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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I needed something to use for my jobs," said an inventor from Braithwaite, La. "so I invented the COOL BOX. It could also be used for camping or tailgating."
The invention provides two useful storage accessories in one. The unit reduces loose clutter and cargo from sliding around in truck and keeps food and drinks cool and tools organized. The COOL BOX is convenient, easily accessible as well as saves time and effort. I could also be offered in different sizes and styles.
The original design was submitted to the New Orleans sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TNO-128, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Serena Williams loses to Tomljanovic at US Open in likely last match
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams lost what is expected to be the last match of her transcendent tennis career Friday night, eliminated from the U.S. Open in the third round by Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 before an electric crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Unwilling to go quietly, Williams staved off five match points to prolong the three-hours-plus proceedings, as some spectators stood to watch, camera phones at the ready. No one — save, of course, Tomljanovic — wanted this to end.
It did on Tomljanovic’s sixth chance, when Williams netted a shot.
Williams turns 41 this month and recently told the world that she is ready to start “evolving” away from her playing days — she expressed distaste for the word “retirement” — and while she has remained purposely vague about whether this appearance at Flushing Meadows definitely would represent her final tournament, everyone assumes it will be.
It was treated that way Friday night, and Williams cried on court immediately afterward. Asked whether she might reconsider, she replied: “I don’t think so, but you never know.”
If this was, indeed, the last hurrah, she took her fans on a thrill-a-minute throwback ride at the hard-court tournament that was the site of a half-dozen of her 23 Grand Slam championships. The first came in 1999 in New York, when Williams was just 17.
But she faltered against Tomljanovic, a 29-year-old Australian who is ranked 46th.
Williams gave away leads in each set, including the last, in which she was up 1-0 before dropping the final six games.
On one point in the second set, Williams’ feet got tangled and she fell to the court, dropping her racket. She finished with 51 unforced errors, 21 more than Tomljanovic.
Williams let a 5-3 lead vanish in the first set. She did something similar in the second, giving away edges of 4-0 and 5-2, and requiring five set points to finally put that one in her pocket. From 4-all in the tiebreaker, meaning Williams was three points from defeat, she pounded a 117 mph ace, hit a forehand winner to cap a 20-stroke exchange, then watched Tomljanovic push a forehand long.
Momentum appeared to be on Williams’ side. But she could not pull off the sort of comeback she did so many times over the years.
“Oh, my God, thank you so much. You guys were amazing today. I tried,” Williams told the audience, hands on her hips, before mentioning her parents, her husband, and her older sister, Venus, a seven-time major champion.
“I wouldn’t be Serena if there wasn’t Venus. So thank you, Venus,” she said. “She’s the only reason that Serena Williams ever existed.”
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Hudson suffered two gunshot wounds during the shooting. While in the hospital, he was found to be in possession of a Glock switch, “an aftermarket attachment designed to convert Glock handguns into fully automatic machine guns,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The switch qualifies as a machine gun under federal law, the prosecutor said.
Hudson pleaded guilty in September 2022 and has been in federal custody since then.
U.S. District Judge James Shadid sentenced Hudson to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Bloomington and Peoria police departments investigated this case as part of “Project Safe Neighborhoods,” a program “bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.”
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Bryant Lewis
Bryan Lewis, 28, of Bloomington, is charged with home invasion causing injury, a Class X felony. His next appearance is Dec. 30.
Justin M. Mata, 28, no address given, is charged with possession of less than five grams of meth with intent to deliver, a Class 2 felony, and possession of less than five grams of meth, a Class 3 felony. He was released on a $50,000 personal recognizance bond and his next appearance is Dec. 30.
Marcus D. Wesley, 36, is charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in a vehicle (Class 4 felony), unlawful possession of cannabis (Class 3 felony) and unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony).
Phillip Tinch of Normal was charged Thursday, Nov. 10 at the McLean County Law and Justice Center with several felonies including:
- Five counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, more than one but less than 15 grams of a substance containing cocaine, a Class 1 felony.
-One count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, less than one gram of a substance containing cocaine, a Class 2 felony.
Trisha L. Hanke, 36, is charged with theft of over $10,000 (Class 2 felony). Court documents indicate she knowingly took $14,000 belonging to a Love's Travel Stop, in LeRoy, where she was employed.
William B. Givens, 49, no address given, is charged with unlawful possession of five to 15 grams of meth with intent to deliver, a Class 1 felony, possession of less than five grams of meth with intent to deliver, a Class 2 felony, possession of five to 15 grams of meth, a Class 2 felony, and possession of less than five grams of meth, a Class 3 felony. His next appearance is Dec. 30.
Booking photos are provided by law enforcement. Arrest does not imply guilt, and criminal charges are merely accusations. A defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted.
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Bryant Lewis
Bryan Lewis, 28, of Bloomington, is charged with home invasion causing injury, a Class X felony. His next appearance is Dec. 30.
Connor Wood
Justin M. Mata
Justin M. Mata, 28, no address given, is charged with possession of less than five grams of meth with intent to deliver, a Class 2 felony, and possession of less than five grams of meth, a Class 3 felony. He was released on a $50,000 personal recognizance bond and his next appearance is Dec. 30.
Connor Wood
Marcus D. Wesley
Marcus D. Wesley, 36, is charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in a vehicle (Class 4 felony), unlawful possession of cannabis (Class 3 felony) and unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Phillip Tinch
Phillip Tinch of Normal was charged Thursday, Nov. 10 at the McLean County Law and Justice Center with several felonies including:
- Five counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, more than one but less than 15 grams of a substance containing cocaine, a Class 1 felony.
-One count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, less than one gram of a substance containing cocaine, a Class 2 felony.
Trisha L. Hanke
Trisha L. Hanke, 36, is charged with theft of over $10,000 (Class 2 felony). Court documents indicate she knowingly took $14,000 belonging to a Love's Travel Stop, in LeRoy, where she was employed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
William B. Givens
William B. Givens, 49, no address given, is charged with unlawful possession of five to 15 grams of meth with intent to deliver, a Class 1 felony, possession of less than five grams of meth with intent to deliver, a Class 2 felony, possession of five to 15 grams of meth, a Class 2 felony, and possession of less than five grams of meth, a Class 3 felony. His next appearance is Dec. 30.
Connor Wood
David L. Oliver
David L. Oliver, 51, of Bloomington, is charged with predatory criminal sexual assault.
Kenneth E. Funk
Kenneth E. Funk, 27, is charged with residential burglary (Class 1 felony) involving an apartment in Lexington on Dec. 31, 2022.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Contact Kelsey Watznauer at (309) 820-3254. Follow her on Twitter: @kwatznauer.
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Amazon Prime Day 2023 is back from July 11-12 with deals on everything from electronics to furniture.
But Amazon isn’t the only major retailer offering deals during the mega sales event, as many competitors have launched their own sales.
Shoppers, especially non-Prime members, can score deals this week at other retailers, like Walmart, Kohl’s and Macy’s.
Here are some of the best competitor sales going on during Amazon Prime Day 2023.
Walmart: “Walmart+ Week” will run from July 6-13 with 50% off across the website. Starting on July 6, Walmart+ members will have access to all the deals and exclusive offers, including buy-one-get-one tickets to all Six Flags amusement parks and waterparks, a $30 credit for dog-walking app Rover and 30% off all SpaFinder gift certificates. Plus, you can sign up for a Walmart+ membership for 50% off, dropping the price from $98 per year to $49. The event will open to all customers on July 11 at 12 p.m. EDT and end July 13 at 7 p.m. EDT.
Kohl’s: Kohl’s “WOW Deals” event will run July 11-12 with different deals each day on home goods, toys, beauty products and apparel. Shoppers can also earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 they spend.
Nordstrom: Nordstrom’s “Anniversary Sale” runs from July 17-Aug. 6 with deals on clothes, shoes, accessories, jewelry, home goods and beauty products. However, Nordstrom cardmembers get early access to the discounts during the sale preview running now through July 16.
Samsung: Samsung has deals on appliances and Galaxy products until the end of July. The tech site is offering up to $550 off on appliances until July 12 and the Galaxy Watch5 for $80 off until July 23. Plus, you can get up to $245 in instant trade-in credit on select Galaxy Tab tablets.
Wayfair: The home goods retailer is offering up to 60% off during its “72-Hour Clearout.” The sale includes up to 60% off on bedding, up to 50% off on outdoor seating and up to 40% off kitchen and dining furniture.
JCPenney: JCPenney is hosting its “Online Only Three Day Sale” from now through July 12. Shoppers can get an extra 30% off on select apparel, shoes, accessories, fine jewelry, and home goods using the promo code ACTNOW3. The store is also offering an extra 10% off select furniture, mattresses, electronics, small kitchen appliances, floor care, blinds and shades, housewares, storage and organization, watches, salon products and JCPenney Beauty when shoppers use this code.
Macy’s: Macy’s is offering “Black Friday in July Specials” from now through July 12. You can get up to 75% off on items across the website, including clothes, shoes, fine jewelry and swimwear.
Target: “Target Circle Week” will run from July 9-15 with deals across the website up to 50% off exclusive to Target Circle members.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP)Alabama got to cut down the nets and celebrate a Southeastern Conference title, but only after staging a big comeback and forcing overtime.
Not to mention everything else swirling around the program.
Jahvon Quinerly scored 24 points, Brandon Miller made the clinching free throws with six seconds left and No. 2 Alabama rallied from a 17-point deficit before beating archrival Auburn 90-85 in overtime Wednesday night.
The Crimson Tide (26-4, 16-1 Southeastern Conference) clinched outright their second regular-season SEC championship in three years but continued to live on the edge over a troubling eight days that included courtroom revelations in a capital murder trial.
“Listen, I just couldn’t be more proud of this group,” coach Nate Oats said. ”Obviously, it’s a heartbreaking situation. That’s never lost on us, but the kids have worked really hard. Winning the SEC is not an easy thing to do. I mean, look at the teams in this league. It’s a great league.”
Miller rebounded teammate Jaden Bradley’s missed dunk and drew a foul, making both free throws. Noah Clowney had blocked K.D. Johnson’s layup attempt on the other end.
The Tigers (19-11, 9-8), who had three key players foul out, couldn’t close it out after leading almost the entire way in regulation. They were up 17 with under 11 minutes left.
“They’re a very, very worthy champion,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said of Alabama. “But we came here to win a basketball game.”
Alabama won its fourth straight but the past three have gone down to the wire since courtroom revelations tied freshmen Miller and Bradley to the scene of a murder. Neither has been charged or accused of a crime, but then-teammate Darius Miles and another man are facing capital murder charges.
Police said Miles texted Miller asking him to bring the gun.
Quinerly tied his season scoring high after coming off the bench and had six assists. Miller, Clowney and Mark Sears all had 17 points for Alabama.
Miller committed six turnovers but made 10 of 11 free throws. He then was among players high-fiving fans during the celebration, with cameras following his every move.
Bradley scored all six of his points in overtime, going 3 of 4 on free throws over the final minute.
Johnson was 4 of 5 on 3-pointers and led Auburn with 21 points, despite shooting just 7 of 12 at the free throw line.
Allen Flanigan scored 17 points and Jaylin Williams 15 before both fouled out in overtime. Johni Broome had already picked up his fifth foul with 10 points, and then Dylan Cardwell limped off after hurting his right ankle in overtime.
“Just incredibly outnumbered at the end,” Pearl said.
At the end of this night, the Tide were celebrating the SEC title and cutting down the nets after a big rally.
“We talked about at the under-8 timeout, we needed to play harder,” Oats said. “I said, `We’re not losing this game because we didn’t play hard enough to win.’ Our guys came out and played harder.”
Miller dropped his pat-down routine from the pregame introductions, instead settling for a shoulder bump with a teammate. After Saturday’s game against Arkansas, Oats apologized for not halting the pat-downs in light of the murder trial and promised they wouldn’t continue.
A melee near Auburn’s basket led to technical fouls on Quinerly and Auburn’s Wendell Green Jr. with 7:31 left. The Tide’s Rylan Griffen and starting center Charles Bediako were ejected for leaving the bench.
“We’re at Alabama. They play football over there at the football stadium,” Pearl said. “We threw the ball, a couple of defensive backs climbed on (Broome’s) back and the ball went out of bounds. There was some sort of scuffle. Our bench stayed on the bench, and they had some guys come off, I guess.”
Quinerly gave Alabama its first lead on a pair of free throws with 1:37 left in the second half, making it 75-73, but Flanigan tied it with a layup inside the final minute. Neither team scored in regulation after that, with Green missing a contested jumper at the end.
BIG PICTURE
Auburn: Started 8 of 10 from 3-point range and finished 12 of 20 (60%). … Has dropped eight of 11 games and missed a chance to make a huge statement for the NCAA Tournament selection committee.
Alabama: Continued its struggles since the courtroom revelations about Miller and Bradley, having been taken to overtime by South Carolina and edging Arkansas, 86-83. … Alabama has made just 11 of 53 shots from 3-point range over the past two games. … The Tide finished with a perfect home record for the third time and first since the 2010-11 season.
UP NEXT
Auburn hosts No. 12 Tennessee on Saturday in the regular-season finale.
Alabama closes the regular season Saturday at No. 24 Texas A&M.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — While museums and memorials pertaining to the Holocaust exist in the U.S., most states don’t have laws requiring schools to teach about the Holocaust and genocide, according to Axios.com.
As the years go by families are losing loved ones and the world is losing survivors. In Virginia Beach, the son of one says it's a concern for his community.
Some of Rabbi Israel Zoberman's earliest memories come out of displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany.
"Thank God we had food, but everything was rationed it was still difficult," Zobermain said. "We were protected and we received clothing. We didn’t have clothing when we arrived."
Zoberman's mother, who lives in Israel, is now 102. At 17, she escaped with her life and the clothes on her back during a bombing in her hometown in Ukraine. It killed her mother and the Rabbi's grandmother.
Zoberman said his father, who had escaped, as well, was in Warsaw during the invasion of Poland in 1939 and tried to warn his family about what was to come.
"Most of the family did not believe him," he said. "My grandmother Rachel approached a German officer and said to him, 'My son in Warsaw, he’s crazy and he says you’re going to kill us what’s going on?' She spoke perfect German and that German officer was very impressed so he told her, 'Well we’re not hurting you but those who would follow us won’t be as kind.' I can tell you that no one imagined that they would be slaughtered."
Zoberman lost many members of his family tree including aunts, uncles, grandparents and many cousins who were children.
Those who got away had little of their home country left after fleeing.
Zoberman said one of the only pieces passed down from his family in the Holocaust is a white, lace pillowcase that he treasures and will hand down to his daughter one day.
Today, his family is featured in the Holocaust Museum in Richmond, a memorial filled with pictures, clothing and proof of a terrible persecution.
Still, there are many people who deny this sort of tragedy happened. Dr. Annette Finley Croswhite, a history professor at ODU, said she believes that’s due to it not being taught enough in school.
"There’s a decline in social studies classes and history classes or the humanities in general," Dr. Croswhite said. "Those are the very subjects where you are going to get information about how people have been treated in the past."
According to data collected from the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are only about 18 of the 50 states that are required to teach about Holocaust and genocide.
Rabbi Zoberman said it’s left up to newer generations to remember.
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Who’s up next?
It’s the question at least five NBA teams are going to have to answer in the coming weeks as the league’s championship hunt nears its end.
The Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, Toronto Raptors and Detroit Pistons each went in a different direction with their head coaches this offseason, with several of those teams pivoting despite recent success from the sidelines.
What they do next could make or break their odds at success this upcoming season. Here’s a peek into each team’s coaching hunt ahead of the reshuffle this summer.
<u>PISTONS</u>
Former coach: Dwane Casey (promoted to front office)
Goal: Develop young players
The Pistons are one of the youngest teams in the NBA, and owning both the fifth and 31st picks in the June 22 NBA Draft, they project to get younger.
That makes former UConn head coach Kevin Ollie a perfect prospect for the job — and Ollie has reportedly advanced to the second round of interviews for the Pistons job.
Ollie most recently served as head coach at Overtime Elite, an Atlanta-based basketball league for elite prospects between the ages of 16 and 20. As a six-year head coach at Connecticut, Ollie coached the Huskies to a national championship in 2014.
<u>BUCKS</u>
Former coach: Mike Budenholzer (fired after first-round exit)
Goal: Win a championship
The Bucks need some spine, and where better to get it from than the very team that just embarrassed them in the first round.
It’s the leg up Chris Quinn, a longtime Miami Heat assistant, has on the competition seeking to replace Budenholzer (who won a title in Milwaukee after the 2020-21 season). The Bucks canned him unceremoniously after a first-round playoff exit despite owning the league’s best regular-season record this season.
The biggest allure in prying Quinn from Erik Spoelstra’s coaching staff is his potential ability to replicate what the Heat are doing in South Beach. If the Bucks can inject some Heat culture into their franchise, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s team immediately becomes that much more formidable.
Mark Jackson, another revered player’s coach who helped develop Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, is also in play here. What’s clear is that elite X’s and O’s could only get this Bucks team so far.
<u>76ERS</u>
Former coach: Doc Rivers (fired after blowing 3-2 lead to Celtics)
Goal: Win a championship
The Sixers can’t rely on James Harden to deliver when it matters, and especially with reports suggesting the floor general may return to the Houston Rockets sooner rather than later, Philadelphia’s issues extend further than just the sidelines.
Elite play-calling, however, can compensate for cold shooting, and it’s an area Doc Rivers has struggled most in the playoffs. Former Raptors head coach Nick Nurse is considered one of the best basketball minds on the planet.
And after watching him transform the Raptors into a championship-contender overnight after the Kawhi Leonard acquisition, one’s mind can run amok with the myriad ways Nurse could maximize Joel Embiid on both ends of the floor.
Nurse’s teams have had a fixed ceiling — first-round exit — ever since Leonard left to head west to L.A., but the general consensus is he is a championship-caliber coach awaiting championship-caliber pieces.
The Sixers have that — though their roster will likely need some restructuring this offseason.
<u>SUNS</u>
Former coach: Monty Williams (fired after second-round exit)
Goal: Win a championship
If the Suns can pull it off, luring Tyronn Lue away from the Clippers is their best bet, for a number of reasons.
It’s a bad string of health, not Lue, responsible for the Clippers’ inability to make the trip to the NBA Finals during his time in Los Angeles. He is one of the most revered players’ coaches in all of basketball, proving it by leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to an NBA title in 2016 despite taking the job midseason.
The Suns have two of the best scorers in all of basketball — Kevin Durant and Devin Booker — and there’s even a scenario where Phoenix adds Kyrie Irving to the mix if the team is ready to move past senescent floor general Chris Paul.
Lue is a proven master of managing egos and has been a superstar whisperer in each of his two head-coaching stops.
Prying him away, however, would likely take draft capital, which the Suns don’t have — at least not yet — after trading five picks and two starters to land Durant from the Nets.
<u>RAPTORS</u>
Former coach: Nick Nurse (fired)
Goal: Develop Scottie Barnes into an All-Star
Of the 67 players to average 30 or more minutes and appear in at least 66 games this season, 2022 Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes ranked 41st in Player Impact Estimate, a metric that gauges a player’s all-around contributions during his minutes on the floor.
Priority No. 1 for Toronto’s next head coach after parting ways with the championship-winning Nurse at the end of this season is to maximize Barnes’ talents as the fourth-overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft.
The talented, two-way wing who beat Cleveland’s Evan Mobley for Rookie honors has plateaued, if not regressed.
After winning the league’s top rookie award, Barnes finished his second season averaging the same number of points per game (15.3) year over year. He dipped two percentage points as a three-point shooter, four percentage points from the field overall, and although he increased his assists to a tick under five per game, he often disappeared in his minutes on the floor.
That makes former Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson the perfect man for the Raptors job. Atkinson picked up a reputation as a draft prospect whisperer during his four-year stint in Brooklyn, with evidence in breakout seasons for D’Angelo Russell, Spencer Dinwiddie, Caris LeVert and Jarrett Allen.
The Nets fired Atkinson when going all-in around Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving in the 2020 offseason, but the ex-head coach has since won a championship as one of Steve Kerr’s assistant coaches with the Golden State Warriors.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A three-alarm fire broke out early Friday morning at the Trexler Apartments in Allentown.
"Everybody was screaming, and then we heard people banging on each other's doors like, 'the building's on fire, please get out,' stuff like that," Trexler Park Apartment resident Natassia Tyner said.
Flames broke out just after 1 a.m. at an apartment in the 500 block of Benner Road.
The Allentown Fire Department quickly responded and had the flames knocked back in a few hours.
Capt. John Christopher said the fire started in apartment 201, which was heavily damaged in the fire. Neighboring apartments sustained water damage.
"The power line going into this building was impinged upon by the fire, so we had to have PPL de-energize the whole building, which forced the evacuation of 23 apartments," Christopher said.
Displacement of the residents is mainly because the fire damaged the main electrical power line that supplies electricity to the building. Once the power line is fixed, most of the residents will be able to return to their apartments. PPL was called out to take care of the issue.
There do not appear to be any injuries.
65 people were displaced, but according to the American Red Cross spokesperson, most of those people had renters insurance.
"it doesn't really ring for people until something like this happens," Peter Brown said. "And then [they start asking] well, 'how do I replace my laptop,' 'I have to replace my TV."
Emergency officials notified the Red Cross of the fire around 2 a.m., prompting the Red Cross Disaster Action Team to mobilize and provide immediate support for the displaced residents.
The Red Cross has opened a reception center at the First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, located at 3231 W. Tilghman St., Allentown, PA 18104. The Allentown Emergency Management Agency is arranging bus transportation for residents from the apartment complex to the reception center.
The reception center will offer a safe place for residents to receive information, refreshments, and care.
Anyone in need of Red Cross assistance should call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
The cause of the fire is under investigation. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/residents-question-cause-of-early-morning-fire-at-trexler-apartments/article_2a885a1e-c4a3-11ed-91e9-d78622e72dfe.html | 2023-03-17 17:52:13 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/residents-question-cause-of-early-morning-fire-at-trexler-apartments/article_2a885a1e-c4a3-11ed-91e9-d78622e72dfe.html |
By LEANNE ITALIE
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II just might have the hardest working wardrobe on the planet.
“Every outfit worn in public is carefully calibrated to inspire or remind, to signal gratitude or respect, to convey a sense of power or familiarity,” wrote The Mail on Sunday in 2015. “Her Majesty neither sets trends nor follows them — but while she is deaf to the siren call of fashion, she has her own singular style.”
From her tiaras, hats and Hermes scarves to her Launer London handbags and even her umbrellas, the queen’s style has been hyper-documented since her birth, young princess days, ascension to the throne and now, more than 70 years into her reign, as she celebrates her Platinum Jubilee at age 96.
Now known for her bright coats (so as to be seen by huge crowds) with matching brimmed hats, the queen was a young, glamorous princess and monarch in earlier decades.
Some highlights of the queen’s style through the years:
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HER CHILDHOOD
Cotton or wool? The queen’s very birth prompted style debate, writes Bethan Holt, fashion editor of The Telegraph and author of this year’s “The Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style.”
Her wardrobe from the get-go was a topic of national fascination with a layette sewn by her mother and grandmother, and a little help from underprivileged women throughout Britain. Declaring that babies in wool looked like “little gnomes,” Lilibet’s mum, then the Duchess of York, opted for frilly cotton, rejecting anything too fussy.
When sister Margaret came along four years later, the princesses often twinned it, dressing alike into their teens. But the future queen as a girl “never cared a fig” about clothes, according to her former governess, Marion Crawford.
“She wore what she was told without argument, apart from a long, drab mackintosh that she loathed,” Crawford wrote in her controversial memoir, “The Little Princesses.”
THE YOUNG HEIRESS
With the tumultuous abdication of her uncle and the rise of her father to become King George VI, Princess Elizabeth became heiress presumptive (absent any future male heir, who never materialized).
Enter couturier Norman Hartnell, according to Holt. While there were other designers, he was entrusted with dressing the family as they emerged on the world stage, including the two princesses at ages 11 and 6. Their “bow-adorned dresses and little cloaks signalled a return to the calm dependability of the monarchy,” Holt wrote.
During World War II, 18-year-old Elizabeth began to make more public appearances, training as a mechanic in early 1945 toward the end of the war. It was the only time she routinely wore trousers (and boiler suits), according to Holt.
The queen was, and remains, a practical dresser when necessary, but also glamorous in sparkly gowns when the moment beckoned. And she often went short sleeved or with no sleeves at all, something that doesn’t happen today. She stood for photos with Prince Philip in a simple, light-colored dress with sleeves above the elbow and peekaboo low heels on her size 4 (6 U.S.) feet shortly before their wedding in 1947.
“People want to see their royals looking like royals, but equally, they don’t want to think that taxpayers’ money is being blown away,” said Nick Bullen, editor in chief of True Royalty TV.
THE WEDDING DRESS
Hartnell transformed the florals of Botticelli’s “Primavera” into a gown of white crystals and pearls. But it wasn’t easy. There were diplomatic questions in the still-miserable aftermath of the war, Holt wrote. Customs impounded 10,000 seed pearls from the U.S., and journalists were assured that the origins of the silk produced in Kent and woven in Essex were worms from “nationalist” China rather than “enemy” Japan.
Thousands in the U.K. sent in their ration coupons for Princess Elizabeth to use for dress materials. That would have been illegal, so she saved up her own and asked the government for 200 extra, Holt told The Associated Press.
“It showed the thirst there was in the country for this big moment of glamour,” she said. “In recent years, we have known the queen and Prince Philip as this sweet old couple but we have to remember, in that time they were this dazzling, glamorous new couple on the scene.”
The wedding was not without behind-the-scenes drama. Queen Mary’s Fringe tiara, made by Elizabeth’s grandmother from a necklace given to Mary by Queen Victoria, snapped right before the ceremony and was rushed off to crown jeweler Garrard for repair.
The dress, and the wedding, offered “a real moment of hope,” Holt said.
HER HEMLINES
She settled years ago on skirts and dresses just below the knee, but her hemlines were sometimes an issue for senior members of her family. In 1952, the 25-year-old queen led her family in mourning at her father’s funeral in accordance to strict dress codes set out during the reign of Queen Victoria, according to Holt.
As Queen Mary curtsied to her granddaughter and kissed each cheek, she admonished: “Lilibet, your skirts are much too short for mourning,” Holt writes. The new queen’s dress hovered well above her ankles yet respectfully below the knee, while that of her grandmother reached the ground. All, including Queen Elizabeth II, were shrouded in black veils, as Queen Victoria was for 40 years after the death of Prince Albert in 1861.
“The evolution of the queen’s style from young princess to longest-serving monarch in British history has her being of the time but not following fashion,” Bullen said.
FINDING A UNIFORM
The queen we know today wears sensible block heels or brogues, usually handmade by Anello & Davide, a custom Launer perched on her arm and a brooch on one shoulder. She goes with kilts and skirts in tartans and plaids as her country style. But the queen of the early 1950s charmed the world in nipped-in waists, pencil silhouettes and some floaty, full experiments as a post-war fashion quake took hold in the country.
“In the early years of her reign, she really embraced Dior’s New Look aesthetic, and women looked to her outfits as a source of inspiration, much like people do with the Duchess of Cambridge today,” said Kristin Contino, style reporter for Page Six.
There was a playful glamour in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, including a bold multicolored evening dress in 1999 for a Royal Variety Performance. Created by Karl-Ludwig Rehse, it featured a riotous sequin diamond-pattern bodice of bright yellow, blue, green and pink.
There were also some trouser days and a turban phase in the ‘60s and ’70s amid a wide range of hat styles.
The queen learned of her father’s passing on a stop in Kenya en route to Australia. Some reports indicate she was wearing jeans for an encounter with a herd of elephants the moment her father died in his sleep at Sandringham, Holt wrote. She donned slacks on safari in Zambia in 1979, and a trouser set in 2003 as she left King Edward VIII hospital in London after a knee operation.
It was Margaret, the rebel, who was renowned as a fashion plate in Dior and other designers, and her influence on Elizabeth was tangible. Little sister helped the queen scout new British designers and introduced her to up-and-comers, such as milliner Simone Mirman, according to Holt. Mirman created some of the queen’s standout hats, including her Tudor-style “medieval helmet,” as Hartnell called it, in soft yellow, for the 1969 investiture of Prince Charles.
“Margaret was really in tune with fashion. She would have been the one reading Vogue. And so she would often go with the queen to appointments to help her inject that little bit of extra style into her looks,” Holt said.
Usually sticking to British designers, the queen has a long-held fondness for silk scarves by the French fashion house Hermes. The brand has issued several special designs in her honor. It did so in 2016 with a horse-themed scarf to mark her 90th birthday.
One doesn’t equate the queen of today with a mad rush to copy her style, but for a brief spell in the 1950s women could do just that thanks to her love of cotton dresses in dainty floral or abstract prints from Horrockses Fashions, a British ready-to-wear brand, Holt said.
Another look from those early years stands out as well. In October 1952, soon after ascending the throne, the queen was a sensation at the Empire Theatre for a royal viewing of the musical comedy “Because You’re Mine.” She wore a tuxedo-like Hartnell gown in black with a white front and wide lapels in a halter design, paired with long white gloves, a tiara on her head and a diamond bracelet on one wrist.
She hit every magazine and newspaper the next day. Manufacturers rushed to copy it. It was dubbed the Magpie and she never wore it again.
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MATCHY MATCHY
The queen loves to color coordinate, sticking to bright colors and pastels in coats and floral dresses today.
That goes for her signature clear, bird-cage umbrellas as well. They’re made by Fulton Umbrellas and are attainable at $30 or less, though the queen’s are custom made. She owns about 100 in a rainbow of colors but contrary to reports, she doesn’t possess 200 of her favorite Launer bags, Holt said. Gerald Bodmer, who rescued Launer in 1981 after a period of decline, was keen to clear up that myth.
“He says she has several styles in several colors. He says that 200 is very far off the mark,” Holt said.
Launer extends the straps of her leather bags to make it easier for her to hang them on her arm, and they make them lighter for her to carry. And what does she carry? Bullen said he’s heard there’s always a lipstick, a handkerchief and a photo of Prince Philip, who died last year at 99.
Irish designer Paul Costelloe, who dressed Princess Diana in the 1980s and ’90s, told the AP of the queen’s style: “She’s a bit like a schoolteacher, a good schoolteacher. She never shocks. She gets it right.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — “Here Comes the Bride” will be heard at the White House very soon. Again.
Naomi Biden, the granddaughter of President Joe Biden, and Peter Neal are getting married on the South Lawn on Saturday in what will be the 19th wedding in White House history.
It will be the first wedding with a president's granddaughter as the bride, and the first one in that location, according to the White House Historical Association.
A mutual friend set up Naomi Biden, 28, and Neal, 25, about four years ago in New York City and the White House said they have been together ever since. Naomi Biden is a lawyer; her father is Hunter Biden. Neal recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania law school. The couple lives in Washington.
Nine of the 18 documented White House weddings were for a president’s daughter — most recently Richard Nixon’s daughter, Tricia, in 1971, and Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughter, Lynda, in 1967.
But nieces, a grandniece, a son and first ladies' siblings have also gotten married there. One president, Grover Cleveland, tied the knot there, too, while in office.
First lady Jill Biden said she's excited to see her granddaughter "planning her wedding, making her choices, becoming, you know, just coming into her own, and she’s just so beautiful.”
“So I can’t wait till all of you see her as a bride,” the first lady said during a recent appearance on singer Kelly Clarkson’ s talk show.
Stewart McLaurin, president of the historical association, said special occasions at the White House aren't soon forgotten.
“If you were to have the privilege of celebrating a holiday there or a special occasion in your life, like a wedding, it is a very memorable occasion," he said.
Five weddings were held in the East Room, four took place in the Blue Room and two unfolded in the Rose Garden, steps away from the Oval Office.
In June 1971, some 400 guests watched as Nixon walked Tricia down the steps of the South Portico to a waiting Edward Cox, and the couple exchanged vows in a gazebo set up in the Rose Garden for the first wedding ceremony ever held there.
Her planner — a black, three-ring binder labeled “TRICIA'S WEDDING" and kept by the historical association — has tabbed sections for every aspect of her special day, including the attendants, social aides, gazebo, flowers, parking, seating, menu, champagne, the press and more.
