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Welcome to the Lohan-aissance! Lindsay Lohan is preparing for her return to the screen in the upcoming Netflix holiday rom com, Falling for Christmas, and to celebrate her comeback, the 36-year-old star is posing for a magazine cover, which is rare for her these days.
In the cover story for Cosmopolitan magazine, Lohan opens up about her laidback life in Dubai with her new husband, Bader Shammas, and preparing to return to the spotlight.
Telling the magazine she's feeling "really good," Lohan says, "I’m really excited. It’s fun to be back in New York and doing shoots. And I love this part of the process. After you’ve filmed, this is the fun part. So I feel really great and just really excited and happy."
After years out of the public eye, Lohan admits she's "excited to kind of come back," saying she's looking forward to showing off her physical comedy, noting she "missed" doing that in the past.
Lohan also discusses social media and why she feels young stars have it easier than she did when she was coming up in the entertainment industry.
"When I first started out in the business, none of us had a say in how to control our own narrative. There were paparazzi pictures, and then people ran with it," she explains. "So I think it’s really good that in this day and age, people can say who they are and who they want to be. And I admire and appreciate that. I’m a little jealous because I didn’t have that. But I think it moves really fast and I just try to keep up as best I can. And I check everything before I post it. I’ll send it to people. Because you have to."
By her side for this comeback is her support system, including Shammas, whom she tied the knot with this past summer.
"I have an amazing husband, who’s a very calm person. Just the best," she shares. "And my family. And I feel like I have a small group of good friends who are just really good people. That’s the only support that I really need: friends, family, and loved ones."
When she's not promoting her new projects, Lohan is living a more laidback lifestyle in Dubai.
"I cook a lot," she shares. "I cook a lot of Italian. I do a lot of pastas. I do a lot of an Arabic dish called machboos. It’s chicken with rice and vegetables. I do a really good borscht soup. I also go to bed really early. 9:30."
As for who she gets star struck around, that would be veteran actor Al Pacino.
"I actually have asked him for a lot of advice for a lot of things, especially work-wise and just life-wise, just because he’s a great person to talk to," she says of the 82-year-old actor. "He always says, 'Focus on your craft when it comes to your work.' And I think that’s really important. Don’t let other outside things blur your vision."
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(GasBuddy)For the third straight week, the nation’s average gas price has climbed, rising 13.8 cents from a week ago to $3.92 per gallon Monday according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country. The national average is up 22.5 cents from a month ago and 67.0 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has risen 18.0 cents in the last week and stands at $5.04 per gallon.
“With OPEC+ deciding to cut oil production by two million barrels a day, we’ve seen oil prices surge 20%, which is the primary factor in the national average rising for the third straight week,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. “Some of the refinery snags that have caused prices to surge in the West and Great Lakes appear to be improving, with prices in those two regions likely to inch down, even with OPEC’s decision, as the drop in wholesale prices has offset the rise due to the production cut. But where gas prices didn’t jump because of refinery issues, they will rise a total of 10-30 cents due to oil’s rise, and some areas are certainly seeing the jump already. For now, I don’t expect much improvement in prices for most of the country, with California and the Great Lakes as the exception, with downdrafts likely in the days and weeks ahead.”
OIL PRICES
After a substantial rally following OPEC+’s decision to cut oil production, oil prices have cooled off slightly, with West Texas Intermediate crude oil falling 48 cents in early Monday trade to $92.16 per barrel, up some $8 per barrel from a week prior, and around $14 per barrel higher than two weeks ago. Brent crude oil was seeing similar moves, down 60 cents in early trade to $97.32 per barrel, but much stronger than last Monday’s $89.55 per barrel level. While the President has indicated there will still be some oil drawdown from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve, or SPR, current levels are now down over 200 million barrels from a year ago, and could put the nation more at risk should Russia’s war on Ukraine continue for a significant time into the future.
According to Baker Hughes, last week’s U.S. rig count was down by 3 rigs to 762, and was 229 rigs higher than a year ago. The Canadian rig count was up 2 rigs to 215, and was 48 rigs higher than a year ago.
OIL AND REFINED PRODUCTS
According to the Energy Information Administration’s weekly report, crude oil inventories fell 1.4 million barrels last week, being held at levels common for this time of year by continued SPR releases. Meanwhile, the SPR was down 6.2 million barrels to 416.4 million, nearly a third lower than a year ago. Gasoline inventories plunged 4.7 million barrels and now stand nearly 8% below average for this time of year. Gasoline inventories in the Gulf plummeted the most, nearly 4 million barrels. Implied gasoline demand jumped 640,000bpd to 9.47 million, a number likely overstated compared to real demand due to complexities surrounding movements before and after Hurricane Ian. Refinery utilization rose 0.7% to 91.3% with both gasoline and distillate production rising. Total supplies, including the SPR, are down nearly 12% compared to a year ago.
FUEL DEMAND
According to GasBuddy demand data driven by its Pay with GasBuddy card, U.S. retail gasoline demand fell last week (Sun-Sat) by 0.3%. Broken down by PADD region, demand rose 0.3% in PADD 1, fell 0.5% in PADD 2, fell 2.8% in PADD 3, rose 2.5% in PADD 4 and rose 1.5% in PADD 5.
GAS PRICE TRENDS
The most common U.S. gas price encountered by motorists stood at $3.29 per gallon, unchanged versus last week, followed by $3.49, $3.39, $3.19 and $3.59 rounding out the top five most common prices.
The median U.S. gas price is $3.59 per gallon, up 10 cents from last week and about 33 cents lower than the national average.
The top 10% of stations in the country average $6.12 per gallon, while the bottom 10% average $3.12 per gallon.
The states with the lowest average prices: Georgia ($3.21), Mississippi ($3.25) and Texas ($3.25).
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A motorcyclist was seriously injured when he crashed on Raymond Road late Saturday night.
Witnesses saw Talon Turcotte of Durham leave the roadway while turning a corner and strike a telephone pole, according to the Brunswick Police Department. Turcotte was thrown from the motorcycle.
Turcotte — who was wearing a helmet — was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/18/news/portland/raymond-motorcycle-injuries/ | 2022-09-19 09:35:09 | 1 | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/18/news/portland/raymond-motorcycle-injuries/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon appears to be getting the TikTok bug, joining other companies seeking to hold consumers’ attention by introducing replicas of the popular social platform.
The e-commerce giant has been testing a feed on its app that enables shoppers to scroll through TikTok-like photos and videos of products posted by other users.
Using the feature, called Inspire, customers can like, save and share posts of products, and purchase items directly from the feed, according to Watchful Technologies, an Israeli-based artificial-intelligence firm that analyzes apps and has tracked the feature.
The test doesn’t mean Amazon will roll out the widget to the public in its current form — or at all. Alyssa Bronikowski, an Amazon spokesperson, declined to say if the company has plans to introduce the feature to all its customers. In a statement, Bronikowski said the company is “constantly testing new features to help make customers’ lives a little easier.”
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the test. Citing an anonymous source, the Journal also said the company is testing the feature among a small number of Amazon employees.
Amazon often experiments with new features, sometimes even targeting its tests to specific regions. Amid regulatory pressure about its private-label business, the company had been testing how to identify its brands in search results by tagging them with badges such as “Amazon brand” or “Exclusive to Amazon,” the research firm Marketplace Pulse discovered earlier this year.
In its current form, the experimental TikTok-like feed mostly shows photos, said Daniel Buchuk, a researcher with Watchful Technologies. But if the feature is rolled out, Buchuk suspects the feed will be video-heavy as Amazon sellers create content to make it more engaging for customers.
The corporate parents of Google and Facebook, the two biggest sellers in digital advertising, already have been pushing their own TikTok clones in bids to keep eyeballs glued to their services so they can continue to boost their revenue.
Google’s YouTube video service rolled a “Shorts” feature limited to clips of a minute or less last year in the U.S. after initially testing it in India during 2020. By June of this year, Google said YouTube Shorts was attracting more than 1.5 billion logged-in users each month, although analysts believe TikTok’s popularity is undercutting ad sales at the video site.
Those concerns were elevated by Google’s latest quarterly results, which revealed YouTube’s year-over-year growth in ad sales had slowed to its slowest pace since public disclosures of the site’s revenue began.
Meanwhile, Facebook now offers its own take on TikTok, a short-form video feature called Reels, on its Instagram app as well as its main social networking service, which are now operate as part of Meta Platforms. Earlier this year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Reels accounted for more than 20% of the time that people spend on Instagram.
But it’s not clear that engagement is helping to drive ad sales after Meta recently reported its first year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue since Facebook went public a decade ago.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving said Saturday he embraced all religions, defiantly defending his right to post whatever he believes after the owner of the Brooklyn Nets said he was disappointed that Irving appeared to back an antisemitic film.
“We’re in 2022. History is not supposed to be hidden from anybody and I’m not a divisive person when it comes to religion,” Irving said during a tense postgame press conference. “I embrace all walks of life.”
Nets owner Joe Tsai said Friday he was disappointed that Irving appeared to support a film “based on a book full of antisemitic disinformation.” The star guard for the Nets posted a link for the film “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” on Twitter on Thursday. The synopsis on Amazon said the film “uncovers the true identity of the Children of Israel.”
“The organization has spoken to Kyrie about it,” Nets coach Steve Nash said before their loss to Indiana, not divulging specifics of what that meant.
But nothing that was said will stop Irving from what he wants to share.
“I’m not going to stand down on anything I believe in,” he said. “I’m only going to get stronger because I’m not alone. I have a whole army around me.”
Irving said he understood Tsai’s position but was quick to say that he did nothing harmful, adding that just because he posts about something doesn’t necessarily means he supports it.
“Did I do anything illegal? Did I hurt anybody?” Irving said. “Did I harm anybody? Am I going out and saying that I hate one specific group of people?”
But he went far enough that the Nets and the NBA spoke out against hate speech.
Tsai and the Nets reacted quickly to the latest trouble stirred up by Irving, who had previously supported the idea of the Earth being flat and last month on social media shared an old clip from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — though Irving clarified that he didn’t stand with Jones when it came to anything regarding the shootings at Sandy Hook.
“I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to all of us, and as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity or religion,” Tsai wrote on Twitter regarding Irving.
The NBA on Saturday said “hate speech of any kind is unacceptable.”
“We believe we all have a role to play in ensuring such words or ideas, including antisemitic ones, are challenged and refuted and we will continue working with all members of the NBA community to ensure that everyone understands the impact of their words and actions,” the league said.
It was not clear if that meant the league has spoken to Irving, or plans to speak to him on the matter.
Irving was unavailable for most of the Nets’ home games last season because he refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19, as was mandated in New York City. The Nets then declined to give him a contract extension this summer, meaning Irving could be in his final season with the team.
“The Brooklyn Nets strongly condemn and have no tolerance for the promotion of any form of hate speech,” the team said in a statement. “We believe that in these situations, our first action must be open, honest dialogue. We thank those, including the ADL, who have been supportive during this time.”
Nash was asked Saturday if he felt if the latest Irving storyline was a distraction to the team.
“I don’t think our group is overly affected by the situation,” Nash said. “We’ve had so many situations over the last 2 1/2 years that I think we’ve kind of built an immunity to some of it. I also think our guys aren’t that familiar with the material.”
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AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds contributed to this story.
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Saturday, October 1, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Sunday, Sunday night, and Monday.
CAZ300-021100-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
Including the city of San Luis Reservoir
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 87. Northwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 89. West winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 82 to 90. Lows
in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 93.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around
70. Highs 86 to 94.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 92.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 60 86 61 87 /
$$
CAZ301-021100-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
Including the city of Los Banos
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 90. Lows
in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 58 87 58 88 /
$$
CAZ302-021100-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
Including the cities of Merced, Madera, and Atwater
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 56 85 56 86 /
Merced 57 87 57 89 /
Chowchilla 56 87 56 88 /
Madera 57 87 56 88 /
Firebaugh 57 87 56 88 /
Mendota 57 87 58 89 /
$$
CAZ303-021100-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
Including the cities of Planada, Lake Mcclure, and Le Grand
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 57 87 57 87 /
Le Grand 57 87 56 88 /
$$
CAZ304-021100-
Coalinga - Avenal-
Including the cities of Avenal and Coalinga
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 60 88 61 90 /
Avenal 63 87 64 89 /
$$
CAZ305-021100-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
Including the cities of Lemoore Station, Five Points,
and Kettleman City
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 59 89 61 91 /
Five Points 59 89 59 90 /
NAS Lemoore 58 89 59 90 /
Kettleman City 62 89 64 91 /
$$
CAZ306-021100-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
Including the cities of Selma, Sanger, Parlier, Kingsburg,
and Kerman
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 59 88 59 89 /
Kingsburg 57 89 57 89 /
Sanger 57 89 59 89 /
Kerman 56 87 56 88 /
Caruthers 57 88 57 89 /
$$
CAZ307-021100-
Fresno-Clovis-
Including the city of Fresno
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 62 89 62 89 /
Fresno 62 89 62 89 /
$$
CAZ308-021100-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
Including the cities of Blackwells Corner and McKittrick
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 81 to 87. Southwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds up
to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 82 to 88. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. North winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 87 to 93.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs 85 to 95.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 56 85 56 86 /
Merced 57 87 57 89 /
Chowchilla 56 87 56 88 /
Madera 57 87 56 88 /
$$
CAZ309-021100-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
Including the cities of Lost Hills and Buttonwillow
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. West winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the mid 60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 59 87 61 89 /
Buttonwillow 59 87 60 88 /
$$
CAZ310-021100-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
Including the cities of Delano, Wasco, Alpaugh, and Shafter
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds up to
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 58 87 59 88 /
Allensworth 59 88 59 88 /
Wasco 59 87 59 88 /
Delano 59 87 60 88 /
McFarland 59 87 59 88 /
Shafter 60 87 60 88 /
$$
CAZ311-021100-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
Including the cities of Hanford, Lemoore, and Corcoran
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 59 88 59 89 /
Hanford 57 90 58 91 /
Corcoran 58 88 59 89 /
$$
CAZ312-021100-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
Including the cities of Goshen, Visalia, Tulare, and Porterville
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds
up to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
lower 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 57 88 58 89 /
Dinuba 57 88 57 89 /
Visalia 57 88 57 89 /
Exeter 58 88 59 88 /
Tulare 59 87 59 88 /
Lindsay 59 87 59 88 /
Porterville 62 87 62 88 /
$$
CAZ313-021100-
Buena Vista-
Including the city of Taft
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds up
to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the west after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 66 86 66 87 /
$$
CAZ314-021100-
Bakersfield-
Including the city of Bakersfield
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 66. North winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 66. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 61 to 67. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 62 to 68.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 64 to 70.
Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 66 87 65 88 /
$$
CAZ315-021100-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
Including the city of Richgrove
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds
up to 5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 59 87 60 88 /
$$
CAZ316-021100-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Lamont and Arvin
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 62 87 63 89 /
Lamont 62 88 63 89 /
Mettler 64 85 64 86 /
$$
CAZ317-021100-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
Including the cities of El Portal and Mariposa
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds
up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs around 90.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 60 82 61 83 /
$$
CAZ318-021100-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
Including the cities of Bass Lake, Coarsegold, Fish Camp,
Oakhurst, and North Fork
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 54 to 62. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 83. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 54 to 62. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 85. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 55 to 63. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 78 to 86. Lows
56 to 64.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 88.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 57 to 65.
Highs 77 to 89.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 51 85 51 87 /
Bass Lake 52 80 53 81 /
$$
CAZ319-021100-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
Including the city of Millerton Lake
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 89. South winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. North winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest
winds up to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs 87 to 94.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 61 87 62 88 /
Three Rivers 62 90 62 91 /
Springville 59 83 60 83 /
Tule River Reservation 66 87 67 88 /
$$
CAZ320-021100-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Auberry
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 56 to 66. North winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 86. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 57 to 67. North winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 87. East winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 68. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 89.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 59 to 69.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 59 to 70.
Highs 76 to 91.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 65 82 66 83 /
$$
CAZ321-021100-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. North winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 60s. Highs around 90.
$$
CAZ322-021100-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
Including the city of Camp Nelson
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 64. North winds up to 5 mph
with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 82. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 64. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 83. East winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 59 to 65. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
with gusts to around 20 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 85.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 87.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 67.
Highs 77 to 87.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 52 77 53 78 /
$$
CAZ323-021100-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
Including the cities of Tuolumne Meadows and Wawona
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 50. Southeast winds
up to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 56 to 70. South winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 51. Northeast winds up
to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 58 to 72. East winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 52. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 54 to 74. Lows
35 to 52.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 30 66 31 68 /
Wawona 50 80 51 81 /
Hetch Hetchy 56 82 56 85 /
$$
CAZ324-021100-
Yosemite Valley-
Including the city of Yosemite Valley
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 59. Southeast winds up to
5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 85. Southeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 52 to 60. Northeast winds up
to 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 86. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 53 to 61. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 75 to 87. Lows
52 to 62.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 87.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 52 to 63.
Highs 74 to 87.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 47 89 48 90 /
$$
CAZ325-021100-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 61. West winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 81. Northwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest with gusts to around 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 52 to 62. North winds up to
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 82. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 53 to 63. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 73 to 84. Lows
53 to 64.
$$
CAZ326-021100-
Upper San Joaquin River-
Including the cities of Devils Postpile, Florence Lake,
and Lake Thomas Edison
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 48. Southwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 69. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 49. Northeast winds up
to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 56 to 70. East winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 49. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 52 to 72. Lows
37 to 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 42 66 43 68 /
$$
CAZ327-021100-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
Including the cities of Lake Wishon, Huntington Lake,
and Shaver Lake
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 48. East winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 58 to 68. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 39 to 49. Northeast winds up
to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 59 to 69. East winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 39 to 51. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 54 to 71. Lows
38 to 52.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 46 64 47 66 /
Shaver Lake 49 71 50 72 /
Lake Wishon 48 71 49 73 /
$$
CAZ328-021100-
Kings Canyon NP-
Including the city of Cedar Grove
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to 45. South winds up to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 65. Southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 46. North winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 66. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 46. South winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 66.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 46.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to 46.
Highs 48 to 65.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 33 to 45. Highs
46 to 62.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 55 83 56 85 /
$$
CAZ329-021100-
Grant Grove Area-
Including the cities of Grant Grove and Hume Lake
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 45 to 59. East winds up to 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 78. South winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 60. East winds up to
5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 79. East winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 47 to 61. Northwest winds up
to 5 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to 62.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 65 to 81.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 47 to 62.
Highs 62 to 81.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 51 68 52 69 /
$$
CAZ330-021100-
Sequoia NP-
Including the cities of Giant Forest and Lodgepole
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 52. North winds up to
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 70. West winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Colder. Mostly clear. Lows 33 to 53. North winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 71. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 54. South winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 52 to 72. Lows
34 to 54.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 72.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 54.
Highs 50 to 72.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Colder. Partly cloudy. Lows 33 to 53.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs 49 to 69.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 44 69 44 70 /
$$
CAZ331-021100-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
Including the city of Johnsondale
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 56. Northwest winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 77. West winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 57. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight. Gusts up to
25 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 78. North winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 58. West winds up to
10 mph shifting to the north after midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 65 to 79.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 45 to 59.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 65 to 79.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 60.
Highs 62 to 79.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 43 82 44 83 /
$$
CAZ332-021100-
Kern River Valley-
Including the cities of Lake Isabella and Kernville
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the north after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 89. North winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the west 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. West winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the north after
midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 84 to 90. Northeast winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the southwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds 5 to
15 mph shifting to the north after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 91.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 92.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 59 to 65.
Highs 83 to 92.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 55 72 56 73 /
Kernville 57 90 58 90 /
Lake Isabella 60 90 60 91 /
Weldon 59 90 60 90 /
$$
CAZ333-021100-
Piute Walker Basin-
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 61. West winds up to 10 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 83. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 61. Northwest winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 83. North winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 52 to 62. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the north after midnight.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Clear. Highs 74 to 86. Lows 54 to
64.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 54 to 65.
Highs 73 to 86.
$$
CAZ334-021100-
Tehachapi-
Including the city of Tehachapi
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 54 to 62. West winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the southwest after midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 82. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the west 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 54 to 62. West winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 82. North winds up to 5 mph shifting
to the west in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 55 to 63. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Clear. Highs 76 to 87. Lows 57 to
65.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 56 to 66.
Highs 74 to 87.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 57 76 56 76 /
Tehachapi 50 80 51 81 /
Twin Oaks 58 82 58 83 /
$$
CAZ335-021100-
Grapevine-
Including the cities of Grapevine and Lebec
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 56 to 62. Southwest winds up to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 82. Southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 57 to 63. West winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 83. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 57 to 63. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Clear. Highs 76 to 88. Lows 59 to
65.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 60 to 67.
Highs 76 to 88.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 64 83 65 85 /
$$
CAZ336-021100-
Frazier Mountain Communities-
Including the city of Frazier Park
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 53 to 65. Northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 81. East winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 53 to 65. South winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 83. South winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 54 to 66. Northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 85.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 56 to 68.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 87.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 57 to 69.
Highs 73 to 88.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 54 74 55 73 /
Frazier Park 46 79 47 79 /
$$
CAZ337-021100-
Indian Wells Valley-
Including the cities of Inyokern and Ridgecrest
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 88 to 94. Southwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 95. West winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 95.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 96.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 96.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs 89 to 95.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs 87 to 93.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 63 92 65 93 /
Ridgecrest 60 94 61 94 /
$$
CAZ338-021100-
Mojave Desert Slopes-
Including the city of Mojave
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 58 to 64. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 89. Southwest winds up to 10 mph
increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 59 to 65. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 80 to 90. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 60 to 66. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Clear. Highs 81 to 92. Lows 61 to 68.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 61 to 68.
Highs 79 to 90.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 60 90 61 91 /
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CAZ339-021100-
Mojave Desert-
Including the cities of Rosamond, California City, Randsburg,
and Edwards AFB
1101 PM PDT Sat Oct 1 2022
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds
up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds up to 5 mph
increasing to 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northwest winds up to
5 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Clear. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows
59 to 65.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 62 87 65 88 /
California City 56 91 59 92 /
Edwards AFB 56 91 58 92 /
Rosamond 57 91 59 93 /
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Ship dislodges, tips over in Scotland dry dock; 25 injured
London – A large ship tipped over while dry-docked in Scotland, injuring 25 people Wednesday, emergency workers said.
Police and emergency services were called to the Imperial Dock in Edinburgh after receiving reports that a ship had become dislodged from its holding.
The Scottish Ambulance Service said 15 people were taken to the hospital, while 10 others were treated and discharged at the scene. Local police urged the public to avoid the area to allow access for emergency services.
Photos from the scene showed the ship leaning to the side at a 45-degree angle. Adam McVey, a local official, tweeted that it became dislodged due to strong winds.
The 76-meter (250-feet) long vessel, named the Petrel, was a research vessel previously bought and outfitted by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Petrel is equipped with deep-sea exploration technology and has led several high-profile missions to locate historic shipwrecks, including the discovery of the USS Indianapolis in 2017 in the Philippine Sea.
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Environmental groups sue Shell over air quality at massive new Pennsylvania petrochemical plant
Shell is putting residents’ health at risk by persistently violating air quality standards at its massive new petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania, an environmental group alleged in a lawsuit Thursday.
The “cracker” plant, located along the Ohio River about 30 miles (48 kilometers) outside Pittsburgh, opened in November and uses ethane from a vast shale gas reservoir underneath Pennsylvania and surrounding states to makes polyethylene, a plastic used in everything from consumer and food packaging to tires.
A federal lawsuit filed by the Clean Air Council alleges that operator Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC — a subsidiary of British oil and gas giant Shell plc — is violating state and federal limits on smog, as well as emissions limits in its state-approved operating plan.
Clean Air Council members who live near the plant are “concerned about the impact of the plant’s illegal pollution on their health and the health of their families,” the suit said, noting that smog can worsen respiratory conditions such as bronchitis and asthma. The plaintiffs asked a judge to order Shell to bring the plant into compliance, and impose civil penalties of up to $140,000 per day.
Shell spokesperson Curtis Smith said the company had no comment on the suit.
The plant has been shut down for repairs since early April after Shell said it identified a problem with its flaring system, which is designed to burn off unwanted gases. Shell expects to restart the offline units later this month, Smith said. The Clean Air Council said Shell has violated limits on visible emissions from its flares.
“We will continue to report out and comply with all regulations while also applying lessons learned and best practices to ensure our operations have no negative impact on people or the environment,” Smith said.
Shell was attracted to Pennsylvania because of a drilling boom in the vast Marcellus Shale natural gas field. The company had projected to spend $6 billion on the refinery, which took years to build. At full capacity, the plant is expected to produce 3.5 billion pounds (1.6 billion kilograms) of polyethylene annually.
Environmental advocacy groups had fought the plant and predicted that it would generate more plastic pollution, compounds that form smog and planet-warming greenhouse gases. Shell has said it is using the best available technologies to try to minimize air pollution.
“Shell’s persistent law-breaking must end,” Joseph Minott, executive director of the Clean Air Council, said in a statement Thursday. “The community will not tolerate dangerous pollution events that risk the health of families across Beaver County and beyond.”
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- Updated data presented at ASH include CAPTIVATE and GLOW studies and real-world evidence abstracts
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced new and updated data across clinical and real-world studies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Presentations featured during the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition will include two clinical trials investigating once daily, fixed-duration treatment with IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib) plus VENCLEXTA®/VENCLYXTO® (venetoclax) (I+V) in adults with CLL and several analyses from real-word data evaluating front-line treatment in CLL.
"As the only Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor (BTKi) studied across many clinical trials, including up to eight years of follow-up data in CLL and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), these latest data add to overall evidence for IMBRUVICA," said James Dean, M.D., Ph.D., global development lead and executive medical director, Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie company. "These findings further inspire our commitment to the continued investigation of IMBRUVICA in the treatment of patients with CLL."
Presentations will include the five-year median follow-up efficacy and safety data from the minimal residual disease (MRD) Cohort of the Phase 2 CAPTIVATE study (Abstract #92)1 and data on MRD kinetics from the randomized, open-label Phase 3 GLOW study (Abstract #93).2 Additionally, new data from three studies evaluating the impact of IMBRUVICA® treatment in the real-world setting will be presented (Abstracts #797,#1809, #3132).3,4,5
Five-Year Update from the CAPTIVATE Study Adds to Clinical Data Investigating the Potential of a Fixed-Duration Regimen
The MRD Cohort of the Phase 2 CAPTIVATE (NCT02910583) study evaluated 164 patients age 70 years or younger with previously untreated CLL; those who achieved confirmed undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) after completion of I+V fixed-duration treatment were randomly assigned to placebo (PBO) (n=43), or continued IMBRUVICA® treatment (n=43).1 For patients with confirmed uMRD, median time on study was 56 months (PBO arm range, 40‒65 months; IMBRUVICA® arm range, 25‒68 months); median post-randomization follow-up was 41 months in both arms.1 At four years of follow-up, estimated progression-free survival (PFS) was 88 percent (95 percent Confidence Interval [CI], 74-95, seven progressive disease events) with PBO compared to 95 percent (95 percent CI, 82-99, two progressive disease events) with continued IMBRUVICA® treatment.1 Additionally, at year four, patients in the PBO arm of the study achieved an estimated overall survival (OS) rate of 100 percent (95 percent CI, NA) compared to 98 percent (95 percent CI, 84-99.7) in the IMBRUVICA® treatment arm.1
No new atrial fibrillation (AF) or Grade three or higher hemorrhage events occurred in the PBO arm during the three year post-randomization period, and one patient in the IMBRUVICA® arm had AF in the second year post-randomization.1 During the three-year post-randomization period, adverse events (AEs) of any grade for patients treated with IMBRUVICA® were arthralgia (4/41), hypertension (2/41), neutropenia (1/41) and diarrhea (1/41). No new grade three or higher hemorrhage events occurred in either arm.1
The Data of IMBRUVICA® in the Treatment of CLL Through Real-World Studies
An oral presentation (Abstract #797) will report findings comparing time to next treatment (TTNT) in patients with CLL who received first-line treatment with IMBRUVICA® or acalabrutinib based on a real-world study utilizing electronic medical records.3
A poster presentation (Abstract #1809) will highlight results from a pooled analysis of the RESONATE-2 (NCT01722487), ECOG1912 (NCT02048813), and iLLUMINATE (NCT02264574) clinical studies investigating the comparison of OS in previously untreated CLL patients treated with IMBRUVICA® to that of the available age-matched general population, as well as comparative results of OS in patients treated with IMBRUVICA® versus chemotherapy and chemoimmunotherapy.4
Thirdly, the final analysis from the informCLL™ real-world (RW) registry, which assessed RW outcomes with first-line IMBRUVICA® versus chemoimmunotherapy (CIT) in patients with CLL and SLL, will be presented as a poster (Abstract #3132).5 The informCLL™ registry enrolled 1,459 patients, of whom 59 percent were previously untreated.5 First-line treatment with IMBRUVICA® was associated with longer TTNT than with CIT and sustained benefit, with up to four years of follow-up.5 In the IMBRUVICA® cohort (n=383), serious adverse events (AEs) occurred in 144 patients (38 percent), most commonly (greater or equal to three percent of patients) pneumonia (six percent) and atrial fibrillation (five percent); AEs led to discontinuation of IMBRUVICA® in 135 patients (35 percent), most commonly atrial fibrillation (five percent) and fatigue (three percent). In the CIT cohort (n=363), serious AEs occurred in 85 patients (23 percent), most commonly febrile neutropenia (four percent) and pneumonia (three percent). AEs led to discontinuation of CIT in 61 patients (17 percent), and no single AE term led to discontinuation in three percent or more of patients (most common was anemia, two percent).5 The spectrum and frequency of AEs observed with first-line treatment appeared consistent with data from clinical studies and other RWE studies.5
About IMBRUVICA®
IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib) is a once-daily oral medication that is jointly developed and commercialized by Janssen Biotech, Inc. and Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie company. IMBRUVICA® blocks the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) protein, which is needed by normal and abnormal B cells, including specific cancer cells, to multiply and spread. By blocking BTK, IMBRUVICA® may help move abnormal B cells out of their nourishing environments and inhibits their proliferation.6,7,8
IMBRUVICA® is approved in more than 100 countries and has been used to treat more than 270,000 patients worldwide. There are more than 50 company-sponsored clinical trials, including 18 Phase 3 studies, over 11 years evaluating the efficacy and safety of IMBRUVICA®.
IMBRUVICA® was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2013, and today is indicated for adult patients in six disease areas, including five hematologic cancers. These include indications to treat adults with CLL/SLL with or without 17p deletion (del17p), adults with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM), adults with previously treated mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)*, adult patients with previously treated marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) who require systemic therapy and have received at least one prior anti-CD20-based therapy*, as well as adult and pediatric patients one year of age and older with previously treated chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy.9
*Accelerated approval was granted for MCL and MZL based on overall response rate. Continued approval for MCL and MZL may be contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in confirmatory trials.
For more information, visit www.IMBRUVICA.com.
IMPORTANT SIDE EFFECT INFORMATION
Before taking IMBRUVICA®, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have had recent surgery or plan to have surgery. Your healthcare provider may stop IMBRUVICA® for any planned medical, surgical, or dental procedure.
- have bleeding problems
- have or had heart rhythm problems, smoke, or have a medical condition that increases your risk of heart disease, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes
- have an infection
- have liver problems
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. IMBRUVICA® can harm your unborn baby. If you are able to become pregnant, your healthcare provider will do a pregnancy test before starting treatment with IMBRUVICA®. Tell your healthcare provider if you are pregnant or think you may be pregnant during treatment with IMBRUVICA®.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed during treatment with IMBRUVICA® and for 1 week after the last dose.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Taking IMBRUVICA® with certain other medicines may affect how IMBRUVICA® works and can cause side effects.
How should I take IMBRUVICA®?
- Take IMBRUVICA® exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to take it.
- Take IMBRUVICA® 1 time a day at about the same time each day.
IMBRUVICA® comes as capsules, tablets, and oral suspension.
- If your healthcare provider prescribes IMBRUVICA® capsules or tablets:
- If your healthcare provider prescribes IMBRUVICA® oral suspension:
- If you miss a dose of IMBRUVICA® take it as soon as you remember on the same day. Take your next dose of IMBRUVICA® at your regular time on the next day. Do not take extra doses of IMBRUVICA® to make up for a missed dose.
- If you take too much IMBRUVICA® call your healthcare provider or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away.
What should I avoid while taking IMBRUVICA®?
- You should not drink grapefruit juice, eat grapefruit, or eat Seville oranges (often used in marmalades) during treatment with IMBRUVICA®. These products may increase the amount of IMBRUVICA® in your blood.
