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Seniors Can Learn About their Medicare Options from Home
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baby boomers who are aging into Medicare or want to explore their options for 2023 can attend a virtual seminar from the comfort of their own homes. Starling Physicians is offering a Virtual Medicare Shop and Compare Expo, 12:30 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
The online seminar is a great opportunity for seniors to learn more about their Medicare options. Registration is desired, but not required. To register, visit: StarlingSeniorCareAdvantage.com.
The online seminar will include several sessions, including a physician panel entitled: "The Benefits of Value-Based Healthcare;" Medicare 101 sessions by independent, licensed brokers; as well as insurance company presentations. The event is hosted by Starling Senior Care Advantage, a program offered by Starling Physicians.
Do not worry if you miss the webinar. You can still watch the Medicare information program online at StarlingSeniorCareAdvantage.com.
Starling Senior Care Advantage is a collaborative approach to care delivery that focuses on preventative care and providing care coordination resources. This program is open to senior patients of Starling Physicians. More information about Starling Senior Care Advantage and Medicare informational resources are available at StarlingSeniorCareAdvantage.com
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PRAIRIE GROVE, Ark. — Parents gathered outside Prairie Grove Middle School on Monday, after outrage was sparked when the district showed staff a fake school shooting memorial video.
On Friday, a special school board meeting was called where the middle school's principal and the district's superintendent announced they'd be taking a leave of absence amid the outrage.
Those who saw the video told 5NEWS that the memorial video was dated Dec. 14—the anniversary of the Sandy Hook mass shooting. They explain that the district had taken photos from the staff's personal Facebook pages and put together a memorial video depicting the deaths of staff, educators, and the children of staff.
Monday's gathering was in support of teachers as some say they aren't receiving the support they need.
"This was one of the first steps—just being here and saying, we love you, and we're here for you. Just please come back and continue to do all the wonderful things you've been doing for our kids," said Kim Weaver, a mother of six with two currently in the district and four who graduated.
"We love our teachers. And we have a lot of wonderful teachers that just love and care for our children. So we were just wanting to show our support for them and how much we stand behind them."
Weaver has lived in Prairie Grove since 1997 and still has two students attending the Prairie Grove school district, one in elementary and the other in junior high.
"I literally cried, because we have such amazing teachers. And I can't imagine being a mom of six, having my children shown on that board and showing their deaths. Sorry, I'm gonna get emotional. As a parent, that's your worst nightmare. A school shooting is your worst nightmare. And for them to have to be shown that as their own children, I just imagine I would have been one of those parents screaming and yelling and demanding it to be shut off. And I would want heads to roll," said Weaver.
"I have years of childhood education, being in daycare for many years, and you just don't teach people that way by hurting them. There are so many better ways to teach and train people than to do things that hurt them," she added.
Weaver explained that teachers don't feel they have the resources they need: She reports that some of the equipment needed to follow safety protocols haven't been provided for the district's new middle school building.
"If they don't have everything they need, let's get that. Who cares about building a new playground? If it would make our children safe, we need to make sure that we have those things," said Weaver.
With only around 15 in attendance, Weaver explained that the news came suddenly for the community. She said that many are planning to not attend the district on Dec. 14, the date of the video, and also show up to the next school board meeting to make their voices heard. The district website says the next school board meeting is set for Dec. 20 and "will be held in the Downtown Administrative Building unless otherwise posted."
"Everybody has lots of questions on who was involved," said Weaver. "I just think now is the time to speak up. Now's the time to stand up for your community."
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya opened fire on protesters in clashes that left at least 12 people wounded Wednesday as the opposition organized demonstrations calling for the government of President William Ruto to lower the cost of living.
The opposition called for three days of countrywide protests aimed at forcing the president to repeal a finance law imposing new taxes. Ruto had vowed that no protests would take place, saying he would take opposition leader Raila Odinga “head-on.”
Four protesters were injured in the Mathare area of the capital, Nairobi, according to a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media. The Associated Press witnessed one man shot in the shoulder and two others shot in the leg in Mathare.
In Nairobi’s Kangemi area, health records worker Alvin Sikuku told the AP that two young men had been brought into the Eagle Nursing Home clinic. “Police are using live bullets,” he said. One man was shot in the back and severely wounded, and the other was shot in the leg. “We don’t yet know if they were protesting or just walking by,” Sikuku said.
In the city of Nakuru, Nakuru Referral Hospital Medical Superintendent James Waweru confirmed that four people came in with gunshot wounds, two of them shot in the abdomen, one in the chest and another one in the leg. A fifth person had been cut and wounded.
The Interior Ministry said more than 300 people were arrested during Wednesday’s protests and that they will be charged with crimes including looting, destroying property and assaulting police.
The opposition in a statement condemned the arrests of seven elected leaders and two close associates of Odinga, calling it a “desperate attempt” by the Ruto administration to paralyze the opposition.
Businesses and schools in Nairobi were closed as police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters.
Demonstrations were reported in several other parts of the country including the western counties of Kisumu, Migori and Kisii where the opposition enjoys huge support.
Police had said the protests were illegal as no permit had been issued, but the right to peaceful protests is enshrined in the Kenyan constitution.
The opposition has said protests would continue Thursday.
Last week’s protests killed at least 10 people, according to watchdogs, with a police officer confirming at least six to the AP. Many others were injured, including 53 children who went into shock after tear gas was thrown inside their school compound.
Religious leaders have called for dialogue between the government and the opposition to end the protests. Catholic bishops on Wednesday issued a statement reiterating that “no further blood should be shed” and urged the president to repeal the newly passed Finance Act that has agitated many Kenyans.
The law has raised the price of fuel to its highest level as the government implements a doubling of value added tax on petroleum products to 16%. The prices have taken effect despite a court order suspending the implementation of the controversial new taxes.
A Nairobi resident, Wycliffe Onyango, said his entire earnings are spent on food. “Right now there is no work going on. We are suffering. I plead with the government to deal with the cost of living,” he added.
The International Monetary Fund this week called the law’s approval a “crucial” step toward reducing Kenya’s debt vulnerabilities.
Western envoys from 13 countries on Tuesday issued a joint statement calling for dialogue and expressed concern over the loss of lives and destruction of property.
The Kenya Medical Association said its members had attended to “hundreds of injured Kenyans and witnessed tens of fatalities” as a result of protests in recent months, and access to health facilities was limited for patients and workers, leading to increased mortality.
Human Rights Watch urged political leaders to stop labelling protesters as “terrorists” and respect the right to peaceful protests. The group also called out the police for using force and live bullets to confront protesters.
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Associated Press writer Cara Anna and photographer Brian Inganga contributed to this report. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-at-least-4-injured-in-kenya-anti-government-protests-as-schools-remain-closed/ | 2023-07-19 17:35:40 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-at-least-4-injured-in-kenya-anti-government-protests-as-schools-remain-closed/ |
MANCHESTER, England, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Midea, one of the world's leading and largest home appliances producer, today announced the extension of its global partnership with Manchester City.
The renewed agreement - which covers both the men's and women's teams and expanded to include City in the Community (CITC) in 2021 – sees the partnership enter its fourth term.
From the very beginning of the partnership in January 2020, Midea and Manchester City have collaborated to create a series of award-winning activations including the #MideaHomeChallenge, which saw City players performing tricks and inspiring fans to have football fun at home during lockdown, and #TasteTactics with players presenting their favourite dishes that were then cooked by celebrity chefs for fans to recreate at home.
The #MideaWorldClassAwards, launched at the end of each season of the partnership to date, has also been a hugely successful content series. Featuring Club Ambassadors Paul Dickov and Shaun Wright-Phillips, fans are encouraged to vote for their player of the season over fun categories such as the "Freshest Opener" (sponsored by Midea's Fridge) and the "Coolest Distributor" (sponsored by the Midea's Air-Conditioner) or the "Brilliant Finisher" (sponsored by Midea's Dishwasher). This year's eagerly awaited edition is soon to be released across Midea and Manchester City channels.
As part of the renewal, Midea and Manchester City will continue to create high quality content campaigns through further collaboration with players. The Midea brand, and their extensive range of products, will also be further showcased to match going fans and millions watching worldwide through increased brand presence in the Etihad Stadium across super-sized LED and pitch side branding.
Roel de Vries, Chief Operating Officer at City Football Group, said: "We are pleased to further extend our partnership with Midea today. We're incredibly proud of the success the partnership has seen to date and the high-quality content and activations we've been able to deliver in collaboration with Midea. As we move into this new term, we look forward to continuing to work together as we deliver further exciting projects for our fans."
"We kicked off our partnership during difficult times in early 2020 and have built a truly winning partnership over the years. I am delighted by Midea's global brand visibility at every Manchester City home game as well as all our different and overperforming digital content series being loved by the fans all around the world. The partnership team has shown, and the data has proven that this partnership is one imperative asset for Midea's global brand building vision over the coming years." said Eric Wang, President of Midea Group's Consumer Appliances Business.
Midea and Manchester City will also make further exciting announcements later this year.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Some recipients of West Virginia's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families will receive a special payment of $465 as part of the COVID-19 response, the state said.
The funds will go to recipients who were active in the WV Works program in May and are eligible to continue with the program in June, the Department of Health and Human Resources said. The temporary assistance program's Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund is providing the payments.
The funds will help with the rising cost of food, beverages and household good as well as the rising cost of transportation for those seeking or attending work or continuing their education, the agency said.
Payments will be credited to Electronic Benefits Transfer cards around Thursday, the agency said.
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BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Goulston & Storrs, an Am Law 200 firm, is pleased to announce that Megan Watts, a director in the firm's Real Estate Group, has been named to the 2022 "Top Women of Law" by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly for her extraordinary achievements in the legal profession.
Watts was recognized for her pivotal role in bringing some of the region's most visionary real estate projects to fruition. She is well-known for her work helping real estate developers and investors negotiate complex joint ventures in order to develop complicated retail, office, industrial, and multifamily properties that would be difficult to move forward without creative business and financial partnerships. Her projects are wide-ranging, from the nuts and bolts of acquisitions and dispositions of single assets to structuring investments in private real estate funds to affordable housing tax credits.
Watts is also known for her accomplishments in the affordable housing development and investment arena, which often include especially challenging financing and joint venture issues. In addition to her client work, she provides ongoing pro bono counsel to Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation and Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation, advising them on their affordable housing and real estate projects, in addition to Zoo New England, whom she counsels on corporate issues.
She serves on the Advisory Council for Horizons for Homeless Children and last year finished a two-year term as co-chair of the Urban Land Institute's Boston Women's Leadership Council. At Goulston & Storrs, she co-chairs the firm's Summer Committee and is a member of the Training Committee.
Watts received her S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; her M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, Judge Institute of Management; and her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).
About Goulston & Storrs
Collaboration is not just a pillar of our strategy; it is the key to our competitive advantage and approach to clients, community, and each other. At Goulston & Storrs, we practice law with excellence and integrity. We are a place where mutual respect and collaboration drive open discussion, transparency, creativity and optimal results for our clients. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where sophisticated business is conducted with genuine camaraderie. To learn more about us, visit www.goulstonstorrs.com.
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OAKVILLE, ON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CEM Engineering and Sacré-Davey Engineering have been selected by Atura Power as Owner's Engineering Representative for the design, permitting, and equipment selection of the Niagara Hydrogen Centre which will produce 20MW of Green Hydrogen in Niagara Falls, Ontario. This state-of-the-art facility will benefit from our growing team's expertise in advanced power systems, hydrogen production, hydrogen infrastructure, and end-use applications. For more information, see the original June 27th announcement from Atura:
Oakville, Ont., June 27, 2022 - Atura Power selected St. Catharines, Ont. based CEM Engineering and Sacré-Davey Engineering of North Vancouver, B.C. (CEM/Sacre-Davey joint venture) to advance the engineering of Atura Power's first green 20-megawatt (MW) hydrogen production facility - the Niagara Hydrogen Centre.
CEM/Sacré-Davey is the owner's engineer and has the responsibility to complete the detailed design and advance the project permitting while also supporting Atura Power in the technical selection of key project equipment and technology.
This project will be the largest green hydrogen production facility in Ontario, providing industrial consumers with low-carbon hydrogen for immediate consumption, including Atura Power's owned and operated combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants. The development of this 20 MW hydrogen production facility will leverage the experience of CEM and Sacré-Davey and will support the development of the Ontario hydrogen economy.
The design, technology selection, and procurement activities that will support a final investment decision for the facility will be completed by late summer 2022, subject to federal funding, with a target completion date of early 2024 for the facility.
Atura Power is implementing a low-cost, low-carbon hydrogen program that will help reduce greenhouse gases, while supporting the development and adoption of a key clean-energy source on a path to an economy wide net-zero emissions future. As an enabler of clean energy, Atura Power is positioned to help build the hydrogen economy in Ontario. Low-carbon hydrogen will be an important tool in the fight against climate change. Atura Power, a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation (OPG), supports the net-zero goals outlined in OPG's Climate Change Plan.
Green and low-carbon hydrogen will reduce or offset emissions in a variety of applications, including:
- as a low-carbon fuel substitute for feedstock in high-emitting industrial processes
- blending hydrogen with natural gas to reduce its carbon impact, and
- powering fuel cells in vehicles which could help replace diesel engines in the heavy-duty and long-haul trucking industry.
Both the federal and provincial governments noted the potential for hydrogen to play a key role in helping meet climate change objectives. Read the Federal and Provincial strategies for more details.
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"Atura Power is positioned to be a leader in the Ontario hydrogen economy and the Niagara Hydrogen Centre is a major step forward in developing our capabilities in this emerging sector," said Chris Fralick, Atura Power President. "We are excited to advance this project with CEM/Sacré-Davey and expect that with their hydrogen leadership and positive past performance developing energy projects we will be successful in our goal of low-carbon hydrogen production at the Niagara Hydrogen Centre."
"CEM Engineering and our partner Sacré-Davey Engineering are very excited to work with Atura Power, bringing our 20 years of experience developing and implementing innovative energy systems to play a leading role for this major step forward in the development of a 'made in Ontario' hydrogen economy," said Matt Lensink, CEM Engineering CEO. "Atura Power's leadership in the hydrogen economy will pave the way for a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable Ontario."
"Sacré-Davey Engineering is thrilled to be partnering with Atura Power and CEM Engineering in delivering this large scale, low-carbon hydrogen energy project in Ontario," said Chris Sacre, Sacré-Davey Engineering CEO. "This project will build on our 35 years of expertise in the hydrogen and green/renewable energy space, make a significant impact in decarbonizing our energy, and support Canada's 2050 net zero targets."
About Atura Power
Atura Power, a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation, plays a key role in the province's electricity system. With plants in Windsor, Halton Hills, Toronto, and Napanee, its fleet of combined-cycle facilities is flexible and dispatchable – an enabler of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. Atura Power is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and being a leader in facilitating economy-wide adoption of hydrogen across Ontario. aturapower.com/
About CEM Engineering
CEM Engineering is a thermal power project delivery firm, with headquarters in the Niagara Region. With foundational experience in cogeneration and energy management projects, CEM has become a leader in Canada's energy transition with a focus on hydrogen and renewable natural gas (RNG). Spread across multiple office locations across Canada, CEM provides consulting, schematic design, detailed engineering, and EPC project delivery to help our clients build a more functional world. cemeng.ca
About Sacré-Davey Engineering
Sacré-Davey Engineering is a process-centric engineering and project management company with decades of experience delivering energy and hydrogen-related projects. Sacré-Davey's expertise includes hydrogen generation, pipeline injection, recovery, purification, liquefaction, distribution, and refuelling. Having advanced, delivered, and scaled-up hydrogen projects around the world, Sacré-Davey is committed to supporting the development of a global hydrogen economy. sacre-davey.com/en/hydrogen
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Kris Fischer's date was offended by Lisa Gibson's sense of humor. Kris, however, was delighted by everything she said.
Lisa, the on-air host of KARK Channel 4's Dialing for Dollars in 1986, as well as the host of her own radio show on KARN, had a policy against blind dates.
Dialing for Dollars had an older audience as did her radio show.
"I was about 23 and the average listener was about 43," says Lisa, remembering how many of them wanted to fix her up with their sons, nephews and grandsons.
But when an acquaintance stopped her while she was getting some exercise in the Heights and asked if she would consider a double-date with Kris Fischer's high school best friend, Kevin Smith, she gave in.
Lisa knew of Kris from their time together at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
"The Chi Omegas would look out the window and watch him run because he's really fit," she says.
She was aware, too, of Kevin, the son of local celebrity Big Sam Smith, the Razorbacks broadcaster who preceded Paul Eels.
"I thought, 'Well, yes, I'll go out with Big Sam Smith's son," Lisa says.
The four of them -- Lisa's acquaintance with Kris and Lisa with Kevin -- went to a Razorbacks game followed by dinner. Lisa was her typical outgoing self.
"I was doing all my impersonations and being silly," she says.
When she got up to go to the bathroom, the young woman who had invited her apologized profusely to Kris and Kevin. She hadn't known, she insisted, how obnoxious Lisa would be.
"I thought Lisa was hilarious," Kris says.
Lisa enjoyed the company and was none the wiser about the other girl's negative assessment.
"I remember leaving that night thinking Kris Fischer and his best friend Kevin Smith were the cutest, most appropriate men," she says. "There was something about Kris -- he was respectful of women, very witty -- and I just had fun."
After that, Kris went back to Dallas, where he lived at the time, and he and Lisa didn't see each other again for about a year.
Kris had moved back to Little Rock by August 1987 and on a Saturday night he was at the Shrimp, Oyster & Beerhaus (S.O.B.).
"We bumped into each other, literally -- I was backing up, he was backing up..." Lisa says.
She re-introduced herself, not assuming for a minute that he would remember her. But he did.
"I think I told her what the other girl had said," he says. "We just laughed about that and thought it was very funny."
Kris asked if she would go to church with him the next morning at Calvary Baptist Church, where his father was minister of education. She said sure.
"I don't think we ever really separated after that church service," Kris says.
Lisa loved his wit and his pragmatism. He loved that she was a faithful Christian, and that she was funny, interesting and humble.
"She never talked about herself," he says. "She had had a lot of success, even at 25, but she just never talked about what she was doing. That's rare."
Lisa lived in the Heights, within walking distance of Calvary Baptist, where Kris volunteered with the youth program. They were almost constantly in each other's orbit.
"I had dated some really nice, sweet, good family, beautiful girls, but they were nothing like Lisa -- and by that I mean the deepness of her, kind of what made her tick, her wiring," Kris says.
A few months after they went to church together that first time, their conversation over dinner out turned serious.
"I was just like, 'I really feel like I'm being prompted by God ... this is more serious than I ever envisioned it to be. I just feel like we're going to be together for the rest of our lives,'" Kris says. "I asked her to marry me. She told me she felt the exact same way."
He hadn't planned his proposal, but he had thought about marriage, he says, and he knew the moment was right for him to ask.
They were married on Jan. 29, 1988, at Calvary Baptist, in a ceremony co-officiated by Kris' father and the pastor at Lisa's church, Fellowship Bible.
It was a small, simple, intimate event, with about 20 guests.
"I was on the radio and people were saying they could sell tickets and put this at Robinson Center," Lisa says. "I didn't want any of that. This was just the most perfect thing."
They had private dinner reception at the Capital Hotel and left the next day for an eight-day honeymoon in Innsbruck, Austria.
Kris and Lisa raised three children -- Sidney, Gibson and Anna Margaret -- and are now "empty nesters." They take frequent road trips, often with one of Lisa's health podcasts or an audiobook playing in the car.
"Empty nesting is the best invention since the internet," Lisa says, "because it's the time after you've raised your kids, and if you've been a student of each other -- that's why you have to pursue each other the entire time you're married -- you can enjoy just being together."
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Got a high-deductible health plan? The kind that doesn't pay most medical bills until they exceed several thousand dollars? You're a foot soldier who's been drafted in the war against high health costs.
Companies that switch workers into high-deductible plans can reap enormous savings, consultants will tell you — and not just by making employees pay more. Total costs paid by everybody — employer, employee and insurance company — tend to fall in the first year or rise more slowly when consumers have more at stake at the health-care checkout counter whether or not they're making medically wise choices.
Consumers with high deductibles sometimes skip procedures, think harder about getting treatment and shop for lower prices when they do seek care.
What nobody knows is whether such plans, also sold to individuals and families through the health law's online exchanges, will backfire. If people choose not to have important preventive care and end up needing an expensive hospital stay years later as a result, everybody is worse off.
A new study delivers cautiously optimistic results for employers and policymakers, if not for consumers paying a higher share of their own health care costs.
Researchers led by Amelia Haviland at Carnegie Mellon University found that overall savings at companies introducing high-deductible plans lasted for up to three years afterwards. If there were any cost-related time bombs caused by forgone care, at least they didn't blow up by then.
"Three years out there consistently seems to be a reduction in total health care spending" at employers offering high-deductible plans, Haviland said in an interview. Although the study says nothing about what might happen after that, "this was interesting to us that it persists for this amount of time."
The savings were substantial: 5 percent on average for employers offering high-deductible plans compared with results at companies that didn't offer them. And that was for the whole company, whether or not all workers took the high-deductible option.
The size of the study was impressive; it covered 13 million employees and dependents at 54 big companies. All savings were from reduced spending on pharmaceuticals and doctor visits and other outpatient care. There was no sign of what often happens when high-risk patients miss preventive care: spikes in emergency-room visits and hospital admissions.
The suits in human resources call this kind of coverage a "consumer-directed" health plan. It sounds less scary than the old name for coverage with huge deductibles: catastrophic health insurance.
But having consumers direct their own care also requires making sure they know enough to make smart choices. That means getting vaccines and skipping dubious procedures like an expensive MRI scan at the first sign of back pain.
"What happens five years or 10 years down the line when people develop more consequences of reducing high-value, necessary care?"
Not all employers are doing a terrific job. Most high-deductible plan members surveyed in a recent California study had no idea that preventive screenings, office visits and other important care required little or no out-of-pocket payment. One in five said they had avoided preventive care because of the cost.
"This evidence of persistent reductions in spending places even greater importance on developing evidence on how they are achieved," Kate Bundorf, a Stanford health economist not involved in the study, said of consumer-directed plans.
"Are consumers foregoing preventive care?" Bundorf asks. "Are they less adherent to [effective] medicine? Or are they reducing their use of low-value office visits and corresponding drugs or substituting to cheaper yet similarly effective prescribed drugs?"
Employers and consultants are trying to educate people about avoiding needless procedures and finding quality caregivers at better prices.
That might explain why the companies offering high-deductible plans saw such significant savings even though not all workers signed up, Haviland said. Even employees with traditional, lower-deductible plans may be using the shopping tools.
The study doesn't close the book on consumer-directed plans.
"What happens five years or 10 years down the line when people develop more consequences of reducing high-value, necessary care?" Haviland asked. Nobody knows.
And the study doesn't address a side effect of high-deductibles that doctors can't treat: pocketbook trauma. Consumer-directed plans, often paired with tax-favored health savings accounts, can require families to pay $5,000 or more per year in out-of-pocket costs.
Three people out of 5 with low incomes and half of those with moderate incomes told the Commonwealth Fund last year their deductibles are hard to afford.
As in all battles, the front-line infantry often makes the biggest sacrifice.
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EKY city hosts first annual Valentine’s Day Market
WHITESBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - Supporting each other has become even more important in Eastern Kentucky since the July flood. That is a big reason why the City of Whitesburg is hosting a Valentine’s Day Market, the second market of sorts since the flood.
“We just want to bring people together. We want people to know that the City of Whitesburg is rebuilding, and that we are coming back, and we’re gonna be stronger than ever, and we just want people to visit down here,” City of Whitesburg Public Relations Director Lee Adams said.
Each vendor added their own twist to give visitors a valentine experience.
“My daughter came up with the name of this one. It’s got cherry, strawberry in it. It’s been very popular today. It’s a good seller and it’s really, really good too,” Caudill Corn Owner Chris Caudill said.
Caudill sold his original flavors too, including his favorite, caramel.
“It’s a little bit more labor intensive. I used to stir it but I had cancer a few years ago. When I got cancer, I couldn’t hardly stir it anymore. So, I got an auto-stir, and it helps me out a whole lot,” Chris Caudill said.
Cancer was not the only hurdle Caudill had to clear. He almost lost the popcorn truck in the July flood.
“I lost three tons of popcorn in the flood. We lost our home. We lost everything we had except our vehicles, and like I said, I barely got this out. I waded water up to my knees to get my truck hooked up to the trailer to get it out,” Caudill said.
The Caudill Corn truck could have been gone in just a matter of minutes.
“If I had waited five minutes longer, we had lost it, you know. So, the water came up so fast, we just didn’t have, we barely got the stuff off our backs and barely got our vehicles,” Caudill said.
Since saving it, Caudill and his wife have served at two local events, and they said the popcorn smells even sweeter.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — The leaders of Hungary, Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan finalized an agreement Saturday on an undersea electricity connector that could become a new power source for the European Union amid a crunch on energy supplies caused by the war in Ukraine.
The agreement involves a cable running beneath the Black Sea that would link Azerbaijan to Hungary via Georgia and Romania.
The deal comes as Hungary, which has lobbied heavily against EU sanctions on Russia for its war in Ukraine, is seeking additional sources for fossil fuels to reduce its heavy dependence on Russian oil and gas.
Azerbaijan plans to export electricity from offshore wind farms to Europe via Georgia, a cable beneath the Black Sea, and then to Romania and Hungary.
The office of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said in a statement Friday that the agreement between the four nations will provide the "financial and technical framework" for the undersea electricity cable project.
The project will aim to diversify energy supplies and increase regional energy security, the statement said.
On Friday, Romanian natural gas producer Romgaz also said it signed a contract with Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR to receive natural gas through the so-called southern gas corridor, with deliveries set to start on Jan. 1. Romgaz said it will serve its "strategic objectives" of diversifying natural gas sources.
Hungary's foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, said in August that Azerbaijan would soon produce "large quantities of green electricity" with offshore wind farms, and that by signing on to the connector project which could bring that energy to Europe, Hungary was fulfilling a requirement that two EU member nations participate in order for the investment to receive funding from the bloc.
Szijjarto said the project could be completed within three or four years, and that it would be a major step toward diversifying energy supplies and meeting carbon neutrality targets.
This week, Szijjarto met with officials from both Qatar and Oman on the potential future import of oil and natural gas to Hungary from the two Middle Eastern countries, a further sign that Hungary is taking steps to level down the 85% of its natural gas and more than 60% of its oil that it currently receives from Russia.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Romanian President Iohannis, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attended the signing event in Bucharest Saturday alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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Attendees had the opportunity to take photos with Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
DALLAS, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milagro, a leader in AI powered marketing automation platforms, gave product demonstrations to restaurateurs who attended the 2022 FS TECH annual conference held at the Gaylord Texan Convention Center. The Texas-based company designed and built a system to assist multi-location restaurants and retail stores monetizing transactional data to increase sales and profits through effective targeted marketing. Attendees learned of Milagro's game-changing system that removes the guess work of who's responding to offers, thus allowing them to maximize their ROI through targeted marketing efforts.
During the conference, Milagro hosted the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, which gave conference attendees the opportunity to meet and take photos with them. Photo Gallery
This year's conference featured panelists who discussed technology trends in the marketplace and how restaurateurs are handling staffing and cost of goods challenges. Attendees learned of restaurants utilizing robots, while others are added technology that simplifies processes for their staff. Milagro integrates sales, operations, tech support, accounting, HR, delivery platforms, and marketing through a simple unified platform combining up to 15 critical apps, which saves the restaurateurs time and money.