Her wedding cake was a six-tiered, 350-pound (159 kilograms), 6-foot-tall (1.8 meters) lemon-flavored pound cake decorated with blown sugar love birds and the initials “PN” and “EC.”
The White House released the recipe, but home bakers and food critics said it produced a “soupy mess" and speculated that the White House had scrambled the number of egg whites versus whole eggs, according to White House History Quarterly magazine's weddings issue.
President Nixon sent a thank-you note to Rex Scouten, the White House chief usher, for his help coordinating physical arrangements for the wedding. The letter is in Tricia Nixon's planner.
“I want you to know how grateful all the Nixons are for your splendid contributions on this very special day,” Nixon wrote.
In October 2013, Barack Obama’s chief White House photographer, Pete Souza, and Patti Lease married in a private ceremony in the Rose Garden after 17 years of being a couple. Obama had gotten to know Lease because she attended some White House events.
“He kept pestering me about why we hadn’t gotten married,” Souza told The Associated Press. He said Obama made what he thought was an off-hand comment about having the wedding in the Rose Garden, but later “I found out that he was not joking.”
He and Lease exchanged “I do's” in the presence of about 30 family members and friends. They felt overwhelmed by the venue, but were honored by the president's gesture, he said.
“It gives people a sense that I had a unique relationship with Barack Obama that he would insist I have the wedding at the White House,” Souza said. "I’m so honored, as is my wife, to have my wedding ceremony at the White House. Not many people can say that.”
The Rose Garden helped unite two Democratic political families when Anthony Rodham, a brother of then-first lady Hillary Clinton, and Nicole Boxer, a daughter of then-California Sen. Barbara Boxer, exchanged wedding vows in May 1994 during a private ceremony.
Hillary Clinton had first offered Camp David, the official presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, for the wedding, but later on suggested the Rose Garden, Nicole Boxer said.
“I was like out of my mind excited with the possibility of it,” Nicole Boxer recalled during a telephone interview from California. “Can you imagine a more perfect venue?”
Among the approximately 250 guests were President Biden and his wife, Jill. Biden and Barbara Boxer served in the Senate at the time.
The reception was held in the first lady's garden, followed by dinner in the State Dining Room and dancing in the East Room. President Bill Clinton played his saxophone; daughter Chelsea was a bridesmaid.
“You just think you're the luckiest person in the world and I think it's something you have to appreciate,” Nicole Boxer said. “It's like being part of the American fabric.”
A White House wedding is no guarantee of a lasting marriage. The couple divorced in 2001. Rodham died in 2019.
Lynda Johnson Robb said she never thought about a White House wedding, but circumstances practically dictated that she and Marine Capt. Charles Robb marry there in December 1967. The year before, her sister Luci had a Roman Catholic church wedding in Washington.
“We had to get married sooner than I would have liked because he was going to be going to Vietnam, and so we wanted to be married a little while and that was just three months before he left,” Lynda Johnson Robb said on a White House Historical Association podcast in 2018.
The couple met because Robb was assigned to the the White House as a military social aide.
They wed in the East Room with White House bride Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who was married in the same room in 1906, among the approximately 500 guests. The couple walked under a saber arch created by Robb's fellow Marines as they left the room afterward.
Following tradition at military weddings, they used Robb's sword to make the first cut of their wedding cake — a 6-foot (1.8 meters)-tall, 250-pounds(113.4 kilogram) pound cake with raisins decorated with sugar scrolls, roses and love birds.
Lynda Johnson Robb said she was lucky. Red is her signature color and December nuptials meant the White House was already decorated for Christmas. Her mom, Lady Bird Johnson, was spared some stress.
“They could use the same decorations and that was great,” she said. “My mother was always trying to find ways to save money.” | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/living/article/Here-comes-the-bride-White-House-to-host-its-17581227.php | 2022-11-13 15:51:29 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/living/article/Here-comes-the-bride-White-House-to-host-its-17581227.php |
West Virginia students in kindergarten through 12th grade may enter the First Lady Student Ornament Competition this fall.
First lady Cathy Justice is asking all students to participate in the 18th annual event. It is open to students in public and private schools as well as those who are home-schooled.
Students are asked to create a “Nutcracker”-themed ornament for a tree to be displayed at the Culture Center in Charleston during the holidays, according to a news release from Gov. Jim Justice's office.
There will be four divisions according to grade, and a winning class will be chosen from each division. The winning ornaments will be donated in January to the West Virginia State Museum. The four winning classes will receive a gift card to help buy supplies for their class.
The ornaments and Christmas tree will be unveiled in early December in conjunction with Joyful Night.
Entries may be mailed to Elizabeth Yeager, Department of Arts, Culture and History, The Culture Center, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. East, Charleston, WV 25305. Include phone number, email, mailing address, teacher name, school and class.
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BERLIN (AP) — Europe should be able to cope with the natural gas supply crunch in the coming months thanks to considerable reserves although the continent could face a bigger energy crisis next winter, the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday.
Fatih Birol said that, barring unforeseen events, “Europe will go through this winter with some economic and social headaches, bruises here and there” as a result of efforts to wean itself off Russian gas and the wider increase in energy costs resulting from the war in Ukraine.
“Next winter will be more difficult than this winter” he said.
Birol cited the fact that Russian gas supplies to Europe may end completely next year, while China’s demand for liquefied natural gas looks set to rebound as its economy recovers from the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the IEA projects new gas capacity coming online in 2023 to be the lowest in two decades, he said.
“(This) is the reason Europe needs to prepare today for next year,” Birol said, adding that solidarity among European nations was key.
Speaking at an energy symposium in Berlin hosted by the German government, the IEA chief said Russia can also expect to feel some costly effects of its falling out with European energy buyers over Ukraine.
With 75% of Russia’s gas exports and 55% of its oil going to Europe before the war, Moscow needs to find new markets for its output, he said.
Birol called it “completely wrong” to assume Russia will simply deliver to Asia, noting that pipelines through Siberia would take a decade to build and oil tankers need ten-times longer to reach clients in the East than in Europe.
Additionally, the departure of specialized oil and gas technology companies from Russia due to the sanctions means production at challenging extraction sites is likely to fall.
“Russia is set to lose the energy battle big time,” Birol said, adding that the IEA has calculated Moscow will lose about $1 trillion in revenue by 2030 because of its war in Ukraine.
While noting that the energy crisis also has severe impacts on developing nations, Birol said it would help speed up the transition to alternatives to fossil fuels.
“When I look at the (efforts to ensure) energy security, climate commitments and industrial policy drivers, I am optimistic that the current energy crisis will be a turning point in the history of energy policy making,” he said.
Still, this will require a five-fold increase in clean energy investments compared to today, said Birol. | https://www.wane.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-iea-chief-sees-energy-crunch-for-europe-next-winter/ | 2022-11-25 14:56:16 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-iea-chief-sees-energy-crunch-for-europe-next-winter/ |
Amid her ex's hospitalization, Ellen DeGeneres has kind words for Anne Heche.
The former daytime talk show host shared brief comments on the status of her relationship with Heche, who she dated from 1997 to 2000. When asked by a photographer if she's spoken to Heche since her car accident, DeGeneres said, "We're not in touch with each other, so I wouldn't know."
Still, DeGeneres confirmed she wants to send her well wishes and said on camera, "I don’t want anyone to be hurt."
"It was quite a dangerous accident that happened, wasn't it?" the cameraman asked.
As she headed to her car, DeGeneres replied, "Sure was."
This marks the first time the comedian has addressed Heche's car crash publicly since she was hospitalized with burns on Friday. At the time, Heche had crashed her blue Mini Cooper into a two-story home, igniting a fire that required nearly 60 firefighters to put out.
"At this time, Anne is in extreme critical condition," the actress' rep told ET on Monday. "She has a significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention."
The rep continued, “She is in a coma and has not regained consciousness since shortly after the accident."
Staten Island University Hospital Burn Unit Director Dr. Michael L. Cooper, who is not involved in treating Heche, shared context on the nature of Heche's injuries.
"She sustained an inhalation injury, which means there was damage to her airways," he told ET. "She could not breathe on her own, and she also sustained third-degree burns, which require surgery. So, these are life-threatening injuries. She is fighting for her life right now."
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LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England warned Wednesday that households across the U.K. are facing increasing problems from the sharp increase in interest rates but found that the country’s biggest banks are resilient enough to offer more help than they were able to before the global financial crisis 15 years ago..
In its regular health check of the economy, the central bank said British households are facing higher debt burdens as a result of rising interest rates, particularly those whose fixed-rate mortgage deals have come to an end or soon will be.
However, it said there are several factors that should limit the number of people who have to default on their mortgages. It noted, for example, that the country’s banks have more capital than they did 15 years ago to allow them to offer struggling households more financial options such as allowing borrowers to vary the terms of their loans.
The bank lifted its main interest rate by half a percentage point to a 15-year high of 5% last month and warned of further increases if inflation fails to show signs of falling back toward its target of 2%. That’s had a knock-on effect across lending markets, particularly the mortgage market.
Around 2.4 million fixed-rate mortgages are due to expire by the end of 2024, according to figures from trade association U.K. Finance. Households will be looking to lock in new deals, which as things stand, will could be at least a third more expensive
The Bank of England also found that the country’s banks are “resilient” against a scenario involving persistently high inflation, rising global interest rates, deep recessions and higher unemployment.
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60s to lower 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming southwest in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind
to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the morning,
then rain likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts less than a
tenth of an inch likely. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. North
wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming south
after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. South wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest
in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower
50s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Seattle 67 52 62 / 30 10 60
$$
WAZ559-162300-
Bremerton and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bremerton and Silverdale
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain early in the
afternoon. A chance of rain late in the afternoon. Highs in the
60s. South wind to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. North
wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning, then a
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to mid
60s. North wind to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming south around
10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest wind to 10 mph increasing to
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening.
Lows near 50.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bremerton 66 50 62 / 40 10 50
$$
WAZ507-162300-
Everett and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Everett, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville,
and Arlington
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain late in the
morning. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s to
lower 70s. Southeast wind to 10 mph becoming south in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northwest
wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the
60s. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. South wind to 10 mph becoming southeast in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower
50s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Lows
in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Edmonds 67 53 63 / 30 10 50
Everett 66 51 62 / 30 10 40
$$
WAZ509-162300-
Tacoma Area-
Including the cities of Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, and Sumner
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain early in the
afternoon. A chance of rain late in the afternoon. Highs in the
mid to upper 60s. Light wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the evening.
Lows near 50. West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain in the morning, then rain
likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Light wind
becoming west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows near
50. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 50.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Puyallup 69 52 64 / 30 20 70
Tacoma 67 50 62 / 30 10 60
$$
WAZ556-162300-
Bellevue and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and Issaquah
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of rain late in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming
southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind
to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning, then a
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
North wind to 10 mph becoming northwest around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. West wind to 10 mph becoming south after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s. South wind to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower
50s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellevue 69 52 64 / 30 20 50
$$
WAZ555-162300-
East Puget Sound Lowlands-
Including the cities of Gold Bar, Enumclaw, North Bend,
and Buckley
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of thunderstorms early in
the afternoon. A chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms late in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to
lower 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the evening.
Lows near 50. West wind to 10 mph becoming north after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain in the morning, then rain
likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. North wind to
10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows near
50. West wind to 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. South wind to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower
50s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Gold Bar 69 52 65 / 50 10 50
Enumclaw 66 49 61 / 30 20 70
North Bend 70 51 65 / 40 20 60
$$
WAZ503-162300-
Western Whatcom County-
Including the cities of Bellingham, Blaine, and Lynden
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s. South wind to
10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of thunderstorms in
the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows near 50.
Southwest wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the 60s. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph becoming west 10 to
15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. South wind 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
60s. South wind 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower
50s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning,
then a slight chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Lows
in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the mid to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellingham 66 50 66 / 40 20 30
Sumas 68 51 69 / 50 30 30
$$
WAZ506-162300-
Western Skagit County-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley,
and Burlington
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s. South wind to
10 mph becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows near 50. West wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming
light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the 60s. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
lower to mid 50s. West wind 10 to 20 mph becoming south 10 to
15 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. South wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to
10 mph or less in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the lower
50s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning,
then a slight chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the lower
to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Lows
in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Anacortes 65 51 64 / 30 10 30
Mount Vernon 68 52 65 / 40 10 30
$$
WAZ001-162300-
San Juan County-
Including the cities of Friday Harbor, Eastsound,
and Roche Harbor
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in the
60s. South wind to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Southwest wind 10 to
15 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the 60s. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph
decreasing to 10 mph or less in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
60s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming south in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.JUNETEENTH...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
morning. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Friday Harbor 65 49 65 / 30 10 20
Eastsound 62 51 61 / 20 10 20
$$
WAZ510-162300-
Admiralty Inlet Area-
Including the cities of Port Townsend and Port Ludlow
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain early in the
afternoon. A chance of rain late in the afternoon. Highs in the
60s. South wind to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows near 50. West wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. West wind 10 to 20 mph becoming south to
10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming south in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 50s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oak Harbor 63 50 62 / 30 10 30
Port Townsend 62 50 62 / 40 10 30
$$
WAZ511-162300-
Hood Canal Area-
Including the cities of Hoodsport and Brinnon
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s. South
wind to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. West wind to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s.
Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows in the
upper 40s to mid 50s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west
after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows near 50.
.JUNETEENTH...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Shelton 66 47 64 / 50 10 60
$$
WAZ504-162300-
Southwest Interior-
Including the cities of Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Centralia,
and Toledo
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain late in the
morning. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s.
South wind to 10 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. West wind to 10 mph becoming
northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy with a chance of rain in the morning, then rain
likely in the afternoon. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of
an inch possible. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest
wind to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 50. West
wind 10 to 15 mph becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest wind to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows near 50.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
morning, then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows near 50.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Chehalis 66 49 61 / 50 20 60
Olympia 66 48 62 / 50 10 60
$$
WAZ512-162300-
Lower Chehalis Valley Area-
Including the city of Montesano
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 60s. Light
wind becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. West wind
to 10 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to
mid 60s. Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 50. West
wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s. Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming west
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the upper 40s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s.
$$
WAZ514-162300-
Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca-
Including the cities of Sequim and Port Angeles
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
near 60. Wind variable to 10 mph becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the evening.
Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Wind variable to 10 mph
increasing to west 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower to mid 60s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Lows near
50. West wind 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs near 60.
Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to variable to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows near 50.
.JUNETEENTH...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Highs in
the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Port Angeles 61 49 62 / 50 20 30
Sequim 62 49 63 / 50 20 30
$$
WAZ515-162300-
Western Strait of Juan De Fuca-
Including the cities of Joyce and Clallam Bay
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to
lower 60s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid to
upper 40s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
near 60. Light wind becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 50.
Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the mid
50s to lower 60s. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows in the upper 40s.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs near 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs near 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Sekiu 58 48 61 / 50 20 20
$$
WAZ517-162300-
Central Coast-
Including the cities of Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Westport,
and Ocean Shores
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Southeast wind to 10 mph becoming southwest in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Southwest wind to
10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Northwest wind to 10 mph becoming
west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper
40s to mid 50s. West wind to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the mid
50s to lower 60s. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows near 50.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs near 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hoquiam 62 50 60 / 50 0 40
$$
WAZ516-162300-
North Coast-
Including the cities of Neah Bay, La Push, and Forks
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the mid
50s to lower 60s. Light wind becoming west to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s. Southwest wind to
10 mph becoming northeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 50s to lower 60s. North wind to 10 mph becoming
northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the evening,
then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows near 50.
Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to 10 mph or less after
midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. Highs in the 50s
to lower 60s. Southwest wind to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph
in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. Lows near 50.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. Highs near 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs near 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs near 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs near 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Forks 61 46 61 / 50 10 20
$$
WAZ513-162300-
Olympics-
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 6500 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
evening. Snow level near 6000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
afternoon. Snow level near 6500 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain and snow after midnight.
Snow level near 6500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in
the morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon.
Snow level near 6000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow
in the evening. Snow level near 6500 feet.
.JUNETEENTH...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow
level near 7000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 9500 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 9500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 10000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 10000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of rain in the
afternoon. Snow level near 7000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hurricane Ridge 45 36 46 / 50 20 30
$$
WAZ567-162300-
Cascades of Whatcom and Skagit Counties-
Including the cities of Marblemount and Concrete
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Showers, snow likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of thunderstorms and
showers in the afternoon. Snow level near 7000 feet. Rainfall
amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch possible, except higher
amounts possible in thunderstorms. No snow accumulation.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms and
showers in the evening. Snow level near 7000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
afternoon. Snow level near 7500 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow likely in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of rain and snow after midnight. Snow level
near 7500 feet. Rainfall amounts a quarter to a half inch
possible.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of showers, snow showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level near
6500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain and snow after midnight.
Snow level near 6500 feet.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow. Snow level near 6500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow
in the evening, then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Snow
level near 7500 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 10000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 10000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 7500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mount Baker 50 40 54 / 70 20 30
$$
WAZ568-162300-
Cascades of Snohomish and King Counties-
Including the cities of Snoqualmie Pass, Darrington, and Index
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Rain and snow likely in the morning, then a chance of
showers, snow showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Snow level near 7000 feet. Rainfall amounts a tenth to
a quarter of an inch possible, except higher amounts possible in
thunderstorms. Afternoon pass temperatures in the 50s. Light wind
in the passes.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms and
showers in the evening. Snow level near 7000 feet. Light wind in
the passes.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow
level near 7000 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures in the lower to
mid 50s. Light wind in the passes.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow.
Snow level near 7000 feet. West wind in the passes around 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow. Snow
level near 6000 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures near 50. Light
wind in the passes.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain and snow after midnight.
Snow level near 6500 feet.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow. Snow level near 6500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow
in the evening, then a slight chance of rain after midnight. Snow
level near 7500 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 10000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of rain. Snow
level near 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Snoqualmie Pass 57 41 54 / 40 10 60
Stevens Pass 52 40 52 / 60 10 50
$$
WAZ569-162300-
Cascades of Pierce and Lewis Counties-
Including the cities of Randle, Packwood, Ashford, and Morton
309 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning. A chance of showers, snow and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level near 7000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms and
snow in the evening. A slight chance of rain late in the evening.
A slight chance of rain and snow in the morning. Snow level near
7000 feet. No snow accumulation.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow in the
morning, then rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow level near
7000 feet. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch
possible. No snow accumulation.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain and snow after midnight.
Snow level near 6500 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow in
the morning, then a chance of rain and snow in the afternoon.
Snow level near 6000 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow in the
evening. Snow level near 6000 feet.
.JUNETEENTH...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
morning, then a slight chance of rain and snow in the afternoon.
Snow level near 6500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow
in the evening. Snow level near 7500 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 9500 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Freezing level near 11000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 11000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 11000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 10500 feet.
$$
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The race began, fittingly, in the spring season known here as breakup.
As sheets of ice cracked into pieces across the rivers, melting snow exposed the gravel and dust on roads, and preparations began for hunting and fishing, dozens of congressional campaigns were springing to life with barely a few days of planning. Candidates held solemn conversations with their families, advisers hastily secured website domains and the endorsements and donations began flooding in.
The unexpected death in March of Rep. Don Young, the Republican who represented Alaska’s sole congressional district for nearly half a century, has given rise to a crowded and raucous race to succeed him. No fewer than four dozen Alaskans — political veterans, gadflies, and even a man legally named Santa Claus — are running to succeed Young as the lone representative in the House for the state’s 734,000 people.
The list of candidates is sprawling. It includes former Gov. Sarah Palin, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump; Nick Begich III, whose grandfather held the seat before Young; four Alaska Natives, including one, Tara Sweeney, who served in the Trump administration; Jeff Lowenfels, a retired lawyer and a prolific local gardening columnist; and Claus, a portly, bearded North Pole councilman and socialist.
“That’s a lot of people to do research on and figure out,” said Morgan Johnson, 25, as her black cat, Edgar, prowled across the counter of her plant shop in Juneau. “I get stuck on one person’s Instagram for an hour — now I have to do that for 48 people.”
Further complicating the picture, four separate elections in five months will determine Young’s successor. First, the throng of candidates will compete in a primary contest June 11. The top four finishers will advance in August to a special election to complete the remainder of Young’s term. That same August day, the candidates who choose to do so will compete in yet another primary to determine which four advance to the general election. And finally in November, voters will choose a winner to be sworn in in January 2023.
The sheer volume of candidates owes in part to a new electoral system in Alaska, which opens primaries to all comers, regardless of political affiliation. Under the rules, voters can choose one candidate, and the four who draw the most votes then compete in a runoff of sorts, in which voters rank their choices. The preferences are counted until someone secures a majority.
State officials and advocacy groups are rushing to pull off the rapid-fire contests and ensure that voters understand how the new rules work.
“We’re compressing everything that usually is done in about seven months in 90 days,” said Gail Fenumiai, Alaska’s director of elections, who said her team would mail and process more than 586,000 ballots. “There’s a significant amount of work involved.”
State officials decided to hold the special election by mail, in part because there was not enough time for the necessary hiring and training of more than 2,000 new election workers, as well as testing and sending election equipment across the state. A ballot was carefully designed to fit all the names on one side of paper, with the first ones sent out less than six weeks after Young died.
Candidates have also had little time to build a campaign that stands out or crisscross a mountainous state where villages and towns are often accessible only by plane or ferry.
“When you’re vying for a limited set of first-round votes, you have to figure out how to put yourself forward in a way that people will hear it and resonate with it,” said Christopher Constant, an Anchorage assembly member and Democrat who announced his intent to challenge Young in February.
The broad field has roiled the close-knit political circles here, pitting longtime colleagues and friends against one another.
“This seat has been held for 49 years by one guy, and people are just hungry to have a different voice in Congress, and they think that they can add to it,” said John Coghill, a former state senator who is among the candidates.
It has also cracked the door open for a series of history-making bids, including four candidates who would be the first Alaska Native to represent a state where more than 15% of the population identifies as Indigenous.
“It is long past time that an Indigenous person was sent to D.C. to work on behalf of Alaska,” Mary Peltola, a Democrat who spent a decade in the state Legislature and is Yup’ik, said in an interview in Anchorage.
Peltola is among the candidates who have gone to great lengths to highlight a personal connection or appreciation for Young.
The fiercest competition is inside the Republican Party, where younger conservatives who had waited their entire lives in Young’s shadow are contending for the mantle of his successor. The filing deadline was April 1, two weeks after Young died, meaning candidates had to decide whether to run before funeral services for the congressman had concluded.
“It stunned the entire state, and then having to figure out what this new reality was going to look like and what processes were in front of Alaskans with respect to this vacancy — it’s been exhausting,” said Sweeney, a co-chair of Young’s campaign and now a candidate for his seat.
Sweeney, who is Inupiaq and the first Alaska Native woman to serve as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, has emerged as a leading contender for Republicans, with top Alaska Native-owned corporations banding together to back her campaign.
Begich, a conservative whose grandfather of the same name held the seat as a Democrat until his disappearance in a plane crash in 1972, angered many in Young’s inner circle by jumping into the race in October as a challenger, dangling what they saw as insinuations that the congressman was too old.
The chosen candidate of the state Republican Party, Begich has disavowed the $1 trillion infrastructure bill Young proudly championed and the congressman’s penchant for earmarking federal dollars for Alaska.
“For too long, the formula in Alaska has been to sacrifice the good of the nation for the good of the state, and I don’t think that that’s a formula that we need to be practicing going forward,” Begich said.
Those include Sweeney and Josh Revak, a state senator and an Iraq War veteran who secured a coveted endorsement from Young’s widow, Anne.
“It was a really difficult choice, but if he believed in me and others believe in me, that I have the heart and the work ethic and the experience to do the job, then I’ll walk through fire to do it,” Revak, wearing an ivory bolo tie with the Alaska Senate seal and his Purple Heart pin, said after a recent fundraiser at an Anchorage home.
Palin’s late entry into the race — and Trump’s near-immediate endorsement of her — has further scrambled the political picture. As a former governor and vice-presidential candidate, Palin, whose campaign did not respond to requests for an interview, easily has the strongest name recognition in the field of candidates.
But she has also become a frequent target for candidates in both parties, as her rivals seek to weaponize her visibility in national headlines, stoke the lingering discontent in the state about her abrupt decision to leave the governor’s mansion in 2009 and woo the thousands of voters who have moved to Alaska since.
At a recent event at an airplane hangar in Juneau, Begich jumped at the opportunity to poke fun at Palin.
“I take it you’re not going to be on the ‘The Masked Singer,’” one woman remarked to him, as the dozens of people gathered chuckled.
“I don’t have a pink bear costume,” Begich replied, referring to Palin’s 2020 appearance on the reality show.
Most observers here believe that Young’s seat is likely to remain in Republican hands given the state’s conservative slant, but the new ranked-choice system, which tends to advantage candidates in the center, could upend the conventional wisdom.
It could, for instance, help Al Gross, an independent who unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican, in 2020. Gross gained both national attention and some local derision with a viral campaign ad that dubbed him “Alaska’s own bear doctor.”
“Certainly this campaign is not about bears, and it is about Alaska,” said Gross, a former orthopedic surgeon.
Unlike in 2020, when the Senate Democratic campaign arm endorsed him, he vowed to rebuff financial support from any major political party and said he planned to join the Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group, should he win.
The Alaska Democratic Party has taken aim at him, calling Gross a “proven loser.”
Republicans have also unleashed a torrent of Christmas-themed attacks against Claus, a sign that there is at least some concern that the combination of his name recognition and his professed “affinity for Bernie Sanders” could help him prevail in a ranked-choice election. (Claus, who changed his name nearly two decades ago, often wears red robes of the monk’s order of which he is a member and plans to join the Congressional Cannabis Caucus if elected.)
“Whoever winds up in this special for that term, for the remainder of Don Young’s term, should be concentrating on representing all Alaskans then and there, not running for additional time in office and not spending time raising money or campaigning,” Claus said, adding that he was seeking only to finish Young’s term this year.
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Kooshy Makes Croutons Cool Again, Reinvigorates the "Stale" Pantry Aisle With the First Premium Crouton Made From Sourdough Bread and Fun New Flavors
CHICAGO, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- You're about to start seeing a lot more of your favorite salad topper. Today, Kooshy Croutons, the brand redefining the pantry staple, launches nationally at all Whole Foods Market locations.
Started in early 2022 by bread obsessed brothers Jon and Matt Wachsman, Kooshy Croutons quickly hit an impressive retail milestone – securing 3,000+ doors in their first year of business including H-E-B, The Fresh Market, Meijer, Albertsons Safeway, Mariano's, Fresh Thyme and Central Market. The entrance into Whole Foods further solidifies Kooshy as a top emerging brand in grocery while they also look to push the classic salad topper into snacking with their unique flavors, perfect texture and playful packaging. Quality bread has always mattered to Jon and Matt and they are passionate about bringing elevated croutons to store shelves. Gone are the days of boring, enriched white flour store-bought croutons.
"Landing your first national retailer is a huge deal as a startup. Having that account be Whole Foods, where we're the only branded crouton nationally, is a dream come true. We're excited to reintroduce shoppers nationwide to the joy of adding high quality, delicious croutons to their salads," said Jon Wachsman. "As crouton evangelists, we also want people to know there's no shame in eating them right out of the bag. Croutons are often snacked on so just know you're not alone," added Matt Wachsman.
With demand for fancy pantry items at an all-time high, shoppers are saying goodbye to generic pantry staples and opting for fresher brands they can identify with. Kooshy is the only Non-GMO Project Verified crouton and three of their four flavors are vegan and dairy-free – a welcome upgrade from their "butter flavored" predecessors. Just like dressing, Kooshy has a crouton for every salad with flavors that include Mambo Italiano (garlic, basil, parmesan), Almost Naked (sea salt, black pepper), Poco Picante (chile, lime) and French Toast (cinnamon, maple sugar).
Kooshy Croutons are available for $4.49 per 5 oz. bag in ~500 Whole Foods Market locations nationwide. For more information, visit kooshy.com or follow @Kooshy on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Rangers vs. Diamondbacks Probable Starting Pitchers Today - May 2
The Arizona Diamondbacks (16-13) and Texas Rangers (17-11) square off in the first of a two-game series on Tuesday at Globe Life Field, at 8:05 PM ET. The Diamondbacks are coming off a series victory over the Rockies, and the Rangers a series win over the Yankees.
The probable starters are Zac Gallen (4-1) for the Diamondbacks and Jon Gray (1-1) for the Rangers.
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Rangers vs. Diamondbacks Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
- Time: 8:05 PM ET
- TV: BSSW
- Location: Arlington, Texas
- Venue: Globe Life Field
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- Probable Pitchers: Gallen - ARI (4-1, 2.15 ERA) vs Gray - TEX (1-1, 3.91 ERA)
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Rangers Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Jon Gray
- The Rangers will send Gray (1-1) to make his sixth start of the season. He is 1-1 with a 3.91 ERA and 17 strikeouts over 25 1/3 innings pitched.
- The righty last pitched on Wednesday against the Cincinnati Reds, when he tossed six innings, allowing three earned runs while giving up four hits.
- The 31-year-old has put up an ERA of 3.91, with 6.0 strikeouts per nine innings in five games this season. Opposing hitters have a .227 batting average against him.
- Gray is looking to pick up his third quality start of the year.
- Gray will look to last five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 5.0 frames per outing.
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Diamondbacks Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Zac Gallen
- The Diamondbacks will hand the ball to Gallen (4-1) for his seventh start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Wednesday, when he allowed four hits in 6 1/3 scoreless innings against the Kansas City Royals.
- The 27-year-old has pitched to a 2.15 ERA this season with 12.2 strikeouts per nine innings compared to 1.2 walks per nine across six games.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his fifth consecutive quality start.
- Gallen has pitched five or more innings in five straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors this year, the 27-year-old ranks 10th in ERA (2.15), fourth in WHIP (.770), and fifth in K/9 (12.2).
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NEW YORK (AP) — Al Jaffee, Mad magazine’s award-winning cartoonist and ageless wise guy who delighted millions of kids with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,” has died. He was 102.
Jaffee died Monday in Manhattan from multiple organ failure, according to his granddaughter, Fani Thomson. He had retired at the age of 99.
Mad magazine, with its wry, sometimes pointed send-ups of politics and culture, was essential reading for teens and preteens during the baby-boom era and inspiration for countless future comedians. Few of the magazine’s self-billed “Usual Gang of Idiots” contributed as much — and as dependably — as the impish, bearded cartoonist. For decades, virtually every issue featured new material by Jaffee. His collected “Fold-Ins,” taking on everyone in his unmistakably broad visual style from the Beatles to TMZ, was enough for a four-volume box set published in 2011.
Readers savored his Fold-Ins like dessert, turning to them on the inside back cover after looking through such other favorites as Antonio Prohías’ “Spy vs. Spy” and Dave Berg’s “The Lighter Side.” The premise, originally a spoof of the old Sports Illustrated and Playboy magazine foldouts, was that you started with a full-page drawing and question on top, folded two designated points toward the middle and produced a new and surprising image, along with the answer.
The Fold-In was supposed to be a onetime gag, tried out in 1964 when Jaffee satirized the biggest celebrity news of the time: Elizabeth Taylor dumping her husband, Eddie Fisher, in favor of “Cleopatra” co-star Richard Burton. Jaffee first showed Taylor and Burton arm in arm on one side of the picture, and on the opposite side a young, handsome man being held back by a policeman.
Fold the picture in and Taylor and the young man are kissing.
The idea was so popular that Mad editor Al Feldstein wanted a follow-up. Jaffee devised a picture of 1964 GOP presidential contenders Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater that, when collapsed, became an image of Richard Nixon.
“That one really set the tone for what the cleverness of the Fold-Ins has to be,” Jaffee told the Boston Phoenix in 2010. “It couldn’t just be bringing someone from the left to kiss someone on the right.”
