would be “highly prejudicial in nature without substantive value.”
Crisp acknowledged Hale-Cusanelli shouldn’t have entered the Capitol building.
“But the question of why he was there is what is important,” he told jurors Tuesday.
Hale-Cusanelli wasn’t charged with engaging in any violence or property destruction. He was indicted on five counts: obstruction of an official proceeding, entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or destructive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
The obstruction charge is a felony. The rest are misdemeanors.
Crisp said Hale-Cusanelli believed then-President Donald Trump’s false claims about a stolen election. But the defense attorney said Hale-Cusanelli went to Washington to peacefully protest, wearing a suit while many others wore tactical gear.
A video captured Hale-Cusanelli yelling profanities at police officers and screaming, “The revolution will be televised!”
“This was not a peaceful protest,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Fifield said.
More than 800 people have been charged with Capitol crimes stemming from the riot. Many of then are military veterans. Hale-Cusanelli is among a few defendants who were on active duty on Jan. 6.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, who presided over Hale-Cusanelli’s trial, decided two other Capitol riot cases after hearing testimony without a jury. McFadden acquitted one of the defendants of all charges and partially acquitted the other after bench trials.
Hale-Cusanelli was arrested less than two weeks after the attack and has remained jailed since February 2021. He was discharged from the U.S. Army Reserves and barred from the Navy base after his arrest.
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NDOT seeking input on electric vehicle charging investment
LINCOLN, Neb. (KSNB) - Nebraska plans to invest millions of dollars to expand statewide electric vehicle charging places for the public to use.
President Joe Biden signed into law the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in November 2021, which includes the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program. It provides states with $7.5 billion to expand the electric vehicle (EV) charging network.
Over the next five years, Nebraska will have access to $30.2 million (~$6 million/year) in formula funds for EV charging infrastructure while also still being able to compete for a portion of an additional $2.5 billion in discretionary grant funding.
This funding supports the administration’s goal of expanding EV charging stations along designated Alternative Fuel Corridors and other corridors that could be identified in the state.
The federal funds will be primarily focused on developing electric charging infrastructure on AFCs, which today include Interstate 80 across the state and Nebraska Highway 31 and US Highway 6 in the Omaha area.
NDOT wants your input. You have until June 14 to let them know your thoughts on the electric vehicle demand within the state.
CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE SURVEY
NDOT will collaborate with key stakeholders such public power districts, communities along routes, planning partners, and businesses on EV charging development. The initial statewide plan will be submitted to our federal partners before August 1, 2022.
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Congratulations are in order for the good people of Tempe, Arizona.
They might’ve cost themselves an NHL team, but that was a small price to pay to hang on to their wallets.
In a rare setback for billionaire owners and their endless scams to get the public to build them new places to play, the Phoenix suburb decisively turned back a $2.3 billion proposal that included a new arena for the Arizona Coyotes.
This one was a stunner for the NHL and the Coyotes, who thought they had worked their flimflam so well that nobody would notice it was nothing more than another egregious example of corporate welfare.
“The voters seem to understand, deep down, that these things are a bad idea,” said J.C. Bradbury, an economics professor at Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta and vocal critic of publicly funded stadiums and arenas.
“Why are we subsidizing sports teams, no matter how much they claim it's going to spur economic development?" he asked. "It's like an extended warranty. Once you read the fine print, you don't want to do it.”
Unfortunately, the owners still have the upper hand in their quest for newer and more profitable sporting venues.
Unlike the situation that played out in Tempe, most have recognized that you can’t put these matters before the voters. Too much risk there. Just asked the Coyotes, who were convinced their proposal would pass easily based on internal polling.
It’s much better to woo the local politicians , get them on board, rather than allow those whose money is actually being spent from making the call.
Just look what happened in Nashville, where city leaders recently signed off on a boondoggle that hands the Tennessee Titans a new domed stadium with the largest public commitment ever — a staggering $1.2 billion from local and state coffers.
“Awful. Indefensible,” Bradbury describes it. “The worst deal I've ever seen.”
Not surprisingly, the voters in Nashville and Tennessee never got a chance to decide if that's how they want to spend all that money.
Their money, it should be noted.
“There's a reason the owners don't like go to the voters. The voters are suspicious,” Bradbury said. “But if you look at most city council members, their easy marks. Their mostly male, college educated, wealthy. We're talking sports fans. You can invite them to cocktail receptions in their luxury suites to shake hands with hall of famers. It's easier to convince these people. You can't invite all the voters to the owner's box.”
Meanwhile, another team is trying desperately to get a huge amount of public funding for a new stadium.
The Oakland Athletics want to move to Las Vegas, and they've already announced one site, and then another, for a $1.5 billion stadium on the famed Strip. They started out asking the public to kick in $500 million. When told that was a no-go, the A's reduced their asking price to $395 million. But there's still resistance to providing that much money, so the deal has yet to be finalized.
No matter what the price tag winds up being, it's sure to be a bad deal for the taxpayers of Las Vegas and Nevada, according to Bradbury.
“Why does this keep happening?" he said. “It's not even a debate. All of these are bad projects that the public shouldn't be involved in whatsoever. Yet they keep passing over and over again. They keep saying this one will be different. But it's the same old song and dance.”
The ever-wily owners have figured out another angle to sell their awful stadium and arena deals: build more stuff around the venue.
Some are called mixed-use developments. In Tempe, all the extra bells and whistles were described as an entertainment district. Whatever the name, it's a bad deal for the taxpayers.
The Atlanta Braves established the model for this shakedown when they moved from perfectly functional Turner Field after the 2016 season to a new suburban stadium largely funded with public money.
But more important than the stadium was the hefty chunk of available land next to it. The Braves were allowed to build a development known as The Battery, which is comprised of restaurants, shops, hotels, apartments and office buildings.
Not surprisingly, all that additional revenue from non-baseball sources has made the team's multi-billionaire corporate overlords at Liberty Media a whole lot richer. Now, of course, this is the model that all sports teams are being urged to pursue when they start pushing for a new venue.
There's even talk of building a similar, but even larger, complex in Atlanta's far northern suburbs that would include an 18,000-seat arena — all with the idea of luring an NHL team back to the city.
Never mind that two previous incarnations, the Flames and the Thrashers, both struggled financially and wound up relocating to Canadian cities.
A supersized Battery would be a terrible idea, according to Bradbury, who has pushed back against the Braves-led talking point that its complex has been a huge success for both the team and Cobb County.
“I've been to The Battery. It's a nice place to go spend money and spend time,” he said. “But most of the people who go there live right here in Cobb County. Every dollar they spend at The Battery is money they would've been spending in other areas outside the stadium. So, when you go to (a restaurant) at The Battery, you're not going to another restaurant here in Cobb. It's not a net gain.”
Now that Tempe has voted down the proposal for a new hockey arena, the Coyotes are expected to head elsewhere.
They got kicked out of the last arena they scammed off the Phoenix-area public, the one on the other side of town in Glendale, which forced the Coyotes to play this season at a 5,000-seat college hockey arena — by far the smallest venue in the NHL.
They plan to stay there one more season, but will surely be looking for a new place to call home the following year.
Maybe they'll wind up in suburban Atlanta, playing in a new arena-slash-entertainment district like the one they wanted in Arizona.
Rest assured, there's always another scam to be had.
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Paul Newberry is the national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry@ap.org | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/column-a-city-fights-back-against-the-ol-arena-18109288.php | 2023-05-19 21:38:09 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/column-a-city-fights-back-against-the-ol-arena-18109288.php |
Scott Simon talks to writer and director George Stevens Jr. about his life, growing up in Hollywood, and even Elizabeth Taylor, in his memoir, "My Place In The Sun."
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Scott Simon talks to writer and director George Stevens Jr. about his life, growing up in Hollywood, and even Elizabeth Taylor, in his memoir, "My Place In The Sun."
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia’s Wintergreen Plunge Park was named number one in USA Today’s 10 Best list.
“The Plunge Tubing Park is guaranteed to release a few terrifying screams that end in a grin,” the USA Today list reads.
According to Wintergreen’s website, the park features downhill speeds of up to 30 MPH.
While the tubing hill is recommended for ages 6 and up, the only restriction on who can ride is a height of at least 42 inches tall.
The regular season rates are as follows:
- Thursday, Non-Holiday: 75-minute session – $34
- Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Holidays: 75-minute session – $39
Those interested in trying out Wintergreen’s Plunge Park themselves can visit the website here. | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-ski-resort-named-best-tubing-park-by-usa-today/ | 2022-12-08 14:20:35 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-ski-resort-named-best-tubing-park-by-usa-today/ |
Which kayak life jacket is best?
Kayakers know there’s nothing quite like gliding over pristine water, skimming the surface in a sleek boat with your paddles effortlessly pulling you forward. They also know that kayaking can be a dangerous sport, and drowning in even the calmest water is a possibility. The best kayak life jacket is a critical piece of safety equipment that every kayaker needs to wear.
The Onyx MoveVent Dynamic Paddle Sports CGA Life Vest performs its function well while allowing easy movement for paddling and maneuvering in the boat.
What to know before you buy a kayak life jacket
Inflatable vs. padded
There are two main types of kayak life jackets to choose from: inflatable or padded.
- Inflatable: Inflatable life jackets allow for greater movement of the arms while still providing protection when you enter the water. Some are manually inflated with a tube, but others come with a canister of compressed air that automatically inflates when you hit the water. This may not be ideal if you frequently practice rollovers. These are also not recommended for whitewater kayaking or children under 16.
- Padded: Many boating life jackets are padded. There is usually more storage space on a boat, and less range of motion is needed. These also require less maintenance and are ready to go the second you put them on. But they can be bulky and get hot.
Life jacket materials
Most life jackets are made of either nylon or neoprene.
- Nylon: Nylon is lightweight, durable and inexpensive. It’s a great choice for kayakers because it allows for free movement.
- Neoprene: This material is better suited for cold water or water sports that have you actually in the water instead of on top of it. It fits more snugly than nylon, and it can be more expensive.
What to look for in a quality kayak life jacket
Large arm holes
You’ll need plenty of room for your arms to move. Look for life jackets with deep-cut arm holes or open backs.
Bright colors
In a worst-case scenario where you find yourself separated from your boat, you will want the brightest color life jacket you can find. Dark colors blend easily with surging water. Instead, you should choose a kayak life vest in neon colors.
Zippered pockets
Although it is ill-advised to bring your keys with you on your kayaking adventures, you might want a place to stow safety gear. Zippered pockets and D rings work well for this purpose and can also hold small snacks.
How much you can expect to spend on a kayak life jacket
The price depends on the material, the size and the type of life jacket. Expect to spend $30-$150.
Kayak life jacket FAQ
How do you find the best fit?
A. Your life jacket won’t do you any good if it doesn’t fit. It should be snug but comfortable. This increases the chance that it can save your life and that you will actually wear it.
Adult life jackets sometimes correspond with clothing sizes but often use chest measurements. On the other hand, children’s life jackets fit based on their weight.
How you put on the jacket matters, too.
- Slip the jacket on.
- Start by buckling the straps at the bottom first. Make sure each strap is tight as you work your way up.
- Once your jacket is buckled, slide your thumbs underneath the shoulders of the jacket and pull up. If it moves, you’ll need to tighten the buckles again, starting at the bottom.
Make sure to wear your paddling clothes when you try on life jackets, and move your arms around once the vest is in place. If you find it tight or chafing when trying it on, imagine what it will feel like after an hour or two on the water.
What is buoyancy, and how much is necessary for a kayak life jacket?
A. Buoyancy, also known as flotation, is the measure of force needed to keep your head and chin above the water. The average adult requires 7 to 12 pounds of buoyancy, and U.S. Coast Guard-approved flotation devices meet this standard.
To check the buoyancy of your kayak life jacket:
- Enter deep water that allows you to float without touching the bottom.
- Stop moving and tilt your head back. Relax.
- If your chin is not above the water without effort, you need a higher buoyancy rating.
What’s the best kayak life jacket to buy?
Top kayak life jacket
Onyx MoveVent Dynamic Paddle Sports CGA Life Vest
What you need to know: It has the best features of inflatable and padded life jackets all in one.
What you’ll love: The padding is only in the front for more free movement. The mesh back is comfortable against a kayak backrest. The shoulders are padded and adjustable. Zippered pockets hold whistles and safety gear.
What you should consider: Because of the vague sizing, this may not be the best choice for people with larger chests.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top kayak life jacket for the money
Lyuwpes Inflatable Snorkel Vest
What you need to know: If you prefer an inflatable vest, this one inflates quickly and works well for more than just snorkeling.
What you’ll love: Easily adjust the fit with waist and groin straps. The vest slips over your head and buckles to stay secure. The slim line allows for a full range of motion. It is brightly colored for better visibility.
What you should consider: The straps around the groin may take some getting used to when sitting in a kayak.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
O’Neill Superlite USCG Life Vest
What you need to know: This lightweight vest is adjustable and comfortable for kayaking.
What you’ll love: The outer shell is nylon, and closed-cell foam is lightweight and comfortable. Four 1.5-inch wide webbing belts have quick-release Delrin buckles that you can adjust to fit different people. It sheds water easily and stays relatively cool in the sun.
What you should consider: Measure yourself carefully. The sizing for this vest is different than for regular clothing sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SEATTLE — Thirty-five years ago Monday, Rich Marriott started forecasting the weather at KING 5.
And most of those three decades, he's spent it on the morning news. To celebrate this milestone anniversary, we went deep into the archives to look back at how Marriott started his career.
Before he found his home at KING 5, the longtime meteorologist did not have plans to be on television. He did have his eyes set, however, on Seattle.
Marriott, who grow up in Long Beach, California, told his parents he needed to live in Seattle because he'd always see fronts that brought rain. Rain was scarce in his hometown.
Marriott eventually found his home in Seattle when he enrolled at the University of Washington (UW) for graduate work in Atmospheric Sciences. UW is where he studied avalanches and mountain weather, building the foundation for what would later help him as a meteorologist for KING 5.
Through his work, Marriott met longtime Seatle meteorologist Harry Wappler who encouraged him to try local news. Marriott spent three years working for the Northwest Avalanche Center, which he co-founded, and KING 5 before he was offered a full-time job working weekday mornings.
His on-air debut at KING 5 was in 1987. Marriott has been a staple on the morning broadcasts ever since.
"During my time here, I have had the good fortune to meet amazing people and have unique experiences," Marriott wrote in his KING 5 biography. "Probably my most memorable moments have been flying with the Blue Angels (a lifetime experience) and helping cover the Vancouver Winter Olympics (I still love snow). My one journalistic claim to fame was an Emmy Award for work on our special on Climate Change." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/celebrating-rich-marriotts-35-year-anniversary-king-5/281-6f5a1a75-b426-48c7-8e62-cfa417e5c682 | 2022-12-12 18:01:45 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/celebrating-rich-marriotts-35-year-anniversary-king-5/281-6f5a1a75-b426-48c7-8e62-cfa417e5c682 |
Reese Witherspoon, Jim Toth announce plans to divorce after nearly 12 years of marriage
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Reese Witherspoon and her husband say they are divorcing after nearly 12 years of marriage.
The actor-producer and her husband, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, announced their breakup Friday in a joint statement on Instagram. Their wedding anniversary is Sunday.
“It is with a great deal of care and consideration that we have made the difficult decision to divorce,” the post said. “We have enjoyed so many wonderful years together and are moving forward with deep love, kindness and mutual respect for everything we have created together.”
Witherspoon and Toth have one son together and they said he remains their biggest priority, asking for privacy.