Attendees were excited to discover that Milagro's services will assist them in increasing traffic to their restaurants and online ordering, enhance their guests' experiences and ultimately growing their revenue while tracking the ROI (Return on Investment). Milagro's services gather actionable data that can be used to generate customized communications to long-time and first-time guests. Within minutes of guests leaving a restaurant, they can receive a customized message thanking them for visiting the restaurant for the first time and inviting them back with a small incentive.
The Milagro data provides real-time insights that allow restaurateurs to customize messages to frequent diners and online diners, as well. This actionable data gives marketers the ability to create offers and promotions that are timely and relevant to guests. Some of the insights restaurateurs have access to is which locations guests visit, time of day they dined, what they ordered, and how much they spent during each visit.
Milagro also offers a cloud-based POS system, reliable in-store Internet, and IP telephone service so that restaurants have no down time making for a great guest experience. For more information about Milagro, visit www.milagrocorp.com
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — William Byron took the lead on the second-to-last lap of overtime to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas on Sunday and put an exclamation mark on a dominant day for Hendrick Motorsports.
The top three drivers were from Hendrick, with Byron beating teammates Kyle Larson and Alex Bowman. Bowman won last year's March race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Byron led 176 laps and won for the fifth time in his six Cup seasons.
Larson appeared headed for victory when when Aric Almirola hit the wall in turn four on lap No. 264, leading to the second caution of the day.
Most of the leaders pitted a lap later, with only Martin Truex Jr. choosing to stay out. Byron came out of pit road ahead of Larson and then easily overtook Truex on the restart.
Byron, who started in the first row with Joey Logano, swept both stages in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet for the first time in his career. Truex in 2017 and Kevin Harvick in 2018 also won both stages in Las Vegas and went on to win.
ELLIOTT TO BEGIN REHAB
Chase Elliott, the 2020 Cup Series champion, will begin physical therapy Monday, his team owner Rick Hendrick told Fox Sports.
Elliott had surgery Friday to repair a fractured tibia, and Hendrick said Elliott has returned to his home in Dawsonville, Georgia. Elliott was injured in a snowboarding accident Friday. He and his family own a home in Vail, Colorado.
Elliott joked on Twitter “that the formal request I submitted for a slight edit to the March section of my script was indeed… declined.”
“In all seriousness, the support I’ve received over the last couple of days is far greater than I deserve," he posted in a follow-up tweet. “I want to thank everyone who has lended it over in any form!”
Josh Berry took Elliott's seat in the No. 9 Chevy.
DEFENDING CHAMP HITS WALL
Logano, the defending Cup champion who won the Las Vegas race in October, hit the wall in in turn four on lap No. 183, ending his day. He was running three-wide with Brad Keselowski in the middle and Kyle Busch on the apron when Logano bumped into Keselowski, sending his Team Penske No. 22 Ford into the wall.
“I’m sure (Keselowski) didn’t mean to do it," Logano said. "What are you going to do, right? We got fenced.”
It was a tough day all around for Logano, who was running 15th after starting on the pole.
“Considering how we’ve been here in the past, you kind of expect it a little bit more performance today than what we had,” Logano said. “Just off on overall speed. We had the balance somewhat close, just not fast.”
NO HOME-TRACK ADVANTAGE
Sunday's first stage wasn't kind to Las Vegas drivers Busch and Noah Gragson. Busch bumped the wall, and Gragson twice was penalized for speeding on pit road. Gragson later was docked a third speeding penalty.
Struggles in his hometown are nothing new for two-time Cup Series champion Busch, whose only top-level win at Las Vegas was in 2009.
Gragson is a Cup Series rookie.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers watched old Super Bowl highlights on VHS tapes as a kid, dreaming about someday starring in his own.
He heard all about Joe Namath’s famous guarantee and saw the footage of the New York Jets shocking the football world by beating the Baltimore Colts in 1969.
“It’s been a while since then,” Rodgers said while being introduced as the Jets’ new quarterback Wednesday. “I noticed walking in this morning that that Super Bowl III trophy is looking a little lonely.”
Rodgers hopes he and his new teammates can help add some championship hardware to a franchise hungry for winning.
“I’m an old guy,” the 39-year-old Rodgers joked, “so I want to be part of a team that can win it all and I believe this is a place where we can get that done.”
The four-time NFL MVP was introduced to much fanfare in the team’s auditorium, filled with media, coaches and team staffers — flanked on the stage by coach Robert Saleh to his left and general manager Joe Douglas on his right.
“This is a surreal day for me,” said Rodgers, wearing a black and green Jets polo shirt.
The team officially announced the trade for Rodgers moments before he entered the auditorium, where highlights of his career in Green Bay played on a video screen shortly before he walked in.
The Jets received Rodgers, the No. 15 overall pick and a fifth-rounder this year from the Packers. In exchange, Green Bay got the 13th overall selection, a second-rounder, a sixth-rounder and a conditional 2024 second-round pick that could become a first-rounder if Rodgers plays 65% of New York’s plays this season.
Rodgers is well aware of the Jets’ playoff drought, which at 12 seasons is the longest active skid in the NFL.
“I’m not here to be a savior of any kind,” Rodgers insisted.
But that is the expectation by many, including a few generations of Jets fans who have longed to root for a winner. On Tuesday, Douglas called it a “historic” trade for the franchise.
“The opportunity to be part of something special here, it’s different,” Rodgers said. “It’s similar to Green Bay in that way. When you win in a city like Green Bay, and I assume for a team like the New York Jets, you go down in history.
“And there’s something special about adding that to your legacy.”
Rodgers spent his first 18 seasons in Green Bay, helping the Packers win a Super Bowl in 2011 while establishing himself as one of the game’s greatest quarterbacks.
“That chapter is over now and I’m excited about the new adventure here in New York,” Rodgers said.
Rodgers said he chose the Jets because he believes in the direction the franchise is heading with Douglas, Saleh and a young core of players that includes Offensive Rookie of the Year in Garrett Wilson and Defensive Rookie of the Year in Sauce Gardner.
Rodgers was also excited about reuniting with Nathaniel Hackett, the Jets’ new offensive coordinator who was in the same role when the quarterback won the last two of his four MVP awards in 2020 and 2021.
“When he walks into the building, everything changes,” Hackett said. “He just elevates everybody around him.”
When the rumors began about where Rodgers might play next, Namath offered to let him wear his retired No. 12 — Rodgers’ number in Green Bay — if he joined the Jets. Instead, Rodgers said, “To me, (No.) 12 is Broadway Joe,” and he will wear the No. 8 from his college days at Cal.
Rodgers wouldn’t commit to playing beyond this season, saying he’s focused on this upcoming year and staying in the area “for the foreseeable future” to work out with the team during the offseason program and get to know his new teammates.
Speaking with reporters after the news conference, Rodgers was a bit more expansive on his future.
“This isn’t a one and done in my mind,” the quarterback said, acknowledging that the Jets gave up a lot in the trade to acquire him. “This is a commitment. But it starts this season. That’s why I want to be present and not talk about future things. I want to be all-in.”
Saleh joked that Rodgers appears to have quickly gotten comfortable around his new squad.
“He already went to one of the meetings today,” Saleh said with a grin, “and he was walking around barefoot, so he’s right at home.”
Rodgers spent a few days in February contemplating his life and playing future during an isolation retreat in Oregon — while fans and reporters speculated about what he would decide. He emerged and deliberated some more before deciding on March 10 he intended to play again — and for the Jets. Rodgers made his intentions official during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on YouTube and Sirius XM on March 15.
“It was the Jets, and only the Jets for me,” Rodgers said after the introductory news conference.
Rodgers arrived at the facility Wednesday morning wearing sunglasses and a black Jets hoodie. He was greeted one by one by owner Woody Johnson, vice chairman Christopher Johnson, Saleh — who gave the quarterback a loud high-five and hug — team president Hymie Elhai, Hackett and Douglas.
He spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon preparing for his Big Apple intro.
“This is a happy day,” Woody Johnson said.
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HONG KONG (AP) — China’s internet watchdog on Thursday fined ride-hailing firm Didi Global more than 8 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) following an investigation into the company’s cybersecurity practices.
The probe found Didi violated China’s network security law, data security law and a law protecting personal information, the Cyberspace Administration of China said in a statement.
A separate statement explaining the fine said Didi’s “illegal operations” had brought “serious” national security risks, affecting the country’s information infrastructure and data security.
Didi’s chairman Cheng Wei and president Jean Liu were fined 1 million yuan ($148,000) each as they were held responsible for the company’s violations, regulators said.
“Didi’s violations of laws and regulations are serious, and in light of the network security review, they should be severely punished,” the statement read.
Didi illegally collected nearly 12 million screenshots and 107 million pieces of passengers facial recognition data and more than 167 million records of location data, among other information, regulators said. The company’s violations first began in June 2015.
Didi said in a statement posted to its official Weibo social media account that it “sincerely” accepted the decision.
“We will take this as a warning, and persist in paying equal attention to both security and development,” Didi said, adding that it would work toward “safe, healthy and sustainable” development of its business.
The decision comes over a year after Didi pushed forward with its New York stock listing in June 2021.
Regulators, who reportedly did not approve of Didi’s listing, launched the investigation two days after the company went public and ordered it to take down more than two dozen apps, sending its stock price plunging.
Didi moved to delist from the New York stock exchange, exiting on June 10.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-8-6
(zero, eight, six)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-8-6
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, June 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Air Tanzania are celebrating the delivery of the airline's first 767-300 Freighter. The airplane arrived today at the airline's hub in Dar es Salaam and will provide the operator with dedicated air freight capacity to serve the country's growing cargo market. The delivery also marks the first direct 767 Freighter delivery from Boeing to an African carrier.
"We are thrilled to welcome the 767-300 Boeing Freighter to our fleet. The 767 will cater to the growing cargo demand which was previously carried by passenger airplanes," said Eng. Ladislaus Matindi, Air Tanzania managing director. "The 767 will enable Air Tanzania to support a journey towards a more sustainable future and time critical cargo schedules across Africa and beyond. We are looking forward to expanding our imports and exports industry that require timely delivery. The arrival of the airplane will open opportunities for global businesses to transport commercial cargo goods to various parts of the world, which will boost national economic growth."
The 767-300 Freighter's excellent fuel efficiency, operational flexibility and low noise levels will enable Air Tanzania to support time-critical cargo schedules across Africa and beyond. Capable of flying 3,255 nautical miles with a revenue payload of more than 52 tonnes, the 767-300 Freighter is the ideal airplane for growing e-commerce and express cargo markets. This is Air Tanzania's first dedicated freighter as the country looks to expand imports and exports of perishable goods, pharmaceuticals and other products that require timely delivery.
"The 767 Freighter will enable Air Tanzania to significantly grow its existing operations with greater efficiency and flexibility across its network," said Anbessie Yitbarek, vice president, Africa Sales and Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "Air Tanzania's cargo customers now have far more options as the airline boosts freight connectivity between Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia."
Air Tanzania currently operates commercial service across Africa and to destinations in Asia with a fleet that includes two 787-8 Dreamliners. The airline also has orders for an additional 787-8 and two 737 MAX jets.
As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing's diverse team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company's core values of safety, quality and integrity. Join our team and find your purpose at boeing.com/careers.
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DENVER, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) today announced its FoundryCon US customer conference will be open to shareholders, global customers, the press and the general public for the first time on October 27. The exclusive conference for C-suite executives from Palantir's current and prospective customers will also be the company's first in-person customer conference since going public in 2020, and its first specifically tailored to the US commercial market.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp will open the program in a fireside chat with Mike Allen, Co-Founder of Axios.
Following this discussion, customer keynote presentations will be delivered by:
- Jacobs: John Rickermann, Managing Director
- Morgan Stanley: James Boustead, Global Head of Legal, Compliance & Governance Technology
- US Space Systems Command: Colonel Jennifer Krolikowski, Chief Information Officer
- Apache: Travis Osborne, VP Information Technology
- National Cancer Institute, NIH: Jeff Shilling, Chief Information Officer
- Tyson Foods: Scott Spradley, Chief Technology Officer
FoundryCon US will be accessible via livestream beginning at 11:30am MT on Thursday, October 27 and will conclude at 2:00pm MT. To view live, please visit https://youtu.be/4e8yDULR5IQ.
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AKRON, Ohio, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Klutch Cannabis, one of Ohio's leading Medical Marijuana Cultivators and Processors, announced today that its sister company, The Citizen by Klutch, won two dispensary licenses in the Ohio Board of Pharmacy's second request for applications, which concluded in a Special Board meeting on Monday, May 16th, 2022.
The Ohio Board of Pharmacy , which is charged with licensing and regulating medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, received almost 1500 applications for a total of 73 available dispensary licenses. The Citizen by Klutch turned in 73 individual applications in its pursuit of these licenses - more than any other applicant in the state.
The Citizen by Klutch dispensaries will be located at:
401 Cherry Avenue NE in Canton, Ohio.
5152 Grove Avenue in Lorain, Ohio.
The stores will feature a wide variety of Klutch-branded products, as well as Kiva Confections' line of award-winning edibles, which Klutch manufactures under an exclusive license in Ohio. Dispensary menus will also feature a full line of premium products manufactured by other state-licensed Cultivators and Processors. The company also announced the hiring of two pharmacists, Rony Sinharoy and Lauren Delande, who will each serve as Director of Retail Operations for The Citizen. The pair have extensive experience standing up and operating Dispensaries in Ohio and in other states.
"As a 100% Ohio-owned and operated cannabis company, we see these retail licenses as a critical component of our business model," said Klutch Cannabis Founder and CEO Adam Thomarios. "Building on the significant momentum we have in the market, the addition of retail will finally give us the opportunity to speak directly with patients and to have control over how our products are marketed and sold. We have assembled an amazing team, and our sole focus now is on channeling the same level of quality our products are known for into a unique and patient-focused retail experience. Our team worked tirelessly to get us here, and I am extremely proud of their hard work and dedication. We have a lot to look forward to."
Both stores are tentatively slated to open before the end of the year. All new licensees have until February of 2023 to receive a certificate of operation. For more information, please visit www.medicalmarijuana.ohio.gov/dispensaries.
About Klutch Cannabis
Klutch Cannabis is a leading Cultivator and Processor that is setting the standard for connoisseur-grade cannabis products in the Midwest. Founded in April of 2020 in Akron, Ohio, Klutch prides itself on its patient-focused commitment to quality, hard work, and honor. The company cultivates and processes a host of rare, coveted, and award-winning phenotypes under its Klutch Cannabis and Klutch Select brands, and markets cannabis-infused wellness products under its Klutch Mind and Body brand. Klutch also holds Ohio-exclusive partnerships with California-born Kiva Confections, bringing Kiva's industry-leading, premier line of award-winning and artisan-inspired edibles to Ohio, along with the lauded cannabis brand Josh D, founded by one of the originators of Los Angeles' OG Kush movement and first-place finisher at multiple Emerald Cups. For more information, please visit www.KlutchCannabis.com.
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No Seat? No Problem. Candy Crush Saga Has Your Back (side) and is Bringing Some Sweet Relief with a Limited Edition Design
NEW YORK, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Candy Crush Saga announced its collaboration with iconic fashion designer, Christian Cowan, to create a limited-edition, unique solution for commuters everywhere - The Sweet Seat.
Inspired by the dreaded task of claiming a seat on public transportation during rush hour, the Sweet Seat is a fashionable, yet highly practical, wearable seat perfect for Crushing on-the-go. Pulling from the bright in-game colors and iconic shapes, Sweet Seat gives players the ability to wear their favorite candies IRL.
Cowan, best known for his bold and unexpected collections, has worked with Candy Crush to put his playful and humorous touch on the Sweet Seat, bringing it to life in a way that doesn't compromise fashion for comfort. His approach provides a sweet solution that puts the fun back in functional. With campy and Candy-tastic designs, the piece blends Cowan's creativity and high fashion prowess with Candy Crush's world of fun colors, candies and patterns.
"This piece is inspired by the fun that Candy Crush brings to mundane tasks like commuting," said Christian Cowan. "Public transit could use a dose of glamor, especially in New York City and London, and the Sweet Seat brings that glamor in a fun, fashionable, and over the top way. What I love about this collaboration is that it brings a joyful solution to an everyday problem in a way that's both out-of-the-box and camp."
The Sweet Seat features a tear-drop silhouette garment that can be worn solo as a dress, or over the top of an outfit as an accessory. Functionally, the garment works like a bean-bag, the wearer can literally sit back and take a seat anywhere they'd like.
"Our loyal fans who play Candy Crush on-the-go love the color and fun that we bring to their everyday lives," said Luken Aragon, VP Marketing, Candy Crush Saga "Whether they're waiting in a long queue or battling the daily commute - without a seat, we want to be able to help bring them that joy and vibrancy to their day so that nothing gets in the way of leveling up. Collaborating with Christian to bring to life the candies that these players know and love - and can now wear - has been truly divine."
This limited-edition item will be available for purchase on christiancowan.com/candycrush beginning July 26th 2023 for $1,000 / £786.92.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in U.S. app stores, a position it has held for the last five years, and King's games are being played by 243 million monthly active users as of Q1 2023. King, a part of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), has game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin and offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on Twitter.
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About Christian Cowan
CHRISTIAN COWAN is a collection of womenswear that draws inspiration from the past and reinvents classics for the modern-day. Founded in 2017 by creative director Christian Cowan and based in New York, CHRISTIAN COWAN evolves with each new season; inspired by the past, energized by the future.
Renowned for looks that Vogue describes as "fabulous", the collection is known for bringing the fun to fashion week. The collection was a finalist for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2018.
CHRISTIAN COWAN is available globally, online and in select specialty retailers. With a rapidly growing presence in continental Europe and Asia, the collection has been featured in publications including The New York Times, WWD, Vogue, The Financial Times, Business of Fashion, Harpers Bazaar, W, InStyle, Architectural Digest, Self Service, Vogue Paris and Vogue Italia.
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STERLING, Va., March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global research and advisory firm Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) announced winners of the 2023 Best Staffing Firms to Work For today during its Executive Forum North America conference. Cynet Health was recognized as a winner in the 21-50 Employee category.
"It is our distinct honor to be recognized by SIA as a 2023 Best Staffing Firms to Work For. We put our heart and soul into our employees; into their growth and well-being. They are the heartbeat of Cynet and we recognize that without them we cannot flourish and shine or even exist. We continue to invest in their growth in terms of training, state-of-the-art technologies, and career advancement opportunities. We take care to recognize them not only for their achievements, but also for their birthdays, personal milestones, holidays, and sometimes – just because. We have created a beautiful culture that fosters unity, diversity, and inclusivity and through this, we have found that magic happens and that anything is possible," Ashwani "Ash" Mayur – Co-CEO/CFO and Nikhil "Nick" Budhiraja – CEO/COO.
A record 450 firms sought participation in the 2023 program, conducted by SIA in conjunction with Quantum Workplace. Each staffing firm's internal employees were asked to complete an online survey that measured key engagement categories such as teamwork, trust in senior leaders, diversity and inclusion, manager effectiveness, compensation and benefits. Key findings from the survey results are covered in SIA's industry research.
"Being recognized on industry lists for your work as a company is always an honor. But that honor is even higher when your own workers' ratings place you on those lists. That is the case for SIA's Best Staffing Firms to Work For, where employees and temps provide the data for our rankings," said Barry Asin, president of SIA. "We cannot be happier for the 2023 honorees and the great company cultures they have created, and we are excited to help elevate the industry by highlighting best practices in employee engagement and retention."
The Best Staffing Firms to Work For 2023 awards are sponsored by Sense. The Best Staffing Firms To Work/Temp For website will debut the 2023 winners later this month, and companies are featured in the March/April issue of Staffing Industry Review magazine.
Cynet Health is a TJC-certified MBE and one of the fastest-growing healthcare staffing firms in the US providing Health Med and Health IT staffing and consulting services to countless hospitals, SNFs, clinics, labs, CROs, health & wellness centers, pharmacies, and other medical facilities across the United States. Headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, we have team members across North America, Canada, and Asia, and with that we have an expanded bandwidth allowing us to connect with more providers and support our client's most critical needs. When tasked with something as essential as staffing hospitals to save lives, Cynet Health promotes the highest degree of increased accountability, attention to detail, and overall efficiency.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tommy Edman hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning for the first walkoff RBI of his major league career, lifting the St. Louis Cardinals over Cincinnati 5-4 on Saturday in yet another Reds bullpen collapse.
“Off the bat, I honestly didn’t think it was going to get out,” Edman said. “I was a little surprised when I saw it bounce in the bullpen, but obviously super-excited when I saw it finally get over the wall.”
Paul Goldschmidt’s streak of reaching base ended at 46 games with an 0-for-4 day for the NL Central-leading Cardinals.
St. Louis pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina made their 316th start together, tying the Boston and Milwaukee Braves’ Warren Spahn and Del Crandall for second-most behind the 324 of Detroit’s Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan.
Wainwright, 40, was matched up against Cincinnati’s 22-year-old Hunter Greene.
Cincinnati led 4-1 in the eighth inning but blew a save for the seventh time in 17 chances, and the Cardinals won despite getting outhit 12-7.
“Guys competed so well, put us in a great position to win the game,” Reds manager David Bell said. “Really, our bullpen did a nice job to get us into that situation. I know it doesn’t always come down to one play, but certainly you feel responsible when you have a decision like that to make.”
Tyler O’Neill, who had three RBIs, hit a two-run double off Hunter Strickland that pulled St. Louis to 4-3 in the eighth.
Joel Kuhnel (0-1), a 27-year-old rookie right-hander, walked Dylan Carlson leading off the ninth but got Molina to ground into a double play.
Juan Yepez singled and Edman reached down for a slider at the knees, driving the ball to right-center for his sixth home run and giving the Cardinals their third walkoff win this season.
“I really enjoyed it,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “He took a good swing right there. We did have some opportunities, came up short a couple times, but kept taking our shot. It’s part of the game. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn’t. Heck of a swing by Tommy.”
St. Louis (34-26) won the first two games of the three-game series and sent the NL-worst Reds (20-39) to their fourth straight loss and seventh defeat in nine games. The Cardinals have won 14 of their last 22.
Nick Wittgren (1-0) pitched a one-hit ninth for his first win with St. Louis.
Wainwright allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings.
Greene gave up one run, two hits and two walks with seven strikeouts before being pulled after allowing the first two batters to reach base in the sixth. He topped 100 mph with five pitches and averaged 98.7 mph with his fastball.
“He’s doing a nice job of adapting as the start goes and adjusting to the hitters as they adjust to him,” Bell said. “We’ve seen that really most of the season now. It continues to be impressive.”
Tommy Pham put the Reds ahead with a two-run double in the third off Wainwright, his former teammate, and scored on Kyle Farmer’s single for a 3-0 lead.
O’Neill hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth and Alejo López, who had replaced an injured Colin Moran, hit an RBI single off Drew VerHagen in the eighth for a 4-1 lead.
BENCHED
Cardinals CF Harrison Bader was removed after six innings for what Marmol said was lack of hustle.
“I had a great conversation with him. He respected it,” Marmol said. “There’s expectations when it comes to effort. It wasn’t met today. He’ll be back in tomorrow.”
Marmol did not specify any play.
“We’ll handle it internally but he understood it, he respected it, and he’ll be back in there tomorrow,” the manager said.
MOVES
Cincinnati claimed OF Stuart Fairchild off waivers from San Francisco and optioned him to Triple-A Louisville. RHP James Marinan was designated for assignment.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: Moran left in the bottom of the seventh after getting tangled with Dylan Carlson on a tag at first. Moran veered into Carlson’s path trying to field an errant throw from second baseman Matt Reynolds. “Just kind of a blow to the back, more of almost a whiplash type of action,” Bell said. “He’s okay. He’s going to be fine but obviously we’ll keep a close eye on it.”
Cardinals: LHP Steven Matz (left shoulder impingement) threw long toss in the outfield prior to the game. “He’s still feeling a little bit of that discomfort in the impingement,” Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said. “Until you get past that hurdle, you’re not really cleared to take that next step forward. I know he’s going to be reassessed by our medical staff and, hopefully, he’s able to resolve that.”
UP NEXT
RHP Dakota Hudson (4-2, 2.76 ERA) is 6-0 against Cincinnati going into Sunday’s start, joining David Weathers (8-0) as the only pitchers since 1901 with at least six decisions against the Reds and a perfect winning percentage. RHP Graham Ashcraft (3-0, 1.14 ERA) will be making his fifth career start in Sunday’s series finale.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s tax officials searched BBC offices in India for a second straight day on Wednesday questioning staff about the organization’s business operations in the country, some staff members said.
BBC management told editorial and other staff members to work from home after they were able to leave the office on Tuesday night, said staff who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to media.
The searches came weeks after the BBC aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the U.K.
There was no overnight break in the search and investigators scanned the desktops of some employees who were earlier told not to use their phones and keep them aside, the staff members said.
Indian income tax officials have not made any statements since the searches were launched in the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday morning.
The Press Trust of India news agency said the officials were making copies of electronic and paper-based financial data from the organization.
Rights groups and opposition politicians denounced the move by India’s Income Tax Department as an attempt to intimidate the media.
Britain’s publicly funded national broadcaster said it was cooperating fully with authorities and hoped “to have this situation resolved as soon as possible.” Late in the evening, the BBC said officials were still at the two offices.
“Many staff have now left the building but some have been asked to remain and are continuing to cooperate with the ongoing inquiries,” it said, adding: “Our output and journalism continue as normal.”
While there has been no British government statement so far, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Tuesday: “We are aware of the search of the BBC offices in Delhi by Indian tax authorities.”
“We support the importance of a free press around the world. We continue to highlight the importance of freedom of expression and freedom of religion or belief as human rights that contribute to strengthening democracies around the world. It has strengthened this democracy here in this country. It has strengthened India’s democracy,” Price told reporters in Washington.
India’s News Broadcasters and Digital Association criticized the income tax “surveys” at the BBC offices.
While the association “maintains that no institution is above the law, it condemns any attempt to muzzle and intimidate the media and interfere with the free functioning of journalists and media organizations,” it said in a statement.
Gaurav Bhatia, a spokesperson for Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, said the BBC should have nothing to fear if it follows Indian laws. But he added that the broadcaster’s history is “tainted” and “full of hatred” for India and called it corrupt, without offering any specifics.
The documentary, “India: The Modi Question,” was broadcast in the U.K. last month, examining the prime minister’s role in 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western state of Gujarat, where he was chief minister at the time. More than 1,000 people were killed in the violence.
Modi has denied allegations that authorities under his watch allowed and even encouraged the bloodshed, and the Supreme Court said it found no evidence to prosecute him. Last year, the court dismissed a petition filed by a Muslim victim questioning Modi’s exoneration.
The second portion of the two-part documentary examined “the track record of Narendra Modi’s government following his re-election in 2019,” according to the BBC website.
The program drew an immediate backlash from India’s government, which invoked emergency powers under its information technology laws to block it from being shown in the country. Local authorities scrambled to stop screenings organized at Indian universities, and social media platforms including Twitter and YouTube complied with government requests to remove links to the documentary.
The BBC said at the time that the documentary was “rigorously researched” and involved a wide range of voices and opinions.
“We offered the Indian Government a right to reply to the matters raised in the series — it declined to respond,” its statement said.
India’s Foreign Ministry called the documentary a “propaganda piece designed to push a particularly discredited narrative” that lacked objectivity.
Press freedom in India has been on a steady decline in recent years. The country fell eight places, to 150 out of 180 countries, in the 2022 Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders. Media watchdog groups accuse the Modi government of silencing criticism on social media under a sweeping internet law that puts digital platforms including Twitter and Facebook under direct government oversight.
Some media outlets critical of the government have been subjected to tax searches.