Jaffee was also known for “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,” which delivered exactly what the title promised. A comic from 1980 showed a man on a fishing boat with a noticeably bent reel. “Are you going to reel in the fish?” his wife asks. “No,” he says, “I’m going to jump into the water and marry the gorgeous thing.”
Jaffee didn’t just satirize the culture; he helped change it. His parodies of advertisements included such future real-life products as automatic redialing for a telephone, a computer spell checker and graffiti-proof surfaces. He also anticipated peelable stamps, multiblade razors and self-extinguishing cigarettes.
Jaffee’s admirers ranged from Charles M. Schulz of “Peanuts” fame and “Far Side” creator Gary Larson to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who marked Jaffee’s 85th birthday by featuring a Fold-In cake on “The Colbert Report.” When Stewart and “The Daily Show” writers put together the best-selling “America (The Book),” they asked Jaffee to contribute a Fold-In.
“When I was done, I called up the producer who’d contacted me, and I said, ‘I’ve finished the Fold-In, where shall I send it?’ And he said — and this was a great compliment — ‘Oh, please Mr. Jaffee, could you deliver it in person? The whole crew wants to meet you,'” he told The Boston Phoenix.
Jaffee received numerous awards, and in 2013 was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, the ceremony taking place at San Diego Comic-Con International. In 2010, he contributed illustrations to Mary-Lou Weisman’s “Al Jaffee’s Mad Life: A Biography.” The following year, Chronicle Books published “The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010.”
Art was the saving presence of his childhood, which left him with permanent distrust of adults and authority. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, but for years was torn between the U.S., where his father (a department store manager) preferred to live, and Lithuania, where his mother (a religious Jew) longed to return. In Lithuania, Jaffee endured poverty and bullying, but also developed his craft. With paper scarce and no school to attend, he learned to read and write through the comic strips mailed by his father.
By his teens, he was settled in New York City and so obviously gifted that he was accepted into the High School of Music & Art. His schoolmates included Will Elder, a future Mad illustrator, and Harvey Kurtzmann, a future Mad editor. (His mother, meanwhile, remained in Lithuania and was apparently killed during the war).
He had a long career before Mad. He drew for Timely Comics, which became Marvel Comics; and for several years sketched the “Tall Tales” panel for the New York Herald Tribune. Jaffee first contributed to Mad in the mid-1950s. He left when Kurtzmann quit the magazine, but came back in 1964.
Mad lost much of its readership and edge after the 1970s, and Jaffee outlived virtually all of the magazine’s stars. But he rarely lacked for ideas even as his method, drawing by hand, remained mostly unchanged in the digital era.
“I’m so used to being involved in drawing and knowing so many people that do it, that I don’t see the magic of it,” Jaffee told the publication Graphic NYC in 2009. “If you reflect and think about it, I’m sitting down and suddenly there’s a whole big illustration of people that appears. I’m astounded when I see magicians work; even though I know they’re all tricks. You can imagine what someone thinks when they see someone drawing freehand and it’s not a trick. It’s very impressive.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/al-jaffee-longtime-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dead-at-102/ | 2023-04-11 12:53:18 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/al-jaffee-longtime-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dead-at-102/ |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Lawmakers in Greece are set to approve plans to outlaw commercial spyware following weeks of allegations that senior government officials may have been targeted.
The revelations have hurt public support for the country’s center-right government as it faces elections in 2023.
Under the draft legislation, the use, sale or distribution of spyware in Greece will carry a penalty of a two-year minimum prison sentence. Additional safeguards were also planned for legal wiretaps as well as for hiring the director and deputy directors of the National Intelligence Service, or NIS.
Speaking in parliament Thursday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis described the reforms as “a bold institutional response to a challenge that — and I want to emphasize this — does not only concern our country.”
Reports in the news media that multiple members of the cabinet as well as other senior officials and journalists may have been targeted with the spyware that can snoop on cell phone calls, stored contacts and data, and access devices’ microphones and cameras have prompted a judicial investigation.
In August, a top government aide and the country’s security chief resigned following revelations that a Socialist politician who was later elected leader of Greece’s third largest party had been the subject of NIS telephone surveillance that the government insists had been legally sanctioned.
The resignations were followed by weeks of newspaper reports that senior officials were being tracked using Predator spyware, which is similar to the more widely known Pegasus surveillance software.
The government insists its agencies have never used the spyware.
The use and alleged use of surveillance software in European Union member states is also the subject of an ongoing inquiry by a European Parliament committee, whose members visited Athens last month.
Facing elections before next summer, the government of Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ center-right New Democracy party, has seen its strong lead in opinions polls in recent weeks suffer as a result of the wiretapping allegations and the ongoing cost of living crisis.
Human Rights Watch described the proposed reforms as “problematic,” arguing that the government had failed to consult with the country’s own independent watchdogs on privacy or include adequate human rights safeguards.
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Mugshots : Madison County : 1/09/23 – 1/10/23 1 hour ago WBBJ Staff, Jaylon Tucker Jaylon Tucker: Assault, violation of order of protection Alphoso Buckley Alphoso Buckley: Driving on revoked/suspended license Autum Land Autum Land: Possession of methamphetamine, schedule II drug violations, schedule III drug violations Brianna Floyd Brianna Floyd: Disorderly conduct Destiny Rodgers Destiny Rodgers: Failure to appear Joel Couglin Joel Couglin: Violation of community corrections John Bouchard John Bouchard: Violation of probation Joshua Kirk Joshua Kirk: Failure to appear, violation of probation Lacree Allen Lacree Allen: Failure to appear Marquarious Cathey Marquarious Cathey: Aggravated assault, evading arrest, reckless driving Michael Cole Michael Cole: Failure to appear The people in this gallery were booked into the Madison County Jail between 7 a.m. on 1/09/23 and 7 a.m. on 1/10/23. Their inclusion only indicates they were booked into the jail and does not indicate guilt. Categories: Mugshots Share this...emailPrintFacebookTwitterLinkedin | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2023/01/10/mugshots-madison-county-1-09-23-1-10-23/ | 2023-01-10 17:40:18 | 0 | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2023/01/10/mugshots-madison-county-1-09-23-1-10-23/ |
The jury has notified the decide that they’ve reached a verdict within the lawsuit between actors Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard. Decide Penney Azcarate indicated the decision can be introduced in court docket at three p.m .
The jury started deliberations Friday afternoon, after six weeks of dramatic, disturbing and typically graphic testimony that laid naked the troubled marriage between the celebrities.
Each Depp and Heard testified twice. The jury additionally heard intensive recordings attorneys mentioned displayed violent conduct and noticed textual content messages, together with between Depp and fellow actor Paul Bettany, that mentioned substance use and contained obscene language. Supermodel Kate Moss additionally appeared by way of video hyperlink, including to the spectacle as broadcast cameras within the courtroom captured each twist to an more and more rapt viewers as followers weighed in on social media and lined up in a single day for coveted courtroom seats.
Depp sued Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Courtroom in Virginia for $50 million over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Put up describing herself as “a public determine representing home abuse.” His attorneys say he was defamed by the article although it by no means talked about his title.
Heard countersued for $100 million, claiming Depp’s legal professional defamed her by calling her abuse allegations a hoax. Throughout the trial, Heard’s sister testified to seeing Depp strike her, and a pal testified about seeing her cuts and bruises.
Closing arguments have been delivered Friday. By the point the court docket broke for lunch, jurors had head from attorneys for each Depp and Heard — who then had a mixed 45 minutes to current rebuttal closings later Friday afternoon. The case went to the jury later within the day, for the ultimate stage in what has been six weeks of courtroom drama that peeled again the curtain on the celebrities’ troubled marriage.
The jury was instructed to focus its deliberation not solely on whether or not there was abuse but in addition whether or not Heard’s op-ed piece may be thought-about legally defamatory. The article itself focuses totally on coverage questions of home violence, however Depp’s lawyer level to 2 passages within the article, in addition to a web-based headline that they are saying defamed Depp. | https://blackchronicle.com/jury-reaches-verdict-in-lawsuit-between-johnny-depp-and-amber-heard/ | 2022-06-01 18:41:40 | 0 | https://blackchronicle.com/jury-reaches-verdict-in-lawsuit-between-johnny-depp-and-amber-heard/ |
TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL) today announced it will release third quarter 2022 financial results after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, November 7, 2022. The Company will host a conference call and webcast on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET to discuss these results. The Company's earnings release will be available in the Investors section of the Company's website.
Investors and other interested parties may access the conference call in the following ways:
- At the Company's website: www.welltower.com.
- Via webcast: https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/656946169. A webcast replay will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the conference call and will be available for 90 days. Joining via webcast is recommended for those who will not be asking questions.
- By telephone: The participant toll-free dial-in number is (888) 340-5024. The international dial-in is (646) 960-0135. The conference ID number is 8230248. All phone participants are asked to dial in 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to ensure connectivity.
A replay of the conference call will be available beginning at approximately 1:00 p.m. ET on November 8, 2022 and ending on November 15, 2022. The dial-in number for United States participants is (800) 770-2030. For international participants, the replay dial-in number is (647) 362-9199. The replay conference ID number is 8230248.
Welltower® Inc. (NYSE: WELL), an S&P 500 company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, is driving the transformation of health care infrastructure. The Company invests with leading seniors housing operators, post-acute providers, and health systems to fund the real estate infrastructure needed to scale innovative care delivery models and improve people's wellness and overall health care experience. Welltower, a real estate investment trust ("REIT"), owns interests in properties concentrated in major, high-growth markets in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, consisting of seniors housing, post-acute communities and outpatient medical properties. More information is available at www.welltower.com.
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DALLAS, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dallas-based Tri Global Energy (www.triglobalenergy.com) is one of America's top developers of renewable energy, and the company's CEO says the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act will fuel "explosive growth" for his industry.
John B. Billingsley, the company's founder, Chairman and CEO, says "I've seen estimates from the White House that this bill will almost triple the number of wind turbines in America producing clean, renewable energy over the next eight years, and I think that is very realistic. Add that to solar, hydrogen, and other forms of clean energy that are incentivized by this legislation, and you have unprecedented growth for renewable energy in America.
"Many companies have been holding back on renewable projects until they knew what the legislation would deliver, and now we have that certainty – and we have it for the next decade in the form of tax credits. Because of this, I think the coming years will be the best-ever for developing clean energy projects in this country, which translates to jobs, tax revenue and an improved climate for everyone."
Tri Global Energy currently originates and develops utility-scale wind, solar and energy storage projects in Texas, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wyoming. The company is in the top 10 renewable developers in America and is the top developer of wind power in Texas.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily Derby" game were:
1st:10 Solid Gold-2nd:4 Big Ben-3rd:12 Lucky Charms, Race Time: 1:45.17
(1st: 10 Solid Gold, 2nd: 4 Big Ben, 3rd: 12 Lucky Charms; Race Time: one: 45.17)
Estimated jackpot: $307,000
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Shoppers and diners have returned to Center City, in numbers that are nearly comparable to levels seen before the pandemic.
Center City’s commercial core is slowly but steadily recovering from the impact of COVID-19, with new businesses opening and existing retailers moving to new or larger locations, according to a report released this week by the Center City District/Central Philadelphia Development Corp.
Most important, consumers are opening their wallets and spending once they get downtown.
In the first quarter of 2022, retail sales within Center City’s core boundaries — Vine Street to South Street, Delaware River to the Schuylkill — reached 94% of 2019 levels, and restaurant sales reached 74% of 2019 levels.
According to Center City District president Paul Levy, “the challenge is businesses getting workers back into the office,” noting that only 52% of Center City office workers have returned.
The trend toward permanent remote work is contributing to Philadelphia’s overall tepid economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic and a decline in the total workforce, according to a recent report from Pew Charitable Trusts, the latest in a series on Philadelphia’s Fiscal Future, published in partnership with the William Penn Foundation.
However, Center City’s uptick in foot traffic has been helped by the return of out-of-town shoppers, tourists and convention attendees, more than 100,000 college students, and just more than half of Center City’s 146,000 office workers. Center City saw an average of 346,833 pedestrians daily in mid-June, or 84% of pre-pandemic levels.. That is Center City’s best foot traffic number since 2019, Levy said.
“The diverse mix of downtown has sustained the steady presence of pedestrians on sidewalks, day and night,” said Levy. The Center City District is funded by local businesses in Philadelphia’s downtown.
Beyond Center City
Outside the limits of Center City, however, retailers are still struggling to recover.
Many can’t hire enough workers to keep stores open for the full day. Other business owners close early due to fears of robbery or other crimes.
Brick-and-mortar stores in Philly’s neighborhoods are still closing due to staffing and crime, said Regina Hairston, president of the African American Chamber of Commerce for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
“Anecdotally, our members are still in recovery,” Hairston said. “Recently, I met people at three different places, and none of them were open. Everything is closing at 6 p.m.”
Pam Thornton, owner of Pound Cake Heaven, a bakery and cake-decorating business, has shrunk her operation from three locations to two, one in Kensington and in Yeadon. Her now-shuttered West Philly location on 53rd Street “needs a renovation, but we don’t have the funds right now. A lot of times it feels like we’re getting back close to normal. But it gets rough when employees leave, because they get more money elsewhere,” said Thornton, who has been in business 10 years.
More discount stores
In Philadelphia, dollar and discount stores, including Dollar General and Five Below, are seeing major foot traffic gains, with weekly visits up all year relative to the equivalent week in 2019, according to Placer.ai, which measures cellphone data tracking where consumers shop.
Big-box stores are also finding renewed interest from consumers. After a 50% drop in new big-box openings in 2020, the big-box market rebounded with 23 new store openings in 2021, a 91% increase from the prior year, according to CBRE’s latest report on the Philadelphia market.
In the second half of 2021, the grocery sector accounted for half of all big-box openings in the Philadelphia region, from tenants such as Wegmans and Giant, which is opening another location at Broad and Spring Garden Streets.
Additionally, Turn7, a new Philadelphia-based discount retailer, opened two locations in 2021 in former mall anchor spaces, and announced plans to open at least three more.
Outdoor dining
Outdoor restaurant seating remains one of the pandemic’s enduring positives, Levy said.
“That’s one nice surprise. Sitting outdoors remains so popular,” he said. In 2019, there were 3,501 outdoor dining seats within the district; today there are 5,053 outdoor seats.
A financial lifesaver for many restaurant owners who couldn’t serve diners indoors during the peak of COVID-19, outdoor eateries have struggled with the city’s new regulations and fees as the pandemic eased. In recent months, City Council has said it will relax regulations for “streeteries” with full Council support. | https://www.inquirer.com/business/philadelphia-retail-restaurant-recovery-covid-20220701.html | 2022-07-01 10:41:20 | 1 | https://www.inquirer.com/business/philadelphia-retail-restaurant-recovery-covid-20220701.html |
116% increase in interim demand signifies extent of business leadership gap, with most acute need in the office of the Chief Financial Officer
CHICAGO, April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite slow, sometimes halted, hiring and frequent budget tightening amid global economic uncertainty, an acute need remains for high-end independent talent—also known as on-demand talent—with skills to pivot adeptly in today's increasingly competitive business environment.
In its sixth annual High-End Independent Talent Report, Business Talent Group (BTG), a Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) company and the leading talent marketplace for independent management consultants, interim executives, subject matter experts, and project managers, reported a strong rise in demand for interim leadership. This urgency for on-demand talent reflects the desire of companies to leverage more flexibility and bring in new skills to navigate economic uncertainty and rapidly changing markets.
Underscoring that finding, the 2023 report registered a 116% increase year over year in the need for interim leadership at all levels throughout organizations, with the demand for such interim help in the C-suite rising by 78%. The most acute interim need was in the office of the Chief Financial Officer representing nearly half of all interim C-suite leadership requests. Additionally, requests for CEOs surged 220% year over year and climbed 100% for Chief Human Resources Officers and Chief Transformation Officers.
"The dramatic increase in demand for interim leadership underscores the significant challenges companies are experiencing in today's turbulent market. The uncertainty that organizations are facing emphasizes the importance of effective leaders to drive critical transformations and position companies for resilience in a world of constant change," said Amelia Warren Tyagi, CEO of Business Talent Group. "As business leaders are challenged to do more with less, they are acknowledging the full benefits offered by on-demand talent—in both interim leadership roles and project-based work—to deliver the expertise needed to fill skills gaps and navigate uncertainty while remaining flexible with capacity and cost."
Among other significant highlights, the report found:
- An acute need for skills and expertise in the office of the Chief Financial Officer. Requests for interim CFOs rose 103% year over year, while the demand for interim controllers skyrocketed 233% and rose 71% for all interim finance talent. Requests for talent skilled in financial controls, accounting, and audit increased 76%.
- Tech transformations abound across all industries. Demand for IT and tech transformation projects and talent skilled in tech and systems implementation increased 20% as organizations invest heavily to capitalize on rapid tech advancements.
- Continued interest in process optimization and transformation. As leaders focus further on streamlining operations and improving agility and resilience by transforming nearly every function, the demand is high for business process-oriented projects, the second most in-demand project, and talent skilled in process optimization and transformation, the fourth most in-demand skill.
About BTG
Business Talent Group (BTG) is the leading talent marketplace that connects independent management consultants, subject matter experts, project managers, and interim executives with the world's best companies. BTG provides just the right on-demand talent needed: remote or on-site, part-time or full-time, individuals or teams. That's why more than 50% of the F100 and hundreds of other leading companies trust BTG to curate, vet, and compliantly deliver talent who fuel growth, innovation, and performance improvement. BTG is a Heidrick & Struggles company (Nasdaq: HSII). businesstalentgroup.com
About Heidrick & Struggles
Heidrick & Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 65 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.® www.heidrick.com
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The 2023 Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Odds & Preview: Xiyu Lin
Xiyu Lin is in the field from July 13-16 in the 2023 Greater Toledo LPGA Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio, taking on a par-71, 6,561-yard course.
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Xiyu Lin Insights
- Lin has finished below par on 10 occasions, completed her day without a bogey three times and finished 12 rounds with a better-than-average score over her last 18 rounds played.
- She has posted the best score of the day twice while finishing in the top-five five times and with a top-10 score in seven of her last 18 rounds played.
- Lin has recorded a score within three shots of the day's best in seven of her last 18 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day 11 times.
- In her past five appearances, Lin has finished in the top five three times.
- She has made the cut in four of her past five appearances.
- In her past five events, Lin has finished within three shots of the leader three times and posted a score better than average four times.
- Lin has finished in the top 20 in three consecutive tournaments.
- Lin has made the cut in three tournaments in a row.
Over the last year
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Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Insights and Stats
- Lin last competed at this event in 2022 and finished seventh.
- Highland Meadows Golf Club will play at 6,561 yards for this event. In the past year, the Tour has normally played on longer courses, with an average distance of 7,014.
- The average course on the Tour in the past year has played to 69.5 strokes per round and a score of -5. At Highland Meadows Golf Club, the scoring average is lower at -8 per tournament.
- Lin will take to the 6,561-yard course this week at Highland Meadows Golf Club after having played courses with an average length of 6,545 yards in the past year.
- Events she has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -8.
Lin's Last Time Out
- Lin finished in the 47th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open, with an average of 3.13 strokes.
- Her 4.03-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Women’s Open was strong, putting her in the 95th percentile of the field.
- Lin was better than 48% of the golfers at the U.S. Women’s Open on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 5.06 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 5.02.
- Lin failed to record a birdie on any of the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open (the tournament average was 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Lin recorded two bogeys or worse (the other competitors averaged 3.0).
- Lin's seven birdies or better on par-4s at the U.S. Women’s Open were more than the tournament average of 3.0.
- At that last tournament, Lin carded a bogey or worse on seven of 40 par-4s (the field averaged 8.4).
- Lin ended the U.S. Women’s Open with a birdie or better on four of the 16 par-5s, more than the field average of 2.8.
- On the 16 par-5s at the U.S. Women’s Open, Lin fell short compared to the field average of 2.6 bogeys or worse on those holes by recording five.
Greater Toledo LPGA Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: July 13-16, 2023
- Course: Highland Meadows Golf Club
- Location: Sylvania, Ohio
- Par: 71 / 6,561 yards
- Lin Odds to Win: +1000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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ST. LOUIS, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The descendant community of U.S. chattel slaves, descendants of free Negroes, and unaffiliated Negro descendants of slaves to Native American tribes (collectively "Freedmen") are buoyed by the June 2023 United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) majority opinion that admissions decisions at colleges/universities cannot be "race based." This SCOTUS decision brings the U.S. and its institutions closer to the original intent of the post-civil war 14th amendment, Freedmen civil rights acts of the 1860's, and Negro-driven affirmative actions of the 1960's civil rights movement. Though affirmative action cases aimed to curb and/or mal-distribute the Freedmen legacy, this SCOTUS decision to limit race-based considerations now calls the country into a focus on Freedmen lineage and benefitting the people whose experience is marked by the unrepaired harms of continual discrimination from our nation's founding to present: the U.S. Negro Freedmen. It is Black descendants of U.S. slaves and free Negroes who, from 1776 through today, bear an unbroken chain of discrimination including what the Supreme Court calls "the badges and incidents of slavery."
Considering the haze of misinformation and disinformation, institutional leaders are asking how they can help affirmative action return to the original intent of repairing U.S. Negro Freedmen. The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen™ supports the first-of-kind litmus to identify descendants of U.S. chattel slaves and descendants of free Negroes (U.S. Negro Freedmen) established by the California AB 3121 reparations taskforce. To be considered a U.S. Negro Freedmen a Black American must provide certifiable vital records and, if needed, census data proving connection to a maternal and/or paternal Black American (Negro) direct bloodline ancestor born in the United States prior to 1924.
Pamela Denise Long, National Coordinator for The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen™ stated, "Historians largely frame 1960's Affirmative Action as a response to Negroes' sustained resistance to the unconstitutional Jim Crow era that began after the sabotage of Reconstruction (via the Compromise of 1877) and lasted through May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court of the United States finally overturned the 1896 Plessy v Ferguson SCOTUS opinion that sunk the nation into 'separate but equal' racial segregation between White Americans and America's newly freed people." The Plessy decision restarted a pattern of U.S. policies and practices that again disenfranchised the nation's Freedmen who had completed only one generation of emancipation after five-plus generations of chattel slavery under U.S. jurisdiction. Some nearly 100 years later, the Affirmative Action executive order of John F. Kennedy (1960) was supposed to restart the journey of correcting the losses from previous generations of economic and educational discrimination. But as we know, from the moment our families began to benefit from Affirmative Action (via our presence in shared spaces of employment, finance, education, and recreation), resisters to the practice of equality (rather than just theory of it) began to bring lawsuits aimed at gutting what the post-civil war framers of the Constitution and the honorable Martin Luther King Jr (himself a U.S. Negro Freedmen) said—in their own words—that they so diligently aimed to do: repair the unbroken chain of injuries caused by the legacy of chattel slavery and Jim Crow discrimination. Until now, resisters had largely been successful at turning the 14th amendment into a "history blind" weapon against Freedmen–the very people for whom the 14th was argued and written. Long goes on to note that, in her analysis, "All is not lost; this 2023 SCOTUS decision explicitly declares that government and educational institutions may indeed enact admission preferences based on previous discrimination."
Within the following four calls-to-action, the Freedmen community asks that institutions affirm a commitment to educational and economic redress to the very people whose family legacies spurred the post-civil war 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and 1960's Affirmation Action itself.
In the open letter, The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen™ expressed an expectation that recruitment and admissions decision makers fully comply with the SCOTUS ruling which states, as Chief Justice Roberts wrote: "Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant's discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise." Justice Thomas's concurring opinion provides examples of U.S. case law showing that programs to redress the impacts of previous discrimination have passed strict scrutiny when multigenerational Black Americans benefitted most.
The U.S. Negro Freedmen community asks that institutional compliance includes, at a minimum:
- Immediately implementing a certification process to vet applicants and current students claiming to be of the U.S. Negro Freedmen lineage and, thus, survivors of U.S. Negro Freedmen discrimination, as allowed by law, and guided by existing precedents (see California state law, AB 3121, lineage-specific reparations).
- Refining recruitment, admissions, and retention processes to ensure that vetted descendants of U.S. Negro Freedmen are prime beneficiaries of special considerations for admissions, scholarships, culturally responsive student services, tutoring, internships, mentorship, hiring, etc.
- Piloting a multigenerational student development program that focuses on guiding descendants of U.S. slaves/survivors of U.S. Negro Freedmen discrimination from admission through alumni career development and even retirement. This call-to-action anchors to the court's critique of unclear outcomes after special considerations are given.
- Prioritizing admissions into STEAM and finance fields to address the health, wealth, and wellbeing disparities of U.S. Negro Freedmen patients and consumers.
Toward a More Perfect Union.
The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen™ is a voluntary association of the descendants of emancipated U.S. chattel slaves and descendants of free American Negroes with ethnogenesis in the U.S. from the 1776-1865 antebellum era through present. The Coalition is committed to delivery on the promise of a comprehensive package of reparatory policy, practices, and financial appropriations to redress the impacts of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing discrimination against multigenerational Black Americans. Our work with institutions and national, state, and local governments ensures reparative implementation and full enforcement of the citizenship rights and protected class status of the descendant community.
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BOSTON, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC ("ArcLight") announced the formation of OnPoint Energy, LLC ("OnPoint"), a newly formed retail electric provider, focused on residential, commercial and industrial retail electricity solutions initially serving the ERCOT market. OnPoint is led by its Chief Executive Officer, Cullen Hay, and a seasoned management team of industry executives. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
"ArcLight is excited to partner with the OnPoint team to enter the retail market," said Carter Ward, Partner at ArcLight. "As one of the largest power generators in North America, the launch of this platform is an important step in maximizing the value of our fleet. ArcLight has committed $50 million to retail initiatives and look to expand into additional competitive markets in the coming year."
"We are excited to bring to market OnPoint Energy, a company that is focused on changing the relationship between electricity retailer and customer, by providing an excellent customer experience, while maintaining a focus on fair, cost effective electricity plans and pricing," said OnPoint CEO Cullen Hay. "Our initial focus will be in ERCOT with expansion expected within the year to other competitive markets in the U.S., where we will work closely with residential and commercial and industrial customers to deliver on our promises of fairness and loyalty."
ArcLight is a leading private equity firm focused on energy, infrastructure and energy transitions with a successful long-term track record. Founded in 2001, the firm helped pioneer an asset-based approach to investing across the power, renewables, infrastructure and broader energy value chain. Since then, ArcLight has invested approximately $27 billion in 122 transactions, including over $11 billion of equity capital into the electrification segment, which includes power, transmission, renewable infrastructure and energy transition investments. Through its large infrastructure portfolio, ArcLight is focused on providing decarbonizing energy solutions with a strong ESG focus. Based in Boston, the firm's investment team employs a value-added investment approach that benefits from its dedicated in-house technical, operational, and commercial specialists and partners, as well as the firm's approximately 1,800-person asset management affiliate. More information about ArcLight can be found at www.arclight.com.
Kirkland & Ellis served as legal counsel on the transaction to ArcLight. King & Spalding served as legal counsel on the transaction to OnPoint.
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Tiger and Trout get together to build New Jersey golf club
VINELAND, N.J. (AP) — Three-time American League MVP Mike Trout always wanted a golf course, and he picked 18-time major champion Tiger Woods to build it for him.
Trout, the 10-time All-Star centerfielder for the Los Angeles Angels, and a business partner in New Jersey are building a golf club called “Trout National — The Reserve” not far from where Trout grew up in southern New Jersey.
They have hired Woods’ architecture firm, TGR Design, to create the 18-hole course, a practice range and short-game area.
“I love south Jersey and I love golf, so creating Trout National — The Reserve is a dream come true,” Trout said. “And then to add to that we’ll have a golf course designed by Tiger? It’s just incredible to think that this project has grown to where we’re going to be working with someone many consider the greatest and most influential golfer of all time.”
Construction is set to begin this year with plans for the private club about 45 minutes south of Philadelphia to open for member play in 2025.
“I’ve always enjoyed watching Mike on the diamond so when the opportunity arose to work with him on Trout National — The Reserve, I couldn’t pass it up,” Woods said. “It’s a great site for golf and our team’s looking forward to creating a special course.”
Among courses TGR Design has open for play are Bluejack National in the Houston area, El Cardonal at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and Payne’s Valley in Missouri.
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TIANJIN, China, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 19, 2022, the World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference was held in Tianjin. Tianjin JinYun New Media has planned to launch a creative short video named "Luban" Going Abroad in "national hand-painted style + pop style", introducing the fruitful achievements of "Luban" Workshop since its establishment in 2016, demonstrating how Tianjin actively promotes the high-quality development of vocational education and shows innovative exploration in Sino-foreign vocational education exchanges and cooperation.
As a well-known brand of Sino-foreign humanities exchange originated and practiced in Tianjin, Luban Workshop has cultivated a large number of technical and skilled talents who are familiar with Chinese technology, understand Chinese craftsmanship and know Chinese products for the partner countries, which have presented a landmark achievement of the construction of the innovation demonstration zone under the national modern vocational education reform as well as a major innovation achievement in the international development of Chinese vocational education.
This short video focuses on the expression of innovation, with popular pop style, national hand-painted style and humorous voiceover, allowing the viewer to experience the wonders and effectiveness of Luban Workshop in a sense of comic immersion. Each story told in the short video reveals the true feeling of the teachers and students of Luban Workshop, learning from and sharing with each other. Just like the stars in the Milky Way, Luban Workshops flicker in every corner of the world, illuminating the road of win-win between China and the world.
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Outdoor party games
As summer nears and the weather gets warmer, you might be looking for ways to spend some time outside with friends and family. Outdoor party games are a great solution, whether for your niece’s birthday, a family reunion or a play date with your best friends and their kids.
Plus, many of these games are conducive to social distancing protocols if you’re spending time with non-household members (that said, use your best judgment when choosing a game and adjust as needed).
Check out these seven options that are fun for everyone, small and big kids alike.
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Fun outdoor party games for all ages
Ring toss
Here’s a classic carnival game you can play in your backyard. Get a low table, about 24 empty pop or juice bottles and four hard plastic rings wide enough to fit around the bottlenecks.
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Place the bottles on the table quite close to one another. Each player has a designated spot at least four feet away from the table (this can be marked with tape to make things fair). They take turns throwing the four rings, aiming around the necks of the bottles. Keep it interesting by moving further away from the table. The challenge increases as your distance does.
Capture the flag
Capture the flag is a classic. To play, make two or more teams and give each a flag or cloth napkin. Each team retreats to a different area in a park, forest or large outdoor space and hides their flag as best they can from the other team. The only catch is that part of the flag must be visible.
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Once you start, the teams race to find the other’s flag and return it to their area without being caught by the other team. You can make it simple by tagging with two hands. Or, spice it up with some water balloons. If you’re playing at night, you could simply use the light from a flashlight instead. The team left with the most uncaught players at the end wins.
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Bocce ball
Originating in Europe, bocce ball has been a long-time favorite of many. You’ll have a set of two different colored balls for each team (or person), along with a smaller white ball. Whoever goes first tosses the white ball anywhere ahead of them.
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Then, each team takes a turn to toss their colored ball as close as they can to the white ball. The team that gets their ball closest to the white ball scores one point. You can set the bar for the winning number of points to win.
Giant Jenga
Most people don’t know the history of Jenga: it began in an African village, was adopted at a tech company in London, and is today enjoyed the world over. Many of us grew up with the classic table-sized game but might not have seen the giant party version you can play outdoors with family and friends.
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If you’ve never played Jenga, it’s simple. First, you build the tower alternating three blocks by three blocks. The first player takes a block from any complete level and places it on the highest level to complete it. When any block from the tower falls, the game is over.
Bean bag toss
This fun and simple game involves two teams tossing bean bags into a board’s hole (the target), or just on the board itself. You can use different point variations, like three points for landing in the target and one point for landing on the board. The first team to reach a set number of points (like 10) wins. To spice this game up, try one with LED lights to play at night.
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Balloon down
Blow up three helium balloons and tie them to a weight to keep them grounded. Write a different point value on each balloon, such as 25, 50 and 100 (use a Sharpie or other permanent marker for this). Tape a line across the ground and place the balloons at least 15 feet away from that point (maybe closer if you’re playing with kids). The lowest-scored balloon gets placed closest, then the next highest and so on.