What are the possible side effects of IMBRUVICA®?
IMBRUVICA® may cause serious side effects, including:
- Bleeding problems (hemorrhage) are common during treatment with IMBRUVICA®, and can also be serious and may lead to death. Your risk of bleeding may increase if you are also taking a blood thinner medicine. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any signs of bleeding, including: blood in your stools or black stools (looks like tar), pink or brown urine, unexpected bleeding, or bleeding that is severe or that you cannot control, vomit blood or vomit looks like coffee grounds, cough up blood or blood clots, increased bruising, dizziness, weakness, confusion, change in your speech, or a headache that lasts a long time or severe headache.
- Infections can happen during treatment with IMBRUVICA®. These infections can be serious and may lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have fever, chills, weakness, confusion, or other signs or symptoms of an infection during treatment with IMBRUVICA®.
- Heart problems. Serious heart rhythm problems (ventricular arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter), heart failure and death have happened in people treated with IMBRUVICA®, especially in people who have an infection, an increased risk for heart disease, or have had heart rhythm problems in the past. Your heart function will be checked before and during treatment with IMBRUVICA®. Tell your healthcare provider if you get any symptoms of heart problems, such as feeling as if your heart is beating fast and irregular, lightheadedness, dizziness, shortness of breath, swelling of the feet, ankles or legs, chest discomfort, or you faint. If you develop any of these symptoms, your healthcare provider may do tests to check your heart and may change your IMBRUVICA® dose.
- High blood pressure (hypertension). New or worsening high blood pressure has happened in people treated with IMBRUVICA®. Your healthcare provider may start you on blood pressure medicine or change current medicines to treat your blood pressure.
- Decrease in blood cell counts. Decreased blood counts (white blood cells, platelets, and red blood cells) are common with IMBRUVICA®, but can also be severe. Your healthcare provider should do monthly blood tests to check your blood counts.
- Second primary cancers. New cancers have happened during treatment with IMBRUVICA®, including cancers of the skin or other organs.
- Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS). TLS is caused by the fast breakdown of cancer cells. TLS can cause kidney failure and the need for dialysis treatment, abnormal heart rhythm, seizure, and sometimes death. Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check you for TLS.
The most common side effects of IMBRUVICA® in adults with B-cell malignancies (MCL, CLL/SLL, WM and MZL) include:
The most common side effects of IMBRUVICA® in adults or children 1 year of age and older with cGVHD include:
Diarrhea is a common side effect in people who take IMBRUVICA®. Drink plenty of fluids during treatment with IMBRUVICA® to help reduce your risk of losing too much fluid (dehydration) due to diarrhea. Tell your healthcare provider if you have diarrhea that does not go away.
These are not all the possible side effects of IMBRUVICA®. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
General information about the safe and effective use of IMBRUVICA®
Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Patient Information leaflet. Do not use IMBRUVICA® for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give IMBRUVICA® to other people, even if they have the same symptoms that you have. It may harm them. You can ask your pharmacist or healthcare provider for information about IMBRUVICA® that is written for health professionals.
Please click here for full Prescribing Information.
About VENCLYXTA® (venetoclax)
VENCLYXTA® (venetoclax) is a first-in-class medicine that selectively binds and inhibits the B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) protein. In some blood cancers, BCL-2 prevents cancer cells from undergoing their natural death or self-destruction process, called apoptosis. VENCLYXTA targets the BCL-2 protein and works to help restore the process of apoptosis.
VENCLYXTA is being developed by AbbVie and Roche. It is jointly commercialized by AbbVie and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, in the U.S. and by AbbVie outside of the U.S. Together, the companies are committed to BCL-2 research and to studying venetoclax in clinical trials across several blood and other cancers. Venetoclax is approved in more than 80 countries, including the U.S.
Approved Uses of VENCLEXTA
VENCLEXTA is a prescription medicine used:
- to treat adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL).
- in combination with azacitidine, or decitabine, or low-dose cytarabine to treat adults with
newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who:
It is not known if VENCLEXTA is safe and effective in children.
Important Safety Information
What is the most important information I should know about VENCLEXTA?
VENCLEXTA can cause serious side effects, including:
Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS). TLS is caused by the fast breakdown of cancer cells. TLS can cause kidney failure, the need for dialysis treatment, and may lead to death. Your healthcare provider will do tests to check your risk of getting TLS before you start taking VENCLEXTA. You will receive other medicines before starting and during treatment with VENCLEXTA to help reduce your risk of TLS.
You may also need to receive intravenous (IV) fluids into your vein. Your healthcare provider will do blood tests to check for TLS when you first start treatment and during treatment with VENCLEXTA.
It is important to keep your appointments for blood tests. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have any symptoms of TLS during treatment with VENCLEXTA, including fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, confusion, shortness of breath, seizures, irregular heartbeat, dark or cloudy urine, unusual tiredness, or muscle or joint pain.
Drink plenty of water during treatment with VENCLEXTA to help reduce your risk of getting TLS.
Drink 6 to 8 glasses (about 56 ounces total) of water each day, starting 2 days before your first dose, on the day of your first dose of VENCLEXTA, and each time your dose is increased.
Your healthcare provider may delay, decrease your dose, or stop treatment with VENCLEXTA if you have side effects. When restarting VENCLEXTA after stopping for 1 week or longer, your healthcare provider may again check for your risk of TLS and change your dose.
Who should not take VENCLEXTA?
Certain medicines must not be taken when you first start taking VENCLEXTA and while your dose is being slowly increased because of the risk of increased TLS.
- Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the- counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. VENCLEXTA and other medicines may affect each other causing serious side effects.
- Do not start new medicines during treatment with VENCLEXTA without first talking with your healthcare provider.
Before taking VENCLEXTA, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have kidney or liver problems.
- have problems with your body salts or electrolytes, such as potassium, phosphorus, or calcium.
- have a history of high uric acid levels in your blood or gout.
- are scheduled to receive a vaccine. You should not receive a "live vaccine" before, during, or after treatment with VENCLEXTA, until your healthcare provider tells you it is okay. If you are not sure about the type of immunization or vaccine, ask your healthcare provider. These vaccines may not be safe or may not work as well during treatment with VENCLEXTA.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. VENCLEXTA may harm your unborn baby. If you are able to become pregnant, your healthcare provider should do a pregnancy test before you start treatment with VENCLEXTA, and you should use effective birth control during treatment and for 30 days after the last dose of VENCLEXTA. If you become pregnant or think you are pregnant, tell your healthcare provider right away.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if VENCLEXTA passes into your breast milk.
Do not breastfeed during treatment with VENCLEXTA and for 1 week after the last dose.
What should I avoid while taking VENCLEXTA?
You should not drink grapefruit juice or eat grapefruit, Seville oranges (often used in marmalades), or starfruit while you are taking VENCLEXTA. These products may increase the amount of VENCLEXTA in your blood.
What are the possible side effects of VENCLEXTA?
VENCLEXTA can cause serious side effects, including:
- Low white blood cell counts (neutropenia). Low white blood cell counts are common with VENCLEXTA, but can also be severe. Your healthcare provider will do blood tests to check your blood counts during treatment with VENCLEXTA and may pause dosing.
- Infections. Death and serious infections such as pneumonia and blood infection (sepsis) have happened during treatment with VENCLEXTA. Your healthcare provider will closely monitor and treat you right away if you have a fever or any signs of infection during treatment with VENCLEXTA.
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have a fever or any signs of an infection during treatment with VENCLEXTA.
The most common side effects of VENCLEXTA when used in combination with obinutuzumab or rituximab or alone in people with CLL or SLL include low white blood cell counts; low platelet counts; low red blood cell counts; diarrhea; nausea; upper respiratory tract infection; cough; muscle and joint pain; tiredness; and swelling of your arms, legs, hands, and feet.
The most common side effects of VENCLEXTA in combination with azacitidine or decitabine or low-dose cytarabine in people with AML include nausea; diarrhea; low platelet count; constipation; low white blood cell count; fever with low white blood cell count; tiredness; vomiting; swelling of arms, legs, hands, or feet; fever; infection in lungs; shortness of breath; bleeding; low red blood cell count; rash; stomach (abdominal) pain; infection in your blood; muscle and joint pain; dizziness; cough; sore throat; and low blood pressure.
VENCLEXTA may cause fertility problems in males. This may affect your ability to father a child. Talk to your healthcare provider if you have concerns about fertility.
These are not all the possible side effects of VENCLEXTA. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.
You are encouraged to report side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
If you cannot afford your medication, contact genentech-access.com/patient/brands/venclexta for assistance.
About AbbVie in Oncology
At AbbVie, we are committed to transforming standards of care for multiple blood cancers while advancing a dynamic pipeline of investigational therapies across a range of cancer types. Our dedicated and experienced team joins forces with innovative partners to accelerate the delivery of potentially breakthrough medicines. We are evaluating more than 20 investigational medicines in over 300 clinical trials across some of the world's most widespread and debilitating cancers. As we work to have a remarkable impact on people's lives, we are committed to exploring solutions to help patients obtain access to our cancer medicines. For more information, please visit https://www.abbvie.com/oncology and our Blood Cancer Press kit page.
About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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WASHINGTON — Last August, Daysia Holiday decided to try one more time to join the Army.
She’d taken the academic test and failed three times. So, when she was offered a slot in a new Army prep course to help improve her scores and qualify for basic training, she jumped at the chance.
Seven months later, Pvt. 2nd Class Holiday is a proud graduate of Army basic training, and is finishing her advanced instruction at Fort Lee, Virginia, to become a power generation specialist who will maintain engines and other equipment for the service.
Holiday is an early beneficiary of the new program, which gives lower-performing recruits up to 90 days of academic or fitness instruction to help them meet military standards. In place for only eight months, it is already making a significant difference for both the Army and those who want to serve in it.
So far, 5,400 soldiers have made it through the prep course since it started in August at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. That’s an important boost since the Army fell dramatically short of its recruiting goals last year, due to low unemployment and general wariness about military service. And at least one other military service, the Navy, took notice and is setting up a similar course.
For those who make it through the program, it can be life-changing. Holiday, 23, said many of her peers in her hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, didn’t make it out of high school, with some “dead or in jail.” Sitting outside the class building in her Army fatigues last summer, she talked about trying to pass the academic test for two years with no success.
She said she wanted to set an example, especially for her younger siblings. The prep course gave her a second chance. She raised her academic score by more than 20 points.
The course, she said, was like “basic training without the yelling.” It also allowed her to bond with fellow students. “We helped each other out throughout basic training, so it was easy,” she said. “All of us actually passed, so it was a good experience. And we all keep in touch.”
Army leaders say the program — it involves classroom instruction and training ranging from how to wear the uniform and properly make a bed to fitness and discipline — gives recruits like Holiday an advantage.
“I think an interesting thing we’ve seen is that the kids coming out of that course, who go into basic, actually seem to have a little bit of a leg up,” said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth. “During basic training, certain young individuals who show a little bit more leadership skills than others get selected to have leadership positions. And what we’re seeing is the kids coming out of the prep course are often the ones who are being chosen for that.”
As of March 17, nearly 8,400 people had been admitted to the prep course and more than 5,400 had graduated and gone on to basic training. Army Lt. Col. Randy Ready, spokesman for the Army Center for Initial Military Training, said about 6% of those recruits don’t make it through basic and advanced individual training, about the same attrition rate as for those who don’t go through the prep course.
Ready said almost 4,000 of the graduates were in the academic track and about 1,400 were in the fitness track. Students in the academic program increased their test scores by an average of 19 points, he said.
“It has been largely very, very successful,” said Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis, head of Army Recruiting Command, adding that students who go through the prep course come out more prepared. “It instills a level of positively and confidence in those future soldiers.”
Gen. James McConville, Army chief of staff, told a House committee on Tuesday that students in the program are improving their academic scores and losing 4% to 6% of their body fat.
“We’re really giving them discipline,” he said. “They’re getting in shape. We’re giving them a head start. So when going into initial military training, where they were at the lowest category, they’re actually excelling and in some ways exceeding the standards — becoming the student leaders.”
Once in the program, recruits are tested every week. And every three weeks they can move into basic training if they pass the military’s academic test — the Armed Services Voluntary Aptitude Battery — or if they meet the physical standards. If they don't pass or meet the standards after the first three weeks, they can stay on and keep testing for up to 90 days, but they have to leave the Army if they haven't succeeded by then.
Army leaders initially thought they might open as many as four locations for the prep course, but they haven't seen the need. Instead, they doubled the capacity at Fort Jackson and created a smaller, similar program at Fort Benning, Georgia, which gives young soldiers a chance to raise their academic scores if they want to qualify for higher-skilled jobs or bonuses.
The program got the Navy's attention. Late last November, Navy Capt. Frank Brown and several others visited Fort Jackson, and as a result will open a new sailor fitness prep course next month. Brown said recruits who are 6% above the body composition requirements will take a three-week fitness course, and can repeat it for up to 90 days to meet the standards and go on to boot camp.
Brown, the director of operations for training at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois, said 60 to 80 recruits will start the course on April 10. He said the Navy is also planning a pilot program for an academic course, likely this summer, to allow lower-scoring recruits to improve so they can qualify for higher-skilled jobs.
Air Force officials said they haven't ruled out doing a prep program, but are currently using other ways to boost recruiting.
“We are focusing our efforts on eliminating unnecessary or outdated policy barriers to recruiting, adapting our outreach strategy, and adjusting our recruiting approach" to better reach potential recruits, said Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service.
As for Holiday, when she graduates Wednesday she will head to her first post, in Fort Carson, Colorado. “I’m very much glad that I did it,” she said. “It’s been a good journey for me."
And she's got bigger ambitions.
“I still want to try to do the Green Beret (course),” she said. “And, I want to do other courses — airborne and stuff like that. And I want to also try to become an officer as well.” | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/basic-training-without-yelling-army-recruits-get-2nd-chance/507-884a3ef2-2d16-4597-b404-bdcb6d12b297 | 2023-03-29 17:42:02 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/basic-training-without-yelling-army-recruits-get-2nd-chance/507-884a3ef2-2d16-4597-b404-bdcb6d12b297 |
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- College Possible Catalyze announced this week that it has launched new partnerships with three California universities to expand its college success support by more than 1,400 students. Catalyze will provide partners with on campus, near-peer coaches to support students from historically underrepresented and underserved communities in their pursuit of a college degree.
College Possible has been intentional in its desire to grow in California. "College Possible is thrilled to expand its footprint with new institutional partners California State - San Bernardino, University of California - Santa Cruz, and Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo," said Catherine Marciano, College Possible Vice President of Partnerships. "Our place-based coaches will extend the reach of services already existing on these campuses to ensure that first-generation college students and those from lower-income backgrounds receive one-to-one support centered on academic success, financial management and personal development topics."
The addition of these three partnerships increases the number of partners in the state from one to four. In 2023-2024 California will host the largest number of Catalyze partners in a single state.
California State University - San Bernardino (CSUSB) and College Possible are aligned in the mission to improve college access among underrepresented groups. Eighty percent of CSUSB's undergraduates are the first in their family to attend college, 74 percent are underrepresented minorities, and 56 percent qualify as Pell grant eligible, according to the university's Office of Institutional Research and Analytics. Catalyze has deployed coaches on the Palm Desert campus, with plans to serve approximately 560 students annually.
University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz), a public liberal arts university, plans to provide Catalyze coaching support to 700 students annually. Some coaches will work within the Rosa Parks African American Theme House (R.PAATH) a student-initiated living-learning space for students whose interests span historical, present-day, and future experiences of predominantly African, Black, and Caribbean (ABC) peoples.
California Polytechnic State University has placed a concentrated effort on their diversity, equity and inclusion with a focus "to mirror the diversity and demographics of California by supporting everyone's potential to thrive in our learning community, especially historically underrepresented and marginalized individuals." Their partnership with College Possible Catalyze will serve 280 students in the College of Liberal Arts each year with a focus on men of color. As the newest Catalyze partner, Cal Poly will launch near-peer coaching in August 2023.
College Possible's Catalyze coaches are recent college graduates who've committed to a year of AmeriCorps service at their alma mater. They bring relevant, recent experience navigating many of the challenges their students face in complex college systems, accessing available campus and community resources, managing the cost of college, and staying on track academically. College Possible's near-peer coaching model leverages an intensive, evidence-based curriculum to achieve meaningful gains in student persistence and degree completion.
"We applaud the commitment of these partner universities," said Marciano. "Together, we are helping ensure that these often marginalized student groups receive personalized care. By working together, we can improve retention rates for these students in the years to come."
About College Possible: As one of the largest and most successful college access and success programs in the country, since 2000 College Possible has helped more than 80,000 students from under-represented communities get into and through college through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support. Its pioneering model matches students with a near-peer coach and an evidence-based curriculum designed to help students overcome the most common barriers to getting into college and completing their degree – all at no cost to students or their families. Nationwide, College Possible students are three times more likely to earn a bachelor's degree within six years than their peers from similar backgrounds. Headquartered in Saint Paul, MN, College Possible operates: regional sites in Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; Omaha, NE; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; and Seattle, WA; College Forward in Austin, TX; and Catalyze partnerships in California, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee. Learn more at CollegePossible.org.
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Middle schooler commended for telling teacher about possible threat overheard at school
NAPLES, Fla. (Gray News) – A middle schooler in Florida was commended for reporting a threat he overheard to his teacher.
Jack Kelley, a seventh grader at Oakridge Middle School, overheard another student talking about a “possible school safety issue,” according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.
Jack then informed a teacher, who contacted a youth relations deputy at the school.
The sheriff’s office said Jack’s actions allowed their officers to investigate and prevent any possible threat.
“Jack is a terrific example of how we can all work together to keep our schools safe and protect our children,” Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said. “If you see something of concern, don’t spread it, report it. We applaud Jack for doing that.”
Jack earned the Do The Right Thing Award from the sheriff’s office for his actions, which was presented to him and his family during a celebration at his home on Wednesday.
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BOUND BROOK, N.J. and LIVINGSTON, N.J., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Somerset Savings Bank, SLA ("Somerset Savings") announced today that its Board of Directors has adopted a plan of conversion to convert from the mutual to stock form of organization. SR Bancorp, Inc., a newly formed Maryland corporation ("SR Bancorp" or the "Company"), has been organized to facilitate the conversion and offer shares of common stock to certain depositors of Somerset Savings and others in a subscription and community offering. The number and price of the shares to be issued in the conversion offering will be based on an independent appraisal that has yet to be performed. In addition, and to further support the communities in which Somerset Savings operates, it is intended that a charitable foundation will be established and funded with conversion stock and cash as part of the transaction.
In connection with the conversion, the Boards of Directors of Somerset Savings and SR Bancorp entered into a definitive agreement to merge with Regal Bancorp, Inc. ("Regal Bancorp") and its subsidiary Regal Bank. In the merger, Regal Bancorp will merge with and into SR Bancorp, with SR Bancorp as the surviving entity, and Regal Bank will merge with and into Somerset Savings, with Somerset Savings as the surviving institution under the name Somerset Regal Bank. In connection with the conversion and merger, Somerset Savings also intends to convert to a New Jersey chartered commercial bank.
The plan of conversion establishes June 30, 2021 as the eligibility record date for determining the eligible account holders of Somerset Savings entitled to receive nontransferable subscription rights to purchase common stock. The transactions contemplated by the plan are subject to approval by (1) the voting members of Somerset Savings at a Special Meeting of Members; (ii) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and (iii) the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (the "Department"). The formation of the holding company as the parent company of Somerset Savings is subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Department, if required.
Pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement, Regal Bancorp shareholders may elect to receive 1.93 shares of SR Bancorp, Inc. common stock (based on a $10.00 per share offering price) or $19.30 in cash for each share of Regal Bancorp common stock, subject to the allocation and proration procedures set forth in the merger agreement, which require that 80% of the merger consideration be Company common stock and 20% of the merger consideration be cash. If SR Bancorp issues a number of shares of its common stock in its conversion stock offering that is above the midpoint of the offering range established in the independent appraisal, then the aggregate stock portion of the merger consideration will be increased to 90%. The aggregate transaction value of the merger is approximately $58.4 million.
The merger agreement has been approved by the Boards of Directors of the Company, Somerset Savings, Regal Bancorp and Regal Bank. The merger is subject to the approval of the shareholders of Regal Bancorp and the completion of the Company's conversion and stock offering. In addition, the conversion is subject to the approval of the members of Somerset Savings. The transactions are also subject to the approval of bank regulatory authorities, as well as other customary conditions. The conversion, offering and merger are expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2023 and will be consummated simultaneously.
In announcing the transaction, William P. Taylor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Somerset Savings said: "The simultaneous conversion and merger with Regal Bancorp, and our conversion to a commercial bank charter, marks a pivotal point in the history of Somerset Savings. This transaction not only combines two well-respected community banking organizations creating a combined franchise with complimentary business lines and over $1 billion in total assets, but also provides our depositors the ability to benefit as shareholders in the combined organization and allows our customers to benefit from the commercial lending expertise the Regal team brings to the combined company. Finally, the additional capital we raise in the offering will help support future growth as we continue our development as a full-service community bank."
Christopher Pribula, the President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of Somerset Savings, stated: "We look forward to partnering with the Regal team and providing a wide range of products and services to our combined customer base at the same level of quality customer service that has been a hallmark of both Somerset Savings Bank and Regal Bank."
The Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Regal Bancorp, David M. Orbach, and two other Regal Bancorp board members will join the board of directors of SR Bancorp and Somerset Regal Bank upon completion of the merger transaction. Mr. Orbach will serve as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of SR Bancorp and as Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Somerset Regal Bank. Mr. Taylor will continue as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Somerset Regal Bank and will serve as Chief Executive Officer and a director of SR Bancorp. Christopher Pribula will continue as President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of Somerset Regal Bank and SR Bancorp.
Commenting on the transaction, David Orbach stated, " Regal shares a like-minded philosophy with the executives of Somerset in their management style and adherence to sound principles. We are very excited to be partnering with an outstanding community bank that has a long history of providing quality financial products and services to the communities and markets it serves. I look forward to working together on the future growth and success of the combined institution."
Thomas Lupo, President and CEO of Regal, stated: "The merger represents a great opportunity for our shareholders, customers and employees. It will benefit the customers of both institutions, allowing us to offer our commercial lending products and knowledge to Somerset customers, while Regal customers will benefit from Somerset's residential lending products and experience."
Somerset Savings was advised by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a Stifel Company and Luse Gorman, PC. Regal Bancorp was advised by The Kafafian Group, Inc. and Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP.
About Somerset Savings
Somerset Savings Bank, SLA formed in 1887, is a New Jersey savings and loan association. Somerset Savings is a full-service community bank headquartered in Bound Brook, New Jersey that operates seven branches in Hunterdon, Middlesex and Somerset Counties, New Jersey. At March 31, 2022, Somerset Savings had $649.0 million in total assets, $317.0 million in net loans, $525.0 million in deposits and total equity of $120.2 million. Additional information about Somerset Savings is available on its website, www.somersetsavings.com.
About Regal Bancorp
Regal Bancorp, Inc., which became the bank holding company for Regal Bank in 2017, is a New Jersey corporation and is registered with the Federal Reserve Board as a bank holding company. Regal Bank, formed in 2007, is a full-service community bank headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey that operates ten branches in Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union Counties, New Jersey. At March 31, 2022, Regal Bancorp had $544.7 million in total assets, $345.7 million in net loans, $480.5 million in deposits and total equity of $46.7 million. Additional information about Regal Bank is available on its website, www.regalbanknj.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not historical or current facts and they often include words like "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend" or similar terminology. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected include delays in completing the liquidation and the dissolution. Except as required by law, none of the Company, Somerset Savings, Regal Bancorp or Regal Bank undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statement is made.
Additional Information
The offering by the Company will be made only by means of a prospectus in accordance with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all applicable state securities laws. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.
The proposed transaction will be submitted to shareholders of Regal Bancorp for their consideration. The Company will file a registration statement, a proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant documents concerning the proposed transaction with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Regal Bancorp shareholders are urged to read the registration statement and proxy statement/prospectus when they become available and any other relevant documents filed with the SEC, as well as any amendments or supplements to those documents, because they will contain important information. You will be able to obtain a free copy of the proxy statement/prospectus, as well as other filings containing information about the Company, at the SEC's Internet site (http://www.sec.gov). Copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and the SEC filings that will be incorporated by reference in the proxy statement/prospectus can be obtained, without charge, by directing a request to Lisa King, Investor Relations, Regal Bancorp, 570 West Mount Pleasant Avenue, Livingston, New Jersey 07039, 973-716-0600.
The directors and executive officers of Regal Bancorp may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the shareholders of Regal Bancorp in connection with the merger. Information about the directors and executive officers of Regal Bancorp and their ownership of Regal Bancorp common stock may be found in its definitive proxy statement relating to its 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which can be obtained free of charge from Regal Bancorp by directing a request to Lisa King, Investor Relations, Regal Bancorp, 570 West Mount Pleasant Avenue, Livingston, New Jersey 07039, 973-716-0600. Additional information regarding the interests of these participants and other persons who may be deemed participants in the transaction may be obtained by reading the proxy statement/prospectus regarding the proposed transaction when it becomes available.
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US Foods Accused of Unfair Labor Practices as Executives Deal with Growing Number of Unresolved Labor Contracts
WASHINGTON, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Warehouse Division and numerous Teamster locals currently in contract negotiations with US Foods (NYSE: USFD) are putting the foodservice giant on notice that work stoppages are imminent. Workers at a growing number of US Foods Distribution Centers throughout the East Coast are considering the possibility of walking off the job following an increasing number of unresolved labor contracts.
Workers at several of these locations say the company has violated federal labor laws, and US Foods is currently being investigated by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for several allegations of unfair labor practices (ULPs). The allegations include illegal terminations, unilaterally changing working conditions and bargaining in bad faith with union representatives.
"US Foods executives seem more interested in how they can violate the rights of their essential employees than they do in offering them a fair return on their work. My members have patiently tried to work in good faith to negotiate an agreement, but they've had enough," said Todd Robertson, President of Teamsters Local 171 in Salem, Va.
Robertson represents drivers at one of the distribution centers without an agreement and noted that workers in Salem have been trying to negotiate a fair employment contract for nearly a year.
"Unfair labor practices and unsettled contracts are not the way to thank your essential workers," said Tom Erickson, Teamsters International Vice President and Director of the Teamsters Warehouse Division. "Local leaders across the country have told me their members have had it with the way US Foods treats them."
Over the past ten years, workers at US Foods facilities across America have gone on strike to protest the company's illegal actions. Workers in California, Arizona, Illinois and Maryland have gone on ULP strikes and extended their picket lines to numerous US Foods facilities across the country. In solidarity, thousands of US Foods Teamsters honored those picket lines.
"We aren't going to be afraid to strike," said Sean M. O'Brien, Teamsters General President. "If the members at those locations choose to stand up for their rights and withhold their labor, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will have their backs."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit http://www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter at @Teamsters and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.
Contact:
Daniel Moskowitz, (770) 262-4971,
dmoskowitz@teamster.org
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The dirt bike rider who was killed in a crash Tuesday afternoon east of Ramona has been identified by the San Diego County medical examiner.
X Games star Pat Casey died at the Slayground Motocross Park, a private motocross facility near Sutherland Dam Road. The 29-year-old rider missed his landing and the motorcycle appeared to fall on top of him, CHP Officer Jared Grieshaber said on Tuesday.
Witnesses at the facility, who reported the crash at around 3 p.m., gave Casey CPR until they were relieved by emergency responders, who continued CPR until about 3:40 p.m. when he was pronounced dead, according to Cal Fire San Diego spokesperson Brent Pascua. On Wednesday, Pascua told NBC 7 it took crews a “normal time” to get to the scene — less than 15 minutes, adding that dispatchers talked bystanders through CPR until first-responders arrived.
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The facility is privately owned by Encinitas-native motocross rider Axell Hodges and is regularly used for motocross training as well as some X Games events, according to the X Games website.
Because the collision occurred on private property, the collision and related death are being investigated by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
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Casey, who medaled multiple times at the X Games, grew up in Yorba Linda, California, and pioneered a variety of tricks, according to a profile on Vans "Off the Wall" team member website, including a "double decade" and a "backflip decade."
The rider is survived by his wife, Chase, and their two young children. Reached for comment by NBC 7 on Wednesday, she said, " “He is our everything. He is the best at everything he does and brings so much happiness to all. The most perfect man, my soulmate.”
Shortly after noon on Wednesday, the X Games posted a tribute on Instagram:
We are deeply saddened by Pat Casey’s passing and our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, children, parents and siblings.
A true legend in the action sports community, Pat will always be a member of the X Games family and an inspiration to everyone’s life he touched. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/man-who-died-at-x-games-slayground-in-ramona-was-x-games-star/4403555/ | 2023-06-08 00:19:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/man-who-died-at-x-games-slayground-in-ramona-was-x-games-star/4403555/ |
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gas prices dropped in New Jersey and also ticked down across the nation at large, analysts said.
AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.27, down four cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.37 a gallon on average a year ago at this time.
The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.28, down a penny from last week. Drivers were paying $3.30 a gallon on average a year ago at this time.
Analysts say the recent surge in gas prices due to frigid weather and holiday travel may be ending as the weather improves and demand decreases. They expect prices at the pump to decline heading toward February but believe the national averages before Christmas will likely turn out to have been the lows for this winter. | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-gas-prices-drop-in-nj-dip-across-nation-at-large/ | 2023-01-14 19:14:48 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-gas-prices-drop-in-nj-dip-across-nation-at-large/ |
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s foreign minister suggested Tuesday that the country may consider joining NATO without neighboring Sweden if Turkey continues to block their joint bid to enter the military alliance.
Pekka Haavisto later backpedaled, but his comments were the first time a leading government official in either Nordic country appeared to raise doubts about becoming NATO members together at a time when the alliance is seeking to present a united front in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Sweden and Finland rushed to apply for NATO membership following Moscow’s invasion, abandoning their long-standing non-alignment policy. Their accession needs the approval of all existing NATO members, including Turkey, which has so far blocked the expansion, saying Sweden in particular needs to crack down on exiled Kurdish militants and their sympathizers.
On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden again not to expect support for its application following weekend protests in Stockholm by an anti-Islam activist and pro-Kurdish groups.
Asked a day later whether it still made sense for Finland to proceed together with the Swedes, Haavisto told broadcaster YLE that his country would have to “evaluate the situation if it turns out that Sweden’s application is stalling for a long time to come.”
Haavisto later told reporters in Parliament that his comment was “imprecise” and that Finland’s ambition to enter NATO jointly with Sweden remained unchanged.
He said he had spoken with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who had stressed to Haavisto that the military bloc would like to see the two nations join simultaneously.
“But of course there have been raised concerns within NATO on how the (recent) incidents in Sweden will affect the schedule,” Haavisto said.
Until now, Sweden and Finland had been committed to joining the alliance together.
“This is the first crack in the so far rather impressive unity between Sweden and Finland,” said Paul Levin, director of the Institute for Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. “Finland is currently somewhat of an innocent victim of the continued provocations by Swedish groups critical of NATO accession, protected by the very liberal Swedish freedom of speech laws. If Turkey persists in blocking accession, I suspect that Finland will at some point have to go it alone.”
Matti Pesu, a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, said Haavisto’s comment was “the first public signal that there is a Plan B if the Swedish NATO membership bid freezes for a longer time.”
He stressed that Finland still prioritizes joining the alliance together with Sweden.
“Finland should consider other alternatives only if there was a serious possibility of a significant delay in Sweden’s NATO bid and only if NATO allies welcomed Finland’s entry without Sweden,” he said.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he “understands the frustration that many in Finland feel” over not having been admitted to the alliance already, but called for calm and urged Swedes who oppose NATO membership to “realize the gravity” of the security situation.
“There are forces both in Sweden and outside Sweden who want to prevent Sweden from becoming a NATO member,” he told reporters in Stockholm. “And it’s against that backdrop we should see that there are provocateurs who want to damage Sweden’s relations to other countries, leading to a delay in Swedish membership of NATO.”
In a memorandum of understanding signed by the three countries at a NATO summit last year, Sweden and Finland committed not to support Kurdish militant groups and to lift arms embargos on Turkey imposed after its incursion into northern Syria in 2019.
Pro-Kurdish and anti-Turkish demonstrations in Stockholm have complicated the process. On Saturday, a far-right activist from Denmark staged a protest outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm where he burned the Quran, Islam’s holy book. A separate pro-Kurdish demonstration was held later Saturday in the Swedish capital.
The Swedish government has tried to distance itself from the demonstrations, while insisting that such protests are protected by freedom of speech.
“It is completely legal to provoke if one wants to. But it can also have consequences,” Kristersson said.