Authorities searched the offices of the left-leaning website NewsClick and independent media portal Newslaundry on the same day in 2021. Tax officials also accused the Dainik Bhaskar newspaper of tax evasion in 2021 after it published reports of mass funeral pyres and floating corpses that challenged the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2017, the government’s investigation bureau said it was probing cases of loan defaults when it raided the offices of New Delhi Television, known for its liberal slant. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-indian-officials-search-bbc-offices-for-second-straight-day/ | 2023-02-15 23:29:26 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-indian-officials-search-bbc-offices-for-second-straight-day/ |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Witnesses in some towns across Ethiopia’s Tigray region say troops from neighboring Eritrea have started withdrawing in large convoys, a potentially significant development after a devastating conflict in the region ended late last year.
The presence of the Eritreans despite a peace deal signed in November between Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigray forces has been seen as a major challenge to the agreement’s implementation. Eritrea, allied with Ethiopian forces, wasn’t a party to the deal that ended two years of fighting, which was estimated by researchers to have killed 500,000 people.
“The Eritrean forces have started withdrawing from Shire in large convoys today,” a humanitarian worker in Shire town told The Associated Press on Friday, describing several dozen vehicles carrying soldiers in Eritrean military uniforms. The witness, speaking like others on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said that some vehicles were heading in the direction of Sheraro, near the Eritrean border.
A civil servant in the town of Axum said that residents had been told to avoid the main street as “Eritrean forces started to exit from the area.” A resident in the town of Adwa confirmed the withdrawal of Eritrean forces there.
Ethiopian government spokesman Legesse Tulu and a spokesman for the Tigray side didn’t immediately respond to questions.
Eritrean forces entered Ethiopia’s devastating conflict in its earliest days. The Ethiopian and Eritrean governments denied the participation of Eritrea, one of the world’s most reclusive nations, until Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed acknowledged it in March 2021.
Rights groups, ethnic Tigrayans and some Western countries expressed alarm over the presence of Eritrean forces, which were blamed for some of the worst abuses in the conflict including widespread rapes. Even after the peace deal was signed, witnesses alleged that some Eritrean forces continued to loot and kill.
In an apparent acknowledgement of participation in the conflict, the Eritrean Embassy in Ethiopia on Wednesday posted excerpts from state-owned newspaper Hadas Eritrea saying that “the favor the Eritrean government and people did to Ethiopia will be written in golden colors in history and in the region … and (it) has got rid of an international danger,” referring to Tigray forces that Eritrea’s government has long regarded as a threat.
The Ethiopian military “didn’t lose support in the last two years from the greatly disciplined, fighting capable and unrivaled Eritrean army,” the newspaper excerpt said. “Because of this, the (Tigray forces) traitorous group defeat has been concluded with humiliation and disarmament.”
Eritrea has been a bitter enemy of the Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front that dominated Ethiopian politics for close to 30 years until Abiy came to power in 2018. Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a bloody border war from 1998 to 2000, but Abiy made peace with Eritrea shortly after taking office. | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/ap-witnesses-eritrean-troops-withdrawing-from-towns-in-tigray/ | 2023-01-21 14:18:24 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/ap-witnesses-eritrean-troops-withdrawing-from-towns-in-tigray/ |
Associated Bank makes a $10 million naming rights agreement for Milwaukee Repertory Theater's new home
Associated Bank announced a $10 million sponsorship agreement Thursday with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater for the theater's new home, which will be named Associated Bank Theater Center through 2042.
Milwaukee Rep plans to build a new theater complex at its current site downtown on East Wells Street, completely redoing two of its three theaters as well as expanding its facilities into some little-used loading dock space.
The Associated Bank agreement is a significant plank in the Rep's $75 million campaign to build the new theater complex. A substantial amount has already been raised, Milwaukee Rep Executive Director Chad Bauman said during a Zoom interview. He promised that an update on the campaign plus detailed information on building plans would be made public in November or December.
The Rep structure, which it owns, is attached to the Associated Bank River Center. An Associated affiliate bought the 28-story, 373,000-square-foot office tower formerly known as the Milwaukee Center in 2016 for $60.5 million. It's been redeveloping the site. Earlier in September, Associated revealed that a new bar named Vault, quick-service dining and a coffee shop are coming to the site.
"We couldn’t be more proud to provide this enduring commitment to their mission and to making Milwaukee a more vibrant place to live and work,” said Andy Harmening, president and CEO of Associated Bank, headquartered in Green Bay.
"It's very rare nationwide to see a corporation step up to name a building for an arts and culture facility," Bauman said.
Milwaukee Rep moved into building in 1987
Milwaukee Rep moved into its present home in 1987. The present Baker Theater Complex includes its main stage, the Quadracci Powerhouse (720 seats); the Stiemke Studio (205 seats); and the Stackner Cabaret (186 seats). The Stackner has a full-service restaurant and bar. The complex also includes rehearsal spaces, administrative offices and work area for many designers, artisans and craftspeople.
“Theater has changed since we moved into our current home in the 1980s — and so has our community. While it has served us well for four decades, our aging and inefficient complex limits the productions we stage, the plays we develop, and the kind of educational impact we create,” Bauman said in a statement announcing the sponsorship.
In a Zoom interview, Bauman said the Rep plans to take the Stiemke and Powerhouse spaces down to the studs and rebuild, adding more seats to the Stiemke but installing fewer in the Powerhouse, and upgrading technology everywhere. The Stackner will receive only minor changes, because a complete renovation of that space finished in 2018 was actually the first part of this long-range rebuilding campaign, Bauman said.
Technical changes will enhance what the Rep can do on stage. For example, in its current configuration, the Powerhouse doesn't have a fly loft for whisking scenery away, but the rebuilt theater will, Bauman said.
Here's some happy news for anyone who's ever waited in line during intermission: the rebuilt theater complex will have "quite a few more new bathrooms," Bauman said.
When will construction of Milwaukee Rep's new home start?
Under the current timeline, construction would begin in late 2023 and conclude in mid-2025. The Rep will stagger work on its theaters so two can be operating while a third is being worked on, Bauman said. It is possible the Rep may also use an alternate space elsewhere during the construction period, he added.
The rebuild also will include replacing outdated physical systems and technology. In some instances, parts aren't even made for them anymore, Bauman said.
It will create a new education and engagement center, with multiple classrooms for its educational programs. The Rep serves 20,000 students a year from more than 200 schools and community groups, Bauman said.
The Rep is working with Eppstein Uhen Architects, Hunzinger Construction and Chamberlin LLC on the project.
In a typical nonpandemic year, the Rep brings more than 300,000 people into its theaters.
Milwaukee Rep has been in the quiet phase of fundraising for this project for some time, while also navigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It had to cancel 68 performances, or nearly 10% of the 700 it had scheduled last season, due to positive COVID-19 tests.
The most painful loss: two weeks of sold-out performances of "Titanic the Musical," which prompted the theater's decision to bring "Titanic" back as its showcase musical this autumn.
Planning for significant additional expenses for understudies and inflation in the coming season, Milwaukee Rep’s board of trustees has agreed to use 10% of its cash reserves, "but we are forecasting a return to normal operations in the 2023-'24 season," Bauman wrote in an email message.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — China’s military flew 38 fighter jets and other warplanes near Taiwan, the Taiwanese defense ministry said Friday, in the largest such flight display since the large military exercise in which it simulated sealing off the island earlier in the month.
Nineteen of the aircraft flew across the midline in the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from the mainland, the ministry said. It said they included five SU-30 and two J-16 aircraft. One drone, a TB-001, circled the island, according to a diagram from the Defense Ministry.
China held exercises simulating the sealing off the island after the sensitive meeting April 5 between Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California. China opposes any exchanges at the official level between Taiwan and other governments.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 following a civil war that ended with the Communist Party in control of the mainland. The island has never been part of the People’s Republic of China, but Beijing says it must unite with the mainland, by force if necessary.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Tony Stewart ended up in the NHRA winner’s circle to start 2023 — as a team owner.
Hagan covered the 1,000-foot strip in 3.926 seconds, just enough to drive around JR Todd and leave Stewart hugging and high-fiving his team at Gainesville Raceway.
“Bossman’s happy,” Hagan quipped.
Stewart is beginning his second season as an NHRA team owner. The 1997 IndyCar champion added to his storied racing resume by getting behind the wheel for a full season driving for McPhillips Racing in a lower division.
Little went right during his first two weekends in Gainesville: He lost in the opening round last week at the Baby Gators, an NHRA regional event, and then bowed out earlier than a sellout crowd had hoped for on Saturday.
It was a stark contrast to his first professional drag-racing event last October, when Stewart made the final in his debut at the Nevada Nationals. He lost to college student Madison Payne by an inch — officially a difference of .0002 on the clock.
Stewart hoped to get another shot in Gainesville. But he settled for winning with Hagan, who notched his 44th Funny Car victory and fifth in two years with Stewart. This one moved him into fourth place in Funny Car history, breaking a tie with Tony Pedregon.
It was his second straight victory at the Gatornationals, an event that eluded him for the first 14 years of his NHRA career.
“To win back-to-back Gators, man, tried pretty much my entire career just to win one,” he said. “Super special deal.”
Mike Salinas won the Top Fuel division, with Troy Coughlin Jr. taking Pro Stock and Gaige Herrera claiming Pro Stock Motorcycle.
None of the four reigning series champions even made the semifinals. Brittany Force (Top Fuel), Ron Capps (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Mike Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) were upset in the first or second rounds Sunday.
Force’s trouble was one of many for powerhouse John Force Racing. Austin Prock (Top Fuel) had an issue on the starting line, Robert Hight (Funny Car) spun his tires early in his run and John Force (Funny Car) got edged at the line.
For decades, Force has been the sport’s biggest draw. But Stewart, who married Top Fuel driver Leah Pruett in 2021, has become a fan favorite in a hurry. It was noticeable by the cheers in the stands and the lines throughout the garage.
“When I sign at the T-shirt trailer, my line versus when Tony signs, his line’s a lot longer,” Hagan said. “He’s great for the sport and now he’s involved in driving, so he’s really bitten by the bug. ...
“You don’t get a golden goose very often, you know what I mean? You got to support it.”
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The latest northeast Wisconsin weather forecast from Storm Team 5…
Starting off this morning with light snow and flurries, not a bunch of snow, but maybe enough to coat some untreated roads and sidewalks. More flurries could fall Friday afternoon. Chilly winds from the west will be around 10 to 25 miles per hour, holding temps steady in the mid and upper 20s, wind chills in the teens.
Plan on a cold Friday night. Wind chills drop into the single digits and the overnight air temperature set to be around 16 degrees. Some stray flurries possible.
Hunters, get ready for more tracking snow to develop along a cold front on Saturday. The wind will be westerly from 15 to 30 miles per hour with a high around 24 degrees! Daytime wind chills will vary from the single digits and teens, and the Saturday night/Sunday morning wind chills are going to drop below zero!
Sunday will continue to be chilly with a breezy. The high is 27 degrees with a mix of sun and clouds. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/weather/weekend-snow-and-sub-zero-wind-chills/ | 2022-11-18 13:37:12 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/weather/weekend-snow-and-sub-zero-wind-chills/ |
JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Local officials in Mississippi’s capital city, where a late summer water crisis upended life for 150,00 people, have approved an emergency plan to increase staffing at the city’s two water treatment plants.
Jackson city council members voted Thursday to hire contract workers from a Los Angeles-based company to staff the O.B. Curtis and J.H. Fewell water treatment plants, tanks and well facilities. Under the agreement, WaterTalent LLC will provide the city with four skilled water operators to help beef up paltry staffing at the two treatment facilities.
Jackson currently has two operators licensed at the Class A level, who have a degree of technical expertise that can take years to acquire. City leaders said that the two operators have been working more than 80 hours a week to produce clean water at the plants.
“We’re still relying on the same operators who are working long, long, long hours and long shifts,” said Ted Henifin, a consultant working with the city council. “So, we identified this company, and they recruit these folks and have them on standby, essentially licensed operators, that are willing to deploy for some emergency periods, and we’ve gotten a proposal from them.”
The workers will be paid around $40 per hour. The agreement will be in place until the city hires a long-term contractor, WLBT-TV reported. The new operators will report to Jackson on Sunday, November 13.
Jackson’s water system has been beset by problems for decades, but the latest troubles began in late August after heavy rainfall exacerbated problems at the O.B. Curtis plant, leaving many customers without running water. State and federal officials surged resources to the area after emergency orders were declared by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and President Joe Biden.
Reeves said the state of emergency he declared on Aug. 30 would remain in place until Nov. 22. City officials are attempting to reach an agreement with a private firm to operate Jackson’s water system over the long term. Until then, extra staffing will ease the burden on city workers, local officials said.
“The big piece of this is it also allows (operators) not to have to work 70 to 80 hours a week,” Henifin said. “They’re actually going to get some of their life back, which I think they would all like at this point in time.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/mississippi-capital-to-hire-emergency-water-plant-workers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-11-11 02:18:31 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/mississippi-capital-to-hire-emergency-water-plant-workers/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
In 1989, the Walt Disney Company released one of its last hand-drawn feature films, "The Little Mermaid."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "UNDER THE SEA")
SAMUEL ERNEST WRIGHT: (As Sebastian, singing) Under the sea, under the sea. Darling, it's better...
SUMMERS: A classic Disney princess story, it was a throwback to early Disney in many ways, a fairy tale filled with songs and romance. Now Ariel and her pals have been given a live-action makeover. Critic Bob Mondello says the new "Little Mermaid" is a throwback, too.
BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: You loved Ariel as a kid, when she was a two-dimensional mermaid who yearned to be up on the surface.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PART OF YOUR WORLD")
JODI BENSON: (As Ariel, singing) I want to be where the people are. I want to see, want to see them dancing.
MONDELLO: And you wonder, will you love her again in the flesh, as it were? Well, filmmaker Rob Marshall and star Halle Bailey make that part easy.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PART OF YOUR WORLD")
HALLE BAILEY: (As Ariel, singing) Flipping your fins, you don't get too far. Legs are required for jumping, dancing.
MONDELLO: Bailey's voice is gorgeous and her presence lovely, with presumably digital hair bobbing underwater, eyes sparkling, scales glistening.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PART OF YOUR WORLD")
BAILEY: (As Ariel, singing) Up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun.
MONDELLO: Ariel will be tested when she rescues a hunky prince from a shipwreck and falls for him while he's unconscious - maybe his best look, actually, Ariel's companion, Sebastian the crab, knows King Triton will disapprove and suspects that their gull pal Scuttle will not be much help.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE LITTLE MERMAID")
DAVEED DIGGS: (As Sebastian) Are you listening to me?
AWKWAFINA: (As Scuttle) Yes.
DIGGS: (As Sebastian) You won't tell him. I won't tell him. And I will stay in one piece. You got it?
AWKWAFINA: (As Scuttle) Got it. Sorry. What'd you say again?
DIGGS: (As Sebastian) I am a dead crab.
MONDELLO: They're voiced by Daveed Diggs and Awkwafina, respectively, while Ariel's devious aunt Ursula the sea witch is played in full octopus drag with eight glow-in-the-dark tentacles by Melissa McCarthy.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "POOR UNFORTUNATE SOULS")
MELISSA MCCARTHY: (As Ursula, singing) Come on, you poor, unfortunate soul. Go ahead. Make your choice. I'm a very busy woman, and I haven't got all day. It won't cost much - just your voice.
MONDELLO: So far, so familiar, as the director duplicates scenes and camera moves in photorealistic fashion. He's mostly substituting digital animation for hand-drawn here, so calling the film live action is a stretch, but give the studio its concept. There are things you can't unsee, like Javier Bardem's tummy undulations when he flicks his tail as King Triton and things that take more time when you need them to look real. The new film is almost an hour longer than the old one, but there are also new Alan Menken songs with Lin-Manuel Miranda nicely reflecting the late Howard Ashman's taste for rhyme-happy lyrics.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FOR THE FIRST TIME")
BAILEY: (As Ariel, singing) Everything's clearer and brighter and hotter, but now that I'm here like a fish out of water, I'm trying to stand. But this gravity's pulling me down.
MONDELLO: Where the first film had a mostly European feel apart from Sebastian's Crabbean (ph) accent, the filmmakers have set this one firmly in the Caribbean, an island kingdom that a bit of dialogue establishes was once a trade hub, explaining a populace that's as multicultural as the audience Disney is hoping to attract.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "KISS THE GIRL")
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (As characters, vocalizing).
MONDELLO: The queen is Black. Prince Eric isn't. He's white, but he's adopted. And there are Asian, Latino and Indigenous faces everywhere, including underwater, where ethnic diversity establishes that Ariel and her six sisters have each come from one of the seven seas. In short, at least as much thought has been put into making this new version inclusive as into imagining how dancing seahorses might look in a photorealistic world.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "UNDER THE SEA")
DIGGS: (As Sebastian) Watch this. (Singing) The newt play the flute.
MONDELLO: You can admire all the hard work and still wonder whether this particular vehicle justifies the effort. In 1989, the cartoon "Little Mermaid," coming after three decades of mediocre animation, ushered in a Disney renaissance that soon produced "Beauty And The Beast," "Lion King" and "Aladdin." All of those have subsequently gotten live-action makeovers. So this "Little Mermaid" isn't going to usher in anything besides a lot of money. I'm Bob Mondello.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "UNDER THE SEA")
BAILEY: (As Ariel, singing) Under the sea.
DIGGS: (As Sebastian, singing) Under the sea.
BAILEY: (As Ariel, singing) Under the sea.
DIGGS: (As Sebastian) When the sardine begin the beguine, it's music to me.
BAILEY: (As Ariel, singing) Music is to me.
DIGGS: (As Sebastian, singing) What do they got?
DAVEED DIGGS AND HALLE BAILEY: (As Sebastian and Ariel, singing) A lot of sand.
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BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) _ REV Group, Inc. (REVG) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings of $9.5 million.
The Brookfield, Wisconsin-based company said it had net income of 16 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 24 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 21 cents per share.
The company posted revenue of $594.8 million in the period, which matched Street forecasts.
REV Group expects full-year revenue in the range of $2.25 billion to $2.35 billion.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A merger that would have created one of the largest health service companies in the Upper Midwest has been scrapped.
Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services and Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Sanford Health announced Thursday that they would not proceed with the merger they had been discussing since late last year. It would have created a system with more than 50 hospitals and about 78,000 employees.
This is the second time in a decade that the two companies considered a merger but failed to complete it, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The latest attempt drew fierce opposition at the University of Minnesota, which has a partnership with Fairview. The university sold its teaching hospital to Fairview in 1997 and opposed the idea of an out-of-state entity owning the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. The merged system would have been based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota’s largest city.
Statements from the two companies’ CEOs stated that without support from stakeholders, it was determined that the merger couldn’t move forward.
The companies first considered merging in 2013 but met with strong political opposition.
Minnesota lawmakers this spring gave the state attorney general additional power to scrutinize health care mergers, including the Sanford-Fairview proposal.
The affiliation between Fairview and the University of Minnesota includes financial support from Fairview for the school’s academic medicine mission. This agreement continues through 2026, but both parties have an option to signal by the end of this year if they want to end the partnership. Fairview has said the current agreements are not financially sustainable. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/ap-merger-talks-end-between-large-health-care-systems-in-minnesota-south-dakota/ | 2023-07-29 06:44:17 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/business/ap-merger-talks-end-between-large-health-care-systems-in-minnesota-south-dakota/ |
ATLANTA, March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) will announce its first quarter financial results during a live conference call and internet webcast at 8:45 a.m. ET on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Quarterly earnings results will be released in advance of the call and a press release will be posted on the Investors page of the company's website.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late last year got more leverage over pharmaceutical companies that received accelerated approvals for their drugs. How will the agency use its new powers?
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Bernalillo County and its partners are again offering an Uber code for people to get safe rides home for July 4 celebrations. People will be able to use the code FREEDOM23 starting June 30 at 10 a.m. through July 5 at 2 a.m.
The Take a Ride on Us program is offering 2,000 discounted rides with the code. It’s good for 2 rides per person, $10 off per ride. It does not cover a tip and cannot be used for Uber Eats. | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/take-a-ride-on-us-program-offering-2000-discounted-uber-rides-for-july-4-celebrations/ | 2023-06-29 22:50:46 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/take-a-ride-on-us-program-offering-2000-discounted-uber-rides-for-july-4-celebrations/ |
Stains are a fact of life. Whether you’re an adult trying to drive while downing a cup of coffee or a mom caring for toddlers, it seems none of us are immune to stains. Whether they are ground into our carpets or smeared onto napkins or the result of a leaky pipe, different stains call for different solutions.
You might wonder if an organic stain remover will work as well as a standard mix (yes!) or if the best mattress stain remover you have on hand handles both sweat and odors.
Today, we take the guesswork out of stain removal for a few common household stains.
Grass Stains
Fresh grass stains are easy to treat. Ones that have been set from heat make the task a little harder. Treat the area with a stain remover first. If you don’t have one on hand, you can pour a small amount of liquid laundry detergent onto the spot. Then work it in with a soft-bristled brush or rub with your fingers. Let it sit for at least 15 minutes and then toss it in the wash.
If the stain remains, try soaking the stain in an oxygen bleach solution.
White Wine Spills
Whether it’s been splashed on your blouse or the carpet, white wine can leave a mark. First things first, blot the area with a paper towel and then add water to the spot using a sponge. Blot it again with a clean white cloth. When wine spills, it’s best to clean it up right away because dried stains will require additional work.
For carpets, use a solution of 1 tablespoon liquid soap to 2 cups of warm water and work it in with a soft-bristled brush. Then rinse with a water-filled sponge and blot dry.
For blouses, skip the solution and opt for an enzymatic detergent and wash with hot water. (If the stain isn’t discovered until it’s dry, try using an oxygen-based bleach and wash with tepid water. You can also soak it for 4-8 hours as well.)
Mattress Refreshes
Mattresses collect sweat over time, which can create stains or smells. You can reach for a bottle of the best mattress stain remover or create your own mix using baking soda, salt and water. Let it sit for 30 minutes and then wipe it off with a clean, damp rag and blot dry.
Mystery Stains
If you have a mystery stain, try soaking it in cold water for 30 minutes and treating it with a general stain remover. If the stain remains after washing it as usual, soak it overnight in an oxygen bleach solution. (Avoid reaching for standard chlorine bleach.)
General Stain Removal Tips
Act swiftly. Fresh stains, no matter the culprit, will always be easier to wrangle than dried versions. Whenever possible, test an inconspicuous spot to make sure the cleaning solution won’t damage the fabric. Try not to mix stain removal products. This could wind up damaging the area even further because of a chemical reaction between ingredients.
Stains can be annoying, but don’t give up! Sometimes a spot takes a couple of tries before the stain lifts. Do your best to remain patient.
If you’re in the market for an all-around household stain remover, check out our selection that’s been vetted by a team of experts.
We hope these cleaning tips make stain removal less of a chore.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday.
Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016.
The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records.” He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s — and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.
Bennett didn’t tell his own story when performing; he let the music speak instead — the Gershwins and Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern. Unlike his friend and mentor Sinatra, he would interpret a song rather than embody it. If his singing and public life lacked the high drama of Sinatra’s, Bennett appealed with an easy, courtly manner and an uncommonly rich and durable voice — “A tenor who sings like a baritone,” he called himself — that made him a master of caressing a ballad or brightening an up-tempo number.
“I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. “I think people … are touched if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor. … I just like to make people feel good when I perform.”
Bennett was praised often by his peers, but never more meaningfully than by what Sinatra said in a 1965 Life magazine interview: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”
He not only survived the rise of rock music but endured so long and so well that he gained new fans and collaborators, some young enough to be his grandchildren. In 2014, at age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart for “Cheek to Cheek,” his duets project with Lady Gaga. Three years earlier, he topped the charts with “Duets II,” featuring such contemporary stars as Gaga, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, in her last studio recording. His rapport with Winehouse was captured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Amy,” which showed Bennett patiently encouraging the insecure young singer through a performance of “Body and Soul.”
His final album, the 2021 release “Love for Sale,” featured duets with Lady Gaga on the title track, “Night and Day” and other Porter songs.
For Bennett, one of the few performers to move easily between pop and jazz, such collaborations were part of his crusade to expose new audiences to what he called the Great American Songbook.
“No country has given the world such great music,” Bennett said in a 2015 interview with Downbeat Magazine. “Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern. Those songs will never die.”
Ironically, his most famous contribution came through two unknowns, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who in the early ’60s provided Bennett with his signature song at a time his career was in a lull. They gave Bennett’s musical director, pianist Ralph Sharon, some sheet music that he stuck in a dresser drawer and forgot about until he was packing for a tour that included a stop in San Francisco.
“Ralph saw some sheet music in his shirt drawer … and on top of the pile was a song called ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco.’ Ralph thought it would be good material for San Francisco,” Bennett said. “We were rehearsing and the bartender in the club in Little Rock, Arkansas, said, ‘If you record that song, I’m going to be the first to buy it.’”
Released in 1962 as the B-side of the single “Once Upon a Time,” the reflective ballad became a grassroots phenomenon staying on the charts for more than two years and earning Bennett his first two Grammys, including record of the year.
By his early 40s, he was seemingly out of fashion. But after turning 60, an age when even the most popular artists often settle for just pleasing their older fans, Bennett and his son and manager, Danny, found creative ways to market the singer to the MTV Generation. He made guest appearances on “Late Night with David Letterman” and became a celebrity guest artist on “The Simpsons.” He wore a black T-shirt and sunglasses as a presenter with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 1993 MTV Music Video Awards, and his own video of “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” from his Grammy-winning Fred Astaire tribute album ended up on MTV’s hip “Buzz Bin.”
That led to an offer in 1994 to do an episode of “MTV Unplugged” with special guests Elvis Costello and k.d. lang. The evening’s performance resulted in the album, “Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged,” which won two Grammys, including album of the year.
Bennett would win Grammys for his tributes to female vocalists (“Here’s to the Ladies”), Billie Holiday (“Tony Bennett on Holiday”), and Duke Ellington (“Bennett Sings Ellington — Hot & Cool”). He also won Grammys for his collaborations with other singers: “Playin’ With My Friends — Bennett Sings the Blues,” and his Louis Armstrong tribute, “A Wonderful World” with lang, the first full album he had ever recorded with another singer. He celebrated his 80th birthday with “Duets: An American Classic,” featuring Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder among others.
“They’re all giants in the industry, and all of a sudden they’re saying to me ‘You’re the master,’” Bennett told the AP in 2006.
Long associated with San Francisco, Bennett would note that his true home was Astoria, the working-class community in the New York City borough of Queens, where he grew up during the Great Depression. The singer chose his old neighborhood as the site for the “Fame”-style public high school, the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, that he and his third wife, Susan Crow Benedetto, a former teacher, helped found in 2001.
The school is not far from the birthplace of the man who was once Anthony Dominick Benedetto. His father was an Italian immigrant who inspired his love of singing, but he died when Anthony was 10. Bennett credited his mother, Anna, with teaching him a valuable lesson as he watched her working at home, supporting her three children as a seamstress doing piecework after his father died.
“We were very impoverished,” Bennett said in a 2016 AP interview. “I saw her working and every once in a while she’d take a dress and throw it over her shoulder and she’d say, ‘Don’t have me work on a bad dress. I’ll only work on good dresses.’”
He studied commercial art in high school, but had to drop out to help support his family. The teenager got a job as a copy boy for the AP, performed as a singing waiter and competed in amateur shows. A combat infantryman during World War II, he served as a librarian for the Armed Forces Network after the war and sang with an army big band in occupied Germany. His earliest recording is a 1946 air check from Armed Forces Radio of the blues “St. James Infirmary.”