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Put a bucket of small but substantial footballs beside your taped line. Each player gets five tosses to hit as many balloons as they can. They score the balloon points they hit, and the person with the most points after five turns wins.
Frisbee tic-tac-toe
Here’s a fun one. Begin by creating a tic-tac-toe grid with duct or masking tape on a tarp, picnic table cloth or old shower curtain. You could also do this directly on the ground if it’s even enough.
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You’ll need at least eight frisbees, four per team. Take turns throwing a frisbee with the aim of a square on the board, just like in regular Xs and Os. the first team to get three of their frisbees in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally wins.
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NO ORDINARY JOE
Padres right-hander Joe Musgrove takes a 47-47 career record over seven seasons into this start at Wrigley Field. But he's been one of the best pitchers in the majors this year, going 7-0 with a 1.50 ERA in 11 starts.
The 29-year-old Musgrove has allowed just one earned run in 27 innings over his last four starts.
Rookie Matt Swarmer starts for the Cubs. In his last outing, he was hammered for six home runs in five innings at Yankee Stadium.
OHTANI'S TURN
Angels star Shohei Ohtani is on the mound to begin a five-game series at Seattle.
Ohtani (4-4, 3.64 ERA) is coming off seven impressive innings in a win over Boston. He's struck out 71 in 54 1/3 innings.
The reigning AL MVP has been doing better at the plate in the last 10 days, raising his batting average from .240 to .260.
CLOSED DOWN
Phillies closer Corey Knebel won't be in that role in the near future.
After another shaky outing in Tuesday night’s 11-9 loss to the Marlins, interim manager Rob Thomson said Knebel will take a step back to focus on his mechanics.
Knebel signed a one-year, $10 million contract in the offseason to help solidify Philadelphia’s leaky bullpen. But he's blown four saves and posted a 4.91 ERA since May 5, walking 13 in 14 2/3 innings in that stretch.
“For the near future, we’ll put him in a position where he can breathe a little because he’s not throwing the ball where he wants,” Thomson said. “And he knows that.”
Said Knebel: “The decision has been made. I’m going to go do my job.”
Thomson indicated that the Phillies will use a closer-by-committee approach for the time being, with Seranthony Dominiguez as the likely recipient of most save opportunities.
HADER AWAY
Milwaukee Brewers closer Josh Hader has been put on the paternity list and is expected to miss three days.
The roster move on Wednesday came while Hader was tied with San Diego’s Taylor Rogers for the major league lead with 19 saves. The left-hander is 0-1 with a 0.92 ERA in 21 appearances this season.
The Brewers replaced Hader by activating newly acquired Chi Chi Gonzalez and adding him to their bullpen.
BOUNCE BACK?
Rangers lefty Martín Pérez looks to improve on his previous performance when he pitches at Detroit.
Pérez led the AL with a 1.56 ERA when he started last weekend against the White Sox. He was tagged for season highs of seven runs and 12 hits in 5 innings.
Pérez (4-2, 2.18 ERA) faces a Tigers team that has outscored 33-6 during a four-game losing streak. Detroit lost 13-0 to the White Sox on Wednesday and held a players-only meeting after the rout.
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For the past six nights, protests have erupted in many French cities after the death of a teenager at the hands of police nearly a week ago. We visit the Parisian suburb where it all started.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Veru Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of VERU during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Veru Inc. common stock between May 11, 2022 and November 9, 2022, inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: 1) the Company had withheld material adverse facts about the data from the sabizabulin Phase 3 trial and the Company's interactions with the United States Food and Drug Administration; 2) defendants misled Veru's shareholders to believe that the data from the sabizabulin Phase 3 trial was sufficient to support Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA") and even the submission of a New Drug Application without any further studies; and 3) the Company's filings concealed the true risks faced by Veru in gaining approval for its EUA request.
DEADLINE: February 6, 2023 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/veru-inc-lawsuit-submission-form/?id=34804&from=4
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First-graders praised after saving teacher who suffered COVID-19 seizure
ARDMORE, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - A group of first-graders from an elementary school in Alabama jumped into action when their teacher was suffering a seizure.
WAFF reports teacher Tracy Hodges said she felt ill and asked the students to get help during a school day in January at Cedar Hill Elementary School in Ardmore.
That’s when first-grade student Emily Johnson and others stepped in to help out.
“Ms. Hodges started shaking in her chair, and then she said, ‘Go get help.’” Johnson recalled. “Then, we started running to the nurses.”
Hodges said she considers her students to be heroes. She was able to return to work soon after suffering the seizure.
“I had a COVID-19 seizure and they helped me,” Hodges said. “They have become hometown heroes ... just took action like a real hero does.”
Fruit and vegetable production company Dole recognized the students’ quick actions on Wednesday, labeling the 18 students as “Healthy Everyday Heroes” for helping Hodges. The children were given hero certificates, capes and masks as part of Dole’s hero-recognition program.
Hodges’ first-graders were also honored by local law enforcement for their quick thinking earlier this year.
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WASHINGTON — Actor Jamie Foxx is making good progress in his recovery, according to Kevin Hart.
While appearing on Logan Paul's podcast this week, the comedian gave a brief update on the Oscar-winner's health, while also trying to respect the family's privacy and acknowledging he doesn't know the "exact details."
"To my knowledge is there's a lot of progression and a world of better, man," Hart said. "The dope thing is that he's getting better in his situation, and you know, everybody's prayers, everybody's love, energy—all that stuff is seen and felt."
Foxx's family has publicly shared little information since the actor's hospitalization three weeks ago.
"I'm very fortunate to have the relationship that I have with Jamie and to be able to just check on him and stuff like that," Hart said. "They're being tight and for reasons just about where he is, because Jamie's always been a private person to a certain degree."
Hart's comments came one day before Foxx broke his silence on social media. The award-winning actor posted on his Instagram account Wednesday that he appreciates all the love from fans and is "feeling blessed" as he recovers from an undisclosed medical complication.
The message was the first public statement or comment from Foxx since being hospitalized.
On Wednesday, it was also announced that the 55-year-old actor would not be on the next season of the Fox game show "Beat Shazam" with filming due to start. Foxx's daughter, Corinne, who is a DJ on the show, will also not be there.
Instead, the network announced that Nick Cannon will "fill in as guest host for his friends, Jamie and Corinne Foxx. Kelly Osbourne will be filling in as guest DJ."
"Everyone at FOX Entertainment wishes Jamie well as he continues his recovery, and we greatly appreciate Nick's willingness to jump in and help this summer," the network said in a statement shared online by Corinne.
"Appreciate ya my boy @nickcannon See u all soon," Jamie Foxx captioned an Instagram story post about the "Beat Shazam" news.
Foxx won the best actor Oscar in 2005 for his portrayal of pianist Ray Charles in the biopic "Ray." That same year, he was nominated for best actor in a supporting role for "Collateral."
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T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, the anchors of the third hour of ABC's flagship morning show "Good Morning America," are in the final stages of negotiating an exit from the network after photos surfaced last year of the pair engaged in an apparent romantic relationship, a person familiar with the matter told CNN Friday.
A spokesperson for ABC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the network has been negotiating with the "GMA3" anchors this week about an exit and the talks have advanced to final stages, the person familiar with the matter said. A finalized deal could come as soon as Friday afternoon.
"There is a lot of frustration on all sides that it could have been handled better," the person said.
The all-but-certain exit comes after Holmes and Robach were taken off the air last month following a Daily Mail report showing the pair apparently engaged in a romantic relationship.
In a memo sent to network staff at the time, ABC News President Kim Godwin announced the anchors would remain off the air pending the results of an internal review.
Godwin called the matter an "internal and external distraction" and requested staffers not to "gossip" about the matter while at work.
While the pair have remained off the air at "GMA3," a rotating cast of hosts has filled in for Robach and Holmes on the program.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambrex today announced it is investing in a new, 21,000-square-foot research and development facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota, expanding its capacity for small molecule development and manufacturing. Strategically located near the Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport, the new facility will specialize in analytical and chemical development for pharmaceutical drug candidates and will operate as an extension of Cambrex's flagship facility in Charles City, Iowa. Cambrex is expected to add approximately 40 new jobs over the next 2-3 years at the new site in Minneapolis.
Cambrex will simultaneously launch a multi-phase, 9,000-square-foot expansion and 21,000-square-foot renovation project in Charles City, Iowa. The expansion will add a new quality control laboratory and administrative office space, which will bring 40 new jobs at the site. The expansive renovations will enhance and modernize the existing quality control and research and development facilities. The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) board awarded the company tax benefits and $300,000 in direct financial assistance to support the expansion through the High Quality Jobs (HQJ) program.
"Our new facility in Minneapolis will double our analytical and chemical development footprint in the Midwest, providing clients with easy access to state-of-the-art capabilities and top scientific experts," said Thomas Loewald, CEO of Cambrex. "We continue to invest in our U.S.-based footprint to support the demand for high-quality API development and manufacturing."
This investment follows an earlier $50 million expansion in Charles City that was completed in the first quarter of 2022, establishing Cambrex as the largest, most advanced active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing site in the United States. The facility is located on a 45-acre property and produces a wide range of APIs and pharmaceutical intermediates, including highly potent molecules and controlled substances.
About Cambrex
Cambrex is a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that provides drug substance, drug product, and analytical services across the entire drug lifecycle. With over 40 years of experience and a growing team of over 2,300 experts servicing global clients from North America and Europe, Cambrex is a trusted partner in branded and generic markets for API and finished dosage form development and manufacturing.
Cambrex offers a range of specialized drug substance technologies and capabilities, including continuous flow, controlled substances, solid-state science, material characterization, stability storage, and highly potent APIs. In addition, Cambrex can support conventional dosage forms, including oral solids, semi-solids, and liquids, and has the expertise to manufacture specialty dosage forms such as modified-release, fixed-dose combination, pediatric, bi-layer tablets, stick packs, topicals, controlled substances, sterile, and non-sterile ointments.
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MIAMI, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Boyne Capital ("Boyne") is pleased to announce that one of its affiliates has partnered with management in acquiring Ryan Construction Co., Inc. and Ryan Marine, Inc. (collectively "Ryan Marine" or the "Company"), a provider of diversified marine and industrial contracting and maintenance services across the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.
Founded in 1985, Ryan Marine has deep, long-tenured relationships with many blue-chip customers in the government and industrial end markets, including defense, logistics and utilities. The Company's marine and land-based service offering includes marine retention walls and pilings, industrial foundations, utility support/installation, shoreline erosion control, environmental remediation, trenching, earthmoving, and other diversified industrial services. Given Ryan Marine's specialized marine capabilities and highly qualified workforce, the Company serves as a mission-critical provider to the significant naval and industrial infrastructure in the region.
Derek McDowell, Managing Partner at Boyne Capital, said, "Ryan Marine has leveraged its best-in-class service standards, reputation, and longstanding presence in the community to develop lasting, reoccurring relationships in the Hampton Roads region. We are excited to partner with Ryan and the team to support the Company's next phase of growth as a mission-critical service provider for its customers. This investment is another example of Boyne's focus in partnering with leading infrastructure services businesses."
Ryan Nelms, CEO of Ryan Marine, said, "We are excited to be part of the Boyne portfolio. This partnership will assist Ryan Marine in developing the corporate infrastructure to better serve its current customers, while also providing strategic guidance to increase our market share in delivering specialized services to our customers across the Mid-Atlantic region."
The transaction represents the most recent platform investment in BCM Fund II ("Fund"). Boyne Capital is dedicated to investing in the lower middle market sector, specifically companies with revenues of less than $100 million and with EBITDA of $3 million to $15 million.
About Boyne: Boyne Capital is a Florida-based private equity firm focused on investments in lower middle market companies. Founded in 2006, Boyne has successfully invested in a broad range of industries, including healthcare services, consumer products, manufacturing, business & financial services, and industrial, infrastructure & engineering services. Beyond financial resources, Boyne provides industry and operational expertise to its portfolio companies and partners with management to drive company performance and growth. Boyne specializes in providing the capital necessary to fund corporate growth and facilitate owners and shareholders' partial or full exit. For additional information, please visit www.boynecapital.com.
Contact Matthew Menker (mmenker@boynecapital.com) regarding new opportunities.
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MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — A candle factory where several workers were killed during tornadoes that hit Kentucky in December has been cited for violations by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The agency alleges seven serious offenses, carrying fines of $40,000. Mayfield Consumer Products has contested all seven, according to information on OSHA's website.
The alleged violations include maintenance, safeguards and operational features for exit routes; emergency action plans; and bloodborne pathogens. Calls to the company seeking comment Tuesday were unanswered.
The citations, filed in June, note that six employees were killed as the result of blunt-force trauma when the building collapsed. There were 81 people who died in Kentucky in the Dec. 10 storms.
An expansion by the company was previously announced at its factory in nearby Hickory, where it plans to invest $33 million and employ more than 500 people in the next five years. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Candle-plant-cited-for-violations-after-deadly-17392857.php | 2022-08-23 21:00:49 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Candle-plant-cited-for-violations-after-deadly-17392857.php |
WeightWatchers soared before the opening bell Tuesday after the company said it was getting into the prescription drug weight loss business with the acquisition of Sequence.
Sequence, a telehealth operator, says that its specialists can prescribe medications under brand names including Ozempic, Wegovy and Trulicity.
Shares of WW International Inc. jumped nearly 12%.
WeightWatchers offers subscribers meal plans with the goal of losing excess weight. With the acquisition of Sequence, the company is tapping into a red-hot market for prescription drugs that addresses obesity, and broadening what it offers to customers.
“It is our responsibility, as the trusted leader in weight management, to support those interested in exploring if medications are right for them,” said CEO Sima Sistani said in a prepared statement late Monday.
Ozempic, also known as semaglutide, works by stimulating the body’s own insulin production and reducing appetite. While it is prescribed for diabetes, Ozempic can also help people lose weight.
If it's not treated, obesity can lead to lifelong health problems, including high blood pressure, diabetes and depression.
WW International will pay $106 million for Sequence, which served about 24,000 members across the U.S. as of February.
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- Evocative direct-to-consumer (DTC) campaign has received 12 healthcare and communications industry awards to date and has recently been shortlisted for four more awards.
- The national campaign features Emmy® Award-winning spokeswoman and actress Annie Murphy and was created to generate awareness of Evofem's hormone-free contraceptive, Phexxi, while also highlighting the contraceptive journey of millions of women, like Annie, who are tired of dealing with the side effects of hormones in their birth control.
- To date, the House Rules campaign has grown brand awareness by 45%, garnered 42 million video views and over 33,000 telehealth exits.
SAN DIEGO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evofem Biosciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: EVFM) announced today a series of industry awards and recognition for the company's direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising campaign, House Rules. Launched last September, the authentic, edgy and highly successful campaign is aimed at broadening awareness and driving uptake of Evofem's hormone-free contraceptive, Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid and potassium bitartrate) vaginal gel.
House Rules features Emmy® Award-winning spokeswoman Annie Murphy, who shares her personal birth control journey and the many reasons why Phexxi is the right contraceptive for her. She also empowers and inspires women to live by their "rules," especially when it comes to choosing a birth control method.
"I'm so proud of what we have been able to accomplish with House Rules," said Annie Murphy, acclaimed actress and Phexxi user and spokeswoman. "This industry recognition reaffirms the importance of our efforts in helping women take control of their birth control choices and better understand the important attributes of Phexxi."
In addition to being shortlisted for four upcoming creative awards, the House Rules digital and broadcast campaign has received the following recognition to date:
- Cannes Lions – Pharma
- Clio Health Awards
- MedAdNews Manny Awards
- PRWeek Healthcare & Pharma Comms Awards
- Shorty Awards
- The One Show
"At Evofem, our mission is to improve the quality of life for women worldwide by providing innovative products that give them with more control over their reproductive and sexual health," said Saundra Pelletier, Chief Executive Officer of Evofem. "The House Rules campaign and our partnership with Annie Murphy has furthered this goal by raising awareness of Phexxi with millions of women. We are pleased to see this campaign recognized by industry leaders."
To date, the House Rules campaign has grown brand awareness by 45%. The campaign garnered 42 million video views and over 33,000 telehealth exits. The campaign was created and executed in collaboration with Real Chemistry, McCann Health New Jersey, McCann Health Engagement, and Mediahub. It can be viewed on demand on YouTube. Join the conversation on social media through Instagram (@Phexxi and @EvofemBiosciences), Facebook (@Phexxi and @Evofem), and Twitter (@Evofem).
Evofem Biosciences, Inc., (Nasdaq: EVFM) is developing and commercializing innovative products to address unmet needs in women's sexual and reproductive health, including hormone-free, woman-controlled contraception and protection from chlamydia and gonorrhea. The Company's first FDA-approved product, Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid and potassium bitartrate), is a hormone-free, on-demand prescription contraceptive vaginal gel. It comes in a box of 12 pre-filled applicators and is applied 0-60 minutes before each act of sex. The Company expects to report top-line data this fall from its registrational Phase 3 EVOGUARD clinical trial evaluating Phexxi for two potential new indications – prevention of chlamydia and prevention of gonorrhea in women. Learn more at phexxi.com and evofem.com.
Phexxi® is a registered trademark of Evofem Biosciences, Inc.
Phexxi is an on-demand method of birth control used to prevent pregnancy. Phexxi is not effective when used after sex.
Rare cases (0.36%) of bladder and kidney infections have been reported. If you have a history of urinary tract problems that keep coming back, you should not use Phexxi.
Contact your healthcare provider if you are experiencing genitourinary side effects such as vaginal burning, itching, discharge, genital discomfort (including in male partners), yeast infection, urinary tract infection, or bacterial vaginosis.
Phexxi does not protect against sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
For more information about Phexxi, talk to your healthcare provider and see full Product Information at www.phexxi.com.
Please report side effects by contacting Evofem Biosciences toll-free at 1-833-EVFMBIO or contact FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
Intended for United States residents only.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements," within the meaning of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provided by Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation, evaluations and judgments regarding Evofem, its products, its product candidates and their development, demand for Evofem's products and product candidates and The Right to Contraception Act. Various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements, and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are current only as of the date of this press release. Each of these forward- looking statements involves risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements, or that could impair the value of Evofem Biosciences' assets and business are disclosed in the Company's SEC filings, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 10, 2022 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 10, 2022. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by such factors. The Company does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement except as required by law.
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- Late-breaking data presented at THT shows substantial fluid loss and improvements in kidney and cardiac function at 30 days after Aortix therapy
- Cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) is a complex condition that impacts up to 40% of patients with acute decompensated heart failure and is growing at a double-digit rate
HOUSTON, March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Procyrion, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to improving outcomes for patients with cardiac and renal impairment, announced today that use of its Aortix™ percutaneous mechanical circulatory support (pMCS) device led to rapid decongestion in a pilot study of patients admitted to the hospital with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) and worsening renal function, which is known as cardiorenal syndrome (CRS). These patients, who were unresponsive to available medical therapy, demonstrated significant improvements in kidney function, cardiac function, and patient-reported assessment of shortness of breath at 30 days after treatment with the Aortix pump. The results from the CRS pilot study were presented today during the late-breaking clinical science session at the Technology and Heart Failure Therapeutics (THT) conference in Boston.
"Patients admitted to the hospital with CRS are the most difficult to treat. They often have persistent congestion even after aggressive intravenous diuretic therapy, leading to very poor outcomes with high rates of mortality and rehospitalization," stated Jennifer A. Cowger, MD, MS, FACC, Section Head of Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI. "After being unresponsive to available medical therapy for more than a week, patients who were treated with the Aortix pump showed a significant increase in urine output resulting in a large loss of excess fluid and improvements in kidney function present at 30 days, indicating the potential of the Aortix therapy to disrupt the harmful cycle of CRS."
CRS is a complex disease with cardiac, renal, and neurohormonal components, impacting up to 40% of all patients admitted with ADHF in the US and growing at a double-digit rate.1 In CRS, underlying heart failure leads to reduced blood flow to the kidneys, which causes the kidneys to become less effective at removing excess fluid from the body. This can lead to symptoms such as swelling in the lower limbs and abdomen, congestion, shortness of breath, and fatigue, making it difficult for patients to engage in everyday activities. Effective treatment options for CRS with persistent congestion are lacking, as evidenced by up to a 25% heart failure rehospitalization or mortality rate at 30 days2,3 for those patients who remained clinically congested after 96 hours of optimal medical therapy and were discharged from the hospital.4
The CRS pilot study treated 18 patients across 10 centers in the US and in Australia. Statistically significant observations include:
- Rapid decongestion as patients shed on average 10.7 liters of excess fluid
- Filling pressures (central venous pressure and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure) decreased by over 33%
- Kidney function improved by a median of 29% at 30 days, as measured by eGFR
- Cardiac function improved by a median of 34% at 30 days, as measured by an important biomarker of heart failure (NT-proBNP)
- Shortness of breath symptoms were reduced by 46% at 30 days
The Aortix pump was placed in the descending thoracic aorta via a percutaneous catheter procedure and treated patients for a mean of 4.6 days to simultaneously unload and rest the heart and increase perfusion of the kidneys. The innovative design uses intra-aortic placement and harnesses fluid entrainment to pump blood without the need of a valve and provides physiologically natural delivery of therapy. Use of the system easily integrates into practices as the Aortix system can be implanted in approximately 45 minutes and retrieved in about 15 minutes at the completion of therapy. No fluid purges or expensive consoles are required to operate the device.
"The consistent results from the pilot study indicate that Aortix therapy has the potential to be a major therapeutic advancement for CRS patients who have exhausted other treatment options," stated Eric. S. Fain, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Procyrion. "After years of development, it is very exciting to see how well the Aortix platform performs clinically and we look forward to further demonstrating the effectiveness of the system in our upcoming DRAIN-HF pivotal trial, which the company plans to initiate later this year."
About Procyrion
Procyrion, Inc. is a privately held medical device company dedicated to providing effective treatment options for patients with cardiac and renal impairment. The company is developing the Aortix™ percutaneous mechanical circulatory support device, a catheter-deployed pump technology that uniquely harnesses fluid entrainment to pump blood to address multiple conditions with significant unmet needs. The platform technology is currently being evaluated for in-hospital therapy of cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) patients and prevention of acute kidney injury (AKI) associated with cardiac surgery. Aortix is limited by Federal law to investigational use only and is not approved for sale in any geography. Please visit www.procyrion.com for more information.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain predictions, estimates or other information that might be considered forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance.
References:
- Based on ICD-10 codes for acute heart failure in National Inpatient Survey of data through 2017
- Bart et al., N Engl J Med 2012; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1210357
- Wattad et al., Am Journal of Cardiol 2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2015.01.019
- Procyrion CRS Registry Data. Presented at HFSA 2020
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Forget acting, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher's daughter might have another career in her future: party planning.
The couple's daughter Wyatt celebrated her birthday on Oct. 1 and Mila shared how the 8-year-old called all the shots when planning the festivities.
"She wanted a luau birthday pool party theme—cause we live in L.A. and the weather is always nice—and then she wanted a geode cake," Mila told James Corden and Clea DuVall on the Oct. 5 episode of The Late Late Show With James Corden. "No first it was a pineapple—but then when you give an 8-year-old options—don't do that—it turned into a geode teal cake."
Kunis, who also shares son Dimitri, 5, with the No Strings Attached actor, went on to detail what she thinks is an ingenuous kids' party idea.
"My girlfriend threw her daughter one of those escape room parties, except she threw all the kids in the escape room and the parents got to watch them try to escape," The Luckiest Girl Alive actor said, "I highly recommend it. Throw your kids into an escape room and if an apocalypse happens, they're the first to go. They have no idea what they are doing."
Life with kids is always an adventure, especially when they want to be wherever you are—even when you're in the bathroom. During an exclusive interview with E! News last month, Kunis revealed that her home has a no closed doors policy—including the bathroom.
"It's just one of those where, for better or for worse," the Black Swan actress said, "as a family and the kids have all kind of embodied bodily function as a very standard norm."
Kunis also admitted, "I'd never thought that I would be the person that was able to go to the bathroom with the door open."
So why did she and Kutcher adopt this policy? Kunis said that the door being open became necessary because her family was knocking and asking to come in. She added, "I was like, ‘Oh, forget it. Just keep the door open.'"
Open bathroom door policy aside, Kunis feels fortunate. "I'm so fortunate "I have a great relationship with my parents, a great relationship with my brother" she told E! News. "I have an amazing partner. I have two little munchkins, like, I am very lucky." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1349179/mila-kunis-reveals-what-her-and-ashton-kutcher-s-daughter-requested-for-8th-birthday-party?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-10-05 21:01:44 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1349179/mila-kunis-reveals-what-her-and-ashton-kutcher-s-daughter-requested-for-8th-birthday-party?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories |
What gifts for a college grad are best?
Finding the right gift for a recent college grad is tough: you want something that is either sentimental or useful, or both. Either way, you want your gift to be special enough to properly commemorate the recipient’s accomplishment.
We know that every college grad is different so we put together this list with a variety of gifts that cover a range of prices and categories. From electronics to home necessities, the right present is out there for any and all grads in your life.
Best gift ideas for a college grad
DOSS Touch Wireless Bluetooth V4.0 Portable Speaker with HD Sound and Bass
A portable speaker lets you take your music anywhere, and in the case of the DOSS Touch Wireless speaker, the waterproof design means the user can battle the elements while setting the mood. This high-quality speaker reaches impressive volume levels despite its small size.
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Any photographer, amateur or professional, would be happy to receive this DSLR camera. With all of the features you need for high-quality photography, this is a camera that could last for decades.
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The latest Apple Watch features a slightly bigger screen that most users find to be the best improvement yet. If your college grad also has an iPhone, pairing the two devices is easy.
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Bose QuietComfort 35 Wireless Headphones
Wireless headphones with noise cancellation are perfect for traveling by plane or commuting in a busy city, and these Bose QuietComfort headphones are among the best available. The intuitive controls and 20 hours of battery life make them perfect for long stretches.
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With the end of classes comes a lot more time for leisure reading, and an e-reader is an easy way to gain access to millions of titles anywhere. We recommend the Kindle Oasis, which stands out for its lightweight design and crisp display.
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Mountainsmith Sun-Shelters 3 Person 3 Season Tent
For the outdoors-lover grad who enjoys hiking and camping, a reliable three-person tent is a gift that can last for years. This Mountainsmith tent is rugged enough for three-season camping, light enough for long hikes and is easy to set up.
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The latest drones are easy to control and capable of capturing high-quality video. This 3D Robotics Quadcopter is a great choice for a first time drone user. It’s affordable drone but still has an HD camera.
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Amazon Echo Dot is the latest generation of smart speakers and it’s the easiest one to us. In addition, the high-quality speaker is supported by an excellent subwoofer. It’s perfect for a new grad’s first apartment.
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A single-cup coffee is great for anyone who needs to conserve space and only brews for themselves. The Keurig K55 is one of the easiest to use.
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An Instant Pot offers a quick way to cook meals while eliminating the need to constantly check on your food. This smaller model is ideal for young professionals learning to cook for themselves.
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Zwillings J. A. Henckels Twin Signature 19-Piece Knife Block Set
It’s easy to accumulate a mixed bunch of knives when you are young and have your first apartment: that’s why a proper knife set and block, like this versatile Zwillings set, makes for a great gift that will be used for decades.
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A set of wine glasses is a gift that can be cherished for years to come, so your new grad will think of you long after the celebration We love this Riedel set because they are dishwasher safe and are made from high quality crystal.
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Golden Cycles Single Speed Fixed Gear Bike
Not only are classic fixie bikes trendy, they’re also a great way for any city commuter to get around. This Golden Cycles fixie stands out for its simple yet modern design and lightweight frame that makes it perfect for covering short distances.
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If your college grad isn’t done with school, this GRE guide is an excellent tool to give them the skills and confidence they need to nail the test on the first shot. Since this book comes right from the test makers themselves, it’s hard to find a better option.
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Samsonite Winfield 2 Fashion HS
For the world traveler, a good set of luggage can last for thousands of miles. We like this Samsonite set for the secure hard-shell exterior and 360-degree spinner wheels that make carrying your belongings easy.
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Weighted Idea Sensory Weighted Blanket
A weighted blanket can foster sound sleeping and help combat sleep disorders like insomnia. The Weighted Idea blanket is a luxurious option that features seven layers of comfort and evenly distributed beads.
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Samsonite Colombian Leather Flap-Over Messenger Bag
A messenger bag offers a classic look and plenty of storage for items like laptops, pens, and notepads. For something professional that is also well-suited to day-to-day use, this Samsonite messenger bag is a popular choice with high quality genuine cowhide leather.
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As more and more young adults opt to ditch cable in favor of streaming, it’s clear that services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are here to stay. Apple TV is an affordable and easy-to-use option that works well for those with other Apple devices, though it can stand on its own.
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With 4K TVs serving as the current benchmark for high quality screens, they will still look crisp and colorful in several years. We recommend this Samsung QLED 4K TV to serve as the centerpiece of any living room.
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Sunon Collection 5-Shelf Wood Bookcase
Whether it’s used for actually displaying books or just decorating a home, a bookcase is a piece of furniture that can stay with someone for decades. If your college grad is a big reader or just appreciates a place to display photos and other decorations, this Sunon Collection is an excellent solid wood bookcase.
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Which CBD balms are best?
CBD, also known as cannabidiol, is a sought-after therapy for a variety of health concerns, including chronic pain and even some skin conditions. While many consumers are wary of the tetrahydrocannabinol contained in cannabis and its psychoactive effects, rest assured that quality topical CBD products aren’t composed of THC.
If you’re new to the realm of CBD products or topicals, consider our top choice, Try The CBD – CBD Cream, for a natural introduction to the highest-quality CBD products and their health benefits.
What to know before you buy a CBD balm
Concentration matters
Similar to ingestible CBD products like gummies, the concentration of CBD in a balm determines its efficacy. The potency doesn’t need to be quite as high in a topical product as an oral product to make an impact, but a highly concentrated CBD balm will be more effective than one with a low concentration. For soothing pain, try to find a balm with at least 200 milligrams of CBD. Alternatively, if you are using a CBD balm as part of your normal skincare routine, anything between 25-200 milligrams is satisfactory.
Sources and types make a difference
The source of the CBD greatly determines the quality of the final product. The United States has some of the best soil for growing hemp, so an American-grown CBD formula is usually high-quality.
The type of CBD—isolate, broad-spectrum, or full-spectrum—also influences its quality. Isolate CBD formulas completely isolate the CBD, meaning they contain nothing but CBD. Expect broad-spectrum formulas to have a variety of CBD and other cannabinoids, but all the THC will be removed. When it comes to full-spectrum, this has the widest range of cannabinoids and can contain trace amounts of THC. If you need to take a drug test, note that full-spectrum CBD formulas may trigger false positives.
There’s no THC
If you’re worried about CBD products getting you high, put that worry to rest. Except for trace amounts found in full-spectrum formulas, CBD products don’t contain THC, which is the main cannabinoid in marijuana causing psychoactive effects. Additionally, a CBD balm applied topically is less likely to enter the bloodstream while it targets areas of pain and inflammation.
What to look for in a quality CBD balm
Third-party testing
Companies boasting the highest quality CBD balms verify their formulas through third-party testing. Rather than simply meeting personal standards, a choice CBD brand will ensure they are offering the best, most potent balms that provide real results by opening their formula up to scrutiny. Any CBD balm you consider should supply third-party lab test results proving the safety and effectiveness of the product.
Multipurpose qualities
Most CBD balms are suitable for use on the entire body, even the face. A CBD balm should be effective on the tough skin of your elbows and knees while being safe for your joint pain, inflammation and even facial acne. Some CBD balms are area-specific, such as lip balms or under-eye balms. Consider your needs and choose the balm that suits you.
Organic
The best CBD balm comes from organic ingredients. They will be free of pesticides and harmful chemicals, allowing you to use your CBD balm worry-free about toxins in your skincare routine.
Quality ingredient list
Choice ingredients comprise the best CBD balms. While CBD should be the most essential ingredient, other ingredients will be included. Check for natural, quality ingredients like beeswax, vegetable wax, essential oils and aloe vera. Avoid harmful ingredients found in some topical products, including, but not limited to, EDTAs (calcium disodium EDTA, disodium EDTA, tetrasodium EDTA, trisodium EDTA), solvents and cyclic silicones.