Turkey responded angrily to the protests, canceling a planned visit to Ankara by the Swedish defense minister. Protests were held outside Swedish diplomatic missions in Turkey, prompting the Swedish embassy in Ankara to close its doors to the public on Tuesday.
Erdogan slammed Swedish authorities for allowing the Quran-burning demonstration.
“It is clear that those who allowed such vileness to take place in front of our embassy can no longer expect any charity from us regarding their NATO membership application,” he said.
He also criticized the pro-Kurdish demonstration, accusing Sweden of letting “terror organizations run wild on your avenues and streets.” He said that if Sweden won’t show respect to Turkey or Muslims, then “they won’t see any support from us on the NATO issue.
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, who visited Ukraine on Tuesday, said he didn’t expect any progress on the issue before the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections set to be held on May 14.
Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO members that have yet to ratify Finland and Sweden’s accession.
___ Karl Ritter reported from Stockholm. Jan M. Olsen contributed to this report from Copenhagen, Denmark. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-finlands-top-diplomat-hints-at-joining-nato-without-sweden/ | 2023-01-25 04:55:27 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-finlands-top-diplomat-hints-at-joining-nato-without-sweden/ |
BEIJING and HANGZHOU, China, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roan Holdings Group Co., Ltd. ("Roan" or the "Company") (OTC Pink Sheets: RAHGF and RONWF), a comprehensive solution provider for industrial operations and capital market services, announced today that it has entered into a Letter of Intent (the "LOI") with Zhejiang Shangyu Cao'e River Economic Development Zone (the "Shangyu") as the Company executes on its strategic plan to provide planning, support, and operations for new energy storage, new materials and semiconductor related projects.
Pursuant to the LOI, the Company will be responsible for the initial planning, regulatory approvals such as environmental and safety assessments, and industrial operations for a new industrial park whose target tenants would engage in new energy storage production, system equipment manufacturing, new materials and semiconductor, with supporting upstream and downstream projects (collectively, the "Project"). Pursuant to the LOI, Zhejiang Shangyu Cao'e River Economic Development Zone will provide support and assistance to the Project, including but not limited to favorable government policy, funding, and other resources. The Project is strategically located less than one hour drive from Hangzhou City, and it is positioned as a high-end technology manufacturing industrial park with 66 Acres of land available for development. The Company will assist its project partners to set up an entire industrial chain in the industrial park and to build a sustainable industrial ecosystem by providing comprehensive industrial operations and capital solutions services for the following projects: energy core storage production, energy storage power plant system equipment manufacturing, new alloy material research and development production, micro display chip module and terminal equipment production and other related upstream and downstream projects.
"We are truly excited about this cooperation as the Project at Shangyu is a significant second step for our strategic expansion in the new energy, new materials and semiconductor industrial parks operations and development, following on the heels of our ongoing work in support of the establishment of a first new energy storage industrial park in Jiaxing. We believe that the new energy equipment manufacturing involved in this Project will supplement the new energy storage and battery projects in Jiaxing. We will adhere to our strategy of providing 'whole process and life cycle' comprehensive industrial operation solutions and services by connecting tenants in the Project upstream and downstream in the industrial chain. Rooted in Zhejiang Province, we will continue our expansion in the Yangtse River Delta Region and eventually grow nationwide. We further believe that our tailored industrial operation solutions for the industrial parks will help the industrial development of Hangzhou city and its nearby regions. In addition, our experience in the cooperating with multiple government agencies on major projects lay a solid foundation for further cooperation opportunities. With the implementation of the projects, our industrial operation services segment will create further value for our investors and shareholders in the future," commented Mr. Junfeng Wang, Chairman of the Company.
About Roan Holdings Group Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2009, Roan Holdings Group Co., Ltd. (OTC Pink: RAHGF and RONWF) is a comprehensive solution provider for industrial operation and capital market services. Adhering to the platform strategy of "cross collaboration, technology empowerment, sustainability and stability, and combination of operation and finance resources", the Company's services focus on the new energy, new materials, and semiconductor industries. At the same time, the Company focuses on the application of innovative technologies in the consumer industry with respect to financial consumption, cultural and tourism consumption, and great health ecosystem. Roan aims to provide comprehensive solutions and supporting services for diversified institutional and local government clients across the entire industry chain. Roan has offices in Hangzhou and Beijing and subsidiaries in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing and Tianjin. For more information, please visit: www.roanholdingsgroup.com.
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to, among others, the consummation of the proposed transaction, and can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. Examples of such statements include our belief that the new energy equipment manufacturing involved in this Project will supplement the new energy storage and battery projects in Jiaxing, that we will adhere to our strategy of providing "whole process and life cycle" comprehensive industrial operation solutions and services, our further belief that our tailored industrial operation solutions for the industrial parks will help the industrial development of Hangzhou city and its nearby regions, that our experience in the cooperating with multiple government agencies on major projects lay a solid foundation for further cooperation opportunities, and our view that our industrial operation services segment will create further value for our investors and shareholders in the future, Such statements are based upon management's current expectations of the consummation of the proposed transaction, and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control. Examples of such risks include whether the Project or the Jiaxing project will come to fruition, whether Shangyu will fund the project, whether there is demand for tenants in the project, and whether we can connect the tenants both upstream and downstream in the industrial chain. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors are included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under law.
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DAKAR – Senegal’s ruling coalition says it has won 30 of 46 departments in Sunday’s legislative election, giving it a majority over the opposition.
The head of the ruling coalition and former Prime Minister Aminata Toure claimed the victory late Sunday.
“Of the 46 departments in Senegal, we won 30 departments. So we gave a large majority to our president,” said Touré.
The head of President Macky Sall’s coalition, Benno Bokk Yaakar, stressed that the information is “precise, accurate, fair and not invented” with wins in Senegal's North, West and Central areas.
"We congratulate all the citizens who voted for us,” said Yaakar.
The mayor of Dakar, Barthelemy Dias, denounced the results, claiming that “the opposition won the elections” and calling on the youth to mobilize to “preserve their victory.”
Official provisional election results are expected later this week. The Autonomous National Electoral Commission, the body responsible for monitoring and supervising the elections, declared that the ballot took place in peace and calm.
About 6.8 million voters were expected at the polls to elect 165 deputies to the National Assembly. The opposition has focused its campaign on the need to vote against the ruling coalition to prevent Sall from trying to secure a third term in the 2024 presidential elections.
Senegal's political atmosphere is tense. Violent protests broke out last year after Sall’s main opponent, Ousmane Sonko, was arrested on rape charges and more than a dozen people were killed. Sonko, who came in third in the 2019 election, denies the allegations and his supporters have been vocal about their opposition to the president.
This year, Sonko and another of Sall’s prominent opponents were disqualified as candidates, sparking more widespread anger and protests in which three people died in June.
Senegal, with a population of 17 million, is known for its stability in West Africa where there have been coups in three countries since 2020 and where leaders have changed laws in order to remain in power for third terms.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
Flash Flood Statement
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
144 PM PST Tue Jan 10 2023
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR SAN FRANCISCO AND
NORTHWESTERN SAN MATEO COUNTIES...
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
A Flood Watch remains in effect until 400 PM PST for portions of
central California and northern California.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Large breaking waves of 5 to 9 feet. Sets to 10 feet in
San Diego County, mainly Wednesday.
* WHERE...San Diego County and Orange County beaches.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM PST Wednesday, with highest surf on
Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and minor
beach erosion. Minor coastal flooding of low lying beach areas
and parking lots around high tides late tonight and Wednesday
morning.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highest surf south of Del Mar. High tide
of 3.5 ft at 1213 AM tonight and 4.7 ft at 1048 AM Wednesday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to
dangerous surf conditions.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, is highlighting its comprehensive cancer care solutions, including advanced imaging, radiation therapy, software, and services at the 2023 annual European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) meeting from May 12-16 in Vienna, Austria.
As a Siemens Healthineers company, Varian is working to connect the cancer care continuum to empower clinicians to deliver more efficient, more personalized care to patients. With technologies and services spanning the entire patient journey – from screening to survivorship – the company is working to build an integrated oncology ecosystem to enable streamlined workflows, better informed treatment decisions, and improved outcomes.
"Helping to create a world without fear of cancer requires us to look beyond the treatment room, at how we can work with our customers to apply our technology to transform the care pathway. Now that Varian is part of Siemens Healthineers, we have the reach and resources to do just that, starting with screening and early detection," said Kevin O'Reilly, President of Radiation Oncology Solutions at Varian. "In two years as a combined company, we have only just scratched the surface in identifying the wide range of new opportunities available to us to drive innovation through integration, with connected imaging and radiotherapy solutions to accelerate and enhance care for patients and providers alike. We are excited about the possibilities ahead, and the solutions we are showcasing at ESTRO reinforce the important progress we are making."
These solutions include:
- Connected Imaging: Now available on Halcyon® and Ethos™ radiotherapy systems, the HyperSight™ imaging solution seeks to connect the power of imaging inside and outside the treatment room. The HyperSight solution's cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) technology delivers larger images with better contrast, and is 10 times faster than conventional linear accelerator-based imaging systems, saving time for patients and creating the potential to significantly enhance the patient experience. With quality, precision, and speed, HyperSight allows clinicians to capture images during daily radiation treatment that can be used for replanning and adaptation to patient and tumor changes.
- Advanced Motion Management: Patient movement during radiotherapy can significantly impact outcomes, as small movements such as breathing can affect the quality and precision of the treatment. The IDENTIFY™ system is designed to provide clinicians with greater confidence in knowing precisely where the patient is during a variety of radiation treatment delivery methods and techniques, including stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), and breath hold. IDENTIFY version 3.0,1 which has received CE mark, represents a purposeful step forward in surface guided radiation therapy (SGRT). This new version represents a connected future of SGRT through deeper integration of IDENTIFY within the Varian ecosystem. Clinicians will experience new safety features such as automated beam hold functionality on the TrueBeam® platform and process efficiencies that seamlessly complement established clinical protocols. Attendees of ESTRO will learn about Varian's unique vision of SGRT innovation throughout the entire Varian ecosystem.
- Integrated Software: Varian continues to build out its ecosystem of software solutions to power oncology workflows through patient-focused design, embedded intelligence, and enhanced connectivity. With a track record of innovation spanning more than two decades, the Eclipse™ treatment planning system has continuously evolved to support clinicians and their practices. The latest version of Eclipse includes features designed to enhance accuracy in stereotactic radiosurgery treatments, improve conformity for complex stereotactic body radiotherapy cases, and help clinicians realize new possibilities in precision. In addition, Varian continues to expand the capabilities of the ARIA® oncology information system (OIS) to improve workflows, efficiencies, communication, and safety in the clinic. The company has also introduced InSightive™ Gen2, its cloud-native, next-generation analytics solution, which empowers clinic professionals with actionable insights, customized alerts, and aggregation across multiple ARIA databases.
- Customized Clinical Services: Through the Advanced Oncology Solutions (AOS) portfolio, Varian offers customized solutions and services that harness the power of technology and combine it with world class experts to help optimize clinical operations. These solutions, which integrate with and expand cancer centers' existing capabilities, help clinical teams realize their unique goals for optimizing, upgrading, or standardizing operations while implementing global best practices in cancer care.
About Varian
At Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, we envision a world without fear of cancer. For more than 75 years, Varian has developed, built, and delivered innovative technologies and solutions that help care providers around the globe treat millions of patients each year. Today, as a Siemens Healthineers company, we support every step of the cancer care journey – from screening to survivorship. From advanced imaging and radiation therapy, to comprehensive software and services, to interventional radiology, we are harnessing the power of our perspective while also pursuing clinical research to create a more efficient, and more personalized care pathway. Because, for cancer patients everywhere, their fight is our fight. For more information, visit http://www.varian.com.
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Varian Corporate Communications
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American Bible Society's 13th Annual State of the Bible Report Shows 10M Americans Joined the Movable Middle
PHILADELPHIA, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Bible Society today released the first chapter of the 13th annual State of the Bible report, which highlights cultural trends in the U.S. regarding spirituality and Scripture engagement. The study reveals that this past year, the number of Bible Users in America remained at a historically low level; however, the Movable Middle (those exploring the Bible's message) grew significantly and the Bible Disengaged segment shrank. Moreover, Scripture Engaged individuals were shown to have the highest levels of persevering hope. The study's first chapter is now available to download at StateoftheBible.org.
"Our research this year delivers an urgent message for those ministering in America. Although it's a relief that the number of Bible Users did not continue along its precipitous decline, there remains a pressing need to help spiritually engage an expanding Movable Middle—those individuals who are friendly to the Bible's message but not actively reading and applying Scripture's truths," said John Farquhar Plake, PhD and American Bible Society's Chief Ministry Insights and Innovation Officer. "Positively, Americans who are Scripture engaged show significantly higher levels of hope than their neighbors. Although our society faces challenges on many fronts, the Bible provides hope and help to those who explore its truths. That's a powerful reminder for each of us this Easter season."
State of the Bible 2023 findings come from a nationally representative survey performed for American Bible Society by NORC at the University of Chicago, using their AmeriSpeak panel. The data came from 2,761 online interviews with American adults in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Key findings analyzed in Chapter 1: The Bible in America
- Bible use in America remains at its lowest point in more than a decade of measurement. The latest data show that 39% of American adults are Bible Users. That figure is unchanged from 2022, although it still represents a significant decline from 2011–2021, when it averaged 50%. Currently, one in four (24%) American adults use the Bible at least once a week, on their own, outside of a church service (page 7).
- The Movable Middle is growing again. State of the Bible finds that the Movable Middle has grown to 76 million American adults, and the Bible Disengaged segment has fallen to 138 million. The data indicate a shift of approximately 10 million Americans out of the Bible Disengaged segment and into the Movable Middle (pages 17–19).
- Scripture Engaged people display higher levels of hope. The State of the Bible survey included four questions connected to the Persevering Hope metric, developed by a group of scholars from five universities. Overall, there was very little variation among demographics. However, Scripture Engaged people averaged a score of 4.1, which significantly exceeds the overall average (page 5).
- A majority of those who turn to Scripture say they do because "it brings [them] closer to God." Bible Users were given seven options to complete the sentence "I use the Bible because . . ." Far and away, the most popular response (47%) was "It brings me closer to God" (page 10).
- Americans have strong opinions about the Bible's value. Slightly less than half of Americans (44%) say America would be worse off without Bible-reading, compared to 14% who say a Bibleless America would be better. Notably, more than a quarter of non-Bible Users, who seldom if ever interact with Scripture, still say the country would be worse off without the Bible (page 13).
Between April and December, American Bible Society will release nine new chapters in the State of the Bible 2023 story, including reports on how our mothers shape our faith; the Bible's influence on human flourishing; Gen Z perspectives on the Bible, faith, and church; and the impact of emerging technology on Bible engagement habits.
To download the first chapter of State of the Bible 2023, visit StateoftheBible.org.
*For descriptions on how Scripture engagement was measured and reported, please see page 32 of the ebook available for download at StateoftheBible.org.
About American Bible Society
Since 1816, American Bible Society has been making the Bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford, so all people may experience its life-changing message. One of the nation's first and most enduring ministries, American Bible Society today advocates for all people to apply the Bible's teachings to their lives in ways that transform their relationship with God, self, and others. For free Bible resources or to join the Bible cause, visit AmericanBible.org.
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NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CCL, REV, MRO, INDO, and RDBX.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rallying a global company to higher productivity levels than before the pandemic, one CEO says the secret is to overcome fear, live in harmony and believe in one's full potential.
"Coming out of the pandemic building momentum, our company leaders have uncovered key insights from exploring backward to boost productivity going forward," said Kevin Guest, chairman and CEO of USANA Health Sciences (NYSE: USNA). "In that retrospection, we've found a pattern of success borne from a growth mindset that expands our confidence in who we are and what we can become."
Marking USANA's 30th anniversary, Guest shared success insights with several thousand USANA associates from around the world Aug. 17 in Salt Lake City in his keynote address, kicking off the company's 2022 global convention, which continues until Aug. 20 in-person and streaming virtually to attendees in 24 international markets.
"Over the last two years during the pandemic, some people have talked about their fear of failure, but to fuel success, we must overcome fear, and unleash powerful confidence, creativity and lasting connections," said Guest, a deeply principled leader. "What's more, now is the time to live a harmonious life by first knowing who we are, next understanding our values, and finally by applying true health that balances our body, mind, and spirit. That's our path to greater heights."
Author of the bestseller All the Right Reasons: 12 Timeless Principles for Living a Life in Harmony, Guest, who is also a musician who leads a band, helps leaders and employees strengthen company culture through the power of harmonious living actively connecting with others.
"In music, harmony occurs when notes blend in a way that is pleasing to the ear. Whether someone plays in a band, sings in a choir, or performs in an orchestra, there is nothing quite as exhilarating as achieving perfect harmony with fellow musicians," he wrote in All the Right Reasons. "Harmony in music doesn't happen without hours of practice and each individual musician's commitment to getting the music right.
"A life in harmony means a consistent and honest arrangement of personal values and a solid commitment to living those values day in and day out, which is one secret to higher fulfillment and confidence in life and at work."
Studies show confident people collaborate more naturally to achieve goals, which Guest says is a key to success.
"Because no person is an island, I've seen that we accomplish more as we connect with others," he said. "In fact, connections are vital in creating future success, and those who do so consistently are miles ahead on the path to success."
In his book, Guest shares dozens of examples of how making connections with celebrities, such as KISS frontman Gene Simmons to former U.S. President Gerald Ford and comedian Bob Hope, steered his own path from musician to chairman and CEO of a billion-dollar, global company.
"To achieve all you can become, be firm in your destination but flexible in your path," Guest said. "As Pablo Picasso said, 'Whatever you can imagine is real' which means if you believe in something strong enough and have passion, motivation, and desire to make it happen, those dreams can come true. I've seen it over and over."
All the Right Reasons proceeds are directed to feed two million meals to hungry children. Available on Amazon, the book provides 40 meals for each single purchase.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A detached garage in Salem collapsed while firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze they say spread to two homes early Tuesday morning.
Fire crews responded to the home near Berry Street Southeast and Howard Street Southeast just before 4:45 a.m.
Officials say the blaze started in the detached garage before catching the home on the property and a neighboring home on fire. Officials said the garage was old and collapsed from the force of water used during firefighting efforts.
No one was reported injured.
Fire investigators are working to determine what started the fire. | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/fire-collapses-detached-garage-spreads-to-2-homes-in-salem/ | 2022-11-29 18:40:56 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/fire-collapses-detached-garage-spreads-to-2-homes-in-salem/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A fight broke out last Monday in a Pompano Beach movie theater after two men got into an argument over reserved seats, according to NBC affiliate WTVJ.
Authorities are still searching for the man seen in video who is responsible for hitting a 63-year-old man inside the theater.
The victim claimed he purchased VIP tickets with advanced seating for the movie, but when he showed up, a man and woman were in his seats.
When the victim asked the man to move, the man became aggressive and got in the victim’s face, according to witnesses.
The video, which was released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office, shows the moment the verbal altercation turned physical. The victim is seen pushing his aggressor before the man repeatedly begins punching the victim’s face while witnesses try to pull him off.
The victim suffered injuries to his head and face and was taken to a nearby hospital. | https://www.wfla.com/news/video-florida-moviegoer-pummeled-during-fight-over-seats-suspect-sought/ | 2023-07-20 22:25:57 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/video-florida-moviegoer-pummeled-during-fight-over-seats-suspect-sought/ |
MIAMI — A Delray Beach man has been sentenced to 41 months in prison after pleading guilty to buying and selling more than 2.6 million Medicare beneficiary identification numbers and other personal identifiers, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Charles McElwee, 36, was sentenced Friday in Miami to one count of conspiracy to violate MACRA by buying and selling beneficiary identification numbers by U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas. He pleaded guilty on Jan. 27.
It was one of the first prosecutions brought under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.
MACRA makes it illegal to buy, sell or distribute without lawful authority Medicare or Medicaid beneficiary numbers.
McElwee, whose company Lead Junkies is in Fort Lauderdale, admitted that he and his co-conspirators used "data mining" and "social engineering techniques" to collect Medicare beneficiary information, which McElwee then advertised and sold online in 2021 and 2022.
It included beneficiary names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and Medicare beneficiary identification numbers. Some of the illicit transactions involved foreign actors, including sellers in the Philippines and buyers in Egypt, according to the indictment.
The Department of Homeland Security-Office of the Inspector General and FBI office in South Florida investigated the case.
Medicare beneficiaries who believe they have been a victim of medical identity theft can file a complaint with the HHS-OIG hotline by calling 800-HHS-TIPS (800-447-8477) or with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by calling 800-MEDICARE (800-633-4227). | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-s-palm-beach-county/delray-beach/charles-mcelwee-medicare-fraud-sentencing | 2023-04-13 13:46:10 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-s-palm-beach-county/delray-beach/charles-mcelwee-medicare-fraud-sentencing |
NEW YORK — About 160 resident physicians went on strike Monday over what they called low pay at New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public hospital once known as the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Mount Sinai “refuses to pay us the same as our coworkers doing the exact same job at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan,” Dr. Joya Dupre, a second-year internal medicine resident at Elmhurst, said in a union statement. ”It feels, fundamentally, like Mount Sinai is saying that this community does not matter. Like we as Elmhurst residents do not matter, as largely immigrant, union doctors.”
Mount Sinai released a statement Monday saying it was “working towards an equitable and reasonable resolution that is in the best interest for both our residents at Elmhurst as well as for the Mount Sinai Health System.” It also said it was working with Elmhurst on contingency plans to ensure patient care is not affected by the strike.
The resident physicians and Mount Sinai have been in negotiations for nearly a year. A five-day strike is planned.
Pay has been the major sticking point. The union says first-year Mount Sinai resident physicians working at Elmhurst are making about $7,000 less annually than their peers working at Mount Sinai’s main campus in Manhattan.
Also Monday, the union announced that another 500 resident physicians at Mount Sinai Morningside/West in Manhattan have authorized a strike, also over pay.
Elmhurst was among several city hospitals overrun by the coronavirus when the pandemic began. Medical staff at Elmhurst described gasping patients arriving — seemingly nonstop — ventilators running low, and death totals so high that a refrigerated morgue truck had to be stationed outside. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/05/22/new-york-city-doctor-strike-elmhurst/90a29c36-f8fd-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html | 2023-05-23 00:51:06 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/05/22/new-york-city-doctor-strike-elmhurst/90a29c36-f8fd-11ed-bafc-bf50205661da_story.html |
DENVER (AP) — Denver’s district attorney says she is opening a grand jury investigation into the actions of three police officers who wounded six bystanders while shooting at an armed suspect in a crowded downtown Denver nightlife zone last month.
The officers had already been placed on administrative leave pending a separate internal investigation into the July 17 shooting, which happened as dozens of patrons left bars that were closing for the night in the city’s Lower Downtown neighborhood.
“The public’s interest in this particular shooting incident is understandably high,” District Attorney Beth McCann said in a statement announcing the new investigation on Tuesday. “For the community to trust in the outcome from this incident, it is important that independent members of the community review the facts, evidence and law regarding whether these officers should be criminally charged.”
Police have said the three officers, whose names have not been made public, fired seven times in the confrontation with suspect Jordan Waddy, who police say was armed. The gunfire erupted as a nearby group of partygoers left a bar and gathered at a food truck.
The officers were following Waddy, 21, after they saw him punch another man during a fight, police have said.
Bodycam footage released by Denver police on Tuesday appears to show Waddy holding a pistol and throwing it to the ground as the officers opened fire. Police previously said Waddy was holding a firearm before the shooting.
At least one officer shot at Waddy while facing a crowd of people gathered behind the suspect, the footage shows. When the shots were fired, the crowd scattered. Some people fell to the ground in a rush to escape and others ducked behind the food truck or crawled on all fours.
Waddy, who suffered non life-threatening injuries, was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing and possession of a handgun by a previous offender. Court records said he is represented by a lawyer from the public defender’s office, which does not comment on cases.
Six bystanders were injured and authorities have said all received hospital treatment for non life-threatening injuries.
Siddhartha Rathod, an attorney representing the injured bystanders, welcomed the investigation announced by McCann.
Willis Small IV, 24, said in an interview that he was near the food truck when he felt a bullet or bullet fragment penetrate his left foot. Small looked down to see a hole through his shoe, hopped to his car and drove to the hospital.
Yekalo Weldehiwet, 26, was outside the bar after celebrating his fiance’s brother’s 23rd birthday when a bullet shattered a bone in his upper arm. His right arm went limp, “like a noodle,” he said, and he held it with his left arm as he sprinted away.
Bailey Alexander, 24, who was waiting in line at the food truck with her boyfriend, said she felt blood rushing down her body after a bullet or bullet fragment went through her upper back and exited her right arm. Alexander’s boyfriend held her up by the waist as they fled.
Speaking to reporters last month, Denver police Cmdr. Matt Clark said that officials “are deeply concerned for those who were injured during the incident and are working to provide all resources and support to them as they heal.”
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man saved by Orange County firefighters after crashing into a pond last year reunited with his rescuers, gifting them a betta fish to remember the occasion.
“408 the fish,” a freshwater critter named after the state road next to the pond in which he plunged, was presented by the man and his wife to firefighters during the Orange County Fire Rescue Department’s awards ceremony Thursday night.
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The department shared video of the interaction on Twitter, showing off the gilled gift and letting the man recount his experience.
“It was unbelievable finding out that Jimmy — the firefighter that actually saved me — when he saw my face, knew exactly who I was, because he and our son play hockey together,” the man said. “...The car was sinking so fast, if he hadn’t gotten there when he did, I probably wouldn’t be here today.”
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— OCFire Rescue (@OCFireRescue) January 13, 2023
The man told firefighters that he found the fish in his pocket after being rescued, yet did not elaborate further about how a species native to Southeast Asia could have ended up in a Central Florida pond.
Aside, the firefighters said they intend to keep 408 around as a mascot for the department.
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What happens when a group of childhood friends reunite years later and pick up their old game of M.A.S.H? Terrifying, hilarious chaos, according to Comedy Central's new film, Cursed Friends.
ET exclusively debuts the trailer for the upcoming horror-comedy, which stars Nicole Byer, Harvey Guillén, Jessica Lowe, and Andrew Lewis Caldwell as a group of 30-something childhood besties who wake up on Halloween to realize that their future-predicting game of M.A.S.H. (Mansion-Apartment-Shack-House, for those who didn't grow up playing) from 2002 is starting to come true for them in hilarious and disturbing ways.
From Byer's character's wish to have the world's longest fingernails -- and marry *NSYNC's Joey Fatone! -- to having 100 kids with the hometown loser, to leading a cult, there's plenty of madness in store for the four friends, not to mention hilarious cameos from stars like James Austin Johnson, Nikki Glaser, Kathy Griffin, Nicole Richie, Ken Marino, and Rob Riggle.
Check out the full trailer below:
Cursed Friends premieres Saturday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. PT/ET on Comedy Central.
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The Pentagon on Tuesday formally rescinded its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, dropping the shot’s requirement across the U.S. military over a year after it was first put in place, according to a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
The memo was expected after the annual defense policy bill, signed into law by President Biden on Dec. 23, gave the Defense Department 30 days to pull the mandate.
Even with the requirement gone, however, the Defense Department “will continue to promote and encourage COVID-19 vaccination for all service members,” Austin said in the memo. “Vaccination enhances operational readiness and protects the force.”
Austin on Aug. 24, 2021, first issued a mandate requiring coronavirus vaccinations for all service members — including those in the National Guard and Reserve — with those who did not comply facing various levels of punishment. Those included loss of days individuals accrued toward retirement, loss of pay or even dismissal from the ranks in a move known as involuntary separation.
But the rule received heavy pushback from Republican lawmakers and was the subject of several lawsuits. It was eventually dismantled after a rescission requirement was included in the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act — a major concession by Democrats to help pass the sweeping legislation before the end of 2022.
Ahead of the memo’s release, the U.S. military had stopped all related punishments for refusing the shot, including discharging troops from the service.
In the document, Austin still argued that the vaccine mandate is meant to ensure force readiness and is critical to the health and safety of the force, giving commanders the reins in deciding whether or not to deploy troops who are not vaccinated.
“All commanders have the responsibility and authority to preserve the Department’s compelling interests in mission accomplishment,” he wrote.
Leaders are also able “to consider, as appropriate, the individual immunization status of personnel in making deployment, assignment, and other operational decisions, including when vaccination is required from travel to, or entry into, a foreign nation,” Austin added.
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Mayorkas deflects blame on border crisis, says it’s been an issue ‘since the ‘90s’
Mayorkas said border a 'decades-long problem' only Congress can fix
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas distanced himself from the border crisis Sunday, saying the country’s immigration system has been broken "since the ‘90s" and it’s ultimately up to Congress to fix it.
During an appearance on CBS News’ "Face the Nation," Mayorkas dismissed a bipartisan bill introduced last week by Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., that would allow the U.S. to expel migrants for two years after Title 42 ends this week.
"There’s a very important message, not to communicate only to Sen. Sinema but to all senators and all members of the House of Representatives: We need immigration reform," he said. "Everything that the Department of Homeland Security is doing, everything that our partners across the federal government are doing is within a broken immigration system. The president passed to Congress a proposal to fix our broken immigration system on the first day in office."
CBS anchor Margaret Brennan pushed back, saying it doesn’t appear the Democrats have made the border a priority.
TILLIS, SINEMA TO INTRODUCE BILL TO ALLOW MIGRANT EXPULSIONS TO CONTINUE AFTER TITLE 42 ENDS
"But that's like a to-do list," she said. "That's different than putting your shoulder behind it, picking up the phone and saying, ‘Excuse me, Democrats control the Senate, let's be out front on immigration."
"Margaret," Mayorkas responded, "we have been pushing for immigration legislation since day one. And by the way, it didn't start on day one – this is a decades-long problem. The immigration system hasn't been fixed since the '90s."
"Absolutely, and it has only seemingly gotten worse with the set of circumstances we're in now," Brennan retorted.
Mayorkas argued that the bill by Sens. Sinema and Tillis doesn’t fix the problem.
"What I would say to the senators, Sens. Tillis and Sinema, what we need is our system fixed, not this Band-Aid solution," he said.
Title 42, a public health order that was implemented in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, will expire on Thursday, sparking concerns that the U.S. is unprepared for a renewed surge in illegal immigration.
"The border is not open," Mayorkas said Friday in Brownsville, Texas, alongside Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz. "It has not been open, and it will not be open subsequent to May 11. And the smugglers who exploit vulnerable migrants are spreading misinformation. They are spreading false information, lies in a way to lure vulnerable people to the southern border and those individuals will only be returned."
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The Boston Bruins have canceled plans to add defenseman Mitchell Miller to their organization, after current players and NHL officials spoke out against Miller — who was convicted of bullying a Black classmate with developmental disabilities when he was 14.
Miller has said he apologized and has portrayed his actions as a single incident.
But critics of Miller, who is now 20, say he hasn't done enough to show remorse for his actions or to prove he's now a changed person. His victim has described systemic abuse that went on for years.
The controversy has raised questions about NHL teams' vetting processes, as well as a culture around elite youth athletics that can allow bullies to avoid being held accountable.
Complaints about Miller drew national attention in 2020
It's the second time Miller's path to the NHL has been abruptly blocked. The Arizona Coyotes drafted the Ohio native in 2020, but the team renounced its rights to him days later, after Miller's former classmate, Isaiah Meyer-Crothers, spoke out about suffering years of abuse at Miller's hands that culminated in a juvenile court case.
"He pretended to be my friend and made me do things I didn't want to do," Meyer-Crothers told the Arizona Republic at the time, describing growing up alongside Miller in their hometown outside of Toledo.
The bullying ranged from racial slurs to physical attacks, Meyer-Crothers said. In a 2016 incident that led to police involvement and a court conviction, Miller and another boy made Meyer-Crothers lick a piece of candy that had been rubbed inside a urinal. They also beat him, according to a Republic report citing local records.
The two boys were charged with assault and violating the Ohio Safe Schools Act and were ordered to do 25 hours of community service, to write letters of apology, pay court costs and undergo counseling, according to the Republic.
Contacted by NPR on Monday, Meyer-Crothers' mother, Joni, said, "Our prayer is that Mitchell gets help and understands the magnitude of what he did for years to Isaiah and in the same regard that Isaiah can heal from the trauma. Both boys need healing."
Joni Meyer-Crothers has said that while the other boy in the bathroom ordeal personally apologized to her son, Miller never did so, other than writing a court-mandated letter. She also says Miller initially lied about the incident, admitting to his role only to prevent surveillance video of the assault from being released.
Last fall, Isaiah's father, Jamie Crothers, wrote an open letter to Miller, accusing him of using his status as an emerging hockey star to carry out years of abuse. The family placed their adopted son in another school to help him avoid bullying, Crothers wrote, but he alleged that the incidents resumed when he and Miller later went to the same middle school.