Bennett took advantage of the GI Bill to attend the American Theater Wing, which later became The Actors Studio. His acting lessons helped him develop his phrasing and learn how to tell a story. He learned the more intimate Bel Canto vocal technique which helped him sustain and extend the expressive range of his voice. And he took to heart the advice of his vocal coach, Miriam Spier.
“She said please don’t imitate other singers because you’ll just be one of the chorus whoever you imitate whether it’s Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra and won’t develop an original sound,” Bennett recalled in the 2006 AP interview. “She said imitate musicians that you like, find out how they phrase. I was particularly influenced by the jazz musicians like (pianist) Art Tatum and (saxophonists) Lester Young and Stan Getz.”
In 1947, Bennett made his first recording, the Gershwins’ standard “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” for a small label under the stage name Joe Bari. The following year he gained notice when he finished behind Rosemary Clooney on the radio show “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.” Bennett’s big break came in 1949 when singer Pearl Bailey invited him to join her revue at a Greenwich Village club. Bob Hope dropped by one night and was so impressed that he offered the young singer a spot opening his shows at the famed Paramount Theater, where teens had swooned for Sinatra. But the comedian didn’t care for his stage name and thought his real name was too long for the marquee.
“He thought for a moment, then he said, ‘We’ll call you Tony Bennett,’” the singer wrote in his autobiography, “The Good Life,” published in 1998.
In 1950, Mitch Miller, the head of Columbia Records’ pop singles division, signed Bennett and released the single, “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” a semi-hit. Bennett was on the verge of being dropped from the label in 1951 when he had his first No. 1 on the pop charts with “Because of You.” More hits followed, including “Rags to Riches,” “Blue Velvet,” and Hank Williams’ “Cold, Cold Heart,” the first country song to become an international pop hit.
Bennett found himself frequently clashing with Miller, who pushed him to sing Sinatra-style ballads and gimmicky novelty songs. But Bennett took advantage of the young LP album format, starting in 1955 with “Cloud 7,” featuring a small jazz combo led by guitarist Chuck Wayne. Bennett reached out to the jazz audience with such innovative albums as the 1957 “The Beat of My Heart,” an album of standards that paired him with such jazz percussion masters as Chico Hamilton, and Art Blakey. He also became the first white male singer to record with the Count Basie Orchestra, releasing two albums in 1958. Sinatra would later do the same.
Bennett’s friendship with Black musicians and his disgust at the racial prejudice he encountered in the Army led him to become an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. He answered Harry Belafonte’s call to join Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and perform for the protesters.
Bennett’s early career peaked in the 1960s as he topped the charts with “San Francisco” and became the first male pop solo performer to headline at Carnegie Hall, releasing a live album of the 1962 concert.
In 1966, he released “The Movie Song Album,” a personal favorite which featured Johnny Mandel’s Oscar-winning song “The Shadow of Your Smile” and “Maybe September,” the theme from the epic flop “The Oscar,” noteworthy because it marked Bennett’s first and only big-screen acting role.
But as rock continued to overtake traditional pop, he clashed with Columbia label head Clive Davis, who insisted that the singer do the 1970 album “Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today,” with such songs as “MacArthur Park” and “Little Green Apples.” Bennett left Columbia in 1972, and went on to form his own record label, Improv, which in 1975-76 produced two duet albums with the impressionistic pianist Bill Evans now considered jazz classics.
Despite artistic successes, Improv proved a financial disaster for Bennett, who also faced difficulties in his personal life. His marriage to artist Patricia Beech collapsed in 1971. He wed actress Sandra Grant the same year, but that marriage ended in 1984. With no recording deals, his debts brought him close to bankruptcy and the IRS was trying to seize his house in Los Angeles. After a near-fatal drug overdose in 1979, he turned to his son, Danny, who eventually signed on as his manager. Bennett kicked his drug habit and got his finances in order, moved back to New York and resumed doing more than 200 shows a year.
He is survived by his wife Susan, daughters Johanna and Antonia, sons Danny and Dae and nine grandchildren.
Bennett was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. He also won two Emmy Awards — for “Tony Bennett Live By Request: A Valentine Special” (1996) and “Tony Bennett: An American Classic” (2007).
Besides singing, Bennett pursued his lifelong passion for painting by taking art lessons and bringing his sketchbook on the road. His paintings, signed with his family name Benedetto — including portraits of his musician friends and Central Park landscapes — were displayed in public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
“I love to paint as much as I love to sing,” Bennett told the AP in 2006. “It worked out to be such a blessing in my life because if I started getting burnt-out singing … I would go to my painting and that’s a big lift. … So I stay in this creative zone all the time.”
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Post Malone said "everything is good" following a hard fall during his St. Louis concert.
The singer was in the middle of performing a song when he fell into a hole in the stage. The show was immediately stopped as people rushed to tend to Post Malone.
"I just want to apologize to everyone in St. Louis," Post Malone said in a video posted on Twitter.
Post Malone said the hole is part of the stage setup for the acoustic part of the show. He blamed himself for not seeing it.
Post Malone's manager said the singer suffered bruised ribs, but an X-ray showed nothing was broken.
The singer said he will do a two-hour show the next time he is in the area to make up for the songs the fans missed. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/post-malone-falls-in-hole-during-concert-suffers-bruised-ribs | 2022-09-19 19:36:34 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/post-malone-falls-in-hole-during-concert-suffers-bruised-ribs |
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont has broken a hip in a fall at his home and was to undergo surgery to repair it, his office said Thursday.
The 82-year-old Democrat fell Wednesday night in McLean, Virginia, the statement said. Doctors determined the best course of action would be to have surgery to repair the hip as soon as possible.
Leahy was born blind in one eye.
“The senator has had a lifelong struggle with reduced depth perception,” the statement said. “He has taken some remarkable dingers over the years, but this one finally caught up with him.”
Leahy was “expected to make a full recovery and begin a healthy course of physical therapy immediately.”
Leahy is the longest-serving sitting senator. He announced in November that he will not seek reelection this fall. By the time his term expires in January 2023, he will have served for 48 years in the Senate.
Leahy was taken to the hospital in January 2021, hours after he had begun presiding over the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Leahy had not been feeling well and was taken there out of an abundance of caution. After being examined, he was sent home.
Leahy is the last of the so-called Watergate babies, the surge of congressional Democrats elected in 1974 after President Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment. | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/vermont-u-s-sen-patrick-leahy-breaks-hip-to-have-surgery/ | 2022-07-01 03:09:30 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/ap-politics/vermont-u-s-sen-patrick-leahy-breaks-hip-to-have-surgery/ |
Collaboration leverages BNY Mellon's global capabilities with Emirates NBD's regional expertise and deep footprint in the UAE market
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY Mellon, one of the world's largest financial institutions, and Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region, have announced a strategic alliance aimed at accelerating the growth of United Arab Emirates' (UAE) capital markets. The collaboration unites BNY Mellon's global footprint with Emirates NBD's regional expertise to provide clients, across the UAE and globally, access to world-leading capital markets infrastructure and technology.
Robin Vince, CEO-elect of BNY Mellon, said, "BNY Mellon is proud to continue to build on our rich decades-long history in the Middle East and play an important role in enhancing the region's vibrant market infrastructure with Emirates NBD, one of the UAE's leading financial institutions. We look forward to collaborating to further our vision of trust and innovation in the Middle East."
Shayne Nelson, Group CEO of Emirates NBD, said, "Our strategic collaboration comes at a pivotal time of transformation in the UAE's capital markets and is testament to Emirates NBD's ongoing commitment to enhancing local market infrastructure. The alliance brings Emirates NBD's on-ground strengths, reach and long-standing reputation as a trusted financial services partner to individuals and businesses in the UAE together with BNY Mellon's global expertise as the world's largest custodian to create a win-win proposition for regional and overseas investors alike."
BNY Mellon and Emirates NBD will work together to increase international investor access to the UAE's dynamic market through digitization. The UAE is currently experiencing an expansion of capital markets with multiple new listings and significant increase in market liquidity on both Dubai Financial Market and Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
Akash Shah, Chief Growth Officer at BNY Mellon, said, "Emirates NBD's regional excellence together with our global expertise will transform our collective client experience. It comes at an opportune moment, with a number of local champions coming to market through the UAE's IPO boom. Together, we will help create the infrastructure to capture long-term value from the UAE's financial ecosystem, increase operational efficiencies and investor access."
Ahmed Al Qassim, Group Head, Corporate and Institutional Banking at Emirates NBD, said, "We are delighted to begin this strategic alliance, which will significantly enhance our proposition to UAE investors by enabling seamless global market access. In addition, overseas investors can now tap into the exciting opportunities created by UAE's upcoming IPOs, strengthening the investor base and liquidity in the local bourse."
BNY Mellon works with a wide range of sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, governments, and other clients throughout the region, offering asset servicing and ancillary services, corporate trust and treasury services.
Emirates NBD Group serves customers, businesses, governments and institutions with a range of financial products and services including retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.
ABOUT BNY MELLON
BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment and wealth management and investment services in 35 countries. As of March 31, 2022, BNY Mellon had $45.5 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $2.3 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.
ABOUT EMIRATES NBD
Emirates NBD (DFM: Emirates NBD) is a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 14 million customers. As at 31st March 2022, total assets were AED 694 billion, (equivalent to approx. USD 189 billion). The Group has operations in the UAE, Egypt, India, Turkey, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Russia and Bahrain and representative offices in China and Indonesia with a total of 901 branches and 4,060 ATMs / SDMs.
Emirates NBD Group serves customers, businesses, governments and institutions with a range of financial products and services including retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.
The Group is a key participant in the global digital banking industry with 94% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of its branches. The Group also operates E20., a digital business bank for entrepreneurs and SMEs and Liv., the lifestyle digital bank for millennials. Emirates NBD is an active participant and supporter of the UAE's main development and sustainability initiatives, including financial literacy and the inclusion of people with disabilities. Emirates NBD Group is a Premier Partner and the Official Banking Partner for Expo 2020 Dubai.
Press Contacts:
Garrett Marquis
+1 (949) 683-1503 (m)
garrett.marquis@bnymellon.com
Ibrahim Sowaidan
Senior Vice President
Head - Group Corporate Affairs
Emirates NBD
Telephone: +971 4 609 4113 / +971 50 6538937
e-mail: ibrahims@emiratesnbd.com
Tricia Kaul
Vice-president, Finance Practice
asda'a bcw, Dubai, UAE
Tel: 971-4-4507600
Email: Tricia.Kaul@bcw-global.com
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Travis d'Arnaud Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. White Sox - July 16
Published: Jul. 16, 2023 at 3:23 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Atlanta Braves, including Travis d'Arnaud and his .629 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, battle starter Dylan Cease and the Chicago White Sox at Truist Park, Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his most recent game (0-for-1) against the White Sox.
Travis d'Arnaud Game Info & Props vs. the White Sox
- Game Day: Sunday, July 16, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- White Sox Starter: Dylan Cease
- TV Channel: BSSE
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +185)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +130)
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Travis d'Arnaud At The Plate
- d'Arnaud has five doubles, eight home runs and 14 walks while batting .273.
- d'Arnaud has recorded a hit in 22 of 36 games this season (61.1%), including eight multi-hit games (22.2%).
- He has homered in 19.4% of his games this year, and 5.4% of his trips to the dish.
- In 38.9% of his games this season, d'Arnaud has tallied at least one RBI. In six of those games (16.7%) he recorded more than one RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 14 games this season (38.9%), including multiple runs in three games.
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Travis d'Arnaud Home/Away Batting Splits
White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the White Sox pitching staff leads the league.
- The White Sox's 4.60 team ERA ranks 25th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- White Sox pitchers combine to surrender 129 total home runs at a rate of 1.4 per game (fourth-most in baseball).
- Cease makes the start for the White Sox, his 20th of the season. He is 3-3 with a 4.30 ERA and 123 strikeouts in 102 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last appeared on Saturday, July 8 against the St. Louis Cardinals, when he threw six innings, allowing five earned runs while giving up 11 hits.
- The 27-year-old ranks 46th in ERA (4.30), 50th in WHIP (1.344), and eighth in K/9 (10.8) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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GAHANNA, Ohio (WCMH) – A chaotic scene unfolded on Interstate 270 in Ohio on Saturday, after two men got into a fight in the middle of active lanes of traffic.
“After eight years of being a truck driver I thought I seen it all, but just when you think that, something else happens,” said Jon Castiaux, who filmed the incident on I-270 South as he waited in halted traffic.
Castiaux told Nexstar’s WCMH that he was driving through Gahanna when he saw people running around on the highway. He then saw two men on the ground, and was under the impression — at first — that someone was administering CPR to the other.
“I immediately thought it was a bad accident with an ejection,” Castiaux said. “As I got closer I noticed punches and kicks started flying so I just pulled my phone out to record it just to honestly prove that it happened.”
The video shows the two men — one wearing a black hoodie and another in a blue button-up — struggle with each other on the ground briefly, while other people get out of their cars and stand nearby. Another man runs across the highway and appears to gesture at the cars before running off. The two men then get up, losing their shoes in the process. The man in the black hoodie proceeds to kick and fling his hands at the other, knocking him down again.
Later in the video, the man in the blue shirt charges at the man in the black hoodie, throwing a punch. More drivers in the traffic jam get out of their cars and watch, but another driver, fed up with waiting, weaves around on the curb and keeps going.
The two men continue to fight and chase each other across the highway, before running further up the road toward a car stopped in the median.
“I’ve been trying to figure out why it even happened,” Castiaux said.
The police in Gahanna said officers arrived at the scene after the fight was over. None of the people involved wanted to cooperate, and others had already left.
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CA Los Angeles/Oxnard CA Zone Forecast for Thursday, May 26, 2022
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Zone Forecasts for Southwestern California
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
CAZ364-280030-
Los Angeles County Beaches-
Including LAX, Long Beach, Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach,
Santa Monica, and Torrance
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows mid50s to
around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to around 70. South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds and
fog. Lows mid to upper 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds and
fog. Lows upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
around 70 at the beaches to around 80 inland.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
70s to around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ365-280030-
Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles-
Including Beverly Hills, Compton, Culver City, Downey, Hollywood,
Lakewood, and Norwalk
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs around
70. South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog after
midnight. Lows mid to upper 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog after
midnight. Lows mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 70s to around 80.
$$
CAZ087-280030-
Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands-
Including Avalon and Two Harbors
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ362-280030-
Malibu Coast-
Including Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Zuma Beach
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy early then low clouds and fog. Lows in
the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs around
70. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs around
70.
$$
CAZ354-280030-
Ventura County Beaches-
Including Oxnard, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme, and Ventura
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog with partial afternoon clearing.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. West winds around 15 mph in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows mid50s.
West winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s. West winds around 15
mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the
beaches to the lower 70s inland.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches
to the lower to mid 70s inland.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the
beaches to the lower to mid 70s inland.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches to the
lower to mid 70s inland.
$$
CAZ355-280030-
Ventura County Inland Coast-
Including Camarillo and East Ventura
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
to upper 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs around
70. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ350-280030-
Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast-
Including Carpinteria, Goleta, Montecito, and Santa Barbara
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.TONIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the lower
to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to around 70. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
$$
CAZ349-280030-
Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast-
Including El Capitan State Beach, Gaviota, Jalama Beach,
and Refugio State Beach
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the 60s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy except for patchy low clouds and fog.
Lows upper 40s to mid 50s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 70s. Northwest winds 20 to
30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 25 to 35 mph
with gusts to 50 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds 20 to
30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to around 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
60s to lower 70s.
$$
CAZ351-280030-
Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range-
Including San Marcos Pass
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows upper 40s to mid 50s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
35 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northwest winds
25 to 35 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows
in the mid 50s to around 60.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s to around 80.
$$
CAZ352-280030-
Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Northwest winds around 15 mph shifting to
the southwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
$$
CAZ548-280030-
Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley-
Including East Los Angeles, El Monte, Pasadena, Pomona,
and San Gabriel
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the 50s to around 60.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows mid to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs around
80.
$$
CAZ547-280030-
Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley-
Including Burbank, Northridge, Universal City, and Woodland Hills
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s and 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows upper 40s and 50s. Southwest winds around 15
mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 70s to lower 80s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s and 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s and 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s and 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows mid 50s to lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ088-280030-
Santa Clarita Valley-
Including Castaic Lake, Newhall, Santa Clarita, and Valencia
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
70s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in
the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 70s. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
CAZ359-280030-
Southeastern Ventura County Valleys-
Including Moorpark, Newbury Park, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ358-280030-
Central Ventura County Valleys-
Including Fillmore, Piru, and Santa Paula
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
70s. Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80. West winds 15 to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ357-280030-
Ojai Valley-
Including Oak View and Ojai
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs around 70.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower 70s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
CAZ356-280030-
Lake Casitas-
Including Meiners Oaks
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 50s to lower 70s. Southwest winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows upper40s to
mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Southwest afternoon winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. West winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to around 80.
$$
CAZ363-280030-
Santa Monica Mountains-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
60s. South winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. Southwest afternoon winds around 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s except the
lower to mid 70s lower coastal slopes.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows in the 50s to around 60.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s and 70s.
$$
CAZ059-280030-
Antelope Valley-
Including Lancaster and Palmdale
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 90. West winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to lower 60s. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to mid 80s. West winds 20 to
30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. West winds 20 to
30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. West winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 50s to mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
$$
CAZ054-280030-
Los Angeles County Mountains-
Including Acton and Mount Wilson
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 70s to lower 80s at low
elevations to the mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 50 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
Areas of west winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations. West
winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 50 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the lower to mid 50s at
low elevations to the mid to upper 40s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 70s to mid 80s at low
elevations to the mid 60s to lower 70s at high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 60 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 50s in colder valleys and peaks.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 80s at low elevations to the
70s at high elevations.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 70s to mid 80s at low
elevations to the upper 60s to mid 70s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ053-280030-
Ventura County Mountains-
Including Lockwood Valley and Mount Pinos
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 70s to mid 80s at low
elevations to the mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 50s at low
elevations to the mid 30s to lower 40s in colder valleys and
peaks. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 70s to lower 80s at low
elevations to the 60s at high elevations. Northwest winds 15 to 25
mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the 40s to around 50 at
low elevations to the 30s to around 40 in colder valleys and
peaks. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s and 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to around
50 at low elevations to the mid 30s to around 40 in colder
valleys and peaks.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to mid 50s at
low elevations to the mid 30s to mid 40s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 70s to mid 80s at low
elevations to the upper 60s to mid 70s at high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the 50s to around 60 at
low elevations to the 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 80s to around 90 at low
elevations to the 70s to around 80 at high elevations.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 50s to around
60 at low elevations to the mid 40s to around 50 in colder
valleys and peaks.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 80s at low elevations to the
70s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ353-280030-
Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains-
Including Big Pine Mountain, Figueroa Mountain,
and San Rafael Mountain
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs from the mid 70s to around 80 at low elevations to
around 70 at high elevations. West winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 50s to around 60 at
low elevations to around 50 in colder valleys and peaks. North
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 70s to around 80 at low
elevations to the mid 60s to lower 70s at high elevations.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the west in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to lower 50s.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 70s to around 80 at low
elevations to the 60s to around 70 at high elevations. North
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 50 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs from the 70s at low elevations to
the 60s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the lower to mid 50s at
low elevations to the mid 40s to around 50 in colder valleys and
peaks.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 80s at low
elevations to the 70s at high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 60 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 50s in colder valleys and peaks.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 80s to around 90 at low
elevations to the mid 70s to lower 80s at high elevations.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the upper 50s to mid
60s at low elevations to the lower to mid 50s in colder valleys
and peaks.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 80s at low elevations to the
mid 70s to around 80 at high elevations.
$$
CAZ340-280030-
San Luis Obispo County Beaches-
Including Arroyo Grande, Avila Beach, Cambria, Morro Bay,
and Pismo Beach
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs from the mid 50s at the beaches to the mid 60s inland. West
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows mid40s to
around 50. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the upper 50s at the beaches to the upper 60s inland. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows mid 40s to around 50. Northwest winds 15 to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
lower to mid 60s at the beaches to around 70 inland. Northwest
winds around 15 mph increasing to 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds and
fog. Lows mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at the
beaches to around 70 inland.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the
beaches to the lower to mid 70s inland.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the upper 50s to mid 60s at the beaches to around 70 inland.
$$
CAZ341-280030-
San Luis Obispo County Inland Central Coast-
Including Lopez Lake, Nipomo, and San Luis Obispo
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. West winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows around 50.
Northwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. West winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows mid to upper 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph in
the evening.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds and
fog. Lows mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s and 70s.
$$
CAZ346-280030-
Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches-
Including Lompoc and Vandenberg Space Force Base
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog. Highs from the mid 50s to around
60 at the beaches to the mid 60s inland. Northwest winds around
15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows around 50. Northwest winds
around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the mid 50s at the beaches to the mid 60s inland. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows around 50. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
around 60 at the beaches to the mid to upper 60s inland. Northwest
winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows in the
mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs
from the mid to upper 50s at the beaches to the lower to mid 60s
inland.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from around 60 at the beaches to the
upper 60s inland.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at the
beaches to the lower 70s inland.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
around 60 at the beaches to around 70 inland.
$$
CAZ347-280030-
Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast-
Including Buellton and Santa Maria
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog mostly clearing in the afternoon.
Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. West winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows around 50. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
60s to lower 70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows upper 40s. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph increasing to 20
to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid to upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 60s to around 80.
$$
CAZ348-280030-
Santa Ynez Valley-
Including Lake Cachuma, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
60s to mid 70s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and fog.
Lows mid 40s to around 50. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the
evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 60s and 70s. West winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows mid to upper 40s. Northwest winds 15 to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the 70s to around 80. Northwest winds 15 to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds and
fog. Lows mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in
the upper 60s and 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then areas of low clouds
and fog. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
mid 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ343-280030-
Southern Salinas Valley-
Including Atascadero, Lake Nacimiento, Paso Robles, San Miguel,
and Templeton
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the 70s
to lower 80s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to lower 50s. Northwest
winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to around 50.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to around 90.
$$
CAZ342-280030-
Santa Lucia Mountains-
Including Hearst Castle and Irish Hills
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s except the upper 50s to mid 60s
lower coastal slopes. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows mid40s to
lower 50s. Northwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
70s to around 80 except the lower to mid 60s lower coastal slopes.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to around 50.
Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s except the lower to mid
60s lower coastal slopes.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s except the mid
to upper 60s lower coastal slopes.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to around 90 except around
70 lower coastal slopes.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then partly cloudy. Lows
in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 70s to mid 80s except the mid to upper 60s lower coastal
slopes.
$$
CAZ344-280030-
San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys-
Including Carrizo Plain, Creston, and Shandon
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
70s to mid 80s. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s and 50s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to around 90.
$$
CAZ345-280030-
San Luis Obispo County Mountains-
Including Caliente Range, La Panza Range,
and Santa Margarita Lake
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
mid 70s to lower 80s at low elevations to the mid 60s to lower 70s
at high elevations. West winds around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 50s to around 60 at
low elevations to the mid 40s to around 50 in colder valleys and
peaks. Northwest winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from around 80 at low elevations to the
lower to mid 70s at high elevations. Northeast winds around
15 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to around
50 at low elevations to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys
and peaks. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid to upper 70s at low
elevations to around 70 at high elevations. North winds 15 to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 30s and 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid to upper 70s at low
elevations to the mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 80s at low elevations to the mid
70s to around 80 at high elevations.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid to upper 50s at
low elevations to around 50 in colder valleys and peaks.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from around 90 at low elevations to the
lower to mid 80s at high elevations.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 60 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 50s in colder valleys and peaks.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 80s to around 90 at low
elevations to the mid 70s to lower 80s at high elevations.
$$
CAZ038-280030-
Cuyama Valley-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph in the evening.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid to upper 40s. Northwest
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s. North winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid to upper 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 40s to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s and 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s to around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows mid 50s to lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 80s to around 90.
$$
CAZ549-280030-
San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog. Highs in the upper 50s to mid
60s.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows around 50. Northwest winds
20 to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest winds 20 to 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 25 to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
upper 50s near the coast to the upper 60s interior. Northwest
winds 25 to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s near the coast to
the upper 60s interior.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s near the
coast to the upper 60s interior.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s near the
coast to around 70 interior.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from
the upper 50s to mid 60s near the coast to the upper 60s interior.
$$
CAZ550-280030-
Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Low clouds and fog. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.TONIGHT...Low clouds and fog. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Low clouds and fog in the morning then partly cloudy.
Highs from the lower to mid 60s near the coast to the lower to
mid 70s interior.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then mostly clear.
Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s near the coast
to the lower to mid 70s interior. Northwest winds 20 to 35 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid to upper 60s near the
coast to the mid 70s interior.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to around 70 near the
coast to the mid to upper 70s interior.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs from around 70 near the coast to around
80 interior.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and
fog after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs from the mid to upper 60s near the coast to the
mid to upper 70s interior.
$$
ASR
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ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II, and HIPAA compliance ensures client information within any of Element Critical's data centers are protected at the highest standards
VIENNA, Va., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Element Critical, a data center colocation and interconnection provider, today announced it has successfully completed comprehensive annual assessments of its rigorous engineering and reliability standards. Achieving compliance certifications demonstrates Element Critical's ongoing commitment to customers, ensuring its facilities meet regulatory requirements with accredited standards of security and transparency.
Based on its proven experience and superior data center methods and procedures, Element Critical facilities adhere to these industry standards:
ISO/IEC 27001: Among the most important compliance standards for a data center, this certificate demonstrates that the facility's policies and procedures have been tested and satisfy standards that ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.
PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard: Element Critical attained compliance in recognition of its data centers' alignment to the standards that protect customers' financial data and safeguard credit and debit card transactions.
SOC 2 Type II - Service Organization Control 2: Confirmed by audit across all facilities, Element Critical meets security compliance requirements for controls and safeguards when hosting customer data. The SOC 2 report is intended to meet the needs of a broad range of users that need to understand internal control at a service organization as it relates to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: HIPAA compliance ensures standards for protecting sensitive patient health data and personal identification information.
"Our facilities meet a wide variety of regulatory requirements because this enables our customers to meet industry compliance standards and reflects the quality of our security, operations, engineering excellence and energy efficiency of our data centers," said Shane Menking, Chief Operating Officer.
Data centers are the engine for many companies and organizations – where vital data is processed and stored. Colocation is also an interconnection hub and gateway to both cloud and edge applications. Businesses depend on their data center providers to adhere to stringent levels of security protocols reinforced by continually updated practices.
"Element Critical data centers are run by highly trained security and engineering personnel, executing daily standard operating procedures (SOP) and site operations methods (MOP) to ensure our customers receive a secure and safe environment for their sensitive and mission-critical applications." Menking continues, "Earning third-party validation across all our data center facilities affirms our commitments to customer satisfaction and our dedication to meet evolving data security standards."
Element Critical is among the fastest-growing data center service providers in the United States, with locations in Chicago, Austin, Houston, Silicon Valley, and Virginia. Led by an executive team comprised of industry veterans, the company boasts an expanding portfolio of hybrid-ready facilities in strategic markets across the country and a steadfast commitment to meeting the diverse needs of today's business and technology leaders. For more information, visit www.elementcritical.com.
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President Biden said he's worried about broader threats to issues like marriage equality, while Democratic leaders take aim at conservative justices who they say lied about settled precedent.
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President Biden said he's worried about broader threats to issues like marriage equality, while Democratic leaders take aim at conservative justices who they say lied about settled precedent.
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Let's kick off the Super Bowl with a sneak peek at the best part of the broadcast: The commercials!