The statement’s authenticity was confirmed by a Witherspoon representative. No records of a divorce filing could be found in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Witherspoon was previously married to actor Ryan Phillippe, with whom she has two children.
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(The Hill) – Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), whose criticism of former President Trump has alienated some Republicans, said in a new interview that the GOP is “very sick” and predicted it could take “several cycles” for the party to heal from internal strife and aggressive extremism.
Cheney told The New York Times a little more than a week before her primary challenge against a candidate endorsed by Trump that she is a Republican for life but not a supporter of the current state of the GOP.
She said the GOP is “continuing to drive itself in a ditch and I think it’s going to take several cycles if it can be healed.”
Cheney also questioned other rising stars in the Republican Party, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green (Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.).
The Wyoming lawmaker told the Times that DeSantis has “lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump,” which she said could be “dangerous,” and also that she would rather serve with most Democratic women than Republicans like Greene and Boebert.
“What the country needs are serious people who are willing to engage in debates about policy,” she told the Times.
Cheney, the vice chair of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, was among 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the rioting.
The congresswoman also went to great lengths during a series of congressional hearings this summer to place Trump at the center of the Capitol attack, alleging he was directly responsible for the attempted insurrection after repeating false election claims, pushing to find ways to swing the 2020 election in his favor, and urging rioters to march on the Capitol.
Cheney’s campaign against Trump has had an impact on the race. She is trailing Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman ahead of the primary by around 20 points, according to a Casper Star-Tribune poll released last month.
Facing an uphill battle, Cheney has listed instructions on her website informing Democrats and independents how to register as Republicans to support her in the primary.
Last week, she also aired a new campaign ad with her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who said Trump was a “coward” and a “threat to our republic.”
Liz Cheney, however, has said telling the truth about Jan. 6 is more important than winning reelection.
“If I have to choose between maintaining a seat in the House of Representatives or protecting the constitutional republic and ensuring the American people know the truth about Donald Trump, I’m going to choose the Constitution and the truth every single day,” she said on CNN last month. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/cheney-gop-is-very-sick/ | 2022-08-07 22:34:10 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/cheney-gop-is-very-sick/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty. Fort Gordon would be Fort Eisenhower. And, for the first time, Army bases would be named after Black soldiers and women. An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers.
The recommendations are the latest step in a broader effort by the military to confront racial injustice, most recently in the aftermath of the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, is the only base that wouldn’t be named after a person. Two others would be named after Black soldiers, and three would include women’s names. Fort Gordon in Georgia would get the most well-known name — commemorating President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who led allied forces in Europe in World War II.
Other proposed renamings would honor lesser-known heroes, including several who received the Medal of Honor, the military’s highest award. Fort Polk, in Louisiana, would be renamed Fort Johnson, after Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black Medal of Honor recipient who served in the Army in World War I.
Fort Pickett in Virginia, would be named after Tech Sgt. Van Barfoot, a Medal of Honor recipient who served in World War II, and And Fort Rucker in Alabama, would be named Fort Novosel, after Chief Warrant Officer Michael Novosel, a Medal of Honor recipient who served in World War II and Vietnam.
Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia would be renamed Fort Walker, after Mary Edwards Walker, a doctor who treated soldiers in the Civil War and later received a Medal of Honor.
Fort Hood, Texas, would be renamed Fort Cavazos, in honor of Gen. Richard Cavazos, who served in the Korean War, received the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest military award, and became the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general.
Fort Benning, Georgia, would be named after a married couple: Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, who served in Vietnam and received the Distinguished Service Cross, and his wife Julia, who prompted the creation of teams that do in-person notifications of military casualties.
And Fort Lee, Virginia, would get a hyphenated name — Fort Gregg-Adams — and is the only one that would commemorate someone who remains alive today: Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg, known as a logistics leader. Lt. Col. Charity Adams – the other half of the name — led the first female Black unit of the Army deployed in World War II.
A final report is due to Congress by Oct. 1, and will include the costs of removing and changing the names. The renaming process was laid out in a law passed by Congress in late 2020 The secretary of defense is expected to implement the commission’s plan no later than Jan. 1, 2024.
The proposal to change the names triggered widespread discussion and debate within the bases’ communities around the country. Panel members visited the bases, met with local leaders and residents, and relied heavily on their recommendations when choosing the final names, said the vice chairman, Ty Seidule.
For years, U.S. military officials had defended the naming of bases after Confederate officers. As recently as 2015 the Army argued that the names did not honor the rebel cause but were a gesture of reconciliation with the South.
But in the aftermath of the Floyd killing, and the months of racial unrest that followed, Congress ordered a comprehensive plan to rename the military posts and hundreds of other federal assets such as roads, buildings, memorials, signs and landmarks that honored rebel leaders.
The change in the military’s thinking was reflected in congressional testimony by Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a month after Floyd’s death. He said that the current base names could be reminders to Black soldiers that rebel officers fought for an institution that may have enslaved their ancestors.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — the nation’s first Black Pentagon chief — has spoken bluntly of his own personal brushes with racism. During his Senate confirmation hearing, he told of serving as a lieutenant colonel with the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg when three white soldiers, described as self-styled skinheads, were arrested in the murder of a Black couple who were walking down a street.
Investigators concluded the two were targeted because of their race, and all told, 22 soldiers were linked to skinhead and other similar groups or found to hold extremist views.
The current chief of the Air Force, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, posted an emotional video last June in which he discussed the difficulties he experienced as a young Black pilot. Brown, the first Black Air Force chief, said he had to prove to white supervisors “that their expectations and perceptions of African-Americans were invalid.”
Created in 2020, the Naming Commission first met in March 2021 and began taking name recommendations from the public in September. Overall, the commission received more than 34,000 potential names, which it said included about 3,670 unique ones that could possibly be used. That list was later narrowed to about 100 before the final nine were chosen to be recommended to Congress.
U.S. Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md., who learned to fly helicopters at Fort Rucker and also spent time at Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, called the new names a significant step forward.
“All these bases honored men who wouldn’t want me or other Black Americans serving in uniform, let alone in Congress,” he said. “We cannot ask today’s servicemen and women to defend our country, while housing and training them and their families on installations celebrating those who betrayed our country in order to enslave others and preserve white supremacy.”
Panel members said Tuesday that the decisions were difficult because they had so many heroes to choose from. But in all cases, they said they had widespread agreement from the local communities.
In at least one case, however, the panel members said that local residents were adamant that they wanted a name that wasn’t on the final list: Fort Liberty. During the panel’s final visit to Fort Bragg, people at the meeting “were very, very adamant about the name Fort Liberty,” said Lawrence Romo, a commission member. “We gave a lot of deference to what the Fort Bragg community wanted.”
Seidule said that the panel wanted names that “will inspire soldiers to achieve the highest standards demanded by their nation in peace and in war.”
The panel also is considering new names for two Navy ships: the USS Chancellorsville and USNS Maury. Those and the new names for hundreds of streets, buildings and other assets, will be in the final report.
A final report is due to Congress by Oct. 1, and will include the costs of removing and changing the names. Under the law, the secretary of defense is expected to implement the commission’s plan no later than Jan. 1, 2024. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/panel-recommends-new-names-for-fort-bragg-other-army-bases/ | 2022-05-25 08:28:58 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/panel-recommends-new-names-for-fort-bragg-other-army-bases/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will meet Tuesday with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell as soaring inflation takes a bite out of Americans' pocketbooks.
The meeting will be the first since Biden renominated Powell to lead the central bank and comes weeks after his confirmation for a second term by the Senate.
The White House said the pair would discuss the state of the U.S. and global economy and especially inflation, described as Biden's “top economic priority." The goal, the White House said, is a “transition from an historic economic recovery to stable, steady growth that works for working families.”
Inflation in the U.S. hit a 40-year high earlier this year, amid supply chain constraints caused by the global economy's recovery from the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
But the economy saw a welcome bit of data Friday, as the Commerce Department said inflation rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, the first slowdown since November 2020 and a sign that high prices may finally be moderating, at least for now.
The inflation figure was below the four-decade high of 6.6% set in March. While high inflation is still causing hardships for millions of households, any slowing of price increases, if sustained, would provide some modest relief.
Powell has pledged to keep ratcheting up the Fed’s key short-term interest rate to cool the economy until inflation is “coming down in a clear and convincing way.” Those rate hikes have spurred fears that the Fed, in its drive to slow borrowing and spending, may push the economy into a recession. That concern has caused sharp drops in stock prices in the past two months, though markets rallied last week.
Powell has signaled that the Fed will likely raise its benchmark rate by a half-point in both June and July — twice the size of the usual rate increase. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/biden-to-meet-fed-chair-as-inflation-bites-pocketbooks/XLY5J6S6QZCIFCYIRWXGMNFTAA/ | 2022-05-30 21:54:40 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/biden-to-meet-fed-chair-as-inflation-bites-pocketbooks/XLY5J6S6QZCIFCYIRWXGMNFTAA/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man who destroyed evidence during the investigation of the deadly shooting of a federal officer in California by an extremist militia member was sentenced Monday to 10 1/2 years in federal prison, authorities said.
Robert Blancas, 35, was sentenced in San Francisco federal court for obstructing justice and also for enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.
In a plea agreement, the Castro Valley man acknowledged that he was a member of the “Grizzly Scouts” militia group connected to the “boogaloo” movement, prosecutors said.
The movement is embraced by a loose network of gun enthusiasts and extremists. Experts say the group started in alt-right culture on the internet with the belief that there is an impending U.S. civil war.
Blancas and three other people acknowledged destroying evidence after a federal security officer was killed and another wounded while guarding the Oakland federal building during a racial justice protest in May 2020.
A former Air Force sergeant, Steven Carrillo, 33, is serving 41 years in prison for the attack. He also pleaded guilty last month to killing a Santa Cruz County sheriff's sergeant a week after the attack on the federal building.
In their plea agreements, Blancas and the others said that after they learned Carrillo was involved in the killing of the federal officer, they destroyed communications between Grizzly Scouts members “and admitted that they intended to impair the integrity and availability of the records for use in official proceedings," the Department of Justice statement said.
Carrillo had written in a group chat: “Dudes I offed a fed.” Blancas acknowledged destroying online group communications, wiping records from his cellphone and deleting records in a Dropbox account about the Grizzly Scouts organization.
Last year, Blancas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice by destroying records in an official proceeding and to destroying such records.
The other three men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to destroy evidence and were sentenced to six-month federal prison terms in May.
On Monday, a different judge Monday sentenced Blancas to a six-month term for conspiracy but added an additional 10 years in a sex case that was filed before the conspiracy indictment.
In that case, Blancas pleaded guilty to enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. In his plea agreement, Blancas said that from about April through September 2020 he got a 15-year-old girl he met via social media to repeatedly send him pornographic photos and videos of herself.
“Blancas also admitted that he knew she was a minor when he did so," the Department of Justice statement said. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Man-sentenced-in-extremist-killing-of-federal-17390868.php | 2022-08-23 02:18:02 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Man-sentenced-in-extremist-killing-of-federal-17390868.php |
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The Human Rights Campaign has issued an advisory for the state of Florida, warning that the state's laws may make it dangerous for minorities, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community to travel there.
The campaign joins other rights groups, including the NAACP and Equality Florida, in making travel warnings for Florida.
The group emphasizes that its advisory is "not a blanket recommendation against travel nor a call for boycott," but instead outlines "laws that are hostile to the LGBTQ community, restrict access to reproductive health care, repeal gun safety policies, foment racial prejudice, and attack public education by banning books and censoring curriculum in order that prospective travelers or residents can make the best decisions for themselves and their families."
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SEE MORE: Civil rights groups issue Florida travel advisory, warn 'hostile' laws
That group wrote in its message that "Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals."
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NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Royalty Pharma (RPRX) on Tuesday reported first-quarter profit of $341 million.
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79-year-old woman killed in Titusville crash, police say
TITUSVILLE, Fla. - A 79-year-old Titusville woman was killed on Wednesday after a multi-vehicle crash, police said.
This happened near Cheney Highway around 11 a.m. According to Titusville police, an 87-year-old man from Cocoa failed to yield to oncoming traffic as he was making a turn from the westbound lane on Cheney Highway into the north entrance of Walmart and was struck by Erika Bostwick.
The man's car then reportedly collided with another man's vehicle. Bostwick was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. Both men suffered non-life threatening injuries.
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It is possible to overcome jet lag
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Jet lag is similar to transitioning in or out of daylight saving time. However, adjusting to daylight saving time only requires a 60-minute shift in your circadian clock, while flying can throw your schedule off by several hours. The more time zones you cross, the more your schedule will change and the more help you may need to overcome jet lag.
What is jet lag?
According to the Mayo Clinic, jet lag is a temporary sleep disorder that can affect anyone who quickly travels across multiple time zones. While jet lag itself is not a concern, the symptoms, such as loss of focus, can lead to poor judgment and serious or even deadly accidents, especially if you’re operating a motor vehicle or heavy machinery.
Besides the inability to focus and function at your normal level, jet lag can cause fatigue, insomnia, digestive problems, loss of appetite, mood changes, a general feeling of unease or being unwell and other problems. While these may be troubling issues, again, they are temporary. The Mayo Clinic states it takes about “a day to recover for each time zone crossed.”
However, there are things you can do and devices you can buy that can help reduce the severity and duration of jet lag symptoms.
Why do I get jet lag?
Before determining the best strategy to solve any problem, you first need to understand the source of the trouble. Many people think jet lag is merely caused by not getting enough sleep. This is only part of the problem. It doesn’t explain why you can get jet lag traveling west — when you get extra hours in your day.
The actual cause of jet lag is when your circadian clock, which is set by sunlight, is out of sync with the time zone you’re in. Your daily schedule is set by your exposure to daylight, such as when you get hungry, when you need to move your bowels, when you’re most alert, when you get tired and other things. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains it succinctly, “Your body’s circadian clock responds to light as a signal to be awake, and dark as a signal to fall asleep.”
When you travel to a different time zone, your body gets confused because the sun isn’t rising and setting as it did in your previous time zone. This means your internal alarms are not set for the new time zone, so you might not be hungry at dinner or tired when it gets dark. You might have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night or wake up before the sun. These are all problems caused by your unmoored circadian rhythms.
Strategies to help you beat jet lag
Now that you better understand what actually causes jet lag, you can take steps to more effectively reduce symptoms, so you can adjust to your new time zone in less time with less struggle. Here are some of the best ways to do that.
- Prepare before you travel: If you’re traveling west, stay up an hour or two later each night to try to shift your sleep schedule. If you’re traveling east, go to bed an hour or two earlier (if possible).
- Consider a sleep mask: To help you fall asleep while the sun is still out, consider purchasing a sleep mask.
- Change your eating habits: As you prepare to travel, shift your eating habits to coincide with your new sleeping patterns.
- Drink plenty of fluids: Being dehydrated can intensify the symptoms of jet lag. Keep hydrated while traveling and avoid alcohol.
- Sleep on the plane: If it’s a nighttime flight, try to get some sleep on the plane.
- Exercise: Before and after you travel, make sure you get your steps in.
- Adapt as quickly as possible: Once you’re in your new time zone, get on a local schedule as fast as possible. This includes meals as well as sleeping.
- Stay awake: On that first day, fight the urge to sleep until it’s actually bedtime.
- Consider a short nap: If staying awake throughout the first day is just not possible, take a short nap. Do not sleep more than 30 minutes, as this will only make falling asleep at night more difficult.
- Expose yourself to sunlight in the morning: Invest in a wake-up light if you’ll frequently be traveling across time zones.
