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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two Niagara Falls women and a 13-year-old will face charges tied to the assault of a Tim Hortons worker in Niagara Falls on Sunday, the Niagara Falls Police Department announced.
Brittny Robinson, 37, and Brionna Harris, 30, both were arraigned on charges of second-degree gang assault for their alleged role in the attack.
Additionally, the 13-year-old will face the same charge over their alleged involvement in the attack and will be issued an appearance ticket to report to Niagara County Probation. The juvenile’s case will be handled in Family Court.
The worker was attacked while behind the counter at the Tim Hortons on Pine Avenue, and a video of the incident was later posted on social media. The 42-year-old victim was released from the hospital on Wednesday, according to police.
As a result of the incident, the Pine Avenue Tim Hortons location is drive-thru only between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. daily. It is also closing at 8 p.m. for the foreseeable future.
Both adult suspects are being held on $20,000 bail and are scheduled to appear in court again on June 7.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The trial law firm Carpenter & Zuckerman (CZ Law) recently won two appeals in a class action lawsuit against Polaris, Inc. with major implications on the future of California consumer protection cases in federal courts.
On September 29, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena overruled a district court's decisions in a class action lawsuit where plaintiffs claimed Polaris Inc., a motorsport manufacturing company, misrepresented the safety of the roll cages on the majority of their RZR and Ranger vehicles.
Plaintiffs Jeremy Albright and Paul Guzman, represented by CZ Law trial lawyer and class action attorney John Kristensen, contend Polaris falsely represented the strength of the roll cages of their vehicle. An old loophole permits manufactures to "adopt" voluntary guidelines from manufacturer controlled interest groups. Instead of adopting the updated roof strength tests for automobiles requiring vehicle roofs to withstand three times their gross vehicle weight, Polaris claimed to adopt a 1972 standard for farm tractors. Then Polaris didn't comply with its higher strength requirement based on horsepower. Yet, they sold the public that their roofs were up to the OSHA standards.
"Polaris sold UTVS to the public claiming the roll cages complied with an OSHA standard when they did not," said Kristensen. "They are substantially weaker. It's like telling customers the vehicle has a five-star safety rating when it's really two-stars."
The Ninth Circuit Court also ruled that the claim from one of the cases under California's Unfair Competition Law, which prohibits false advertising, could proceed in state court. This ruling now sets a precedent allowing future cases based on California consumer protections to proceed in federal courts.
Albright and Guzman first filed the lawsuit in August 2019 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California seeking to represent a class of California residents who purchased Polaris UTVs with labels stating that their roll cages met OSHA standards.
The plaintiffs will be seeking $200 million to $300 million in damages against Polaris at the trials.
The California law firm of Carpenter & Zuckerman is dedicated to fighting for the rights of the injured. CZ Law is dedicated to helping clients recover the compensation they deserve for their injuries. For more information or to schedule a free consultation, visit www.cz.law today.
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HOUSTON, Texas -- Chips, granola bars, and more. A Southwest Airline employee who usually works behind the scenes, was spotted in the frontlines, feeding hungry folks who were waiting in long lines following consecutive flight cancelations.
The video featured above is from a previous report on the Southwest Airline travel nightmare.
Victoria Andrews showed up at Hobby Airport on her day off, rolling her wagon filled with snacks she bought from Costco on her own dime for those stranded passengers. She said she just "wanted to help out."
"I just wanted to help out and do something. So I saw how crazy it was, and I can't do anything with my job, so I was like, I'll come help here," Andrews said.
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DENVER, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEC), one of the largest, global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovators for end-to-end digital CX solutions, today announced details pertaining to the release of its third quarter 2022 financial results and related conference call and webcast.
TTEC will release its earnings results after market close on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, when a press release will be issued. The Company will host a live webcast and conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, November 10, 2022.
You are invited to join a live webcast of the conference call by visiting the "Investors Relations" section of the TTEC website at www.ttec.com. If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, a replay will be available on the TTEC website.
TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEC) is one of the largest, global CX (customer experience) technology and services innovators for end-to-end, digital CX solutions. The Company delivers leading CX technology and operational CX orchestration at scale through its proprietary cloud-based CXaaS (Customer Experience as a Service) platform. Serving iconic and disruptive brands, TTEC's outcome-based solutions span the entire enterprise, touch every virtual interaction channel, and improve each step of the customer journey. Leveraging next gen digital and cognitive technology, the Company's Digital business designs, builds, and operates omnichannel contact center technology, conversational messaging, CRM, automation (AI / ML and RPA), and analytics solutions. The Company's Engage business delivers digital customer engagement, customer acquisition & growth, content moderation, fraud prevention, and data annotation solutions. Founded in 1982, the Company's singular obsession with CX excellence has earned it leading client NPS scores across the globe. The company's nearly 60,000 employees operate on six continents and bring technology and humanity together to deliver happy customers and differentiated business results. To learn more visit us at https://www.ttec.com
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High school manager with Down syndrome inspires his team
HICKORY, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) - A high school student with Down syndrome has acted as his basketball team’s manager since his freshman year.
Now a senior, Spencer’s Neill’s inspiring career is coming to a close.
Neill goes to St. Stephens High School in Hickory, North Carolina.
Coach Patrick Smith said Neill’s personality is infectious.
“He always believes in us as much as we believe in him,” he told WBTV.
When Neill was born with Down syndrome, his parents said they were constantly told the things he would not be able to do in his life.
Despite the detractors, Neill has spent his whole life not giving up on anything.
Neill’s mother, Donna Neill, said she was most nervous about people not accepting him.
“But he’s just one of the guys,” she said. “Spencer will come home and be like, ‘That’s my family.’”
As a part of the St. Stephens basketball team, Spencer and his family get to be part of something bigger every game.
“We never feel like we’re out of a game,” Smith said. “We talk about never quitting, and Spencer’s the definition of never quitting.”
On Tuesday, Spencer Neill got a chance to make his shot, suiting up for senior night and hitting the first basket of the night.
At halftime, he hit another half court shot, as he’s done many times through his years at St. Stephens.
As his senior season comes to an end, Spencer Neill is soaking up every moment he can with the team that made him part of the family.
Copyright 2023 WBTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wafb.com/2023/02/12/high-school-manager-with-down-syndrome-inspires-his-team/ | 2023-02-12 22:20:38 | 1 | https://www.wafb.com/2023/02/12/high-school-manager-with-down-syndrome-inspires-his-team/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBC series “The Blacklist” is closing down.
NBC said Wednesday that the James Spader drama will end after its upcoming season, its 10th on the air. It will return for its final run of episodes on Feb. 26.
Spader has played the character Raymond Reddington, an FBI informant on old criminal colleagues. This last season, Reddington confronts “unparalleled danger” as some of those he’s identified seek revenge, NBC said.
The show’s 200th episode, a milestone in the often fleeting world of television, will air on March 19.
Diego Klattenhoff, Hisham Tawfiq, Anya Banerjee and Harry Lennix are other regulars on “The Blacklist.”
The final episode will air sometime this year. An NBC spokesperson said it’s not immediately clear when that will be. | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-nbc-is-closing-down-the-blacklist-after-decade-on-the-air/ | 2023-02-02 17:57:09 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-nbc-is-closing-down-the-blacklist-after-decade-on-the-air/ |
Services for Shane Allen Branch, 43, of Temple will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Scanio-Harper Funeral Home in Temple.
Burial will be at a later date in Oak Hills Cemetery in Lakeland, Fla.
Mr. Branch died Friday, June 23, at a local hospital.
He was born Aug. 22, 1979, in Winter Haven, Fla., to Robert and Linda Branch. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Wilmington University. He had worked for Walmart since 2000, and since 2013 he was the AP operations manager at the Walmart distribution center in Temple.
Survivors include his wife, Danielle Sox Branch of Temple; four children, Christopher “Mikey” Schulz, Kayla Branch and Dakota Branch, all of Temple, and Tyler McKenzie of Clarksville, Tenn.; his parents; a brother, David Branch of O’Fallon, Ill.; and a grandchild.
The family requests that no flowers be sent to the services.
Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. | https://www.tdtnews.com/obituaries/article_c6e082c0-12f4-11ee-9fce-6b7b345d8077.html | 2023-06-25 03:01:58 | 0 | https://www.tdtnews.com/obituaries/article_c6e082c0-12f4-11ee-9fce-6b7b345d8077.html |
MAYODAN – The Rockingham girls basketball team improved to 2-0 on the season courtesy of a 50-37 win over cross-county rival McMichael Wednesday night.