And this year's spots are jam-packed with our favorite celebs. Take, for instance, T-Mobile's ad, which features Scrubs besties Zach Braff and Donald Faison, as well as John Travolta. In the 60-second clip, the trio showcase their singing chops as they parody Grease.
Elsewhere, Pete Davidson, Jon Hamm and Brie Larson unite for Hellmann's Mayonnaise while The White Lotus' Jennifer Coolidge stars in an ad for e.l.f. Cosmetics, where she channels...a baby dolphin. ICYMI, that's her dream gig.
Speaking of dreams, Alicia Silverstone reprised her iconic role as Clueless' Cher Horowitz alongside co-star Elisa Donovan (a.k.a. frenemy Amber) for Rakuten.
Throughout filming, "I was going, 'This is terrible. It's not working at all,' because that's what was happening in my mind," Silverstone exclusively told E! News. "But, then, when I saw it, I went, 'Oh. It's adorable.'"(And yes, her update on a Clueless reboot will have you totally buggin'!)
Plus, Missy Elliott had an epic collab with Jack Harlow for Doritos. And now, they're thinking of joining forces for more than just chips.
"We most definitely are going to do something together, for sure," she teased to E! News. "It was amazing working with Jack. He's such a sweet person."
So, while it's still TBD whether the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles walk away as champions on Sunday, one thing is for sure: These commercials have won big time.
Keep reading to see all the ads that are a total touchdown… | https://www.eonline.com/news/1364582/here-s-every-must-see-commercial-from-super-bowl-2023?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-02-10 21:09:56 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1364582/here-s-every-must-see-commercial-from-super-bowl-2023?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The head of the Iowa Democratic Party plans to step down in the wake of a vote by the national party to put the South Carolina primary ahead of Iowa's caucuses, which have long been the first presidential nominating contest in the country.
Ross Wilburn announced Saturday that he won't run for reelection as party chairman in January.
“No one can predict the future. But I have the utmost faith that whoever takes up the mantle next will guide our party with grace through the challenges ahead, as we all continue to work on growing our party and electing Democrats who will fight for the ideas we know are supported by a strong majority of Iowans,” Wilburn said in a statement.
In addition to losing their first-in-the-nation status, Democrats lost several key races in the state last month as Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley cruised to reelection and two longtime Democratic office holders lost their positions.
The next chairman will lead Iowa Democrats as they decide whether to comply with the national party's decision or follow a state law that requires the caucuses to be held at least eight days before any other presidential nominating contest.
If the state party doesn't go along with the national party's decision, Iowa Democrats will run the risk that its delegates will not count toward the national nominating total.
Wilburn, who was the party’s first Black chairman, will remain a state representative. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/iowa-democratic-party-chair-steps-down-after-caucus-move/MX2RU2TJJRE6DDD5VRARP6XB64/ | 2022-12-18 21:43:24 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/iowa-democratic-party-chair-steps-down-after-caucus-move/MX2RU2TJJRE6DDD5VRARP6XB64/ |
Dive into comic illustrations, from Everything's Racist, by Joel Christian Gill, and other stories that visually break down how we got here and where we can go.
Everything’s Racist Comic: Guns
Artist Joel Christian Gill reveals the difficult history behind everything
By Joel Christian GillUpdated November 1, 2022, 1 hour ago | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/01/opinion/everythings-racist-comic-guns/ | 2022-11-01 19:36:50 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/01/opinion/everythings-racist-comic-guns/ |
WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
313 AM CDT Tue Apr 11 2023
...AREAS OF FOG THIS MORNING...
Areas of fog have developed across portions of South Texas
this morning. Expect visibilities to generally range between 1 to
3 miles with a few locations seeing visibilities 1/4 mile or less
at times.
Use caution if traveling as visibility may change rapidly
in a short amount of time. Use low beam headlights and leave
extra distance between your vehicle and others on the road.
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Russia hits Ukraine's Black Sea port in wake of grain deal
Kyiv, Ukraine — Russian missiles hit Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday's strike as “spit in the face” of Turkey and the United Nations, which brokered the agreements.
Two Russian Kalibr cruise missiles hit the port's infrastructure and Ukrainian air defenses brought down two others, the Ukrainian military’s Southern Command said. It didn't specify the damage or say whether the strike caused casualties.
“It took less than 24 hours for Russia to launch a missile attack on Odesa’s port, breaking its promises and undermining its commitments before the U.N. and Turkey under the Istanbul agreement,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said. “In case of non-fulfillment, Russia will bear full responsibility for a global food crisis.”
Nikolenko described the missile strike on the 150th day of Russia’s war in Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin's “spit in the face of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who made great efforts to reach agreement.”
Guterres' office issued a statement saying the U.N. chief “unequivocally condemns” the strikes.
“Yesterday, all parties made clear commitments on the global stage to ensure the safe movement of Ukrainian grain and related products to global markets,” the statement said. “These products are desperately needed to address the global food crisis and ease the suffering of millions of people in need around the globe. Full implementation by the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Turkey is imperative.”
During a Friday signing ceremony in Istanbul, Guterres hailed the deals to open Ukraine's ports in Odesa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny to commercial food exports as "a beacon of hope, a beacon of possibility, a beacon of relief in a world that needs it more than ever.”
The agreements were intended to clear the way for the shipment of millions of tons of Ukrainian grain and some Russian exports of grain and fertilizer held up by the war. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but Russia’s invasion of the country and naval blockade of its ports halted shipments.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press showed the deals called for a U.N.-led joint coordination center in Istanbul where officials from Ukraine, Russia, Turkey would oversee the scheduling and searches of cargo ships.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address that the agreements offered “a chance to prevent a global catastrophe – a famine that could lead to political chaos in many countries of the world, in particular in the countries that help us.”
The head of Zelenskyy's office, Andriy Yermak, said on Twitter that the Odesa strike coming so soon after the endorsement of the Black Sea ports deal illustrated "the Russian diplomatic dichotomy.”
Along with the strike on Odesa, Russia's military fired a barrage of missiles Saturday at an airfield and a railway facility in central Ukraine, killing at least three people, while Ukrainian forces launched rocket strikes on river crossings in a Russian-occupied southern region.
The attacks on key infrastructure marked new attempts by the warring parties to tip the scales of the grinding conflict in their favor.
In Ukraine's central Kirovohradska region, 13 Russian missiles struck an airfield and a railway facility. Gov. Andriy Raikovych said that at least one serviceman and two guards were killed. The regional administration reported the strikes near the city of Kirovohrad, wounded another 13 people.
In the southern Kherson region, which Russian troops seized early in the invasion, Ukrainian forces preparing for a potential counteroffensive fired rockets at Dnieper River crossings to try to disrupt supplies to the Russians.
Despite the progress on that front, fighting raged unabated in eastern Ukraine's industrial heartland of the Donbas, where Russian forces tried to make new gains in the face of stiff Ukrainian resistance.
Russian troops also have faced Ukrainian counterattacks but largely held their ground in the Kherson region just north of the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Earlier this week, the Ukrainians bombarded the Antonivskyi Bridge across the Dnieper River using the U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russia-appointed regional administration in Kherson, said.
Stremousov told Russian state news agency Tass that the only other crossing of the Dnieper, the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, also came under attack from rockets launched with the weapons supplied by Washington but wasn't damaged.
HIMARS, which fires GPS-guided rockets at targets 80 kilometers (50 miles) away, a distance that puts it out of reach of most Russian artillery systems, has significantly bolstered the Ukrainian strike capability.
In addition, Ukrainian forces shelled an automobile bridge across the Inhulets River in the village of Darivka, Stremousov told Tass. He said the bridge just east of the regional capital of Kherson sustained seven hits but remained open to traffic.
Stremousov saod that unlike the Antonivskyi Bridge, the small bridge in Darivka has no strategic value.
Since April, the Kremlin has concentrated on capturing the Donbas, a mostly Russian-speaking region of eastern Ukraine where pro-Russia separatists have proclaimed independence.
However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized Wednesday that Moscow plans to retain control of other areas its forces occupy during the war. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/07/23/russia-ukraine-war-black-sea-port-grain-deal/10134202002/ | 2022-07-23 13:16:10 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2022/07/23/russia-ukraine-war-black-sea-port-grain-deal/10134202002/ |
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said the emergency rules legalizing recreational marijuana sales will go into effect Friday.
DHSS Communications Director Lisa Cox said the department's Division of Cannabis Regulation will begin approving conversion requests on Friday from medical dispensaries that requested the ability to sell adult-use marijuana.
Cox said nearly all of the state's medical marijuana dispensaries applied for the comprehensive license that would allow for recreational and medicinal sales. She said 90% of those dispensaries applied on Dec.8, the first day applications were accepted.
The constitutional amendment passed in November said the state had 60 days from the time they applied to either approve or deny the request. That deadline would have fallen on Feb. 6, but Cox said the state will begin ruling on requests on Friday to ensure the process is working correctly.
"Each licensee is responsible for knowing and understanding the rules that apply to their facility," Cox said in the statement. "After conversion, sales to adult-use consumers (age 21 and up) may begin as soon as comprehensive dispensary facilities are ready to commence operating under their new authority."
Thursday’s announcement comes four days before many retailers expected it.
Greenlight Dispensaries stores across the state are bringing in extra staff, expanding hours, and increasing products. Before now, only people with a medical reason to use marijuana could come through their doors. Friday, that will change.
"Double everything and if it's not enough, we'll triple it as far as people go,” Greenlight partner Thomas Bommarito said.
Greenlight Dispensaries are preparing for a demand like they haven't seen before. It means training new workers, unpacking supply, and getting ready for an influx of recreational marijuana customers.
"We've got plenty of flower. You don't want to run out of that,” Bommarito said.
Like all dispensaries in Missouri, they could only sell to customers who used pot for medical purposes. In November, voters approved legalizing marijuana for anyone over 21. Stores can now begin selling it Friday.
Greenlight says there's a strict check-in process for walk-ins. They check for a state ID or a passport as soon as you walk in. Starting Monday its stores will open 2 hours earlier and close 2 hours later because of recreational sales now taking effect.
It comes as some groups are concerned about marijuana getting into the hands of those it isn't supposed to.
"PreventEd remains concerned about the impact of high-potency cannabis products on adolescent brain development. We strongly encourage close regulation of the industry, particularly product marketing and availability as it relates to our young people. For help in talking about or addressing cannabis use with your teen, please visit talkaboutitmo.com,” the group’s Director Nichole Dawsey said.
But there are some cities that are still working to change ordinances that technically only allow for the sale of medical marijuana.
This could impact some dispensaries, but most experts say it’s kind of a gray area and legally the constitution is the deciding factor allowing them to sell as soon as they have a comprehensive license.
For weeks, Star Buds Dispensary Owner Chris Chesley has been preparing to open his doors to thousands more customers looking to buy recreational marijuana products.
“Talking with vendors, transporters, making sure everything's going to be ready, running smoothly. Definitely staffing up. We've almost doubled our staff,” Chesley told 5 On Your Side earlier this week.
Chesley owns two dispensaries one in Festus and one in University City.
He said the transition to sell both recreational and medical products also involves working with cities to change ordinances. But Missouri NORML Attorney Dan Viets said legally cities can’t stop dispensaries from selling recreational pot on Feb. 6 as long as they have a state comprehensive license.
“Article 14 specifically says that no local government can enact any ordinance which would place an undue burden on the operation of those facilities. And attempting to stop them from operating would certainly be an undue burden,” Viets said.
Some dispensaries may choose to not immediately begin selling recreational products on Feb. 6 or may not have the state license just yet so really, it’s best to check with the store directly before showing up. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/recreational-marijuana-sale-missouri-friday-february-3-cannabis/63-5cbc556f-a679-44be-8689-46933ffbeb5a | 2023-02-03 17:31:29 | 0 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/recreational-marijuana-sale-missouri-friday-february-3-cannabis/63-5cbc556f-a679-44be-8689-46933ffbeb5a |
With two more people formally expressing interest, there are now eight people contending for the vacant Democratic House District 10 nomination.
Jerry Greene, a sustainable environmentalist and musician, and Xanthe Thomassen, a business professional, have now joined the other six people in officially seeking a nomination for the position left vacant when Rep. Edie Hooton announced she was withdrawing from the race.
Affordable housing, green transportation and homelessness are among the areas in which Greene, a longtime Boulder resident, would focus if chosen as the replacement nominee.
Thomassen in 2020 volunteered to support Colorado’s economic recovery and served as the interim managing director with the National Vote at Home Institute.
Her wife, Dana Derichsweiler, is the former owner of the Walnut Cafe in Boulder.
If selected, Thomassen said she’d be business focused. Costs are rising and businesses are struggling, especially with labor shortages, she added.
“I’d like to figure out an avenue of how we help our existing Boulder community that is struggling to make ends meet,” she said.
Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett, RTD Director Lynn Guissinger, City Council member Junie Joseph, political advocate Celeste Landry, former University of Colorado regent Jim Martin and BVSD science teacher Tina Mueh are the others who have formally expressed an interest in the position that ultimately will be filled by a Boulder County Democratic Party vacancy committee.
Outgoing representative Hooton has served almost three full two-year terms in the state Legislature after being elected in 2016. She said she made the decision to withdraw in large part because of the all-consuming nature of the job and her desire to spend more time with her family.
The BoCo Dems plan to select the replacement candidate in a meeting on Aug. 15 that will be publicly streamed on the Boulder County Democratic Party’s Facebook page. The organization intends to host a forum on Aug. 13.
The candidate selected next week will face Republican nominee William DeOreo, who is a water engineer, in the November general election.
Community members can ask questions at HD10@bocodems.org.
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SEATTLE — Seattle Mariners pitcher Marco Gonzales is looking to chalk up a win against a lesser known opponent that devastated his family.
Marco and his wife Monica are celebrating the release of a new, limited edition red-blend wine they developed with Chelan-based Noviello Vineyards. The purpose is to celebrate life and grace.
Grace is a word the Gonzales family has embodied over the years and a fitting tribute to the inspiration behind the wine.
Wine is something the Gonzales family became passionate about through Monica’s mother, Linda, who always dreamed of getting into the wine business. Linda was diagnosed with a rare condition of the nervous system called Multiple System Atrophy, or MSA. MSA is a rapidly-progressing neurodegenerative disorder that affects the brain.
Linda battled with the lesser-known condition for seven years before succumbing to the affects in 2021. The cause of MSA is unknown and there’s no treatment or cure.
Marco and Monica are looking to raise awareness by raising financial support for Defeat MSA. The organization is leading research efforts and providing support for families battling MSA.
The limited edition red-blend wine is called “Grace” G7 and carries a rather significant label.
“Monica’s mom was so kind and so good to everyone, even in the tough times. She always carried herself with Grace," Marco said. He also wears the No. 7 jersey.
Linda’s grace was so inspiring to the family that they had to borrow the name twice. Linda passed away while Monica was pregnant with her first child.
“We named our daughter Grace Linda Gonzales, so when it came to labelling the wine it was a perfect fusion,” said Monica.
The bottle features angel wings and the winemakers said this blend is personal.
Ana and Frederic Stern are family friends and loved Linda. They said it was a unique honor to work with Marco and Monica on this blend.
“They were very involved and very passionate to know about the entire winemaking process,” said Frederic. He admits this is a unique, first-time blend from Walla Walla and a fitting tribute to a woman who was the definition of Grace.
Grace G7 Red Blend goes on sale Sept 7 for $42 a bottle and benefits nonprofit Defeat MSA. As a part of the launch the Gonzales’s are also hosting an online auction featuring signed sports memorabilia and wines to further research. | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/mlb/mariners/seattle-mariners-pitcher-creates-wine-benefit-research/281-08c876fd-43b2-4411-8309-64528d452ff3 | 2022-09-08 01:39:46 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/sports/mlb/mariners/seattle-mariners-pitcher-creates-wine-benefit-research/281-08c876fd-43b2-4411-8309-64528d452ff3 |
United States picked to host 2025 Club World Cup, an expanded soccer tournament with 32 teams
GENEVA (AP) — The United States will host the Club World Cup in 2025, the first time the FIFA tournament will have 32 teams.
Real Madrid, Manchester City and Chelsea already earned places as recent Champions League winners for the expanded tournament lineup that is set to test stadiums and operations one year before the 2026 World Cup.
The United States will host the men’s World Cup with Canada and Mexico, and FIFA could yet give some Club World Cup games to those countries.
The Club World Cup will take place in June-July 2025. The United States was chosen as host Friday during an online meeting of the FIFA Council.
FIFA praised “the United States’ position as a proven leader in staging global events and because it would allow FIFA to maximize synergies with the delivery” of the 2026 tournament.
The Seattle Sounders also are in the lineup for the Club World Cup as the 2022 champion of North American soccer region CONCACAF. The Americans should get another entry as the host nation.
Storied European teams have visited the United States for preseason friendly games for years but the expanded club tournament will give fans a rare chance to see 12 of them play competitive games.
FIFA said in March the basic qualification path for clubs was to win a continental championship in any of the four years from 2021 to 2024 in the five main confederations: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
Europe with 12 teams and South America with six are the only continents with more than four entries. Extra places should be awarded according to team rankings by results a four-year span in continental competitions.
The current seven-team Club World Cup for continental champions played every season creates little broad appeal and FIFA has long wanted to stage a full-sized tournament every four years.
This expanded version in 2025 is a huge commercial opportunity for FIFA to try new broadcasting models and sign new sponsors, funding hundreds of millions of dollars in prize money for the clubs.
The influential European Club Association said in March it hoped for talks with FIFA on how to manage the commercial rights.
The format for a Club World Cup lasting about three weeks has yet to be decided. One option is guaranteeing the 32 teams at least three games each playing in eight groups of four. The eight group winners could then advance to the quarterfinals. That would create a tournament of 56 games if a third-place game was included.
The current annual Club World Cup format will continue with a final edition scheduled for December in Saudi Arabia.
Reviving the Club World Cup was a priority for FIFA president Gianni Infantino on being elected in 2016, but his first project plan was blocked. A Saudi-linked $25 billion deal with Japanese technology investor SoftBank provoked anger from European soccer officials who saw it as secretive and an overreach by FIFA.
FIFA got agreement in 2019 for a 24-team event to launch in June 2021 in China, but that was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic before commercial details had been confirmed.
FIFA came back with a fresh Club World Cup plan after the Super League project led by an elite group of clubs quickly failed in April 2021 while causing intense turmoil for European soccer body UEFA.
Other teams already qualified for the 2025 Club World Cup are: Palmeiras (Brazil), Flamengo (Brazil), Monterrey (Mexico), Leon (Mexico), Al-Ahly (Egypt), Wydad Casablanca (Morocco), Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan) and Al Hilal (Saudi Arabia).
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KATY, Texas, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA) announced today that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results before the New York Stock Exchange opens on Friday, July 29, 2022.
This release will be followed by a conference call for investors on Friday, July 29, 2022 at 7:30 a.m. Central Time to discuss the results. Hosting the call will be Bryan Shinn, Chief Executive Officer, and Don Merril, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Investors are invited to listen to a live webcast of the conference call by visiting the "Investors- Events & Presentations" section of the Company's website at www.ussilica.com. The webcast will be archived for one year. The call can also be accessed live over the telephone by dialing (877) 869-3847 or for international callers, (201) 689-8261. A replay will be available shortly after the call and can be accessed by dialing (877) 660-6853 or for international callers, (201) 612-7415. The conference ID for the replay is 13731716. The replay will be available through August 29, 2022.
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. is a global performance materials company and is a member of the Russell 2000. The Company is a leading producer of commercial silica used in the oil and gas industry and in a wide range of industrial applications. Over its 122-year history, U.S. Silica has developed core competencies in mining, processing, logistics and materials science that enable it to produce and cost-effectively deliver over 600 diversified products to customers across our end markets. U.S. Silica's wholly-owned subsidiaries include EP Minerals and SandBox Logistics™. EP Minerals is an industry leader in the production of products derived from diatomaceous earth, perlite, engineered clays, and non-activated clays. SandBox Logistics™ is a state-of-the-art leader in proppant storage, handling and well-site delivery, dedicated to making proppant logistics cleaner, safer and more efficient. The Company currently operates 24 mines and production facilities and is headquartered in Katy, Texas.
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BRESCIA, Italy, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 1000 Miglia 2023 comes with a surprise: the Race that, from June 13 to 17 will involve the 405 cars admitted to the start from Brescia will last five days.
The Race will run between Brescia, Rome and back along a route of more than 2,000 km. After departing from Viale Venezia and coasting Lake Garda, passing through Verona, Ferrara, Lugo and Imola, the convoy will end the first leg in Cervia-Milano Marittima; the second day will feature a passage through San Marino, Senigallia, Macerata with a lunch stop, Fermo and Ascoli Piceno and the final parade in Via Veneto in Rome; the third leg will ascend from the Capital offering lunch in the spectacular Siena, it will continue to Pistoia, the Abetone Pass, Modena and Reggio Emilia and will finish in Parma; on the fourth day, after Stradella and Pavia, the Race will reach Piedmont with lunch in Alessandria, then Asti and Vercelli and, via Novara, it will head to downtown Milan, which will host the last night of the Race; on the fifth day, after saying goodbye to Bergamo, Brescia's twin city as the Italian Capital of Culture 2023, the 1000 Miglia 2023 will end in Brescia in the late morning with a city circuit before the final passage on the Viale Venezia platform and the closing lunch. In the evening, the see-you-in-2024 celebration with the Red Arrow's full evening events, the 1000 Miglia The Night, that will bring the intense week to an end.
2023 will also be the year of the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Italian Air Force, which has always been very close to our Race, and the claim "In flight towards the future" also well represents the road that the Red Arrow took almost a hundred years ago and is still as relevant today as ever.
Entries will be open from October 13 to January 13, 2023.
Notification of acceptance: by April 10, 2023.
To apply for entry, the cars must already have, or have applied for, a Registro 1000 Miglia certificate and may be admitted only after obtaining the said certificate.
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Failing to use a blinker led to a Luzerne County man's arrest Tuesday after Scranton police said they found an illegally owned handgun and drugs during a traffic stop.
Officers with the department's Street Crimes Unitpulled over Alex Steven Johnson, 32, on the 100 block of Green Street at 4:19 p.m. after watching him fail to use his turn signal properly twice, according to a criminal complaint. As police pulled him over, they said they watched Johnson, 1101 Walnut St., Freeland, throw something out of his window and toss a backpack into his backseat.
Officers smelled marijuana, and whileJohnson denied throwing anything from his window, headmitted to having a half-smoked blunt in his pocket, police said. He later admitted to having a handgun in his backpack, which officers found, along with 2.5 grams of methamphetamine, baggies, a scale, rubber gloves and suspected marijuana.
Johnson is barred from possessing a firearm due to aggravated assault and possession with intent to distribute convictions in New Jersey, according to the complaint.
He is charged with prohibited possession of a firearm, possession with intent to deliver and related counts. Johnson remains in Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $75,000 bail, with a preliminary hearing 9:30 a.m. Thursday. | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/police-luzerne-county-man-had-drugs-illegally-owned-handgun-during-scranton-traffic-stop/article_cc8c98de-9ba5-5db4-9ad1-87f8065bfa2a.html | 2023-06-02 05:10:48 | 0 | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/police-luzerne-county-man-had-drugs-illegally-owned-handgun-during-scranton-traffic-stop/article_cc8c98de-9ba5-5db4-9ad1-87f8065bfa2a.html |
(NewsNation) — Angela White, the reality television star and former member of the Kardashian clan known as Blac Chyna, is sharing her journey on how she found religion, and as a result, possibly saved her own life by removing silicone and fillers from her body.
“I just got sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I knew that I wasn’t living my life right, so I had to make a change,” she said Thursday on “CUOMO” about her life transformation.
The changes come a year after White was baptized, which she shared in an Instagram post a couple of weeks ago. It prompted her to quit the adult site OnlyFans and reverse years of cosmetic procedures.
The former girlfriend of Rob Kardashian also recently received a doctorate degree from a Bible college.
“I was getting so much money, I was getting this, I was doing this … and doing that, but then I would always run into some issues or problems or drama or a lawsuit or false allegations and things like that,” she said of her past struggles. “So, I just really had to go into solitude and figure out what is it that’s causing all of this.”
She emerged from that solitude with a newfound perspective on life and a renewed sense of passion and purpose.
“When you’re making fast money, you’re getting recognized by everybody, you’re not going to be praying as faithfully as you was before, so that was the biggest thing for me,” she said. “I just really wanted to really focus on my kids and focus on, like, really, who I am.”
Once featured on the hit show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” and later her own spinoff, “Rob & Chyna” with Rob Kardashian, White sued four members of the Kardashian family last year for defamation. She alleged they spread false stories of abuse about her.
She began getting cosmetic treatments around the age of 19 with illegal butt lift injections. After that came lip fillers and breast augmentations.
Looking back on it, she says she was seeking an unattainable beauty standard.
“I (was) just trying to basically alter my body to this perfect image that doesn’t even really exist,” she said.
Dr. Doris Day, a board-certified dermatologist, explained during an appearance on “CUOMO” the dangers of illegal silicone injections.
“She really is going to heave a powerful voice in helping young people understand that you need to be thoughtful about what you have done and who does it,” Day said. “There are medical-grade silicones that are FDA approved … but the types of injections that she had in the butt were illegal, done in somebody’s home, and she’s lucky … that she didn’t have a really bad infection or necrosis or loss of skin.”
“I want people to be really cautious,” White added. “It’s really not worth it, and I got really honestly lucky.”
Now, she feels “way, way way way more beautiful.”
“I feel lighter, I feel happier, I feel more confident. More confident than ever.”
Looking ahead, White announced Wednesday that she will be playing the character Nisi in the play “B.A.P.S.” that opens in May. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/blac-chyna-on-silicone-and-fillers-its-not-worth-it/ | 2023-04-07 15:48:57 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/blac-chyna-on-silicone-and-fillers-its-not-worth-it/ |
(Baptist Health) – About one in every five deaths in the U.S. is caused by cancer, making it the second leading cause of death. That’s why it’s important to learn what does—and what doesn’t—help protect you from cancer. How much do you know about cancer prevention?
Myth or fact: Organic produce is more protective against cancer than regularly grown produce.
Myth. There’s no good scientific evidence that eating organic fruits and vegetables provides greater protection against cancer than eating conventionally grown produce. However, you can reduce your risk for several kinds of cancers by eating a wide variety of plant-based foods.
Myth or fact: You can lower your risk for cancer by keeping yourself at a healthy weight.
Fact. Excess body fat increases your cancer risk. Studies have suggested that being overweight and obese are linked to a higher risk for at least 13 different types of cancer. It’s been estimated that more than 360 cases of cancer in the U.S. could be prevented every day if everybody was at a healthy weight.
Myth or fact: You’re less likely to get cancer if you take a daily multivitamin.
Myth. There is no good scientific evidence that supports this idea. Researchers are currently investigating whether certain vitamins—like vitamin D—could help prevent cancer. However, at least one vitamin—vitamin E—may increase the risk of prostate cancer when taken alone.
Myth or fact: Eating sugar does not cause cancer to get worse.
Fact. No studies have found that eating sugar will make cancer worse. There also is no evidence that adopting a sugarless diet will make cancer go away. However, eating a lot of sugar can cause you to become overweight—and that may increase your cancer risk.
Myth or fact: You should avoid wearing antiperspirants because they’ve been linked to breast cancer.
Myth. While there are concerns that aluminum and parabens in antiperspirants and deodorants may be absorbed by the skin and contribute to breast cancer, no studies have demonstrated a conclusive link.
Myth or fact: Vaccines can help protect you against cancer.
Fact. The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine helps prevent cervical cancer. The hepatitis B vaccine can help reduce your risk for liver cancer.