- Use melatonin sparingly: While melatonin can help trigger your body’s desire to sleep, it is not recommended that you become dependent on substances to fall asleep.
Best products to help you beat jet lag
Hatch Restore Sound Machine
This wake-up light can help travelers who cross time zones. It’s an alarm that wakes you with gradual bright light to help reset your circadian clock. You can use it before your trip to help your body naturally adjust to the sunrise (and sunset) of a different time zone.
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Eclipse Fresno Modern Blackout Curtains
If you need to go to sleep earlier to adjust to a new time zone, you can benefit from a blackout curtain. This one blocks over 98% of the light that enters your bedroom through the window to provide a better sleeping environment. The thick construction also dampens environmental sounds, making it quieter as well.
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Asutra Silk Eye Pillow
Another quick and easy way to block out sunlight is to use a sleep mask. This model is filled with lavender and flax seeds for a gentle scent and comforting weight.
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Marpac Yogasleep Dohm The Original White Noise Machine
If environmental sounds are interfering with sleeping, a sound machine can help. This fan-based model delivers a smooth, soothing sound of rushing air. It has two speed options so you can choose the one that’s most pleasing to you.
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VitaFusion Melatonin
Melatonin is a hormone that your brain produces when it gets dark. Taking a supplement can add melatonin to your system to help make you feel sleepy so you can drift off when needed to help reset your circadian clock.
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Hidrate Spark PRO Smart Water Bottle
Staying properly hydrated isn’t just something you need to do to combat jet lag. It’s something you need to do every day. This smart water bottle glows to let you know when it’s time to drink. If you sync it to your phone, it will let you know if you’re getting enough water throughout the day.
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Trtl Travel Pillow
It can be difficult to sleep when sitting up. A travel pillow holds your head and neck in a comfortable position so you can get some rest on that overnight flight. This model is lightweight and compact, making it a solid option to take with you in your carry-on.
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Other products worth checking out
- The Bedtime Bliss Sleep Mask comes with earplugs to block out sound as well as light.
- The compact, modern design of the HoMedics SoundSleep White Noise Sound Machine makes it suitable for nearly any bedroom decor.
- This Nalgene Tritan Wide-Mouth 32-Ounce BPA-Free Water Bottle is just what you need to stay hydrated throughout the day.
- The Jall Wake-Up Light Sunrise Alarm Clock can help get you back on your natural sleep schedule.
- This upgraded version of the Napfun Neck Pillow is even more comfortable for traveling than before.
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SANDUSKY, Ohio and PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandusky, Ohio-based Civista Bancshares, Inc. ("Civista") (NASDAQ: CIVB) announced today the signing of a definitive stock purchase agreement pursuant to which Civista will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Pittsburgh-based Vision Financial Group, Inc. ("VFG"), a leading privately held, independent, full-service general equipment leasing & financing company. Founded in 1991 by Fred Summers, VFG provides lending solutions to both small- and medium-sized businesses and large corporate customers across the United States. VFG plays a meaningful role in the success and growth of its customers' businesses by serving as a knowledgeable and reliable financing source for revenue-producing equipment. Based on financial data as of June 30, 2022, VFG had total loan and lease assets of approximately $89 million, and is expected to generate loan and lease originations exceeding $120 million during 2022.
Upon completion of the transaction, VFG will become a subsidiary of Civista Bank, with current VFG leadership and all employees continuing in their positions, led by CEO Bill Summers. As a subsidiary of Civista Bank, VFG will continue to operate under the Vision Financial Group, Inc. name taking advantage of the company's existing brand awareness within the equipment finance industry. This acquisition builds on Civista's proven track record of partnering and acquiring like-minded businesses and financial institutions in order to leverage excess capital and deliver strong financial results to its shareholders. This partnership will also allow Civista to expand its product offerings and provide complementary services to its existing commercial lending customers.
"We are very excited to welcome VFG's customers, employees, and business partners to the Civista family," said Dennis G. Shaffer, CEO and President of Civista. "We have gotten to know the VFG team very well and admire the unique business that they have built over the past 30+ years. VFG's very strong market position in the equipment finance industry built upon their deep knowledge of specific strategically targeted industry sectors will provide Civista with many additional opportunities for growth. We look forward to collaborating with VFG's leadership team to enhance their lending platform and accelerate each other's growth."
"We are really excited to be joining with Civista, which has a terrific track record and a similar corporate culture to what we have built," stated Bill Summers, CEO of VFG. "Vision Financial Group has been helping customers since our founding in 1991 through various interest rate and economic cycles. Our dedicated team believes that we can achieve significant growth and profitability as part of Civista Bank. With the additional resources and lower incremental funding costs provided by the bank, we will be poised to increase our activity with existing customers and build relationships with new customers, including some of the existing customers of Civista. Our team is very excited to build an even better Vision Financial Group as part of Civista Bank going forward."
Subject to the terms of the purchase agreement, which has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of Civista and the shareholder of VFG, Civista has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of VFG in exchange for consideration in the form of cash and shares of Civista common stock. Pursuant to the purchase agreement, an additional amount to be paid in shares of Civista common stock is subject to certain "earn-out" payments annually for two years following the closing of the acquisition. The transaction is expected to close on October 3, 2022, subject to the fulfillment of other customary closing conditions.
In preparation for the acquisition, extensive due diligence was performed over a multi-week period. Under the proposed terms, the acquisition of VFG is expected to be approximately 6.4% accretive to Civista's earnings per share in the first-year post-integration (2023), approximately 15.1% accretive the following year (2024), and greater than 19.0% accretive on a run-rate basis thereafter, excluding any upside potential from identified revenue and operating synergies. In addition, any tangible book value dilution created in the transaction is expected to be earned back in less than 4 years after closing using the cross-over method. Post-closing, Civista's capital ratios are expected to continue to exceed "well-capitalized" regulatory standards.
Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC is acting as financial advisor to Civista and Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP is acting as its legal advisor in the transaction. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. is acting as financial advisor to VFG and Moore & Van Allen PLLC is acting as its legal advisor.
Civista Bancshares, Inc. is a $3.5 billion financial holding company headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio. Civista's banking subsidiary, Civista Bank, operates 43 locations in Northern, Northwestern, Central and Southwestern Ohio, Southeastern Indiana and Northern Kentucky. Civista's website may be accessed at www.civb.com. Civista's common shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "CIVB".
Vision Financial Group, Inc. is a privately held, independent, full-service general equipment leasing & financing company. The firm was founded in 1991 in Pittsburgh, PA. and since then has been empowering its business partners to achieve their commercial objectives by creating affordable and flexible equipment leasing and financing solutions for the acquisition of most types of equipment and software that organizations need to function and grow. VFG primarily serves commercial organizations from "mom & pop" size businesses up to large publicly traded companies. VFG is a complete one-stop shop for most of its customers equipment lease financing needs. VFG conducts business in all 50 U.S. states and select U.S. territories and international markets.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to: Civista's management plans relating to the proposed transaction; the expected timing of the completion of the proposed transaction; the ability to complete the proposed transaction; the ability to obtain any required regulatory, shareholder or other approvals; any statements of the plans and objectives of management for future operations, products or services; any statements or projections regarding the expected benefits of the transaction, including accretion to earnings that may be realized from the transaction; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "may", "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "seek", "plan", "will", "would", "target" "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project" and other similar words and expressions or negatives of these words. Because forward-looking statements are by their nature uncertain and subject to assumptions, actual results or future events could differ, possibly materially, from those that Civista anticipated in its forward-looking statements, and future results could differ materially from historical performance. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those included under "Item 1A Risk Factors" of Part 1 of Civista's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and any additional risk identified in Civista's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other reports filed by Civista with the SEC. Undue reliance should not be placed on any of our forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Civista does not undertake, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to update any forward-looking statement to reflect the events or circumstances after the date on which the forward-looking statement is made, or reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except to the extent required by law.
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ISTANBUL, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OKX, the second-largest crypto platform by trading volume and a leading Web3 technology company, today announced that it plans to open an office in Türkiye in the coming months.
The announcement was made prior to the Blockchain Economy Istanbul Summit 2023, of which OKX is a Title Sponsor and Premium Partner. During the Summit, OKX President Hong Fang, Chief Innovation Officer Jason Lau and Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique will deliver keynotes and panels discussing Türkiye's importance for OKX's global expansion - and their belief in the country's potential for Web3 and blockchain innovation.
OKX President Hong Fang said: "Opening an office in Türkiye will be a crucial step for OKX as we move from a trust-based system to one that is trustless and empowers users to take control of their financial future. Türkiye is an important market for us, and we're excited to build strong relationships with our users and contribute to the development of its crypto ecosystem."
OKX Chief Innovation Officer Jason Lau said: "Türkiye is a growing center of innovation and blockchain expertise, with a user base that has a strong appetite for crypto. We believe that establishing a physical presence in Türkiye will help us better understand the needs of our Turkish users and contribute to the growth of its crypto community."
About OKX
OKX is a world-leading technology company building the future of Web3. Known as the fastest and most reliable crypto trading platform for investors and professional traders everywhere, OKX's crypto exchange is the second largest globally by trading volume.
OKX's leading self-custody solutions include the Web3-compatible OKX Wallet, which allows users greater control of their assets while expanding access to DEXs, NFT marketplaces, DeFi, GameFi and thousands of dApps.
OKX partners with a number of the world's top brands and athletes, including: English Premier League champions Manchester City F.C., McLaren Formula 1, The Tribeca Festival, golfer Ian Poulter, Olympian Scotty James, and F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo.
OKX is committed to transparency and security and publishes its Proof of Reserves on a monthly basis.
To learn more about OKX, download our app or visit: okx.com
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- Exclusive distribution agreement signed with Cosmos Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: COSM), providing for exclusive distribution rights in Greece and Cyrus with the opportunity for Cosmos to distribute across Europe on a non-exclusive basis.
LONDON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virax Biolabs Group Limited ("Virax" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: VRAX), an innovative diagnostics company focused on the prevention, detection, and diagnosis of viral diseases, announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement to market Monkeypox Virus Real-Time PCR Detection Kits with Cosmos Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: COSM) ("Cosmos"), an international healthcare group headquartered in the United States and with subsidiaries in Greece and the United Kingdom. Pursuant to the agreement, Cosmos will have exclusive distribution rights for Greece and Cyprus, with the opportunity to distribute the test kits across Europe on a non-exclusive basis. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Virax's Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. James Foster, commented, "These real-time PCR Monkeypox tests facilitate the rapid diagnosis, treatment and containment of a very significant viral infection, so we are very excited to work with Cosmos to help provide access to it in Europe. We are working diligently to sign additional regional partnerships across the globe as approximately 104 countries have reported cases of Monkeypox."
"We are enthusiastic about the combination of Virax Biolabs' strong distribution and Cosmos' considerable knowledge of the market, in order to make these important and convenient testing tools a success" stated Greg Siokas, Chief Executive Officer of Cosmos. "Based on our conversations with our customers, we see a strong demand for fast and conducive testing methods for Monkeypox Virus. We view this agreement as a first step in a longstanding relationship with Virax."
The test is intended to aid in the rapid diagnosis of Monkeypox virus in human serum and lesion exudate specimens, providing a preliminary test result. Clinical correlation with patient history and other diagnostic information is necessary to determine patient infection status.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 61,282 laboratory confirmed cases of Monkeypox have been reported in 104 countries as of September 16, 20221 with 97 of these nations having never reported cases of monkeypox previously. Monkeypox was declared as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization and is caused by an orthopoxvirus and can be transmitted from animals to humans or human to human. Symptoms can begin with a high fever, headaches, body aches, and fatigue. After about two days, blistering rashes and boils on the face, hands, and feet start. Patients are advised to be in isolation throughout the duration of the disease, which can last approximately three to four weeks.
Founded in 2013, Virax Biolabs Group Limited is an innovative diagnostics company focused on the prevention, detection and diagnosis of viral diseases, with a particular interest in the field of immunology.
In addition to distributing an array of viral test kits in unique geographies, Virax Biolabs Group Limited is currently developing a proprietary T-Cell Test technology with the intention of providing an immunology profiling platform that assesses each individual's immune risk profile against major global viral threats. T-Cell testing can be particularly effective in the diagnosis and therapeutics of COVID-19 as well as other threats including Monkeypox, Hepatitis B, Malaria, Herpes and Human Papillomavirus. For more information, please visit www.viraxbiolabs.com.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to sleep or rest comfortably while traveling without causing pain and stiffness in the neck," said an inventor, from Los Angeles, Calif., "so I invented the HEAVENLY COMFORT. My design can be used while traveling in an airplane, car, train, bus or even while sitting in a wheelchair."
The invention provides an improved pillow for travelers or other seated users. In doing so, it offers added support for the head and neck. As a result, it enhances safety and comfort and it prevents the head from drooping or resting downward. The invention features a portable design that is easy to use and transport so it is ideal for travelers, individuals who utilize wheelchairs, etc. Additionally, a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Los Angeles sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-LAX-1432, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate Wednesday would tighten federal oversight of trains carrying hazardous materials like the one that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.
The measure, the Railway Safety Act of 2023, was cosponsored by Ohio Sens. Sherrod Brown (D) and J.D. Vance (R) and Pennsylvania Sens. John Fetterman (D) and Bob Casey (D). Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) also cosponsored the measure.
The bill would introduce new safety requirements for trains carrying hazardous materials, such as the vinyl chloride carried by the derailed Norfolk Southern train. Going forward, such trains would be required to submit a “gas discharge” plan for all such materials. Citing fear of an explosion, first responders in East Palestine conducted a controlled burn of the materials shortly after locals were evacuating.
The measure would also transfer oversight of railroads’ heat sensors from railways to the federal government. Shortly before the Norfolk Southern train derailed, the sensors showed a wheel bearing at temperatures 200 degrees over ambient temperatures, the threshold at which they are required to brake, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. While personnel attempted to brake, they could not avert the derailment. The Senate bill would allow the federal government — rather than railroads — to set this heat threshold.
It also contains a number of items railroad unions have long demanded, including a requirement of at least a two-person crew per train. Jeremy Ferguson, president of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Transportation Division (SMART-TD), endorsed the legislation, saying the bill “offers a chance for the nation to make the giant rail corporations take rational measures to get the industry to do what it’s designed to do — move freight through our nation safely and efficiently and be an example for the rest of the world to model.”
SMART-TD was one of the unions that voted against a tentative agreement with management last year to avert a rail strike, citing the lack of sick leave provisions. Congress backed a White House-backed bill forcing workers to accept the tentative deal, voting down an amendment that would add their sick leave demands. All of the bill’s sponsors except Vance and Fetterman, who were not yet in office, voted for the sick leave amendment. | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/bipartisan-bill-would-tighten-federal-oversight-of-trains-carrying-hazardous-materials/ | 2023-03-02 18:43:47 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/bipartisan-bill-would-tighten-federal-oversight-of-trains-carrying-hazardous-materials/ |
HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio (WDTN) — The delayed Huber Heights city manager election has caused tension between City Council members and the Dayton NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
The four finalist candidates were narrowed down to Luke Sims, Gerald Smith, Richard Dzik and John Wilson.
Dr. Derrick Foward, Dayton NAACP President, said that the NAACP hoped that candidate Gerald Smith would be selected for the city manager position in a June 7 letter to Huber Heights Mayor Jeff Gore.
However, at a June 29 Huber Heights press conference, Gore said that Smith was no longer being considered for the position due to a lack of qualifications for the job. Gore also stated that several council members also had concerns about the city of Creedmoor N.C. buying out Smith’s contract last month.