Good perimeter shooting, strong transition play, and solid defense laid the foundation for the Cougars victory.
It was basically a one-possession game for the majority of the opening frame, but back-to-back scores in the post by Hadlee Russell and a 3-point basket by Lily Strittmatter put the Cougars in control with an 18-9 lead at the end of the first quarter.
Things continued to go in Rockingham’s favor as the defense didn’t give the Phoenix many good looks and that pressure also created turnovers that led to points in transition as the lead ballooned to 20 points by the 34-14 point to end the half.
Scores by McMichael’s Faith Robertson and Anna Casto kept the game from getting out of hand, but the Cougars continued to score to maintain a 46-29 at the end of the third period.
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The Phoenix were able to get it down to 13 points thanks to a series of buckets by Gracie Lovelace, but that was as close as DMHS would get as Rockingham put the game on ice.
Rockingham’s Ava Grace Pruitt had a game-high 18 points and knocked down a trio of 3-point baskets. Lily Strittmatter added 12 and had a pair of triples while Macey Hardy had 8 points.
McMichael’s Gracie Lovelace led the Phoenix with 15 points. Robertson added 11 and Anna Casto scored 9 more including a pair of 3-pointers.
UP NEXT: McMichael (1-2) will travel to take on Rockingham (2-0) Friday in the second half of the round-robin rivalry Friday night. The Phoenix has another road trip to North Stokes (2-0) Dec. 6. Rockingham hosts Morehead (0-1) next Tuesday.
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Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Association of Flight Attendants International President Sara Nelson Headlined a Rally in Support of the Working Class in Their Fight Against Corporate Greed
CHICAGO, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Association of Flight Attendants International President Sara Nelson slammed corrupt corporate power at "The Working Class: Fighting Against Corporate Greed" rally Thursday in Chicago. Speaking to thousands of Teamsters, other union members and labor advocates, the leaders called on the crowd to fight back against corporate greed by organizing and demanding better pay and working conditions.
"We've all seen the graphs — with corporate profits up and workers' wages down," said O'Brien. "Big business keeps getting everything it wants and working people keep getting stuck paying the bill. We pay the bill every time. Well, the Teamsters have a new message for corporate America: We're done paying your bills. The working people of this country are coming to collect."
Momentum is building nationwide as workers at major companies like Amazon and Starbucks are organizing unions and demanding the wages, benefits and respect on the job they've rightfully earned. Recent polls have found that the majority of American workers across political ideologies support unions and fighting corporate power.
"This is why we have to organize," said O'Brien. "This is why unions are the answer. You're not alone when you're in a union. You're not cast aside. You're part of a team. That's the difference."
O'Brien has spent the last three years traveling across the United States, meeting with Teamsters at local union halls, loading docks and other job sites to change the status quo and encourage members to join the fight against corporate greed. Thursday's rally was the first stop of several that O'Brien, Sanders and Nelson will make this summer to rally workers across the country to fight back.
"Over the last 50 years, there's been a massive transfer of wealth in this country, but it's going in the wrong direction," said Senator Sanders. "Good news: working people are standing together and fighting back."
"It's time we set the agenda with an economy for the people, not the billionaires," Nelson said. "Working class solidarity – a force stronger than gravity; it lifts us up – can get it done."
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 www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.
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Sources: Trump is eyeing November campaign launch
Published: Nov. 4, 2022 at 2:31 PM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
(CNN) - Former President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to announce a presidential bid for 2024 later this month.
Two sources close to Trump say Nov. 14, shortly after the midterm elections, is a possible date for the announcement.
One source says the timing of the announcement could depend on how Republicans do at the polls.
Some top advisers have told Trump to make his declaration in a battleground state that he closely lost to then-candidate Joe Biden in 2020.
Others say Trump should stay put and make his statement in the Sunshine State, where he has strong support from GOP voters.
A Trump spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.
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(NEXSTAR) – For over a decade, Prime members have been able to store files on Amazon Drive for free, but next year that service is going away, Amazon announced.
The announcement comes just months after the retail and streaming behemoth raised the cost of Prime membership from $119 to $139.
Drive officially goes away on Dec. 31, 2023, so Amazon can focus time and resources on Amazon Photos, according to an update from the company.