"Do you remember telling him, on one of those occasions, that his BLACK family didn't love him and that's why he has a WHITE family?" Crothers wrote.
The letter came in response to Miller's resumption of his junior hockey career.
Miller was (once again) on his way to the NHL
Miller's talent on the ice is not in dispute. In May, he was named the USHL's player of the year with 39 goals in 60 games for the Tri-City Storm — a record for defensemen in the junior league's top level.
That same month, Anthony Noreen, the Storm's president of hockey operations, said the team brought Miller back after the bullying reports emerged in 2020 because it had confidence in Miller's character.
"We believe in this kid," Noreen in a video recalled telling the USHL, saying he has known Miller for years. The team also created a plan to help Miller develop off the ice, he added.
Miller's success with the Storm set the stage for Friday, when the Bruins signed him to a three-year entry level contract, sending him to the Providence Bruins of the AHL. But criticisms erupted inside and outside of the organization. Just two days later, the team announced it opted to "rescind the opportunity for Mitchell Miller to represent the Boston Bruins."
The team said its signing of Miller was based on its belief that he had reformed and grown as a person following what it termed an "isolated incident."
But the day after the Bruins signed Miller, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said emphatically that Miller is not welcome in the league.
"He's not coming into the NHL. He's not eligible at this point to come into the NHL," Bettman said. "I can't tell you that he'll ever be eligible to come into the NHL."
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Bettman said he has since spoken to Bruins President Cam Neely about Miller.
"Nobody should think, at this point, he is or may ever be NHL eligible," Bettman said. "And the Bruins understand that now."
As the Bruins announced their change of plans, Neely apologized to Meyer-Crothers.
"To Isaiah and his family, my deepest apologies if this signing made you and other victims feel unseen and unheard," he said. "We apologize for the deep hurt and impact we have caused."
Miller and his agent say he's been working to change
On Friday, Miller issued a statement through the Bruins that prominently mentioned his troubled history.
"When I was in eighth grade, I made an extremely poor decision and acted very immaturely," he said. "I bullied one of my classmates. I deeply regret the incident and have apologized to the individual."
But Miller's message didn't ring true for his critics, who faulted him for portraying his abuse as a one-off mistake. They also say he overstated his apology. Meyer-Crothers' parents have said their son endured years of abuse, starting in first and second grade.
In recent years, Miller said, he has gained a better understanding of the consequences of bullying. And he pledged to work in community programs to educate himself and others.
"I strive to be a better person and positively contribute to society," he said in the statement.
Miller's agent, Eustace King — a Black man who sits on the NHL's Diversity and Inclusion Committee — issued a statement Sunday saying that he grappled with the question of whether to represent Miller. In the end, he said, he opted to "counsel not cancel" the young player.
Miller has committed to working with advocacy groups that promote equity and combat bullying, King said.
"We believe in restorative justice," he said. "Mitchell and I are on that path together, and I welcome you all to join us."
Bruins players spoke out against Miller's bullying
It was good for her son, Meyer-Crothers told NPR, to hear Bruins standouts such as captain Patrice Bergeron, alternate captain Brad Marchand and forward Nick Foligno condemn Miller's past behavior as they discussed the controversial signing over the weekend.
"In this locker room, we're all about inclusion, diversity, respect," Bergeron said. "We expect guys to wear this jersey to be high-character people with integrity and respect. That's how they should be acting."
Bergeron said he disagreed with signing Miller. He and other players also said it was up to Miller to continue to develop and to show he has changed.
"If it's the same 14-year-old that would be walking into this locker room, he wouldn't be accepted and wanted and welcomed in this locker room, to be honest with you," Bergeron said.
"Isaiah would like to thank Bergeron, Foligno, and Marchand for their statements on Saturday," Meyer-Crothers told NPR, adding that their words "gave him some peace."
When asked what Isaiah's life is like today, Meyer-Crothers said that at 20, he's struggling daily. He's currently living in Detroit but is looking to move back home, she said, adding that he would like to become a barber.
"With his disability, he has always been extremely artistic," she said, "and cutting his own hair has always been good therapy for him."
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Forbes recognition reflects Guardian's support for women throughout their careers
NEW YORK, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian) announced today that it has been named to Forbes' list of "America's Best Employers for Women 2023." The list recognizes 400 American companies that are admired by employees for their dedication to women in their workforce and diverse representation across the organization.
"We strive to create an environment where women feel supported through every stage of their career and have opportunities to grow, advance, and lead," said Jennifer Andrews, Head of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (J.E.D.I.) at Guardian. "When each of us feel valued, respected and included, we grow stronger as a company and deliver more value to our consumers and communities."
Guardian is cultivating a strong, inclusive, and diverse culture for women inside and outside the company by investing in professional development, building and strengthening relationships with women-owned suppliers, and spearheading community programs focused on education and developing tomorrow's leaders. Guardian's Women's Leadership Network (WLN) was the Company's first employee resource group (ERG), and today is active in engaging and empowering more than 1,000 members.
"This achievement confirms the successful impact of our continuous focus on accelerating progress for Guardian women through our workplace inclusion, well-being, and leadership development efforts," said Stacey Hoin, Chief Human Resources Officer. "We look forward to continuing to rise to the challenge of ensuring that all of our colleagues feel seen and heard, supported, inspired, valued, and empowered to succeed."
Guardian's efforts to create an inclusive work environment have received numerous recognitions, including:
- 2023, 2022, 2021 Forbes Best Large Employers
- 2023 Forbes Best Employers for Diversity
- Six consecutive years – Human Rights Campaign – Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality – perfect score 2022
- 2023 Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion by Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
- 2023 Disability Matters North America Marketplace Award
- 2023, 2022, 2021 Best Place to Work in India
- 2021 India's Best Workplaces for Women
America's Best Employers for Women 2023 list is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc. and was compiled by surveying 50,000 people in the U.S. working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. View online the full list of Forbes "America's Best Employers for Women 2023."
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The 2023 The Memorial Tournament Presented By Workday Odds & Preview: Jordan Spieth
Following the second round of The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Jordan Spieth is in 12th at -3.
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Jordan Spieth Insights
- Over his last 14 rounds, Spieth has scored below par six times, while also carding 10 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has recorded a top-five score three times in his last 14 rounds.
- Over his last 14 rounds, Spieth has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on seven occasions.
- In his past five events, Spieth has finished in the top five once.
- Looking at the past five tournaments he has entered, he made the cut three times.
- In his past five tournaments, Spieth finished within three shots of the leader once and five or fewer strokes back twice. He carded a score better than average three times.
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The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday Insights and Stats
- In Spieth's previous 11 entries in this tournament, he has finished in the top 10 two times, including one top-five finish. His average finish has been 22nd.
- Spieth has 10 made cuts in his past 11 appearances at this tournament.
- The most recent time Spieth played this event was in 2023, and he finished 12th.
- Muirfield Village GC will play at 7,571 yards for this event. In the past year on the Tour, the average tournament has been hosted on a shorter course, with an average distance of 7,301.
- The courses that Spieth has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,310 yards, while Muirfield Village GC will be 7,571 yards this week.
Spieth's Last Time Out
- Spieth was above average on the eight par-3 holes at the Charles Schwab Challenge, averaging par to finish in the 69th percentile of competitors.
- His 4.17-stroke average on the 24 par-4 holes at the Charles Schwab Challenge ranked in the 14th percentile of the field (the tournament average was 4.06).
- Spieth shot better than just 10% of the field at the Charles Schwab Challenge on the tournament's four par-5 holes, averaging 5.00 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.80.
- Spieth carded a birdie or better on two of eight par-3s at the Charles Schwab Challenge, better than the field average of 1.5.
- On the eight par-3s at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Spieth recorded two bogeys or worse (less than the field average of 2.7).
- Spieth's two birdies or better on par-4s at the Charles Schwab Challenge were less than the field average of 5.7.
- At that most recent competition, Spieth's par-4 showing (on 24 holes) included a bogey or worse six times (better than the field's average, 7.2).
- Spieth ended the Charles Schwab Challenge without carding a birdie or better on a par-5 hole, compared to the field average of 1.9 on the four par-5s.
- The field at the Charles Schwab Challenge averaged 0.7 bogeys or worse on the four par-5s, but Spieth finished without one.
The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday Time and Date Info
- Date: June 1- 4, 2023
- Course: Muirfield Village GC
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Par: 72 / 7,571 yards
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Interstate 80 is busy on a normal day, but on this day the road is even busier with people traveling for the Fourth of July holiday.
"They've been pretty congested but overall it's been better than I expected," said Melissa Swenda, Pittsburgh.
"I feel like it's been fairly good, a couple of clusters but other than that no issues," said Stacey Varano, Jamestown.
AAA estimates car travel will set a new record this weekend with nearly 42 million people on the roads.
"I'm going to New Jersey and in Cape Cod to see my family," said Sienna Perkins, Pittsburgh.
"Seaside Heights, New Jersey. That sounds nice, are you visiting family? Well we are visiting my son just north of East Stroudsburg and then continue on the next day," said Bill Yanek, Dubois.
"My son and his girlfriend live right on the edge of New Jersey, and we're going into New York {{-L3 HEADLINE-}} to see the fireworks though," said Andrea Hill, Reynoldsburg.
Travelers tell Newswatch 16 that despite the high prices at the pump it's not stopping them from hitting the roads.
According to AAA the national average gas price is $4.84 a gallon.
In Pennsylvania, it's slightly higher at $4.92.
"It is what it is, what can you do about it? It wasn't for us. So far we've only filled up once so it hasn't been too bad," Said Hill.
"We hadn't traveled a lot the last couple of years so I feel like this summer we actually have a few trips planned and are just sort of eating the cost and accepting it," said Swenda.
"Family is more important I feel like so we just went with it," said Varano.
AAA recommends checking your vehicle's battery, engine and tires before you travel this holiday weekend.
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Speaker 1: I want to introduce you to your AI powered co-pilot in Edge. We've just updated Edge with a new, uh, look and feel and new AI capabilities. As you can see here, it's sleeker, it's lighter, and you're gonna notice now that we've integrated Bing in a really cool new way. Let me show you here. I am on the Gap website. I'm browsing on in my new Edge browser, and I wanna read, uh, gap's quarterly report so [00:00:30] I can navigate down to their earnings. Click on q3 and up comes the 15 page, uh, gap pdf. It's pretty long. I won't have time to read all that. What I would love is a, a summary of the key points. I wanna show you how. Now with the power of Bing's AI capabilities within Edge, we can help with one click. I can open up the sidebar, and now as you can see at the top of the window, we have two features.
Speaker 1: We have chat and compose. Let me show you how Chat works. I can use [00:01:00] Chat and Edge to simply ask it to give me the key takeaways of the page I'm on. So I'll just say key takeaways from the page and Bing in AI can now read that PDF and look how great it comes up with the summary of the key points here, their earnings, the fact that it's gonna reaffirm full year guidance. Very, very cool. A massive time savings. But now I wanna compare this with say, Lululemon who also has their third quarter earnings. Ben can now call out to the web, pull information from [00:01:30] outside of this page, bring it into Edge, compare it with the information that's on this page, all with an edge. And I asked to do it in a table and look how amazing this is. Just like that in one table, I can get an answer to this question.
Speaker 1: Think about how much time that would've taken otherwise, let me try, if we can take it one step further. A top use case we've learned from our friends at OpenAI is that developers are really being more productive with chat G p T. So here we're on a Stack Overflow website discussion board [00:02:00] to learn a little bit about programming. And in this case, I'm researching tips on how to par a JSON file. As we read through, we find this great little code snippet, uh, and I'm like, oh, it's fantastic, except it's in Python and we need it in rest. All we need to do is highlight that text, have it automatically co you know, copied over into the edge sidebar. And now, uh, inside of Edge says, what do you wanna do? And we'll say, Hey, rewrite this code in Rust. And with that simple command, Bing can go and take [00:02:30] that code and rewrite that automatically in the new programming language. This is amazing. GitHub co-pilot has been a huge boost in developer productivity. Imagine what the co-pilot can do for people everywhere on any page. One final thing to show you, not only can you better consume information, but you can better create after our big announcement. I'm gonna wanna write a LinkedIn post, let's say. So I'll just click create on the Post and Up comes
Speaker 2: With a creation dialogue in [00:03:00] LinkedIn, but now I can open up the Bing sidebar and you can see here I now will go to Compose and I'll just give it a prompt. I'll say, Hey, introducing the new AI powered Bing and Edge. Let's make that enthusiastic and generate a draft. And just like I need help with the enthusiasm. And just like that, you get a little draft and I can edit it. And then with one click, it copies right over into my post dialogue. I can add some hashtags to get it, some, some juice. And just like that, I've created a post. So [00:03:30] all of these amazing new capabilities and what we think is a revolutionary new experience, world class search, the ability to actually get answers to your questions made easy with integrated chat and the ability to generate content when you need it to spark your imagination, brought to you not only when you're searching, but everywhere on the web courtesy of the New Edge browser with your co-pilot for the web, we aspire to unlock that joy of discovery, that wonder of creation and that feeling [00:04:00] of empowerment and being able to harness the world's knowledge. | https://www.cnet.com/videos/microsoft-introduces-new-ai-edge-browser/ | 2023-02-09 17:41:35 | 1 | https://www.cnet.com/videos/microsoft-introduces-new-ai-edge-browser/ |
BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) — Four people were fatally shot at a house in Maine on Tuesday shortly before gunfire wounded three others on a busy highway, in a pair of crimes that are linked, authorities said. Hours later, a man was charged with murder.
Police closed a portion of the interstate highway and residents and businesses in the area were ordered to shelter in place for about 90 minutes before authorities determined there was no threat to the general public.
The shootings are among a spate of recent mass killings that have shaken communities both large and small, including a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee; a bank in Louisville, Kentucky and a Sweet 16 party in a small city in Alabama.
In Maine, police charged Joseph Eaton, 34, of Bowdoin, with four counts of murder Tuesday evening but declined to discuss a possible motive for the shootings or identify the shooting victims. Eaton was expected to appear in court later this week.
The crimes began in rural Bowdoin, where the bodies were found, and continued with gunfire 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the south on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, police said. One of the three highway victims was critically wounded, police said.
Law enforcement officers, some carrying long rifles, could be seen canvassing areas near the highway after the shootings. At one point, heavily armed officers at an off-ramp peered inside the trunk of a car that had apparent bullet holes in the windshield. Police said a person of interest was detained, and witnesses saw one person in handcuffs.
In Bowdoin, a farming community with about 3,000 residents, yellow crime tape hung where the shootings took place, in a home flanked by woods at the end of a long, gravel driveway. About 10 marked and unmarked law enforcement vehicles and a crime scene van were parked outside, and investigators moved about the scene.
At one point, a woman spoke to police outside the house before dropping to her knees and sobbing. Later, hearses were seen leaving from the driveway.
The town of Bowdoin has no affiliation with Bowdoin College, which is located about 10 miles (16 kilometers) away, in the town of Brunswick.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills tweeted her concern for the “families, friends and loved ones of those impacted by this tragedy.” She said she was praying for the injured.
“Like people across Maine, I am shocked and deeply saddened. Acts of violence like we experienced today shake our state and our communities to the core,” she said.
In Yarmouth, traffic backed up on the interstate as police shut down the southbound lanes. The highway reopened later Tuesday, with the exception of one exit where the police were inspecting the car.
Employees at Water Treatment Equipment Inc., a business near the highway, locked the doors and pulled down the shades after being alerted to the lockdown, which lasted about an hour and a half, manager Kim Snyder said. Workers saw cars backing up on the highway, along with police cars, ambulances and fire trucks.
“It definitely shifted the day, and the worry kicked in,” she said. “They hadn’t caught the active shooter. We didn’t know what was going on.”
Lenora Felker, who works near the highway at Rosemont Market and Bakery, said she sensed something was afoot when people started streaming in, saying the highway was closed, followed by dozens of law enforcement officers who descended on the area.
Officers went business to business asking if they had seen “anyone that was wet and muddy fleeing,” Felker said. But she knew all the customers and didn’t see anything unusual, she said. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/4-killed-in-maine-home-3-wounded-in-linked-highway-shooting/ | 2023-04-19 04:27:32 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/4-killed-in-maine-home-3-wounded-in-linked-highway-shooting/ |
Registration for the City of Lawton’s Parks & Recreation Department’s Fall 2022 sports leagues opens on Monday, July 18.
There will be openings for teams in tackle football (10U and 12U), flag football (6U and 8U), volleyball (10U, 12U and 14U) and adult-league softball (ages 18+).
Registration closes Wednesday, Aug. 31. More detailed information about each league is available online at https://www.teamsideline.com/lawton.
For more information, call the City of Lawton Parks & Recreation Department at 580-581-3400. | https://www.swoknews.com/sports/registration-for-city-sports-leagues-opens-monday/article_1e20d9b7-94bf-5c2a-a5bf-6104d7c8dbf1.html | 2022-07-13 16:15:40 | 1 | https://www.swoknews.com/sports/registration-for-city-sports-leagues-opens-monday/article_1e20d9b7-94bf-5c2a-a5bf-6104d7c8dbf1.html |
For many people, cracking their neck is a daily habit, just like cracking your back or your knuckles.
But a recent viral tweet suggested a woman suffered from stroke symptoms after getting her neck adjusted at the chiropractor. People online were also asking if you can have a stroke from cracking your neck.
THE QUESTION
Can cracking your neck cause a stroke?
THE SOURCES
- Paul Lleva, MD, a general and vascular neurologist and assistant professor of clinical neurology at Yale School of Medicine
- Veritas Health, a health website
- Cleveland Clinic
- Spine & Sport Medical Center (SpineOne), a Denver-based chiropractor
- National Library of Medicine
THE ANSWER
Yes, cracking your neck rapidly could cause a stroke, but it’s very rare.
WHAT WE FOUND
When you crack your neck, the facet joints in the back of the neck stretch, which lets fluid spread out into the joints. That creates gas bubbles, which pop and make the neck cracking feel like it’s releasing pressure, Veritas Health explains. It’s a similar sound and feeling as cracking your knuckles.
When you crack your neck, the rapid movement could tear the blood vessels that run up the back of your neck, Paul Lleva, MD, a neurologist with the Yale School of Medicine, told VERIFY. This type of tear is known as a vertebral artery dissection (VAD).
The vertebral arteries run through the spinal column in the neck, providing blood to the brain and spine. If the vessel is torn, a clot can form within the damaged vessel, which in very rare occasions could lead to a stroke, Lleva said. He estimated only 2% of strokes are caused by a VAD-induced clot.
According to a 2011 study published by the National Library of Medicine, only 1 to 1.5 per 100,000 people in the U.S. experience a stroke caused by a VAD.
But it’s not just the cracking of the neck that leads to a VAD or clot. Lleva told VERIFY any rapid movement of the head – including sneezing, coughing or shoveling snow – could result in this type of injury.
According to SpineOne, a Denver-based chiropractor, “the day-to-day neck cracking you experience is probably safe.” There is a risk if you try to give yourself an adjustment by pulling or twisting your head with your hands.
Lleva said if you are experiencing neck pain, you should see a doctor before trying to self-manipulate the joints in your neck.
If you do think you’re suffering from a stroke, consult a doctor. The acronym F.A.S.T. is often used to remember warning signs of a stroke.
- F = Face Drooping – Does one side of the face droop or is it numb? Ask the person to smile. Is the person's smile uneven?
- A = Arm Weakness – Is one arm weak or numb? Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?
- S = Speech Difficulty – Is speech slurred?
- T = Time to call 911 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/cracking-your-neck-could-cause-a-stroke-but-its-very-rare/536-a96cf856-75ec-43af-8a88-c78b8626bb66 | 2023-02-20 18:56:18 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/cracking-your-neck-could-cause-a-stroke-but-its-very-rare/536-a96cf856-75ec-43af-8a88-c78b8626bb66 |
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III surprised a crowd of fans Friday assembled outside Buckingham Palace who had begun gathering a day ahead of his coronation.
The king, his eldest son, Prince William, and daughter-in-law, Kate, stopped for a walkabout to shake hands and speak briefly with the adoring throng.
Many of those in the crowd planned to spend Friday night hoping for a prime perch for the procession Saturday, with a view of the newly crowned monarch and Camilla, his wife, waving from the balcony of the palace after returning from the ceremony.
The stop was made after a luncheon that followed the final rehearsal for the service at Westminster Abbey.
The crowd outside the palace has been growing over the week, with people from many parts of the world assembling to witness the crowning of the latest British monarch in a tradition that dates back more than 1,000 years.
On Thursday, William and Kate took a subway train and visited a pub in Soho as part of the lead-up to the coronation. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/king-charles-iii-surprises-crowd-outside-buckingham-palace/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-05-05 15:26:30 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/king-charles-iii-surprises-crowd-outside-buckingham-palace/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
UPDATE 5/31/2023 at 10:19 p.m. — The Forsyth family is thanking the community for support as they wait to hear more from investigators about what happened to Dr. John Forsyth.
Law enforcement in Arkansas are investigating John’s death as a homicide and said the body was found with a gunshot wound.
“He had no guns,” Richard Forsyth said. “I talked to him about that. He didn’t want to have a gun.”
But closure, Richard said, can’t happen until the family has more answers about what happened to their loved one.
“We need to get to the bottom of this,” Richard said. “We need to find out what happened. We’re not satisfied with just that he was found. This kind of barbaric behavior has to be uncovered. We, this has to be dealt with.”
John’s employer, Mercy Hospitals, issued a statement, saying in part:
“We invite everyone to join us in praying for Dr. Forsyth’s family, our co-workers and the entire community impacted by this tragedy. We are providing emotional and spiritual support to our co-workers through our employee assistance program, pastoral care team and other resources.”
Joe Polker, representative of Mercy Hospitals
Richard said the family is appreciative of the support from the community, too.
“The community support has been overwhelming. And we are so grateful for everyone who has supported us,” Richard said. “The, the outpouring of love, the messages of love and affection and concern and devastation are very reflective of the kind of person he was.”
UPDATE 5/31/2023 at 6:00 p.m. — OzarksFirst spoke with John Forsyth’s brother, Richard Forsyth, to find out what he believes may have happened to his brother.
Richard also spoke with authorities in Arkansas today, and he said they told him they are investigating the death of John Forsyth as a homicide.
“At this point, it looks like he was abducted and killed and thrown into a lake,” Richard said. “Just looking at it from my point of view, that’s what it seems like.”
Meanwhile, Missouri law enforcement are still investigating the missing person’s case to try to figure out how he went missing in the first place, according to Richard Forsyth.
UPDATE 5/31/2023 at 11 a.m. – Dr. John Forsyth was found dead in Benton County, Arkansas, according to a press release from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office.
According to the release, Dr. Forsyth was found in the water near the Lost Bridge South area with a gunshot wound.
He was found after a kayaker called 911 after noticing the body in the water.
Benton County Sheriff’s Office is working with the Cassville Police Department and Missouri State Police to investigate.
UPDATE 5/30/2023 at 9:58 p.m.: Dr. John Forsyth’s family has informed OzarksFirst that his body has been found in northwest Arkansas. The Benton County Sheriff’s Department says it is investigating after finding the body, believed to be Forsyth pending an autopsy and identification.
Forsyth was last seen at 7 am on Sunday, May 21. His vehicle was later located at the Cassville Aquatic Center.
Detectives said that although several agencies spent hours searching the area of the Cassville Aquatic Park using K9s and a thermal imaging drone, investigators were unable to find any evidence at that time.
The Cassville Police Department reported Forsyth missing after he did not show up at his job at Mercy Hospital on Sunday, May 21.
Original article, published May 30, 2023:
CASSVILLE, Mo. — It was over a week ago when Dr. John Forsyth seemed to vanish.
“I don’t know why my brother is missing. I don’t know why he would leave behind his wallet, his passport, his checkbook, his keys, and an unlocked car,” his brother Richard Forsyth says.
Family members like Richard are working to find the doctor who worked at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, while also shutting down online rumors about Dr. Forsyth’s disappearance as it gains national attention.
“We’ve gathered together a great deal of data sorting through what is potentially relevant or even factual has been challenging,” Richard said.
Those rumors include the notion that a court order for child support and alimony totaling nearly $20,000 are a motive in John’s disappearance.
Richard told OzarksFirst that’s not the case.
“I talked to a lot of people [who would] know, and they said that that amount of money was not a concern,” Richard said.
Another unfounded popular rumor is one surrounding the cryptocurrency company Richard and John started.
Richard said the idea that his brother’s disappearance has anything to do with the company is false.
Richard added there was one person who they believed was upset with John, but that individual was overseas and is confident that the isolated incident is not relevant to the investigation.
“He expressed some extreme emotions towards us that he would get revenge. And ultimately his campaign failed, and we didn’t hear from him again,” Richard said. “I don’t see that being enough motivation for someone to cross the Atlantic and cause trouble.”
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says they have no updates in the investigation.
The family told OzarksFirst they have seen security footage showing a person they believe is John and another car around 7:15 a.m.
“We have the white vehicle leaving about 3 minutes after that and then 10 to 15 minutes after that, someone looking quite a bit like my brother, the image is a bit blurry, exiting his car,” Richard said. “The clothing he was wearing fits his last known description, [walked] around a bit and then walk away.”
The family is still holding out hope.
“We’re all very disturbed by these events, and some family has come in from out of town. We’ve been trying to support each other,” Richard said. “In a situation like this, you kind of learn that you can very easily forget self-care.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/top-stories/missing-cassville-doctors-death-to-be-investigated-as-a-homicide-by-arkansas-authorities/ | 2023-06-02 00:37:06 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/top-stories/missing-cassville-doctors-death-to-be-investigated-as-a-homicide-by-arkansas-authorities/ |
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maggie O'Farrell about her novel The Marriage Portrait, an imagined account of the life of Lucrezia de' Medici, who was rumored to have been murdered by her husband.
Copyright 2022 NPR
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maggie O'Farrell about her novel The Marriage Portrait, an imagined account of the life of Lucrezia de' Medici, who was rumored to have been murdered by her husband.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kbia.org/2022-09-06/a-new-novel-honors-the-forgotten-and-possibly-murdered-lucrezia-de-medici | 2022-09-06 21:45:35 | 1 | https://www.kbia.org/2022-09-06/a-new-novel-honors-the-forgotten-and-possibly-murdered-lucrezia-de-medici |
Your smart TV has a lot more than Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. Check out these channels for movies, documentaries and other, mostly free, stuff.
If you don't mind commercials, "Freevee" is a new, free channel from Amazon which can also be watched on the web. I tried it both ways, first watching on the web, then installing it from the Google Play Store on my TV, which I found under "apps." It has a lot of kid favorites, like the animated dance movie "Leap," as well as great selections for adults, like "Emma," based on the book by Jane Austen, and "Knives Out," starring the late great Christopher Plummer. When the Campbell's soup commercial came on, I didn't mind. I got a homey, nostalgic feeling.
"Pluto TV," is a free download in your TV's app category, or you can go to Pluto.tv on the web. I liked "An Honest Liar," about the "Amazing Randi," who liked to hang upside down in a strait jacket over Niagara Falls. Also "Hatari!" starring John Wayne.
"Crackle TV," another free app on your TV, is also available on the web at Crackle.com. They have plenty of good movies, including family films. That's where I discovered "Ballet Shoes," a charming 2007 film starring Emma Watson.
"Apple TV Plus," a streaming service from TV.apple.com, offers only Apple-original shows, but you don't need an Apple TV. Besides iPhones and iPads, it's supposed to work on other phones, computers and smart TVs. However, I get horrible glitches except when I'm watching on my iPad or iPhone. My favorite series is David Attenborough's "Prehistoric Planet," which brings to life not just dinosaurs, but the other creatures who lived alongside them 66 million years ago. It's like "Jurassic Park," without the violence and with a lot more variety. I'm also enjoying "Schmigadoon," a series about a couple who get stuck inside a musical. The Israeli thriller "Tehran" gets great reviews but is a bit scary. If you don't have an Apple ID, create one after tapping "Start free trial" at TV.apple.com. After the trial, it's $5 a month.
"TED," which stands for "Technology, Entertainment and Design," has a great TV channel, found in the app section of your smart TV. I find it fun to browse there, rather than go to TED.com on a computer, phone or tablet.
SPAM IN TEXTS
To get rid of spam, a reviewer wrote: "I did what AT&T suggests by reporting the message and sender to the SPAM shortcode (7726). But after doing that, the messages not only didn't stop, they increased!" An app called "TextKiller" works great, he said.
TextKiller, for iPhone and iPad, is free for seven days, then $40 a year. It gets fantastic reviews. However, spam may still show up on your Apple Watch.
For Android phones, turn on "verified SMS." Open the Messages app. Tap the menu in the upper right corner. Tap "settings." Scroll down and turn "Verified SMS" on. Now Google will verify whether it's a legitimate business or not, killing messages from those that aren't. While you're in "Settings," you might also want to turn on "spam protection."
Another trick: Stop giving out your real number willy nilly. You can get a burner number to hand out. Go to Voice.Google.com for Google's free option. When someone calls you on your burner number, your regular number will ring. But texts to that number will not go through.
STYLUS BURNOUT
A reader wrote: "On my iPad where I read four newspapers a day I am experiencing a problem with scrolling. It may be the inexpensive stylus I am using. Do I need to drop $100 to get the Apple stylus?"
Styluses wear out, but you certainly don't need to spend $100 just for scrolling and tapping on a virtual keyboard. I like the "Stylus Pen for iPad" from Dockteck. You get three styluses for $10. The reader said it works great, but he wondered why one end is stubby and the other is flat. The flat end is for getting into small spaces. Go flat.
For sketching and handwriting, consider the ZAGG Pro Stylus, $51 on Amazon, or the Adonit Mark for $20.
SAVING A WET iPHONE
If you get your phone sopping wet, whatever you do, don't put it in a bowl of rice, despite what others may suggest. Rice dust can mix with the water and make a paste inside the phone.
Instead, try to get as much water out as possible. Start by powering it off. Then take the SIM card out by inserting a paperclip into the tiny hole on the side of the phone to release the tray. Remove the microSD card tray too, if your phone has one. Now try using a can of compressed air or a fan to blow water out of the ports, though this won't remove the water inside the phone. You'll have to open it up and set it in front of a fan. For more info, see the "How to Geek" article called "Stop Putting Your Phone in Rice."
INTERNUTS
• Tabliss.io gives you a new nature picture every 15 minutes when you open a tab in Google Chrome. It's free. Go to Tabliss.io and click "Add to Chrome."
• "The Best Science Subscription Boxes for Kids." Search on that phrase for a great list from ReviewGeek. "KiwiCo" has good variety of hands-on projects for children of all ages.
Joy Schwabach can be reached by email at joy.schwabach@gmail.com. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/11/smart-tv-offers-plethora-of-free-channels-to/ | 2022-06-11 08:53:48 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jun/11/smart-tv-offers-plethora-of-free-channels-to/ |
Zoo welcomes ‘extremely important’ birth of tiger cub triplets
INDIANAPOLIS (Gray News) - It’s the Year of the Tiger and the Indianapolis Zoo is celebrating the birth of tiger triplets.
On May 27, the zoo’s 7-year-old Amur tiger, Zoya, gave birth to the trio. Two of the cubs are male and one is female. The zoo reports the cubs are doing well and their mom is in good health.
Zoo representatives said when Zoya delivered baby number one, she was tending to the cub but still showed signs of labor. Veterinary staff then delivered the two other cubs by cesarean section. The cubs weighed in at around 2 pounds each.
Zoya was born at the zoo in 2014 and is a first-time mom. The father is 14-year-old Pavel.
The zoo also noted that the cubs’ birth is “extremely important” as there are currently fewer than 100 Amur tigers in zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Currently, the zoo’s animal care team is taking care of the cubs and the trio is expected to be introduced to the public in mid-September at 16 weeks old.
Zoo representatives said the team would be launching a community campaign to name the cubs in July.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wcjb.com/2022/06/30/zoo-welcomes-extremely-important-birth-tiger-cub-triplets/ | 2022-06-30 21:00:04 | 1 | https://www.wcjb.com/2022/06/30/zoo-welcomes-extremely-important-birth-tiger-cub-triplets/ |
Sampson strong again as Cubs beat Reds for 5th straight win
CHICAGO (AP) — Adrian Sampson threw seven efficient innings, Nico Hoerner drove in three runs and the Chicago Cubs won their fifth straight, 6-1 over the Cincinnati Reds. Sampson gave up one run on three hits, struck out six and walked two in his 97-pitch outing. He matched his longest start of the season and extended his streak of allowing one run or fewer to five consecutive starts. Sampson finished his day by getting Mike Siani to ground into a double play, stranding a runner at third. Hoerner doubled in two runs in the Cubs’ three-run second. Chicago has won nine of 10. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/09/30/sampson-strong-again-as-cubs-beat-reds-for-5th-straight-win/ | 2022-09-30 21:57:08 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/2022/09/30/sampson-strong-again-as-cubs-beat-reds-for-5th-straight-win/ |
On Thursday, artisticswimmer Anita Alvarez will compete for the first time in nine months. Last June, at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, the two-time Olympian finished her free solo routine, passed out, and sunk to the bottom of the pool.