“The reason cited…was that he was crisscrossing the country, looking for another job, while still on the city’s payroll,” Gore said.
“I believe that information reinforced the idea that Mr. Smith was not our candidate. I want to assure everyone that the color of Mr. Smith’s skin had no part in the decision of council not to move forward, and had everything to do with his employment history and the payout he received to leave his current employer.”
Foward expressed the belief that racial bias is playing a role in council’s decision not to choose candidate Gerald Smith at the NAACP press conference on June 29. Foward also said that it is not irregular for people to job search while they are employed.
It has been over a year since the Huber Heights city manager position has been filled permanently. The position was temporarily taken over by interim Scott Falkowski in March 2021.
At a June 27 meeting, city council members intended to vote on the decision to appoint finalist Richard Dzik to the city manager role.
Dzik has served as the city of Mount Vernon’s safety service director since the end of 2019.
However, the election was delayed due to the absence of Councilman Ed Lyons. Huber Heights Mayor Jeff Gore called for the decision to be made a future meeting, in order to allow all council members to cast their vote.
During the Huber Heights City Council press conference, Gore said he believes some city council members are obstructing the process by purposely being absent from the meetings, but said he will not allow the decision to be made without all council members present, even if this means further delaying the decision.
Gore also expressed his favor for Falkowski’s performance in the interim role, saying that he would be fine with letting Falkowski keep the position for as long as it takes for members to come to a decision.
Foward voiced his frustration with how the delayed election is being handled at the NAACP press conference.
“One council member was not there, but you handled the business of Huber Heights throughout the whole meeting,” Foward said. “You conducted all other business, voted up or down on all other business, without the presence of the council member…so, that should not stop you from having an up or down vote for Mr. Richard Dzik.”
However, Gore rebutted that he believes all members should be present for a vote to appoint a city manager, because it’s such an important decision.
He said until all council members show up to cast their votes, he will continue to move the agenda item of appointment to a later date.
“If there’s not a majority objection on council to moving this item to another reading, that’s exactly what we’ll do,” he said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An original script for Donald Trump’s speech the day after the Capitol insurrection included tough talk ordering the Justice Department to “ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” and stating the rioters “do not represent me.” But those words were crossed out with thick black lines, apparently by Trump, according to exhibits released by House investigators.
Virginia Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democratic member of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, tweeted out a short video Monday that included testimony from White House aides discussing Trump’s speech on Jan. 7 and a screenshot of the speech, with notes and with lines to be deleted. In one of the clips, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, confirms to the panel the document “looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day” and the writing “looks like my father’s handwriting.”
When the committee asked White House aide Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband, why Trump crossed out specific lines, he responded, twice: “I don’t know.”
The panel released the 3:40-minute video as a follow up to its final summer hearing last week, in which the investigators showed outtakes from Trump’s videotaping of the speech. In the outtakes, Trump becomes frustrated and discusses the wording with the staff present, including Ivanka. At one point, he tells them “I don’t want to say the election is over.” Angry, he pounds his fist.
The committee is releasing the additional material in an effort to push out even more evidence after eight summer hearings laid out findings from more than 1,000 interviews in its yearlong investigation. Members of the committee say the investigation continues, and they will hold more hearings in the fall.
They are aiming to convey a consistent message about Trump and his actions before, during and after the insurrection — that he repeatedly lied about widespread fraud, even against the advice of his closest aides, and sparked the violent actions of his supporters. And when the rioters broke into the Capitol, he did nothing to stop them.
In her Monday tweet, Luria said, “It took more than 24 hours for President Trump to address the nation again after his Rose Garden video on January 6th in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. There were more things he was unwilling to say.”
The Jan. 7 speech was seen by his aides as an effort to make up for his inaction the day before when he waited hours to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol – and when he did, in a video filmed in the Rose Garden, he told the rioters that they were “very special.” In the video released by Luria, Trump aide Jared Kushner says he had spoken with other aides and they were trying to put remarks together for the president. “We felt like it was important to further call for de-escalation,” Kushner testified to the committee.
It is unclear who wrote the original text in the document.
In the original line “I am outraged and sickened by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem” the word “sickened” is crossed out. So are the later lines, “I want to be very clear you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.” But he left in, “You do not represent our country.” The line “you belong in jail” was replaced with “you will pay.”
These lines also deleted: “I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We must send a clear message – not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm.”
In recent testimony, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson – who also testified in person in a surprise hearing last month – said the scramble to get Trump to speak again on Jan. 7 was partly because of “large concern” within the White House that some of his Cabinet officials might try to invoke the constitutional process of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
The newly released video includes testimony from John McEntee, then the director of the White House presidential personnel office and one of Trump’s closest aides at the time. McEntee says that Kushner asked him to “nudge this along” to make sure that Trump delivered the speech. McEntee confirmed that Trump was reluctant to give the speech.
Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, also testified that he believed Trump should have forcefully laid out the consequences for the rioters.
“In my view, he needed to express very clearly” that the rioters “should be prosecuted, and should be arrested.”
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers are considering a remarkable shift in allowing the water agency that manages the Colorado River supply for Las Vegas to limit single-family residential use in the desert city and surrounding county.
It’s another potential step in a decades-long effort to ensure one of the driest metropolitan areas in the U.S. has enough water. Already, in Las Vegas ornamental lawns are banned, new swimming pools have a size limit and the water used inside homes is recycled.
While some agencies across the U.S. West tie increased water use to increased cost, Nevada could be the first to give a water agency — the Southern Nevada Water Authority — the power to restrict what comes out of residents’ taps in state statute to about 30,000 gallons above the average use. It’s aimed mostly at the top 10% of water users that use 40% of the water in the residential sector, spokesperson Bronson Mack said.
“It’s a worst case scenario plan,” said the bill’s sponsor, Democratic Assemblyman Howard Watts of Las Vegas, of the residential limit. “It makes sure that we prioritize the must-haves for a home. Your drinking water, your basic health and safety needs.”
The sweeping omnibus bill is one of the most significant to go before lawmakers this year in Nevada, one of seven states that rely on the Colorado River. Deepening drought, climate change and demand have sunk key Colorado River reservoirs that depend on melting snow to their lowest levels on record.
Lawmakers heard testimony for the bill on Monday evening, which also includes converting many homes with unrecyclable septic tanks for wastewater to the county’s recyclable sewage system in the coming decades. It also establishes a program to pay at least 50% of the transition as they look to secure more state and federal funds to help with the transition.
Water agency officials stressed during the two-hour hearing that the residential caps would not be used immediately, but rather if conditions become even more dire. The cap would be at about 160,000 gallons annually – an amount that about 20% of the agency’s customers use – with the average single-family residence using close to 130,000 gallons annually, per the agency.
The authority hasn’t yet decided how it would implement or enforce the proposed limits, Mack said.
The residential use limits received widespread support from water policy experts, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and jurisdictions within the agency’s limits, while opposition came from some southern Nevada residents who testified through video from Las Vegas.
“(For) a single-family home, you need to take into consideration: how many adults, family members are in this home?” said Sarah Patton of Las Vegas. “We have grown children that are currently living with us. That is more water use.”
Las Vegas relies on the Colorado River for 90% of its water supply. Nevada has lost about 8% of that supply already because of mandatory cuts implemented as the river dwindles further. Most residents haven’t felt the effects because Southern Nevada Water Authority recycles a majority of water used indoors and doesn’t use the full allocation.
Nevada lawmakers banned ornamental grass at office parks, in street medians and entrances to housing developments two years ago, a move that other cities later adopted. This past summer, Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, capped the size of new swimming pools at single-family residential homes to about the size of a three-car garage.
By the next legislative session in 2025 drought conditions could be much worse, Watts said, and “we have to decide what usage to prioritize” before then. Yet the longer-term goal is for other Nevada to be a leader in responsible use of the Colorado River’s dwindling supply— even with deeper cuts looming.
“It’s a sign to every other sector across the Colorado River Basin, that we’re not going to wait for others,” Watts told lawmakers of the potential single-family residential caps. “We take the lead and work to reduce our consumptive use of water.”
The main point of opposition for the bill was the conversion of homes with septic systems to the sewage system, a major shift that would lead many homes to reroute their wastewater. Some Clark County residents were dissuaded by the possibility of giving up their septic system or worried about the cost.
“This is too much of a burden for these targeted homeowners,” said Michele Tombari who, like others, said spoke fondly of her septic system and did not want to switch. “If you want us to change what was already approved, what we already paid for, you need to pay 100% to have us change that.”
Snow that has inundated northern Nevada and parts of California serves as only a temporary reprieve from dry conditions. Some states in the Colorado River basin have gridlocked on how to cut water usage.
Water from the Colorado River largely is used for agriculture in other basin states: Arizona, California, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. Municipal water is a relatively small percentage of overall use.
As populations grow and climate change leaves future supplies uncertain, policymakers are paying close attention to all available options to manage water supplies.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, uses a tiered cost structure where rates rise sharply when residents reach 10,000 gallons during the summer months.
Scottsdale, Arizona, recently told residents in a community outside city limits that it no longer could provide a water source for them. Scottsdale argued action was required under a drought management plan to guarantee enough water for its own residents.
Elsewhere in metro Phoenix, water agencies aren’t currently discussing capping residential use, Sheri Trap of the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association said in an email. But cities like Phoenix, Glendale and Tempe have said they will cut down on usage overall.
___ AP writer Susan Montoya Bryan contributed reporting from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stern is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms. Follow him on Twitter: @gabestern326. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/las-vegas-water-agency-seeks-power-to-limit-residential-use/ | 2023-03-15 05:57:45 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/las-vegas-water-agency-seeks-power-to-limit-residential-use/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An attorney for the man accused of gunning down rising rap star XXXTentacion during a 2018 robbery outside a Florida motorcycle shop told a jury Wednesday that DNA evidence proves his client and another man are innocent.
Attorney Joseph Kimok gave the final defense closing argument in the trial of three men accused of first-degree murder, saying that while the artist struggled with his killers before being shot and DNA was found on the body and on a stolen necklace, it wasn’t from his client, 28-year-old Michael Boatwright. Nor was it from accused second gunman Trayvon Newsome, 24, or accused getaway driver and ringleader Dedrick Williams, 26.
“Whoever (XXXTentacion) struggled with is not in this courtroom,” Kimok told jurors as the four-week trial neared its conclusion. “The DNA proves that someone not named Michael Boatwright or Trayvon Newsome participated in this murder.”
A fourth man, Robert Allen, pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder and testified against his former friends. Attorneys for all three men say he is lying about their clients’ involvement in the slaying and robbery, which netted $50,000. They also say Broward County sheriff’s detectives botched the investigation, failing to consider other possible suspects including Canadian rap star Drake, with whom XXXTentacion had an online feud.
Lead prosecutor Pascale Achille in her rebuttal argument Wednesday admitted that Allen is not a perfect witness, that he has previous felony convictions, but co-conspirators in murders rarely are.
“Plans hatched in hell do not have angels for witnesses,” she said.
Achille said that while detectives never found the guns, masks and money, only Williams was arrested within days of the shooting, giving the others time to hide any evidence. She said the lack of DNA evidence linking the defendants to the killing is irrelevant — that fact does not exclude them. She said much more importantly, cellphone data shows the defendants were together near the motorcycle shop at the time of the slaying and that Bluetooth data puts them in the SUV used by the shooters at that same time.
During her primary closing argument Tuesday, Achille played surveillance video from the motorcycle shop and elsewhere that she says backs up Allen’s testimony. She also played cellphone videos the defendants allegedly took hours after the killing that showed them smiling and dancing as they flashed handfuls of $100 bills.
Jury deliberations are expected to begin later Wednesday after Circuit Judge Michael Usan instructs the jury on the law. Boatwright, Williams and Newsome all face mandatory life sentences if convicted. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty. While the three are being tried together, the jury has to decide separately on each and could convict just one or two.
XXXTentacion, whose real name was Jahseh Onfroy, had just left Riva Motorsports in suburban Fort Lauderdale on June 18, 2018, with a friend when his BMW was blocked by an SUV that swerved in front.
Surveillance video showed that two masked gunmen emerged and confronted the 20-year-old rapper at the driver’s window, and one shot him repeatedly after a 45-second struggle. They then grabbed a Louis Vuitton bag containing the $50,000, which XXXTentacion had just withdrawn from the bank. They then got back into the SUV and sped away. The friend was not harmed.
Prosecutors say the three defendants and Allen set out that day to commit robberies and went to the motorcycle shop to buy Williams a mask. There they spotted the rapper and decided to make him their target.
Prosecutors say Allen and Williams went inside the motorcycle shop to confirm it was him. They then went back to the SUV they had rented, waited for XXXTentacion to emerge and ambushed him, according to prosecutors.
The rapper, who pronounced his name “Ex ex ex ten-ta-see-YAWN,” was a platinum-selling rising star who tackled issues including prejudice and depression in his songs. He also drew criticism over bad behavior and multiple arrests, including charges that he severely beat and abused his girlfriend. | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/lawyer-dna-proves-xxxtentacions-alleged-killers-innocence/ | 2023-03-08 20:28:58 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/lawyer-dna-proves-xxxtentacions-alleged-killers-innocence/ |
Winona dog rescue owners sentenced to probation on animal cruelty charges
Posted/updated on: December 29, 2022 at 11:40 amWINONA – Two people who were arrested in Winona for animal cruelty at their property, which was initially a rescue, have been sentenced to probation. According to our news partner KETK, Tina Loper and Eric Morris were initially arrested on Jan. 21 after 38 dogs were seized from the property. Loper pleaded guilty to multiple charges of animal cruelty in October and received a probated sentence of one year in state jail. The court has set a term of probation at 15 months with 200 hours of community service. Morris also pleaded guilty to similar misdemeanor charges and was sentenced to 12 months deferred adjudication with 100 hours of community service.
According to an affidavit, the property was originally a rescue called Dog Days Ranch and Rescue that turned into a hoarding situation, and officials were called to perform a welfare check on the dogs. The affidavit said upon arrival, most of the dogs were found to have no water and empty food bowls and were living with large amounts of feces in their enclosures. When meeting with Smith County Constable Josh Joplin at a follow-up visit, Loper reportedly told him, “We made a lot of mistakes.” Joplin said at the time, “If you don’t want to take care of your animals, don’t have one. We are not going to have that in this county.” The dogs were surrendered to the Humane Society of the United States and taken to Maryland. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1190105 | 2022-12-29 19:19:51 | 0 | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1190105 |
Nikki Haley’s husband begins Africa deployment as she campaigns for 2024 GOP nomination
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley’s husband deployed Saturday for a yearlong stint in Africa with the South Carolina Army National Guard, a mission that will encompass most of the remainder of her campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
“He’s always been my rock,” she said after a deployment ceremony for about 200 soldiers at The Citadel, a military college in Charleston. “We have both lived a life of service, and so when he goes off to deploy, my support is completely with him. If I happen to be running for president, his support is completely with me. … We will continue to stay in touch as best we can.”
Maj. Michael Haley is being deployed as a staff officer with the 218th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, which the National Guard says is providing support in the Horn of Africa.
The United Nations, where Nikki Haley served as Donald Trump’s ambassador for two years, says that region is facing the worst drought in 40 years, with more than 43.3 million people in need of assistance in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, and more than half of those lacking access to sufficient food.
Last month, a high-level U.N. conference raised less than $1 billion of the more than $5 billion organizers were hoping for to help more than 30 million people in the Horn of Africa cope with the climate crisis and mass displacement after years of conflict.