Scent
CBD typically doesn’t smell amazing on its own, so many CBD balms include a fragrance to allow for a more relaxing user experience. Natural fragrances like essential oils are popular among high-quality CBD balms, but it is possible to find fragrance chemicals. Check for fragrance chemicals if you have sensitive skin or want to avoid unnatural ingredients.
How much you can expect to spend on CBD balm
Expect CBD balms to vary in price depending on potency, source, type and quantity. Anything between $6-$75 is a normal price for a CBD balm.
CBD balm FAQ
How long will the effects of my CBD balm last?
A. Results vary between users and are largely influenced by the potency of your product and the amount applied. The severity of your health issue, such as joint pain, also impacts the results.
How do I use a CBD balm?
A. Make sure the area where you want to apply your balm is clean and dry. Beginning with a small amount of product, gently massage in a circular motion until it’s absorbed. Allow yourself to adjust to the dosage before increasing it or upgrading to a formula with a higher potency.
What’s the best CBD balm to buy?
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What you need to know: Made of natural, organic ingredients, this therapeutic CBD package comes with three balms to suit a variety of topical purposes.
What you’ll love: Get the most out of this product with its flexible uses. Great for multiple skin types and everyday use, you can treat yourself with the confidence that you’re using the purest products.
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Top CBD balm for the money
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Japan, Britain and Italy plan sixth-generation fighter jet to rival world’s most-advanced warplanes
By Brad Lendon, CNN
The United Kingdom, Japan and Italy announced Friday they are teaming up to build a sixth-generation fighter jet, designed to rival or eclipse the best warplanes now employed by the likes of China and Russia — and possibly even the United States, the main ally of the trio.
“We are announcing the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) — an ambitious endeavour to develop a next-generation fighter aircraft by 2035,” British, Japanese and Italian leaders said in a joint statement.
The leaders’ statement did not mention China or Russia by name, but said the new fighter jet is needed because “threats and aggression are increasing” against the “rules-based, free and open international order.”
“Defending our democracy, economy and security, and protecting regional stability, are ever more important,” the leaders said.
In a separate statement, the British government said development of the new warplane is expected to begin in 2024, and it is expected to be flying by 2035.
It will showcase technologies from each of the three partners, the British statement said.
“The ambition is for this to be a next-generation jet enhanced by a network of capabilities such as uncrewed aircraft, advanced sensors, cutting-edge weapons and innovative data systems,” it added.
The new jet is seen as a replacement for Britain’s Typhoon fighters and Japan’s F-2s.
The new program will see Britain, Japan and Italy going their own way without the assistance of the US, the world’s preeminent warplane maker.
All three countries are part of the US fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter program, under which all three fly the F-35 and versions of the warplane are assembled in Italy and Japan. The new jet is not expected to affect the F-35 program.
US backs allies’ plan
In a joint statement with the Japanese Defense Ministry, the Pentagon backed the development of the new warplane.
“The United States supports Japan’s security and defense cooperation with likeminded allies and partners, including with the United Kingdom and Italy — two close partners of both of our countries — on the development of its next fighter aircraft,” the US-Japan statement said.
Meanwhile, the UK-Japan-Italy statement said the new plane would be designed to integrate with the defense programs of all their allies and partners.
“Future interoperability with the United States, with NATO and with our partners across Europe, the Indo-Pacific and globally — is reflected in the name we have chosen for our program. This concept will be at the center of its development,” it said.
The leaders said the GCAP program “will support the sovereign capability of all three countries to design, deliver and upgrade cutting-edge combat air capabilities.”
Critics say that strict US export controls on military technology have sometimes limited what customers of planes like the F-35 can do to adapt them to their specific needs.
The US also has a sixth-generation fighter jet — known as the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program — in the works. It is designed to be the successor to its F-22, which along with the F-35, is considered the world’s top fighter jet.
The NGAD program has similar aims to the joint UK-Japan-Italy plan.
“The Air Force intends for NGAD to replace the F-22 fighter jet beginning in 2030, possibly including a combination of crewed and uncrewed aircraft,” a US Congressional Research document says.
But as of now the US is pursuing the NGAD program alone.
Shared economic interests
The British, Japanese and Italian leaders highlighted the benefits of working together.
“It will deepen our defense cooperation, science and technology collaboration, integrated supply chains, and further strengthen our defense industrial base,” their joint statement said.
The program is also expected to provide an economic boost.
“This program will deliver wider economic and industrial benefits, supporting jobs and livelihoods across Japan, Italy and the UK,” the statement said.
The British statement said a 2021 analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicted the new warplane program could support about 21,000 jobs a year by 2050 and contribute an estimated $32.1 billion (£26.2 billion) to the economy.
Meanwhile, China and Russia are also thought to be pursuing sixth-generation aircraft.
China and Russia now fly fifth-generation fighters — Beijing’s J-20 and J-31 jets and Moscow’s Su-57.
But the US-designed F-35s are widely seen as equal to or better than the Chinese or Russian aircraft.
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A storm that moved across the Northeast over the weekend has left a trail of damage across New York and Vermont, resulting in one death and heavy amounts of flooding.
Some areas of New York, such as the Mid-Hudson and Finger Lakes, got over 8 inches of rain in 24 hours, the governor's office said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul issued states of emergency in Orange and Ontario counties, activating special equipment and extra emergency personnel in those places. Several roads and highways have also been closed down.
"While the storm has already passed through the southern part of New York, conditions remain dangerous in further north where there are ongoing extreme weather conditions," Hochul said. "I urge all New Yorkers to remain vigilant, monitor local forecasts and have an evacuation plan ready if you're in a danger zone."
Water rescue teams did door-to-door checks and more than a dozen people volunteered to evacuate, Hochul's office said.
As of about 9:30 p.m. Monday, there were approximately 4,400 customers without power, according to poweroutage.us.
Additionally, the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Metro-North Hudson line paused some of its services, while Amtrak suspended its route between Albany and New York City on Monday. About 90 passengers had to stay overnight at the Albany station, Hochul's office said.
New York's Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks were also closed Monday.
In Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott issued a state of emergency as rainfall in some places are expected to exceed levels recorded during 2011's Hurricane Irene, he said at a Monday press conference.
"The good news is as a result of Irene, we were able to mitigate some of the infrastructure, so we hopefully won't repeat in those areas that were affected before," he said. "We've been able to upgrade and armor some of those areas so that we don't have a repeat."
Vermont authorities knew at least 48 hours in advance they would not have enough resources ahead of the storm, and has deployed state water rescue teams, as well as those from North Carolina and Massachusetts. Michigan and Connecticut have also supplied mutual aid, Vermont's Urban Search and Rescue Program Coordinator Mike Cannon said Monday.
So far, 19 people have been rescued by boat and 25 have been evacuated, Cannon said.
Ludlow, Vt.'s town manager, Brendan McNamara, said the rivers began flowing over their banks at about 2:45 a.m. on Monday, and that there is catastrophic damage to Okemo, a southern Vermont resort town.
"The total scope of what kind of damage that has occurred in Ludlow – the onion isn't even peeled back at all right now," he said. "I mean, I'm up and down Main Street because that's what we can access and it is not good."
Neighborhoods in Vermont towns including Londonderry and Weston are currently completely inaccessible, and rescue teams are trying to gain access to continue welfare checks, Cannon said.
Additionally, teams are in the process of rescuing employees and campers from a state park in Plymouth, Vt.
Scott said the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has offered their full support.
More flooding could be on the way
A flash flood warning is in effect in parts of central and southern Vermont until 11:15 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
An extra half inch to 1.5 inches of rainfall are possible by Monday evening, and flooding is imminent in low-lying areas, such as rivers, streams and creeks, the agency said.
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NEW YORK – Beverly Gage's J. Edgar Hoover biography “G-Man,” Robert Samuels' and Toluse Olorunnipa's “His Name is George Floyd” and Linda Villarosa's study of racism and its effects, “Under the Skin,” are among the finalists for awards handed out by the Lukas Prize Project.
The project was established in 1998 and named for the late author and investigative journalist J. Anthony Lukas. The finalists were announced Wednesday by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Winners will be announced March 21.
Villarosa and Samuels and Olorunnipa are nominees for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, a $10,000 award for an outstanding “work of narrative nonfiction on a topic of American political or social concern.” The other finalists are Rachel Aviv's “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us,” Lyndsie Bourgon's “Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods” and Jack Lowery's “It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic.”
Gage's book is a nominee for the $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize, along with Kerri K. Greenidge's “The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family,” Pekka Hämäläinen's “Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America,” Kelly Lytle Hernández's “Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, & Revolution in the Borderlands” and Deborah Cohen's “Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War.”
The Lynton prize is named for the late author and businessman, whose family has sponsored the project.
The project also will award two $25,000 prizes for outstanding works in progress. The finalists are Jesselyn Cook's “The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family,” Mike Hixenbaugh's “Uncivil: One Town’s Fight over Race and Identity, and the New Battle for America’s Schools,” Rebecca Kelliher's “Guerrilla Pills: The Abortion Drug Underground,” Megan Kimble's “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways” and Jessica Pishko's “The Highest Law in the Land: How the Growing Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With his party’s control over Congress teetering on the brink, President Joe Biden has traveled the country this fall trying to turn the midterm elections into a choice between two visions for America. On Tuesday, voters will decide whether to stick with his outlook or take the country in a different direction.
Biden is dealing with difficult challenges in elections that will set the dynamics for the rest of his first term. Presidents tend to see their party suffer major setbacks in their second year in office, and in addition, Biden is saddled with a cloudy economic picture and the limits of his own popularity.
In the campaign’s closing sprint, Biden has tried to rely on a message that promotes his accomplishments — many of which will take years to be truly felt — and warns of the consequences of a GOP takeover of Congress.
Biden has tried to project resolute optimism about holding Congress, saying Friday that he feels “really good” about keeping majorities in the House and Senate. Advisers maintain that voters still broadly support the president’s agenda, even if they are down on the overall direction of the country because of inflation, gas prices and the sour tenor of political discourse.
A key question is whether voters will give Democrats more time to deliver on promised progress — infrastructure projects in the offing, drug prices that are promised to fall, climate change plans that are years away from being fully in place. Or will they turn elsewhere in search of more immediate solutions to top-of-mind economic concerns?
It didn’t help Biden’s cause that West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin chose the weekend before the election to issue a blistering condemnation of Biden’s goal to eventually rein in coal energy. Manchin’s rebuke was a last-minute embarrassment that risked hurting critical Democratic campaigns in neighboring Pennsylvania.
Biden’s advisers insist the current political environment is far different from 2010, when Democratic candidates were hamstrung by the unpopularity of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama-era health law, and went on to lose 63 House seats and six Senate seats.
“Whether you’re in Arizona or you’re in Nevada, or you’re in Pennsylvania, all have Democratic elected officials that are communicating to their constituents, are talking about the things that they got done for the American people that are built on President Biden’s vision and what he’s accomplished,” White House deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon said at a forum hosted by Axios last week. “And that is a significant difference from other midterm seasons.”
In a sign of how Biden hopes his agenda may play out in time, that health law survived dozens of GOP-led repeal attempts and is now broadly popular with voters.
Cedric Richmond, the former Louisiana congressman and Biden senior aide who is now a top adviser to the Democratic National Committee, said it was important for Biden in the campaign’s closing days to reinforce to voters his accomplishments.
“One of the things I think that’s most important is that he continue to remind people of all the things that he’s doing to keep this country going in the right direction,” Richmond said. “We know there are challenges out there, but we’re meeting them and we’re not dividing the country.”
Even as Biden says he’s trying to bring the country together, he’s also warning about what would happen if Republicans win control of Capitol Hill.
“If we lose the House and Senate, it’s going to be a horrible two years,” he said Friday at a fundraiser outside Chicago.
He argues that Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare, reverse Democrats’ cost-lowering efforts for prescription drugs and impose a national abortion ban. “The good news is I’ll have a veto pen,” Biden said.
White House officials say that even if Biden hasn’t personally been on the ground in some of the most contested states, he’s helped set up Democrats there for success by delivering a message that echoes around the country, no matter where he’s campaigning.
Advisers say Biden bears no ill will toward embattled Democratic candidates in Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Georgia who have tried to keep him at arm’s length. After 50 years in public life, they say, Biden recognizes that it’s often advantageous for the lawmakers to carve out their own identities distinct from the leader of their party.
Instead, Biden has turned out for lower-key, but equally competitive House races, where aides and candidates welcome the president’s ability to drive local news coverage.
For Biden, that’s meant more than two dozen political events to boost Democratic candidates since August, along with many ostensibly official events, such as the groundbreaking on a new technology manufacturing facility or a speech to promote plans to cut the price of insulin for older adults, that draw contrast with Republicans.
In fact, first lady Jill Biden has proved to be even more in demand than Biden in some places. She campaigned Saturday in Arizona with Sen. Mark Kelly and earlier in New Hampshire with Sen. Maggie Hassan, both in tight reelection races.
Over the summer, Democrats seized on the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in hopes of motivating women and the party’s core supporters. In recent weeks he has stressed his condemnation of “mega MAGA” Republicans — short for the 2016 Trump campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.
He also has broadened efforts to contrast his agenda with the GOP’s to encompass what he views as Republican threats to democracy. That was the thrust of a speech Wednesday near the Capitol where he warned that some in the Republican Party were inciting political violence.
Republicans, in the closing days, have zeroed in on people’s economic concerns.
“Biden’s agenda has wreaked havoc on families trying to get by,” Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, said Friday. “Lower real wages, higher taxes, and out-of-control inflation have made it tougher for Americans to get ahead. In a few short days, voters will send a clear message that they have had enough of Democrats’ radical agenda.”
Some Democrats, already looking to cast blame ahead of the election, have been critical of Biden’s messaging, arguing he should have focused more intently on reassuring Americans about soaring prices.
“I hope there’s some people at the White House watching,” Faiz Shakir, an adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., told MSNBC on Wednesday hours before Biden’s speech. “I’d hope that they’re rewriting it and focusing on cost of living.”
Biden allies reject the argument, saying voters care about more than just one issue. They say abortion and the prospect of election-denying candidates help open the door to some GOP-leaning voters to go with Democrats.
Richmond, the former Biden adviser, said the president does talk about the economy and what he is doing to tackle inflation. “If a candidate can’t articulate that … that’s on them.”
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Nashville shooter was ex-student with detailed plan to kill
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The former student who shot through the doors of a Christian elementary school in Nashville and killed three children and three adults had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what drove the shooter to open fire Monday morning at The Covenant School before being killed by police. But he provided chilling examples of the shooter’s elaborate planning for the targeted attack, the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.
“We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,” he told reporters. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.”
He said in an interview with NBC News that investigators believe the shooter had “some resentment for having to go to that school.”
The victims included three 9-year-old children, the school’s top administrator, a substitute teacher and a custodian. Amid the chaos a familiar ritual played out: Panicked parents rushed to the school to see if their children were safe and tearfully hugged their kids, and a stunned community held vigils for the victims.
Rachel Dibble, who was at a nearby church where children were taken to be reunited with their parents, described the scene as everyone being in “complete shock.”
“People were involuntarily trembling,” she said. “The children … started their morning in their cute little uniforms, they probably had some Froot Loops and now their whole lives changed today.”
Police gave unclear information on the gender of the shooter. For hours, police identified the shooter as a 28-year-old woman and eventually identified the person as Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Then at a late afternoon press conference, the police chief said that Hale was transgender. After the news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron declined to elaborate on how Hale currently identified.
Authorities said Hale was armed with two “assault-style” weapons as well as a handgun. At least two of them were believed to have been obtained legally in the Nashville area, according to the chief. Police said a search of Hale’s home turned up a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other unspecified evidence.
The victims were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all 9 years old, and adults Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61.
The website of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has led the school since July 2016. Peak was a substitute teacher and Hill was a custodian, according to investigators.
Founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, The Covenant School is located in the affluent Green Hills neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville that is home to the famed Bluebird Café – a spot typically beloved by musicians and songwriters.
The school has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members.
“Our community is heartbroken,” a statement from the school said. “We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church. We are focused on loving our students, our families, our faculty and staff and beginning the process of healing.”
Before Monday’s violence in Nashville, there had been seven mass killings at K-12 schools since 2006 in which four or more people were killed within a 24-hour period, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. In all of them, the shooters were males.
The database does not include school shootings in which fewer than four people were killed, which have become far more common in recent years. Just last week alone, for example, school shootings happened in Denver and the Dallas-area within two days of each other.
Monday’s tragedy unfolded over roughly 14 minutes. Police received the initial call about an active shooter at 10:13 a.m.
Officers began clearing the first story of the school when they heard gunshots coming from the second level, Aaron said. Police later said the shooter fired at arriving officers from a second-story window and had come armed with significant ammunition.
Two officers from a five-member team opened fire in response, killing the suspect at 10:27 a.m., Aaron said.
Late Monday night, police released approximately two minutes of edited surveillance video showing the shooter’s car driving up to the school from multiple angles, including one in which children can be seen playing on swings in the background. Next an interior view shows glass doors to the school being shot out and the shooter ducking through one of the shattered doors.
More footage from inside shows the shooter walking through a school corridor holding a gun with a long barrel and walking into a room labeled “church office,” then coming back out. In the final part of the footage, the shooter can be seen walking down another long corridor with the gun drawn. The shooter is not seen interacting with anyone else on the video, which has no sound.
Aaron said there were no police officers present or assigned to the school at the time of the shooting because it is a church-run school.
President Joe Biden, speaking at the White House on Monday, called the shooting a “family’s worst nightmare” and implored Congress again to pass a ban on certain semi-automatic weapons.
A reeling city mourned during multiple vigils Monday evening. At Belmont United Methodist Church, teary sniffling filled the background as vigil attendees sang, knelt in prayer and lit candles. They lamented the national cycle of violent and deadly shootings.
“We need to step back. We need to breathe. We need to grieve,” said Paul Purdue, the church’s senior pastor. “We need to remember. We need to make space for others who are grieving. We need to hear the cries of our neighbors.”
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Kristin Hall in Nashville; Denise Lavoie in Richmond, Virginia; John Raby in Charleston, West Virginia; Stefanie Dazio in Los Angeles; Beatrice Dupuy and Larry Fenn in New York; and Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington; as well as AP researchers Randy Herschaft and Rhonda Shafner in New York.
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Driver dies in single-vehicle crash on Virginia Eastern Shore
One person is dead following a single vehicle car crash in Northampton County, according to Virginia State Police.
At approximately 5:31 a.m. on June 15, Virginia State Police Communications Center received a call for a single vehicle crash in front of 7187 Bayside Road in the Nassawadox area of Northampton County.
Preliminary investigations reveal that a 2010 Ford Edge was traveling southbound on Bayside Road, when the vehicle failed to navigate a curve. The vehicle ran off the road to the left and struck a tree, causing the vehicle to flip out of control, ejecting the driver and only occupant.
Due to there being no witnesses, it is unclear at what time exactly did the crash occur. The occupants of the nearby houses where the crash occurred were unaware of the crash. State police are also still attempting to identify the driver with the assistance of the medical examiner.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The completely redrawn 5th Congressional District, represented for more than a decade by Kurt Schrader, will have a new representative once the votes are tallied Tuesday.
Schrader lost his primary to Jamie McLeod-Skinner, who will now face Republican nominee Lori Chavez DeRemer for the right to represent this district that now covers a different large swath of multiple counties — parts of Clackamas, Multnomah, Deschutes, Linn, Benton, Marion and Jefferson counties.
McLeod-Skinner’s victory was marked by a delay in counting the votes in Clackamas County. But once they were counted, she defeated Schrader to become the Democratic nominee.
Both candidates have previously run for office.
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a tennis training aid that could improve visual acuity, timing, and shot/volley accuracy," said an inventor, from Wickliffe, Ohio, "so I invented the AFTER BURNER. My design allows a player to perceive a conventional ball as being larger and slower during a match."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective training/practice aid for tennis players. In doing so, it helps to increase focus and visual tracking. It also could improve reaction time, reflexes and foot speed on the court. As a result, it could enhance performance during a match. The invention features an inventive design that is easy to use so it is ideal for tennis players and coaches.
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Which Tiki cat food is best?
You want to feed your cats well to keep them happy and healthy, but it isn’t always clear which food is best. Tiki cat food is known for its high protein, low carbohydrates and quality ingredients, making it an ideal choice for your feline friends.
You’ll still need to decide between wet and dry foods and a range of formulas while also considering your cats’ needs. For example, if you’re looking for quality wet food, Tiki Cat Aloha Friends Grain-Free Wet Cat Food is a top pick.
What to know before you buy Tiki cat food
Wet vs. dry
Tiki makes both wet cat food and dry cat food, so you’ll need to work out which is best for the cats in your life.
- Wet food: The high moisture content in wet food helps avoid kidney problems in cats that don’t drink much water. Some picky cats find it more palatable than dry food and tend to contain fewer carbs and fillers. However, it’s pricier to feed and will turn rancid if your cat doesn’t eat it quickly enough.
- Dry food: Dry food is less messy to feed than wet food and is stable at room temperature, which is great for cats who pick at their food throughout the day. However, it’s usually heavier in carbohydrates, and not all cats will eat it.
Texture
Some cats have a strong texture preference when it comes to wet food, while others will eat anything.
- Mousse: Smooth and light, this is a great choice for older or picky cats who will otherwise choose their favorite bits and leave the rest.
- Pate: This is similar to mousse but with a slightly thicker consistency which some cats prefer.
- Chunks: These foods contain medium-sized chunks of meat in broth, gravy or jelly. Many cats prefer chunky foods over those blended to a homogeneous consistency, but some will only eat the bits they like best.
Dietary needs
Certain cats may have particular dietary needs that it’s essential to consider when choose the right food. While Tiki doesn’t make veterinary formulas, it does make certain tailored formulas. For instance, you can find formulas to suit senior cats, kittens and cats who are overweight or have trouble maintaining a healthy weight.
What to look for in quality Tiki cat food
Flavors
You can find Tiki foods containing seafood, poultry and other meats in various flavors. You’ll already know if your cat strongly prefers some ingredients over others, so you can choose accordingly. Otherwise, consider a variety pack so your cat can try a few flavors.
Grain-free
As obligate carnivores, cats don’t need grains in their diets. Rather, they thrive on food predominantly made from animal protein. Also, avoid food that’s high in starches, such as potatoes.
Free from artificial flavors and preservatives
There’s no need for artificial flavors or preservatives in quality cat food, so avoid any formulas that contain them.
How much you can expect to spend on Tiki cat food
Tiki Cat dry food costs roughly $6-$8 per pound, while its wet food costs around $1-$2 per can or pouch. Prices vary depending on package size and recipe.
Tiki cat food FAQ
Is Tiki cat food good?
A. Although this is somewhat subjective, it’s generally considered quality food. It’s high in protein and avoids unnecessary grains and excessive quantities of carbohydrates, which aligns with cats’ natural diets.
It uses carefully selected products, such as wild-caught seafood and non-GMO ingredients. However, not all cats thrive on all foods, so you may need to try it out and see if it’s right for your feline friend.
How do I switch to Tiki cat food?
A. A gradual switch avoids the digestive issues that can arise from changing from one food to another overnight. Start by replacing 25% of your cat’s old food with new food for the next three to four days. Then increase the ratio to 50% new food and 50% old food for another few days, followed by 75% new food and 25% old food for another three to four days. At this point, you can start exclusively feeding the new food.
What’s the best Tiki cat food to buy?
Top Tiki cat food
Tiki Cat Aloha Friends Grain-Free Wet Cat Food
What you need to know: This wet food consists of chunky seafood pieces in broth and appeals to a wide range of cats.
What you’ll love: It’s protein-packed and nutrient-rich with wild-caught tuna as the first ingredient. The added pumpkin is great for digestive regularity. You can choose from several seafood recipes or a variety pack.
What you should consider: A handful of buyers report receiving damaged cans.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Top Tiki cat food for the money
Tiki Cat Born Carnivore Herring and Salmon Dry Cat Food
What you need to know: Great for free feeding, it’s lower in carbohydrates than most dry cat foods.
What you’ll love: It contains 42% protein and plenty of gentle fiber for digestive health. It’s made from entirely non-GMO ingredients. Herring is the first ingredient and it’s rich in omega fatty acids for heart health.
What you should consider: It has a strong scent, which many cats like but their humans may not.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Worth checking out
Tiki Cat Velvet Mousse Wet Food
What you need to know: With its soft, mousse consistency, it’s great for kittens, senior cats and picky eaters.
What you’ll love: You can choose from various recipes, including formulas designed for kittens and older adult cats. It has a high moisture content of 80%, which is great for cats that won’t drink much water.
What you should consider: The packets can be messy to open if you don’t do so carefully.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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-Joins LIU from leadership posts at Lincoln Center & Southampton Arts Center-
BROOKVILLE, N.Y., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Long Island University announced that Tom Dunn will serve as the new executive director of Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Dunn has had an illustrious career in arts management highlighted by more than 16 years in leadership positions at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He most recently served as executive director of the Southampton Arts Center since 2018. He will assume the new position effective Aug. 15, 2022.
"We are thrilled that Tom Dunn will bring his vast knowledge of arts management and his incredible passion for live performance to Tilles Center," said Long Island University President Kimberly R. Cline.
At Lincoln Center, Mr. Dunn served as senior director, concert halls operations, and was part of the senior management team that directed the $1.2 billion physical redevelopment of its 16-acre campus. Overseeing a budget of more than $20 million, he managed operations in David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, David Rubenstein Atrium, Kaplan Penthouse, Damrosch Park and other on-and off-campus venues. Previously, as a founding director, he oversaw the creation of the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, a multi-purpose performance venue and public space.
According to Reynold Levy, former CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, "Tom played an integral role in the notable redevelopment and expansion of Lincoln Center. He has the rare talent of being able to bring bold visions to fruition and succeed even beyond the highest expectations."
At the Southampton Arts Center (SAC), Mr. Dunn was instrumental in fulfilling its mission to present and produce inclusive, regionally relevant programs across all disciplines. During his tenure there, he successfully led the organization through the Covid-19 pandemic and oversaw the significant growth of the institution, including an increase of its annual operating budget by 70 percent. Mr. Dunn also initiated, managed and cultivated artistic collaborations with National Geographic, International Center of Photography, New York Academy of Art, Beyond the Streets, Hamptons Jazz Fest, Peter Marino Art Foundation and dozens of other national and local cultural organizations.
"I have been so fortunate in my career to do everything from writing, directing, producing and performing to creating and operating world-class venues that host preeminent artists," said Tom Dunn. "Now, I look forward to expanding Tilles Center's stellar run as the premier destination for live performance on Long Island. I hope to continue to inspire the students at LIU to come out and enjoy shows as well as all Long Islanders and tri-state residents of all ages—plus, it's well worth a short trip from the City!"
Sandra Krasnoff and Peter Klein, co-chairs of the Tilles Center Advisory Board, commented jointly, "Tilles Center is Long Island's premier concert venue and, with Tom at the helm, we are now poised to soar to even greater creative heights. Tom is adept at everything from fundraising, to cultivating collaborations, to playwriting and managing facilities. His unparalleled skills will bring cultural advancement to Tilles Center, the university, the Long Island community and well beyond. It's an exciting new chapter for all of us devoted to advancing the performing arts and arts education."
Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post in Brookville hosts more than 70 performances each season by world-renowned artists in music, theater and dance. Tilles Center was the first to bring the New York Philharmonic to Long Island and Bruce Springsteen's legendary "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" was recorded onsite, among other notable events. Visit tillescenter.org for more information.
In addition to his work in arts administration, fundraising and operations, Tom Dunn is a writer, director and producer. He was co-author and director of the acclaimed off-Broadway comedy "Who Killed Woody Allen?" He has also created and developed projects with the Bravo, Epix and Oxygen television networks. Mr. Dunn resides in Huntington with his wife and three children.
Long Island University, founded in 1926, continues to redefine higher education, providing high quality academic instruction by world-class faculty. Recognized by Forbes for its emphasis on experiential learning and by the Brookings Institution for its "value added" to student outcomes, LIU has a network of over 285,000 alumni, including industry leaders and entrepreneurs around the globe. Its School of Performing Arts prepares students for careers in theatre, dance and music with individual degree programs that offer opportunities to engage in all types of performance while also supporting related areas of design, education, creative writing and composition. Visit liu.edu for more information.
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Lucinda Williams is returning to the spotlight this spring with an autobiography, a new album and concert appearances around the world. Less than three years ago, there was real worry that her creative voice would be stilled.
In November 2020, the singer-songwriter suffered a stroke while getting ready to take a shower in her Nashville home. Her husband, Tom Overby, discovered her on the bathroom floor. Williams was rushed to the hospital.
Her recovery has been grueling and not yet complete.
“I'm doing really well,” she told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “I can walk again, I don't have to use a cane or anything. I wasn't sure about that for a while.”
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She's fragile and moves slowly. She's unable to play the guitar, as continued weakness in her left side makes it too painful to grip the fret. It's hard not to wonder if Williams, who turned 70 in January, is pushing things.
Talk to her, and her husband-manager, and it's apparent how much she needs to be back, how they consider it part of her rehabilitation. Music was once a teenager's escape from a troubled home life, and she's not about to let go. The songs haven't stopped flowing.
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Retire? “No,” she said. “The thought would kind of flash through my head and I would think, I'm just not ready for that.”
Williams' singing voice emerged unscathed from the stroke, as some critics noticed when she began performing again last summer. “Williams had an amazing stage presence, told wonderful stories about what she was singing and her voice was nothing short of magnificent,” Tom Joens wrote in American Blues Scene following a concert last September.
Her autobiography, “Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” was written prior to her stroke, and marks her first time writing a book.
“It's partly because so many of my songs tell stories, and people are always wanting to find out the stories behind the songs,” Williams said. “I feel like the book is almost my gift to fans.”
When Williams met and married Overby, there were followers who seriously wondered if it would hurt her songwriting, since her trail of failed relationships and fleeting crushes provided uncommon fodder. The idea sounded insulting, even sexist.
Yet seeing it all outlined in print is frankly breathtaking. Her taste in men — poets on a motorcycle, she describes it — didn't lend itself to slow and steady relationships.
One can construct a bingo card of past boyfriends, or near boyfriends, and the memorable songs those personal stories inspired: “Lake Charles,” “Pineola,” “Joy,” “Passionate Kisses,” “Still I Long for Your Kiss,” “Right in Time,” “Those Three Days,” “Wakin' Up,” “Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings" and so on.
There's some bold-face rock ‘n’ roll names, too. Readers will find out the songs that are about Ryan Adams and Paul Westerberg.
The meat of her story, however, is of surviving mental illness.
Williams' mother was sexually molested as a young girl and spent years in and out of mental institutions. Williams' father would say, “it's not her fault, she's not well." The singer and two younger siblings grew up with a mother who was only half there.
Her father, poet Miller Williams, was an itinerant college professor constantly moving the family to different towns. He apologized to his daughter when he first heard the line about a young girl in a back seat, “little bit of dirt mixed with tears,” in the song “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” She hadn't recognized she was writing about herself.
It wasn't all bad; Williams said the parties her father's literary friends had put rock ‘n’ rollers to shame.
An undergrad in one of her father's classes moved into their home as a “guardian” when she was about 12. “I just tried to be as respectful as possible and ignore the questions turning over in my head,” she wrote. “But it wasn't easy.”
That's about when her own obsessive-compulsive disorder emerged. She began playing music, describing it as “the world I wanted to be in, a better world than the one I was in.”
Williams hopes that telling her story will mean something to people whose loved ones had mental health issues or who have their own.
“I was tired of tiptoeing around and walking on eggshells about mental health,” she said. “I wanted to talk about it more openly and not feel self-conscious talking about it.”
Williams was the classic late bloomer musically, told for years that she was too rock for country, too country for rock ‘n’ roll. She was 45 when her breakthrough and still bestselling album, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,” was released in 1998. She cycled through plenty of odd jobs — one of them, giving out sausage samples in a supermarket, is the straight line for a wicked comment in the book about all the men who thought they knew better what to do with her career.