Team USA head coach Andrea Fuentes dove in, fully clothed, and saved her.
Horrifying photos ricocheted around the world.
Since that viral moment, Alvarez, 26, has grasped for answers, chiefly: Why did it happen – not once but twice? (In 2021, at an Olympic qualifying event in Barcelona, Alvarez lost consciousness after her duet and Fuentes pulled her to safety.) Was she okay? Did she want to compete? Would the U.S. team let her compete? Would World Aquatics, allow it? (The sport's international governing body already faced scrutiny in 2010, when American swimmer Fran Crippen died in a 10-kilometer race near Dubai.) Friends and family asked questions Alvarez couldn't answer. On top of that, there were critics.
As a result, Alvarez hasn't spoken extensively since the event on June 22, 2022.
Until now.
Alvarez tells NPR in an exclusive interview she's confident about returning to competition
In an exclusive in-depth interview, her first since Budapest, Alvarez says, "I feel very confident" heading into the World Cup season opener in Markham, Canada (near Toronto). She had just finished six hours of pool training with a half-hour break. Her diagnosis remained private, but she gave detailed accounts of both incidents and what she's learned during her comeback.
She recounts from June 12, 2021 when Barcelona hosted the last-chance qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics. The U.S. had just missed a team berth by two-tenths of a point, and it had been a late night. On the morning of the free duet prelims, the New York native says she felt "a bit more tired than normal.
"I remember getting to the end of the routine and not feeling like I had much control," Alvarez says. "I hit the last pose and I remember feeling like I was in a hamster wheel. Everything was spinning, then went dark. I woke up at the side of the pool and realized I'm at a competition. 'Wait, I am the competition.' Everyone's staring at me."
That night, Alvarez returned for the technical portion of the duet and put herself in a good position to qualify for an Olympic spot. It was her fifth of six events. For the free program final, "We thought it would be best for me to rest," she says, so the alternate stepped in the next day and secured Alvarez's duet spot for Tokyo.
"I started to get some testing after Barcelona to figure it out," she says, "but Tokyo came up so fast, and I don't think I did the best job of being on top of it."
After the Olympics, she took her first break in nine years and assumed the cause was burnout: "Mentally, physically, and emotionally. There was nothing major in the tests, so I kept going. Everything was fine until Budapest. I never even thought about the possibility of it happening again."
June 22, 2022 — the day she blacked out at the World Championships
In Budapest, Alvarez arrived for the free solo event – her seventh of eight events, and her second World Championship event of the day. After breaking her foot earlier in the year, she says she was, "for the first time in a while, really enjoying a competition. I had energy. I was giving everything, and had more to give. I was performing – really performing. All the way to the end, I felt strong."
Once again, the last pose was a snappy flip from upside-down to right-side-up with her head back. "That hard stop – that's when everything went a little dark," she says. "That's the last thing I remember until I woke up."
Her mother, Karen Alvarez, was watching at work, at a high school in upstate New York. Karen had coached a local artistic swimming team just outside of Buffalo for 36 years. "I knew something was going on," she says, "because they showed expressions of the fans and coaches." A Team USA representative called to tell her Anita was okay.
Meanwhile, Anita rested on a bed by the pool, and got in the water to shake out her legs. "I was exhausted, like I could sleep for five days," she says, but images revealed no water in her lungs. "Everything looked great."
The next morning, however, the photos went viral.
"I flip on the TV," her mother says, "and my phone starts going crazy because it was everywhere. The photos were hard to digest. I didn't think that would be the situation – of her at the bottom of the pool."
Her mother knew she had passed out before, but hadn't personally seen it during Anita's career which began at age 5. Anita had no history of asthma, diabetes, heart condition – not even allergies, her mother says.
Anita still had one more event: the team final two days later. "I was feeling better," she says, and the team routine is often easier than duets and solos. Also, she was the flyer, on top of all the lifts, and the team hadn't really practiced with another swimmer in that position. So Alvarez went to the pool that morning, gelled her hair and prepared to compete, but there had been a meeting in her absence, and she was told no-go. During the final, she stood on the pool deck, hair still gelled, watching the U.S. finish ninth of 12 teams.
Back in the U.S., the news triggered a bombardment of emails and Twitter messages. "My athlete had this ... My daughter had that ... I'm an expert ... Make sure to get this checked." The theory-and malady-catalog was overwhelming.
"I would Google each one, of course, a disease comes up, and you freak out a little bit. I had to go back to trusting my medical team looking into everything we can," Anita says.
Months of extensive testing
That meant months of extensive testing: cardiology, neurology, bloodwork. None as harrowing as on Oct. 14, 2022 in the UCLA pool. The mission: not only re-create – but exceed – the physical stress of the Budapest incident while wearing monitors and being observed.
That meant head coach Andrea Fuentes, a four-time Olympic medalist from Spain, had to design the hardest practice of her life.
"The days before were very hard," Fuentes says. "We talked a lot to prepare mentally. Personally, I was scared. As a coach, you don't like to see your swimmers going through that. But the goal was: We cannot swim [or compete] unless we find out what happened. We had to do it."
The team had the option to watch. "We told them, if you want to leave, leave, because it's not gonna be easy," Fuentes says. But they all stayed. "Imagine, the whole team screaming, cheering her on, making her push harder because doctors told us: the harder she pushed the better. The goal is that she pass out so we can find out why. So hopefully she passes out. I was like, 'Are you sure?' It was a very, very intense day. I never had such a hard practice – never did such a hard practice" – both as a coach and athlete.
It was a full hour to 90 minutes, nonstop.
At the beginning, she did her World Championship routine – again and again and again. The doctor asked for a harder set. Fuentes asked Alvarez to swim at top speed for 25 meters followed by 25 meters underwater. "Keep going till you pass out! But she didn't pass out," Fuentes says. "I was like, 'Let's stop already. It cannot be any worse.' She was crying."
But Alvarez ratcheted up the intensity. The team roared, and she pushed harder. The cardiologist worked with Navy SEALs and told Fuentes that Alvarez's load was surpassing Navy SEALs'. Finally, the doctor said: "That's enough. We have what we need."
"It was an epic day," Fuentes says.
Cardiovascular issues were ruled out. Neurological issues had been ruled out earlier.
"That was a huge relief," Alvarez says. But mentally, she says, it was tough to regain the comfort and confidence to train at high-intensity. And she still had to answer to World Aquatics. Before Christmas, her medical team shared its findings via Zoom, then waited. And waited. "I wasn't really aware of what was needed for me to get back. I'm in the team routine so if I can't compete, the earlier we know, the better.
On March 6 she received final waiver from World Aquatics
On March 6, she received the final waiver from World Aquatics to sign, a three-page legal document required to compete.
To prevent another blackout, Alvarez checks her iron and hemoglobin levels every few months. If they're out of range, they can be managed and stabilized with diet or supplements.
Fortunately, it's simple – because artistic swimming just got harder. A new scoring system makes its international debut in Canada this week. It rewards difficulty by considering the time spent underwater and the number of movements performed during that time.
"It's gonna be more risky for everyone," Fuentes says. "More time underwater means less oxygen. But the problem isn't spending 16 seconds underwater. A lot of people can hold [their breath] 16 seconds underwater, but not with your heartbeat at 200 beats per minute – many, many times in a row while moving at your max [power], fighting against gravity, with three seconds to breathe before you get in again."
As a result, Alvarez says, "There are a few choreography things that I'm avoiding, like coming from underwater and whipping my head back on the final pose. Other movements include a certain range of motion with my neck. I also have more awareness of my breathing throughout the routine."
But Alvarez has no illusions. The photos are still online. "I've seen a lot of pictures since – and pictures of my teammates in the stands, which are the most upsetting to me – to see how scared they were and how much they cared.
"She's a very important person in the team, the sport, and the country"
"To have it blasted out there was a big deal," she says. Worse were the detractors who created their own narratives. "People were saying it wasn't right to glorify an athlete pushing her body that far and making the coach the hero because it never should have happened," she says. Yet marathon runners collapse and snowboarders have fractured their skulls in the name of innovation.
Others said it made the sport (formerly known as synchro/synchronized swimming) look bad. Parents won't want to let their kids do it because it's dangerous. "I've been working my whole career to make the sport more popular," Alvarez says, "and now people are telling me that I'm a bad example.
"You take every comment and start to overthink it. 'How can I make it right?' " The answer is: You can't. Not everyone will understand. Not everyone will be happy.
On the flip side, others claimed: The attention helped the sport because people finally recognized its difficulty. "Which is also true," she says.
What is the takeaway?
"To be honest, I'm still figuring that out," she says.
Lately, Alvarez has been paying close attention to other athletes whose injuries make global headlines, like Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills safety who went into cardiac arrest during a game in January. "That resonated with me," she says. "I followed his story and how he dealt with that afterwards. It was interesting to watch a situation from the outside, seeing the media response, and how he handled it. Seeing it in the real world, in different situations, kind of helps me understand my situation a little bit better."
For now, all eyes are on the pool. The most important thing is to qualify the team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. This week is a start. Alvarez plays a key role.
"This is not going to stop her," the coach says. "She's following her passion. It's inspiring. I admire her a lot. She's a very important person in the team, the sport, and the country. She deserves the moment. We will qualify and get the gold. She deserves it more than anyone. She's been fighting a long time."
This story was edited by Maquita Peters. contributed to this story
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PETALUMA, Calif. (KRON) – Police in California are investigating a “suspicious death” after a deceased woman, believed to have been dead for over a year, was found in her home with another woman claiming to be her daughter.
Officers with the Petaluma Police Department responded to the residence just before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, after neighbors said 20-30 packages had accumulated on the porch and no one was answering the door, according to a press release issued Tuesday.
The woman who lived in the home had “not been seen for several weeks,” either, according to police.
Officers eventually entered the home and found the dead woman in the living room. Police said she was in “the advanced stages of decomposition” and estimated that she had been dead for more than a year.
There was also an adult female in the home, who officers found in a bedroom. She claimed to be the dead woman’s daughter, telling officers that the deceased woman had died of natural causes in April 2021. The purported daughter was taken to a hospital for medical evaluation and treatment. Police also said the home they shared was “uninhabitable” based on its interior conditions.
The local coroner’s office has yet to confirm the woman’s cause of death. An investigation into the woman’s death is ongoing, but police said there were “no outstanding suspects or safety concerns in the neighborhood” as of Tuesday.
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The Biden administration has nominated a Wall Street veteran to lead the World Bank. If chosen by its board, Ajay Banga will replace David Malpass, who created controversy over his views on climate change. As NPR's Jackie Northam reports, focusing on global warming will be just one of the major challenges Banga would face as head of the multilateral institution.
JACKIE NORTHAM, BYLINE: Ajay Banga was born in India. He's the son of an army officer, but his calling was finance. Banga started his career at Nestle in India, moving his way up through various senior management roles across the world, including CEO of Mastercard for more than a decade. Along the way, the now-63-year-old Banga became a U.S. naturalized citizen.
JOHANNES LINN: Being from a developing country originally and having grown up in India, you know, I'm sure he brings a perspective to the development business. Let's call it that.
NORTHAM: Johannes Linn, a former vice president of the World Bank, says Banga's a good choice to lead the bank.
LINN: Secondly, his successful career, especially in the finance domain, is very important right now. He is clearly also a very experienced manager of big organizations, which the World Bank is.
NORTHAM: The U.S. is the largest shareholder at the World Bank and typically picks who will lead it. The Biden administration has made clear Banga has a mandate to set a more ambitious agenda on tackling climate change.
Scott Morris, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, says Banga could have a real challenge finding consensus on global warming policies.
SCOTT MORRIS: Because as much as, you know, at a broad level, countries embrace the climate finance agenda, there are real differences in the particulars and the trade-offs that are inherent, and more money for climate versus other priorities that developing countries might have. So, you know, that is actually a fairly tricky landscape that he will need to navigate.
NORTHAM: And with a large, multilateral bank, it's hard to escape geopolitics. Morris points to China, which he says is the largest source of emissions in the world.
MORRIS: It's really hard to see how you make progress on the climate agenda at the World Bank if you don't have some kind of effective relationship with the Chinese. And, you know, that is going to be squarely on his agenda in trying to manage that at a time when his largest shareholder and the country that nominated him does not really have a pro-engagement stance with the Chinese.
NORTHAM: China has also set up its own international development banks in competition with the World Bank.
Another concern for Banga is the looming global debt crisis, made worse in developing countries by massive borrowing, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
AFSANEH BESCHLOSS: You have 100 trillion debt across the board. You have 60 countries going into default.
NORTHAM: Afsaneh Beschloss is a former treasurer and chief investment officer at the World Bank. She was also on the board at the American Red Cross with Banga for several years.
BESCHLOSS: But also, you have the private sector at this moment not putting out a lot of money in emerging markets. So the challenge is the biggest it's ever been, and it's something that does need to get fixed.
NORTHAM: Beschloss says the World Bank is capable of fixing the crisis, but, no question, Banga has his work cut out for him. Voting on his nomination is expected in May.
Jackie Northam, NPR News, Washington.
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NEWARK, Calif., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, announced today the grand opening of Beacon at Bridgeway, a premier collection of brand new single-family home designs in Newark, California. Located within the Bridgeway master-planned community, Beacon is surrounded by water and wildlife, yet still just a short drive to all areas of the dynamic San Francisco Bay Area.
Home shoppers are invited to the grand opening of Beacon at Bridgeway, taking place Saturday, January 21 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The day will include complimentary food and beverages, music, and exclusive tours of two stunning new Lennar model homes. Following the event, self-guided tours will be available at Beacon at Bridgeway daily from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
"Beacon at Bridgeway offers everything a homeowner could wish for – estate-style homes that are surrounded by the Bay Area's stunning natural wonders, but also near Silicon Valley and just minutes away from San Francisco, one of the world's most exciting cities and economic centers," said Brian Olin, Lennar Bay Area Division President. "We are excited to offer our newest Lennar community within the Bridgeway master plan and look forward to helping Lennar homebuyers establish themselves in this fantastic location."
Homes at Beacon at Bridgeway range from 2,152 to 2,698 square feet, with three to four bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths. All homes feature generous open layouts, gourmet kitchens, resort-style owner's suites and California rooms that seamlessly link indoor and outdoor spaces. Homeowners will have the choice of Farmhouse or Craftsman exterior styles.
All homes at Beacon at Bridgeway incorporate the latest technology with conveniences like the Ring alarm security systems, keyless entries, and smart thermostats. Every home also comes with Lennar's signature Everything's Included® program, where the homebuilder's most popular options and upgrades are built into the base price of the home. At Beacon at Bridgeway, this includes GE stainless steel appliances, quartz or granite countertops, and a host of other carefully curated interior touches and designer fixtures.
Residents at Beacon at Bridgeway will enjoy an active lifestyle within the Bridgeway master-planned community with amenities including a clubhouse with a resort-style pool, spa, kitchen and lounge space. Bridgeway also offers a dog park and access to the Bay Trail, a walking and cycling path running through all nine Bay Area counties. Future development at Bridgeway includes additional community parks, a fitness park, children's playground, amphitheater and boardwalk.
Lennar has also developed, and is selling, several other home collections within Bridgeway, including the Villas single-family homes and the Towns and Terraces condominium collections.
Beacon at Bridgeway is close to neighborhood shopping and dining, including the 1.1 million-square-foot NewPark regional mall, and offers easy access to Dumbarton Bridge and I-880. It is also minutes from the San Francisco Bay, nature trails and wildlife preserves.
The Beacon at Bridgeway model homes and sales office are located at 9321 Enterprise Dr. in Newark, California. For more information, call (888) 216-2330 or visit the Beacon at Bridgeway community website or www.lennar.com/BayArea.
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Acclaimed Blues Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter Toronzo Cannon has 4 Nominations for "Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year" (2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020) & 2 Nominations for "Blues Album of the Year" (2017 & 2020) at the Blues Music Awards. Tickets for TORONZO CANNON and his Band at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club on Friday January 27 at 7 & 9:30 P.M., as well as the current list of 2023 shows, can be found on Ticketmaster.com and Jimmy's Online Event Calendar at: http://www.jimmysoncongress.com/events.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club Features 10x-Blues Music Award Nominated Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter Toronzo Cannon and his Band on Friday January 27 at 7 & 9:30 P.M. The blistering guitarist, soulful vocalist, and singular songwriter fuses muscular, rock-inspired blues guitar with his original, keenly detailed slice-of-life songs.
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In 2016, with the release of 'The Chicago Way', Toronzo Cannon burst onto the international stage as one the most electrifying bluesmen to emerge from Chicago in decades. His live performances earning him heaps of critical praise and hordes of wildly enthusiastic fans. Cannon has played major cities all over the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He recently performed for the first time in Japan, delighting and surprising audiences with one unforgettable gig after another. Cannon has played the Chicago Blues Festival on ten separate occasions, initially as a sideman, then as a special guest, then as a sidestage band leader and finally numerous times as a main stage headliner.
Toronzo Cannon's songwriting is inspired by his deep Chicago roots. His songs tell timeless stories of common experiences in uncommon ways. Between his searing chops, soul-satisfying vocals and vibrant and distinctive original songs, Cannon has grown from being a local attraction to become a world-renowned torch bearer for the blues. PBS Television's Chicago Tonight sums it up like this: "As a guitarist, singer and songwriter, he drives the sound of Chicago blues from the city to blues clubs and festivals around the world."
Toronzo Cannon was born in the Windy City and grew up in the shadows of Theresa's Lounge, one of the city's most famous South Side blues clubs. As a child, Cannon would stand on the sidewalk outside the door, soaking up the live blues pouring out while trying to sneak a glance inside at larger-than-life bluesmen like Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. He also heard plenty of blues growing up in his grandfather's home, and listened to Soul, R&B and Contemporary Rock on the radio.
Cannon bought his first guitar at age 22, and his natural talent enabled him to quickly master the instrument. Although his initial focus was reggae, he found himself increasingly drawn to the blues. "It was dormant in me. But when I started playing the blues, I found my voice and the blues came pouring out," says Cannon. He absorbed sounds, styles and licks from Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Hound Dog Taylor, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, J.B. Hutto, Lil' Ed and others. Although influenced by many, Cannon's biting, stinging guitar sound is all his own.
Almost immediately upon the release of his album 'The Chicago Way', national and international media took notice. CNN filmed Cannon leading a tour of Chicago blues clubs and then broadcast the piece around the world. England's MOJO magazine declared 'The Chicago Way' the #1 "Blues Album of the Year" (2016), as did the Critics Poll and Readers Poll of Living Blues Magazine in their annual poll. In 2017, the world champion Chicago Cubs invited Cannon to throw out the ceremonial first pitch, and the album and Cannon were Nominated for 4 Blues Music Awards, including "Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year", "Song of the Year" (Walk It Off), and "Blues Album of the Year".
"We are very excited to have extraordinary Chicago Bluesman Toronzo Cannon join our stellar list of 2023 Blues Musicians at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club," said Suzanne Bresette, Managing Director of Programming at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club. "Our enthusiastic blues music fans are thrilled to see Toronzo perform two live shows on Jimmy's stage!"
Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club's 2022 Schedule of Shows included 9 NEA Jazz Masters, 52 GRAMMY® Award-Winning Artists, 46 Blues Music Award-Winners, and a comprehensive list of talented musicians with 575+ GRAMMY® Award Nominations amongst them. Tickets for the TORONZO CANNON at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club on Friday January 27 at 7 & 9:30 P.M., as well as the current list of 2023 shows, can be found on Ticketmaster and Jimmy's Online Event Calendar at: http://www.jimmysoncongress.com/events.
The mission of Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club is to provide guests a one-of-a-kind, world-class experience featuring serious jazz and blues music served with exceptional cuisine. Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club features a spectacular and visually breathtaking environment engineered to deliver the highest quality acoustics while utilizing state-of-the-art production, sound and lighting technologies. Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club is located within a beautifully restored 1905 building at 135 Congress Street in the heart of historic downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For more information visit www.jimmysoncongress.com or follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JimmysJazzBlues and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jimmysjazzblues/.
An architecturally breathtaking center of arts and culture in the heart of historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club offers a rare and spectacular venue to host important corporate functions, weddings, intimate or large-scale social gatherings, private parties, and memorable celebrations. The team at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club put heart and soul into creating a stunning full-service event space with new state-of-the-art production, sound & lighting technologies delivered with outstanding next-level culinary experiences. Our high-touch approach with professional and experienced event staff ensures that everything is tailored to exceed your expectations. To start a conversation about hosting your event at Jimmy's Jazz and Blues Club, please call us at 888-603-5299, or fill out Jimmy's Private Event Request Form.
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Americans are tipping less than a year ago
Published: Mar. 27, 2023 at 8:20 AM EDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
(CNN) - The number of places that accept tips for services is increasing, but gratuities are going down.
According to Toast, a restaurant management-based software company, close to 50% of fast-food restaurants now ask customers if they would like to give a little extra pay to staff. That is a 10% increase from three years ago.
Americans, however, are being tight with their wallets.
During the last quarter, the percentage of people who tip at quick-service establishments like McDonald’s and Starbucks was 15.9%.
Last year, it was 16.4%.
Inflation is among the reasons why analysts say some people are tipping less.
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From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on the Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists says a new geologic epoch began then.
Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for “human” and “new” — this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954, according to the scientists. While there is evidence worldwide that captures the impact of burning fossil fuels, detonating nuclear weapons and dumping fertilizers and plastics on land and in waterways, the scientists are proposing a small but deep lake outside of Toronto, Canada — Crawford Lake — to place a historic marker.
“It’s quite clear that the scale of change has intensified unbelievably and that has to be human impact,” said University of Leicester geologist Colin Waters, who chaired the Anthropocene Working Group.
This puts the power of humans in a somewhat similar class with the meteorite that crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, killing off dinosaurs and starting the Cenozoic Era, or what is conversationally known as the age of mammals. But not quite. While that meteorite started a whole new era, the working group is proposing that humans only started a new epoch, which is a much smaller geologic time period.
The group aims to determine a specific start date of the Anthropocene by measuring plutonium levels at the bottom of Crawford Lake.
The idea of the Anthropocene was proposed at a science conference more than 20 years ago by the late Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen. Teams of scientists have debated the issue since then and finally set up the working group to study whether it was needed and, if so, when the epoch would start and where it would be commemorated.
Crawford Lake, which is 79 feet (29 meters) deep and 25,800 square feet (24,000 square meters) wide, was chosen over 11 other sites because the annual effects of human activity on the earth’s soil, atmosphere and biology are so clearly preserved in its layers of sediment. That includes everything from nuclear fallout to species-threatening pollution to steadily rising temperatures.
There are distinct and multiple signals starting around 1950 in Crawford Lake showing that “the effects of humans overwhelm the Earth system,” said Francine McCarthy, a committee member who specializes in that site as an Earth sciences professor at Brock University in Canada.
“The remarkably preserved annual record of deposition in Crawford Lake is truly amazing,” said U.S. National Academies of Sciences President Marcia McNutt, who wasn’t part of the committee.
The Anthropocene shows the power — and hubris — of humankind, several scientists said.
“The hubris is in imagining that we are in control,” said former U.S. White House science adviser John Holdren, who was not part of the working group of scientists and disagrees with its proposed start date, wanting one much earlier. “The reality is that our power to transform the environment has far exceeded our understanding of the consequences and our capacity to change course.”
Geologists measure time in eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. The scientific working group is proposing that Anthropocene Epoch followed the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age.
They are also proposing that it starts a new age, called Crawfordian after the lake chosen as its starting point.
The proposal still needs to be approved by three different groups of geologists and could be signed off at a major conference next year.
The reason geologists didn’t declare the Anthropocene the start of a bigger and more important time measurement, such as a period, is because the current Quaternary Period, which began nearly 2.6 million years ago, is based on permanent ice on Earth’s poles, which still exist. But in a few hundred years, if climate change continues and those disappear, it may be time to change that, Waters said.
“If you know your Greek tragedies you know power, hubris, and tragedy go hand in hand,” said Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes, a working group member. “If we don’t address the harmful aspects of human activities, most obviously disruptive climate change, we are headed for tragedy.”
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Tenured MarTech Executive Brings Technical Expertise, Business Acumen, and Passion for Real-Time Personalized CX to Treasure Data's C-Suite
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Treasure Data™, a leading enterprise customer data platform (CDP) provider, is building on its product and engineering momentum by appointing Karl Wirth as chief product and technical officer. In his new role, Wirth will work closely with and report to CEO Kazuki Ohta to further build out Treasure Data's product portfolio and ensure that Customer Data Cloud continues to be the leading solution for global enterprises to harness data and insights to create connected customer experiences, achieve cost savings and drive business value.
Wirth, an experienced entrepreneur previously was co-founder and CEO of Evergage, a personalized and real-time marketing and CRM solutions company acquired by Salesforce. Overseeing the successful integration of Evergage technology, Wirth spent two years as a Salesforce executive where he directed all strategy and business serving as general manager for Salesforce Personalization. In addition, Wirth has spent over a decade as a product and marketing innovator at a variety of companies, including RSA Security and Red Hat, where he led the development of next-generation software businesses in security, cloud-computing and marketing technology. A Harvard graduate with a degree in physics, Wirth has focused on applying data and software to help brands drive impact from real-time personalization.
"Treasure Data is a recognized powerhouse in the CDP industry and I am thrilled to join the leadership team knowing there is no company better positioned to tackle the ever-evolving complexity and demands of customer data management," said Wirth. "Today's increasingly disjointed customer experience landscape escalates the need for a CDP as a strategic imperative for all organizations. That is why I am excited to lead this team in supporting our global clients as they unify their disparate customer data into a sustainable, competitive advantage."
"Karl brings unbelievable talent paired with humility, energy, and vision to power our customers' data initiatives," stated Ohta. "He joins our team, already home to some of the industry's most brilliant thinkers, at a crucial time to help take us to the next level as AI, data privacy, and digital transformation further impact martech. Karl stands out as a proven leader who embraces challenges, knows what's essential for our customers' success, and has the unique ability to drive high-performing teams with an innovation mindset that will foster the continued growth of Treasure Data."
Wirth's appointment comes on the heels of exponential growth for Treasure Data and the signing of some well-known brands including Little Caesars and Cirque du Soleil, indicative of the high demand for improved customer experiences Treasure Data is seeing across the quick service restaurant, travel, hospitality, and leisure industries. In addition, Treasure Data was named Technology of the Year by InfoWorld, a Best and Brightest Company to Work For in the Nation, and secured a cash infusion of $234 million from Softbank in 2021, the largest funding round ever for a CDP.
About Treasure Data
Treasure Data helps enterprises use all of their customer data to improve campaign performance, achieve operational efficiency, and drive business value with connected customer experiences. The Customer Data Cloud, our suite of customer data platform solutions, integrates customer data, connects identities in unified customer profiles, applies privacy, and makes insights and predictions available for Marketing, Service, Sales and Operations to drive personalized engagement and improve customer acquisition, sales, and retention.
Treasure Data is trusted by hundreds of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, has won numerous awards, and has been named a strong performer and leader by top analyst firms. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Treasure Data has offices in Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom and France to help leading brands around the world make the connection. To learn more, visit www.treasuredata.com.
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Justice Department says it won’t charge Pence over handling of classified documents
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice has informed former Vice President Mike Pence‘s legal team that it will not pursue criminal charges related to the discovery of classified documents at his Indiana home.
The department sent a letter to Pence’s attorney Thursday informing his team that, after an investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, no criminal charges will be sought. A Justice Department official confirmed the authenticity of the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
The news comes days before Pence is set to launch his campaign for the Republican nomination for president in Iowa Wednesday — a race that will put him in direct competition with his old boss, former President Donald Trump.
No evidence ever emerged suggesting that Pence intentionally hid any documents from the government or even knew they were in his home, so there was never an expectation that the former vice president would face charges. But the decision by the government and the timing are nonetheless good news for Pence’s political team before his entry into the 2024 contest.
Attorney General Merrick Garland had named a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, as well as Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, just three days after Trump formally launched his 2024 campaign — an acknowledgment of the high political stakes.
Documents with classified markings were discovered at Pence’s home in January after he asked his lawyers to search his vice presidential belongings. The items, which were promptly turned over to the FBI, “were inadvertently boxed and transported” to Pence’s home at the end of the last administration, Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, wrote in a letter to the National Archives.
The FBI discovered an additional document with classified markings at the Indiana house during a search the following month.
Beyond Pence, Justice Department special counsels are continuing to investigate the handling of classified documents found at homes or offices of both Trump and President Joe Biden, from when he was vice president.
The status of the Biden documents investigation is unclear, but the Trump investigation has shown signs of winding down. Prosecutors appear close to a decision on whether to bring criminal charges against the ex-president or anyone else.
The team led by special counsel Jack Smith has placed a broad cross-section of witnesses before a federal grand jury investigating Trump, including former and close Trump aides. The investigation has centered on not only whether Trump illegally possessed roughly 300 documents marked as classified but also on whether he obstructed government efforts to secure their return.
The Biden and Pence matters have always stood apart, factually and legally, from the Trump investigation because in both of those cases, aides proactively disclosed the discovery of classified documents to the Justice Department and facilitated their return.
In the Trump investigation, Trump resisted months of demands to return classified documents taken with him from the White House to his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, after his term ended. After coming to suspect that more classified documents remained at the property, despite a subpoena and a visit by investigators, the FBI returned last August with a search warrant and recovered about 100 additional documents marked as classified, including at the top-secret level.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A gunman who died in a shootout after trying to get inside the FBI’s Cincinnati office apparently went on social media and called for federal agents to be killed “on sight” following the search at former President Donald Trump’s home, a law enforcement official said.
Federal investigators are examining social media accounts they believe are tied to the gunman, 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer, according to the official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
At least one of the messages on Trump’s Truth Social media platform appeared to have been posted after Shiffer tried to breach the FBI office. It read: “If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I.”
Another message posted on the same site this week from @rickywshifferjr included a “call to arms” and urged people to “be ready for combat” after the FBI search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Authorities also are looking into whether Shiffer, a Navy veteran, had ties to far-right extremist groups such as the Proud Boys, the official said.
Shiffer was armed with a nail gun and an AR-15-style rifle when he tried to breach the visitor screening area at the FBI office Thursday, according to the official. Shiffer fled when agents confronted him.
He was later spotted by a state trooper along a highway and got into a gunbattle that ended with police killing him, authorities said.
The burst of violence unfolded amid FBI warnings that federal agents could face attacks following the search in Florida.
The FBI is investigating what happened in Cincinnati as an act of domestic extremism, according to the law enforcement official.
Shiffer is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and may have been at the Capitol that day but was not charged with any crimes in connection with the riot, the official said.
Officials have warned of a rise in right-wing threats against federal agents since the FBI entered Trump’s estate in what authorities said was part of an investigation into whether he took classified documents with him after leaving the White House. Supporters of the former president have railed against the search, accusing the FBI and the Justice Department of using the legal system as a political weapon.
FBI Director Christopher Wray denounced the threats as he visited an FBI office in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday, saying, “Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with.”
The FBI on Wednesday also warned its agents to avoid protesters and ensure their security key cards are “not visible outside FBI space,” citing an increase in social media threats against bureau personnel and offices.
A now-suspended Twitter account, @rickyshiffer, shared the same profile picture as the Truth Social account and similar opinions, including a call for armed conflict in the U.S. this past spring.
It included posts saying that “elections are rigged” against conservatives and that the country faces “tyranny.”
“I don’t think it’s a one-off incident,” said Amy Cooter, a researcher at Middlebury College who is an expert on militias. “I’m afraid there’s going to be a pocket full of people who feel compelled to act.”
Courthouses, government offices and election headquarters all could be targets, she said. “Anywhere is fair game now because these folks feel this a personal issue for them,” Cooter said.
Shiffer worked as an electrician, according to one of his social media profiles. He was a registered Republican who voted in the 2020 primary from Columbus, Ohio, and in the 2020 general election from Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to public records.
Court records show the Ohio Department of Taxation filed suit against him in June, seeking a $553 tax lien judgment, according to court records listing him at an address in St. Petersburg, Florida. He also previously lived at several addresses in Columbus and in Omaha, Nebraska.
He graduated from high school in central Pennsylvania in 1998 and enlisted in the Navy that same year, later serving on the USS Columbia submarine until 2003, according to military records. He was an infantry soldier in the Florida Army National Guard from 2008 to 2011, when he was honorably discharged.