Nikki Haley, who is also a former South Carolina governor, has been highly critical of President Joe Biden’s performance as commander in chief. She has spoken out against his administration’s efforts to expand diversity in the military, complaining they were weakening the force and hampering recruitment, though the Army has said that the real problem is that many young people do not see enlistment as safe or a good career path.
She has also pledged to make cuts in $46 billion in foreign aid to countries that she says “hate America.”
Michael Haley, the candidate’s husband of 26 years, has been a constant at his wife’s campaign events since she became a White House candidate. During his deployment, the campaign said the couple’s college-age son, Nalin, will be taking over that role.
Nikki Haley frequently mentions her status as a military wife. Joining the Guard as an officer in 2006, her husband made his first overseas deployment January 2013, when she was midway through her first term as governor, and their children were age 10 and 14.
“He left me as a single mom governor, but we’re still married,” Haley said during a recent campaign appearance in Greer, South Carolina. She went on to critique the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Citing the current deployment during a CNN town hall in Iowa this month, Haley called it the start of “a yearlong prayer that they’re effective and that they’re strong and that they come home safely.”
She has also referenced her husband’s upcoming deployment in terms of the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against 2024 rival Trump on charges of mishandling classified documents, including national defense information.
Arguing that “two things can be be true a the same time” and echoing many Republicans’ arguments that “the DOJ and FBI have lost all credibility with the American people,” Haley said on Fox News this past week that “if this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security.”
“My husband is about to deploy this weekend,” Haley went on. “This puts all of our military men and women in danger, if you are going to talk about what our military is capable of, or how we would go about invading or doing something with one of our enemies.”
On Saturday, Haley said her husband’s service has in part framed her viewpoint on foreign policy and military strategy.
“We don’t want to go into a way that’s going to put our men and women at harm’s danger. They are going because Africa is a hotbed,” Haley said. “We’ve always known that when our men and women go overseas, it’s to keep us safe here at home.”
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Which mouth guards are best?
Full contact sports like football, boxing and hockey can cause inadvertent injuries. Helmets and headgear protect the skull but making sure that your teeth and jaw stay safe is equally important. Mouth guards were designed to provide an extra barrier around your teeth and hold the jaw in place if your face were hit by an opponent or an errant puck or ball.
There are many styles of mouth guards today made from numerous materials that not only provide protection but extra comfort since athletes wear mouth guards for the duration of their competitions. For a high-tech comfortable fit, the top choice for adults and youth is the SAFEJAWZ Mouthguard Slim Fit.
What to know before you buy a mouth guard
What sport and position do you play?
A boxer or mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter will need mouth guards that allow for easy breathing. A football kicker may only need a thin mouth guard to protect their upper teeth since they rarely are involved in tackling, while a linebacker or lineman will need a bulkier mouth guard to protect from the constant collisions throughout a game. Once you determine your priority for a mouth guard based on your sport and position, you can more easily find the one right for you.
Do you have braces or other orthodontics?
Braces and other orthodontic devices are expensive and important for reshaping your teeth. They shouldn’t keep you from participating in contact sports though. There are specialized athletic mouth guards designed to fit around your braces.
How long will mouth guards last?
A good quality mouth guard should last three to five years if cared for properly. Keep in mind that children and pre-teen youth may need to replace their mouth guards more frequently as their bodies continue to grow.
What to look for in a quality mouth guard
Material
Comfort is essential for a mouth guard since athletes are more likely to keep wearing one when it is fitted well. Mouth guards are made from different materials that can make a big difference with overall comfort.
Two soft and flexible materials are silicone, which is often recommended for people with braces, and ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA). Thermoplastic is the material used for mouth guards that are boiled and then fit to the teeth while in a pliable form. Instant-fit gel mouth guards do the same thing as thermoplastic but do not require boiling the mouth guard first.
Strap
Football, hockey and lacrosse players may want to use a mouth guard with a strap that attaches to their helmet. This is a great way to keep the mouth guard from getting lost or inadvertently knocked to the playing field. Some mouth guards have a detachable strap, while some models have the strap molded as part of the mouth guard itself.
Style
There are three main styles of mouth guards. Stock mouth guards are inexpensive, but they come in a few shapes and sizes, and most notably, they cannot be adjusted. Boil-and-bite mouth guards use thermoplastic that is heated and becomes pliable. The mouth guard is then fit to the athlete’s mouth while still in the shapeable state, and then it hardens as it cools. Customized mouth guards are usually made by dentists or other oral specialists who shape the mouth guard based on the exact mold of your mouth and teeth. Customized mouth guards can be very expensive.
How much you can expect to spend on a mouth guard
Market pricing for mouth guards begins at $5-$8 for off-the-shelf mouth guards that are not adjustable, and mid-range mouth guards that require boiling and a bite impression run $11-$21. Mouth guards that are used for people with braces or other conditions are priced $20-$50, while custom-fitted mouth guards provided by a dentist can exceed $200.
Mouth guard FAQ
Is an athletic mouth guard the same thing as a night guard?
A. There can be confusion between the terms athletic or sports mouth guard and a night guard. Both devices are inserted into the mouth and cover the teeth. An athletic mouth guard is meant for protection from unexpected blows during competition. Night guards are provided by dentists to help patients who grind their teeth or snore while they sleep or perhaps have other conditions like temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction that are helped by keeping the jaw slightly open while sleeping.
Are athletic mouth guards covered by dental insurance?
A. It depends on your dental insurance coverage. Check your plan summary or with your human resources department to see if athletic mouth guards are covered. Lower-priced mouth guards may be eligible for flexible spending plans. See the details of your particular benefit plan.
What are the best mouth guards to buy?
Top mouth guard
What you need to know: This mouth guard uses special technology to stay in place with comfort and a tight fit.
What you’ll love: You can repeat the fitting process several times to ensure a proper fit. This mouth guard is designed with an extra slim inside panel to increase breathability and prevent gagging. It comes with a money-back guarantee.
What you should consider: While marketed to both adults and youth, some adult users found even the largest sizes to be a bit too small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top mouth guard for the money
Vanmor Sports Mouth Guard 6-Pack
What you need to know: These affordable mouth guards come with a carrying case and are ideal for beginners.
What you’ll love: Designed for a lightweight fit, this mouth guard not only protects your teeth and jaw but ensures your gums and lips are not in pain. Made from EVA, it is comfortable and flexible and has a long life.
What you should consider: The carrying case that comes with these mouth guards has a tendency to open unexpectedly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This wide bite-pad mouth guard is designed with the contact sport athlete in mind.
What you’ll love: Its 1.6-millimeter thickness is only half as thick as conventional mouth guards, which increases comfort and makes it easier to breathe and talk. Easily remoldable, this mouth guard ensures a tight fit the longer you use it.
What you should consider: This mouth guard can be rough on the inside of the mouth and is not recommended for children.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Islamic State group has issued a statement claiming responsibility for killing more than 35 people and wounding dozens in eastern Congo.
In the statement, posted Friday by Aamaq, the militants’ news agency, it said it killed “Christians” with guns and knives and destroyed their property in Mukondi village in North Kivu province. It also published a photo of the houses on fire.
The announcement comes after local authorities confirmed that at least 45 people were killed last week in several attacks on different villages by rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces, a militia with links to IS.
Conflict has been simmering in eastern Congo for decades as more than 120 armed groups fight for power, influence and resources, and some to protect their communities. The ADF has been largely active in North Kivu province but has recently extended its operations into neighboring Ituri province and to areas near the regional capital, Goma.
Efforts to stem the violence against ADF have yielded little. A nearly year-long joint operation by Uganda and Congo’s armies did not achieve the expected results of defeating or substantially weakening the group, said a report in December by a panel of U.N. experts. The ADF rebels are accused by the U.N. and rights groups of maiming, raping and abducting civilians, including children. Earlier this month the United States offered a reward of up to $5 million for information that could lead to the capture of the group’s leader, Seka Musa Baluku.
On Thursday, AP reporters saw bodies lowered into a mass grave in Mukondi. Community members shoveled dirt over the bodies against a backdrop of destroyed houses and said the government wasn’t doing enough to protect them.
“As you see in Mukondi, it is always the same. ADF, which is always ill-intentioned against the Congolese,” said Col. Charles Ehuta Omeonga, military administrator for Beni region. “We lost many of our brothers,” he said.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo has condemned the killings and is urging Congo’s authorities to investigate and bring those responsible to justice.
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Associated Press reporter Maamoun Youssef contributed from Cairo. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/is-group-says-it-killed-more-than-35-christians-in-congo/ | 2023-03-12 01:26:45 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/is-group-says-it-killed-more-than-35-christians-in-congo/ |
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is joining the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter, adding star power to the President Joe Biden's National Security Council.
Kirby, who also served as the top spokesman at the Pentagon and the State Department during the Obama administration, is expected to take handle strategic communications for the NSC, as the West Wing navigates a range of foreign policy challenges, from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to North Korea's nuclear program. Kirby has been a fixture on cable news, particularly during the Ukraine crisis, and is valued in the administration for seeming to handle even the thorniest foreign policy questions with ease.
The person familiar with the matter confirmed Kirby's move to the White House on the condition of anonymity before it was announced publicly. The Washington Post first reported on Kirby's shift.
The NSC under Biden has not previously had someone in a dedicated, high-level strategic communications role.
Kirby is expected to be working closely with new press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, including making occasional appearances in the White House briefing room, the person said. He was said to have been one of the contenders to replace former White House press secretary Jen Psaki. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/pentagon-spokesman-john-kirby-moving-to-white-house/L7GDFZJ35NBQHICD522NM3ABCU/ | 2022-05-20 01:00:11 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/pentagon-spokesman-john-kirby-moving-to-white-house/L7GDFZJ35NBQHICD522NM3ABCU/ |
Brewers first. Christian Yelich flies out to deep left field to Aaron Hicks. Willy Adames walks. Rowdy Tellez flies out to deep right field to Oswaldo Cabrera. Hunter Renfroe walks. Willy Adames to second. Kolten Wong homers to right field. Hunter Renfroe scores. Willy Adames scores. Luis Urias strikes out swinging.
3 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Brewers 3, Yankees 0.
Yankees second. Giancarlo Stanton grounds out to shortstop, Willy Adames to Keston Hiura. Oswaldo Cabrera homers to center field. Isiah Kiner-Falefa grounds out to shallow infield, Willy Adames to Keston Hiura. Kyle Higashioka called out on strikes.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Brewers 3, Yankees 1.
Brewers second. Keston Hiura strikes out swinging. Omar Narvaez lines out to left center field to Aaron Hicks. Tyrone Taylor homers to center field. Christian Yelich strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Brewers 4, Yankees 1.
Yankees third. Aaron Hicks strikes out swinging. Aaron Judge homers to right field. Anthony Rizzo homers to right field. Gleyber Torres flies out to center field to Tyrone Taylor. Josh Donaldson singles to third base. Giancarlo Stanton grounds out to shortstop, Luis Urias to Keston Hiura.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Brewers 4, Yankees 3.
Yankees fifth. Aaron Judge walks. Anthony Rizzo singles to left field. Aaron Judge to second. Gleyber Torres flies out to deep center field to Tyrone Taylor. Anthony Rizzo to second. Aaron Judge to third. Josh Donaldson walks. Giancarlo Stanton reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Josh Donaldson to second. Anthony Rizzo to third. Aaron Judge scores. Fielding error by Kolten Wong. Oswaldo Cabrera singles to second base. Giancarlo Stanton to second. Josh Donaldson to third. Anthony Rizzo scores. Isiah Kiner-Falefa lines out to right field to Hunter Renfroe. Kyle Higashioka singles to shallow center field. Oswaldo Cabrera to second. Giancarlo Stanton scores. Josh Donaldson scores. Aaron Hicks strikes out swinging.
4 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Yankees 7, Brewers 4.
Yankees seventh. Oswaldo Cabrera doubles. Isiah Kiner-Falefa grounds out to second base, Kolten Wong to Keston Hiura. Oswaldo Cabrera to third. Kyle Higashioka grounds out to shallow infield, Willy Adames to Luis Urias to Keston Hiura. Oswaldo Cabrera scores. Aaron Hicks homers to right field. Aaron Judge homers to left field. Anthony Rizzo grounds out to second base, Luis Urias to Keston Hiura.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Yankees 10, Brewers 4.
Brewers eighth. Willy Adames doubles to deep left center field. Rowdy Tellez homers to right field. Willy Adames scores. Hunter Renfroe strikes out swinging. Kolten Wong singles to shallow infield. Luis Urias singles to right field. Kolten Wong to second. Keston Hiura grounds out to shallow infield, Isiah Kiner-Falefa to Anthony Rizzo. Luis Urias to second. Kolten Wong to third. Omar Narvaez lines out to deep right center field to Oswaldo Cabrera.
2 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Yankees 10, Brewers 6.
Yankees ninth. Oswaldo Cabrera strikes out swinging. Isiah Kiner-Falefa singles to shallow right field. Kyle Higashioka flies out to right center field to Hunter Renfroe. Aaron Hicks singles to right field. Isiah Kiner-Falefa to third. Aaron Judge doubles to deep left field. Aaron Hicks scores. Isiah Kiner-Falefa scores. Anthony Rizzo flies out to shallow right field to Kolten Wong.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Yankees 12, Brewers 6.
Brewers ninth. Tyrone Taylor singles to center field. Christian Yelich singles to center field. Tyrone Taylor to second. Willy Adames singles to shallow right field. Christian Yelich to second. Tyrone Taylor to third. Jace Peterson pinch-hitting for Rowdy Tellez. Jace Peterson doubles to deep right field. Willy Adames to third. Christian Yelich scores. Tyrone Taylor scores. Hunter Renfroe flies out to shortstop to Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Kolten Wong walks. Luis Urias strikes out swinging. Keston Hiura grounds out to second base, Gleyber Torres to Anthony Rizzo.
2 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Yankees 12, Brewers 8. | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/N-Y-Yankees-Milwaukee-Runs-17450487.php | 2022-09-18 23:19:02 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/N-Y-Yankees-Milwaukee-Runs-17450487.php |
Video of fatal attack on African immigrant shocks Italy
By COLLEEN BARRY
Associated Press
MILAN (AP) — Police in Italy arrested an Italian man in the slaying of a Nigerian vendor whose brutal beating death on a busy beach town thoroughfare was filmed by onlookers without any apparent attempt to intervene physically.
Video footage of the attack has circulated widely on Italian news websites and social media, eliciting outrage as Italy enters a parliamentary election campaign in which the right-wing coalition has already made immigration an issue.
“The murder of Alika Ogorchukwu is dismaying,’’ Enrico Letta, the head of the left-wing Democratic Party, wrote Saturday on Twitter, naming the vendor who died Friday. “Unheard of ferocity. Widespread indifference. There can be no justification.”
Right-wing leader Matteo Salvini, who is making security a plank of his campaign, also expressed outrage over the death, saying “security has no color and … needs to return to being a right.”
Ogorchukwu, 39, was selling goods Friday on the main street of Civitanova Marche, a beach town on the Adriatic Sea, when his attacker grabbed the vendor’s crutch and struck him down, according to police. Video shows the assailant wrestling the victim onto his back on the pavement as he fought back, eventually subduing Ogorchukwu with the weight of his body.
“The aggressor went after the victim, first hitting him with a crutch. He made him fall to the ground, then he finished, causing the death, hitting him repeatedly with his bare hands,” the town’s chief commissioner, Fabio Mazza, told a press conference.