Staying current with recommended screening tests is another good way you can help protect yourself against cancer. Ask your doctor what screenings you might be due for.
Sources: American Cancer Society; American Institute for Cancer Research; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Cancer Institute | https://www.kark.com/amazing/cancer-prevention-facts/ | 2022-12-14 18:42:32 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/amazing/cancer-prevention-facts/ |
The New York Jets re-signed durable center Connor McGovern on Monday, addressing one of the team's major needs before the NFL draft this week.
McGovern has been the Jets' starting center the past three seasons, starting 48 games and missing only two since signing as a free agent in 2020.
Contract terms weren't immediately available.
The Jets have the No. 13 overall pick in the draft, which begins Thursday night, along with Nos. 42 and 43 in the second round. While offensive tackle remains the likely target with its first pick, New York was thought to be interested in the top centers with one of its second-rounders — if they don't include one or both in a potential trade with Green Bay for quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Rodgers announced in March during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on YouTube and Sirius XM his intention is to continue playing — and for the Jets. New York and Green Bay continue to work on a deal that would send the four-time NFL MVP to the Jets.
Meanwhile, McGovern tested free agency and the Jets signed versatile guard/center Wes Schweitzer, who projects as a backup. They also showed some interest in former Tennessee center Ben Jones before announcing Monday they were bringing back McGovern.
The veteran, who turns 30 on Thursday, was the only player on the Jets last season to take every snap on offense, and the first to do so for New York since left tackle Kelvin Beachum and right guard Brian Winters did so in 2018.
McGovern was drafted by Denver in the fifth round out of Missouri in 2016. He began his NFL career at right guard before moving to center in his third season with the Broncos. McGovern signed a three-year, $27 million contract with the Jets to be their starting center during the 2020 offseason.
McGovern's return gives the Jets four of five primary starters from last season, including guards Laken Tomlinson and Alijah Vera-Tucker, and left tackle Duane Brown. Right tackle is the one major question mark with Mekhi Becton (knee) and Max Mitchell (blood clots) coming back and potentially competing with a rookie for the spot.
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USC_safety, 7:18.
COLO_FG Becker 28, 1:24.
USC_Ca.Williams 2 run (Stadthaus kick), 10:09.
USC_Ca.Williams 4 run (Stadthaus kick), 7:55.
USC_Rice 32 pass from Ca.Williams (Stadthaus kick), 1:58.
USC_FG Lynch 34, :00.
COLO_Fontenot 3 run (Becker kick), 5:49.
USC_Washington 61 pass from Ca.Williams (Rose run), 4:50.
USC_Jones 12 pass from Ca.Williams (Stadthaus kick), :27.
USC_R.Brown 25 pass from Moss (Stadthaus kick), 11:34.
COLO_Shrout 8 run (Becker kick), 7:22.
USC_Barlow 3 run (Stadthaus kick), :36.
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RUSHING_Colorado, Fontenot 20-108, Hankerson 5-21, Shrout 9-4, Hestera 1-2. Southern Cal, Jones 11-74, R.Brown 7-52, Barlow 5-41, Dye 9-26, Moss 1-(minus 4), Ca.Williams 8-(minus 4).
PASSING_Colorado, Shrout 11-21-1-124. Southern Cal, Ca.Williams 14-26-1-268, Moss 6-7-0-78.
RECEIVING_Colorado, Hestera 3-39, Sneed 3-27, Russell 2-22, Fontenot 1-16, Penry 1-14, Lemonious-Craig 1-6. Southern Cal, Jones 4-39, K.Ford 3-73, Rice 3-70, Washington 2-66, R.Brown 2-38, Barlow 2-31, CJ.Williams 2-9, McRee 1-18, Addison 1-2.
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Electric shuttle company, Circuit, expands services to New York residents.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Circuit, an on-demand electric shuttle service, has been selected for one of ten grand prizes through the $85 million New York Clean Transportation Prizes program to advance plans to bring clean transportation solutions that reduce air pollution, advance electrification, and promote mobility in New York State's underserved communities. The announcement came yesterday at the Program Showcase and Awards Ceremony hosted at the TWA hotel at John F. Kennedy Airport.
"We are thrilled to have been one of the awardees," says Alex Esposito, Circuit's CEO. "Circuit started 11 years ago as a seasonal service on Long Island. Since then, we've expanded around the country from New Rochelle, NY, to San Diego, CA, and we couldn't be more excited to expand the service in the state where it all started, especially in these communities. Along with our community partners, we're thrilled to bring these services to life and support the state's nation-leading climate goals. This grant will allow us to bring over two years of service to the Rockaways and Brentwood, create jobs, reduce emissions and hopefully build a case study for long-term funding support."
What began as a humble beach shuttle in the Hamptons expanded quickly into a bi-coastal operation. Today, Circuit operates in more than 30 markets and eight states and continues to expand. It was recently selected for a program in the nation's capital after the company was announced as the winner of The Mobility Innovation District's call for projects. The company also announced a Series A investment round in October.
Circuit's tech-enabled platform, including its mobile app, helps residents get around the neighborhood in a sustainable, affordable, and interactive way. Through its partnerships with cities, developers and advertisers, Circuit can keep fares low or even free and strives to be the least expensive option for short-distance trips. With its local W2 employees, Circuit ensures a safe and enjoyable ride while creating stable jobs for the community. The end result is a service that saves money, reduces emissions, and improves access.
This spring, Circuit received a Phase One award package of up to $200,000, including funding for community partners, in-kind support from technical experts and further proposal development. The funds were used to map out community shuttle services in The Rockaways and Brentwood. Circuit had the pleasure of working with groups like Far Rockaways/Arverne Non-Coalition (FRANC), The Rockaway Hotel, Suffolk County Community College, Assembly Woman Amato's office, Suffolk County Legislator Gonzalez, Wings of Empowerment, the Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy (JBRPC) and several other community organizations, to plan services that put the communities first and address local needs.
NYSERDA President and CEO Doreen M. Harris said, "NYSERDA is proud to support Circuit's turnkey all-electric shuttle service that will help more New Yorkers access clean transportation and connect them to important community resources and other modes of transportation. We are excited this new micro-transit service project will roll out operations in The Rockaways and Brentwood while growing local jobs, improving access to EV charging and most importantly, reducing air pollution from transportation emissions with each trip taken."
"It's been an exciting Q4 for Circuit," shared James Mirras, Circuit's COO. "We are on track to double in size for the third year and look to expand our market footprint nationally, including New York."
The $85 million New York Clean Transportation Prizes program is administered by the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) in partnership with the New York State Department of Public Service (NYSDPS) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC).
Founded by James Mirras and Alex Esposito in 2011, Circuit is an electric, micro-transit solution. Circuit uses fleets of cars that transform short-distance transportation. The service is made possible by collaborating with municipalities, developers, and advertising partners. Since starting the company as a local project in their hometown, the business is now operating in cities across NY, FL, CA, NJ, CO, MA, and TX, and has provided over 6M rides without burning an ounce of gas or traveling more than a few miles. Learn more at www.ridecircuit.com
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A prominent Algerian journalist is behind bars and the offices of his website and radio station were shut down based on accusations that they threaten state security, according to a defense lawyer.
Ihsane El-Kadi was detained Dec. 23 at his home and held in a police facility until Thursday, when he appeared in an Algiers court. An investigating judge ordered him kept in custody, according to Zoubida Assoul, a lawyer who is part of a collective that is defending the journalist.
El-Kadi, who was active in Algeria’s Hirak pro-democracy protest movement in 2019, appears to be the latest target of an encroaching crackdown on dissenting voices in the North African country.
The case against him is linked to the crowdfunding used to finance his media outlets, Maghreb Emergent and Webradio, Assoul said. The website and radio station operated in Algeria for years but did not have government recognition as official media organizations.
El-Kadi is accused of violating an article in the criminal code targeting anyone who receives funds aimed at “inciting acts susceptible to threaten state security,” stability or Algeria’s fundamental interests, the lawyer said. If convicted, he could face five to seven years in prison.
His supporters view El-Kadi’s arrest as punishment for articles that angered Algerian authorities.
His outlets were seen by many as outposts of free debate in Algerian media that provided journalists and opposition politicians a platform to point out contradictions or shortfalls in the government’s policies.
Police questioned El-Kadi in the past then released him. the past then released. His family and friends expected that to happen again Thursday, but instead were disappointed and indignant at the decision to hold him.
“Algeria is sliding dangerously into an Orwellian universe,” Madjid Madhi, who is also a journalist, said.
Algerians expressed dismay online, including some who said they disagreed with El-Kadi’s views. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-algerian-journalist-jailed-and-his-media-offices-shut-down/ | 2022-12-31 02:55:34 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-algerian-journalist-jailed-and-his-media-offices-shut-down/ |
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of state legislation that would have allowed San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles to launch supervised consumption sites for drug users isn’t the end of local efforts to open these facilities with the hope of reducing the number of fatal overdoses.
Shortly after Newsom announced that he was rejecting a state bill that would have authorized sites in the three cities, City Attorney David Chiu said he would support allowing a nonprofit to open one in San Francisco anyway, emulating a model already in place in New York City.
But major hurdles remain in the way of a potential San Francisco site, and it’s still not clear when such a facility might get up and running in light of the governor’s veto. Here’s a breakdown of the current situation.
What would the state bill have done?
SB57, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would have let San Francisco, Oakland and the county and city of Los Angeles host pilot programs until January 2028 that would allow people to come to designated sites where they could use drugs under the supervision of trained medical staff.
The sites would not provide drugs — users would have to bring their own — but they would offer clean supplies. Staff would be able to reverse any overdoses and could refer people to treatment for substance use disorder. The law would have protected medical professionals who work at the sites from being criminally charged under drug laws or having their licenses revoked by a state board.
San Francisco officials and harm-reduction advocates have wanted to open a supervised consumption sites for years as the city grapples with an overdose crisis largely driven by abuse of fentanyl, a powerfully addictive synthetic opioid. But the prospect of opening such a site still faces strong opposition from critics who say it would enable drug use, arguing that the city should focus instead on reducing public drug dealing and getting people into treatment.
Why did Newsom veto the bill?
The governor said in his Monday veto message that while he has “long supported the cutting edge of harm reduction strategies,” he was concerned that an unlimited number of safe consumption sites “could induce a world of unintended consequences.”
“It is possible that these sites would help improve the safety and health of our urban areas, but if done without a strong plan, they could work against this purpose. “These unintended consequences in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland cannot be taken lightly. Worsening drug consumption challenges in these areas is not a risk we can take.”
Newsom said he was instructing the state’s secretary of health and human services to bring city and county officials together to “discuss minimum standards and best practices for safe and sustainable overdose prevention programs.”
Political insiders have suggested another possible reason for Newsom’s veto: His unstated ambition to someday run for president. Though Newsom said he was open to a safe consumption site pilot program when he was a candidate for governor, he may have been scared away from embracing one now because he’s contemplating a run for the White House as soon as 2024, observers have speculated, though the governor himself has so far denied any such aspirations.
How did San Francisco and Oakland officials react?
Local leaders swiftly denounced Newsom’s veto and vowed to keep working on the issue.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the governor’s rejection of the bill ‘disappointing” but said the city would “continue to explore how we can push forward innovative strategies with our City departments and community partners, while we continue conversations at the federal level.”
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf also called the veto “incredibly disappointing.” But Schaaf said she appreciated that Newsom had moved to convene experts to create a detailed pilot model and she would advance the effort urgently because “people’s lives depend on it.”
Wiener was more blunt.
“Today’s veto is tragic,” Wiener said in a statement Monday. “Each year this legislation is delayed, more people die of drug overdoses — two per day in San Francisco alone.”
Could San Francisco open a site now?
Chiu was clear in his statement after the veto that he “fully support(s)” a nonprofit immediately moving forward with a New York-style model of operating a safe consumption site.
Two local nonprofits, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Health Right360, have each said they are willing to run a supervised consumption site in the city. But they would need a guaranteed location and sufficient funding first.
“As long as we have support from the city attorney and (Department of Public Health), we are ready to move forward,” said Laura Thomas, director of harm reduction policy with the AIDS Foundation.
Breed has said she was “determined” to open a site in San Francisco and the Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of a Geary Street building that could eventually become a supervised consumption facility. It’s not yet clear what will happen next following the governor’s veto and Chiu’s reaction.
How does the model work in New York?
Since November, a nonprofit has operated two privately funded supervised consumption sites in New York City. While the city funds the nonprofit’s other harm-reduction services, it doesn’t directly provide any funding for the supervised consumption rooms. The nonprofit instead pays for that room using private donations and rents it from a private landlord.
Gary McCoy, spokesperson for HealthRight360, said New York’s increase in funding for other harm-reduction programs freed up private foundation dollars that went directly toward the overdose prevention sites. It’s not clear if San Francisco would follow the exact same approach but “it’s unlikely that there would be any state funds used for this,” McCoy said.
What are the hurdles to San Francisco opening a site?
Financing is one of the city’s primary obstacles to opening a sanctioned drug consumption site.
“We would have to turn to the philanthropic community in San Francisco and see if they’re willing to step up and support this,” Thomas said.
While state funds would likely not be involved, the city could theoretically try to direct some of its own money toward the project.
“We’ll put all of our available resources into it, but to address the need for overdose prevention services in the the city — that’s going to happen at a scale beyond what we can provide as one organization,” Thomas said. “The scale of services that we need to really make a dent in overdose deaths in San Francisco is going to require public funding.”
San Francisco officials have not indicated they will put city money toward a site, instead stating they support the New York model.
Officials have also said they’re still looking for guidance from the federal government and waiting for the outcome of a legal case, United States v. Safehouse. In the case, the Department of Justice, under former President Donald Trump, charged a Philadelphia nonprofit that wanted to open a supervised consumption site under the “crack house statute” that bars any place from operating with the sole purpose of using or selling drugs.
Under the Biden administration, the Department of Justice is now in settlement talks with Safehouse that could conclude in the fall. If it did, it could signal to San Francisco that the city would not be prosecuted if it moved forward with opening a site, giving officials the legal assurances they’re seeking.
J.D. Morris and Mallory Moench are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: jd.morris@sfchronicle.com mallory.moench@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @thejdmorris @mallorymoench | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/What-s-next-for-potential-S-F-supervised-drug-17393085.php | 2022-08-23 22:31:24 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/What-s-next-for-potential-S-F-supervised-drug-17393085.php |
BOSTON, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The John Hancock Closed-End Funds listed in the table below announced earnings1 for the three months ended September 30, 2022. The same data for the comparable three-month period ended September 30, 2021 is also available below.
Amounts distributed by the Funds may vary from the earnings shown above and will be announced in separate press releases. Up-to-date distribution rate information is available on John Hancock Investment Management's web site at www.jhinvestments.com by clicking on "Closed-End Funds" under the "Daily Prices" tab.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined by the United States securities laws. You should exercise caution in interpreting and relying on forward-looking statements because they are subject to uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Fund's control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
An investor should consider a Fund's investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing.
A company of Manulife Investment Management, we serve investors through a unique multimanager approach, complementing our extensive in-house capabilities with an unrivaled network of specialized asset managers, backed by some of the most rigorous investment oversight in the industry. The result is a diverse lineup of time-tested investments from a premier asset manager with a heritage of financial stewardship.
Manulife Investment Management is the global brand for the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation. We draw on more than a century of financial stewardship and the full resources of our parent company to serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto, our leading capabilities in public and private markets are strengthened by an investment footprint that spans 18 geographies. We complement these capabilities by providing access to a network of unaffiliated asset managers from around the world. We're committed to investing responsibly across our businesses. We develop innovative global frameworks for sustainable investing, collaboratively engage with companies in our securities portfolios, and maintain a high standard of stewardship where we own and operate assets, and we believe in supporting financial well-being through our workplace retirement plans. Today, plan sponsors around the world rely on our retirement plan administration and investment expertise to help their employees plan for, save for, and live a better retirement. Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulifeim.com.
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COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LHP Engineering Solutions has provided engineering services and technology integration for the transportation industry since the company was founded in 2001. LHP is committed to creating a safe automotive landscape by delivering state-of-the-art training, hands-on consulting and implementation, technology solutions, and engineering services built on the latest automotive industry standards and best practices. The value LHP has to offer—both in their comprehensive solutions and fundamental training—is necessary for continuously innovating in the transportation industry and creating safer roads.
"LHP is committed to Electric Vehicle advancement through consulting, equipment, and now training upskill. The new Battery Management System course is the next step to ensuring the industry is equipped with the know-how and personnel needed to commercialize the next generation of electric vehicle and energy storage systems" says Steve Neemeh, LHP's Chief Technology Officer.
LHP's Battery Management System (BMS) course is a 5-day, 40-hour training experience that will develop technical EV battery management skills. Graduates of this course will be qualified to obtain a job related to electric vehicles or hybrid electric vehicles and run performance tests to characterize a Lithium-Ion battery system. They will also be qualified to describe an automotive BESS's key components and critical functionality while familiarizing themselves with system engineering tasks for BESS applications.
"Advancements in battery technology have accelerated hybrid and electric vehicle performance in recent years" says Christian Glass, LHP's General Manager. "Our Battery Management System course aims to equip engineers with the skills to create a lasting positive impact on the industry's charge towards."
This entry into battery technology will provide hands-on testing of a simple battery pack and BMS. In this training, students will understand energy storage and conversion, BMS functions, algorithms, and fault detection for battery applications. Additionally, students will learn how the BMS communicates through CAN networks, Battery and BMS failure modes and mitigation strategies, and how to monitor voltage, temperature, and current within a battery. Students who complete LHP's BMS course will earn Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Certification CEU/PDH.
To learn more about the BMS Training and the additional LHP training services visit:
-Battery Management System Course and -LHP Advanced Engineering Training
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AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man is accused of killing his mother, stepfather and cousin at a suburban Atlanta home.
Cobb County police say a domestic dispute on Tuesday led Marcus Smith, 37, to shoot and kill his 60-year-old mother, Janice Peaks; his 63-year-old stepfather, Donnell Peaks; and his 38-year-old cousin, Cameron King.
Police found Donnell and Janice Peaks dead when they arrived at a home in the Atlanta suburb of Austell. King was found shot, dying shortly after arriving at an Atlanta hospital.
A warrant obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution finds Donnell Peaks was shot in the head and legs, while Janice Peaks and King were both shot in the head. Cobb Police Sgt. Wayne Delk said King and Smith were first or second cousins.
Police on Tuesday arrested Smith on a nearby street not far from the home. He's charged with three counts each of felony murder and aggravated assault and remained jailed without bail Wednesday in Cobb County. It's unclear if Smith has a lawyer to speak for him.
The warrant says the shooting followed a verbal and physical fight. Delk said police believe no one other suspects were involved. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Police-Suburban-Atlanta-man-killed-3-relatives-17258939.php | 2022-06-22 21:27:36 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Police-Suburban-Atlanta-man-killed-3-relatives-17258939.php |
Cedar Board of Directors Declares Special Dividend of $19.52 Per Common Share;
Merger Consideration Will Be $9.48 Per Common Share
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedar Realty Trust (NYSE: CDR) ("Cedar") today announced that Cedar and Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. (NASDAQ: WHLR) ("Wheeler") have jointly determined that the proceeds to Cedar common shareholders from the sale of Cedar's assets and subsequent merger in a series of related all-cash transactions will total $29.00 per share.
Accordingly, Cedar's Board of Directors today declared a special dividend on shares of Cedar's outstanding common stock of $19.52 per share, payable to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 19, 2022. Payment of the special dividend is contingent upon the closing of Cedar's previously announced cash merger transaction with a subsidiary of Wheeler – the final step of the sale process – which is expected to be consummated on or about August 22, 2022. Assuming the merger transaction is consummated on August 22, 2022, payment of the dividend will be made to eligible shareholders on August 26, 2022. Shareholders as of the merger closing date will also be entitled to receive merger consideration of $9.48 per share, payable on or about the same date as the special dividend.
Important Information About the Special Dividend
Due to the nature of the special dividend, as required by the rules of the NYSE, Cedar's common stock will trade with "due bills", representing an assignment of the right to receive the special dividend, beginning August 18, 2022, one business day prior to the special dividend record date, through the merger closing date (such period of time the "Due-bill Period"). AS A RESULT, HOLDERS OF CEDAR'S COMMON STOCK ON THE SPECIAL DIVIDEND RECORD DATE MUST HOLD CEDAR COMMON STOCK THROUGH THE MERGER CLOSING DATE IN ORDER TO BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE THE SPECIAL DIVIDEND. CEDAR COMMON STOCKHOLDERS WHO SELL THEIR SHARES ON OR BEFORE THE MERGER CLOSING DATE WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE THE SPECIAL DIVIDEND. PURCHASERS OF CEDAR COMMON STOCK DURING THE DUE-BILL PERIOD (EVEN IF THE TRADE WILL SETTLE AFTER THE DUE-BILL PERIOD) WHO HOLD SUCH SHARES ON THE MERGER CLOSING DATE WILL BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE THE SPECIAL DIVIDEND. STOCKHOLDERS THAT SELL CEDAR COMMON STOCK DURING THE DUE-BILL PERIOD (EVEN IF THE TRADE WILL SETTLE AFTER THE DUE-BILL PERIOD) WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE THE SPECIAL DIVIDEND.
Due bills obligate a seller of shares of stock to deliver the dividend to the buyer. The due-bill obligations are settled customarily between the brokers representing buyers and sellers of the stock. Cedar has no obligation for either the amount of the due bill or the processing of the due bill. Buyers and sellers of Cedar common stock during the Due-bill Period should consult with their broker before trading in Cedar common stock to be sure they understand the effect of the due-bill procedures.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
The information included herein, together with other statements and information publicly disseminated by Cedar, contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Cedar intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and include this statement for purposes of complying with these safe harbor provisions.
Forward-looking statements, which are based on certain assumptions and describe Cedar's future plans, strategies and expectations, are generally identifiable by use of the words "may", "will", "should", "estimates", "projects", "anticipates", "believes", "expects", "intends", "future", and words of similar import, or the negative thereof. Factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: (i) the possibility that any or all of the various conditions to the consummation of the merger may not be satisfied or waived; (ii) the ability of the merger parties to obtain required financing in connection with the proposed merger; (iii) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, including in circumstances which would require Cedar to pay a termination fee or other expenses; (iv) the risk that shareholder litigation in connection with the transactions may result in significant costs of defense, indemnification and liability; (v) the ability and willingness of Cedar's tenants and other third parties to satisfy their obligations under their respective contractual arrangements with Cedar; (vi) the loss or bankruptcy of Cedar's tenants, particularly in light of the adverse impact to the financial health of many retailers that has occurred and continues to occur as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; (vii) the ability and willingness of Cedar's tenants to renew their leases with Cedar upon expiration, Cedar's ability to re-lease its properties on the same or better terms in the event of nonrenewal or in the event Cedar exercises its right to replace an existing tenant, and obligations Cedar may incur in connection with the replacement of an existing tenant; (viii) risks related to the market for retail space generally, including reductions in consumer spending, variability in retailer demand for leased space, adverse impact of e-commerce, ongoing consolidation in the retail sector and changes in economic conditions and consumer confidence; (ix) risks endemic to real estate and the real estate industry generally; (x) damage to Cedar's properties from catastrophic weather and other natural events, and the physical effects of climate change; (xi) uninsured losses; (xii) Cedar's ability and willingness to maintain its qualification as a REIT in light of economic, market, legal, tax and other considerations; and (xiv) information technology security breaches. For further discussion of factors that could materially affect the outcome of forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A, of Cedar's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other documents that Cedar files with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.
Except for ongoing obligations to disclose material information as required by the federal securities laws, Cedar undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. All of the above factors are difficult to predict, contain uncertainties that may materially affect Cedar's actual results and may be beyond Cedar's control. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for Cedar's management to predict all such factors or to assess the effects of each factor on Cedar's business. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that Cedar's current expectations will be realized.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 16, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
841 PM EDT Sun Apr 16 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN ERIE...EASTERN NIAGARA...WESTERN ORLEANS AND WESTERN
GENESEE COUNTIES...
At 841 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Middleport, or
7 miles west of Medina, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted include...
Lockport, Medina, Darien Lakes State Park, Newfane, Pembroke, Akron,
Alden, Middleport, Ridgeway and Shelby.
This includes Interstate 90 near exit 48A.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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WFO BURLINGTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 3, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Burlington VT
356 AM EST Sat Dec 3 2022
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
expected.
* WHERE...All of northern New York, Grand Isle and Western
Franklin Counties in northwest Vermont.
* WHEN...From 5 AM to 6 PM EST today.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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Super Typhoon Noru strengthening as it heads for Philippines
Super Typhoon Noru, known locally as Super Typhoon Karding, is approaching the northern Philippines and is expected to make landfall late Sunday afternoon local time.
The storm rapidly intensified in the early hours of Sunday, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, strengthening from a 140 kph (85 mph) typhoon to a 250 kph (155 mph) super typhoon in just six hours.
The forecast from JTWC sees further strengthening in the hours leading up to landfall and the storm is projected to be the equivalent of a Category 5 typhoon by the time it hits Luzon.
The super typhoon is forecast to bring large waves and storm surge, torrential rains, and winds in excess of 200 kph to Luzon over the next 24 hours.
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration has issued a signal warning level four for the Polillo Islands in anticipation of extensive damage.
Level two and three warnings are in place for much of Luzon, including metro Manila.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ/GS: STLD) today provided record second quarter 2022 earnings guidance in the range of $6.33 to $6.37 per diluted share. Excluding the impact from costs associated with the startup of the company's Sinton Texas Flat Roll Steel Mill growth investment of an estimated $76 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, the company expects second quarter 2022 adjusted earnings to be in the range of $6.61 to $6.65 per diluted share.
Comparatively, the company's sequential first quarter 2022 earnings were $5.71 per diluted share, and adjusted earnings were $6.02 per diluted share excluding costs of $0.31 per diluted share (net of capitalized interest), associated with construction and startup of the company's Texas Flat Roll Steel Mill. Prior year second quarter earnings were $3.32 per diluted share and adjusted earnings were $3.40 per diluted share, excluding costs of $0.08 per diluted share, associated with construction of the company's Texas Flat Roll Steel Mill.
Second quarter 2022 profitability from the company's steel operations is expected to be historically strong, but lower than first quarter 2022 results, due to lower earnings from the company's flat roll steel operations, as lower average flat roll steel pricing is expected to more than offset increased flat roll steel shipments. Demand for the company's long product steel products is also strong, supporting increased average realized pricing and expected record shipments for the company's Engineered Bar Products, Roanoke Bar, and Structural and Rail steel divisions. Despite softening hot roll coil steel pricing, broad steel demand remained solid during the second quarter, led by the automotive, construction, and industrial sectors, with energy continuing to improve.
Second quarter 2022 earnings from the company's metals recycling operations are expected to be significantly higher than sequential first quarter results, based on strong demand supporting increased shipments and higher pricing.
Second quarter 2022 earnings from the company's steel fabrication operations are expected to be meaningfully higher than record first quarter results, based on record shipments and significantly higher selling values more than offsetting marginally higher steel input costs. The non-residential construction sector remains strong as evidenced by robust order activity, resulting in a continuing historically strong order backlog, with record forward-pricing for the company's steel fabrication platform. The company anticipates this momentum to continue into 2023 based on these dynamics.
Based on continued confidence in the company's earnings outlook and cash flow generation, the company repurchased $397 million, or over 2.5 percent, of its common stock during the second quarter through June 10, 2022.
About Steel Dynamics, Inc.