“I know he was way into World War II and the military,” said Lori Frady, a classmate at West Perry High School in Elliottsburg, who had not seen Shiffer since graduation. “He didn’t have a lot of friends, but the friends he did have were big into history and military history.”
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Balsamo reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ryan Foley in Iowa City, Iowa, John Seewer in Toledo, Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska, and Jim Mustian and researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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MIFFLINBURG, UNION COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Evangelical Community Hospital held its annual breast cancer awareness event, Cookin’ Men, last Thursday at the Rusty Rail Brewing Company.
The event brings together local chefs and chef teams to raise funds for the Thyra M. Humphries Center for Breast Health to provide financial assistance to local woman who need breast cancer screenings. This year, Cookin’ Men raised a record breaking $63K, the most in the event’s history.
Attendees of the event were able to try appetizers, main dishes, and desserts prepared by these chefs. The chefs competed for the prize of Top Chef, which was awarded to brothers Eric John and Paul John Jr., who raised the most money for the center.
The 300 attendees of the sold out event also voted for their favorite treats, with Kenneth and Corey Jusko winning both the favorite dish and best flair awards for their apple strudel with salted caramel ice cream.
“We are so grateful for events like these that help women in need stay on top of their breasts screenings. It is through the generous support of others that we can make it possible for women in our area to make their breast health a priority. When we can diagnose breast cancer early, we are able to help our patents achieve high cure rates and walk with them through survivorship,” said Andrea Bertram, Operational Director of Women’s Health and Cancer Services.
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Over Two Years of Data Detail Telehealth's Evolution throughout the Pandemic
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has undergone notable growth. It has been used for a wide array of health conditions and services that were overwhelmingly rendered in an office setting prior to COVID-19's emergence; these include mental health conditions, which have remained the most common telehealth diagnosis nationally throughout the pandemic. These and other findings on the changing nature of telehealth can be found in FAIR Health's new data brief released today, The Evolution of Telehealth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multiyear Retrospective of FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
The newly released study provides a window into telehealth's changing contours using over two years of private healthcare claims data from FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, a free, online tool that has tracked month-to-month changes in telehealth since the spring of 2020. Focusing on the period from January 2020 to March 2022, the brief reports on monthly changes in telehealth's utilization, top diagnoses and top procedure codes—in addition to other descriptive aspects of this venue of care—at national and regional (Midwest, Northeast, South, West) levels. Supported by infographics with vivid data visualizations, the brief also shows how the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker itself has evolved to meet the needs of healthcare stakeholders.
Among the key findings:
- From March 2019 to March 2020, the percentage of national telehealth claim lines when compared to all medical services increased 4,347 percent.1 The increase was even greater from April 2019 to April 2020 (8,336 percent).
- The top five telehealth diagnoses nationally in spring 2020 indicated that telehealth was being used for conditions that had not been among the top five the year before, including hypertension, joint/soft tissue diseases and issues, and developmental disorders.
- In November 2020, COVID-19 appeared for the first time on one of the regional lists of top five telehealth diagnoses, ranking fourth in the Midwest; in December 2020, COVID-19 emerged as a top telehealth diagnosis nationally and in every region.
- For 6 of the 12 months of 2021, telehealth utilization fell from the level of utilization in the prior month. Nevertheless, it remained much higher than before the pandemic. In December 2021, telehealth claim lines accounted for 4.9 percent of medical claim lines nationally, compared to 0.2 percent in December 2019.
- Many changes in telehealth utilization were likely related to the course of the pandemic. For example, in spring and summer 2021, telehealth claim lines dropped as vaccination levels increased. In fall and winter 2021, however, telehealth utilization rose again as the Delta and Omicron variants led to increased COVID-19 cases.
- Mental health conditions have been the most common telehealth diagnosis nationally throughout the pandemic. Consistent with that finding, in January 2022, social worker was the provider specialty rendering the most telehealth services (most commonly, psychotherapy) nationally and in every region but the West. In every region, as in the nation as a whole, three of the top five provider specialties were related to mental health: social worker, psychiatrist and psychologist.
- In January 2022, CPT®2 90837, one hour of psychotherapy, ranked highest among telehealth procedure codes nationally and in every region.
FAIR Health President Robin Gelburd stated: "In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become a material component of the nation's healthcare system. We hope that this brief provides actionable and relevant insights to healthcare stakeholders—including policy makers, researchers, payors, providers and consumers—seeking to better understand telehealth as it continues to evolve."
On Wednesday, June 22, from 2 to 3 pm ET, Ms. Gelburd will host a webinar entitled "Telehealth Utilization Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Two-Year Retrospective," which will provide insights on telehealth's evolution since winter 2020 using FAIR Health's comprehensive collection of telehealth data. Click here to register for the free, one-hour webinar.
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It's about to get real.
The Challenge: USA has brought stars from Survivor, Big Brother, The Amazing Race and Love Island USA together under one roof to compete for the $500,000 grand prize. Oh, and the chance to compete in The Challenge: Global Championship, a Paramount+ spinoff that will feature the winners from three international versions of The Challenge.
From the very start, the competition has been fierce, with several former winners, including Survivor fan-favorite Tyson Apostol and Big Brother's first-ever Black winner Xavier Prather, hoping to add another title to their reality TV resumes. Standing in their way, however, are some of the people they double-crossed and backstabbed on their way to victory. Meanwhile, islanders from Love Island USA are hoping to prove they can do more than just yell, "I've got a text!"
With 28 competitors hoping to make it to host TJ Lavin's final challenge, it might be hard to recall each cast member's history. Don't worry, we've got you covered and have assembled the need-to-know info about all of The Challenge: USA stars.
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EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Robert Almeida was looking forward to his sister’s wedding in Portugal in 2020, but then the pandemic forced airlines to shut down for some time.
Like many, he was forced to rebook his flight.
“They gave me a voucher to buy more tickets for the following August,” Almeida said.
Almeida purchased new tickets with the voucher, but the wedding was once again put on hold.
He tells Nexstar’s WPRI that he’s been trying to get his money back ever since, but he keeps getting the runaround from the travel agency and the airline.
The lack of refund forced him to make a tough financial decision.
“I missed my sister’s wedding this weekend,” he said.
The U.S. Department of Transportation Department has introduced a proposal to protect travelers like Almeida.
The transportation department proposal would require airlines to offer passengers a refund if their flight schedule is changed significantly or the airline makes major changes to their itinerary.
It would require airlines to give refunds if their departure or arrival time changes by three hours or more for a domestic flight or at least six hours for an international one.
Refunds would also be due if the airline changes the passenger’s departure or arrival airport, adds stops in their itinerary, or causes “a significant downgrade” in the travel experience by switching to a different type of plane.
The rule would apply even for travelers who buy nonrefundable tickets, which usually cost less and are favored by many leisure travelers.
The department proposes to require that airlines and ticket agents give vouchers that don’t expire for passengers who are told not to travel during a pandemic for health reasons or because borders are closed.
The Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee is hosting a virtual public meeting for the proposal that is open to public comment on Aug. 22. Public comments will be accepted on the proposal for 90 days.
Currently, airlines are required to offer refunds to passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly changed, but it has never defined a cancellation or significant change. Because of that, airlines have challenged the Transportation Department’s authority to force them to pay refunds.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A cold virus is running through the France squad ahead of the World Cup final against Argentina on Sunday, affecting at least three players in the squad.
Coach Didier Deschamps said two players with symptoms, defender Dayot Upamecano and midfielder Adrien Rabiot, were isolated earlier this week and didn’t play in France’s 2-0 semifinal win over Morocco.
Rabiot wasn’t in the lineup in Wednesday’s match at Al Bayt stadium. Upamecano was in the lineup as a substitute but didn’t play. Deschamps said Upamecano was recovering from “three difficult days” since playing in the quarterfinals against England on Saturday.
“However, we have four days until the next game, so he should be available for Sunday,” the coach said, adding back-up winger Kingsley Coman had also felt feverish.
He insisted he expects all his players to be healthy for the final against Argentina.
“It’s ’flu season now, and in that sense, we have to be careful,” he said. “And also, the players have put in a huge shift and their immune system might be a little run down.”
France has been training outdoors in Qatar and Deschamps noted the “use of air conditioners may also affect” how the virus is circulating, echoing comments earlier in the tournament from the Brazil camp.
Seven of the eight World Cup stadiums cool the air at field level while interiors of buildings and transport in Qatar are routinely air-conditioned.
Switzerland also had an outbreak of heavy colds and had two starters missing for a decisive group-stage game against Serbia.
The daytime heat has settled at around 25-27 Celsius (77-81 Fahrenheit) for the final week of the month-long tournament which started with temperatures in the low-30s (high 80s).
The first World Cup to be played in November and December was moved from the usual scheduling in June and July when temperatures in Qatar routinely rise above 40 C (104 F)
“The temperatures have dropped in the last few days, and you always need to be careful,” Deschamps said. “Regarding the virus, we’re not worried, really.”
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Two nights ahead of the Yellawood 500 at Talladega, last year’s winner Bubba Wallace is helping NASCAR draw in a new audience for this weekend’s race and beyond.
NASCAR and Wallace hosted Bubba’s Block Party at Railroad Park Friday, looking to target a new audience by drawing in more fans for Sunday’s race.
“This is a first, first time I’ve heard about him,” Reginald Smith said.
Smith and his family heard about the event on social media posted by some of their favorite vendors who said they would be in attendance. The Smiths wanted to make sure they could help support them.
“I’m not a NASCAR watcher, but having an African American in NASCAR that stood out to me,” Brittney Smith said.
Brittney said exposure for their children to someone who looks like them is important.
“I think it’s really important for little girls and little boys to see folks that look like themselves and I think Bubba’s a really good example of that, and bringing more attention to racing is not something I would be interested in, but he’s making it cool so I like it,” Brittney said.
That’s why Wallace helped to host the event.
“Our sport has had so many labels part of it that I want to change the perception of it,” Wallace said. Just because there’s one or two black drivers in the sport doesn’t mean we can’t have more fans there and to have them enjoy their time and cheer on their favorite drivers. It doesn’t even have to be me, that’s a bummer that it’s not, but that’s part of it.”
Wallace is supporting minority-owned businesses and giving fans a chance to test his craft in a driving simulation.
“There’s not too many NASCAR drivers who does these types of events on this scale,” attendee Jonathan Judge said. “The way he does it here at Railroad Park in the heart of Birmingham, I think he’s doing a great job of giving back to the community.”
He’s also providing an opportunity for fans to see themselves represented in vendors and music while adding a charm of culture.
“It’s an opportunity for us to invite a different crowd frankly out to the races at Talladega this weekend and to show representation in this great city of Birmingham,” NASCAR Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion said. “It’s really important that folks see themselves represented. We’re very excited about the success that Bubba has had and the stance that he’s taken on some important topics.”
This is Wallace’s second block party ever but he’s planning on having more in 2023. The first one was earlier this year in Richmond, Va. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/bubbas-block-party-draws-attention-to-diversity-inclusion-to-nascar-fans/ | 2022-10-01 05:54:41 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/bubbas-block-party-draws-attention-to-diversity-inclusion-to-nascar-fans/ |
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CLAYTON, N.Y. (WWTI) — There’s barely any ice to break on the St. Lawrence Seaway this year.
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have confirmed that ice conditions across the Great Lakes during the 2022-2023 season were the third-lowest on record.
Although this is a widespread trend, it has had significant impacts on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. The graph below shows Lake Ontario’s average ice concentration in 2023 compared to the long-term average.
Thousand Islands Land Trust Assistant Director Spencer Busler said these findings matched conditions along the St. Lawrence Seaway.
“It was mid-December and January when we had those really deep freeze moments, but they were pretty quick this year,” Busler explained. “It was a short window when we had good ice cover between the islands.”
Without the typical thick ice, many winter recreational opportunities were too dangerous. Such as ice fishing, pond skating and snowmobiling out on the River and Lake Ontario.
This resulted in event cancellations throughout the region, Tyler Forger, the General Manager of Clayton Marina explained.
“Obviously we’ve missed all the ice fishing derbies, which are usually held right out in [our] bay. We missed events like that and some fundraisers,” he said. “So it has affected the community for sure.”
The low ice conditions also could have effects on native wildlife.
“Shorter winter and less ice cover could mean a shorter breeding and spawning season for fish and other wildlife,” Busler added. “Animals like the red fox and bobcat will use ice cover to travel amongst the islands.”
As of March 16, NOAA data confirmed that the total ice cover across the Great Lakes was 6.7%. On the same day in 2022, the total ice cover was 43.1%.
But as the winter season comes to a close, the low ice conditions may allow for an earlier season for water recreation.
Many marinas and public docks have already made preparations for early-season boaters.
“I think we’ll see an early spring. The sun’s out, people are itching to get ut of the house. That’s what we’re looking forward to at our marina,” Forger expressed. “So we’ll get phone calls from people that are trying to get to their island homes and we’ll see an earlier jump this year.”
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How we work, when we work, how much we work – it's all shifting on a scale not seen in decades.
The pandemic left workplaces reimagined and workers changed. The number of job openings right now outnumbers people looking for work by almost two-to-one.
Last year saw a record exodus of workers, and companies say they are still struggling to hire. Millions have re-evaluated what type of work they were willing to do for what type of pay or benefits and in what type of environment.
On Labor Day, here's a snapshot of what's happening with American workers.
Jobs are growing, and workers are still quitting
Despite inflation and economic slowdown, the labor market remains tight. Employers kept adding jobs all summer, particularly in food and retail. Layoffs have been confined to pockets of the economy – the tech sector, cryptocurrency, home buying – and to select companies, like the beleaguered Bed Bath & Beyond.
Most employers would rather hold on to workers. Too many have grappled with short staffing: More than 4 million people quit their jobs each month for the past year, the highest in decades.
It's not just about the money, it's about worker well-being
While millions quit, others have felt emboldened to fight for change.
From baristas to warehouse staff to frontline nurses, more workers are filing charges of unfair labor practices against their employers or staging walkouts and strikes. They're demanding not just higher wages, but improvements to safety and wellbeing: longer breaks, more paid leave, more control over their schedules.
Office culture, too, has changed. Just over a third of workers were going to offices in person at the end of August in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, according to Kastle Systems, which tracks office card swipes. At Apple, J.P. Morgan, the Washington Post and other companies, workers have pushed back on the notion that they have to return to offices to be productive.
And the TikTok-fueled concept of "quiet quitting" has stormed into summertime work conversations: the idea of doing the bare minimum at work, skipping the hustle and those above-and-beyond tasks. Some, like Arianna Huffington, are dismayed at the idea, calling it a step toward quitting on life; while many experts and workers see the term as a misnomer, better described as boundary-setting for personal time.
Biggest American brands are getting their first unions
Labor organizers declared mid-2022 the #hotlaborsummer. Petitions to form a union are up almost 60% compared to last year, continuing to reverse a long-running decline in union interest. Many of these workers are in food and retail, coffee shops and non-profits, media and tech. Labor experts say more women and particularly women of color are leading the charge.
Unions have won first-time victories at big-name companies: Amazon and REI in New York, an Apple store in Maryland, Trader Joe's in Massachusetts and Minnesota, Chipotle in Michigan and of course Starbucks, where more than 200 stores nationwide have unionized in less than a year.
A union is about collective bargaining, but getting there is arduous
Companies have many paths to try to slow down or even undo labor organizing. A key goal for new unions is a collective-bargaining contract to seal their wage, benefit and other demands. But research finds that when an employer resists, only a small fraction of workers who unionize successfully reach a contract.
Legal delays are abundant. Amazon, for example, launched a monthslong appeal to overturn the historic union win at its Staten Island warehouse. Starbucks has so far begun negotiations with only three of more than 200 stores. Both companies have taken the remarkable step of challenging the fairness of the union election process itself.
Union membership remains low, though support is at a 57-year high
Only about 10% of U.S. workers belonged to a union as of early 2022. At the same time, the level of public support for unions has been growing for over a decade.
This summer, 71% of Americans told Gallup they approve of unions, a level not seen since 1965. Labor experts say support is even higher with younger people, potentially growing a new generation of organizers.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — United Therapeutics Corp. (UTHR) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $132.1 million.
On a per-share basis, the Silver Spring, Maryland-based company said it had profit of $2.67.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $4.12 per share.
The drugmaker posted revenue of $491.5 million in the period, which also did not meet Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $492.4 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $727.3 million, or $15 per share. Revenue was reported as $1.94 billion.
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If Mac Jones is forced to miss games due to his high ankle sprain, the Patriots will turn to a familiar face to lead the offense: backup quarterback Brian Hoyer.
The 36-year old last started for New England in Week 4 of 2020, after then-starter Cam Newton tested positive for COVID-19 prior to that week’s game against the Chiefs.
Hoyer struggled in the 26-10 loss, going 15 of 24 for 130 yards and no touchdowns while committing two costly turnovers.
Here are four things to know about Hoyer.
He played college football at Michigan State
Hoyer starred at Michigan State between 2005-2008, leading the Spartans to a 16-11 record in his 27 starts with the program. He is sixth in program history with 6,159 passing yards, and his 35 touchdown passes are good for ninth-most of any Spartan.
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As a fifth-year senior in 2008, Hoyer was named as a team captain. He was an honorable mention All Big Ten selection that year as well, throwing for 2,404 yards and nine touchdowns.
During his time at Michigan State, Hoyer was teammates with former Super Bowl winning Eagles quarterback and current Colts backup Nick Foles, who played for the team as a freshman in 2007 before transferring to Arizona. He also shared the quarterback room with current Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins, who redshirted in 2007 and served as his backup during the 2008 season.
He has started for seven different NFL teams.
After going undrafted in 2009, Hoyer signed with the New England Patriots. He served as a backup for three seasons in New England, seeing limited action and not starting any games for the team before being released prior to the 2012 season.
Since then, Hoyer has gone on to start games for the Cardinals, Browns, Texans, Bears, 49ers, Colts, and Patriots (in 2020).
The seven different teams that Hoyer has started for marks a tie for the second most of any quarterback in the Super Bowl Era, trailing only Ryan Fitzpatrick’s nine.
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He’s actually played for eight teams – Hoyer spent a few weeks during the 2012 season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, but never started a game for them.
Overall, Hoyer has made 39 career starts, with a record of 16-23. The most starts he has made for any one team is 16, with the Cleveland Browns.
This is his third stint with New England.
Hoyer was released by the Patriots three years after originally being signed as an undrafted free agent, but has since returned multiple times since his first stint from 2009-11.
After spending time with multiple teams since his first release from the Patriots, Hoyer began the 2017 season as the San Francisco 49ers’ starting quarterback, but was benched in favor of C.J. Beathard during Week 6. Shortly after, the Niners made a move to acquire Jimmy Garoppolo from the Patriots, releasing Hoyer following the deal.
Just days later, the Patriots brought Hoyer back on a three-year deal to again serve as Tom Brady’s backup. Again, Hoyer did not start any games, but was active for the Patriots’ victory in Super Bowl LIII.
He was released prior to the 2019 season, and signed with the Indianapolis Colts.
Hoyer was let go by the Colts following the 2019 campaign, and subsequently picked back up by the Patriots.
His real name is Axel.
This week, Matthew Slater made headlines when he revealed a little-known fact about Hoyer – his real name is actually Axel.
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The quarterback was born Axel Edward Brian Hoyer. He shares the first name with his father, who recently spoke about Brian on the “Rocking the RV Life” podcast.
Slater used Hoyer’s real name on Monday, when he expressed his confidence in the veteran’s abilities.
“”I’ve known Axel for 14 years now, been a teammate of his on and off over that period of time. We have a lot of confidence in him,” Slater said. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/28/sports/brian-hoyer-patriots-quarterback-mac-jones/ | 2022-09-28 17:45:39 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/28/sports/brian-hoyer-patriots-quarterback-mac-jones/ |
PHNOM PENH – China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed his country's efforts to strengthen ties with Southeast Asian nations at a meeting Thursday with their foreign ministers, which came as Beijing seeks to expand its influence in the region.
Wang's talks with top diplomats from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were held amid high tensions in the region, following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, which has infuriated Beijing.
The group issued a strong statement earlier in the day, urging both the U.S. and China to show “maximum restraint” in the wake of the visit and “refrain from provocative action.”
China claims the self-governing island of Taiwan as its territory and opposes any engagement by Taiwanese officials with foreign governments.
In his opening remarks, Wang did not mention the situation but instead stressed how China and the ASEAN countries had strengthened cooperation in recent years.
“We have safeguarded the oasis of peace in the face of the turbulence in the international security situation,” he said.
ASEAN is made up of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
China has become one of the biggest lenders to developing countries through its Belt and Road Initiative to expand trade by building ports, railways and other infrastructure across Asia, Africa and the Middle East to Europe.
This has prompted accusations Beijing is using debt to gain political leverage, but Chinese officials deny that.
In the Phnom Penh meetings, Wang pledged that China will continue to "strive to promote high-quality development, build a new development pattern, provide greater momentum for regional and world economic recovery and development, and provide more development opportunities for ASEAN countries.”
Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia, this year's host of the ASEAN meetings and one of the group's most pro-China countries, met individually with Wang on Wednesday.
During the meeting with Hun Sen, Wang reiterated that “China is willing to work with Cambodia to safeguard their respective sovereignty, security and development interests,” China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The report did not provide more detail, but China and Cambodia in June broke ground on a naval port expansion project, which has raised concerns from the U.S. and others that it could give Beijing a strategically important military outpost on the Gulf of Thailand.
Hun Sen in 2019 reportedly granted China the right to set up a military base at the Ream Naval Base, but has long denied that, saying Cambodia’s Constitution prohibits foreign military facilities.
The U.S. in November sanctioned two senior Cambodian defense officials over allegations of graft connected to construction financing at the Ream base, and China has accused Washington of conducting a smear campaign.
In his meeting with Wang, Xinhua reported that Hun Sen said an “iron-clad” friendship had developed, which was “enjoying fruitful results from joint construction of the Belt and Road, which have brought huge benefits to their peoples.”
Both U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were to hold separate meetings later in the day with the ASEAN group.
In a separate meeting with the ASEAN ministers that brought together Wang with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, Yoshimasa emphasized that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has had far-reaching effects beyond Europe, which he said has made it even more difficult for economies to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
“Russia's aggression against Ukraine has given rise to many challenges, including soaring prices of energy, food and other commodities, as well as supply chain disruptions," he said. “I think now is the time to address these challenges in a coordinated manner, and it is even more important to maintain and strengthen the free and open international order based on the rule of law.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/04/china-emphasizes-ties-with-southeast-asia-in-cambodia-meet/ | 2022-08-04 07:11:26 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/04/china-emphasizes-ties-with-southeast-asia-in-cambodia-meet/ |
- Firestorm Labs was selected as part of the industry team on the $46bn EWAAC contract to deliver next generation munitions technologies in support of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin AFB.
- Firestorm modular, open architecture UAS technologies will be leveraged to provide low-cost affordable solutions to USAF munitions systems.
SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FIRESTORM LABS, INC, the defense tech startup, announced today their participation in the $46bn Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition (EWAAC) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract which empowers selected industry partners to provide the Air Force weapons acquisitions hub at Eglin AFB with innovative munitions technologies.
Firestorm Labs' is "future proofing" unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by creating completely modular, open architecture vehicles, which can be manufactured from base materials and deployed within 24 hours – delivering capability when and where it is needed. In joining the EWAAC industry team, Firestorm will apply their modular UAS technology solutions to meeting the critical Department of Defense requirement of low-cost affordable mass in theater, while also enabling newfound capability and putting design in control of warfighter with the ability choose and deploy the UAS and payload they need for mission success – ISR, EW, kinetic, or otherwise.
In a statement, Firestorm Co-Founder and Head of Business Development Chad McCoy stated, "It is our pleasure to join the EWAAC team, and to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center in meeting the urgent demands of the warfighter. Leveraging our modular approach, we are working to provide capability and supply when and where it is need most."
About Firestorm Labs, Inc
We are building the future of modular open-source architecture supporting the Department of Defense requirements to create "Low-Cost Affordable Mass". Firestorm will redefine military expectations for onsite modularity to support the widest array of mission areas.
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It is often said about Indiana weather, “Just wait a day, it will change.” On Wednesday a warm front moved north of the state and we set a record high of 71°. Ahead of a cold front on Thursday temperatures across central Indiana peaked in the mid 60s. At 2pm in Indianapolis the temperature was 66°. By 4pm we had fallen to 56°. Temperatures will continue tumbling overnight and lows will be in the mid-20s by Friday morning.
Friday will be a cool day with highs in the 30s with a mix of clouds and sun, don’t be surprised if you see a few flurries flying by in the cool breeze. We’ll have a few more clouds and warmer temperatures for the weekend with highs in the 40s Saturday and in the 50s by Sunday. This will be mainly dry weekend with our next chance for rain coming Sunday night.
Friday will be a cool day with a mix of clouds and sun.
This has been a wet month but our weekends have been dry.
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ROME — (AP) — Pope Francis is expected to be released from the hospital “in the coming days,” as he recovers well and without complications from abdominal surgery last week, the Vatican said Wednesday.
In his daily medical update, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Francis again rested well overnight, was at work during the day and had received the Eucharist during a moment of prayer in the chapel of his hospital suite.
The 86-year-old pope was admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital on June 7 for surgery to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall and remove intestinal scar tissue that had caused intestinal blockages. Francis in 2021 had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed at Gemelli because of a narrowing of the intestine, and had at least two prior abdominal surgeries in Argentina.
Citing Francis’ doctors, Bruni said the pope's recovery “is proceeding regularly, without complications, and as such his discharge is planned for the coming days.”
Daily Il Fatto Quotidiano quoted an email from the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Battista Re, to his colleagues saying Francis’ return to the Vatican was expected Thursday or Friday.
Francis already has a full agenda scheduled for next week, including a reported audience with Cuban President Miguel Diaz Cane and one with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. On June 23, he's due to preside over an audience in the Sistine Chapel with artists to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the contemporary art collection in the Vatican Museums.
The Vatican typically cancels papal audiences during July, a summer break that will give Francis time to recover more fully before his expected Aug. 2-6 trip to Portugal for World Youth Day. Other upcoming travel includes an Aug. 31-Sept. 4 visit to Mongolia, the first-ever by a pope, and a Sept. 23 day trip to Marseille, France.
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GREENWICH, Conn., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baptist Memorial Health Care's Brain & Spine Network Center of Excellence is expanding its collaboration with Cedar Gate Technologies (Cedar Gate), a leading value-based care performance management technology company.
The Brain & Spine Network Center of Excellence is a collaboration between Baptist and Semmes Murphey Clinic designed to provide a cost-saving and high-quality benefit for employees who suffer from back and neck pain and other neurological conditions. First offered to Baptist's employees and a select number of businesses, this Center of Excellence has proven to significantly reduce out-of-pocket costs by providing proven solutions and leveraging personalized care through assigned nurse navigators who assist in diagnosis, treatment, therapies, interventional pain management and, if required, surgical care and recovery. Initial outcomes for the center show that patients returned to work 14% more quickly than the national average, and 90% of patients reported satisfaction with their care.
"We're excited to offer our comprehensive Brain & Spine Network Center of Excellence to a wider base of employers and patients," said Kim Hallum-Stewart, system administrator of neurosciences for Baptist Memorial Health Care. "Cedar Gate's platform allows us to bring our vision to self-insured employers by providing value-based payment solutions, streamlined data integration and operational analytics, which serve as a foundation for us to scale and offer excellence in care to employers across our region."
Baptist recently broadened the use of Cedar Gates's platform from a singular specialized surgical specialty implementation to a multifaceted application to encompass the expanded vision for the Center of Excellence.
"Semmes-Murphey has a passion for saving lives, improving quality of life and advancing the field of neurosurgery," said John Lewis, Semmes Murphey CEO. "Cedar Gates's platform has given us the tools to integrate business operations, strengthen our partnership with Baptist and offer more employers the opportunity to participate in the Brain & Spine Network Center of Excellence."
Cedar Gate's payment technology enables the Brain & Spine Network to manage prospective bundled payment programs with automatic conversion of fee-for-service claims into a single, bundled claim.
"Value-based care is becoming increasingly recognized as the future of health care delivery and reimbursement in the U.S.," said Cedar Gate CEO, David B. Snow, Jr. "We are pleased these solutions helped meet Baptist's needs and allow for continued success."
The Brain & Spine Network Center of Excellence is focused on providing high-quality, patient-centered neurological care, emphasizing value for patients and employers. Baptist's Centers of Excellence measure outcomes and compare results with programs across the country. The Brain & Spine Network clinical team consistently achieves top rankings among its peers. Employers can choose from Baptist's service offerings to determine what will work best for their employee population. Baptist's Brain & Spine Network has a robust offering of services and can tailor those services to meet an employer's specific needs.
About Cedar Gate Technologies
Cedar Gate enables payers, providers, employers, and service administrators to excel at value-based care. Our unified technology and services platform enhances and automates data management activities to deliver employer and provider analytics, care management, and payment technology necessary to pursue every payment model and optimize performance in all lines of business. From primary care attribution, to bundled payments, to capitation, our platform is designed to improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes for all.
Based in Greenwich, CT, Cedar Gate is private equity backed by GTCR, a leading Chicago-based private equity firm, Ascension Ventures, a strategic healthcare venture firm, and Cobalt Ventures, the investment subsidiary of BCBS of Kansas City. To learn more, visit www.cedargate.com.
About Baptist Memorial Health Care
One of the country's largest not-for-profit health care systems, Baptist Memorial Health Care offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and Central Mississippi. The Baptist system comprises 22 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, North and Central Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 800 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences).
About Semmes Murphey Clinic
Founded more than 100 years ago by Eustace Semmes, MD, and Francis Murphey, MD, Semmes Murphey Clinic has been a leader in the development of technology and procedures that improve the quality of care for patients with neurological and spine disorders. This continuing leadership has made the Semmes Murphey name instantly recognizable to physicians across the country and the world, many of whom refer their patients here for treatment.
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DNA testing IDs executed man as Texas girl’s killer in 1979
Posted/updated on: July 12, 2022 at 12:29 pmCONROE (AP) – Authorities say a man executed more than two decades ago has been identified through DNA testing as the person who killed a Texas girl in 1979. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Monday new forensic technology led investigators to identify Gerald Casey as the person who strangled 12-year-old Lesia Michell Jackson. She went missing in September 1979 after going swimming in her Conroe neighborhood and her body was found six days later. An autopsy concluded she was sexually assaulted before her death. When deputies searched for Casey, they found out that he had been executed in April 2002 for fatally shooting a Montgomery County woman during a robbery. | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1143388 | 2022-07-12 21:49:07 | 1 | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1143388 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is summoning top Democratic donors to Washington next week as he prepares to launch his 2024 reelection bid, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The event, which is being organized by the Democratic National Committee, is not a fundraiser, but is meant to energize the top party donors for Biden’s campaign, the people said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Biden is expected to meet for dinner with the assembled donors, who are also set to hear from some of his top political advisers. The summit comes days after the four-year anniversary of Biden’s April 25, 2019 launch of his first successful presidential campaign.
Biden has repeatedly said he intends to run for reelection, but aides say he feels little pressure to formally launch a campaign, especially since he’s warded off any serious challenge from within his party for the nomination.
“We are here and ready,” said Michael Smith, who along with his partner, James Costos, hosted Biden’s first Hollywood fundraiser of the 2020 primary, and will be meeting with Democratic officials and strategists in Washington next week.
Biden in recent months has been focused on implementing the massive infrastructure, technology investment and climate laws passed during his first two years in office and drawing a sharp contrast with Republicans as Washington gears up for a fight over raising the nation’s borrowing limit. Aides believe those priorities will burnish his image ahead of his reelection campaign.
Some Biden donors have grumbled about what they perceive to be a lack of outreach by Biden’s team ahead of the campaign.
News of the gathering was first reported by The New York Times.
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BEIJING, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the spotlight of major news media around the world, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in the Great Hall of the People on Sunday morning. General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping delivered a report to the congress on behalf of the 19th CPC Central Committee. Hundreds of millions of Chinese people and international observers paid close attention to the congress, and the relevant content quickly became trendy topics on the internet. When the world is once again at the crossroads of history, how will China respond to opportunities and challenges, and how will it interact with the world? People are looking for answers in the report.
General Secretary Xi emphasized in the report, "From this day forward, the central task of the CPC will be to lead the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in a concerted effort to realize the Second Centenary Goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and to advance the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through a Chinese path to modernization." Next, the work of the Party and the country will all be carried out around this central task. This is another great new journey for China to make overall progress while driving the world forward.