Police investigator Matteo Luconi told Italian news channel Sky TG24 that onlookers called police, who responded after the suspect had fled and attempted to administer aid to the victim.
Police used street cameras to track the assailant’s movements and detained a man identified as Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32. He was being held on suspicion of murder and theft for allegedly taking the victim’s phone.
Luconi told Sky TG24 the assailant lashed out after the vendor made “insistent” requests for pocket change. Police were questioning witnesses and viewing videos of the attack. They said the suspect has made no statement.
Ogorchukwu, who was married with two children, resorted to selling goods on the street after he was struck by a car and lost his job as a laborer due to his injuries, said Daniel Amanza, who runs the ACSIM association for immigrants in the Marche region’s Macerata province.
Amanza gave a different version of what happened, saying the attacker became infuriated when Ogorchukwu told the man’s companion she was beautiful.
“This compliment killed him,’’ Amanza told The Associated Press.
“The tragic fact is that there were many people nearby. They filmed, saying ‘Stop,’ but no one moved to separate them,’’ Amanza said.
Macerata was the site of a 2018 shooting spree targeting African immigrants that wounded six people. Luca Traini, 31, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the shootings, which Italy’s highest court confirmed qualified as a hate crime.
Civitanova Marche’s mayor, Fabrizio Ciarapica, met with members of the Nigerian community after hundreds demonstrated on Saturday.
“My condemnation is not only for the (crime) but it is also for the indifference,” Ciarapica told Sky. ”This is something that has shocked citizens.” | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/07/30/video-of-fatal-attack-on-african-immigrant-shocks-italy/ | 2022-07-30 18:43:11 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/07/30/video-of-fatal-attack-on-african-immigrant-shocks-italy/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: FOF) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on August 31, 2022 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2021, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income'. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
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The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2022 (January 1, 2022 through July 31, 2022) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2022. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending July 31, 2022 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2022. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
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Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Corporation (NYSE:UVV) will webcast its conference call on November 3, 2022, following the release of its results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 after market close on that date. The conference call will begin at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and will be hosted by Candace C. Formacek, Vice President and Treasurer.
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Universal Corporation (NYSE: UVV), headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a global business-to-business agri-products supplier to consumer product manufacturers, operating in over 30 countries on five continents. We strive to be the supplier of choice for our customers by leveraging our farmer base, our commitment to a sustainable supply chain, and our ability to provide high-quality, customized, traceable, value-added agri-products essential for our customers' requirements. We find innovative solutions to serve our customers and have been meeting their agri-product needs for more than 100 years. Our principal focus since our founding in 1918 has been tobacco, and we are the leading global leaf tobacco supplier. Through our plant-based ingredients platform, we provide a variety of value-added manufacturing processes to produce high-quality, specialty vegetable- and fruit-based ingredients as well as botanical extracts and flavorings for the food and beverage end markets. For more information, visit www.universalcorp.com.
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Denton approved more than 319,000 square feet of retail space in Rayzor Ranch Town Center this week. Among the proposed retail offerings are At Home, Burlington, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Macy’s Backstage, PetSmart, Spring Market and Target, according to planning documents submitted to the city of Denton.
A new shopping center will bring more than 319,000 square feet of retail space to Rayzor Ranch Town Center.
Among the proposed retail offerings are At Home, Burlington, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Macy’s Backstage, PetSmart, Spring Market and Target, according to planning documents submitted to the city of Denton.
A version of the site plan, which included just under 300,000 square feet of retail space, was first approved in April 2022. Proposed changes to that plan, including an increase in retail building space and an additional 127 parking spaces, were approved by the Planning & Zoning Commission during their regular meeting Wednesday.
The single-story retail buildings will encompass about 30 acres and include 1,426 parking spaces. The site plan changes, submitted by consultant 97 Land Company, also include minor alterations in the site’s landscape area and tree canopy.
Rayzor Ranch Town Center, which is located at the southeast corner of U.S. Highway 380 and includes Winco Foods, is in the first stage of development, and more pad sites will be available as the area grows, according to developer Fidelis Realty.
Each of the retail offerings will have a different development timeline, Fidelity senior construction manager Alex Herrera told the Denton Record-Chronicle.
“I am currently working with At Home, and we are about to pick up a permit for three buildings that are going to be four separate tenants — they could either be for a single tenant, the entire 12,000 square feet, or we can break it down into three or four different spaces,” Herrera said. “That’s the only thing I know as far as what we’re planning on moving or not moving for the project right now.”
97 Land Company did not immediately respond to follow-up questions about the project.
The retailers will be the latest to join the large-scale Rayzor Ranch complex, which includes the adjacent Rayzor Ranch Marketplace. Also among incoming developments to the space are a Portillo’s restaurant headed to the Town Center and a Home Depot being built near Sam’s Club.
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(KTLA) – California’s Air Resources Board is expected to vote Thursday to approve a plan that will ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in the state by 2035.
The proposal, “Advanced Clean Cars II,” aims to have 35% of new vehicles sold in 2026 be zero-emission, with increasing percentages each year. A full ban on new sales of gas-powered vehicles in California would be enacted in 2035.
“This is going to do a lot to clean up the air in California and to fight the crisis that we have of air pollution and climate change,” Bill Magavern with Coalition for Clean Air told KTLA’s sister station, Sacramento’s KTXL, Wednesday.
The regulation will help California meet clean air standards by cutting emissions, resulting in a 25% reduction in smog-forming emissions from passenger vehicles by 2037.
The new regulation only applies to new car sales and does not impact existing gas-powered cars and light trucks, which will still be legal to own and drive beyond 2035.
The proposal also calls for requirements for warranties, durability, streamlined fast-charging, capable charging cords, repair information, and battery range.
“A lot of people have range anxiety. They’re always worried they’re going to run out of charge, but there are so many chargers around the country. And you hit a button in your car and it tells you where the next charging station is and it’ll take you right there,” said Eileen Yurek, an electric vehicle owner.
The Advanced Clean Cars 2 regulation also offers incentives to manufacturers to build low-cost electric vehicles to make them more affordable.
“It’s easy for people that have enough wealth, but we need for this revolution to make its way to everybody and to give clean mobility for all Californians,” Magavern said.
California already has the nation’s largest electric vehicle market in the country with over 1.1 million vehicles registered. That comprises 43% of the nation’s plug-in vehicles.
“They’ll love them. It’s like sitting in your armchair at home; it really is. They’ll really love their cars,” Yurek said.
If Advanced Clean Cars 2 is approved, it will then go to the federal Environmental Protection Agency for its approval.
California climate officials say the state’s new policy will be the world’s most ambitious because it sets clear benchmarks for ramping up electric vehicle sales over the next dozen years.
The European Parliament in June backed a plan to effectively prohibit the sale of gas and diesel cars in the 27-nation bloc by 2035, and Canada has mandated the sale of zero-emission cars by the same year. The Chinese province of Hainan said this week it would do the same by 2030.
In the U.S., Massachusetts, Washington and New York are among states that have set goals to transform their car markets or have already committed to following California’s new rules.
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BALTIMORE, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ-GS: TROW), a global investment management firm and a leader in retirement services, today announced it has been named to Forbes World's Best Employers 2022 list. This recognition represents the first time T. Rowe Price has been named to the Forbes World's Best Employers honorees.
The World's Best Employers 2022 recognition is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc. The World's Best Employers 2022 honorees were identified through independent surveys of approximately 150,000 employees working part time or full time for employers in 57 countries worldwide.
Survey participants were asked to comment on their willingness to recommend their employers to friends and family and evaluate other employers in their respective industries based on how they stood out positively or negatively. Evaluations focused on topics such as image, trust, gender equality, corporate social responsibility, culture, and benefits. More than a million data points were analyzed to select companies for the rankings. The 800 companies receiving the highest total scores were named as the World's Best Employers by Forbes.
This announcement is the third Forbes recognition for T. Rowe Price this year. T. Rowe Price has been recognized as one of the Best Employers for Women 2022 and Best-in-State Employers 2022.
"We at T. Rowe Price are honored to receive this recognition, which affirms our reputation as a company that provides excellent employment opportunities globally," said Michelle Swanenburg, head of Human Resources for T. Rowe Price. "At T. Rowe Price, we believe that our people are our greatest asset, and we continue to invest in the success of our associates as they apply their passions to create positive change in the communities they serve."
As part of the company's long-standing commitment to community and volunteering, T. Rowe Price matches donations and volunteer hours served at nonprofits chosen by associates, and associates interested in nonprofit board service can also take advantage of the firm's board training and placement program. To date, more than 350 associates serve on nonprofit boards.
Globally, T. Rowe Price offers competitive pay, including bonuses, retirement and employee stock options, location-specific health and wellness benefits, tuition and fitness reimbursements and personal travel discounts.
T. Rowe Price has more than 7,500 associates globally.
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Founded in 1937, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price (troweprice.com) is an independent global asset management company with $1.23 trillion in assets under management as of September 30, 2022, and a local presence in 17 countries. Known for long-term investment excellence, T. Rowe Price provides an array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, exchange-traded funds and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, consultants, retirement plan sponsors and financial intermediaries. The company also offers sophisticated investment planning and guidance tools. Its active, strategic investing approach is disciplined, risk-aware and based on rigorous fundamental research.
T. Rowe Price helps clients invest with confidence and can be found on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Elon Musk has emailed Twitter employees, most working remotely, ordering them to return to the office immediately for at least 40 hours a week and warning of "difficult times ahead."
A pair of Wednesday night missives seen by The Associated Press marked Musk's first companywide message to employees who survived last week's mass layoffs. Many have had to rely on the billionaire Tesla CEO's public tweets for clues about Twitter's future.
The video in the player above is from a previous report.
"Sorry that this is my first email to the whole company, but there is no way to sugarcoat the message," wrote Musk, before he described a dire economic climate for businesses like Twitter that rely almost entirely on advertising to make money.
"Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn," Musk said. "We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription."
MORE: Twitter's chief information security officer quits amid company turmoil
Musk's memo followed a live-streamed conversation trying to assuage major advertisers Wednesday, his most expansive public comments about Twitter's direction since he closed a $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform late last month and dismissed its top executives. A number of well-known brands have paused advertising on Twitter as they wait to see how Musk's proposals to relax content rules against hate and misinformation affect the tenor of the platform.
Musk told employees the "priority over the past 10 days" was to develop and launch Twitter's new subscription service for $7.99 a month that includes a blue check mark next to the name of paid members - the mark was previously only for verified accounts. Musk's project has had a rocky rollout with an onslaught of newly bought fake accounts this week impersonating high-profile figures such as basketball star LeBron James, former U.S. President George W. Bush and the drug company Eli Lilly to post false information or offensive jokes.
In a second email to employees, Musk said the "absolute top priority" over the coming days is to suspend "bots/trolls/spam" exploiting the verified accounts. But Twitter now employs far fewer people to help him do that.
MORE: Twitter briefly rolled out gray 'official' check marks before Elon Musk changed his mind
An executive last week said Twitter was cutting roughly 50% of its workforce, which numbered 7,500 earlier this year.
Musk had previously expressed distaste for Twitter's pandemic-era remote work policies that enabled team leaders to decide if employees had to show up in the office. On Wednesday, he ordered all employees to return to the office Thursday.
Musk told employees in the email that "remote work is no longer allowed" and the road ahead is "arduous and will require intense work to succeed." He said he would personally review any request for an exception.
Twitter hasn't disclosed the total number of layoffs across its global workforce but told local and state officials in the U.S. that it was cutting 784 workers at its San Francisco headquarters, about 200 elsewhere in California, more than 400 in New York City, more than 200 in Seattle and about 80 in Atlanta.
MORE: Here's how Twitter employees are finding out they've been laid off as nearly 50% of workforce cut
The exodus at Twitter is ongoing, including the company's chief information security officer Lea Kissner, who tweeted Thursday that "I've made the hard decision to leave Twitter."
Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos, a former Facebook security chief, tweeted Thursday that there is a "serious risk of a breach with drastically reduced staff" that could also put Twitter at odds with a 2011 order from the Federal Trade Commission that required it to address serious data security lapses.
"Twitter made huge strides towards a more rational internal security model and backsliding will put them in trouble with the FTC" and other regulators in the U.S. and Europe, Stamos said.
The FTC said in a statement Thursday that it is "tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern."
"No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees," said the agency's statement. "Our revised consent order gives us new tools to ensure compliance, and we are prepared to use them."
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The FTC would not say whether it was investigating Twitter for potential violations. If it were, it is empowered to demand documents and depose employees.
Twitter paid a $150 million penalty in May for violating the 2011 consent order and its updated version established new procedures requiring the company to implement an enhanced privacy protection program as well as beefing up info security.
Those new procedures include an exhaustive list of disclosures Twitter must make to the FTC when introducing new products and services - particularly when they affect personal data collected on users.
Musk is, of course, fundamentally overhauling platform offerings, and it's not known if he is telling the FTC about it. Twitter, which gutted its communications department, didn't respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Musk has a history of tangling with regulators. "I do not respect the SEC," Musk declared in a 2018 tweet.
MORE: Activists put pressure on advertisers to drop Twitter ads over Musk takeover, employee layoffs
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently examined for possible tardiness his disclosures to the agency of his purchases of Twitter stock to amass a major stake. In 2018, Musk and Tesla each agreed to pay $20 million in fines over Musk's allegedly misleading tweets saying he'd secured the funding to take the electric car maker private for $420 a share. Musk has fought the SEC in court over compliance with the agreement.
The consequences for not meeting FTC's requirements can be severe - such as when Facebook had to pay $5 billion for privacy violations.
"If Twitter so much as sneezes, it has to do a privacy review beforehand," tweeted Riana Pfefferkorn, a Stanford University researcher who said she previously provided Twitter outside legal counsel. "There are periodic outside audits, and the FTC can monitor compliance."
Twitter was fined in May for the alleged commercial exploit of customers' data - phone numbers and email addresses - that it had claimed it needed for security purposes, such as enabling multi-factor authentication.
AP reporters Frank Bajak and Marcy Gordon contributed to this report. | https://abc11.com/twitter-elon-musk-remote-work-from-home/12439378/ | 2022-11-10 23:32:59 | 0 | https://abc11.com/twitter-elon-musk-remote-work-from-home/12439378/ |
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show.
The show is getting back to normal after going completely virtual in 2021 and seeing a significant drop in 2022 attendance because of the pandemic.
Exhibitors range from big names including Sony and LG to tiny startups. You might see the next big thing or something that will never make it past the prototype stage.
On Tuesday night, the show kicked off with media previews from just some of the 3,000 companies signed up to attend. CES officially opens Thursday.
Here are some highlights:
POKEMON, BUT MAKE IT BIRDS
Bird Buddy showed off a smart bird feeder that takes snapshots of feathered friends as they fly in to eat some treats. The startup says its AI technology can recognize more than 1,000 species of birds, allowing users to share through a mobile app what kind of birds they’re feeding.
“We try to kind of gamify the collection so it’s a really fun game that you can play — almost like a real life Pokémon Go with real animals and wildlife in your backyard,” said Kyle Buzzard, the company’s co-founder and chief hardware officer.
The product has already sparked some interest from consumers who want to show the world what birds are coming into their backyards.
The company, which began as a Kickstarter project in 2020, says it started shipping its bird feeders in September and has already sold all 100,000 in its inventory. The price for the basic feeder is $199.
ELECTRIC SKATES
Journalists had fun zipping around the exhibit hall on remote-controlled, electric inline skates from French startup AtmosGear.
The battery lasts for 20 miles (32 kilometers), said founder Mohamed Soliman, who hopes people will see them as a viable way to commute, like electric bikes or scooters.