Steel Dynamics is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in the United States, based on estimated annual steelmaking and metals recycling capability, with facilities located throughout the United States, and in Mexico. Steel Dynamics produces steel products, including hot roll, cold roll, and coated sheet steel, structural steel beams and shapes, rail, engineered special-bar-quality steel, cold finished steel, merchant bar products, specialty steel sections and steel joists and deck. In addition, the company produces liquid pig iron and processes and sells ferrous and nonferrous scrap.
Note Regarding Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The company reports its financial results in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Management believes that Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share, a non-GAAP financial measure, provides additional meaningful information regarding the company's performance and financial strength. Non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as an alternative for, the company's reported results prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, because not all companies use identical calculations, Adjusted Diluted Earnings Per Share included in this release may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains some predictive statements about future events, including statements related to conditions in domestic or global economies, conditions in steel and recycled metals marketplaces, Steel Dynamics' revenues, costs of purchased materials, future profitability and earnings, and the operation of new, existing or planned facilities. These statements, which we generally precede or accompany by such typical conditional words as "anticipate", "intend", "believe", "estimate", "plan", "seek", "project", or "expect", or by the words "may", "will", or "should", are intended to be made as "forward-looking," subject to many risks and uncertainties, within the safe harbor protections of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements speak only as of this date and are based upon information and assumptions, which we consider reasonable as of this date, concerning our businesses and the environments in which they operate. Such predictive statements are not a guarantee of future performance, and we undertake no duty to update or revise any such statements. Some factors that could cause such forward-looking statements to turn out differently than anticipated include: (1) domestic and global economic factors including periods of slower than anticipated economic growth and the risk of a recession; (2) global steelmaking overcapacity and imports of steel, together with increased scrap prices; (3) pandemics, epidemics, widespread illness or other health issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic; (4) the cyclical nature of the steel industry and the industries we serve; (5) volatility and major fluctuations in prices and availability of scrap metal, scrap substitutes, and our potential inability to pass higher costs on to our customers; (6) cost and availability of electricity, natural gas, oil, or other energy resources are subject to volatile market conditions; (7) increased environmental, greenhouse gas emissions and sustainability considerations or regulations; (8) compliance with and changes in environmental and remediation requirements; (9) significant price and other forms of competition from other steel producers, scrap processors and alternative materials; (10) availability of an adequate source of supply of scrap for our metals recycling operations; (11) cybersecurity threats and risks to the security of our sensitive data and information technology; (12) the implementation of our growth strategy; (13) litigation and legal compliance, (14) unexpected equipment downtime or shutdowns; (15) governmental agencies may refuse to grant or renew some of our licenses and permits required to operate our businesses; (16) our senior unsecured credit facility contains, and any future financing agreements may contain, restrictive covenants that may limit our flexibility; and (17) the impact of impairment charges.
More specifically, refer to Steel Dynamics' more detailed explanation of these and other factors and risks that may cause such predictive statements to turn out differently, as set forth in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K under the headings Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factors, in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, or in other reports which we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These are available publicly on the Securities and Exchange Commission website, www.sec.gov, and on the Steel Dynamics website, www.steeldynamics.com under "Investors — SEC Filings".
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BOSTON (AP) — Scores of Boston University students turned their backs on the head of one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, and some shouted “pay your writers,” as he gave the school’s commencement address Sunday in a stadium where protesters supporting the Hollywood writers’ strike picketed outside.
About 100 protesters chanted “No wages, no pages,” waved signs and were accompanied by an inflatable rat outside Nickerson Field as David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, gave his address inside the stadium. Thousands of graduating students, family members and educators attending the graduation ceremony had to walk by the protesters to enter the stadium.
Above the stadium, a small plane flew a banner that read, “David Zaslav — pay your writers.”
Kim Caramele, a writer and producer from North Stonington, Connecticut, said she hoped the protesters’ presence at the graduation ceremony helped give students a different perspective on what they should value in life.
“The writers being here today can help show the students that wealth is different than good,” said Caramele, a winner of Emmy and Peabody awards for work on her sister’s show, “Inside Amy Schumer.”
Inside the stadium, scores of students wearing red graduation gowns stood up during Zaslav’s speech and turned their backs on him. Other students booed during his speech and shouted in support of the striking writers.
Zaslav, a graduate of the university’s law school in the mid-1980s, was a contentious pick, with many alumni taking to social media with their objections.
In a statement after the event, Zaslav said, “I am grateful to my alma mater, Boston University, for inviting me to be part of today’s commencement and for giving me an honorary degree, and, as I have often said, I am immensely supportive of writers and hope the strike is resolved soon and in a way that they feel recognizes their value.”
Saying the rise of streaming has hurt their earning power, about 11,500 members of the Writers Guild for America walked off the job at the beginning of May, after talks on a new contract broke down, and they haven’t returned to the negotiating table since. It’s the first writers’ strike — and the first Hollywood strike of any kind — in 15 years.
The union is seeking higher minimum pay, more writers per show and shorter exclusive contracts, among other demands — all conditions it says have been diminished in the content boom driven by streaming.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has said that it had offered “generous increases in compensation for writers as well as improvements in streaming residuals,” including the highest first-year wage increase in a WGA contract in more than 25 years, and the creation of a new category of rates that would mean a new, higher minimum for mid-level writers. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-warner-ceo-booed-at-boston-university-as-supporters-of-writers-strike-picket-outside/ | 2023-05-22 13:17:49 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-warner-ceo-booed-at-boston-university-as-supporters-of-writers-strike-picket-outside/ |
BARRETOS – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro traveled to Latin America’s biggest rodeo — a bubble of staunch support — to connect with voters from the countryside ahead of October’s vote.
On Friday evening, the far-right leader rode a horse while holding a cowboy hat in his outstretched arm and greeting supporters draped in Brazil flags, while his campaign jingle “The People's Captain” played. He joked with them and they prayed together for the future of the country. All major polls show Bolsonaro trailing well behind former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but one wouldn’t know it from the scene at the rodeo in the municipality of Barretos, in Sao Paulo state.
“This event is already part of our history. Moved by agribusiness, by the work of countryside men and women, Brazil is projecting itself onto the global stage,” Bolsonaro told the crowd, which chanted the word “legend” in reference to him. “Our motto is God, country, family and freedom. Yeee-hooo!”
The multi-day spectacle had tens of thousands of attendees who were predominately white and middle-class. Many came decked out in the national colors of green and canary yellow that Bolsonaro has transformed into symbols of support for his administration. The packed arena roared when Bolsonaro was introduced to the tune of DJ Snake’s and Lil Jon’s song “Turn Down for What,” which his supporters have used in hundreds of videos to portray him as defiant.
Outside, a vendor sold towels bearing the faces of Bolsonaro and da Silva of the leftist Workers’ Party, and displayed a board showing how many of each candidate had been purchased. Barely any featuring da Silva had sold, and attendees took it as a signal their candidate will win the vote. Elsewhere in Brazil, such towel sales scoreboards point in the opposite direction.
Despite da Silva’s lead in the polls, a dozen farmers, cattle ranchers and rodeo fans in Barretos told The Associated Press that Bolsonaro doesn’t need to reach out to many moderate voters, which da Silva is openly attempting to do -- most notably, with his selection of a center-right rival turned running mate.
“The last time the polls didn’t say Bolsonaro was going to win,'' said 57-year-old Gualter Silveira, who owns a small farm. ‘’This year it is going to be the same. I see him going everywhere. Lula doesn’t. How can Bolsonaro be behind?”
Wearing a Brazilian flag as a scarf, businessman Daniel Tales, 43, said he felt goosebumps in his mustache after seeing Bolsonaro in person. The proud cowboy from neighboring Minas Gerais state said he believes his candidate will need a run-off against da Silva to secure a second term.
“But he doesn’t need to change anything. He doesn’t need to do anything else or anything less,” Tales said. “He has a strong personality, he is the man of the moment, he came to make a revolution.”
Asked how Bolsonaro could bring undecided voters to his side, he replied: “He needs to be himself. That’s all.”
Four years ago, Bolsonaro won almost 74% of the vote in Barretos in the second round vote against Fernando Haddad, the Workers’ Party's candidate after da Silva was declared ineligible. The president receives a lot of love in the region for professing conservative values and defending farmers, and also because he created a National Rodeo Day in 2020 and loosened regulations for such events in Brazil. Friday wasn't his first time at the Barretos rodeo; he came in 2019 as president and three other times during his career as a lawmaker to help his son's bid for Congress.
This time, Bolsonaro brought along cabinet ministers, politicians running for office and some business leaders whose properties were searched by police earlier this week due to their alleged participation in a private chat group that included comments favoring a possible coup and military involvement in politics. One of them, Luciano Hang, wore his customary yellow shirt and green pants, and he did his best to rile up the the crowd.
Bolsonaro and his allies have routinely scoffed at the polls, sometimes saying the president will not just win the election, but do so in the first round without need for a run-off. They say a more accurate way to gauge the upcoming result is watching the turnout at Bolsonaro rallies.
Bolsonaro supporters who spoke to the AP said they are ready to heed his call and take to the streets for Independence Day on Sept. 7. Some politicians and analysts have expressed concern that it could turn violent.
“We'll see you out on Independence Day,” emcee Cuiabano Lima said as Bolsonaro left the rodeo arena. Lima also said da Silva is a thief who belongs in prison, and the crowd chanted in agreement.
Da Silva, who governed from 2003 to 2010 and is universally known as Lula, was barred from running in 2018 after being jailed due to convictions for corruption and money laundering, which the Supreme Court later annulled on the basis that the judge in the case had been biased. That cleared the way for him to run in 2022.
Silvana Cunha, 47, is concerned about the possibility da Silva could return to power. She works with cattle raisers and says Bolsonaro improved her life due to higher beef prices during his administration. Although she trusts he will win in October, she acknowledged the challenges he faces.
“It took time to organize everything as he wished,” said Cunha, a fervent Catholic who has attended the Barretos rodeo for years. “No matter who wins, it will be very difficult. We will need a strong hand. It is a massive task to put the country back on the track for growth after this pandemic. We need to be very careful. Either we will have a setback or an evolution.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/27/at-latams-biggest-rodeo-brazilians-dont-believe-the-polls/ | 2022-08-27 22:38:45 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/27/at-latams-biggest-rodeo-brazilians-dont-believe-the-polls/ |
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Earlier this month Nicaragua shuttered seven radio stations belonging to the Catholic Church and launched an investigation into the bishop of Matagalpa, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, accusing him of inciting violent actors “to carry out acts of hate against the population.”
This is not the first time President Daniel Ortega has moved aggressively to silence critics of his administration. In 2018 the government raided the headquarters of the newspaper Confidencial, led by journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, who is considered one of the most prominent critics of Ortega. Then, throughout 2021, authorities arrested seven potential presidential candidates for that year’s November elections.
Here’s a look at the fraught relationship between the church and the government amid a political standoff that’s now in its fifth year, with no end in sight.
WHO IS DANIEL ORTEGA?
Ortega, 76, is a former guerrilla with the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front who helped overthrow dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979 and first served as president from 1985 until he left office in 1990 after being voted out.
He lost three more elections after that before returning to power in 2007. He won a fourth consecutive term in the 2021 ballot, which is widely discredited since he faced no real opposition.
Ortega’s opponents regularly compare him to Somoza for his authoritarian tendencies, and also accuse him of dynastic ambitions. His wife, Rosario Murillo, is his powerful vice president.
Under Ortega, Nicaragua has cultivated strong ties to allies Cuba and Venezuela, two staunch foes of the U.S. government.
HOW DID THE UNREST BEGIN?
A social security reform in 2018 triggered massive protests backed by businesspeople, Catholic leaders and other sectors. The government’s response was a crackdown by security forces and allied civilian militias in which at least 355 people were killed, about 2,000 hurt and 1,600 jailed, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Political stability has never fully returned.
Months before last year’s vote, a poll found that support for five opposition candidates put Ortega’s re-election in real doubt. Within weeks all five were arrested, along with two other potential candidates. Authorities accused them of responsibility for the 2018 unrest, saying it was tantamount to a “terrorist coup” attempt purportedly backed by Washington.
“Ortega decided to suppress any possibility of losing. … And that meant arresting everyone,” political analyst Oscar Rene Vargas told The Associated Press back then.
WHAT ROLE HAS THE CHURCH PLAYED?
Nicaragua is predominantly Catholic, and the church was close to the Somozas from the 1930s until the 1970s, when it distanced itself from politics after many abuses were attributed to the dictatorship. The church initially supported the Sandinistas after Somoza’s ouster, but that relationship frayed over time due to ideological differences. Under Ortega, Catholic leaders have often backed the country’s conservative elite.
When the protests first erupted, Ortega asked the church to serve as mediator in peace talks, though they ultimately failed.
The Nicaraguan church has been notably sympathetic toward the protesters and their cause. In April 2018, Managua’s cathedral sheltered student demonstrators and was a place for collecting food and money to support them.
Figures such as Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes and Managua Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez have been outspoken in rejecting violence. Brenes called the demonstrations justified, and Báez rejected any political decision that would harm the people. Báez left the country in 2019 at the Vatican’s request, a transfer that was lamented by the opposition and celebrated by the ruling Sandinistas.
Ortega has responded by accusing some bishops of being part of a plot to overthrow him and calling them “terrorists.”
In March the papal nuncio in Managua, Monsignor Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, who participated as a mediator and lobbied for the release of jailed government opponents, was forced by Ortega’s administration to leave the country in what the Vatican called an “unjustified decision.”
WHAT ABOUT THE LATEST CHURCH-STATE CONFLICT?
The church radio stations were shuttered by the government Aug. 1, and police investigating Álvarez, the Matagalpa bishop, accused him of “organizing violent groups.”
Álvarez has called for profound electoral reform to “effectively achieve the democratization of the country” and also demanded the release of some 190 people he considers political prisoners. Last month he staged a fast in protest of what he called persecution against him.
Since Aug. 3, authorities have confined Álvarez to the episcopal complex where he lives. After six days without making public statements, he reappeared Thursday in a live social media broadcast at a Mass, accompanied by six priests and four lay people who are also unable to leave the complex.
The Archdiocese of Managua has expressed support for Álvarez. The conference of Latin American Catholic bishops decried what it called a “siege” of priests and bishops, the expulsion of members of religious communities and “constant harassment” targeting the Nicaraguan people and church.
On Saturday, hundreds of Nicaraguans attended a Mass under a heavy police presence after the government prohibited a religious procession in Managua.
Church leaders announced a day earlier that the National Police had banned the planned procession for Our Lady of Fatima for reasons of “internal security.” Instead, the church called the faithful to come peacefully to the cathedral.
HAS THERE BEEN ANY RESPONSE FROM THE VATICAN?
For almost two weeks, the Vatican was publicly silent about the investigation of Álvarez. The silence drew criticism from some Latin American human rights activists and intellectuals.
On Friday, Monsignor Juan Antonio Cruz, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the Organization of American States, expressed concern about the situation and asked both parties to “seek ways of understanding.”
Cruz’s remarks came during a special session of OAS in which its Permanent Council approved a resolution condemning Ortega’s government for the “harassment” and “arbitrary restrictions imposed on religious organizations and those that criticize the government.”
Cruz said the Holy See wishes to “collaborate with those who are committed to dialogue as an indispensable instrument of democracy and guarantor of a more humane and fraternal civilization.”
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Associated Press writers Nicole Winfield at the Vatican and Christopher Sherman in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D-Mich.) decision to retire already has Democrats scrambling to find a successor as they brace for a brutal Senate map in 2024.
A slew of high-profile Michigan names have already been floated to replace Stabenow. A source close to Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told The Hill that the congresswoman is seriously considering launching a Senate bid. At the same time, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) is also said to be considering a run.
Various state officials have also been floated, including Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist, Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) name has also come up, but she has suggested she plans to serve a full four-year term.
“Anybody who has watched Michigan over the past couple of years knows that we have a deep, deep bench of highly qualified folks,” said Lavora Barnes, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.
News of Stabenow’s retirement comes after Michigan Democrats, including Whitmer, Benson and Nessel, defied expectations in November’s midterm elections, winning a number of statewide and congressional races.
“In 2022 Michigan Democrats won resounding statewide victories, and we are confident Democrats will hold this Senate seat in 2024,” said David Bergstein, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
On top of that, Democrats also have a leg up given the state’s past electoral history. The last time a Republican won a Senate seat in Michigan was in 1994, when former Sen. Spencer Abraham took the seat. He himself was the first Republican to win a Senate race since 1972. Stabenow defeated Abraham in 2000.
“Michigan is a purple state, but it leans blue,” said Michigan-based Democratic strategist Adrian Hemond. “Democrats have a great shot at this, especially if they nominate the right candidate.”
However, Republicans still say they view the race as a potential pickup opportunity, pointing to Michigan’s status as a swing state.
In 2016, former President Trump flipped the state by roughly 10,000 votes. Four years later, in 2020, Trump lost the state by just over 2 points. And past Democratic victories in the state’s Senate contests have also been hard-fought: Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) defeated now Rep.-elect John James (R-Mich.) in 2020 by just under 2 points. And in Stabenow’s last reelection bid, she defeated James in 2018 by roughly 6 points.
Republicans and Democrats concur that Stabenow is a strong political figure in Michigan, which has thrown a bit of a wrench into the state’s political dynamic.
“Senate Democrats don’t even have a campaign chair yet and they are already dealing with a major retirement,” said Mike Berg, communications director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “We are going to aggressively target this seat in 2024. This could be the first of many Senate Democrats who decide to retire rather than lose.”
And Republicans also say they have a deep bench of potential candidates to choose from.
Despite losing two Senate bids, James has been floated, and so has Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.). Former Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), who was defeated in a primary battle last year following his vote to impeach Trump in 2021, along with former Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who also voted to impeach Trump but did not seek reelection, have been suggested. Upton was also floated as a potential option for House Speaker this week as Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) struggled to get his party to coalesce behind him.
But there are questions as to whether moderates like Meijer and Upton could survive a GOP primary.
Republican insiders also point to former gubernatorial candidates Kevin Rinke and Perry Johnson. Rinke lost in the state’s GOP primary last year, and Johnson was disqualified from running after election officials found issues with petition signatures his campaign submitted. Former gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon, who lost to Whitmer in November, has also been named.
“The Dems on the Senate side have always been better positioned than we have,” one Michigan Republican strategist told The Hill. “And now I don’t know if you can say that. They’ve got strong candidates, but we’ve got strong candidates too.”
Barnes said she expects it will be a “tough race” but said she feels confident Democrats run a strong campaign.
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Panthers vs. Hurricanes Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 4: Odds, total, moneyline and other Vegas lines
The Florida Panthers are on their home ice at BB&T Center to square off with the Carolina Hurricanes for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Wednesday, May 24, starting at 8:00 PM ET on TNT, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Panthers are ahead in the series 3-0. The Panthers are the favorite, with -115 odds on the moneyline, in this decisive game against the Hurricanes, who have -105 moneyline odds.
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- When: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – As states across the country move to restrict abortion access, the White House is working to protect it.
President Joe Biden held a roundtable discussion on Friday with local leaders to talk about what comes next. During the discussion, leaders from across the country got to share their thoughts on reproductive rights with the president and his team.
White House Gender Policy Council official Jen Klein says getting to hear from them is an important part of the administration’s work.
“We’re hearing from state and local officials about what they’re seeing and the challenges that they’re facing and how the administration can help them,” Klein said.
Local leaders also say the conversations are critical as they partner with the Biden administration and each other to try to find creative ways to protect access to abortion in their states.
President Biden has already issued executive orders meant to ensure women can travel to receive and have privacy around reproductive health care.
Judge Lina Hidalgo from Harris County, Texas wants to see more federal action.
“My message to the president is we need help. We’re the last line of defense and right now we need support,” Hidalgo said. “In terms of funding for contraceptive care, in terms of support transporting women who need abortion out of state, fighting these laws in court.”
Durham, North Carolina Mayor Elaine O’Neal says cooperation with the federal government is crucial.
“It really has to be a coordinated effort,” O’Neal said.
Mount Vernon, New York Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard says states with abortion access have an important role in helping women in other states.
“We must provide a safe haven for them. We have to increase the access that’s available for those who have to cross state lines,” Patterson-Howard said.
Kansas State Sen. Dinah Sykes hopes her state’s recent vote to keep abortion rights in the Kansas Constitution serves as a powerful example.
“It’s going to take everyday citizens engaging so that we can right this ship,” Sykes said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is dropping its vaccination requirement for audiences next season but still will mandate the wearing of masks.
The decision announced Tuesday differentiates the Met from Broadway theaters, which loosened restrictions in July by making mask-wearing optional. In May, most Broadway theaters lifted the requirement that audience members provide proof of vaccination to enter venues.
The Met season opens Sept. 27 with the company premiere of Cherubini’s “Medea” in an Italian translation.
The company returned last season from a 1½ year absence caused by the pandemic, managing 196 staged performances without a cancellation. The Met sold 61% of available tickets, down from 75% in last pre-pandemic season of 2018-19. | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/met-opera-drops-vaccine-requirement-still-mandates-masks/ | 2022-08-24 19:26:22 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/met-opera-drops-vaccine-requirement-still-mandates-masks/ |
Biden lawyer: FBI searching Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, home
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI was conducting a planned search Wednesday of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents, the president’s personal lawyer said.
The search follows a 13-hour, top-to-bottom review of his Wilmington, Delaware home on Jan. 20, when agents located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes.
The president has been voluntarily allowing the Justice Department into his residences as part of their probe that came about when his attorneys uncovered classified documents Nov. 2 while closing up an office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the Ivy League school. Documents were also found at his Wilmington home by his personal lawyers, who initiated a search after the Penn Biden center documents were discovered.
“Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate,” said the statement from Biden’s lawyer, Bob Bauer. “The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate. We will have further information at the conclusion of today’s search.”
An FBI spokeswoman referred comment to the Justice Department. A spokesman there did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
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YORK COUNTY, Maine — Peggy Turner drove from Aroostook County to York County Jail on Sunday demanding clarity after the mysterious death of her niece, Nicole Turner.
Turner, 34, was found dead in her jail cell on July 3. Maine State Police are investigating her death as a suspected overdose.
"She was a mother, she was a daughter, she was a granddaughter, she was a niece," Peggy Turner said at a vigil outside York County Jail Saturday.
There, she said she confronted Sheriff Bill King about why the investigation is taking so long. King told NEWS CENTER Maine the department is waiting on Turner's toxicology reports to finalize the investigation.
He said the investigation is expected to wrap up soon, but gave no specific date as to when it would be released to the public.
"Did they just lock her up in a room and look at them like a docket number and a criminal instead as someone with trauma... or just a human?" Peggy Turner said.
Turner added that Nicole had a traumatic youth and was placed into foster care after being raped at the age of 14.
"I still have no answers, so it leaves you questioning everything. She is gone but never forgotten," Peggy Turner said.
Marion Anderson works with the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and has been in Maine's correctional system previously.
They argued drug addiction resources are not strong in Maine jails.
"There is just a lack of adequate healthcare for people in jails. There are some jails and prisons that offer medication-assisted treatment, but those services are a case-by-case basis," Anderson said.
In York County Jail's case, County Manager Gregory Zinser said that people who were being treated for drug abuse with Subuxone before their arrest would be able to continue that.
He also wrote, in an email, that some individuals can access medication-assisted treatment in jails even if they didn't have treatment before.
"Programs under the above items are served by an intensive case manager who works with external partners in hopes that they will continue their MAT treatment upon release. MAT programming is also backed up by counseling," Zinser wrote in an email.
King did not sit down for an interview with NEWS CENTER Maine, but he said the details of Nicole Turner's suspected overdose would be released shortly. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/family-seeking-answers-for-nicole-turners-york-county-jail-death-maine-state-police-investigation/97-3bea8027-7a43-4dbe-bd4f-899a6f1c4d9f | 2022-07-20 12:03:29 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/family-seeking-answers-for-nicole-turners-york-county-jail-death-maine-state-police-investigation/97-3bea8027-7a43-4dbe-bd4f-899a6f1c4d9f |
Former Chief Human Resources Officer for HBO Max to Lead Global Human Resources, Talent, and Recruiting
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) today named longstanding human resources executive Michele Golden as its Global Chief People Officer, a role in which she'll oversee human resources, recruiting, talent management, and diversity, equity, & inclusion for the global entertainment technology company. Golden joins IMAX from WarnerMedia (now Warner Bros. Discovery), where she served most recently as its Chief Human Resources Officer for HBO Max, the culmination of a more than twenty-year career with the media and entertainment giant. Golden will report directly to IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond and Chief Legal Officer Rob Lister and be based in the Company's New York office.
"Michele is a world-class human resources executive with deep experience in guiding some of the most recognizable brands in media and entertainment, building successful teams, and navigating sweeping change," said Gelfond. "As IMAX seeks to build its global technology platform and foster a new era of growth for the Company, we are very excited to have Michele's leadership in further strengthening our global teams, workplace, and culture."
Golden said, "I am beyond excited to join IMAX, and partner with Rich, Rob and the entire IMAX leadership team as they continue with their successful mission to make the world's leading entertainment technology company even better. With best-in-class technology, visionary leadership, and dedicated employees around the globe, I cannot think of a more exciting place to put my experience and expertise to work."
Golden brings more than two decades of deep human resources leadership and expertise to IMAX, launching and scaling some of the industry's most recognizable entertainment brands while developing people strategies that impact performance, culture, and business results. As a member of its executive leadership team, she was instrumental in executing WarnerMedia's strategy to launch and scale HBO Max on a global platform.
Before being tapped to lead the Human Resources function at HBO Max, Golden served as Chief Human Resources Officer for AT&T's former adtech unit Xandr, leading its integration into WarnerMedia. Prior to joining Xandr, and before the Company's acquisition by AT&T, Golden led the Human Resources functions for many well-known Time Warner and Turner Brands including Turner Sports, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, Turner Classic Movies, Bleacher Report and others.
Golden obtained her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University. She is a graduate of the prestigious Betsy Magness Leadership Institute for Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and attended the WICT Senior Management Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Cable Executive Management Program at Harvard University.
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IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture, and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you've never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theaters to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX's network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of June 30, 2022, there were 1,694 IMAX theater systems (1,610 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 72 institutional) operating in 87 countries and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
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Michael Tate of Santa Fe walks to the end of the Camino Real Hiking Trail at Siler Road with his dog, Lucy, on Friday. The county will extend the path from Siler Road to San Ysidro Crossing if a proposed bond passes in November.
Michael Tate of Santa Fe walks to the end of the Camino Real Hiking Trail at Siler Road with his dog, Lucy, on Friday. The county will extend the path from Siler Road to San Ysidro Crossing if a proposed bond passes in November.
The paved pathway that stretches along the Santa Fe River, where residents can enjoy a walk, run or bike ride, would be extended a mile to San Ysidro Crossing if a proposed bond passes in November.
The riverside thoroughfare runs between St. Francis Drive and Siler Road, a little more than 3.5 miles.
Santa Fe County would use $3.2 million from its proposed $5 million bond to pay for lengthening the popular trail — which is actually a wide sidewalk — to San Ysidro. From there, it would loosely connect to an existing milelong bike trail stretching west to Romero Park.
That would add several miles to an out-and-back trek, and the route eventually could be extended farther — much farther.
Pedro Murga, an employee at Mellow Velo bike shop in Santa Fe, said even the San Ysidro extension would be welcome because it would enable him to roll onto the river trail in about half the two-mile distance he now must ride on busy streets.
“That would make it so awesome,” Murga said.
The bond money would combine with the $3.5 million voters approved for the trail expansion two years ago for a total of $6.7 million, said Sara Smith, the county’s operations manager.
This additional money is needed because construction costs have nearly doubled amid the pandemic because of more expensive materials, a labor shortage and general inflation, Smith said.