The report's elaboration on "Chinese modernization" is also a clear demonstration to the world of today's China's development path, which has attracted special attention from the international public opinion. General Secretary Xi mentioned this important concept on many occasions and made a comprehensive and in-depth systematic expounding in the report, forming a complete theoretical system. Chinese modernization is the socialist modernization pursued under the leadership of the CPC. It not only has the common characteristics of modernization of all countries, but also Chinese characteristics based on its own national conditions. This is another innovative breakthrough in theory and practice by the CPC since its 18th National Congress, and it is also a new contribution to mankind's exploration of the path of modernization.
This is a path to modernization that not only develops itself, but also benefits the world. The successful practice of Chinese modernization tells the world in an irrefutable way that there is more than one path leading to modernization. Every country and nation not only has rights, but also possibility to embark on a path to modernization that suits its own national conditions.
Chinese modernization has broadened the horizon for the development of human society. China's continuous enrichment and development of new forms of human civilization has inspired more countries and nations to add their own colors to the garden of human civilization.
Among the five major characteristics of Chinese modernization summed up by General Secretary Xi, there is one that China has repeatedly stated, and has been proven time and time again, that is, Chinese modernization is the modernization of peaceful development. The CPC leads the Chinese people to firmly explore a new path to achieve national development and national rejuvenation in a peaceful way, and at the same time better maintain world peace and development through its own development. This is one of the important connotations of the "new model for human civilization."
Currently, the changes of the world, of the times and of history are unfolding in an unprecedented way. The report delivered by General Secretary Xi has linked the historic mission of the CPC, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with peace and development of the world, which is a vivid manifestation of a community with a shared future for mankind. The report stressed that China adheres to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in pursuing friendship and cooperation with other countries. It is committed to promoting a new type of international relations, deepening and expanding global partnerships based on equality, openness, and cooperation, and broadening the convergence of interests with other countries. The CPC always honors its promises. Standing on the right side of history, on the side of the progress of humanity's civilization, the new path of Chinese modernization will become wider and wider.
The important message released by this congress is firm and clear, positive and well-intentioned. Anyone who hold pragmatic and rational attitude toward China and the world's development will gain a sense of direction and positive energy from the report. With the irreversible process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, Chinese modernization will increasingly demonstrate its civilizational significance. When we reach the goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects, it is a success worthy to be celebrated by the Chinese people and the people of the world.
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Signing Day wrap-up: Buchholz, Vanguard, Dixie Co. players choose colleges
Signees meet the challenge of being recruited in the era of the transfer portal
(WCJB) -It’s become increasingly evident over the years that North Central Florida produces an abundance of football talent. That showed on Wednesday as three NCFL schools kicked off National Signing Day by sending multiple players to the next level. Players who signed on Wednesday are as follows, according to high school.
Buchholz: Brady Barnes (The Cumberlands), Taylor McGriff (Murray State), and Cam Boykin (Thomas More).
Vanguard: Ja’varien Salter (Rocky Mountain College) Rodrick Wilson, Jewmari’ Jones, and Jewmaris Jones (McDougle Technical Institute), Riley Smith (Chadron State College), Lenard Hill (South Dakota), Tre Stokes (University of Arkansas Monticello), and Joshua Rembert (Norfolk State).
Dixie County: Javarion Henry (Savannah State), and Bret Nettles (Webber International).
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Former President Trump is eying a “spectacular” yearlong celebration of the country’s 250th birthday from 2025 into 2026 if he returns to the White House.
Trump’s campaign said in a Wednesday release that Trump plans to convene a White House task force called “Salute to America 250” to coordinate with state and local governments to hold semiquincentennial festivities across the United States from Memorial Day 2025 to July 4, 2026.
“Three years from now, the United States will celebrate the biggest and most important milestone in our country’s history — 250 years of American Independence,” Trump said. “That’s why as a nation, we should be preparing for the most spectacular birthday party. We want to make it the best of all time.”
The release states the administration would work with all 50 state governors to create a yearlong “Great American State Fair” with pavilions from all states, with the fair being held in Iowa on its state fairgrounds.
Trump also plans to host sports contests for high school athletes to “allow young Americans from every state to show off the best of American skill, sportsmanship, and competitive spirit” and invite leaders and citizens of other countries to visit the U.S. in honor of the occasion.
“America’s tourist industry should get ready because we’re going to have a lot of people coming. It will be a record year,” he said.
Trump said he will reissue an executive order on his first day in office to create a “National Garden of American Heroes” and commission artists to create the first 100 statues to be included in the garden in honor of the “greatest Americans of all time.”
He announced during a visit to Mount Rushmore in July 2020 he was issuing an executive order to create the garden in honor of various notable Americans throughout history. President Biden revoked the order in May 2021.
Some historians raised questions about the choices Trump called for including in the garden, which was set to include several notable Republican figures but no Democratic presidents and no Native American, Latino or Hispanic figures.
Trump also said he would ask the religious communities to “pray” for the country because “America has been a country sustained and strengthened by prayer and by our communities of faith.” | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/trump-eying-most-spectacular-yearlong-250th-birthday-celebration-for-us-if-elected/ | 2023-05-31 20:08:44 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/trump-eying-most-spectacular-yearlong-250th-birthday-celebration-for-us-if-elected/ |
We’re thinking even Starbucks’ most experienced would be flabbergasted by Kentucky’s Will Levis.
The quarterback does the unthinkable with his coffee. He adds mayonnaise.
While making the rounds of SEC Media Days at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Kentucky quarterback Will Levis demonstrated how he adds mayonnaise to his coffee for that morning pick-me-up.
This isn’t a new habit either. Last year, Levis explained on Kentucky Sports Radio how he first developed his little habit. While at a restaurant for breakfast, his girlfriend joked that the mayonnaise must be on the table in case anyone uses it in their coffee. The rest is history.
Last month, Levis told Kentucky Sports Radio he needs to talk to his nutritionist to “find a plan that allows me to have mayo in my diet as frequently as I can.”
He added, “It’s a staple” of his palette.
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‘I am honored’: Olympic superstar Simone Biles unveils new Wheaties box
HOUSTON (Gray News) - Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and Wheaties have once again joined forces for a limited-edition box.
The world champion gymnast and Wheaties hosted a “Breakfast of Champions” event in Texas to debut the cereal box.
“I am honored to be featured on my second Wheaties box and grateful for the opportunity to highlight Friends of the Children, an extraordinary organization that is working to make sure other youth have access to mentors and the support to dream big in life,” Biles said.
According to a news release, the box celebrates Biles’ personal journey that has served as a catalyst for her continued support and advocacy for children in foster care, including her efforts with Friends of the Children that have helped the organization launch a new chapter - Friends of the Children–Houston.
“I hope my journey can be an example to all children that anything is possible, and I’m excited to help expand access to resources and mentorship in my hometown,” Biles said.
Biles was reportedly joined by family, friends, and others at the breakfast event where she shared her personal journey to help inspire those to not let life circumstances define who they are or deter them from pursuing their dreams.
The launch of Friends–Houston marks the national organization’s 29th location.
“Friends of the Children could not be more thrilled to announce the Houston chapter launch with Biles and the team at General Mills,” Terri Sorensen, CEO of Friends of the Children, said. “Their support was instrumental in bringing a chapter to Houston.”
Friends–Houston will reportedly begin identifying and welcoming children in the greater Houston area this year. The chapter said its initial focus will be on supporting children and families in the area who have been disproportionately impacted by foster care and other systemic issues.
“It is also such a meaningful moment for our organization and the youth we serve to be featured on the iconic Wheaties box alongside a true champion for youth,” Sorensen said.
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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world's largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, will host a webinar in collaboration with NI on Thursday, August 23, at 11 a.m. CDT titled "Using Python to Automate NI DAQ Hardware."
During the webinar, Austin Stanton, senior solution marketer at NI, will walk participants through the benefits of using NI hardware with Python, the steps to get to first measurement and to complete your test process, and how to use NI's no-code FlexLogger software.
The webinar will also cover:
- Using Python and getting quality data
- Having test system flexibility and scalability with NI hardware
- Creating simple automated test sequences
"NI's automated test and measurement products help engineers advance their projects faster by helping them analyze the data from their systems in real time," said Eric Halvorson, partnership marketing manager at Digi-Key. "Our webinar will help attendees learn the best of both worlds by using Python's simplicity and NI DAQ's hardware quality and robustness."
To attend the webinar, submit a registration form. If you can't attend the live webinar, Digi-Key will send the recording after the event to those who register.
For more information about NI and to order from their product portfolio, visit the Digi-Key website.
About Digi-Key Electronics
Digi-Key Electronics, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minn., USA, is recognized as both the leader and continuous innovator in the high service distribution of electronic components and automation products worldwide. As the original pioneer in this space, Digi-Key provides more than 13.4 million components from over 2,300 quality name-brand manufacturers with an industry-leading breadth and depth of product in stock and available for immediate shipment. Beyond the products that drive technology innovation, Digi-Key also supports design engineers and procurement professionals with a wealth of digital solutions and tools to make their jobs more efficient. Additional information can be found at digikey.com and on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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LONDON (AP) — “Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham, Ukrainian musician Julia Sanina and British singer Alesha Dixon will host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, organizers announced Wednesday.
The pan-continental pop competition will take place in May in the English city of Liverpool after Britain was asked to stage the event on behalf of designated host country Ukraine.
Thirty-seven countries will compete for Europe’s pop crown, with semifinals held May 9 and 11 before a final on May 13. All three programs will be hosted by Waddingham, Sanin and Dixon, a TV presenter and former member of girl group Mis-Teeq.
Sanina, who fronts Ukrainian alternative rock band The Hardkiss, said she was “excited to showcase Ukrainian culture and creativity, and to help put on a show to make my country proud.”
Waddingham, an Emmy Award winner for her role as owner of a struggling soccer team owner in hit Apple TV+ comedy “Ted Lasso,” said it was “a great honor to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine, a country which has carried itself with such strength and unity.”
Ukraine won the right to host the pop extravaganza when its entry, folk-rap ensemble Kalush Orchestra, won the 2022 contest. British organizers say the event will be a celebration of Ukrainian culture and creativity, as well as Liverpool’s musical heritage. | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/ap-ted-lasso-star-waddingham-to-co-host-eurovision-contest/ | 2023-02-22 21:01:13 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/ap-ted-lasso-star-waddingham-to-co-host-eurovision-contest/ |
ATLANTA, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pye-Barker Fire & Safety is pleased to announce its acquisition of Briscoe Protective in New York from Novidam Capital Partners. Briscoe Protective is the largest privately held security company in the NYC-Metro area and the 20th largest security organization in the United States as ranked on the SDM 100. The deal enables Pye-Barker to expand its reach to New Yorkers from New York City to Long Island and Westchester.
Briscoe Protective specializes in fire alarms, intrusion alarms, access control, and CCTV for customers throughout New York City's five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester. It is managed by Alexander Schuil who took the helm in 2016 and negotiated the acquisition and merger of Worldwide Security, SCAN Security, Bellringer Security, GC Alarm, Marlarm Security Group, Alarms R Us, and Supreme Security, among others. Briscoe Protective was founded in 1978 under the name Delco Security Systems. The name was later changed to Briscoe Protective in honor of Bert Briscoe, the grandfather of a prior owner Bob Williams and coach of Lightweight World Champion Archie Moore, who inspired the company's mission to "do good."
"This partnership with Pye-Barker will help us 'do more good' for the communities we serve and our employees," said Alexander Schuil, CEO of Briscoe Protective. "With our shared values and philosophies and the additional resources from Pye-Barker, the future is bright together."
"Briscoe Protective is a respected name in security and fire protection for its lengthy industry experience and reputation for high-quality customer service," said Bart Proctor, CEO of Pye-Barker. "We are proud to work with Briscoe to further our shared values of investing in employees, protecting communities, and fostering a true family culture."
Briscoe Protective will continue to be operated by Alexander Schuil and its team of highly skilled technicians.
Pye-Barker Fire & Safety, founded in 1946, is a leader in fire protection and life safety, with over 140 locations and 4,100 team members. It is a full-service company offering all the necessary specialties including portable extinguishers, restaurant fire suppression, special hazard systems, fire sprinklers, fire alarms, and security. Pye-Barker invests heavily in providing the best-in-class training for its team while offering industry competitive benefits and is rapidly expanding its national footprint.
Contact:
Eric Garner
President, Pye-Barker Alarm Division
(801) 395-8738
egarner@pyebarkerfire.com
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Food Network's Chopped champion and Memphis restaurateur Tamra Patterson,
and made-in-Memphis Wesson cooking oil bring back 90s prices at her Union Avenue Restaurant
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - For Memphis diners feeling the pinch of inflation, a little relief is on the way. Memphis' own Chef Tamra Patterson – 2022 Food Network Chopped champion and owner of Chef Tam's Underground Cafe, hosts Wesson Inflation Vacation Thursdays with 1990's prices from September 22 to October 13, 2022 at her popular Union Avenue restaurant. The special menu, available to the first 75 dine-in guests on Thursdays, will feature three of Chef Tam's most delicious heritage family recipes. Wesson will donate $5 to The Mid-South Food Bank (up to $10,000) each time an Instagram post about the initiative is tagged with @Wesson and #inflationvacation. Wesson extends the value to home chefs with a three-dollar-discount coupon** at purewesson.com/inflation-vacation/ where Chef Tam's recipes will also be posted.
"Wesson Inflation Vacation Thursdays menu with 90's pricing celebrates Memphis, our awesome southern cooking and Wesson's roots here," says Chef Tam. "We're showing a new generation of food lovers just how good food can taste, doing it in 90s style - music and dress included – and giving them a little break from rising food costs!"
"Wesson has called Memphis home since the plant opened in 1936, and we're excited to partner with Chef Tam and to connect with the community over great food, while supporting The Mid-South Food Bank," adds Irman Webb, Wesson's Director of U.S. Retail Sales. "Remember to tag us in your food photos, each tag equals a donation to the community!"
Wesson Inflation Vacation Thursdays menu
Chef Tam is set to wow Memphis with a limited-time menu that will delight the pocketbook as much as the palate, with 90's prices. Pulled from the family archive, these heritage recipes represent all that's good about southern cooking, Memphis-style.
The Fried Green Tomato BLT sizzles with crispy bacon, fresh lettuce and the iconic, breaded fried green tomatoes ($7.18, reg. $12). It's not a southern-style menu without Chef Tam's legendary buttermilk fried half chicken with her signature seasoning ($10.18, reg. $17). And for the grand finale, indulge in the decadence known as the Cola Cake ($4.19, reg. $7) with the delicious flavors of cola, cocoa and marshmallows!
Chef Tam reveals secret recipes
It's not often that renowned chefs share their recipes, but Tam makes an exception, spilling the secrets of the Wesson Inflation Vacation Menu for all to try at home.
"I'm doing video cooking demos of these recipes so you can see everything from the ingredients to preparation techniques," says Chef Tam. "I really love these recipes and I know you will too so check them out on Instagram @Chef_tamonthegram and @wesson."
Find the Wesson Inflation Vacation recipes and coupons at purewesson.com/inflation-vacation/.
Wesson Oil is America's best-selling cooking oil brand. Established in 1899, Wesson has been a staple in kitchens for generations and continues to be the go-to ingredient for home cooks and professional chefs around the world. Wesson is owned by Richardson International and recently underwent a brand refresh with a new look and the first campaign in more than two decades. For more information, visit purewesson.com.
Mid-South Food Bank distributes food to partner feeding programs in 31 counties in north Mississippi, west Tennessee and east Arkansas, where nearly 20 percent of the population struggles with food insecurity and hunger. In FY 2020-2021, Mid-South Food Bank distributed more than 54.2 million pounds of food. Mid-South Food Bank's Mission is to change lives by eliminating hunger in the Mid-South. www.midsouthfoodbank.org
*Wesson Inflation Vacation Menu is available at Chef Tam's Underground Cafe for a limited time only: Thursdays from September 22 to October 13, 2022 to the first 75 dine in customers only.
**A $3 off coupon off any Wesson product will be distributed to all guests of Chef Tam's Underground Cafe from September 22 to October 13, 2022 and will be available digitally through purewesson.com/inflation-vacation/ and the Checkout 51 app.
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(NewsNation) — Swatting incidents targeting U.S. schools and colleges have been making headlines for months, with dozens being reported in the days after a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.
These hoax calls, according to experts, pose real risks for the community by pulling police from actual emergencies, or wasting resources or time. They also disrupt communities, and can be psychologically draining.
It doesn’t help that hoax school shooting calls, or swatting calls, are seemingly happening at an alarming rate.
“From my perspective, this is a form of terrorism,” former FBI intelligence analyst Jennifer Doebler said.
On Tuesday, more than two dozen Massachusetts schools were the targets of swatting calls. On Wednesday, first responders responded to calls regarding schools in Utah, Pennsylvania, California and Kansas, the list growing throughout the day.
When the calls come in, schools and law enforcement take action. Students barricade themselves in classrooms and parents find themselves receiving nightmarish phone calls.
This week’s hoax calls claiming to report an active shooter were all deemed to be fake. But the emotional effect is real, especially when the hoaxes come on the heels of a real shooting, like the one at The Covenant School that claimed the lives of three children and three adults.
“This is a way to inflict pain and terror on local communities, on families,” Doebler said. “It’s also a way to drain resources. It’s a way to learn about communities and what their responses are. It’s a way to occupy law enforcement resources for long periods of time.”
Even the least credible calls require police to respond in full force, and can be a drain on law enforcement resources, particularly in rural communities.
Swatting isn’t a new phenomenon, but the practice is becoming more common.
Hundreds of cases of swatting occur annually, with some using caller ID spoofing to disguise their number. The goal is to get authorities, particularly a SWAT team, to respond to an address.
To complicate issues more, it’s difficult to even track the exact number of swatting instances, because the FBI does not track swatting as its own crime. But estimates of swatting cases in U.S jumped from 400 cases in 2011 to more than 1,000 in 2019, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
One key difference between the calls from then and today is technology. Previously, offenders did not have the capabilities to mask numbers or use a voice-over IP service to make calls.
In a press release Wednesday regarding the series of swatting calls in Western Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State Police said all the calls “had had similar content.” The calls were also computer-generated.
“And so it was much easier to identify perpetrators and to hold them accountable. It’s a wildly different, different situation. Now, many times these swatting incidents come from overseas,” Doebler explained.
Doebler’s own family was recently the victim of swatting.
“It’s something that our community is still feeling. Even a month later, as we continue to watch things happen in other parts of the country. It’s not just financial, it takes a mental and emotional toll on communities for long periods of time they go far beyond the morning or the day of the incident,” she said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/why-swatting-calls-to-us-schools-are-becoming-a-big-concern/ | 2023-03-30 19:38:42 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/why-swatting-calls-to-us-schools-are-becoming-a-big-concern/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
7-1-2, SB: 4
(seven, one, two; SB: four)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
7-1-2, SB: 4
(seven, one, two; SB: four) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Evening-17267339.php | 2022-06-27 03:45:25 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Evening-17267339.php |
MORRISVILLE, N.C. and SAN FRANCISCO , June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JupiterOne, the industry's leading cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) platform provider, enters RSAC 2022 with significant momentum. The company recently announced a valuation of over $1 billion after a $70 million Series C funding round, released brand new research with The 2022 State of Cyber Assets Report, and published two JupiterOne Press books for cybersecurity professionals, Cyber Defense Matrix The Essential Guide to Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape and Reinventing Cybersecurity.
The JupiterOne team kicked off its participation at RSAC with a strong presence in the South Hall of the Moscone Center, booth S-#325. There, attendees can catch a demo of the company's CAASM platform and its new Critical Assets feature, which helps security teams easily identify, analyze, and secure their most important cyber assets. The company will also unveil the platform's new Insights dashboards for Incident Response to immediately answer any security investigation and response question for any workload or cloud. Team members will also be on hand to discuss Starbase, an initiative JupiterOne launched earlier this year to deliver an open-source tool to collect assets and relationships from services and systems, including cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, security controls, and more. Demos will also take place at their partners' booths in the North Hall, Cisco (N-#6045) and Splunk (N-#5865).
Industry Recognitions
On the morning of RSAC Day 1, the company received several industry recognitions at the 2022 Global InfoSec Awards.
- Cyber Defense Magazine, the industry's leading electronic information security magazine and organizers of the 2022 Global InfoSec Awards, recognized JupiterOne as the "Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Startup of the Year," while JupiterOne's CAASM platform was awarded "Best Solution in SaaS/Cloud Security". In addition, JupiterOne founder and CEO Erkang Zheng was named "Next Gen Chief Executive Officer of the Year".
The company is also proud to announce that it has recently received additional accolades from FinTech Global and Great Place to WorkⓇ.
- FinTech Global, the world's leading provider of FinTech information services, B2B media products, and industry events, featured JupiterOne in their third annual CyberTech100 list. Chosen by a panel of analysts and industry experts, the CyberTech 100 list features the world's 100 most innovative cybertech companies for financial services that have demonstrated innovative use of technology to solve a significant industry problem, generate cost savings, or deliver efficiency improvements across the security value chain.
- JupiterOne has also been Certified™ by Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture. According to the survey administered by the certifying organization, 98 percent of JupiterOne employees said the company is a great place to work – 41 points higher than the average U.S. company.
JupiterOne Sessions at RSAC
JupiterOne experts will be delivering several presentations at RSAC, including the following speaking slots in the main conference agenda:
- Monday, June 6 - 8:30am to 9:20am in Moscone West 3018
Cyber Defense Matrix: Revolutions
Sounil Yu, CISO and Head of Research, JupiterOne
The Cyber Defense Matrix (CDM) helps people organize and understand gaps in their overall security program. This session will unveil new use cases including how to map startup vendors and security trends, anticipate gaps, develop program roadmaps, capture metrics, reconcile inventories, improve situational awareness. and create a board-level view of security programs.
- Tuesday, June 7 - 9:40am to 10:30am in Moscone West 3002
How Behavioral Economics Can Help Make Better Security Decisions
Kelly Shortridge, Senior Principal Product Technologist, Fastly
Sounil Yu, CISO and Head of Research, JupiterOne
This session will show how behavioral economics can help practitioners understand why users make "bad security decisions" such as sharing devices, choosing poor passwords, and downloading questionable links. By understanding behavioral economics, security teams can help others, and themselves, make better security and risk decisions.
- Tuesday, June 7 - 11:15am to 12:15pm in Moscone South 303
Reinventing Cybersecurity: Tales of Rebellion and Resistance (at DevOps Connect)
Jasmine Henry, Security Director, JupiterOne
Tracy Bannon, Senior Principal, The MITRE Corporation
Coleen Shane, Network Security Engineer, Quick Quack Car Wash
Breanne Boland, Product Security Engineer, Gusto
Reinventing Cybersecurity is an anthology of essays by leading women and non-binary security practitioners that explores a central theme of redefinition with diverse expert perspectives on the industry's technical and interpersonal aspects. This author panel will discuss how to operationalize a culture where security is shifted left in meaningful ways and how the industry needs rebels and revolutionaries who are willing to rethink everything.
- Tuesday, June 7 - 2:25pm to 3:15pm in Moscone South 306
Hacking Her Career (H2C2)
Jasmine Henry, Security Director at JupiterOne
Mary Balogun, Security & Compliance Manager at Experian
Keenan Skelly, CEO of Shadowbyte
Mari Galloway, CEO of Cyberjutsu & Architect at Palo Alto Networks
This session will feature interactive roundtables that will explore short talks centered around best cyber books, resources, podcasts, owning the interview, better salary negotiations, high-growth careers, being heard, getting hands-on tech experience, playing to win, and much more.
- Thursday, June 9 - 8:30am to 10:30am in Moscone West 2020
Cyber Defense Matrix Learning Lab
Jasmine Henry, Security Director, JupiterOne
Helen Patton, Advisory CISO, Cisco
Sounil Yu, CISO and Head of Research, JupiterOne
This Learning Lab will walk participants step-by-step through several use cases of CDM and how it can help practitioners organize their overall security program.
Summer of JupiterOne
Following RSAC, JupiterOne will be participating in several additional industry conferences, Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2022 (June 7-10), Cisco Live! (June 12-16) and Splunk .conf22 (June 13-16). A full list of JupiterOne's upcoming conference participation is below:
- Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2022
CISO Advisor at Cisco Security Daniel DeSantis and JupiterOne Solutions Architecture Director Akash Ganapathi will participate in a fireside chat during Gartner SRM 2022 on June 7-10 (Gaylord Convention Center, National Harbor, MD). They will discuss the new areas that security leaders must address when building a framework for a resilient security program, share field stories from their conversations with hundreds of CISOs, and reveal best practices to bring a resilient program to life. Demos will take place at the JupiterOne booth.
- Cisco Live!
JupiterOne will exhibit and spread the word about cyber asset attack surface management at Cisco Live! on June 12-16 (Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas). JupiterOne and Cisco will co-host a reception at the Franklin Lounge on Monday, June 13. Attendees can register here. Demos will take place at the JupiterOne booth #3270.
- Splunk .conf22
The JupiterOne team will discuss the company's recently announced partnership with Splunk at .conf22 on June 13-16 (MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas). In addition, founder and CEO Erkang Zheng, will present a thought leadership session titled Back to the Beginning: Why Breaches Still Occur and What Security Leaders Have Missed All Along. JupiterOne Solutions Architecture Director Akash Ganapathi and Integrations Product Manager Sam Andrus will also co-present a session to showcase the integration of the two solutions, unveiling the new JupiterOne Add-On for Splunk and the JupiterOne App for Splunk. Demos will take place at the JupiterOne booth.
Later this summer, the company will also exhibit at AWS re:Inforce on July 26-27 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston) and Black Hat USA on August 6-11 (Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas).
To learn more about JupiterOne please visit https://jupiterone.com.
Quotes
Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst and Fellow at Enterprise Strategy Group
"Security leaders are challenged to create true visibility and control of assets within physical and cloud environments. Attack surfaces continue to grow rapidly, and organizations face more constant destructive security threats. CISOs need total visibility to make meaningful recommendations to the business about risk and opportunity. JupiterOne can help organizations that want to compete on proprietary, cloud-native technology. It can provide a foundation for quantitative business risk management with visibility into security context and relationships."
Erkang Zheng, Founder and CEO at JupiterOne
"RSAC 2022 will really be our coming-out party as a company. The past several months have been a whirlwind as we have released many product features, secured new funding, launched the first of what will be an annual report on the state of cyber assets and become a publisher for security books which not only show best practices from the technical side, but challenge the diversity status quo in the industry."
Sounil Yu, CISO and Head of Research at JupiterOne
"With the concentration of bright and diverse minds, I can sharpen my thinking and understanding of our complex cybersecurity challenges more during one week of RSAC than I can over months of normal life. As a speaker, RSAC gives me an opportunity to give back what I have learned from other attendees and great giants of the past. It's an honor to pay it forward and share what little I know in the hopes that future generations of practitioners might benefit from standing on my shoulders."
Jasmine Henry, Security Director at JupiterOne
"RSAC 2022 will be an important moment for JupiterOne and the security industry as a whole to gather in-person at Moscone Center and discuss what it means to transform to greater challenges than ever before. In an unprecedented threat climate and economic pressures, security practitioners have a critical need for visibility into their assets and attack surface to act as strategic risk advisors to their organizations on threats, vulnerabilities, and opportunities."
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Guns, shopping carts and bottle caps, lots of bottle caps: These are among the discoveries made this summer by people who have taken up magnet fishing, a hobby that works exactly as its name suggests.
Magnet fishing became popular during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this summer, enthusiasts have been fined for pulling rockets out of a river on a military base in Georgia and been given an award for removing more than 20,000 pounds of metal from a river in Maine.
YouTube and TikTok are filled with videos of people using high-powered magnets attached to synthetic rope to haul vintage bicycles and antique firearms from water, but Ben Demchak, who has been magnet fishing for five or six years, said the most common finds are more mundane.
“What you’re not really seeing is all the scrap in between,” said Demchak, who in August 2020 founded Kratos Magnetics, a company that sells magnets and magnet fishing kits.
He was immediately flooded with orders and emails from people who were intrigued by a hobby that would take them outdoors, is inexpensive — the most basic kits can be found online for $20 — and is easy to start. He said he had not been able to keep up with the demand for magnets, even the most basic of which are stronger than a refrigerator magnet.
Demchak, an archaeologist, became interested in the hobby after he stumbled across a magnet fishing video on YouTube uploaded by someone who had found a gun.
“It’s a little different from the historical stuff I find,” he said. “It was the thrill of the hunt and the mystery of how it got there.”
In the United States, where there are more guns than people, it is not uncommon to find a firearm lurking in a local river or stream. People have also found knives, grenades and ammunition.
In late June, a magnet fisherman with 410,000 YouTube subscribers and two people who were with him were fined after finding 86 rockets and ammunition in a river at Fort Stewart, an Army base in Georgia where magnet fishing is banned. In July, two friends pulled an unexploded military shell out of the Passaic River in northern New Jersey. In May 2021, a man found a grenade in the Clarks River in Kentucky.
Magnet fishers are more likely to find scrap metal, which some enthusiasts sell for cash. Demchak said the most important thing is that magnet fishers are cleaning up waterways.
“People have been throwing stuff in the water for ages, ages,” he said. “I just pulled up an electric scooter, so it’s good to get that out of the water.”
Angel Lynn Carbone, who started magnet fishing a year ago and documents her experiences on TikTok, said people have started swimming in a lake near her home again because the lake bed is no longer covered with fishing hooks. She estimated that she pulled about 1,000 hooks out of the water in July alone.
Carbone, 50, who lives in Noblesville, Indiana, said her hobby was like therapy.
“I am a person whose mind races — like, every thought in the world,” Carbone said, speaking by phone from her garage, which she noted had 400 to 500 pounds of metal in it. “When I go magnet fishing and I throw that magnet in, the only thing I am thinking about is a plethora of things that could come up out of the water.”
Carbone said her most treasured find was a flashlight she was able to restore and put to use again. Overall, she estimates that she has pulled up more than 6,000 pounds of metal from waterways in about five states. Each month, a man comes by to collect most of the finds for recycling.
“It serves a purpose because, unfortunately, the waterways have gotten dirty, and in my mind, it doesn’t really matter how the waterways got dirty,” she said. “What matters is, there is actually something I can do to help.”
Timothy Hoellein, an associate professor at Loyola University Chicago, also spends a lot of time cleaning up bodies of water because he is an aquatic ecologist who studies pollution. He said there is no way of knowing exactly how much garbage is in the nation’s ponds, rivers and streams, but it is a problem likely as old as human history.
People have long used rivers to get rid of things, he said.
“They were dumping grounds for food waste and other waste, and it kind of goes away. It disappears. It will move downstream,” he said.
In his work, which currently involves removing garbage from urban streams and rivers in Chicago, Toronto and Massachusetts, he mostly finds trash related to single-use consumption, such as plastic bags, plastic bottles and aluminum cans. He said he has found a bow and arrow and bullets but no guns.
Plastic waste is a bigger concern than metal waste because it has a greater biological impact on humans and wildlife. Floating plastics are consumed by wildlife, can entangle or trap organisms, contain potentially toxic chemicals and can absorb additional pollutants as they drift.
Although removing metals from bodies of water might not be the most pressing need for the environment, Hoellein said he supported activities, including magnet fishing, that help people become more connected to their local rivers.
“These are bodies of water that are so long neglected but have so much potential to offer,” he said. “And if we change our system of valuing these ecosystems and think of them as an asset rather than as a place to dump trash, maybe they can be a real place to build community, well-being and education.”
Casey Deyoe, 32, has always had a close connection with water. She grew up in Mississippi, where her father was a river boat captain, and was a free diver before she took up magnet fishing a year ago.
The magnet fishing waters she explores in Northern California are murkier and often smellier than the clear waters she once dived in, but she said her new hobby has strengthened her relationship with the water. Crucially, it has allowed her to share that relationship with others through her YouTube videos and in conversations with curious strangers.
Deyoe said that when she goes magnet fishing, at least 10 to 15 people ask her about what she is doing. She often encourages them to try it for themselves, handing over her equipment. The last time she made that offer, the man she was speaking with insisted he could not do it.
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WATCH: Paralyzed teen walks across stage to get high school diploma
BOSTON (WCVB) – A high school senior in Massachusetts who was paralyzed during a hockey game took a big step Friday during his graduation.
Determined to walk again, Jake Thibeault was able to receive his diploma standing on his own two feet.
As Jake rolled his wheelchair across the lawn as part of the graduating class at Milton Academy, nobody was quite sure if he would be able to keep a promise he’d made to himself nine months ago.
During a youth hockey game, Jake collided with another player, hit the boards and dropped to the ice, leaving him with two broken bones in his back and paralyzed from the waist down.
He then became laser-focused on one goal: to walk again.
By February, Jake was crawling, pushing through hours of grueling physical therapy nearly every day.