“My goal is for everyone to go skating again because it’s so much fun, every time you see people skating you see them with a big smile,” Soliman said.
A waist bag holds the battery and cables connected to the skates. They also can be used as regular skates when they need to be charged or skaters simply want to travel under their own power.
The $500 skates are available for pre-order. The company has taken orders for 150 pairs so far and is aiming for 200 orders to start production.
DIGITAL TEMPORARY TATTOOS
A handheld device displayed by South Korean company Prinker allows you to quickly and easily apply temporary tattoos.
The device uses cosmetic-grade ink with a library of thousands of designs or the option to make your own with the company's app. After picking a tattoo, you just wave the device over wherever you want it applied. The tattoos are waterproof but wash off with soap.
The flagship model is $279 and a smaller model is $229. Ink cartridges good for 1,000 tattoos are $119.
HELPING FIND YOUR WAY
Japan-based Loovic has created a device designed to solve the challenges of those who have difficulty navigating while they walk.
The device worn around the neck employs sounds and vibrations to guide users to destinations, enabling them to look at what's around rather than focusing on a phone's map app.
Loovic co-founder and CEO Toru Yamanaka said he was inspired to create the device for his son, who has a cognitive impairment making it difficult for him to navigate.
The prototype device is not yet available to the public.
A FITNESS TRACKER FOR YOUR DOG
If you wonder what your dog is doing while you're not home, French startup Invoxia has a product for you. The company's smart dog collar monitors your pet's activity and sleep, sending the data to your phone.
The latest version unveiled at CES, which has a GPS tracker, includes more advanced heart health monitoring.
The collar is $149 in the U.S. while a monthly $8.25 subscription to the app monitors the data and shares it with your veterinarian.
METAVERSE FOR KIDS
The creators of Roybi, an educational AI robot that helps children learn about STEM topics and new languages, are venturing into the metaverse.
The RoybiVerse is expected to offer stations where K-12 and higher education students can learn about a wide range of educational topics.
Users walking around the RoybiVerse will be able to visit an area where they’ll learn about dinosaurs or walk over to the virtual library where they can pick a book and read it.
The RoybiVerse, which is expected to launch by mid-2023, will be available in virtual reality headsets and on a website. No robot needed.
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Op-Ed: Elon Musk mistook Twitter for the real world
There’s something tragically poetic about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
There’s a whole subculture of lamentation about modern society that can be fairly well summed up in Peter Thiel’s roughly decade-old gripe that things like Twitter were distracting us from greatness: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”
Today, we get twice as many characters on Twitter, but the complaint endures. Not just innovation, but also exploration, have been subverted by screens and scrolling from our couches or porcelain thrones. Rather than go to the moon or Mars, our best minds focused on keeping you from putting down your phone.
For those who rejected that argument, Elon Musk was Exhibit A personified. Our generation’s Howard Hughes — in more ways than one — Musk built things, from electric cars to rockets. He even declared he wanted to die on Mars, as a kind of Martian Moses, delivering humanity to a promised land as an interplanetary species.
When Twitter changed hands Thursday, the question before a swath of its 400 million users was: Should I stay or should I go?
And now, he’s not distracted just by tweeting, which he does a lot, but also by his actual purchase of the company, which he overpaid for by tens of billions of dollars. The Twitter mascot is a mountain bluebird, but it may turn out to be an albatross. Or, he might succeed in modestly improving it, given how smart he is and how rancid Twitter already was.
So far, however, it’s been a debacle — though only partly of his own making. Musk is a visionary entrepreneur and engineer, but it turns out running a social media platform that has rarely been profitable doesn’t come as naturally to him as designing rockets. When he took over Twitter, he fired thousands of employees, only to discover he needed some of them and is now asking some to return.
Originally, he vowed to make the site, which he calls the “public square,” a paragon of free speech, only to discover that free speech absent content moderation quickly turns into a Bosch hellscape of demonic bigotry, performative cruelty, rumor and disinformation.
Indeed, the mere promise of a new era of anything-goes expression on Twitter yielded a significant overnight spike in racist and antisemitic speech on the platform, even though Musk hadn’t changed any of the rules yet.
And this points to why his troubles are only partly of his own making. The users are part of the problem.
Just as some trolls rushed in on the promise of better days, many advertisers and quite a few influential liberals fled, or threatened to. Indeed, there was a kind of panic among the coterie of journalists and liberal activists who consider Twitter their rightful domain, an attitude that only fuels populist resentment on the site.
Free speech is about more than spewing your opinions. It’s also about the right to persuade, to listen and to be heard. That can’t happen on Twitter if Musk lets disinformation run wild.
Meanwhile, on the right, jubilation over Musk’s takeover quickly gave way to rage over his troubles. Josh Holmes, a prominent political consultant, former chief of staff to Sen. Mitch McConnell, and normally fairly level-headed political observer, nonetheless suggested that companies pulling their advertising should face congressional grilling for “leftist corporate extortion” after the GOP takes over the House. I have no problem beating up on cowardly corporate chief executives , but I am at a loss as to why or how the federal government can compel corporate advertising.
Musk had many legitimate — and some farfetched — criticisms of Twitter under the old ownership. But what he seemed to miss is that Twitter was never a public square. Even in the Norman Rockwell version of the public square, there are enforceable laws and norms dictating what you can and can’t do there. Twitter is more like a “commons,” in economic terms, where different actors want to take advantage of it for their own purposes. That can work when everyone agrees on the rules, but when such consensus is missing, you get the “tragedy of the commons.”
And that’s the core problem for Musk: America itself is suffering from a kind of tragedy of the commons. The hyper-politically engaged in this country believe that every institution — our laws, our government, big corporations, even churches and schools — should conform to their worldview. Not only is Twitter a pristine example of this dysfunction, it’s one of the chief drivers of it, because it allows people to treat one another as abstract avatars, not actual humans.
Back in April, when Musk first launched his bid for the company, Abe Greenwald, executive editor of Commentary, had the best explanation for why so many Twitter addicts were freaking out. “People believe Twitter is the real world. They therefore believe that Elon Musk is buying the world.”
It’s still a mystery why Musk bought Twitter, but maybe he did it because he was under the same impression?
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The retail industry is trying to figure out its correct size.
Retailers, faced with sky-high demand from shoppers during the pandemic, spent the past three years ramping up their operations in areas like human resources, finance and technology. Now times have changed.
A public that rushed to buy all sorts of goods in the earlier parts of the pandemic is now spending less on merchandise like furniture and clothing. E-commerce, which boomed during lockdowns, has fallen from those heights. And with consumers worried about inflation in the prices of day-to-day necessities like food, companies are playing defense.
Saks Off 5th, the off-price retailer owned by Hudson Bay, laid off an unspecified number of workers Tuesday. Saks.com is laying off about 100 employees, or 3.5% of its workers. Stitch Fix laid off 20% of its salaried workers this month and closed a distribution center in Salt Lake City. Last week, Wayfair said it would lay off 1,750 people, or 10% of its workforce, and Amazon started laying off 18,000 workers, many of them in its retail division. Bed Bath & Beyond cut its workforce this month as it tries to shore up its finances and prepares for a possible bankruptcy filing.
While it’s not unusual for major retailers to announce store closings and some job cuts after the blitz of the holiday season, the recent spate of layoffs is more about structural changes as the industry recalibrates itself after the rapid growth from pandemic-fueled shopping. And it accompanies broader worries about the state of the U.S. economy and layoffs by prominent tech companies.
“Retailers are really being cognizant of capital preservation,” said Catherine Lepard, who leads the global retail market for the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles. “They don’t know how long this cooler economy is going to last, and they want to make sure they have the right cash to get through that. For retailers that are struggling, it really means tightening the belt with some cost cutting.”
Sales during the all-important holiday shopping season were weaker than in years past, when growth hit record levels. December retail sales increased 6% from the same period last year, but that number was not adjusted for inflation, which was at 6.5%.
Department stores posted sizable sales declines. At Nordstrom, sales in the last nine weeks of 2022 decreased 3.5% from a year earlier, with the company noting that they “were softer than pre-pandemic levels.” Macy’s said its holiday sales had been on the lower end of its expectations.
The layoffs at certain retail companies are a sign that the industry is bracing for a slowdown and another change in how people shop.
“To mitigate macroeconomic headwinds and best position our business for success, we have made changes to streamline our organizational structure,” Meghan Biango, a spokesperson for Saks Off 5th, said in a statement. “As part of this, we made the difficult decision to part ways with associates across various areas of the business.” The layoffs affected divisions such as talent acquisition and supply chain.
Not all retailers are in a defensive crouch. For instance, Walmart announced this week that it was raising the minimum wage for its store employees in a bid to attract and retain workers in a tight labor market.
Still, some retailers are becoming focused less on bringing in new customers — an expensive undertaking — and more on retaining those they gained during the pandemic.
“There’s a sense of conservatism,” said Brian Walker, chief strategy officer at Bloomreach, which works with retailers on their e-commerce and digital marketing businesses. “They’re still adjusting in many ways to this omnichannel retail environment and are probably seeing this as an important time to calibrate their organizations and make sure they have the right people, and not too many of them, to be pragmatic and weather a potential storm.”
That means fewer projects that require lots of money and time and more investments where a company can start seeing results quickly, Walker said.
Lepard agreed. “This isn’t the economy to really get creative and take on high risk,” she said. “There might be a pulling back of some of that innovation in future investment to make sure they’re pacing themselves.”
It’s also a moment for retailers to assess what e-commerce abilities they need. In the early months of the pandemic, online sales exploded as many brick-and-mortar stores went dark. That growth has slowed. E-commerce traffic in North America declined 1.6% in the third quarter of 2022 compared with a year earlier, according to Bloomreach’s Commerce Pulse data. Conversion rates — the measure of someone’s buying an item after seeing it advertised — dropped 12% during the same period.
“This is where people overshot the runway,” said Craig Johnson, president of the retail advisory firm Customer Growth Partners, who has tracked the industry for 25 years. “This works like a ratchet. It might go up to 27%, but that’s going to normalize,” he added, referring to the share of total e-commerce spending for the first year of the pandemic, when many stores were grappling with COVID restrictions and closures.
When online spending was rising, many companies pushed to fill roles that could help them meet the demand. Now they have to adjust to a new reality. “Unfortunately, along the way, we overcomplicated things, lost sight of some of our fundamentals and simply grew too big,” Niraj Shah, Wayfair’s CEO, said in a note to employees last Friday. His company, which reported in November that its net revenue was down 9% from a year earlier, is looking to save $1.4 billion.
In the luxury sector, the shopper demand is still there, but a restructuring is needed to continue to innovate. As part of its layoffs, Saks.com also separated its technology and operations teams.
“We are at a point in our trajectory as a digital luxury pure-play where we need to optimize our business to ensure we are best positioned for the future,” Nicole Schoenberg, a Saks spokesperson, said in a statement. “These changes are never easy, but they are necessary for our go-forward success.”
While reducing head count might help save costs in the short term, retailers will have trouble in the future if they do not also address how to improve the customer experience online, said Liza Amlani, founder of Retail Strategy Group, which works with brands on their merchandising and planning strategies.
“With Wayfair, and as with many digital players, what we’ve seen in the last three years is that they scaled and grew too quickly,” Amlani said. “They banked on an influx of spending across digital. They didn’t invest where they needed to invest.”
The retail layoffs are an about-face from 2021, when companies couldn’t hire front-line workers fast enough. After the initial jolt of the pandemic, which led many retailers to furlough or outright fire workers, many people received stimulus checks from the government. They wanted to spend that money, and when companies needed to ramp up in-store services again, they often struggled to find enough workers.
Recalling that difficulty might give some retailers pause before they lay off workers this time, Walker said. If a steep downturn never comes, or if there’s a sudden rebound in demand, companies don’t want to be stuck without enough employees.
But the next few months could be rough for retailers as profit margins shrink and revenue growth slows from what it was the past couple of years. In that kind of environment, investors generally like to see large companies take steps to cut costs. And once layoffs begin, a kind of industry groupthink can set in.
“Once a couple of companies start to do it,” said Peter Cappelli, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School who researches management and human resources, “then it creates some momentum where then you’ve got to explain why you’re not doing what everybody else is doing.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/with-layoffs-retailers-aim-to-be-safe-rather-than-sorry-again/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-01-26 22:28:38 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/with-layoffs-retailers-aim-to-be-safe-rather-than-sorry-again/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit two three-run homers, including a dramatic tying drive in the bottom of the ninth inning. He drove in a career-high eight runs, the most by a Japanese-born player in major league history.
And somehow, it still was not enough for his Los Angeles Angels to beat the Kansas City Royals.
Whit Merrifield led off the 11th inning with an RBI double, and the Royals overcame Ohtani’s historic performance for a 12-11 victory Tuesday night.
Ohtani crushed a 423-foot homer in the sixth and a tying, 438-foot shot in the ninth, giving him the biggest RBI game of his five-year stateside career. The AL MVP then set the single-game record for RBIs by a Japanese-born player with a sacrifice fly in the 11th inning.
Although he never complains publicly, Ohtani would be perfectly justified in feeling frustrated by his Los Angeles teammates’ tepid pitching performance behind his latest heroics. But the Royals knew they won with some remarkable hitting of their own, including landmark games for both Carlos Santana and rookie Bobby Witt Jr.
“That’s one of the most fun games I’ve ever been a part of,” said Witt, who had his first multi-homer game while driving in a career-high four runs. “Just top to bottom, there was a lot of energy going on. It was a blast. … Every time Ohtani or (Mike) Trout come up to the plate, you hold your breath a little bit out there. It’s fun to watch them play, and hopefully they don’t do as much damage as they did against us (tonight).”
Ohtani’s eighth RBI wasn’t enough, because Merrifield and Kyle Isbel both drove in runs off Jose Quijada (0-2) earlier in the 11th.
Daniel Mengden struck out Trout with two Angels on base before Ohtani’s flyout, and he retired Jared Walsh on a game-ending popup. Mengden earned his first save of the season and the second of his career as Kansas City held on for its fifth victory in six games despite blowing a five-run lead in the sixth and a three-run lead in the ninth.
“Just the energy and the fight, the way we just kept punching,” Kansas City manager Mike Matheny said. “We’d take one, and they kept coming back. That’s what I love to see. … You see a game like that, and it’s one that begins to repeat itself.”
Santana had four hits and drove in a season-high five runs for the Royals, who battered the Angels’ staff despite losing slugger Salvador Perez to a thumb injury in the third inning. Kansas City led 6-1 midway through the sixth before the Angels’ star hitters finally got going.
Along with Ohtani’s excellence, Walsh doubled, tripled and homered while driving in two runs for the Angels. He fell just short of his second cycle in 11 days.
“This one stings,” Angels interim manager Phil Nevin said. “That room is hurting in there. You feel like it’s in your grasp a couple of times, and you worked hard to get back in it. We just never quite got the lead, but a lot of great performances. We swung the bats great in some tight spots.”
Ohtani trimmed the Angels’ deficit to 6-4 when he drove his 14th homer to right-center. Royals starter Jonathan Heasley had pitched four-hit ball into the sixth before Ohtani’s shot chased him.
Kansas City then led 10-7 entering the bottom of the ninth after Santana’s late RBI single and Witt’s two-run homer, but Tyler Wade singled and Trout walked before Ohtani drove them home with a no-doubt blast to right.
Dylan Coleman (2-1) stranded two Angels runners in the 10th.