Williams writes that she wanted to be like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, artists that can do pretty much what they want creatively. Not many women are given that opportunity.
“I'm starting to reach it,” she said. “If I haven't reached it yet. I hope that I will reach it.”
Her upcoming album, “Stories From a Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart,” is in some ways a love letter to a musical life, fond reminiscences of old bands, great jukeboxes, the corner bar and two late rockers — Tom Petty and the Replacements' Bob Stinson.
The songwriting was more difficult because Williams always worked out melodies on guitar. She had to accept help, in part from musician Jesse Malin. Her husband, who had generally stuck to the business side of music, is a co-writer on each song and road manager Travis Stephens on six of them.
“At first I was a little bit hesitant,” Williams said. “But then I saw Tom Waits and his wife had collaborated as songwriters. That made me feel more comfortable about it.”
The album also includes vocal contributions from Bruce Springsteen and his wife, Patti Scialfa. The two hosted a dinner party that Williams and Overby attended on their second date in 2007.
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Nearly $9 million to Duquesne and Robert Morris universities to support ongoing collaboration for teacher education, student clinics to help people with dyslexia
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Peirce Family Foundation has given nearly $9 million to two nationally renowned universities, Duquesne University and Robert Morris University, to support and extend programs focused on literacy education, with a special emphasis on dyslexia and related reading disabilities. Announced during National Dyslexia Awareness Month, the gift is the largest ever made in Pennsylvania by individuals to prepare teachers to help those with dyslexia, and among the largest gifts of such a focus ever made in the United States.
Of the total gift, Duquesne University received $4.47 million and Robert Morris University received $4.35 million.
The Peirces' gift extends for a decade their long-running philanthropic support of reading clinics at both institutions, where hundreds of children have strengthened their ability to read over the several years each clinic has offered these services. In addition, the gift provides extended commitment to scholarship agreements, which create opportunities for regional teachers to develop their skills to help students with dyslexia.
"For the last few years, our friends at Duquesne and Robert Morris have committed themselves to our vision of creating a regional network of education professionals who can help children succeed and learn in spite of challenges posed by dyslexia," said Bob Peirce. "Joan and I are thrilled to make this additional commitment today. We've met truly inspirational students and teachers who have made incredible progress in the last few years, and it is due to their inspiration and example that we are most excited to be making this additional gift."
The Peirce family committed $2 million to Robert Morris University in 2017 to establish the Bob and Joan Peirce Center for Structured Reading Teacher Training, which trains teachers to work with children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Robert Morris University also operates the RMU Dyslexia Outreach Network, which works with partner schools to share information about interventions for dyslexia and to provide professional development and training to its staff.
This most recent Peirce gift will benefit RMU's reading clinic along with a scholarship program for passionate teachers who wish to pursue graduate-level education in reading.
"The Peirces have ensured that there will be a teacher in every school in the greater Pittsburgh area who has the tools and knowledge to help children with dyslexia," said Robert Morris University President Michelle Patrick. "This gift will have an impact for generations—an incredibly generous contribution to the people of Pittsburgh that will reverberate well beyond our region."
With its share of the gift, Duquesne University will establish the Bob and Joan Peirce Center for Dyslexia Education and Support in the University's School of Education. The Center's director will administrate the Peirce Family Scholarships in Reading and Literacy Education and oversee expanding the reach of the Duquesne University Reading Clinic.
The Peirce Family Scholarships at Duquesne enable teachers from elementary and secondary schools throughout the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh to pursue masters of science degrees in reading and literacy education, incurring no tuition expenses in the process. Three cohorts of the Peirce Scholars already have started or earned degrees under the program.
"The Peirces' gift is as strategic as it is exemplary," said Duquesne University President Ken Gormley. "Their steady, effective approach is to teach the teachers, who can then impact many more students than all of our clinics combined. I've met young people who have benefitted from the teaching Peirce Scholars have provided, and it's truly an inspiration how their world opens up thanks to the dedicated efforts of people prepared with the right tools."
Bob Peirce is a prominent alumnus of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, and he and Joan are longtime supporters of his alma mater as well as other causes and organizations in the Pittsburgh region. The couple have funded numerous scholarships and programs, including the Robert N. Peirce Endowed Scholarship in the Duquesne Kline Law School; the Peirce Family Foundation Grant and Loan Program, the Charles Hamilton Houston Fellows Program in law, and a mission trip to Liberia.
Bob is founding partner of Robert Peirce & Associates. He's also a former public servant who served as Allegheny County Commissioner, as well as Clerk of Courts of this County. He's also a member of the Century Club of Distinguished Alumni here at Duquesne; a past recipient of the 2011 Meritorious Service Award from the Duquesne University Law Alumni Association; and a recipient of the elite McAnulty Service Award, the highest nonacademic honor bestowed by Duquesne.
"With the additional gift from the Peirce family, RMU can continue to carry out their vision to train teachers in systemic and explicit structured literacy and assist families in instructionally sound interventions that will impact their children's lives in positive ways," said Carianne Bernadowski, University Professor and Coordinator of the Bob and Joan Peirce Center for Structured Reading Teacher Training at Robert Morris University. "Our mission at the Peirce Center is to continue to work in both capacities so that those who are affected by learning differences have access to affordable and accessible assistance. We consider our teachers and students the heart of what we do."
"The generous support from the Peirce Family Foundation has profoundly improved the ability of the Reading and Literacy Education program and the Duquesne Reading Clinic to support children with dyslexia or specific reading disabilities in our region," said Carla Meyer, associate professor of education, Program Director of the Graduate Reading Education, and director of the Duquesne Reading Clinic. "For supporting educators' efforts to provide reading support to children who attend Diocesan schools and helping our clinic to exponentially expand its services to dyslexic children who need intervention, the Duquesne reading family is eternally grateful for the financial support that allows us to serve both our students and the children in our community."
Robert Morris University is a nationally ranked doctoral-granting university enrolling approximately 3,700 undergraduate and graduate students in more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. RMU offers fully online courses as well as a traditional residential college experience at its campus on 230 scenic acres 17 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. The Colonials compete in 15 NCAA Division I sports including basketball, football, volleyball, and lacrosse.
Founded in 1878, Duquesne is consistently ranked among the nation's top Catholic universities for its award-winning faculty and horizon-expanding education. A campus of nearly 8,500 graduate and undergraduate students, Duquesne prepares students by having them work alongside faculty to discover and reach their goals. The University's academic programs, community service, and commitment to equity and opportunity in the Pittsburgh region have earned national acclaim.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore leaders announced criminal indictments Tuesday against 33 people accused of operating a violent drug trafficking organization, saying the prosecution illustrates the continued success of an anti-violence program launched last year in one of America’s most violent cities.
Baltimore’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy uses an individualized “focused deterrence” approach to target potential shooters and victims, offering them services and support where possible, in lieu of law enforcement action. But officials said some people, like the 33 defendants facing indictment, are a serious risk to public safety.
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Nineteen of those indicted have already been arrested, according to a news release from the state attorney general's office. The others were still being sought Tuesday.
They said the arrests should serve as a warning to other people contributing to Baltimore’s high homicide rate.
“Don’t let this be you,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said at a news conference Tuesday announcing the indictments. “We want you to change your life. We want you to stay alive. We don’t want you to go to jail. But if you choose to do this, that’s what’s going to happen to you.”
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Scott, who has made gun violence a key priority of his administration after years of surging homicides, touted promising results from a pilot program of the anti-violence strategy that was implemented last year in the police department’s Western District. The district experienced a 38% reduction in shootings and homicides in 2022. The program has since expanded into the neighboring Southwest District with plans to expand further in the coming months.
“This strategy works and it works for a reason,” Scott said.
Other cities have seen success with similar programs, though experts warn the effects are sometimes short-lived. Baltimore has tried twice before to implement a focused deterrence program, but past efforts never made it fully off the ground.
Homicides citywide have been trending downward in recent months, resulting in a roughly 25% reduction compared to this time last year, according to police department data.
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Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the department is committed to dismantling open-air drug markets in hopes of addressing both gun violence and overdose deaths.
“As our city and state continue to grapple with overdose deaths and addiction, we must dismantle these organizations that destroy our neighborhoods and damage our quality of life through drug distribution,” he said.
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, whose office will prosecute the 33 defendants, said investigators used undercover drug purchases, video surveillance and wiretaps to build their case. He said they seized a large quantity of fentanyl and cocaine. The investigation stemmed from a 2022 nonfatal shooting involving two of the defendants, Brown said.
Tuesday’s announcement marked the second such large-scale law enforcement action under the anti-violence strategy. Officials announced a series of gun and drug arrests in August after the program received criticism from some Baltimore City Council members complaining about its slow rollout amid surging violence. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/baltimore-s-new-anti-violence-strategy-targets-17864712.php | 2023-03-28 18:46:31 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/baltimore-s-new-anti-violence-strategy-targets-17864712.php |
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NEW YORK (AP) _ LXP Industrial Trust (LXP) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter. The results matched Wall Street expectations.
The New York-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $48.9 million, or 17 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 17 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $39.7 million, or 14 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $79.8 million in the period, which fell short of Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $80.5 million.
LXP Industrial expects full-year funds from operations in the range of 64 cents to 68 cents per share.
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10 walkable cities popular with seniors
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10 walkable cities popular with seniors
A couple walking on the beach in Honolulu.
The health benefits of walking are well known among all age groups, but they are even more pronounced for those aged 55 and up. Walking—as well as hiking, yoga, and other cardiovascular activities—can strengthen bones, lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, and drastically improve mental health, to name just a few reasons everyone should walk more than they do.
Many people consider walkability an important factor when considering places to spend their older years. Especially in the wake of COVID-19, many senior citizens are increasingly considering the levels of fresh air and open space different housing options provide.
Because Market ranked 10 cities with walk scores of at least 60 and the highest shares of residents 65 and older, citing data from Walkscore and the U.S. Census Bureau. Cities are ranked by the percentage of their over-65 population, with walkability scores as tiebreakers. Walkscore ranks 130 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, and this analysis is limited to U.S. cities with populations of at least 200,000.
Although this story focuses on cities, smaller towns are also walkable and popular with seniors as well. Instead of relocating to a new place, many retirees choose to stay in a community they’ve lived in for years.
Truly walkable cities in the United States can be hard to come by, so the following cities may not be known for having large concentrations of older populations. And many cities that are popular with seniors but are generally dense—say, Denver or Houston—will have enclaves of walkable areas, even if the city as a whole is challenging to navigate.
Read on to find out which cities offer senior citizens the best ability to get out on their feet, as well as the various activities each area hosts for its older residents.
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#10. Oakland, California
A walking trail by a lake with Oakland in the background.
– Total population: 421,042 (12.9% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 75
– Bike score: 65
– Transit score: 57
The city of Oakland offers its senior citizens a variety of activities to take advantage of its temperate weather. Plenty of accessible hikes and walks are available, including Lake Merritt in the heart of town and the inner harbor’s Jack London Square.
The United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County has 31 walk clubs for local seniors to join. The East Oakland Senior Center, within the Ira Jinkins Recreation Center, the East Oakland Senior Center offers group exercise classes, Zumba, exercise therapy, and a particularly popular line dancing class. The Fruitvale-San Antonio Senior Center is geared toward the city’s diverse population of retirees, providing activities in Cambodian, Spanish, and English.
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#9. Baltimore, Maryland
A couple sitting on a park bench overlooking the water and the Baltimore skyline.
– Total population: 614,700 (13.2% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 64
– Bike score: 53
– Transit score: 53
Baltimore’s Department of Parks and Recreation places special emphasis on offering activities for local senior citizens. These include feasts of local crab, line dancing groups, and visits to the nearby Pimlico Race Track. The Cycling Seniors of Baltimore County meet biweekly to ride in groups.
Baltimore County also has 14 fitness centers that allow seniors to work on exercise programs for their age group. Those who join the Senior Network of North Baltimore meet for various activities, including tai chi classes, book clubs, and bridge clubs.
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#8. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
People walking in a tree-lined park in autumn with downtown Philadelphia in the background.
– Total population: 1,575,522 (13.2% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 75
– Bike score: 67
– Transit score: 67
Philadelphia’s senior community is so active that the city hosts the Philadelphia Senior Games, an “Olympic-style event” with various sports and other competitions, including bowling and Scrabble. Walking groups, yoga, tai chi, and aerobics are popular activities as well.
The annual Senior Strut Fair takes place in Fairmount Park and combines fitness activities with prizes. There are 28 senior community centers positioned in neighborhoods throughout the city. Many of these provide clubs for members to organize and explore the area.
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#7. New York, New York
People walking across a stone bridge in Central Park in autumn.
– Total population: 8,443,713 (14.1% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 88
– Bike score: 69
– Transit score: 89
In eight New York City neighborhoods (in four of the city’s five boroughs), more than 25% of the residents are 65 and older. Of these, West Brighton is a particular haven for older pedestrians, thanks to its boardwalk.
The Upper East Side is also popular thanks to its proximity to Central Park. Across the entire city, seniors can make use of many green spaces, with the Department of Parks and Recreation offering activities for older adults in parks across the boroughs. These include early morning walking clubs, bodybuilding, and dance classes.
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#6. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A path in a park with the Pittsburgh skyline across a bridge.
– Total population: 303,587 (14.6% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 62
– Bike score: 55
– Transit score: 55
Three of Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods—the Hill District, Clairton, and Coraopolis—were declared “Age-Friendly Neighborhoods” in 2022 by a local nonprofit serving older people. Over the past year, each has received $10,000 to develop age-friendly programs and events, including neighborhood events to encourage intergenerational interactions. And each neighborhood will get another $10,000 in the coming year.
The University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Physical Therapy created the “On The Move” program to bring together older city residents to improve their walking posture. Participants meet hourly, twice a week, for 12 weeks. The city is also recognized by AARP for having a high “friend factor,” meaning there are plenty of older people to meet and connect with easily.
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#5. San Francisco, California
People on blankets in a park with San Francisco in the background.
– Total population: 870,044 (15.1% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 89
– Bike score: 72
– Transit score: 77
A nonprofit serving older San Franciscans has established Neighborhood Circles in 15 areas across the city, helping them get together for social activities in communities like Haight Ashbury, Nob Hill, Glen Park, and Hayes Valley.
The city’s famed Golden Gate Park is home to a senior center that offers a variety of activities, including dancing, exercise, and hikes. Walking-tour company On the Level San Francisco leads guided walks for senior citizens through the city, including a walking tour of publicly accessible rooftop gardens. Bay Area Older Adults organizes nature trail treks and other outdoor activities.
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#4. Miami, Florida
A walking path along the water in downtown Miami.
– Total population: 451,214 (16.7% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 77
– Bike score: 64
– Transit score: 57
Miami’s older residents have many sunny, open spaces and beachfront to take advantage of. Miami-Dade County’s Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces department runs the Active Older Adults Program to facilitate group activities at parks in South Dade, Westwind Lakes, and Westwind Lakes, and many other neighborhoods.
Senior citizens in Miami can participate in Walk 4 Life, a walking program that rewards members the more they trek through the city. Oleta River State Park and Everglades National Park have trails accessible to seniors for biking, hiking, and walking.
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#3. Glendale, California
A trolley going through downtown Glendale with pedestrians on the sidewalk.
– Total population: 200,372 (17.1% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 71
– Bike score: 52
– Transit score: 45
Glendale, just north of Los Angeles, contains over 5,000 acres of open space, with the Verdugo Mountains, San Rafael Hills, and Deukmejian Wilderness Park bordering the city. A mild and warm climate keeps these areas accessible year-round.
The city frequently hosts walks and guided nature hikes, and the Adult Recreation Center, Pacific Community Center, and Sparr Heights Community Center offer senior-specific aerobic activities, including pickleball, Zumba, and line dancing. The Glendale Sports Center also has programs for older adults, including yoga and circuit training.
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#2. Honolulu, Hawaii
People walking along the boardwalk on the water.
– Total population: 350,003 (19.7% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 66
– Bike score: 51
– Transit score: 56
Hawaii is an extremely popular destination for older folks, and Honolulu houses a sizable concentration of retirees. Neighborhoods with robust senior communities include Hawaii Kai, Manoa, Kaka’ako, Nu’uanu, and Kahala. Unsurprisingly, many of the city’s senior citizen programs use the area’s stunning coastlines and green spaces. For instance, Honolulu’s Senior Citizen Section hosts outdoor group walks and classes. The Moiliili Community Center leads hikes and excursions for senior citizens as well.
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#1. Hialeah, Florida
The Hialeah arch and welcome plaza.
– Total population: 237,285 (19.7% 65 and over)
– Walk score: 68
– Bike score: 51
– Transit score: 39
There are at least 32 senior living communities in Hialeah, which is perhaps unsurprising considering Florida is the most popular state for retirees in the U.S. Many of Hileah’s senior activities overlap with those in Miami, which is only 11 miles away. However, the area also provides a less population-dense space for getting active.
The city’s Walk with a Doc program provides seniors the opportunity to take monthly walks alongside a health care provider, who can answer questions about achieving a healthier lifestyle. Hialeah’s Adult Program also offers activities, including Zumba and water aerobics. The county’s Active Older Adults program hosts senior meetups for walks and other cardio exercises.
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Emily Engel-Natzke wanted to make the National Hockey League as a video coach.
When the Washington Capitals named Engel-Natzke video coordinator on Thursday, she not only accomplished that goal, but she also became the first woman to hold a full-time position on an NHL coaching staff.
“I’ve never kind of really looked at myself in that lens, and I think if you may have asked me a week ago, I wouldn’t have wanted it to be a big deal,” Engel-Natzke said. “But with everything that’s going on kind of geopolitically, I think I’m more so just honored to be, I guess, the first. Hopefully that just opens the door even further for people who want to get into this job and this profession.”
It’s the latest in a series of promotions for women around the NHL in recent months after decades of slow progress in diversifying the sport in the coaching and executive ranks.
“This was earned and deserved,” coach Peter Laviolette said. “We feel like we hired really a qualified person that we brought into the organization two years ago and came in and did an outstanding job, and that’s what development is all about. For me, we got the best person and that’s the most important thing.”
Engel-Natzke’s path to Washington began in earnest in 2017 when she began working as the full-time video coach for University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Tony Granato following several years assisting with the men’s and women’s programs there.
“When she first came on, one of the questions I asked her is: ‘What do you want to do with this? Is this a full-time gig for you? Is it something you want to try to pursue at a different level?’” Granato said. “And she said, ‘Yep, I want to figure out how I can be the first woman to make it to the NHL on the video side of things.’”
Engel-Natzke, 31, came from the Hershey Bears, Washington’s top minor league affiliate, where she was the first woman to be a full-time member of a coaching staff in the American Hockey League.
After playing two seasons of Division III hockey at Adrian College, Engel-Natzke got a heavy workload at Wisconsin to prepare her for the pros and then took another step in Hershey, presenting 5-on-5 scouting reports of opponents and becoming more involved in the day-to-day operation of the team.
“She’s grown a lot in her position, just to learn the professional side of the game,” Bears VP of hockey operations Bryan Helmer said. “Emily is a very hard worker that wants to learn, and in the two years she was here, she did that. She was always wanting to do more than to contribute to the team in any which way she can to make us succeed.”
After learning about her from longtime Capitals video coach Brett Leonhardt, Helmer, like Laviolette, said Hershey hired Engel-Natzke based off experience and her interview. “You take her name off her resume and put any name, she was qualified,” he said.
Engel-Natzke’s hire comes on the heels of the Chicago Blackhawks promoting Meghan Hunter to assistant general manager and the New Jersey Devils promoting Meghan Duggan to director of player development. Hunter became the fourth woman to be named an assistant GM, joining Vancouver’s Emilie Castonguay and Cammi Granato as women currently in that job.
“It’s been really encouraging that you’re seeing women in different roles, whether it’s in coaching, whether it’s in management, athletic training and equipment management,” Engel-Natzke said. “Hopefully the door just keeps opening a little bit more and I hope in a couple years it’s not as big of a deal — it’s kind of just another hire.”
Engel-Natzke has been in the league’s coaching mix for some time now after taking part in the NHL Coaches Association’s Female Coaches Development Program. Winnipeg Jets associate coach Jamie Kompon called Engel-Natzke super knowledgeable and said video coach Matt Prefontaine raved about the job she was doing in Hershey.
Coaches Association president Lindsay Artkin told The Associated Press she was thrilled for Engel-Natzke’s new position.
“Emily’s been a part of the NHLCA Female Coaches Development Program since its inception, and with one of the main objectives being to support women that aspire to coach in the NHL, I couldn’t be happier that we’ve broken that barrier,” Artkin said. “Emily is the first but certainly not the last. I can’t wait to see what’s ahead for her and other women that want to coach in the NHL. There really is no limit.”
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CEO's protege' firing follows lawsuit filed by Founding Pulte Family
BOCA RATON, Fla., Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pulte Family, the founding family of Fortune 500 PulteGroup Inc, issued the following statement following the termination of Brandon Jones, recently named Chief Operating Officer by CEO Ryan Marshall:
"Today, the Board of Directors took a necessary, first step in limiting any future legal liability in acknowledging the defamatory Bot Network ran on Company time by Brandon Jones who was 2nd-in-command at the Homebuilder the Pulte Family and Employees built.
I attempted to quietly settle this in private correspondence with my former colleagues on the Board of Directors on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before being forced to file a lawsuit to get justice for the shareholders and my family.
Now that the preliminary investigation (done by King & Spalding LLP) determined that the Bot Attacks were covertly operated by Brandon Jones, The Pulte Family expects the Board of Directors to honor their fiduciary obligations to the shareholders and retain a white-shoe law firm, unconnected to existing contracts paid by Management, to conduct an independent investigation to determine if any SEC regulations, federal law, and other company policies were broken. This addresses existing liabilities hidden from shareholders.
While management is threatening layoffs and failing to diversify the management team, Jones, as a member of management, has found time to run secret Twitter accounts whilst enforcing PulteGroup social media policies on employees at the same time. I will continue to fight for Pulte Homes, our shareholders, and its employees," said Bill Pulte, CEO of Pulte Capital and a Director of PulteGroup from 2016-2020.
On December 14, 2022, the Pulte Family filed a civil complaint against Brandon Jones, for allegedly tortiously interfering, stalking, harassing, and defaming the company's founder, William J. Pulte (1932-2018), his grandson Bill Pulte, and his family through Jones' creation of a sophisticated network of Twitter bots. The Pulte Family, four days ago, privately called on the independent members of the Board of Directors to conduct an independent investigation into Mr. Jones. Today, PulteGroup issued a press release announcing that Jones has been terminated and will leave the Company effective immediately.
Mr. Jones' termination follows an internal investigation, not conducted by an independent law firm but instead management's existing contractor, that determined he had violated the Company's Code of Ethical Business Conduct among other potential regulations.
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Colchicine's Approval Heightens the Need for Technologies Detecting Inflammation Specifically Related to Coronary Arteries
OXFORD, England, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Caristo Diagnostics Limited, a global leader in cardiac and vascular disease diagnostics and risk prediction, applauds the FDA's decision to approve colchicine as first anti-inflammatory drug for cardiovascular disease. Caristo reaffirms its commitment to lead innovations in CCTA based coronary inflammation detection and cardiovascular risk prediction, so every coronary inflammation patient can be identified and treated by appropriate therapy including the anti-inflammatory drug approved by the FDA.
According to the June 20 press release from AGEPHA Pharma USA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved LODOCO® (Colchicine 0.5 mg) as the first anti-inflammatory atheroprotective cardiovascular treatment demonstrated to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, coronary revascularization, and cardiovascular death in adult patients with established atherosclerotic disease or with multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease. In a multi-national, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 0.5 mg colchicine significantly reduces the overall risk of cardiovascular death, spontaneous myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, or ischemia-driven coronary revascularization by 31% in comparison with the placebo group when added to high-intensity statins and other cardiovascular prevention therapies.
"Inflammation plays an important part in the development of atherosclerosis and is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease progression", said Professor Charalambos Antoniades, Caristo Diagnostics Chief Scientific Officer, and British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford. "The FDA approval of colchicine is an important tool for us to reduce coronary inflammation, a main culprit for heart attack."
Current methods used to assess inflammation include the measurement of circulating levels of inflammatory biomarkers, e.g., C-reactive protein (CRP), but these are not specific for coronary artery inflammation. Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) can be used to detect anatomic high-risk plaque (HRP) features, but plaque inflammation is not visible. In contrast, Caristo Diagnostics' Ca-Ri Heart® technology applies advanced AI-driven techniques to CCTA scans to detect and quantify coronary artery inflammation with the Fat Attenuation Index (FAI) Score. This technology provides the basis to identify patients at high risk with coronary inflammation, for treatment prioritisation and monitoring. "Identifying patients with coronary artery inflammation at highest risk, independent of other clinical or CCTA features, will be crucial to achieve maximal patient benefit from newly-approved anti-inflammatory drugs," said Professor Keith Channon, Caristo Diagnostics Chief Medical Officer.
A meta-analysis published in JACC Cardiovascular Imaging1 analysed prognostic value of common biomarkers of vascular inflammation. These biomarkers included common circulating inflammatory biomarkers (CRP, interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-a), arterial positron emission tomography/ computed tomography, as well as coronary computed tomography angiography-derived biomarkers of vascular inflammation, including anatomical high-risk plaque features and perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT). The analysis concluded that among all biomarkers, PVAT exhibited the highest specificity and strongest prognostic value in predicting cardiovascular events.
Caristo Diagnostics was founded in 2018 to commercialize the proprietary CaRi-Heart® coronary inflammation diagnostic technology based on PVAT quantification. CaRi-Heart's AI algorithms allow trained health professionals to obtain measures of coronary inflammation from routine cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) scans by using Caristo's Fat Attenuation Index (FAI) technology. The resulting FAI Score measures the risk of cardiac mortality due to coronary inflammation. Additionally, CaRi-Heart provides a long-term cardiac mortality risk by integrating coronary inflammation with standard clinic risk factors and the presence of coronary plaques.
About Caristo Diagnostics Limited
Caristo Diagnostics Limited is a global leader in cardiac and vascular disease diagnostics and risk prediction. Founded in 2018 as a spin-out company from the University of Oxford, the world's #1 research university, Caristo has developed a portfolio of imaging-based and AI-assisted platforms that can be applied to aid the prediction and diagnosis of heart attack, stroke, and diabetes. Caristo was highlighted by Nature in 2020 as one of the most exciting science-based companies to have emerged from academic labs. To-date Caristo has attracted over £23 million in venture capital investment (nearly US$30 million). Find Caristo online on its website, LinkedIn and Twitter.
About the CaRi-Heart® Technology
Named first of "7 Technologies That Could Change Heart Healthcare Forevermore" by the Robb Report, the CaRi-Heart technology is Caristo's flagship offering which aids coronary artery disease diagnosis with improved risk prediction. It applies advanced AI algorithms to routine cardiac CT scans to visualize and quantify coronary inflammation, which is the previously invisible root cause of the disease. Each patient's CaRi-Heart Report includes several clinical results: (1) the patient specific Fat Attenuation Index (FAI), a novel and patented biomarker for the measurement of coronary inflammation, which indicates the patient's risk in % relative to a matched peer group; (2) CaRi-Heart Risk, which assesses the absolute 8-year risk of a fatal heart attack (based on both coronary inflammation status and standard clinical risks factors); and (3) coronary plaque-specific characterization and quantification. The CaRi-Heart Analysis is supported by the CaRi-Heart software, which is cloud-based and agnostic to the type of scanner generating the routine cardiac CT images. The CaRi-Heart technology is CE Mark certified under the latest EU MDR with UKCA marking being received in September 2022. CaRi-Heart is limited to research use in the U.S. before the FDA grants marketing authorization.
Multiple patents underpinning CaRi-Heart technologies have been granted in major jurisdictions around the world. In addition, exceptional validation results showing CaRi-Heart's ability to aid the prediction of heart attacks have been published in leading medical journals including the Lancet, JACC, European Heart Journal, and Cardiovascular Research. CaRi-Heart validation and implementation projects have been supported by multiple UK government grants and awards, including the NHS AI Stage 3 Award for real-world evaluation and implementation of CaRi-Heart care pathway in multiple NHS hospitals. With its deep clinical insights, proven validity and implementation readiness, the CaRi-Heart Analysis Service and the resulting new care pathway can transform cardiac care around the world by aiding in better prediction and prevention of future heart attacks.
1 JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2022 Mar;15(3):460-471. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.09.014. Epub 2021 Nov 17
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Why July 4th is good luck for Hollywood marriages!
Celebrities walk down the aisle on America's birthday.
Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary on Monday, July 4th. The couple first met when Sharon was only 18 and he was 22. Her father, Don Arden, was managing Ozzy’s band, Black Sabbath, at the time.
Ozzy was fired from the band in 1979 and Sharon began dating the rockstar soon after, in addition to taking over as his full-time manager.
The couple married in an intimate ceremony in Maui, Hawaii in 1982, and have since had three children together: Aimee, Kelly and Jack. Sharon shared a wedding photo from their nuptials to Twitter on Mother's Day in 2021.
They’ve weathered many storms through the years, including one notorious altercation where Ozzy was arrested for attempted murder after he tried strangling Sharon during a drug-fueled haze in 1989. He spent months in rehab following the incident and she decided not to press charges.
The Osbournes became a household name in the early 2000s when MTV shined a light on their lives with an unscripted show about the family. The series premiered in 2002 and ran for four seasons, with a final curtain call in 2005.
Ozzy and Sharon have been a united front recently as the 73-year-old singer is on the mend following "a "major operation" which she said was going to "determine the rest of his life."
"I am definitely feeling the love and support from all my fans and send everyone a big thank you for their thoughts, prayers and well wishes during my recovery," he tweeted to his millions of followers last month post surgery.
Ozzy's back problems likely stem from an all-terrain vehicle collision in 2003 where he flipped his quad while riding around his property in London.
At the time, he had to undergo emergency surgery for "a broken collarbone, eight fractured ribs that were pinching crucial blood vessels and damaged vertebrae in his neck."
When asked if he ever thought about his own mortality, Ozzy said he felt optimistic about his future: "At f—ing 73, I’ve done pretty well. I don’t plan on going anywhere, but my time’s going to come."
Julia Roberts and Danny Moder
Another major Hollywood couple is celebrating their love on July 4th, as Julia Roberts marks 20 years of marriage with her husband Danny Moder.
Roberts and Moder first met on the set of the 2001 film "The Mexican," where she starred alongside Brad Pitt and Moder served as a cinematographer.
JULIA ROBERTS PAYS TRIBUTE TO HUSBAND DANIEL MODER ON WEDDING DAY WITH RARE INSTAGRAM PIC
Love was certainly in the air as they tied the knot shortly after Moder finalized his divorce, and the couple married on her ranch in Taos, New Mexico in 2002.
Roberts and Moder have 17-year-old twins, Hazel and Phinnaeus "Finn," in addition to son Henry, 14.
Julia discussed the big anniversary earlier this year while chatting on SiriusXM’s "The Jess Cagle Show" as she declared: "This year, this summer. Twenty years kissin' Danny Moder."
When asked how she was planning to celebrate, she simply responded: "More kissing."
Victoria and David Beckham
Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, and David Beckham celebrate their 23-year wedding anniversary on July 4th.
Posh and Becks first met in 1997 at a charity football match, and she later told British Vogue "love at first sight does exist."
"It will happen to you in the Manchester United players’ lounge – although you will get a little drunk, so exact details are hazy," she wrote.
"While the other football players stand at the bar drinking with their mates, you will see David standing aside with his family. (He’s not even in the first team at this stage – you are the famous one.) And he has such a cute smile. You, too, are close to your family, and you will think how similar he feels to you. He’s going to ask for your number. (He still has the London-to-Manchester plane ticket on which you wrote it.)"
They became engaged in 1998, and Victoria gave birth to their first son, Brooklyn, in March 1999.
She walked down the aisle four months later at Luttrellstown Castle near Dublin, Ireland, wearing a strapless Vera Wang gown with a 20-foot train and a gold tiara, while her husband and son wore all-white tuxedos.
They’ve since welcomed three more children: Romeo, Cruz and Harper.