“They were just like, ‘Oh, try by yourself,’” he said. “And I made it two mats and I was like, ‘OK, holy cow.’”
A few weeks later, he was back on campus. But as graduation day approached, his goal started to seem out of reach.
“We kind of realized that he wouldn’t necessarily be able to walk under his own power, but he was still determined, in his words, to be vertical,” Mike Thibeault, Jake’s father, said.
When his name was called at the graduation ceremony, Jake started rolling his wheelchair across the stage.
He then stopped… and stood up.
With leg braces and a walker, but completely on his own, Jake took 30 steps and crossed his personal finish line.
And with that action, the graduates struck out into the world, led by a living example that nothing is impossible.
“Just an overwhelming feeling of being proud for Jake, never more honored to be his father,” Mike Thibeault said.
Jake is headed to Babson college to study in the fall. His father said Jake is as determined as ever to walk even better and go even further.
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- Total revenues of $1.49 billion, down 14% compared to 3Q21, driven principally by lower market volumes.
- Successfully launched the Compass national agent platform in all markets allowing agents to guide their customers from first contact to close in one seamless workflow platform.
- The Company incurred $29 million in restructuring charges, of which $25 million was for severance. GAAP Net Loss was $154 million, compared to a GAAP Net Loss of $100 million in 3Q21 as lower revenues and restructuring costs more than offset reductions in commissions and operating expenses.
- Adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) was a loss of $42 million compared with a positive $12 million in 3Q21. The year-on-year change was principally attributable to the impact of lower market activity.
- Cash and cash equivalents totaled $355 million at September 30, 2022.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compass, Inc. (NYSE: COMP), a leading tech-enabled real estate brokerage, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.
"Against a backdrop of significant challenges for the housing industry, Compass continued to make progress in a number of important areas during the third quarter," said Robert Reffkin, Chief Executive Officer of Compass."We continued to successfully roll out our enhanced national end-to-end workflow platform which we believe allows our agents to be the most productive in the industry and deliver their buyers and sellers a best-in-class experience. Over the longer term, I believe our platform offers important differentiation in the marketplace and it is a conduit to drive incremental revenue lift and cost efficiency."
Reffkin continued "Importantly, in line with our major cost savings program announced in August, we have achieved significant cost reductions in our technology, engineering and general and administrative expenses. Actions taken in the third quarter and in progress are expected to deliver targeted non-GAAP operating expenses after commissions and other related expenses of between $1.05 billion and $1.15 billion exiting 2022."
Reffkin added, "As we look ahead, we believe the housing market will remain challenged during 2023 before returning to stability and growth in the future. The Compass team remains laser focused on providing our agents with technology, workflow tools, and marketing support to be successful in the market. At the same time, we are driving to implement fundamental cost productivity measures that will deliver profitability in the future."
3Q22 Financial Highlights:
- Revenue decreased by 14% year-over-year to $1.49 billion as transactions declined 12%.
- GAAP Net Loss was $154 million, compared to a loss of $100 million in 3Q21. The net loss includes non-cash stock-based compensation expenses of $50 million, depreciation and amortization of $21 million, restructuring charges due to the cost saving actions of $29 million, and litigation charges of $11 million.
- Cash and cash equivalents: Compass' net change in cash and cash equivalents from the end of 2Q22 to the end of 3Q22 was a decrease of $76 million from $431 million to $355 million. In addition to the $355 million in cash and cash equivalents as of the end of 3Q22, the Company had approximately $300 million of availability under its revolver.
- Adjusted EBITDA1 was $(42) million, compared to $12 million in 3Q21.
3Q22 Operational Highlights:
- Platform: Compass launched the key remaining functionality that allows the vast majority of Compass agents to guide their clients from first contact to close all in one place, with a single log in and without ever leaving the Compass platform.
- National market share: Increased to 4.6% over the last twelve months ("LTM") up from 4.3% LTM in 3Q21. Note these national market share numbers are calculated using revised average (mean) sales prices published by the National Association of Realtors ("NAR").
- Agents: Average Number of Principal Agents was 13,314, an increase of 335 from 2Q22 and an increase of 15% from 3Q21. We continued to experience high levels of retention of our agents with greater than 90%.
- Transactions: Compass agents closed 54,606 Total Transactions, down 12% year-over-year, compared to a 21% decline in transactions for the entire residential real estate market2.
- Gross Transaction Value ("GTV"): GTV of $57.3 billion, down from $69.1 billion in 3Q21.
Additional information can be found in the Company's 3Q22 Earnings Presentation on the Investor Relations section of the Compass website at https://investors.compass.com.
Outlook
4Q22 Outlook:
- Revenue of $1.15 billion to $1.30 billion
- Adjusted EBITDA of negative $50 million to negative $80 million
FY22 Outlook:
- Revenue of $6.05 billion to $6.20 billion
- Adjusted EBITDA of negative $185 million to negative $215 million
We have not reconciled our guidance for Adjusted EBITDA to GAAP Net Loss because certain expenses excluded from GAAP Net Loss when calculating Adjusted EBITDA cannot be reasonably calculated or predicted at this time. Additionally, we have not reconciled our guidance for non-GAAP operating expense after commissions and other related expense because certain expenses excluded from GAAP operating expenses cannot be reasonably calculated or predicted at this time. Accordingly, reconciliations are not available without unreasonable effort.
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Conference Call Information
Management will conduct a conference call to discuss the third quarter results as well as outlook at 5:00 p.m. ET on November 10th, 2022. The conference call will be accessible via the Internet on the Compass Investor Relations website https://investors.compass.com. You can also access the audio webcast via the following link: Compass Inc. 3Q22 Earnings Conference Call.
An audio recording of the conference call will be available for replay shortly after the call's completion. To access the replay, visit the Events and Presentations section on the Compass Investor Relations website at https://investors.compass.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release includes forward-looking statements, which are statements other than statements of historical facts, and statements in the future tense. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our future performance, including expected financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022, planned operating expense and cash flow levels for 2023, and our expectations for operational achievements. Forward-looking statements are based upon various estimates and assumptions, as well as information known to us as of the date of this press release, and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: general macroeconomic conditions in the U.S. and globally (e.g., inflation), geopolitical events (e.g., conflict in Ukraine), the health of the U.S. real estate industry, and risks generally incident to the ownership of residential real estate, including seasonal and cyclical trends (e.g., increases in mortgage interest rates, continued limited inventory, slowed consumer demand, reduced home affordability and declines in price appreciation and home prices); our ability to continuously innovate, improve and expand our platform; our ability to attract new agents and retain current agents or increase agents' utilization of our platform; our ability to expand our brokerage and adjacent services businesses; our ability to offer additional adjacent services; our ability to grow revenue from adjacent services at our anticipated rate; our ability to achieve expected benefits from our mortgage business and our joint venture, OriginPoint; our rapid growth and rate of growth; our net losses and ability to achieve or sustain profitability in the future; any future impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on our business; our ability to compete successfully in the markets in which we operate; the effect of monetary policies of the federal government and its agencies; any decreases in our gross commission income or the percentage of commissions that we collect; fluctuation of our quarterly results and other operating metrics; our ability to successfully complete acquisitions and integrate target companies; the effect of the claims, lawsuits, government investigations and other proceedings that we are subject to from time to time; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights; and other general market, political, economic, and business conditions. Additionally, these forward-looking statements, particularly our expected financial results, involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those related to general macroeconomic conditions, mortgage interest rates and inflationary pressure on our clients' spending decisions. Significant variation from the assumptions underlying our forward-looking statements could cause our actual results to vary, and the impact could be significant. Accordingly, actual results could differ materially from those predicted or implied or such uncertainties could cause adverse effects on our results. Reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance.
More information about factors that could adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and prospects, or that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements is included under the captions "Risk Factors", "Legal Proceedings" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, copies of which are available on the Investor Relations page of our website at https://investors.compass.com/ and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. All information herein speaks as of the date hereof and all forward-looking statements contained herein are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we do not assume any obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events. Undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements in this press release.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our condensed consolidated financial statements, which are prepared in accordance with GAAP, we present Adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, in this press release. We use Adjusted EBITDA in conjunction with GAAP measures as part of our overall assessment of our performance, including the preparation of our annual operating budget and quarterly forecasts, to evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies and to communicate with our board of directors concerning our financial performance. We believe Adjusted EBITDA is also helpful to investors, analysts and other interested parties because they can assist in providing a more consistent and comparable overview of our operations across our historical financial periods. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, therefore you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Because of these limitations, you should consider Adjusted EBITDA alongside other financial performance measures, including net loss attributable to Compass, Inc., operating cash flows and our other GAAP measures. In evaluating Adjusted EBITDA, you should be aware that in the future we may incur expenses that are the same as or similar to some of the adjustments reflected in this press release. Our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA, should not be construed to imply that our future results will be unaffected by the types of items excluded from the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA is not presented in accordance with GAAP and the use of this term varies from others in our industry.
Reconciliation of this non-GAAP measure has been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release and investors are encouraged to review this reconciliation.
About Compass
Compass, a Fortune 500 company, is the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States. Founded in 2012 and based in New York City, the technology-enabled brokerage provides an end-to-end platform that empowers its residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. The platform includes an integrated suite of cloud-based software for customer relationship management, marketing, client service, brokerage services and other critical functionality, all custom-built for the real estate industry. Compass agents utilize the platform to grow their business, save time and manage their business more effectively. For more information on how Compass empowers real estate agents, one of the largest groups of small business owners in the country, please visit www.Compass.com.
1 A reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP measures can be found within the financial statement tables included within this press release.
2 We calculate Total Transactions by taking the sum of all transactions closed on the Compass platform in which our agent represents the buyer or seller in the purchase or sale of a home (excluding rental transactions). We include a single transaction twice when one or more Compass agents represent both the buyer and seller in any given transaction. The 21% decline is based on NAR data as of September 30, 2022.
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Wyoming throw blankets support education
PEO is selling Wyoming throws. The 100% cotton 4’ x 6’ throw designed by Casper PEO members, exhibits images of Wyoming in a multi-colored design. They are a perfect Mother’s Day Father’s Day, graduation and wedding gift. All proceeds from the sales support PEO projects to help educate women through grants, loans and scholarships. More than 80,000 women have been recipients of PEO projects. To purchase or order a Wyoming throw, call Becky at 307-259-3350.
Raffle benefits Child Development Center
Enter to win a 1961 Studebaker. Ticket proceeds benefit Child Development Center (CDC). There will be one winner drawn at the CDC’s fundraising event on April 29 “Kids’ Art A La Carte” at the Ford Wyoming Center. Need not be present to win. To purchase Kids’ Art al la Carte raffle tickets or purchase event tickets you can:
People are also reading…
- In the Sonny’s RV showroom
- Online at cdcasper.org/aalc
- The front desk at CDC
- Emailing ktatum@cdccasper.org
Camp Hope fundraiser at Gaslight Social
Camp Hope, Wyoming’s camp/retreat for children with Diabetes, now in it’s 44th year of changing and saving lives. is holding a fundraiser event on Saturday, June 3 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Gaslight Social, 314 West Midwest in Casper. This family friendly event will begin with a Poker Run followed by great fun with food, drink, games, contests, raffles, giveaways, door prizes, a silent auction, balloons, face painting, and live entertainment from 3 bands! For more information, contact us at camphopewyoming@gmail.com, or call Camp Hope at 307-259-3327. And check out our website: camphopewy.net !
Food for Thought needs volunteers
Wyoming Food for Thought Project is in need of volunteer help to pack weekend food bags and then deliver those bags to schools and homes. Since January of 2013, Food for Thought has been helping feed kids in need over the weekends and long school breaks.
Each week over 1,000 children receive food bags but it takes many hands working together to accomplish this. Wednesdays at 4 p.m. food bags are packed. This activity takes under an hour and is great for people of all ages and abilities. Packing takes place at 1014 Glenarm in north Casper each Wednesday.
Delivery drivers pick up bins packed with food bags and deliver them out to the community each Thursday morning. This is a great activity for service groups, parents with kids at home looking for service learning opportunities, and retirees. The deliveries take under an hour and are an important part of making sure no kid goes hungry in our community. Other ways to help include hosting food drives. If you are interested in becoming involved please contact Beth at (307) 337-1703 or show up on any Wednesday afternoon to help pack food bags. Wyoming Food for Thought Project is a local, grassroots, independent organization whose operations depend upon many hands in the community helping.
Thank you for helping us be the change.
Giving Table at City Park Church
The Giving Table is collecting non-perishable food to help provide for families who need a little extra. Each month of the year they are collecting a different item. The Giving Table is a drive-up food pantry hosted by City Park Church every Tuesday from 5 to 6 p.m. No ID is required.
On average each week, 20 to 25 volunteers pack and hand out around 175 boxes of food.
Items to be collected
- April: Ramen Noodles
- May: instant oat meal packets
- June: instant rice
- July: canned fruit
To drop off donations please bring them to City Park Church at 804 S. Wolcott St, Casper Wyoming, on Sunday through Thursday. from 9 a.m. to noon If you have questions please call the church at 307-234- 6946.
Caps 4 Kids
All who knit or crochet stocking Caps 4 Kids. PLEASE NOTICE. The Senior Center has allowed us to meet more frequently, on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. We will gather April 26. Mark your calendars to help you remember this change. As you recall, we meet at the Senior Center, 1831 East 4th Street, in Casper. We start stitching and chatting around 12:30 and stay as long as our schedules permit.
Community foundation grant expands care for Converse County
Our newest social worker has joined the care team at Central Wyoming Hospice and Transitions, due in part to a generous grant from the Wyoming Community Foundation. Douglas resident Desirae Laird will be serving our patients in Converse County, and she says it’s important to her to be able to help her friends and neighbors.
“I am very excited to work for an organization whose primary focus is patient care,” she says, “and to serve the community I live in.” Expanding our team in Converse County allows more people to stay home with hospice services, and the Wyoming Community Foundation’s $10,000 grant for hiring and training has helped make that possible.
What goes into a food box
Last month, we held a Family Volunteer Day. Families graciously gave their time to help sort and pack boxes here in Casper full of both shelf-stable food and fresh produce. Then the food boxes were sent off to one of our mobile pantry sites for distribution to individuals and families in need. (The group averaged an impressive packing rate of five boxes per minute! Bravo and thank you to them!)
Each box contains foods that families can make a meal out of. We try to be thoughtful about pairing items that they can cook into real meals.
It’s worth noting that we are making more of these kinds of deliveries these days, in response to increased need for food assistance throughout Wyoming.
While packing, one of our volunteers, Jason, commented how great it is to see how far Food Bank of Wyoming is able to stretch a dollar. Thanks to your support, we are efficiently serving Wyoming residents who are experiencing food insecurity, both through our stellar network of Hunger Relief Partners and through our own Mobile Pantries in communities that do not have readily available access to food.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Cotton No. 2 Futures on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Wednesday: OpenHighLowSettleChg. COTTON 2 50,000 lbs.; dollars per lb. Nov 78.29 —4.00 Dec 82.58 83.69 78.29 78.29 —4.00 Jan 77.97 —3.47 Mar 82.17 82.72 77.78 77.97 —3.47 May 81.13 81.80 77.21 77.43 —3.15 Jul 80.08 80.59 76.40 76.42 —3.02 Sep 74.43 —1.32 Oct 75.88 75.88 75.42 75.42 —1.27 Nov 74.43 —1.32 Dec 76.39 76.47 74.20 74.43 —1.32 Jan 74.33 —1.30 Mar 75.36 75.37 74.33 74.33 —1.30 May 74.58 —1.22 Jul 74.71 —1.10 Sep 72.53 —.08 Oct 72.96 —.75 Nov 72.53 —.08 Dec 72.75 73.43 72.05 72.53 —.08 Jan 73.58 +1.12 Mar 73.58 +1.12 May 74.18 +1.12 Jul 74.03 +1.12 Est. sales 47,358. Tue.'s sales 25,501 Tue.'s open int 238,208, up 2,010 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Open-High-Low-Settle-Chg-17520403.php | 2022-10-19 20:37:45 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Open-High-Low-Settle-Chg-17520403.php |
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Rost: The 3 position battles to watch at Seahawks training camp
Jul 21, 2023, 10:25 AM
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Seattle Seahawks training camp is less than a week away and while a few positions are set, others will see ongoing battles through the preseason.
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Whether it’s a rookie fighting for a role or a veteran looking to bounce back, here are three position battles to watch this summer:
Wide receiver
Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba are set at the top of this group but behind them are veterans Dereke Young and Dee Eskridge, both of whom will be battling it out alongside some former practice squad players and undrafted rookie free agents. From the latter group, UCLA’s Nick Bobo is garnering attention as a big target (6-4, 207) who led all Bruins pass catchers last season by no small margin with 57 receptions for 817 yards and seven touchdowns.
Returning is 2022 7th-rounder Young, a versatile option on offense and a special teamer, and Eskridge. Eskridge brought intriguing speed when he was drafted in the second round in 2021 but has yet to take advantage of it at the professional level;he’s been sideline by injury, most notably a serious concussion, and is quickly entering make-or-break territory. Can he flash in camp, or will a younger player leapfrog him?
Center
Credit to ESPN’s Brady Henderson for noting a less-than-stellar fact about the Seahawks offensive line in a recent feature: 11 different players have started at center for the Seahawks since 2013. Add to that list for 2023 because last year’s starter, Austin Blythe, announced his retirement in February.
The Seahawks added some veteran insurance by signing Evan Brown in free agency. Brown spent most of his first few seasons in the league as a practice squad player but finally found a role as a starter for Detroit in 2021. PFF gave him a 66.6 grade for that season at center. It wasn’t the highest grade on the line, but he also wasn’t the weakest, and the group finished ranked 13th overall as a unit, which to their credit was much higher than Seattle at 25. He assumed a backup role again in 2022 with the return of veteran starter Frank Ragnow, but more injuries saw him get plenty of starting time at guard. The Seahawks do love versatility with their OL options, but Brown will be competing at center this summer.
You’ve got two more names here: Joey Hunt, an undersized veteran with experience in Seattle, and rookie Olu Oluwatimi.
Pete Carroll said during minicamp that it was way too early to tell who was ahead in the battle, but he did have high praise for Oluwatimi.
“He did really well,” Carroll said. “There’s no question that he can handle (the role).”
Nickel corner
This one’s less straightforward. Coby Bryant won the starting role last year and remains a favorite among the younger players, but Seattle has a deep secondary group heading into camp. No. 5 overall pick Devon Witherspoon played there some during minicamp, but I’d still expect him to be starting on the outside.
With a defensive coordinator looking for ways to be more creative, we could see a few players rotated in at both outside corner and nickel. We could also see extra safety looks once Jamal Adams is healthy, especially if he’s able to drop into the box as a rusher. So, this position battle is less about whether Bryant can remain the starter (though as with almost every player, that’s going to be a question every year) and more about who stands out in a crowded defensive back room. Keep an eye out for Michael Jackson, who excelled in OTAs and minicamp, and don’t forget about 2021 pick Tre Brown.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A little-known candidate for the U.S. Senate race in Alaska suspended his campaign Monday, hoping not to divide the GOP vote during the general election by throwing his support to a fellow Republican backed by former President Donald Trump.
Buzz Kelley, who finished fourth in the primary race, said his motivation for suspending the campaign came after Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich lost to Democrat Mary Peltola in the special general election for the state’s U.S. House seat left vacant with the death in March of U.S. Rep. Don Young.
“After the Peltola victory, the divide-and-conquer of Sarah and Nick, I don’t want to be any part of that for the Senate race,” Kelley told The Associated Press in a phone interview. He had earlier announced his decision when calling into an Anchorage radio talk show.
“I feel like Kelly Tshibaka is the best shot, and so (I am) asking anybody who supported me or my ideas if they can now throw their support behind Kelly Tshibaka,” he said.
Others in the race are incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, also a Republican, and Democrat Pat Chesbro.
Alaska voters in 2020 approved a new voting system in which party primaries have been replaced by an open primary. The top four vote-getters regardless of party affiliation move on to the general election, in which ranked choice voting is used.
Under ranked voting, ballots are counted in rounds. A candidate can win outright with more than 50% of the vote in the first round. If no one hits that threshold, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Voters who chose that candidate as their top pick have their votes count for their next choice. Rounds continue until two candidates remain, and whoever has the most votes wins.
Murkowski received 45% of the vote in the primary, followed by Tshibaka with 39% and Chesbro with 7%.
Kelley finished fourth with 2% of the vote.
The timing of his campaign suspension was on purpose, he said. Had he dropped out by the Sept. 5 deadline, the fifth-place candidate would have replaced him on the general election ballot.
“I didn’t want to muddy the water, so now there’s only three candidates in the race,” he said.
Tshibaka welcomed Kelley’s endorsement.
“I am grateful and honored to have Buzz Kelley’s support and agree with his conclusion that presenting a unified front gives us the best opportunity to beat Lisa Murkowski,” Tshibaka said in a statement.
Murkowski’s campaign declined to comment.
Kelley, a 65-year-old retired mechanic from Wasilla, had earlier told the Anchorage Daily News that part of his success in finishing fourth and making the general election ballot might be for the few yard signs he had, including one he welded to the top of his vehicle.
When Trump held a rally in Anchorage for Tshibaka and Palin, Kelley spent the day driving his vehicle around the large crowd waiting to get inside the Anchorage arena.
He said it seems a “bit of a stretch” that people looking at the ballot confused him for Tshibaka, whose slogan is “Kelly for Alaska.”
“There is probably the possibility that some of those people had intended to vote for Kelly Tshibaka,” he told the newspaper. “But it’s also possible people have looked at my website and say, ‘Hey, I kind of like some of that stuff. I think I’ll color in Buzz’s oval.’ ”
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CINCINNATI, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LuckyTruck, a leading insurance and fintech platform for SMB trucking companies, announced today the launch of their first credit card, built specifically for small trucking companies and their fleet managers.
"Trucking is a growing and capital intensive segment of the U.S. economy," said CEO Julie Zimmer, who joined LuckyTruck in October. "We recognize the need to unlock more cash flow for the 1M+ small and medium sized trucking businesses in the country."
LuckyTuck has partnered with Power, a credit card issuance platform reimagining the future of credit cards, to launch the LuckyTruck Card. With Power's partnership, LuckyTruck has the ability to offer a card like no other in the trucking space. In addition to a cash back incentive for signing up, the LuckyTruck Card also includes a full-stack rewards structure developed for the modern day fleet manager.
"Helping trucking companies manage their finances and overcome tough market cycles is a priority," said Adam Smith, Vice President of Product at LuckyTruck. "The credit card is purpose built for SMB trucking companies, taking into account their most pressing needs given the headwinds they are facing today."
LuckyTruck always has truckers' needs in mind and throughout the process of developing the LuckyTruck Card, this remained true. With the LuckyTruck Card, truckers are rewarded for using the card to finance their most common expenses.
"This product is a much needed addition to our core insurance offering," said Devin Bostick, Co-founder and President at LuckyTruck. "Customers have been asking for a credit card that ties into LuckyTruck's insurance offering, so we are really excited to add this card to our suite of products."
To be the first to know when the LuckyTruck Card launches, truckers can join the waitlist here.
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Jimmy Carter receives accolades from afar, and right at home
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Chad Loshbaugh and his seventh-grade son, Theo, were starting a historical tour for their winter break when they heard that former President Jimmy Carter had begun end-of-life care at home.
So the father-son pair from Albany, New York, changed their itinerary and found themselves Wednesday on the Carter family farm in Plains, where the 39th president grew up and about a mile from the one-story house where the 98-year-old now is receiving hospice care.
“This was an add-on,” to a civil rights trip that is taking them from Atlanta through several stops in Alabama, Loshbaugh said. “We thought it was important to change our trip to see the site here and pay our respects to President Carter.”
The longest-lived American president is garnering accolades and well-wishes from across the world — from other public leaders and admirers he’s never met — as well as from family and friends in his hometown, where he and his wife are known as “Mr. Jimmy” and “Ms. Rosalynn.”
“It’s just surreal to think about it all,” said Carter’s niece Kim Fuller, who runs Friends of Jimmy Carter, headquartered down the street from the former first couple’s home.
News of Carter’s condition prompted an uptick in visitors to Plains, a town of about 700 with just a few blocks of retail businesses along the railroad tracks that run by Carter’s 1976 presidential headquarters.
Plains residents have always been proud of the Carters’ ascension to the White House, Fuller said, as well as the couple’s work afterward on public health, conflict resolution and democracy via The Carter Center in Atlanta. There, the Carters and their programs have monitored elections in at least 113 countries and, among other things, nearly eradicated the Guinea worm parasite in the developing world.
Those accomplishments have drawn plaudits from people such as Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation.
“President Carter’s dedication to making the world a better place has had a lasting impact on countless lives through the @CarterCenter,” Suzman tweeted Wednesday. “Thank you Pres. Carter for your decades of leadership, service, & wisdom — the future is brighter because of your work.”
Former President Bill Clinton, a fellow Democrat elected 12 years after Carter’s single term ended with a landslide defeat in 1980, marked Presidents Day on Monday by wishing Carter well and tweeting out a picture of the pair, who were both Southern governors before their presidencies.
Thousands also have posted personal messages on The Carter Center’s website.
“Dear President Carter, You are the best of us. You always sought the best for our country, and for the world,” wrote Mary Cullen.
Back in Plains, Fuller said it’s “hard right now” to think about Carter eventually not being around. “But it’s good to see people coming through,” she added.
Fuller, who took over teaching her uncle’s Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church after he grew frail, said it was a regular occurrence over the years to see the former first couple walking down the street.
“They’ve been so accessible,” she said. “That’s just who they are, and he was like that in the White House. Never forgot where he came from — and he came back home when he was done.”
Carter’s Presidential Library and Museum, located on the same campus as The Carter Center near downtown Atlanta, also has seen an increase in interest this week.
Jennifer Multani, who visited from California, said she gained a new appreciation for his life, including his time in office and experiences before entering politics.
“His service after the presidency was extraordinary, no question about it,” she said. “We all need to learn from it to give back to humanity as much as we can.”
She said he “inherited turbulent times” but still negotiated a peace deal between Israel and Egypt. The leaders of those nations shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Carter received the award in 2002.
Sheri Clayton, a 65-year-old visiting from Houston, remembers Carter’s presidency well, with the late 1970s being dominated by inflation, rising interest rates and the Iran hostage situation. Carter made some decisions, including appointing Paul Volcker as Federal Reserve chairman, that would help the economy rebound — but not until after his defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. He also eventually freed the 52 Americans being held in Tehran, after the November election.
“The feeling that I get about Jimmy Carter was that he had a good heart and ... he is for the people,” Clayton said.
Walking along the paths outside Carter’s boyhood home, Loshbaugh said what is perhaps most striking to him is that the same man who accomplished so much got his start, both in life and in politics, where he did.
“To come from such humble, rural beginnings,” Loshbaugh said, “it’s compelling to think about.
“His tenure was just one term. But what he did with his life after — it’s just tremendous in building not only his legacy, but showing what a president do for the country and how they should use their position for their entire lives.”
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Associated Press journalist Sharon Johnson contributed from Atlanta.
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Bob Norris: Senate: Bennet supports legislation to help those in need in our communities
Senator Michael Bennet has introduced and supported legislation that is important to those most in need in our communities, for example, childcare tax breaks have reduced child poverty by half over the last few years without the help of Republicans.
At the same time he is opposed to tax breaks for major corporations like oil companies that are recording record profits and at the same time jacking up the price at the pump. The Republican tax break of over $1 trillion to the richest Americans and corporations is not helping you.
In the meantime, his opponent claims to be pro-life but only so much. The real problem is if he’s elected he will have no choice but to do what Mitch McConnell tells him to do. For instance, failure to help control pharmaceutical prices like insulin that now costs several times more than it did a few years ago, resulting in many people choosing between insulin and food for their families.
Bob Norris, Longmont
Kurt Fuhrman: Elections: It’s easy to lose focus on local issues
Even or odd years for voting? Those for even years say it will increase voter turnout for local issues and candidates. Those against say that it will burden votes with more information and water down local issues and candidates to those of the nation and state. I say take a look at the 2022 State Ballot Information Booklet you received in the mail this week. One Hundred eleven pages. Wow! Now, think how easy it is to lose focus on local issues. Vote “no” on even-years elections.
Kurt Fuhrman, Boulder
Indira Gujral: CU South: Does annexation really benefit everyone?
Please join us in voting “yes” on 2F to repeal the annexation of CU South. We are experiencing the secondary impacts of the pandemic, a situation where an outgoing City Council left a major community decision up to voters, many of whom are not aware of what is happening in this space. And, because of the confusing ballot language, people are confused if their beliefs are being mirrored in their vote.
What has been lost for all of us is a community commitment to finding the common values between what CU proposes, what the high flood risk neighborhoods need, the environmental impacts of developing the space and the traffic safety impacts on families in South Boulder neighborhoods. A lot of this could have been avoided through a robust community needs assessment, one that took an equity approach to create many paths to listen to all voices. But in CU’s defense, that was not an option during the pandemic.
As many of us are coming out of the pandemic, we are starting to pay attention and we are also returning to pre-pandemic challenges such as long cross-town commutes. And some of us have questions. If CU cares about climate change, racial equity, improving access to the university and lowering costs for families, why doesn’t CU consider expanding their online global campus so that more students can attend remotely? And for the City of Boulder, if the environmental impact and traffic studies show increasing stress on an already stressed community and there is a historic need to protect neighborhoods from future climate impacts, how does annexation benefit all of us?
Community trust is on the line if this annexation agreement is not repealed. The voices of South Boulder matter, please join the growing number of voices and vote “yes” on 2F.
Indira Gujral, Boulder
Joanne Sullivan: Library district: The next crisis will cut even deeper
Looking on the library’s website, the North Boulder corner library branch is now closed on Thursdays and Fridays, in addition to the short-term Monday closures this summer. As a family, we rely on the library as a safe, peaceful place to be after school.
Also, I see that George Reynolds is closed on Mondays year-round now. Carnegie Library is only accessible by appointment. The fact that our libraries can’t operate on regular hours due to the fluctuations of city funding is not acceptable. We wouldn’t accept it for our school system, we wouldn’t accept it for our fire services. We wouldn’t accept it for our parks or police.
By kicking the can down the road on library funding, we’re doing real damage to our beloved library system that serves so many of us daily. The next crisis that hits will cut even deeper. I support ballot measure 6C to form a library district this fall because I think our libraries deserve to have predictable funding.
Joanne Sullivan, Boulder
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Hacker claims breach of FBI’s critical-infrastructure portal
BOSTON (AP) — A hacker who reportedly posed as the CEO of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard, an FBI-run outreach program that shares sensitive information on national security and cybersecurity threats with public officials and private sector actors who run U.S. critical infrastructure.
The hacker posted samples they said were from the database to an online forum popular with cybercriminals last weekend and said they were asking $50,000 for the entire database.
The hacker obtained access to InfraGard’s online portal by posing as the CEO of a financial institution, they told independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who broke the story. They called the vetting process surprisingly lax.
The FBI declined to comment. Krebs reported that the agency told him it was aware of a potential false account and was looking into the matter.
InfraGard’s memberhip is a veritable critical infrastructure Who’s Who. It includes business leaders, IT professionals, military, state and local law enforcement and government officials involved in overseeing the safety of everything from the electrical grid and transportation, to health care, pipelines, nuclear reactors, the defense industry, dams and water plants and financial services. Founded in 1996, it is the FBI’s largest public-private partnership, with local alliances affiliated with all its field offices. It regularly shares threat advisories from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and serves as a behind-closed-doors social media site for select insiders.
The database has the names, affiliations and contact information for tens of thousands of InfraGard users. Krebs first reported its theft on Tuesday.
The hacker, going by the username USDoD on the BreachForums site, said on the site that records of only 47,000 of the forum’s members’ — slightly more than half — include unique emails. The hacker also posted that the data contained neither Social Security numbers nor dates of birth. Although fields existed in the database for that information, InfraGard’s security-conscious users had left them blank.
However, the hacker told Krebs that they had been messaging InfraGard members, posing as the financial institution’s CEO, to try to obtain more personal data that could be criminally weaponized.
The AP reached the hacker on the BreachForums site via private message. They would not say whether they had found a buyer for the stolen records or answer other questions. But they did say that Krebs’ article “was 100% accurate.”
The FBI did not offer an explanation for how the hacker was able to trick it into approving the InfraGard membership. Krebs reported that the hacker had included a contact email address that they controlled — as well as the CEO’s real mobile phone number — when applying for InfraGard membership in November.
Krebs quoted the hacker as saying InfraGard approved the application in early December and that they were able to use the email to receive a one-time authentication code.
Once inside, the hacker said, the database information was easy to obtain with a simple software script.
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