Santana began his monster game with an RBI double and a two-run homer before adding RBI singles in the sixth and eighth. Witt homered in the first inning, added an RBI double off the wall in the seventh and delivered a two-run homer in the ninth.
SHYCYCLE
Walsh got three extra-base hits in four innings midway through the game, but couldn’t get a hit in two additional at-bats. He finished a single shy of matching his first career cycle on June 11 against the Mets.
HISTORIC HITS
Two Japanese players had previously driven in seven runs in a major league game. Tadahito Iguchi did it for the White Sox in 2006, and Hideki Matsui matched it for the Yankees in 2009.
NEVIN TOSSED
Nevin was ejected during a pitching change in the seventh inning after arguing vociferously with the umpiring crew. Nevin was angry about a debatable balk call on Halos reliever Andrew Wantz earlier in the game.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: Perez injured his thumb while swinging, but stayed in the game and completed his at-bat. The catcher said he’ll have an MRI exam on his left thumb Wednesday, and he won’t be surprised if he misses a few days. “Hopefully it’s nothing bad,” Perez said. “I’ve just got to wait.”
UP NEXT
Ohtani (5-4, 3.28 ERA) looks to string together three straight mound victories in the series finale against Kansas City’s Daniel Lynch (3-6, 5.19). Ohtani’s only previous pitching start against Kansas City was back in his AL Rookie of the Year season in 2018.
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- Sync to Your Favorite Music: Music Mode allows users to sync the lights to match musical beats and other surrounding audio
- Voice Control Enabled: The Govee Curtain Lights are compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant and can also be intuitively controlled through the Govee Home app
- Easy Pairing: Users can connect up to three Curtain Lights in a series via the app. They also do not need to be physically connected, meaning the user can place them on one wall, or on three different walls
The Govee Curtain Lights are now available for $129.99 in the United States through Govee.com and Amazon. The product will be available in the UK and EU for £159.99/ €159.99 in late July 2023 through Govee.com and Amazon.
For more information about Govee Curtain Lights, please visit Govee.com.
About Govee
Since 2017, Govee has been committed to making life smarter. As a leading global smart home solution company, the company aims to provide personalized and fun life experiences through innovation in the smart home space. This includes a close focus on ambient lighting solutions and home appliances. Govee is continuously building upon its ecosystem of smart products and improving performance, user benefits, and consumer usability in all scenarios. To learn more about Govee, please visit Govee.com.
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FRESNO, Calif., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Advantage is excited to announce the availability of PXMobile, a new mobile app platform designed in close collaboration with MEDITECH. PXMobile is a healthcare system branded app platform that integrates with leading EHRs and other third-party solutions to seamlessly and consistently deliver the most relevant and important information to patients. This scalable and customizable solution supports increasing patient demand to access health information in a consumer-driven way.
PXMobile is the first to offer deep integration with MEDITECH's patient portal, allowing hospitals to embed portal functionality directly within their own branded app. The solution is also flexible enough to integrate with the technologies specific to a hospital or health system's unique patient engagement initiatives. "Patient experience is a top initiative, but many branded apps on the market fall short in terms of what patients really want," says Chris Roggenstein, CEO at Forward Advantage. "This collaboration with MEDITECH resulted in a secure platform that puts a hospital's brand at the center, while integrating with the EHR to deliver the information that's important to their specific patient population."
Top features include:
- EHR portal integration
- Customized facility & services content
- Provider directories
- User analytics
- Scalable platform
- Health library integration
- User preference options
- Optional wayfinding through integration with MapsPeople
Forward Advantage leverages its years of healthcare experience and integration expertise to ensure new offerings meet the challenges and demands of today's hospitals and healthcare systems. This includes a suite of MEDITECH-integrated solutions that streamline access to information for improved care coordination. PXMobile, however, marks an exciting patient-facing transition for Forward Advantage.
"PXMobile is a solid testament to our 25+ year partnership with Forward Advantage," concludes Jim Merlin, Chief Business Development Officer at MEDITECH. "Hospitals have been asking for this capability, and our strong working relationship allowed us to create an innovative solution that benefits our joint customers."
Since 1993, Forward Advantage has provided innovative and cost-effective solutions for healthcare organizations. With more than 1200 customers, the company uses its deep expertise to address a wide range of healthcare challenges by listening to its customers and collaborating with them on solutions that improve the healthcare experience with better access to information. Examples include automated and intelligent report distribution, streamlined identity and access management, migrating and archiving legacy data, secure messaging, and interoperability solutions connecting hospitals and physicians. More information on Forward Advantage and its solutions can be found at www.forwardadvantage.com.
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MULBERRY, Fla. — Neighbors in a large subdivision located in Mulberry are sharing their concerns when heavy rain moves through Polk County.
The rain makes the only entrance and exit to Imperial Lakes impassable. These concerns have been brought to the Polk County Commission as residents search for a solution.
"So, it's just one way in one way out," Joan Pezzani said.
Pezzani has lived in the Imperial Lakes subdivision for more than three years. She said in recent weeks, heavy rainfall closed down the entry road. Neighbors had to park their cars a walk a mile and a half, in the rain, to get home.
"It's been a mess," Pezzani said. "And it's not just the once in a while, this has gone on in years past from heavy rains... And it's just like, you know, people are stuck."
Pezzani shared a video with 10 Tampa Bay, showing the flooded roads as drivers tested their luck passing through them to get home. Hours later, driving was no longer an option.
"The sheriff had shut down the whole street," Pezzani said. "This was a normal Florida rainstorm that we had, this is every time we get rain. It keeps flooding."
10 Tampa Bay took these concerns to the Polk County Director of Roads and Drainage, Jay Jarvis. He said the neighborhood roads were developed roughly 50 years ago.
"We got five inches of rain in like two hours," Jarvis said. "And those events, most sewer systems aren't made to address that."
Jarvis said the county is considering purchasing a dozen acres of land to create a storage pond for the neighborhood. The project is scheduled for county board approval in July.
"That design will take somewhere probably 8 to 10 months to get done and permitted. And then we'll start working on the construction," Jarvis said.
Jarvis said the soonest construction will be completed is the end of 2025.
For some neighbors — that's too long.
"So we need that quick fix. And that's what I'm saying, look, I don't care if you dig a trench along the side," Pezzani said.
Imperial Lakes subdivision is home to nearly 10,000 people.
Concerns were raised if an overgrown creek in the subdivision was worsening this flooding. The county director of roads and drainage said clearing that creek could help, but wouldn't prevent the flooding from happening.
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DETROIT (AP) — Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, the highest number in 16 years with deaths due to speeding and impaired or distracted driving on the rise.
The 2021 final numbers, released Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, confirmed earlier estimates by the agency showing a 10.5% increase in deaths over 2020. That’s the highest number since 2005 and the largest percentage increase since 1975.
Data shows a 12% rise in fatal crashes involving at least one distracted driver, with 3,522 people killed. That prompted the agency to kick off a $5 million advertising campaign in an effort to keep drivers focused on the road. Agency officials said such cases likely are under-reported by police.
The number of pedestrians killed rose 13%, and cyclist fatalities were up 2% for the year. The number of unbelted passengers killed rose 8.1%, while fatalities involving alcohol-impaired driving were up 14%.
Speeding-related deaths increased 7.9%, while crash deaths involving large trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds were up 17%.
At a news conference Monday in Seattle, NHTSA focused on distracted driving fatalities, which speakers said are entirely preventable if people stop using their cell phones, eating, or doing other things that divert attention from the road.
“Remember it only takes a moment to change your life forever,” said Sophie Shulman, NHTSA deputy administrator.
Steve Kiefer, a retired General Motors executive whose son, Mitchel, was killed in a 2016 distracted driving crash, said cell phones are a primary cause of distraction. But technology is available to prevent it including “do not disturb” modes, as well as apps and in-car systems that watch drivers to make sure they’re paying attention.
“All of this technology is available today, and there’s no reason we can’t use it and roll it out quickly,” Kiefer said.
Distracted driving deaths are related to America’s addiction to cell phones, said Kiefer, who started a foundation with the goal of ending distracted driving. He said 90% of people are aware of the danger of distracted driving, yet 80% admit to doing it. In 25 states with laws against hand-held cell phone use, traffic deaths, crashes and insurance rates have dropped, he said.
“We believe that legislation will change behavior,” Kiefer said.
Mitchel Kiefer was driving from home to Michigan State University on Interstate 96 when traffic slowed and his car was hit from behind by a driver who was distracted by her phone, Kiefer said. His car was knocked across the median and into oncoming traffic, where he was killed instantly.
The crash was not reported as involving a distracted driver, illustrating how distracted driving deaths are under-reported, Kiefer said.
Part of the increase in crash deaths is due to people driving more as the coronavirus pandemic waned. NHTSA reported that the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled increased 2.2% to 1.37 in 2021.
NHTSA also estimates that 2.5 million people were injured in crashes during 2021, up 9.4% from 2020.
The agency said it will release preliminary 2022 traffic death data in the coming weeks. NHTSA estimates that 31,785 people were killed in crashes from January through September last year, down 0.2% from the same period of 2021. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/distraction-speeding-alcohol-drive-up-2021-traffic-deaths/ | 2023-04-04 00:32:16 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/distraction-speeding-alcohol-drive-up-2021-traffic-deaths/ |
SINGAPORE, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) ("Canaan" or the "Company"), a leading high-performance computing solutions provider, today announced that Canaan's Group Senior Investor Relations Director, Mr. Liang Wang, and Director of Business Development of Canaan U.S. Inc., Mr. Christopher Crowell, have been invited to attend the Cantor Technology Conference on June 14 -15, 2023, in New York City.
Interested parties may contact their representatives at Cantor Fitzgerald to arrange meetings at the event.
About Canaan Inc.
Established in 2013, Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN), is a technology company focusing on ASIC high-performance computing chip design, chip research and development, computing equipment production, and software services. Canaan's vision is "super computing is what we do, social enrichment is why we do it." Canaan has extensive experience in chip design and streamlined production in the ASIC field. In 2013, under the leadership of Mr. Nangeng Zhang, founder and CEO, Canaan's founding team shipped to its customers the world's first batch of mining machines incorporating ASIC technology in Bitcoin's history under the brand name, Avalon. In 2018, Canaan released the world's first RISC-V architecture commercial edge AI chip. In 2019, Canaan completed its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market. To learn more about Canaan, please visit https://www.canaan.io/.
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PHILADELPHIA — A retired minister in Georgia has been charged with murder in the slaying of an 8-year-old girl whose remains were found in southeastern Pennsylvania almost a half-century ago.
David Zandstra, 83, of the Atlanta suburb of Marietta is charged with criminal homicide, first--, second- and third-degree murder, kidnapping of a minor and a related count in the 1975 death of Gretchen Harrington in Delaware County.
District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer told reporters Monday in the Delaware County seat of Media that the defendant was “a monster" and "every parent's worst nightmare."
“This is a man who is a remorseless child predator who acted as if he was a friend, a neighbor and a man of God, and he killed this poor little girl,” Stollsteimer said.
Having killed a child who knew and trusted him, he then “acted as if he was their family friend, not only during her burial and the period after that but for years,” the district attorney said.
Harrington, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister and his wife, disappeared in mid-August 1975 while walking from her Marple Township home to Bible camp at Trinity Church Chapel, where Zandstra was pastor. Her body was found two months later by a jogger in Ridley Creek State Park in Media.
Harrington, usually accompanied by her sisters but alone this day because of a recent birth in her family, was offered a ride by Zandstra, who was also the father of one of her best friends, Stollsteimer alleged.
“So when he offered her a ride in his car, of course she got in the car,” he said.
Zandstra took her to a wooded location and eventually struck her in the head, and believing her to be dead tried to cover her body, authorities said. Returning to his church, he “tried to act like nothing had happened,” and when her father, pastor of the nearby Reformed Presbyterian Church, called seeking to find her, Zandstra was the one to call police, Stollsteimer alleged.
Over ensuing days, hundreds of people searched nearby wooded areas, and authorities distributed more than 2,000 leaflets and set up a 24-hour hotline that took hundreds of calls, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. When the girl’s body was found in mid-October 1975, her clothing was “folded and in a neat pile” near her body with her underwear hanging from a tree branch “like a flag ... as if to call attention to the place,” the Inquirer reported at the time.
Stollsteimer said new information from an unnamed friend of the victim led state police to travel to Georgia and interview Zandstra, who authorities allege then confessed to the crime.
Trooper Eugene Tray said the defendant's demeanor was “relieved" as if it was “a weight off his shoulders.” Stollsteimer said Zandstra, however, was fighting extradition from Georgia though the prosecutor vowed that he would be returned to face justice in Pennsylvania.
DNA from the defendant will be compared to material from open cases in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, authorities said. Zandstra lived in Texas and Georgia after leaving the commonwealth, they said. The Christian Reformed Church lists him as having ministered in New Jersey, California and Texas before retiring in 2005. Authorities said they were concerned that there may have been more victims and urged anyone with information to contact investigators.
Zandstra remained in custody in Georgia; a message was left Monday for a Pennsylvania attorney listed as representing him.
Gretchen Harrington's family asked for privacy but said in a statement that they were “extremely hopeful” that the person responsible would be held accountable for taking her away from them, which they said “forever altered our family and we miss her every single day.”
“If you met Gretchen, you were instantly her friend. She exuded kindness to all and was sweet and gentle,” the family said. “Even now, when people share their memories of her, the first thing they talk about is how amazing she was and still is ... at just 8 years old, she had a lifelong impact on those around her.” | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/retired-georgia-minister-charged-murder-1975-slaying-girl-8-in-pennsylvania/521-c0ff0b47-d3d7-4155-bed7-95f980732b52 | 2023-07-25 02:09:47 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/retired-georgia-minister-charged-murder-1975-slaying-girl-8-in-pennsylvania/521-c0ff0b47-d3d7-4155-bed7-95f980732b52 |
NEW YORK, April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for NILE, MDVL, OCGN, XELA, and TMC.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling that upended President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt changed his budget math, modestly lowering the projected deficit for this year, his budget office reported Friday.
The White House expects to pare back $259 billion in spending that otherwise would have gone to erasing student loans. This contributed to lowering expected red ink this year under Biden’s budget plans from $1.569 trillion to $1.543 trillion.
The Office of Management and Budget’s Mid-Session Review represents the administration’s first recalculations of the loan program since the court’s June decision, which will affect millions of borrowers.
The court decision initially was expected to reduce the deficit by $400 billion. But a portion of that money will instead be used to pay for a smaller income-driven loan repayment program that goes into effect this summer, according to the report.
Millions of Americans with student loans will be able to enroll in the new SAVE repayment plan that offers some of the most lenient terms the government has ever offered borrowers.
Looking ahead to 2024, the report projects that inflation will continue to decline and the unemployment rate will average 3.8% for the rest of the year. Unemployment is expected to hit 4.4 % in 2024, then decline over the rest of the 10-year budget window to an annual average of 3.8%.
The new forecast comes as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell earlier this week said staff economists no longer foresee a recession.
“There is clear evidence that the President’s economic plan — Bidenomics — is growing our economy from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down,” said Biden’s budget director Shalanda Young in a statement accompanying the report.
The administration has been pushing “Bidenomics” as an approach that spurs economic growth through promoting domestic supply chains and favoring firms that use those supply chains through tax credits and other measures. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-supreme-courts-student-loan-decision-will-lower-us-deficit-according-to-new-white-house-projection/ | 2023-07-28 20:53:30 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-supreme-courts-student-loan-decision-will-lower-us-deficit-according-to-new-white-house-projection/ |
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