VICTORIA BECKHAM SAYS SHE'S ‘LUCKY’ TO HAVE FOUND ‘SOULMATE’ DAVID BECKHAM
Tina Turner and Erwin Bach
Tina Turner tied the knot with her German music producer beau Erwin Bach in a lavish ceremony at their home on Lake Zurich in Switzerland on July 4th, 2013 after dating for 27 years.
Oprah Winfrey and Bryan Adams were on hand to witness the "Proud Mary" singer walk down the aisle wearing a green taffeta and black silk tulle Giorgio Armani dress which was adorned with Swarovski crystals.
"I thought, 'I gotta have that, even if I never wear it,'" she told HELLO! upon first seeing the gown on the catwalk in Beijing. "Then I thought, 'I know, that will be my wedding dress!'"
Tina broke further from tradition and requested her female guests wear white, while all male attendees dress in black tie. The 200-person event reportedly went until 5 a.m.
Turner told Oprah it was "love at first sight" when she met Bach, who was assigned to pick her up from the airport before a concert some 35-plus years ago.
She explained in her documentary: "He had the prettiest face. You could not miss it. It was like saying, 'Where did he come from?' He was really that good looking. My heart went bu-bum. It means that a soul has met. My hands were shaking."
While she launched her career during a tumultuous relationship with late ex-husband Ike Turner, her success as a solo artist is cemented in history.
Soon after getting married, she said she finally reached the stage in her life that she calls "nirvana."
"It's that happiness that people talk about, when you wish for nothing, when you can finally take a deep breath and say, 'Everything is good,'" she said. "It's a wonderful place to be."
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary on Independence Day.
The couple, who have daughter Wyatt and son Dimitri, married in a private ceremony outside of Los Angeles in Oak Glen, California.
They first met while working together on "That ‘70s Show" in 1998, but despite playing a couple on screen, the pair didn’t start dating until years later after reconnecting at the Golden Globes in 2012.
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"We were at an awards show, and I was backstage," Kunis told Marc Maron on his podcast in 2018. "I was looking around, and there was, like, a really beautiful man from the back. I was like, 'What a very nice stature of a gentleman.' I was literally, like, 'Ooh, he's kind of hot.' I was single. And then he turned around, and I was like, 'Oh, my god! It's Kutch!' I thought it was the weirdest thing that I was checking this guy out, and it was somebody I'd known forever."
Kutcher was previously married to Demi Moore for eight years until their divorce was finalized in 2013.
"I never wanted to get married," Mila told W magazine in 2014 of her future plans before meeting Kutcher.
"From the age of 12, I prepared my parents for no marriage. Now, my theory on weddings is: Don't invite anyone. Do it privately and secretly."
Billy Joel and Alexis Roderick
Billy Joel and Alexis Roderick surprised friends and family in 2015 by turning their annual Fourth of July party into a wedding.
The couple, who dated for six years, were married at Joel’s Centre Island estate in Long Island during a ceremony officiated by then-governor Andrew Cuomo.
Joel’s daughter with former wife Christie Brinkley, Alexa Ray Joel, and actor Kevin James were just a few of the guests in attendance.
Alexis was also pregnant with their first child when they tied the knot in front of a small group of loved ones.
She later gave birth to the couple’s first daughter, Della Rose, in August 2015, and the couple welcomed daughter Remy Anne in October 2017.
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“Our caregivers at Cassia Regional Hospital strive to help all expectant mothers by providing high-quality care and a personalized patient experience during all aspects of maternity care including labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum care, all of which help lead to better outcomes for moms and babies. Being recognized by a national magazine for our efforts is a wonderful honor,” Intermountain Cassia Regional Hospital Nurse Manager Amanda Severe said.
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To compile the list the publication examines labor and delivery services data. This year they also looked at new factors that included vaginal birth after cesarean rates, episiotomy rates and whether the hospital met new federal guidelines for friendly birthing practices and the hospitals were rewarded for tracking and reporting outcomes for patients of different ethnicities and races.
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--This "multimodal" analysis helps reveal relationships between different aspects of a cell and how they might impact disease development--
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) developed new software that integrates a variety of information from a single cell, allowing researchers to see how one change in a cell can lead to several others and providing important clues for pinpointing the exact causes of genetic-based diseases.
The findings were published by Nature Communications.
Single-cell sequencing allows researchers to look at specific aspects of a cell to determine how it interacts with its microenvironment. This is particularly relevant in cancer research since it can be used to determine the effects of a mutation that may only affect a small portion of cells. At the single- cell level, researchers can study gene expression as well as messenger RNA, proteins and even organelles within the cells in much greater detail and resolution than before.
However, because each of the characteristics of a single cell has been studied individually, their connections with one another – for example, how a genetic variant might directly impact messenger RNA, protein synthesis or epigenetics – may not be apparent, even when comparing data generated from the same cell.
To address this statistical and computational dilemma, the researchers developed an automated single-cell multimodal sequencing clustering software tool to profile what is happening within the cell across multiple biological processes simultaneously and better characterize relationships between changes in a cell.
"With this tool, we can better understand a single cell as an entity and not just as a fragmented unit," said Hakon Hakonarson, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at CHOP and a senior author of the study. "This is a significant advancement and allows us to integrate and put all of this information into biological perspective, which is particularly important when considering information on different diseases."
The software, referred to as single-cell multimodal deep clustering (scMDC), uses machine learning to analyze data about different characteristics of a single cell. The researchers conducted extensive simulation and real-data experiments and found that scMDC outperformed existing single cell single-modal and multimodal clustering methods on single-cell multimodal data sets. It also utilizes linear scalability, meaning that more data sources provided to the scMDC yield better results.
This study was supported by National Institutes of Health grant R15HG012087 and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences under grant number UL1TR003017. The computing resource was partially provided by Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) through allocation CIE160021 and CIE17003, supported by National Science Foundation Grant ACI-1548562.
Lin et al, "Clustering of single-cell multi-omics data with a multimodal deep learning method." Nat Comm. Online December 13, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35031-9.
About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a new inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit http://www.chop.edu.
About New Jersey Institute of Technology: One of only 35 polytechnic universities in the United States, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is an R1 (most elite) Carnegie Classification research university that offers more than 125 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and spurs economic growth while preparing students to become leaders in the technology-dependent economy of the 21st century. NJIT is a catalyst for applied research and innovation that improves lives and fosters economic growth. Ranked No. 14 in the nation on Money's Best Colleges list, NJIT also stands among the top 100 colleges and universities nationally for the mid-career earnings of its graduates, according to PayScale.com. NJIT is ranked No. 33 nationally by The Princeton Review as a Best Value College and is rated among the top 50 public national universities and top 100 overall by U.S. News & World Report.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hundreds gathered Wednesday at a candlelight vigil in Nashville to honor and mourn the three children and three adults who were killed in a shooting at a Christian school this week.
The downtown ceremony for the victims of the shooting at The Covenant School was somber and at times tearful, as speaker after speaker read the names of the victims and offered condolences to their loved ones. The family of Mike Hill, a 61-year-old custodian who was among those killed, was in attendance, including his seven children.
First lady Jill Biden also was on hand but did not address the crowd. Sheryl Crow sang “I Shall Believe” and ended with the lyrics from a Dionne Warwick song, “What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love.” Margo Price sang an a cappella version of “Tears of Rage.” And Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show led the crowd in the Christian hymn, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” which brought many to tears.
“Just two days ago was our city’s worst day,” Mayor John Cooper said. “I so wish we weren’t here, but we need to be here.”
Shaundelle Brooks, who lost her 23-year-old son, Akilah Dasilva, in the 2018 Nashville Waffle House shooting, said she went to the vigil to support the families of those slain at the school.
“I know what it’s like to be a parent — what it feels like, like you’re drowning and can’t move, and that weakness and that hole that comes in your stomach,” she said.
Police have said a 28-year-old former student drove up to the school Monday morning, shot out the glass doors, entered and began firing indiscriminately.
The dead were identified as as students Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old; Katherine Koonce, 60, the head of the school; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and Hill.
Authorities have not yet determined the shooter’s motive but say the assailant did not target specific victims.
Price, who has been particularly vocal about Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s position on state gun laws, tweeted after the shooting: “Our children are dying and being shot in school, but you’re more worried about drag queens than smart gun laws? You have blood on your hands.” Crow and Secor also called for stricter gun laws in tweets posted after the shooting.
But there was no talk of gun control at the vigil, as people steered clear of the political divide between blue-leaning Nashville and ruby red Tennessee. Republicans and Democratic lawmakers stood together in asking for remembrance of the six who died.
Lee said Tuesday that Peak was a close friend of his wife, Maria, and that the two had been planning to meet for dinner after Peak’s work that day.
“Maria woke up this morning without one of her best friends,” Lee said in a video statement, adding that his wife once taught with Peak and Koonce. The women, he said, “have been family friends for decades.”
Earlier Wednesday, Pope Francis sent condolences to Nashville and offered prayers to those affected.
George Grant, a pastor and leader with the Nashville Presbytery, also avoided any mention of politics.
“As pundits and politicians try to make sense out of the senseless, we’re not really asking why. We know why — we live in a broken, fallen world,” Grant said Wednesday morning. The church linked to the school is a member of the presbytery, which includes congregations in middle Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky.
In a blog post Wednesday, Grant recounted how notifications about an active shooter at the school interrupted a presbytery planning meeting that included Chad Scruggs, Covenant Presbyterian Church pastor and father of one of the shooting victims.
“We emptied into the hallway, stricken, eyes clouded with unbelief, horror and grief. … Our worst fears were realized,” Grant wrote.
Police said the shooter, identified as Audrey Hale, was under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder and was not on the radar of police before the attack. Hale was fatally shot by police at the school Monday.
Authorities have given unclear information on Hale’s gender.
For hours Monday, police identified the shooter as a woman. Later in the day, the police chief said Hale was transgender. In an email Tuesday, a police spokesperson said Hale “was assigned female at birth” but used masculine pronouns on a social media profile.
Maria Colomy, a former teacher at the Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville, recalled Hale as a talented artist while a student in Colomy’s social media class in 2017. Colomy remembered Hale “going above and beyond” on projects.”
She said she saw postings on Facebook during the past year in which Hale wrote about the death of a romantic partner and asked to be called by a male name and male pronouns.
Hale had “been very publicly grieving” on Facebook, Colomy said. “It was during that grief (Hale) said, ’In this person’s honor, I am going to be the person who I want to be, and I want to be called Aiden.'”
On Hale’s first day at the Nossi School, Colomy said she saw Hale become frustrated while trying to log into the student portal and start to cry.
“I went up to (Hale) and said, ‘Hey, if you need to step out, it’s totally OK,'” Colomy said. But after that, Colomy said Hale began to feel safe at school and “really started thriving.”
Samira Hardcastle, who attended both middle and high school with Hale, said Hale seemed sweet and socially awkward. Hardcastle said she spoke to Hale briefly last month at an event for a mutual friend, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
“I don’t think we can rationalize irrational actions, so I am just trying to make peace with that,” she said.
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...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Lipscomb and
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Many baby formula plants weren’t inspected because of COVID
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators have historically inspected baby formula plants at least once a year, but they did not inspect any of the three biggest manufacturers in 2020, according to federal records reviewed by The Associated Press.
When they finally did get inside an Abbott Nutrition formula plant in Michigan after a two-year gap, they found standing water and lax sanitation procedures. But inspectors offered only voluntary suggestions for fixing the problems, and issued no formal warning.
Inspectors would return five months later after four infants who consumed powdered formula from the plant suffered bacterial infections. They found bacterial contamination inside the factory, leading to a four-month shutdown and turning a festering supply shortage into a full-blown crisis that sent parents scrambling to find formula and forced the U.S. to airlift products from overseas.
The gap in baby formula plant inspections, brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, is getting new scrutiny from Congress and government watchdogs investigating the series of missteps that led to the crisis. A recent bill would require the Food and Drug Administration to inspect infant formula facilities every six months. And the government’s inspector general for health has launched an inquiry into the FDA’s handling of Abbott’s facility, the largest in the U.S.
Abbott resumed production at the plant early this month under a legally binding agreement with the FDA, but the shutdown and nationwide shortage exposed how concentrated the industry has become in the U.S., with a handful of companies accounting for roughly 90% of the market.
As COVID-19 swept across the U.S. in early 2020, the FDA pulled most of its safety inspectors from the field, skipping thousands of routine plant inspections.
The FDA did conduct more than 800 “mission critical” inspections during the first year of the pandemic, the agency said in a statement. Regulators selected facilities for inspections based on whether they carried a specific safety risk or were needed to produce an important medical therapy.
Only three of the nation’s 23 facilities that make, package or distribute formula made the cut. The FDA resumed routine inspections in July 2021.
The inspection records reviewed by the AP show gaps as large as 2 1/2 years between FDA’s 2019 inspections and when regulators returned to plants owned by the three leading formula manufacturers: Abbott, Reckitt and Gerber.
In fact, the FDA still has yet to return to one key plant owned by Reckitt and two owned by Gerber, according to agency records. All those facilities are operating around the clock to boost U.S. formula production.
“The FDA would have had more chances to catch these issues if they’d been inspecting during the pandemic,” said Sarah Sorscher, a food safety specialist with the Center for Science in the Public Interest. She acknowledged the difficult trade-off the FDA faced in pulling its inspectors to reduce their exposure to COVID-19. “Certainly there was a price to pay for protecting their workers during that time.”
Baby formula manufacturers were “consistently identified as a high priority during the pandemic,” and there is currently no backlog of inspections, the agency told the AP in response to inquiries about the gaps. The agency said it skipped about 15,000 U.S. inspections due to COVID, but it has already made up about 5,000 of those, exceeding its own goals.
Under current law, the FDA is only required to inspect formula facilities every three to five years, but the agency has consistently inspected facilities annually — until the pandemic.
“Our top priority now is addressing the urgent need for infant formula in the U.S. market, and our teams are working night and day to help make that happen,” FDA stated.
But outside experts say the gap in inspections speaks to a blind spot in the government’s response effort, which was successful at preventing shortages of drugs and other medical supplies.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf says regulators knew shutting down Abbott’s plant would create supply problems, but there was little evidence of urgency between when inspectors shuttered the plant in February and recent emergency measures to allow more imports from abroad.
Longtime food safety specialists see a deeper problem at the highest levels of the FDA, where physicians and medical scientists for decades have prioritized oversight of drugs and medical products over food.
“It’s very challenging for them to get engaged at all in this area because they don’t have the background, the knowledge and the experience in it,” said Steven Mandernach, executive director of the Association of Food and Drug Officials, which represents state-level inspectors.
The FDA shares oversight of food production and safety with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. FDA inspections of food facilities peaked in 2011 and have declined most years since, despite increased funds and powers by Congress. The FDA said that while U.S. inspections have declined, foreign facility inspections have increased.
There’s no certainty that extra inspections during COVID-19 would have prevented the contamination problems at the Sturgis, Michigan, plant that was shut down. And Abbott says that its products have not been directly linked to the infections, two of which were fatal.
But the plant did have earlier problems, including a 2010 formula recall due to possible contamination with insect parts.
“I think facilities that had known problems that could cause a food safety risk should have been part of FDA’s mission critical work,” Mandernach said. “And this facility would have been among those.”
Not having regular inspections — or even the threat of them — can lead to changes in culture at plants like Abbott’s, Mandernach noted.
“If you’re driving down the highway and you know the state troopers have been furloughed, might you go a little faster than if you knew there was a trooper on duty?” Mandernach asked.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A wildlife agency that lost key court rulings over its denial of petitions to protect Yellowstone National Park bison will undertake a comprehensive study over whether the animals should be covered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday.
The decision follows a federal court ruling in January that ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to review its 2019 denial of petitions seeking the extra protections. U.S. District Court Judge Randolf Moss of Washington, D.C., said the agency did not give a reason for its decision to rely on some scientific studies while rejecting others.
The January ruling was the second time a federal judge said the agency wrongly denied petitions seeking to have Yellowstone bison listed as threatened or endangered.
Under findings that are scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Monday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the petitions — first filed in 2014 — present substantial, credible information that the sought-after protections may be needed based on reductions of the animal's range, the lack of tolerance to bison outside the park, and loss of habitat and genetic diversity.
The agency will now carry out a year-long review to determine whether protections are necessary, the draft notification said. The agency is asking for people to submit any new information concerning the status of, or threats to, Yellowstone bison or its habitat to be considered during the review.
Bison in and around Yellowstone National Park are managed under a federal-state agreement to maintain wild bison while preventing the spread of brucellosis — a bacterial infection that can cause animals to abort their young — to cattle in Montana. The Interagency Bison Management Plan calls for capturing bison, testing them for brucellosis and sending some to slaughter when they leave the park. Bison can also be hunted outside the park.
There have been no documented cases of bison transmitting brucellosis directly to cattle, but there have been many occasions where elk transmitted brucellosis to cattle, the National Park Service says.
Buffalo Field Campaign and the Western Watersheds Project have been fighting to have Yellowstone's bison declared endangered or threatened based, in part, on studies that show the park has two genetically distinct herds of bison.
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SLS Bahia Beach marks the fourth luxury tower from the lauded SLS brand in Cancun, joining the sold-out SLS Cancun Hotel & Residences, SLS Harbour Beach and SLS Marina Beach. Together the four skyscrapers will form Novo Cancun’s most exclusive residential community
NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ennismore, the fastest-growing lifestyle hospitality company, today announced the launch of its latest residential project, SLS Bahia Beach Residences, due to open in the heart of Novo Cancun, Mexico. SLS Bahia Beach is the fourth tower in the growing complex located in Novo Cancun, a project led by designer Sofia Aspe Studio, and in partnership with Inmobilia and U-Calli, the leading developers in Southeast Mexico, as well the United States' preeminent luxury developer Related Group (Related).
SLS is part of Ennismore, the fastest-growing lifestyle hospitality company with a global collective of entrepreneurial and founder-built brands with purpose at their heart. With seven properties in Beverly Hills, Miami, Bahamas, Cancun, Dubai, and Buenos Aires, SLS is set to open two additional properties in Scottsdale and Saudi Arabia by 2024. Ennismore comprises 14 brands - with 90 operating properties and a further 160 in the pipeline - and a collection of over 150 culturally relevant and diverse restaurants and nightlife destinations.
Chadi Farhat, Chief Operating Officer of SLS at Ennismore states, "Following the successful launch of SLS Cancun Hotel & Residences, we are excited to unveil yet another significant residential project in the Novo Cancun community with our longtime partner Jorge Pérez, and his talented team at Related. SLS Bahia Beach will offer a new way of living, blending sublime views with the unmatched style of SLS – elegance with a twist."
"Through our partnership with Ennismore, the Related team is yet again raising the bar for residential luxury in the Yucatan Peninsula," says Jorge Pérez, Related's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "This fourth tower continues our tradition of excellence across all facets of the project, from the world-class design and architecture, to the unmatched waterfront location to the on-site museum-quality art collection. We look forward to continuing to transform the community of Novo Cancun alongside Ennismore and our other partners."
The striking luxury residential tower will be set over 20 floors, accommodating 111 residential condominiums of 2 to 4 bedrooms, including 6 penthouses with their own private rooftops, generous spaces with 9-foot tall ceilings floor to ceiling e-value glass windows for energy saving, and glass walls that blend into the expansive views of the Caribbean.
With interiors by prominent Mexican interior designer, Sofia Aspe, a chic selection of finishes were chosen in the tower's common areas including the lobby, lounge, game rooms, restaurant, pool, bar and gym. A further highlight of the project is the extensive art collection in the common areas, under the curatorship of experts from Related Group. Each of the units will be complete with marble floors, Italian design kitchens, spacious walk-in closets and large terraces that can be accessed from the social areas and the bedrooms.
"Due to its beach location, we decided to use shades that reflect calm and serenity, blending into the surroundings" adds Sofia Aspe, Founder of Sofia Aspe Studio, on the design of the Residences. "These different shades were brought into the furniture, fabrics and key finishes, using various materials and colors such as green Guatemala marble, handmade ceramic mosaics, and natural fibers."
SLS Bahia Beach follows the successful launch of SLS Cancun Hotel & Residences, which provides residents with full access to the hotel's services including Leynia, Bungalow Beach Bar & Grill and Ciel Spa. Two further residential projects, SLS Harbour Beach and SLS Marina Beach, have since been launched.
Ennismore continues to partner with Related Group because they continue to facilitate radical change in the cities and neighborhoods they lead projects in, globally. Related Group's goal with every pursuit is the subsequent improvement of the quality of life, where architecture, urban planning, art and gastronomy lead the way to a unique, elegant and unsurpassable lifestyle.
On completion, SLS Bahia Beach will be the fourth luxury tower of the successful SLS brand in Cancun, along with SLS Harbour Beach and SLS Marina Beach towers, which will together form an exclusive community in Novo Cancun. Residents will not only benefit from superb and secure living but further have prime access to the surrounding luxury boutiques, marina, golf, and many other amenities.
For more information visit www.slsbahiaresidences.com
ABOUT ENNISMORE.
Ennismore is a creative hospitality company with a global collective of entrepreneurial and founder-built brands with purpose at their heart. It curates and manages unique properties and experiences in some of the most exciting destinations around the world.
Founded in 2011 by entrepreneur Sharan Pasricha, Ennismore and Accor entered a joint venture in 2021 to create a new autonomous entity, with Accor holding a majority shareholding. Creating the world's fastest-growing lifestyle hospitality company, it brings together Ennismore's know-how in building brands with creative storytelling, design, and authentic experiences, with Accor's wealth of knowledge in delivering scale, network growth and distribution.
Under the leadership of Sharan Pasricha, Founder & Co-CEO, and Gaurav Bhushan, Co-CEO, Ennismore comprises 14 brands - with 90 operating properties and further 160 in the pipeline - and a collection of over 150 culturally relevant and diverse restaurants and nightlife destinations.
Ennismore puts innovation at the center of everything it does, with four dedicated in-house specialist studios, which obsess every guest touchpoint including Carte Blanched – a fully integrated F&B concept platform; a creative studio of interior and graphic designers; a digital product and tech innovation lab, and a partnerships and collaborations unit.
Ennismore has been included in Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies lists in 2020 and 2021; ranked#29 in FT1000: Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies; and is part of FT Future 100 - the UK's fastest-growing businesses that are shaping the future of their sector.
The Ennismore brands: 21c Museum Hotel, 25hours Hotels, Delano, Gleneagles, Hyde, JO&JOE, Mama Shelter, Mondrian, Morgans Originals, SLS, SO/, The Hoxton, TRIBE and Working From_.
ennismore.com
About Related Group
Established in 1979, Related Group is Florida's leading developer of sophisticated metropolitan living and one of the country's largest real estate conglomerates. Since its inception more than 40 years ago, the company has built, rehabilitated, and managed over 100,000 condominium, rental, and commercial units. The firm is one of the largest privately owned businesses in the United States with a development portfolio worth more than $40 billion. Currently, Related Group has 90+ projects in varying phases of development.
The company has earned international status for its visionary designs and development of luxury condominiums, market-rate rentals, mixed-use centers, and affordable properties – all built with the goal of positively impacting neighborhoods and improving quality of life across all demographics. Related Group has redefined real estate by diversifying both its products and buyers, expanding internationally while also sponsoring public art installations that enhance cities' global culture and streetscapes. For more information, please visit relatedgroup.com.
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Fields at the Lawson Bo Brandon Sports Complex near Princeton will be closed
beginning Monday, Oct. 17 through January, 2023, according to Bossier Parish
Director of Parks and Recreation Warren Saucier.
Saucier said parks and recreation workers will be conducting field repair and
improvements during that time period. Individuals are asked to refrain from using
the fields. Batting cages at the park will remain open but adult supervision is
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New rebranded conference series will launch in March of 2023.
MARLBORO, N.J., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jonathan L. Hornik, Esq. and Private Lender Law (privatelenderlaw.com), the practice group of LaRocca Hornik Rosen & Greenberg (LHR&G), announced that they have acquired Pitbull Conference and the National Private Lenders Association (NPLA).
Private Lender Law is the largest full-service law firm serving the private lending industry, with over $30 billion in loan closings to date.
For almost two decades, Pitbull Conference has had a long-standing reputation as the largest private lending conference in the country. Distinguishing itself as the premier destination for leaders in the private lending space, Pitbull Conference focuses on networking, education, and the exchange of insights and views of the industry. Originally created to fill a void within the private lending industry, Pitbull facilitates commerce between capital providers, lenders, investors, brokers, and service providers. The 3-day must-attend event spares no expense when it comes to entertainment and attracting prominent industry leaders within the private lending industry—hosted at world-class venues in Key Biscayne, Las Vegas, and Miami.
Hornik, a popular, high-profile industry spokesperson, developed his own signature brand at Pitbull with thought-provoking state-of-the-industry speeches, provocative dialogue, and infectious leadership. His trademark hot topics have become the catalyst for enlightening discussions and debates.
"We want to bring in the best and the brightest in the private lending space. Economists, forecasters, politicians—everybody who has the ability to make the collective private lending industry smarter," Hornik said. "We will deliver relevant, up-to-the-minute industry news and education that can not be found elsewhere."
"Our goal is to rebrand and transform the Pitbull Conference into a center of commerce for brokers and borrowers to exchange ideas and to create the best marketplace in the industry for transacting deals."
Along with the Pitbull Conference, Hornik has also acquired the National Private Lenders Association (NPLA). Founded by Pitbull's iconic leader and founder Leonard Rosen, the NPLA serves as a platform for members to collaborate, share ideas, and stay informed. It has become a force within the industry, devoted to educating state and federal legislators on how private lending plays a vital role in cultivating successful real estate opportunities throughout the United States and the world.
"With both Pitbull Conference and the NPLA, we have the opportunity to do a lot of good in the private lending space," Hornik said. "NPLA's goal is to encourage a diverse membership base, with a focus on spotlighting the women who represent a large part of our private lender community. It's exciting to play a pivotal role in shaping this industry's future."
"We are thankful to Leonard and his esteemed wife, Kathleen, for doing such a tremendous job growing the conference over the last 20+ years," Hornik continued. "We now look forward to acting as a careful steward—going forward to continue to grow and evolve the conference."
The new conference is set to be unveiled in March of 2023.
Private Lender Law provides comprehensive real estate legal services nationwide for private lenders. With a presence in all 50 states, the firm has extensive expertise and experience in 24-hour loan closings, foreclosure/workout advice, licensing and regulatory review, topical legal research and analysis, nationwide title review, master loan purchase agreements, private placements, co-lender, and participation agreements, as well as other legal services. Visit www.privatelenderlaw.com
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Elizabeth Holmes, the former chief executive of the blood-testing startup Theranos, was sentenced on Friday to more than 11 years in federal prison for her role in defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Holmes, once seen as a Silicon Valley wunderkind, was ordered to begin her prison sentence on April 27, 2023, in a case U.S. District Judge Edward Davila described as "troubling on so many levels."
Before Davila handed down his sentence, a sobbing Holmes stood up and addressed the judge directly.
"Looking back, there are so many things I would do differently if I had the chance. I regret my failings with every cell of my body," she said, as her voice cracked.
Holmes' defense lawyers had hoped for a short prison sentence, or even home confinement. Now Holmes, 38 and pregnant with her second child, is expected to report to prison in five months. After her release, she is to spend three years under supervision.
"The tragedy of this case is that Ms. Holmes is brilliant," Davila said before his pronouncement. But he concluded that she was motivated by avarice and greed to lead investors into believing that her company could do far more than she knew possible. He also saw her actions as symptomatic of the worst of Silicon Valley.
The tech industry "finds vectors with financial and personal gain that clouds the good judgement of individuals," Davila said. "Was there a loss of moral compass here? Was it hubris? Was it intoxication with the fame," said Davila of Holmes.
When Theranos was at its peak, Holmes and Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, her then-boyfriend and No. 2 at Theranos, lived in a $15 million mansion. They traveled in a private jet. They had dinners at the White House.
If Holmes wasn't in pursuit of a lavish lifestyle, the judge asked, "What was it then?"
In one of the more surprising moments of the hearing, Davila asked if any victims were in the audience and wanted to speak. One man shot his hand up. His name was Alex Shultz, the son of former secretary of state George Shultz, who was on the Theranos Board of Directors.
He stood in front of the judge in what appeared to be an improvised speech and said somewhat haltingly that Holmes "took advantage of my dad," and that she had "figured out his weakness."
Alex Shultz said his son, Tyler Shultz, a former Theranos employee who became a key whistleblower, dealt with private investigators hired by Holmes to follow Tyler Shultz.
His son was so spooked by the ordeal that he began sleeping with a knife under his pillow.
"It was a grueling experience," he said. "My family home was desecrated by Elizabeth," he said.
A promise of easy blood tests too good to be true
In January, a jury convicted Holmes on four wire fraud-related counts for her role in deceiving investors about a supposedly groundbreaking technology that could scan for hundreds of conditions with just a few drops of blood. It is a feat laboratory scientists around the world for years have tried to accomplish, but Holmes, a Stanford dropout, claimed she had perfected it.
She drummed up nearly $1 billion in investment based on the premise that her proprietary blood-testing devices would revolutionize health care, but prosecutors argued during the trial that Holmes fudged test results, flagrantly lied about the capabilities of her tests and tried to cover it up when whistleblowers and journalists began to draw scrutiny to what was really going on at the company.
"She knew that they were investing in Theranos based on a false premise," prosecutor John Bostic told the judge on Friday. "She was aware of the mismatch between what she was presenting to investors and reality."
It is nearly unheard of in Silicon Valley for an executive to face criminal prosecution in the wake of a business collapse. But legal experts said the egregiousness of Holmes' lies, the sheer dollar amount of loss and the fact that she was operating in the highly-regulated health care world, made the Theranos case exceptional.
Still, Holmes' prosecution stirred debate in tech circles about possible sexism, with some wondering why men who led tech startups that failed after unrealized promises have never faced criminal charges.
There appears to be more scrutiny on high-flying tech startups now, however.
The Justice Department is reportedly investigating the now-bankrupt FTX, an exchange for trading crypto. Its recent implosion wiped out former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's wealth of $16 billion, which Bloomberg called "one of history's greatest-ever destructions of wealth."
Federal investigators are probing the unwinding of the company, with the specter of possible criminal charges being discussed among legal experts.
In the Theranos case, Balwani, who was convicted in a separate trial in the same fraud scheme as Holmes, is set to be sentenced Dec. 7.
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- Vote by phone at (855) 935-2562, if in North America, or 1-(207) 607-7123, if international
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- Deadline to VOTE: 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time on June 29, 2022
- Proposal 2 will help ensure that Nikola continues moving forward toward its vision
PHOENIX, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy infrastructure solutions, today released a video message from CEO Mark Russell urging all Nikola stockholders to vote now FOR Proposal 2 before the Annual Meeting on June 30. The video can be accessed here and is available on all Nikola social media channels.
There are two days left to vote and every vote matters. Stockholders must actively vote before the deadline at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on June 29, 2022 so their vote counts.
Approving Proposal 2 is critical. Nikola has 600 million common shares authorized. As of June 8, 2022, the combination of fully diluted shares, including shares outstanding and options, restricted stock units and warrants, and reserved/unissued shares from Nikola's equity line of credit and convertible notes equates to 567 million shares. Therefore, Nikola has approximately 33 million shares available for other purposes. That is why it is so important for stockholders to vote NOW FOR Proposal 2, which would allow Nikola to increase the authorized number of shares of the Company's common stock to 800 million, providing more flexibility to support the growth of the business.
Voting is Quick and Simple:
- By Phone: Please call Alliance Advisors, Nikola's proxy solicitor, toll-free, at (855) 935-2562. International voters can call 1-(207) 607-7123. You can also contact Alliance Advisors if you have any questions about voting.
- By Internet: Vote at www.proxyvote.com using your control number by following the instructions shared by your broker, bank or other nominee.
Stockholders as of the close of business on April 4, 2022, should vote their shares even if they no longer own them. The shareholder meeting will be held virtually on June 30, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/NKLA2022 via live audio webcast.
About Nikola Corporation
Nikola Corporation is globally transforming the transportation industry. As a designer and manufacturer of zero-emission battery-electric and hydrogen-electric vehicles, electric vehicle drivetrains, vehicle components, energy storage systems, and hydrogen station infrastructure, Nikola is driven to revolutionize the economic and environmental impact of commerce as we know it today. Founded in 2015, Nikola Corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.nikolamotor.com or Twitter @nikolamotor.