The $5 million bond that residents will vote on will fund the river trail extension and the construction of a trail in Thornton Ranch Open Space, she said. The bond won’t cause an increase in property taxes, she added.
County officials get some ideas for open space improvement projects from residents, she said, adding that the river trail is especially popular, generating a lot of requests for it to be lengthened.
Some of the previous bond money was used to buy 20 acres of easements on 31 properties along the river, she said. The easements cost the county just shy of $1 million, with an average price of $29,200.
There’s much more involved in building a paved trail than laying concrete, said PJ Montano, county Facilities and Projects Division director.
Aside from rights-of-way being worked out, roads must be improved and riverbanks fortified in places to prevent floods from washing out the trail, Montano said.
Also, abandoned cars, cast-off junk and trash must be removed from some riverfront areas used for illegal dumping, he said. And crews must conduct archaeological surveys along the way, he added.
Montano said every type of construction has grown more expensive.
“The cost of material has doubled,” he said. “And labor is extremely difficult right now to find.”
Some of the county’s contractors are having to pay their staff 20 percent to 30 percent more than they did two years ago, Montano said.
If the bond measure passes, the project should go out to bid by March and work would begin in a relatively short time after that, he said.
The existing trail was part of a joint effort by the city and county known as the Greenway project.
“The trail has been an incredible investment in people’s health and in the beautification of the county and the city,” county Commissioner Anna Hansen said. “Constituents often tell me how much they enjoy the river trail and inquire as to development of the next phase.”
Montano said any leftover dollars from the San Ysidro extension would be used for preliminary work on the next phase, which will lengthen the trail another couple of miles to hook into a trail that goes out to Diablo Canyon.
Planners are studying the best way to do that, he said.
GPS indicates a route like this would offer bicyclists almost a 50-mile out-and-back ride from downtown Santa Fe.
This second phase would get underway by 2026, and it would require additional funding, he said.
Juliana Ciano, who co-owns Reunity Resources, said the trail’s initial expansion would bring it near her doorstep at San Ysidro, so she’s eager to see it materialize.
“I think it’s a massive community benefit,” Ciano said.
Biking in the area is unsafe for adults and kids alike, even when riding the mile on busy Agua Fría Street to the river trail’s current entrance on Siler, she said, adding that several bicyclists have been struck by cars on the narrow street.
Being able to access the river trail directly from the neighborhood would open up biking possibilities that she and others have wanted, she said.
“The river trail is beautiful; it’s spacious; it’s wonderful,” Ciano said. “It will help kids biking to school, and all kinds of things.”
Jonah Budreau, another Mellow Vello employee, said he used to live near San Ysidro and recalls how unpleasant the bike rides were to the Siler trailhead.
Budreau thinks more people would commute on their bikes to the downtown area if they had easier access to the trail.
“I just think it gets more people out of their houses and doing things like commuting to work or take a little hike after work, when the path is right outside their door rather than having to drive somewhere to access it,” Budreau said.
Montano said he lives about a mile from Romero Park and now must bike two miles through traffic to enter the trail. The initial extension would cut his street riding to a mile, he said.
If the county creates a route that goes all the way out to Diablo Canyon, it would be worth every dollar, he said. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/voters-to-decide-if-3-2-million-should-be-spent-to-extend-trail-along-santa/article_b2795ed8-5571-11ed-8c08-af8f1dddf7ba.html | 2022-10-31 07:39:29 | 1 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/voters-to-decide-if-3-2-million-should-be-spent-to-extend-trail-along-santa/article_b2795ed8-5571-11ed-8c08-af8f1dddf7ba.html |
A town-flattening hurricane in Florida. Catastrophic flooding in eastern Kentucky. Crippling heatwaves in the Northeast and West. A historic megadrought. The United States endured 18 separate disasters in 2022 whose damages exceeded $1 billion, with the total coming to $165 billion, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The annual report from the nation's premier meteorological institution highlights a troubling trend: Extreme weather events, fueled by human-caused climate change, are occurring at a higher frequency with an increased cost — in dollars and lives.
"Climate change is creating more and more intense, extreme events that cause significant damage and often sets off cascading hazards like intense drought, followed by devastating wildfires, followed by dangerous flooding and mudslides," said Dr. Rick Spinrad, NOAA's administrator, citing the flooding and landslides currently happening in California.
In five of the last six years, costs from climate and weather-related disasters have exceeded $100 billion annually. The average number of billion-dollar disasters has surged over that time, too, driven by a combination of increased exposure of people living in and moving to hazardous areas, vulnerability due to increasing hazards like wind speed and fire intensity, and a warming climate, the NOAA report said.
(2 of 6) The U.S. experienced 18 #BillionDollarDisasters in 2022 totaling more than $165 billion in damage.
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Climate-fueled hurricanes, in particular, are driving up damages. Hurricane Ian, which killed at least 150 people and pancaked entire neighborhoods when it made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, cost $112.9 billion alone.
"There are, unfortunately, several trends that are not going in the right direction for us," said Adam Smith, an applied climatologist at NOAA. "For example, the United States has been impacted by a landfalling Category 4 or 5 hurricane in five out of the last six years."
Other worrying trends are clear too
The rise in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events mirrors a rise in global temperatures. The last eight years have been the warmest in modern history, European researchers said on Tuesday. Average global temperatures have increased 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.1 degrees Fahrenheit) since the Industrial Revolution, when humans started the widespread burning of fossil fuels to power economies and development.
Despite international pledges to cut climate-warming emissions and to move the world's economy to cleaner energy sources, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. A report by the nonpartisan research firm Rhodium Group found that greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. rose 1.3% in 2022. It was the second consecutive year emissions in the U.S. rose, after a pandemic-driven dip in 2020, despite the Biden administration's goal of cutting U.S. emissions in half by the year 2030.
The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate bill in U.S. history, was a "turning point," the Rhodium Group report said. "However, even with the IRA, more aggressive policies are needed to fully close the gap [to halve emissions] by 2030."
More extreme weather is expected in 2023
The frequency of billion-dollar disasters has increased greatly in recent years and the trend is expected to continue.
An analysis from the nonprofit Climate Central earlier this year found that between 2017 and 2021 the U.S. experienced a billion-dollar disaster every 18 days, on average. The average time between those events in the 1980s was 82 days.
The less time between events, the fewer resources there are to respond to communities affected, the Climate Central report noted.
To reduce the threat of deadly and costly weather events, scientists say the world needs to limit warming by urgently cutting climate-warming emissions. But as evidenced by recent events, the impacts of climate change are already here and adaptation efforts are needed as well.
"This sobering data paints a dire picture of how woefully unprepared the United States is to cope with the mounting climate crisis and its intersection with other socioeconomic challenges in people's daily lives," said Rachel Cleetus, a policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a statement. "Rather than responding in a one-off manner to disasters within the U.S., Congress should implement a comprehensive national climate resilience strategy commensurate with the harm and risks we're already facing."
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Companies Combine PLM Experts Under DxP Services, a New ITC Infotech Business Unit
BANGALORE, India and BOSTON, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ITC Infotech and PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) today announced the closing of the transaction contemplated between the parties under the Strategic Partner Agreement announced in April. The transaction is designed to accelerate customer digital transformation initiatives and the adoption of PTC's industry-leading Windchill® product lifecycle management (PLM) software as a service (SaaS).
Under the agreement, ITC Infotech has acquired a substantial portion of PTC's PLM consulting and professional services business, including approximately 160 PLM consultants and services experts, and created a new business unit, called DxP Services, bringing together PLM professionals from both companies. This new business unit within ITC Infotech is being led by Patrick Bionducci who previously led PTC's global services business. As a trusted and preferred partner, ITC Infotech will collaborate with PTC to develop joint offerings to accelerate customer digital transformation initiatives, focused on the adoption of PTC's Windchill+™ PLM SaaS offering.
Thousands of PTC customer systems are expected to be converted to the cloud as part of the multi-year roadmap for the new business unit. To ensure consistency and accuracy of these SaaS conversion projects, PTC and ITC Infotech are bringing together professionals from both companies into a unified global practice which will create offerings, including the tooling and methodologies required, and execute programs to accelerate the adoption of PTC's next generation PLM solutions. DxP Services represents one of the largest organisations of Windchill professional services expertise in the industry. It is enabled by rich domain and technical knowledge of a team of experts committed to accelerating customer digital transformation journeys. ITC Infotech has also deepened its presence in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States with this transaction, and envisions becoming one of the leading SaaS systems integrators globally.
The overall commitments of ITC Infotech under the agreement are estimated at around US $115 million, of which US $33 million in cash was received by PTC at the closing of the transaction, with the remainder consisting of a mix of committed and contingent items deliverable over a period of 5 years in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
ITC Infotech is a leading global technology services and solutions provider, led by Business and Technology Consulting. ITC Infotech provides business-friendly solutions to help clients succeed and be future-ready, by seamlessly bringing together digital expertise, strong industry specific alliances and the unique ability to leverage deep domain expertise from ITC Group businesses. The company provides technology solutions and services to enterprises across industries such as Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Travel and Hospitality, through a combination of traditional and newer business models, as a long-term sustainable partner. ITC is one of India's leading private sector companies and a diversified conglomerate with businesses spanning Consumer Goods, Hotels, Paperboards and Packaging, Agri Business and Information Technology. For more information, please visit: http://www.itcinfotech.com/
PTC enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and service innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we don't just imagine a better world, we enable it. For more information, please visit www.ptc.com.
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Leap Partners Acquires Drain Werks in Birmingham, Alabama
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In record speed, Leap Partners, a Nashville-based home services company, has completed four acquisitions in just four months. Most recently, the company acquired Drain Werks, a leading plumbing company serving central and northern Alabama. Through their acquisitions, John Cerasuolo, CEO, and Patrick Ritter, CFO of Leap Partners have built a reputation for being friendly and fair buyers of companies in the Southeast. This is exactly what attracted Marcus and Duston Williams, of Drain Werks.
Marcus Williams, Owner of Drain Werks said, "I am proud of what we have built in Drain Werks. However, I knew we needed some help to take the company into our next phase of expansion. John and Patrick's approach fit perfectly with what I was looking for. I am excited about the new growth opportunities for all of our employees and customers now that we have Leap Partners' support."
Duston Williams, CEO of Drain Werks said, "With the Leap Partners team, we are going to be able to better serve our employees and our customers. I am excited about the opportunity to continue to lead Drain Werks, but now with a broader support team of business owners that can help us navigate our growth."
"We are excited to have Marcus, Duston, and all of the Drain Werks family join our growing team," said John Cerasuolo, Leap Partners CEO. "They will be great additions to our all-star team of business owners who are helping each other run and grow their businesses. We feel fortunate at Leap Partners to continue to meet and work with caring, driven, and inspiring people like Marcus and Duston."
Marcus and Duston will continue to lead the Drain Werks team, as leading plumbing and drain specialists in the Alabama area.
Leap Partners is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The company is working to connect the best small and medium-sized HVAC, plumbing, and electrical service businesses in the Southeast to build a world-class service provider with industry-leading customer satisfaction and employee engagement.
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Lincoln East Rotary Club has awarded $1,000 scholarships to four Lancaster County high school graduating seniors who plan to go to college in Nebraska.
Students are selected for the award based on several factors including good academic performance, being a leader in their school, community service and financial need.
Letters of recommendation are considered in evaluating students’ applications. Committee Chair Lillie Larsen and members David Caudy and Dennis Schmidt select students to recommend for the scholarships. The goal of the Rotarians is to help students cover the costs of their education for the 2023-2024 academic year.
The winners:
• Maather H. Basi, from Lincoln Southwest High School, plans to major in biological sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and then pursue a medical degree specializing in neuroscience. She is bilingual with Arabic as her second language. At age 9, Maather’s family immigrated to the U.S. from Al-Fashir, Sudan, with hopes of a promising new future.
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• Chloe Jones, from Norris High School, plans to become a pediatric nurse through studies at Creighton University. During her senior year, Chloe served as a lab assistant in chemistry. Her chemistry teacher said, “Chloe thrives with a rigorous course load and is actively involved in her school community.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples.
Rule for the designer and the justices will expose not only same-sex couples but also Black people, immigrants, Jews, Muslims and others to discrimination, liberal groups say.
Rule against her and the justices will force artists — from painters and photographers to writers and musicians — to do work that is against their faith, conservative groups argue.
Both sides have described for the court what lawyers sometimes call “a parade of horribles” that could result if the ruling doesn’t go their way.
The case marks the second time in five years that the Supreme Court has confronted the issue of a business owner who says their religion prevents them from creating works for a gay wedding. This time, most experts expect that the court now dominated 6-3 by conservatives and particularly sympathetic to religious plaintiffs will side with Lorie Smith, the Denver-area designer in the case.
But the American Civil Liberties Union, in a brief filed with the court, was among those that called Smith’s argument “carte blanche to discriminate whenever a business’s product or service could be characterized as ‘expressive,’” a category of businesses that could range from “luggage to linens to landscaping.” Those businesses, they said, could announce, “We Do Not Serve Blacks, Gays, or Muslims.”
Smith’s attorneys at the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom say that’s not true. “I think it’s disingenuous and false to say that a win for Lorie in this case would take us back to those times where people … were denied access to essential goods and services based on who they were,” said ADF attorney Kellie Fiedorek, adding, “A win for Lorie here would never permit such conduct, like some of the hypotheticals that they’re raising.”
Smith’s case follows that of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who objected to creating a wedding cake for a gay couple. The couple sued, but the case ended with a limited decision. Phillips’ lawyer, Kristen Waggoner, is back before the high court Monday arguing for Smith.
Smith wants to begin offering wedding websites, but she says her Christian faith prevents her from creating websites celebrating same-sex marriages. That could get her in trouble with state law. Colorado, like most other states, has a public accommodation law that says if Smith offers wedding websites to the public, she must provide them to all customers. Businesses that violate the law can be fined, among other things.
Smith, for her part, says Colorado’s law violates the Constitution’s First Amendment by forcing her to express a message with which she disagrees.
Among Smith’s other opponents are the Biden administration and 20 mostly Democratic-leaning states including California, New York and Pennsylvania. The states told the court in one of 75 legal briefs filed by outside groups in the case that accepting Smith’s arguments would allow for widespread discrimination.
“A bakery whose owner opposed mixed-race relationships could refuse to bake wedding cakes for interracial couples,” the states said. A “real estate agency whose owner opposed racial integration could refuse to represent Black couples seeking to purchase a home in a predominantly white neighborhood; or a portrait studio whose proprietor opposes interracial adoption could refuse to take pictures of white parents with their Black adopted children.”
Those race-based examples could get particular attention on a court with two Black justices, Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson, who are married to white spouses and another justice, Amy Coney Barrett, who has two adopted children who are Black. But the states gave an example involving a person’s national origin too. “A tattoo studio could ink American flag tattoos on customers born in the United States while refusing to sell identical tattoos to immigrants,” they said.
Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Accountability Center, representing a group of law professors, hypothesized other examples of what could happen if Smith succeeds at the high court.
“A web designer could refuse to create a web page celebrating a female CEO’s retirement — violating Colorado’s prohibition on sex discrimination — if he believed all women have a duty to stay home and raise children. Similarly, a furniture-maker — who considers his furniture pieces to be artistically expressive — could refuse to serve an interracial couple if he believed that interracial couples should not share a home together. Or an architect could refuse to design a home for an interfaith couple,” she told the court.
Smith’s supporters, however, among them 20 mostly Republican-leaning states, say ruling against her has negative consequences, too. A lawyer for the CatholicVote.org education fund told the court that if the lower court ruling stands and Smith loses, “a Jewish choreographer will have to stage a dramatic Easter performance, a Catholic singer will be required to perform at a marriage of two divorcees, and a Muslim who operates an advertising agency will be unable to refuse to create a campaign for a liquor company.”
The Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty put it differently, telling the court that a Jewish baker could have to fulfill the request of a Neo-Nazi who wants a cake saying “Happy November 9th!” — a reference to Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when Nazis burned synagogues and vandalized Jewish businesses throughout Germany and Austria.
Alan B. Morrison, a constitutional law expert at Georgetown University, underscored that Smith doesn’t currently do wedding websites, making the case particularly speculative and, he says, problematic. Still, Morrison chuckled at some of the hypothetical scenarios both sides came up with, suggesting they are “a bit overblown.”
The examples, he said, are “the kind of thing a law professor would think of.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/both-sides-see-high-stakes-in-gay-rights-supreme-court-case/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-12-03 06:11:14 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/both-sides-see-high-stakes-in-gay-rights-supreme-court-case/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Supreme Court solidifies protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday used the case of a Christian mailman who didn’t want to work Sundays to solidify protections for workers who ask for religious accommodations.
In a unanimous decision the justices made clear that workers who ask for accommodations, such as taking the Sabbath off, should get them unless their employers show doing so would result in “substantial increased costs” to the business.
The court made clear that businesses must cite more than minor costs — so-called “de minimis” costs — to reject requests for religious accommodations at work. Unlike most cases before the court, both sides in the case had agreed businesses needed to show more.
The case before the court involved a mail carrier in rural Pennsylvania. The man was told that as part of his job he’d need to start delivering Amazon packages on Sundays. He declined, saying his Sundays are for church and family. U.S. Postal Service officials initially tried to get substitutes for the man’s shifts, but they couldn’t always accommodate him. When he didn’t show, that meant more work for others. Ultimately, the man quit and sued for religious discrimination.
The case is the latest religious confrontation the high court has been asked to referee. In recent years, the court’s 6-3 conservative majority has been particularly sensitive to the concerns of religious plaintiffs. Last year, the court split along ideological lines in ruling for public high school football coach who wanted to pray on the field after games.
Other recent religious cases have drawn wide agreement among the justices, such as upholding a cross-shaped monument on public grounds and ruling that Boston had violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a City Hall flagpole.
In the latest case, a federal law — Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — requires employers to accommodate employees’ religious practices unless doing so would be an “undue hardship” for the business. But a 1977 Supreme Court case, Trans World Airlines v. Hardison, says in part that employers can deny religious accommodations to employees when they impose “more than a de minimis cost” on the business.
During arguments in the case in April the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who was representing the Post Office, told the justices that the Hardison case as a whole requires an employer who wants to deny an accommodation to show more. She said that most often requests for religious accommodation come up when employees seek schedule changes like the Sabbath off or midday prayer breaks or exemptions from a company’s dress code or grooming policies. They also come up when an employee wants to display a religious symbol in the workplace.
As for the particular dispute in front of them, the justices sent the case back to a lower court for another look in light of their decision. The case involves Gerald Groff, a former employee of the U.S. Postal Service in Pennsylvania’s Amish Country. For years, Groff was a fill-in mail carrier who worked on days when other mail carriers were off.
But when an Amazon.com contract with the Postal Service required carriers to start delivering packages on Sundays, Groff balked. Initially, to avoid the shifts, Groff transferred to a more rural post office not yet doing Sunday deliveries, but eventually that post office was required to do them, too.
Whenever Groff was scheduled on a Sunday, another carrier had to work or his spot went unfilled. Officials said Groff’s absences created a tense environment and contributed to morale problems. It also meant other carriers had to deliver more Sunday mail than they otherwise would.
Groff resigned in 2019 rather than wait to be fired. He sued the Postal service for failing to accommodate his religious practice. Lower courts ruled against him previously. As a result of the court’s ruling, his case will get another look.
The case is Groff v. DeJoy, 22-174.
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Famed 96 Year Old San Francisco Artist Known for Mayoral Portraits and Last Year's "Kneeling Man" Tribute to Colin Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter
"The January 6th Guernica"
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of the January 6th Congressional hearings, famed San Francisco artist Elaine Badgley Arnoux (www.badgleyarts.com), 96, is unveiling a wall-sized indictment of the 45th President, the GOP and the anti-democratic forces that laid siege to the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a failed coup attempt.
"This is the January 6th Guernica," said Arnoux, referring to Picasso's famous painting following the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Arnoux has long been known for her official portraits of San Francisco Mayors including a soon-to-be unveiled portrait of London N. Breed and a lifetime of activist art such as last year's "Kneeling Man" inspired by Colin Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter. "I don't pull any punches in my art. This is a full throated, full throttled indictment of those people who tried to overturn our democracy."
A vividly colored and dramatically intense tableaux, "Ode to January 6th" is seven feet by nine feet. Badgley-Arnoux hopes the painting will become a rallying cry for the mid-term elections and beyond. Currently, the artist is looking for an appropriate public space to display the work. With imagery both realistic and metaphorical, "Ode to January 6th" is a stinging artistic indictment of former President Donald Trump
"I won't even say his name," said Arnoux, who nonetheless features an eerie silhouette of the former chief executive as part of the canvas. "I only refer to him as the 45th and pray God never again President."
In the center is an effigy of "Little Red Riding Hood" hanging from a noose: a graphic and disturbing image with specific meaning.
"That's the GOP," states the artist. "Red like red states, dressed up to look harmless, but in reality a wolf at the throat of our Republic."
Elaine Badgley Arnoux was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1926 and moved to Southern California when she was 11. She received an award to study at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, and later moved to San Luis Obispo where she worked as a painter. In 1952 Badgley Arnoux co-founded the San Luis Obispo Art Association. In 1965, she and her family relocated to San Francisco where she continues to live and work. Badgley Arnoux's long and productive career as a painter and portraitist, teacher and activist reflects her extensive travel and residence abroad in Europe, Mexico and North Africa, which strengthened her dedication to people and social welfare. Her works are featured in the collections of numerous museums including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Achenbach Collection; Stanford University Library Special Collections, Stanford, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; and the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA. She has done numerous commissions for public places, including a recent portrait for Openhouse, Community for LGBT Seniors, San Francisco.
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Biden: US would defend Taiwan against Chinese invasion
BEIJING (AP) - President Joe Biden says U.S. forces would defend Taiwan if China tries to invade the self-ruled island claimed by Beijing as part of its territory, adding to displays of official American support for the island democracy.
Biden said “yes” when asked during an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS News’s “60 Minutes” program whether “U.S. forces, U.S. men and women, would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.”
CBS News reported the White House said after the interview U.S. policy hasn’t changed. That policy says Washington wants to see Taiwan’s status resolved peacefully but doesn’t say whether U.S. forces might be sent in response to a Chinese attack.
Tension is rising following efforts by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government to intimidate Taiwan by firing missiles into the nearby sea and flying fighter jets nearby and visits to Taipei by political figures including U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Taiwan’s foreign ministry on Monday expressed “sincere gratitude” to Biden for “affirming the U.S. government’s rock-solid promise of security to Taiwan.”
Taiwan will “resist authoritarian expansion and aggression” and “deepen the close security partnership” with Washington and other governments “with similar thinking” to protect regional stability, the statement said.
Washington is obligated by federal law to see that Taiwan has the means to defend itself but doesn’t say whether U.S. forces would be sent. The United States has no formal relations with the island but maintains informal diplomatic ties.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war that ended with the Communist Party in control of the mainland. The two governments say they are one country but dispute which is entitled to be the national leader.
Beijing criticizes official foreign contact with Taiwan’s elected government as encouragement to make its de facto independence permanent, a step the mainland says would lead to war.
Washington says it doesn’t support formal independence for Taiwan, a stance Biden repeated in the interview broadcast Sunday.
“Taiwan makes their own judgments about their independence,” the president said. “We’re not encouraging their being independent.”
In May, Biden said “yes” when asked at a news conference in Tokyo whether he was willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China invaded.
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AP journalist Johnson Lai in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this report.
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No. 24 UConn will be searching for consistency and a season sweep in Saturday’s Big East Conference road game against last-place Georgetown in Washington, D.C.
Throughout their nonconference schedule and the infant stages of league play, the Huskies (17-6, 6-6) relied on a blend of efficient scoring and formidable defense to start 14-0 and climb as high as No. 2 in the rankings.
UConn averaged 82.9 points per game over its undefeated run and allowed more than 70 points just once in that span — an 84-73 home win against the Hoyas (6-17, 1-11) on Dec. 20.
But the crisp performances that vaulted the Huskies to their highest Top 25 ranking since 2009 have been scarce for the past month and UConn hasn’t won consecutive games since late December.
The Huskies have won two of their past three, most recently a 90-76 triumph at DePaul on Tuesday.
Jordan Hawkins (26 points), Adama Sanogo (25) and Tristen Newton (21) spearheaded a UConn attack that bullied the Blue Demons for 42 points in the paint and a 38-25 rebounding edge.
“We’re confident that we can get back to winning because of our culture and the pedigree of our players, the type of players we get,” UConn coach Dan Hurley said. “They didn’t come here on a transaction. They came here to be part of their transformation.”
But while a date with lowly Georgetown seemingly puts them in a favorable position to push their conference record above .500, the Huskies may need a similar offensive showcase to win a game featuring the conference’s top three scorers entering play Thursday.
Sanogo and Hawkins rank first and third in the league with 17.3 and 16.6 points per game, respectively, while the Hoyas’ Primo Spears averages 16.8 points per contest.
Spears had his streak of three-straight 20-point games snapped in Georgetown’s 63-53 home loss to Creighton on Wednesday. He was shut out in the first half and produced just 10 points on 5-for-18 shooting as the Hoyas lost their second game in a row after beating DePaul last week to snap a 10-game losing streak.
Georgetown’s second-leading scorer, Brandon Murray, didn’t provide much of a boost either. He, too, went scoreless in the first half and trudged to an 11-point night on 4-for-14 shooting.
“When we have (Murray and Spears) not scoring the way that they have been scoring for us, it’s hard for us to win,” Hoyas coach Patrick Ewing said. “We did a good job defensively, but … offensively we took a step back.”
Georgetown may have their third-best scorer available against the Huskies as Jay Heath returned to the court Wednesday for the first time since undergoing surgery for a hand injury he suffered against DePaul on Dec. 29. He finished with seven points in 19 minutes off the bench.
The Hoyas nearly spoiled the then-No. 2 Huskies’ 12-0 record in the teams’ first meeting this season on Dec. 20 in Connecticut.
Georgetown led 60-53 with under 12 minutes remaining — the first time all season UConn had trailed in the second half — but Joey Calcaterra scored all 14 of his points off the bench down the stretch as the Huskies rallied to extend their undefeated start.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Keep Louisiana Beautiful is accepting letters of intent from those who wish to be reimbursed for projects or programs that reduce litter or strengthen litter enforcement, educate youth and/or adults, increase recycling and improve the appearance of the bayou state.
The deadline for submitting a letter of intent to KLB’s Healthy Communities Grant program is Wednesday, March 8.
Louisiana Governor Billy Nungesser says that litter abatement has been on the backs of a few volunteers around Louisiana for far too long, and we can only win this battle if all government officials, non-profits, businesses, and the public work together.
“It’s going to take all of Louisiana to clean up this state,” he said.
The Healthy Communities Grant reimburses projects and programs up to $8,000 of their expenses. Louisiana non-profit 501©3 organizations, governmental agencies, schools and universities, KLB Affiliates, and Affiliates in the formation process are eligible to submit letters of intent to apply for the grant.
KLB has awarded more than $3.6 million in grants since 2004. Formerly funded projects include the expansion of a recycling center in Ascension Parish, an educational outreach and litter abatement campaign for Friends of City Park, a trailer for Webster Parish litter removal, and a University of New Orleans storm drain inventory and educational.
Organizations that submit letters of intent will be invited to apply for the Healthy Communities Grant. The full application will be due by Saturday, April 15.
For more information, visit www.keeplouisianabeautiful.org | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/grant-funding-available-to-la-organizations-for-litter-abatement-other-projects/ | 2023-01-18 00:27:35 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/grant-funding-available-to-la-organizations-for-litter-abatement-other-projects/ |
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