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The rapidly growing fast casual restaurant featuring crepes and waffles opens second location in Florida
CORAL GABLES, Fla., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sweet Paris Crêperie & Café, the ultra-popular restaurant brand specializing in sweet and savory crêpes, hot drinks and more, recently opened in The Plaza Coral Gables at 3005 Ponce De Leon Blvd, Suite 142 in Coral Gables. The store will celebrate its grand opening with a special event on Thursday, August 24th, 2023.
Founded in 2012 by Allison and Ivan Chavez, Sweet Paris has quickly become one of the hottest restaurant franchises in the country with its Instagram-worthy, French-inspired interiors and delicious food and drinks made of the highest quality ingredients and bold flavors. The duo met as undergraduate students at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and bonded over a love for crêpes. Soon, they made it their mission to "Revive the Art of Eating Crêpes" and began traveling the world in search of flavors and new ways to bring this popular street food to market. Made from scratch, the dishes are as delicious as they are beautiful.
"We are absolutely thrilled to announce the grand opening of Sweet Paris in the heart of the beautiful and vibrant Coral Gables community," Allison Chavez said. "Located at The Plaza Coral Gables, our new store is surrounded by the charm and elegance that this city is known for. We cannot wait to welcome everyone as we embark on this exciting new chapter, and let Sweet Paris transport our guests to a beautiful world of culinary delight!"
Sweet Paris in Coral Gables is a corporate-owned location and will be operated by long-time general manager, Marlen Navarrete. Marlen moved from Texas to South Florida to take the helm of this beautiful new location. With over five years of experience working with the company, Navarrete's leadership will guide her team to provide the impeccable level of service and elevated experience that Sweet Paris is known for.
The community is encouraged to join in the grand opening celebration of the new location. Guests are encouraged to sign up for the Sweet Paris Passport to receive exclusive monthly promotions, a birthday bonus, collect points and use them for purchase, receive texts regarding upcoming giveaways, and receive bonus entries for giveaways. The special event on August 24th will include an official ribbon cutting ceremony and will bring the Coral Gables community and local personalities together to enjoy the Sweet Paris experience.
Sweet Paris Coral Gables is the second Miami-area location for the company, and the 14th store overall in its portfolio. The company is working towards a 3rd Miami store by 2024, as part of an ongoing expansion nationwide. Sweet Paris' total store count will be 28 locations in the near future, with projects in various stages of development in Texas, Oklahoma, Minnesota and Florida.
The recent success of Sweet Paris has not gone unnoticed as the brand was recently ranked on Entrepreneur Magazine's 2022 Top New and Emerging Franchises. The brand also made history when it secured a place on Entrepreneur's esteemed Franchise 500® list for the first time in January. Also, co-founders Allison and Ivan Chavez recently landed on Global Franchise Magazine's 10 Emerging Leaders to Watch in 2022, and Allison was included in Nation's Restaurant News' annual Power List, an exclusive group of 50 leaders who are identified as the most innovative and inspiring people in the restaurant industry.
Sweet Paris Coral Gables is open Sunday - Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday - Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. For more information on Sweet Paris in Coral Gables, please visit www.sweetparis.com or call (713) 266-2219.
ABOUT SWEET PARIS:
Sweet Paris Crêperie & Café is a fast-growing restaurant franchise specializing in sweet and savory crêpes, waffles, salads, hot drinks and more. On a mission to "Revive the Art of Eating Crêpes" one crêperie at a time, Sweet Paris is seeking qualified Strategic Partners, especially those with a background in hospitality, to expand the concept in new markets. For more information about the brand, please visit www.sweetparis.com, and for more information on Strategic Partnership Opportunities, visit www.sweetparisfranchise.com.
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PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — The moderate drought across part of Kentucky is impacting crops.
According to Drought.gov, moderate droughts place stress on crops and pastures.
In Nancy, 5-10 young apple trees died, largely due to the heat over the past two weeks at Haney’s Appledale Farm, according to Michael Haney.
While there is no immediate economic impact, Haney believes it could hurt them down the line, when they lose 30 bushels of apple per tree a year.
“With a bushel of apples running 35 to 40 dollars, you can do the math on that and it does start impacting us pretty quick,” he said.
And for trees that haven't died, Haney said apples could become less juicy if the drought keeps up. They need a period of sustained rain, Haney said.
“Hopefully, we get some rain in the next couple of weeks to alleviate these concerns, but until then we have to do the best that we can and hope they make it,“ Haney said. | https://www.lex18.com/news/kentucky-orchard-hopes-for-rain-as-drought-continues | 2022-07-06 00:31:31 | 1 | https://www.lex18.com/news/kentucky-orchard-hopes-for-rain-as-drought-continues |
- A white-cast-free formulation with high-spreadability
- Applied COSMAX's patent technology, 'Clear Fence'
- Plans to continuously introduce new sun care formulas to fulfill customers' various needs
SEONGNAM, South Korea, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global cosmetics research, development, and manufacturing (ODM) company COSMAX has completed the patent application for its own sunscreen formulation "Capsule Sun." COSMAX plans to strengthen a formulation line-up of sunscreens in the global cosmetics market through technological advancements.
On the 28th, COSMAX announced that it has completed the trademark registration for 'Clear Fence™', its proprietary technology for sunscreen, and the patent application for "cosmetic compositions including capsules." The new formulation is characterized by a transparent texture without emulsifiers. It combines the sun protection efficacy of sun care products with the moisturizing effect of skincare.
COSMAX developed the Capsule Sun formulation in response to the increasing demand for transparent and easy-to-apply sunscreens. The company applied its in-house technology that evenly disperses large particle oil ingredients into an aqueous phase without emulsifiers.
The Capsule Sun utilizes a visible capsule form containing sunscreen ingredients to ensure transparency. It provides the effect of sunscreen by forming an even protective barrier on the skin while creating a natural luminosity with moisturizing ingredients. As the formulation is free of emulsifiers, it does not cause white cast and is easy to apply after makeup.
In the global beauty market, the demand for sun care products is growing as applying sunscreen has become an essential skincare routine. Meanwhile, consumer preferences for sunscreen formulations vary by country and region. Europeans and North Americans prefer functional products that reduce damage from strong UV rays, while Asians prefer formulations that are less irritating and have good spreadability.
As tastes in sunscreen are being diversified, consumers consider various factors such as moisturizing effect, spreadability, and transparency when choosing sun care products.
To meet the evolving needs, COSMAX continuously expands its sun care products line-up by introducing new formulations such as sticks, milks, sprays, cushions, serums, and more.
Lee Byung Ju, CEO of COSMAX, said, "COSMAX has developed the Capsule Sun to meet the growing demand for transparent sunscreens." He emphasized, "As a sun care sector is expected to grow in the global beauty market, COSMAX will continuously introduce new sun care formulations in line with the evolving trends and consumer preferences."
In the first quarter of 2023, COSMAX's sales of sunscreen products grew by approximately 130% compared to the same period last year as the global market moved out of the COVID-19 pandemic phase.
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No-code platform speeds up service delivery and significantly enhances customer experience for insurance, banking and other financial institutions
TOKYO, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EasySend Ltd. (Headquarters: Israel, CEO & Co-Founder: Tal Daskal, "EasySend"), an InsurTech company supporting the digitalization of the insurance and financial industries, has established a Japanese entity, EasySend Godo Kaisha in Tokyo. With Kazuyo, Yamashita as Director of Business Development in Japan, EasySend will further expand its customer base and partner companies in Japan and promote the digitalization of the financial industry in Japan including insurance companies and banks by leveraging its knowledge and experience in the global market, while addressing Japanese laws and market needs such as privacy data and security.
The importance of digitalization is widely recognized in the insurance and financial industries, with strategies to simplify, accelerate, and automate business processes. Driven by Covid 19, the industry has also been rapidly strengthening non-face-to-face channels and digitizing and automating administrative procedures of various forms in paper and PDF, contract processing and payment claims.
EasySend meets the needs of these insurance companies and financial institutions by providing a no-code development platform that does not require programming expertise. In particular, EasySend supports digitization by streamlining customer data intake and automating workflows that previously required paper forms into web forms and workflows in a short period of time and at a low cost. EasySend's platform has already been implemented by dozens of insurance companies and banks in Europe, the U.S., and Israel. In Japan, EasySend's platform has been implemented by Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. has also signed a distributor agreement.
EasySend's platform allows non-system developers to quickly and easily develop systems with intuitive drag-and-drop operations and simple configuration, reducing a company's five-year digital transformation plan to just three months, speeding service delivery, reducing system development and operations costs and improving customer services, resulting in the increase in the revenue. It also leverages a cloud-based, no-code builder that leverages third-party integrations, and analytics to address increasingly diverse and complex customer needs, giving it a competitive advantage over its competitors. EasySend also connects to Salesforce CRM to pre-populate fields, collect electronic signatures, initiate journeys, and optimize results. Enterprises can initiate the digital process through their website, email, SMS or CRM and the customers can start the process from any device, at any place or time. EasySend's platform keeps personal and corporate information secure with strict security measures that comply with Japanese and international standards.
Tal Daskal, EasySend's CEO stated, "The establishment of EasySend's presence in the important Japanese market will allow us to build relationships with many companies, including Japanese insurance companies and financial institutions. EasySend is a digitalization expert in the insurance and financial industries. EasySend shortens sales cycles, reduces manual work, and increases brand loyalty."
Akiyuki Matsuda, Data Business Group, DX Promotion Department, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. said, "By using EasySend, we are smoothly digitizing our traditional paper-based operations without major changes to our workflow. The file upload function, check boxes, electronic signatures, and other useful tools have made implementation easy. We also feel that intuitive operations such as copy and paste and drag and drop allow us to develop sophisticatedly designed web flows without advanced digital skills," he said.
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There have been numerous conference titles won and many NCAA berth in Lori Hussong’s time as the field hockey coach at Rider University.
The amazing success of the program, though, wasn’t about the championships; it was about the relationships.
After 23 years of guiding the Broncs, Hussong has announced her retirement.
“It was a very difficult decision because these kids and this program mean so much to us,’’ said Hussong. “But, the team is in a good place and it is back to championship caliber. It’s time to let someone else take over.’’
Hussong, along with her longtime assistant and husband, have brought the Rider program to new heights, and it is one of the most respected in the country.
Hussong leaves with a career mark of 294-151. Her 294 wins are 12th in the nation.
“We are so thankful to Don Harnum (Athletic Director) and Karen Torchia (Senior Associate AD) for all their support throughout the years,’’ said Hussong. “The sad part for me is I’m leaving my kids, they are my family. We will always be supporting them.’’
The accomplishments of the program under Hussong are amazing.
She is a six-time Northeast Conference Coach of the Year (2022, 2020-21, 2011, 2009, 2005, 2003) and one-time Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (2013).
Hussong led 13 of her Rider teams to either an NEC Championship (2022, 2020-21, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2004, 2002, 2000), a MAAC Regular Season Title (2013) or an NEC Regular Season Title (2022, 2020-21, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2005, 2003, 2001), and eight times they advanced to the NCAA tournament.
One of the most amazing stats is that every year of her tenure, the Broncs have qualified for the conference playoffs, whether it be the MAAC or the NEC.
“Lori represents everything I value in a Rider Head Coach,” Director of Athletics Don Harnum said in a release. “Her teams played extremely hard and with tremendous pride, the program was well organized, her players did well academically and represented the program, the department, and the university in a positive manner both on and off the field. She made it easy to root for her team. A lot of programs overuse the words family and family atmosphere, but Lori and Dan truly did create a family atmosphere within the Rider Field Hockey program and with alumni. As much as I don’t want to see her go, I am thrilled to see her go out with a championship and I truly appreciate and value her accomplishments and our working relationship.”
Rider plucked Hussong from West Windsor-Plainsboro South, where she was a highly successful field hockey coach.
“This has meant so much to Dan and I and that is why making the decision to leave was so difficult, especially in telling the team,’’ said Hussong. “It has really just been fun. We’ve never done it for the championships. We have done it because we love working with the kids and seeing them becoming strong, independent women when they leave us and going out and conquering the world.’’
It didn’t take the Hussong’s long to start conquering conference championships. Their first season they needed a tiebreaker to reach the NEC playoffs.
Then they shocked the world as the fourth seed, beating No. 1 Monmouth and then No. 2 Quinnipiac to start an incredible run of success.
Lori leaves with some great memories.
“It has been great to work with Dan. It’s not that often that you get the chance to work with your husband and share a passion for something and doing it together,’’ said Lori. “But, it has been the relationships we have developed with our kids.’’
The championship trophies will tarnish, but the relationships will continue to endure the test of time.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - GoldMining Inc. (the "Company" or "GoldMining") (TSX: GOLD) (NYSE: GLDG) is pleased to announce initial assay results from the first two holes of a six hole 3,600 metre (m) drilling program on the La Garrucha target, located less than one kilometre to the east and immediately adjacent to existing mineral resources on the Company's 100% owned La Mina project ("La Mina"), located in Antioquia, Colombia.
The assays presented herein are for the first step-out drill section located 100 metres along strike of previously identified porphyry-style mineralization at La Garrucha.
Alastair Still, CEO of GoldMining, commented, "This is a great start for our 2022 La Garrucha drilling program at the La Mina Project in Colombia and our broader strategy to unlock value from our portfolio of gold and gold-copper projects located throughout the Americas. This also builds upon the La Mina Preliminary Economic Assessment* announced earlier this year that focused on the La Cantera and Middle Zone deposits of the project which are located 1 kilometre to the west of La Garrucha. Our team believes that the La Garrucha target remains open for expansion and is shaping up as a third possible porphyry deposit which could contribute potential additional resources to lead the growth of the La Mina Project."
Tim Smith, VP Exploration of GoldMining, commented, "These results from the first two holes of our 3,600 metre drilling program (announced April 12, 2022) confirm that the La Garrucha porphyry mineralization extends to the southeast along strike as modelled from our geophysical dataset and interpreted by our technical team. Drilling is continuing on the next two drill fences located on 100 metre step outs southeast along strike. We expect that those assay results will be released in the coming months as they become available. With the association between bedrock magnetic highs and porphyry-style mineralization now confirmed, we are further encouraged by the presence of additional magnetic targets located within the broader La Mina property which will be systematically explored for additional Au-Cu porphyry mineralization."
*The Preliminary Economic Assessment referenced above, announced January 12, 2022, is preliminary in nature and includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves, and there is no certainty that the preliminary economic assessment will be realized.
The ongoing La Garrucha drilling program is targeting a large (1km x 1km) magnetic high associated with a granodiorite porphyry intrusive complex that hosts gold and copper mineralization at La Garrucha (see Figure 1). A smaller discrete magnetic high is also coincident with the nearby La Cantera Au-Cu porphyry deposit. Previous La Garrucha drilling completed in 2011 by Bellhaven Copper & Gold Inc. ('Bellhaven'; prior to acquisition by GoldMining) returned gold-copper porphyry intercepts of 216.80 metres at 1.31 g/t Au and 0.15% Cu from 143.0 to 359.80 metres depth in LME1100; 158.12 metres at 1.01 g/t Au and 0.17% Cu from 66.50 to 224.62 metres depth in LME1102; and 71.0 metres at 1.02 g/t Au and 0.14% Cu from 355.0 to 426.0 metres depth and 106.60 metres at 0.56 g/t Au and 0.11% Cu from 485.65 to 592.25 metres depth in LME1104.
Drill holes LME1107 & 1108 were drilled on a NE-SW oriented section located 100 metres southeast of the previous Bellhaven drilling at an azimuth of 220⁰ and at hole inclination of -50⁰ and -70⁰ hole respectively (see Figure 2). Drilling has confirmed the continuation of porphyry mineralization southeast along strike. Gold and copper mineralization is coincident, and higher grades are associated with a core potassic alteration zone within the porphyry intrusive complex, quartz stockwork veining and both vein-hosted and disseminated sulphides including pyrite, chalcopyrite and lesser bornite. Detailed core logging is ongoing, including re-logging of the previous Bellhaven core, to place copper and gold mineralization in spatial and temporal context with the hosting porphyry intrusive complex. Geological 3D modelling and subsequent resource modelling will take place in the latter part of the year following conclusion of the drilling program.
The La Garrucha porphyry mineral system now extends over at least 300 metres strike, where it is open to the southeast, and over at least 200 metres width. Drilling has tested to a maximum vertical depth of 450 metres below surface where the porphyry mineral system remains open to depth.
Step-out drilling is currently ongoing on a second drill fence located 100 metres along strike to the southeast of LME1107 & 1108. A third fence is planned an additional 100 metres southeast along strike pending visual observations of the drill cores. In addition, the drill will return to the LME1107 & 1108 drill pad to re-enter and deepen LME 1108 given that core assays indicate that the hole ended in mineralization.
Additional information regarding the La Mina Project, including existing resource estimates and past work at the project, is set out in the technical report titled "NI 43-101 Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment, La Mina Project, Antioquia, Republic of Colombia" with an effective date of January 12, 2022, which is available at the Company's website at www.goldmining.com.
Table 1 – 2022 La Garrucha gold assay results for the first two holes of the drilling program received as of 22nd June 2022.
Table 2 – 2022 La Garrucha drillhole collar location coordinates.
Paulo Pereira, P. Geo., President of GoldMining, has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release. Mr. Pereira is a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101.
For this program of drill core sampling, samples were taken from the NQ/HQ core by sawing the drill core in half, with one-half sent to ALS Colombia LTDA in Medellín for assaying and the other half retained for future reference. Sample lengths downhole range from a minimum of 0.50m to a maximum of 2.10m. ALS Colombia LTDA is a certified commercial laboratory located in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia and is independent of GoldMining. GoldMining has implemented a stringent quality assurance and quality-control (QA/QC) program for the sampling and analysis of drill core which includes insertion of duplicates, mineralized standards and blank samples for each batch of 100 samples. The gold analyses were completed by ALS Au-AA23 method (fire-assay with an atomic absorption finish on 30 grams of material). Repeats were also carried out by fire-assay. Copper analyses were completed by ALS ME-ICP61 method (four acid digest with ICP analysis).
GoldMining Inc. is a public mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of gold assets in the Americas. Through its disciplined acquisition strategy, GoldMining now controls a diversified portfolio of resource-stage gold and gold-copper projects in Canada, U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. The Company also owns more than 20 million shares of Gold Royalty Corp. (NYSE American: GROY).
This document contains certain forward-looking statements that reflect the current views and/or expectations, including statements regarding the Company's expectation, future potential and future work programs at the Company's La Mina Project. Forward-looking statements are based on the then-current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and forecasts about the business and the markets in which GoldMining operates. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including: delays to plans caused by restrictions and other future impacts of COVID-19 or any other inability of the Company to meet expected timelines for planned project activities; results of exploration programs may not confirm expectations; the inherent risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral properties, fluctuating metal prices, unanticipated costs and expenses, risks related to government and environmental regulation, social, permitting and licensing matters, and uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future. These risks, as well as others, including those set forth in GoldMiningꞌs Annual Information Form for the year ended November 30, 2021, and other filings with Canadian securities regulators and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause actual results and events to vary significantly. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information. There can be no assurance that forward-looking information, or the material factors or assumptions used to develop such forward-looking information, will prove to be accurate. The Company does not undertake any obligations to release publicly any revisions for updating any voluntary forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable securities law.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz’s U.S. Open championship moved him to No. 1 on Monday at age 19, making him the youngest man to lead the ATP computerized rankings since they began in 1973.
“It’s a dream. At the moment, I can’t believe I reached No. 1. It’s going to take time to understand it,” Alcaraz said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I have to move on and find new goals. I have to keep at this level, at No. 1, for many years. That’s my goal — and, of course, to get more Grand Slams.”
The Spaniard’s victory by a 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3 score over Casper Ruud in Sunday’s final allowed Alcaraz to win his first major title and to replace 2021 U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev atop the rankings.
Alcaraz’s three-spot jump from No. 4 ties the mark for biggest move up to No. 1.
Ruud, a 23-year-old from Norway, went from No. 7 to No. 2 after reaching his second major final of the season. He was the runner-up to Rafael Nadal at the French Open in June.
Sunday’s matchup was the first Grand Slam final featuring two men both trying to win a first Slam trophy and with No. 1 on the line, too.
“He’s riding that wave. At the moment, he’s the best player in the world, in my eyes. He deserves that spot,” Ruud said. “I’m happy that we played each other in the final and that we played for the title and the world No. 1 spot.”
Nadal also entered the U.S. Open with a chance to move back up to No. 1, but he stayed at No. 3 after losing in the fourth round to Frances Tiafoe, who wound up being the first American man in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in 16 years and going from No. 26 to a career-high No. 19.
Medvedev dropped to No. 4, and Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev went from No. 2 to No. 5 after sitting out the U.S. Open because of torn ligaments in his right ankle.
Novak Djokovic missed his second Grand Slam tournament this season because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and slid one place down to No. 7.
Iga Swiatek’s third major title, and first in New York, kept her at No. 1 in the WTA rankings and left the 21-year-old from Poland with more than twice as many points as the new No. 2, Ons Jabeur, who was the runner-up Saturday.
Swiatek also won the French Open and is the first woman in six years to claim two Slams in one season.
Anett Kontaveit slipped one spot to No. 3 after losing in the second round of the U.S. Open to Serena Williams.
Two American players are in the top 10 in career-best positions after reaching the quarterfinals: Jessica Pegula at No. 5 and Coco Gauff at No. 8.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have prevented some 25,000 people from entering the country illegally in less than a month, a government official said Wednesday, accusing neighbor and regional rival Turkey of channeling asylum-seekers toward Greece.
That figure is more than three times the total number of asylum-seekers who have made it into Greece in the entire year to date, according to data from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.
Takis Theodorikakos, Greece’s minister for public order, said the pressure at the land and sea borders with Turkey “is developing into a very particular threat to Greece’s integrity and security.”
“During the month of August alone so far, 25,000 irregular migrants have tried to illegally enter through the Greek-Turkish borders,” Theodorikakos said in an interview with private Antenna TV. “It’s a very large number.”
Theodorikakos didn’t expand on how Greece stopped the entries, or provide figures for previous months. Turkish officials, and international human rights groups, have repeatedly accused Greece of illegally returning asylum-seekers who make it onto Greek territory without allowing them to make their asylum bids. Athens has denied that.
Theodorikakos spoke a day after the government decided to extend a fence along the land border with Turkey to deal with increased immigration flows.
“It’s obvious that the Turkish side is making use of these unhappy people in a systematic, methodical and complex way,” Theodorikakos said Wednesday.
He added that many of the migrants heading to Greece are Syrians and claimed that they “are forced (to try to enter Greece) as they appear to be presented with a dilemma by Turkish authorities — either to return to Syria or to move on to Greece.”
Relations between Greece and Turkey are tense over immigration and undersea energy exploration rights.
Thousands of people from the Middle East, Asia and Africa seeking a better life in the European Union head to Greece from Turkey — which is host to about 4 million refugees — every year. Most then try to move on to Europe’s more prosperous heartland.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Instagram is blocking posts that mention abortion from public view, in some cases requiring its users to confirm their age before letting them view posts that offer up information about the procedure.
Over the last day, several Instagram accounts run by abortion rights advocacy groups have found their posts or stories hidden with a warning that described the posts as “sensitive content.”
In one example, Instagram covered a post on one page with more than 25,000 followers that shared text reading: “Abortion in America How You Can Help.” The post went on to encourage followers to donate money to abortion organizations and to protest the Supreme Court’s decision to strip constitutional protections for abortion in the U.S.
The post was slapped with a warning from Instagram that covered the post, reading “This photo may contain graphic or violent content.”
Instagram’s latest issue follows an Associated Press report that Facebook and Instagram were promptly deleting posts that offered to mail out abortion pills in states that restrict their use. The tech platforms said they were deleting the posts because they violated policies against selling or gifting certain products, including pharmaceuticals, drugs and firearms.
Yet, the AP’s review found that similar posts offering to mail a gun or marijuana were not removed by Facebook. The company did not respond to questions about the discrepancy.
Berlin photographer Zoe Noble runs the Instagram page that had its post referencing abortion blocked. The page celebrates women who decide not to have children, for more than a year. Monday was the first time a post mentioning abortion was restricted by Instagram, although she has mentioned it many times before.
“I was really confused because we’ve never had this happen before, and we’ve talked about abortion before,” Noble said. “I was really shocked that the word abortion seemed to be flagged.”
The platform offers no way for users to dispute the restriction.
The AP identified nearly a dozen other posts that mentioned the word “abortion” and were subsequently covered up by Instagram. All of the posts were informational in nature, and none of the posts featured photos of abortions. An Instagram post by an AP reporter that asked people if they were experiencing the problem was also covered by the company on Tuesday, and required users to enter their age in order to view it.
The AP inquired about the problem on Tuesday morning. Hours later, Instagram’s communication department acknowledged the problem on Twitter, describing it as a glitch. A spokesman for Instagram-owner Meta Platforms Inc. said in an email that the company does not place age restrictions around its abortion content.
“We’re hearing that people around the world are seeing our ‘sensitivity screens,’ on many different types of content when they shouldn’t be. We’re looking into this bug and working on a fix now," the company tweeted.
Tech companies like Meta can hide some of the decision-making, including how they tweak algorithms, to subtly manipulate the social media conversation in a way that promotes some posts or keywords, but demotes others, said Brooke Erin Duffy, a professor at Cornell University who studies social media.
“This can all take place behind the scenes, and it can be attributed to a glitch,” Duffy said. “W don’t know what happened. That’s what’s chilling about this.” | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Instagram-hides-some-posts-that-mention-abortion-17271917.php | 2022-06-28 21:02:06 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Instagram-hides-some-posts-that-mention-abortion-17271917.php |
Beyoncé might have to clear up space in her awards cabinet! The "Still Alive" singer received her first-ever Daytime Emmy Award nomination on Thursday. She earned the nod for Outstanding Original Song for writing the theme song for her mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson's, Facebook Watch series, Talks With Mama Tina.
The theme song starts off with Tina's four grandkids -- Solange's son, Julez, 17, and Beyoncé's children, Blue Ivy, 9, and twins Sir and Rumi, 4, shouting, "Let's talk about it, grandma!"
It then cuts to Beyoncé singing, "Whatever it is, we can talk about it. Tell me how you feel, we can talk about it. Say what's on your mind, we can talk about it. Simple conversations with no limitations, come and have a talk with Mama Tina."
Tina was clearly appreciative of the special treatment! When she previewed the series and the song on Instagram, she wrote, "Thank you to my baby @beyonce and my beautiful grand babies for making this special theme song for the show."
Beyoncé has previously received eight Primetime Emmy Awards nominations over the years. Most recently, she received four Emmy nominations in 2019 for her Netflix special, Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, which documented her iconic 2018 Coachella performance.
The live concert film was nominated for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special, Outstanding Costumes for a Variety (Non-Fiction or Reality Programming), Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special and Outstanding Music Direction.
Beyoncé still has yet to win an Emmy Award, but was previously nominated in 2013 for Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program for the Super Bowl XlVII Halftime Show, in 2015 for Outstanding Special Class Program for her On the Run Tour with husband JAY-Z, and in 2016 for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special and Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special for Lemonade.
The 49th annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live from the Pasadena Civic Center on Friday, June 24 from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. ET, delayed PT, on CBS, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
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Denim as we recognize it today has been in use for nearly 200 years as a dependable low-cost material. Or at least, it’s low-cost when not in the hands of high-end fashion designers. It’s highly versatile, too, being used for all manner of clothing and other items such as bags.
It can be worn as a part of an outfit or worn as the entirety of one. It even comes in endless colors and shades so you can dress with light colors, dark colors or somewhere in the middle.
In this article: Amebelle Denim Shirt, Hengao Denim Jeans and Levi’s Denim Jacket.
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Amebelle Women’s Three-Quarter Sleeve Chambray Denim Crop Top
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Wrangler Women’s Retro Long-Sleeved Western Denim Snap Shirt
This straightforward shirt is perfect for wearing to a job that’s a little more hands-on than others. The buttons are snaps, and it comes in seven sizes and two colors.
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Legendary Whitetails Men’s Outlaw Western Shirt
Denim doesn’t have to mean solid blue all of the time. Take a look at this plaid-focused shirt as a great example (though there is still a solid blue option). It comes in nine sizes.
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It’s a dangerous world out there, especially if you go it alone. This shirt is ready-made to help protect you with motorcycle armor and Kevlar-reinforced shoulders and elbows among its features. It comes in eight sizes.
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Jeans can get surprisingly complicated with all the different styles, cuts and terminology, but not these. These are the classic kind of jeans. They come in 24 sizes and six colors.
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Sometimes it’s hard to find good denim shorts that aren’t daisy dukes. These, however, come in 41 colors and five sizes, none of which is short enough to qualify.
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(Watch Brandon Beane’s portion of the Bills’ Friday morning conference in the video above.)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane’s bond has showed its strength in many forms over the past six years at One Bills Drive, and this week proved that once again.
In 2017, the Buffalo Bills welcomed both a new head coach and a new general manager. But this was far from the first meeting for the two leaders.
McDermott came into play following another disappointing season led by former head coach Rex Ryan. After serving as defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers, McDermott was named the 20th head coach in the team’s history.
The man who months later would be announced as Doug Whaley’s successor, Brandon Beane, used to be another essential piece of the Panthers’ organization.
Before heading up north, Beane had been with the Panthers for the entirety of his NFL career, beginning in 1998. Over the years, he worked his way up to the position of assistant general manager.
His last six seasons with the Panthers were accompanied by a familiar face — McDermott’s. Since coming to Buffalo, the two have been instrumental in breaking the 17-year playoff drought, bringing the team to the playoffs in five of their six seasons, including this year, where the Bills reign as AFC East champions for the third year in a row.
Beane admires McDermott, not only as a coach, but a person. That was once again made apparent during a conference Friday morning, where the two spoke of the difficult, but inspiring recovery of safety Damar Hamlin.
“He knows when they need a kick in the butt, and he also knows when they need a hug,” Beane said. “That’s what’s special about it.”
Beane returned home Thursday after spending most of this week in Cincinnati, keeping an eye on Hamlin’s recovery following the 24-year-old’s bout with cardiac arrest on the field.
“I was in awe watching their strength,” Beane said of the team who kept Hamlin alive.
As for McDermott, Beane thinks “this guy deserves Coach of the Year for what he’s done.”
“What a great job of leading our team back here, getting them home. Just the vulnerability Sean showed, helping us get counselors here,” Beane said. “He’s got this team rock-solid.”
That says a lot about a man who described himself as someone who was more likely to keep difficult feelings bottled up in his younger years.
“I was reminded this year … how real, and this is probably a message for fans out there, how real these guys are. They’re not robots. They’re real people with real families, real issues in their personal lives,” McDermott said.
(Hear from Head Coach Sean McDermott in the video above)
McDermott’s resilience and his strength as a coach and a leader put him above the rest in Beane’s eyes.
“Find me a coach that could have this team at 12-3 with all we’ve dealt with this year. That’s a true testament to him, and I’m glad he’s our head coach,” Beane said Friday morning.
McDermott and Beane have both acknowledged the importance of mental health and having resources available for staff and players.
“One of Sean’s greatest strengths is he’s a great listener,” Beane said. “I think that’s one of the leadership qualities that people leave out that is as important as any of them.”
And McDermott’s blue and red army notices it, too. One of the team’s leaders, quarterback Josh Allen, said Thursday that McDermott “was the perfect man in that situation to handle that.”
“That type of situation, I can’t say enough about what he did, what he said to us in the locker room,” Allen said.
It’s a balance, Beane says.
“You gotta stand up there and be a rock, but sometimes you’ve got to be a human,” Beane said. “I think he’s got that balance.”
Beane says that despite what the Bills have dealt with, he’s “excited” for where they’re at.
“This is a group of winners,” Beane said. “I will forever remember this team, this season, the moments of it … I don’t know if there’s ever a team I’ll be more proud of than this.”
Still eluded by a Super Bowl victory, the Bills have a shot at going all the way once again when the playoffs begin later this month. But first, the Patriots come to town this Sunday.
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