Amazon plans to pull the Drive app from iOS and Androids app stores on Oct. 31, 2022, and, on Jan. 31, 2023, Amazon will no longer allow any file uploads.
While files will be accessible only up to Dec. 31, 2023, users’ photos and videos have already been automatically saved to Amazon Photos, where they can be accessed after Drive no longer exists, according to the update.
Amazon outlined the following steps for downloading your files before the deprecation date:
- Open browser and navigate to amazon.com/clouddrive here.
- If prompted, login using your Amazon account.
- Review and select the folders and/or files to save. Following your selection, click the download icon from the top navigation that appears in blue. Repeat this process for all files and folders you would like to save.
Anyone with a paid Amazon Drive account can manage their subscription here. | https://www.koin.com/news/amazon-is-shutting-down-drive-what-you-should-know-about-your-files/ | 2022-08-03 00:52:21 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/amazon-is-shutting-down-drive-what-you-should-know-about-your-files/ |
(NewsNation) — Can you spot a killer? Can any of us identify warning signs that would prevent a mass shooting? These are questions being raised now more than ever in light of recent tragedies.
Nearly a decade ago, James Holmes went inside a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and unleashed gunfire into a crowd watching “The Dark Knight Rises.” The shooting rampage left 12 dead, 70 hurt and sent shockwaves throughout the nation.
Ahead of the attack, there was another kind of terror. A psychiatrist said she knew she was dealing with an evil, troubled client but could not find the legal means to protect the public from him.
Dr. Lynne Fenton spent months working with Holmes, getting a glimpse into the mind of a killer. She said when she started trying to treat the graduate student, the hair on her arms stood up.
“It was one of those terrible gut feelings without a lot of actual evidence that one of the best predictors of future violence is past violence. He wasn’t mean to animals. He didn’t beat up other kids. He never broke the law. He had none of the indications that a lot of, you know, so-called psychopaths or antisocial folks will have,” Fenton said Tuesday on “NewsNation Prime.”
Fenton didn’t know she would become the only psychiatrist in the history of the U.S. to be publicly revealed as the doctor of a mass shooter.
“He was so odd, and he had this vague thought of killing people. That’s how he put it, ‘I have thoughts of killing people.’ But it was so vague,” Fenton said. “I spent the months that I worked with him, six sessions total, trying to get him to talk more about that and understand. Is he capable of this? Is this just a thought of killing people? Or is he actually going to plan to go out and do it?”
As Fenton’s concerns surged, she said, she contacted his mom and the police. She even brought a consultant into a session to see if Holmes would open up more.
“After his last visit, I called his mom, even though the consultant and I specifically asked Holmes would it be OK if we called a family member or friend to learn more about how you’ve been doing? He refused. But when he walked out of my office, I just thought, ‘I have got to find out if he’s always been odd and strange like this, or is this a new thing? Is he having a psychotic break?’” Fenton said.
After speaking with his mother, Fenton said, she felt a little reassured and that his behavior was not a sudden change.
In hindsight, she now believes Holmes was lying and manipulating her.
“Unfortunately, yes, I know that he was lying while I was seeing him because the last month — the month of May, and I last saw him on May 31 — he was actually amassing weapons and ammo, and he was going to the shooting range and shooting up human figures. All the while denying … that he actually had plans to kill anyone,” Fenton said.
The aftermath of the tragedy was tough for Fenton.
“To some degree, I became kind of a scapegoat. People were thinking perhaps I could have prevented this somehow. (Neither) I, nor the university that employs me, could defend me and say the length I had gone to,” Fenton said.
Holmes is now behind bars and will spend the rest of his life there. In August 2015, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The jury could not come to a unanimous decision on the death penalty.
Meanwhile, Fenton wrote a book titled “AURORA: The Psychiatrist Who Treated the Movie Theater Killer Tells Her Story” about her look into the psyche of a mass shooter, the inability to thwart Holmes’ violence and what it takes to place someone in a mental health hold.
She hopes some of the information in the book may help prevent future shootings.
Fenton dedicated the book to the victims and survivors of James Holmes’ unspeakable atrocities for their courage and their voice. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/psychiatrist-aurora-shooter-manipulated-lied-to-me/ | 2022-07-20 17:33:56 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/psychiatrist-aurora-shooter-manipulated-lied-to-me/ |
CA Los Angeles/Oxnard CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, November 22, 2022
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...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to around 60. Northeast winds
increasing to 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid to upper 50s.
$$
CAZ354-240130-
Ventura County Beaches-
Including Oxnard, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme, and Ventura
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northeast winds
increasing to 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Northeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s and 50s.
Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph shifting to the northwest 15 to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s and 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ355-240130-
Ventura County Inland Coast-
Including Camarillo and East Ventura
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. North winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds around 15 mph
increasing to northeast 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph after
midnight.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast
winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs around
60.
$$
CAZ350-240130-
Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast-
Including Carpinteria, Goleta, Montecito, and Santa Barbara
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the lower to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows around 40. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid to upper 50s.
$$
CAZ349-240130-
Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast-
Including El Capitan State Beach, Gaviota, Jalama Beach,
and Refugio State Beach
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. North winds
around 15 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. North winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ351-240130-
Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range-
Including San Marcos Pass
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
lower to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ352-240130-
Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range-
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80. East
winds around 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the mid
50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 40s to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ548-240130-
Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley-
Including East Los Angeles, El Monte, Pasadena, Pomona,
and San Gabriel
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph
after midnight.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds
around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then areas of low
clouds and fog. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
to upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to around 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ547-240130-
Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley-
Including Burbank, Northridge, Universal City, and Woodland Hills
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. North to northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. North to
northeast winds 15 to 25 mph increasing to 20 to 30 mph with gusts
to 60 mph. Winds strongest in the west.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. North to northeast
winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph. Winds strongest in the
west.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
North to northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80. North winds
20 to 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the mid to upper 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ088-240130-
Santa Clarita Valley-
Including Castaic Lake, Newhall, Santa Clarita, and Valencia
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50. Northeast winds
increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs around 70. Northeast winds 25 to
40 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows around 40. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s.
$$
CAZ359-240130-
Southeastern Ventura County Valleys-
Including Moorpark, Newbury Park, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Northeast winds
increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Northeast winds 30 to
45 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80. Northeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ358-240130-
Central Ventura County Valleys-
Including Fillmore, Piru, and Santa Paula
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Northeast winds
increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Northeast winds 30 to
45 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80. Northeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ357-240130-
Ojai Valley-
Including Oak View and Ojai
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 15 to
25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows
around 40.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs around
60.
$$
CAZ356-240130-
Lake Casitas-
Including Meiners Oaks
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 40s to mid 50s. Northeast winds 15 to
25 mph after midnight.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ363-240130-
Santa Monica Mountains-
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northeast winds
increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph. Winds strongest in
the west.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northeast
winds 30 to 45 mph with gusts to 60 mph. Winds strongest in
the west.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northeast winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph shifting to the north 15 to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s and 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ059-240130-
Antelope Valley-
Including Lancaster and Palmdale
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s. Northeast winds
10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. East winds
15 to 25 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to lower 40s. East
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs in the upper
50s to mid 60s. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to around 40 except
the lower to mid 40s in the hills.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy with
a 20 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 40s to lower 50s.
$$
CAZ054-240130-
Los Angeles County Mountains-
Including Acton and Mount Wilson
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to mid 70s at low elevations
to the mid 50s to around 60 at high elevations. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows from the mid 40s to lower 50s at low
elevations to the mid 30s to lower 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
Northeast winds increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
Northeast winds 25 to 40 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to around
50 at low elevations to the mid 30s to around 40 in colder valleys
and peaks. Northeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the 50s at high elevations. Northeast winds 20 to
30 mph with gusts to 50 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to around 50 at
low elevations to the upper 30s to mid 40s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the 50s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid to upper 40s at
low elevations to the mid 30s to lower 40s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows from the lower to mid 40s at low elevations to the mid to
upper 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain or snow in the
afternoon. Highs from the upper 40s and 50s at low elevations to the
upper 30s to mid 40s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow in the
evening, becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or
snow after midnight. Lows from the mid 30s to lower 40s at low
elevations to the mid 20s to lower 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
mid 40s to mid 50s at low elevations to the mid 30s to around 40 at
high elevations.
$$
CAZ053-240130-
Ventura County Mountains-
Including Lockwood Valley and Mount Pinos
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 3 PM PST
THURSDAY...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows from the mid 40s to lower 50s at low
elevations to the mid 30s to lower 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph increasing to 20 to 30 mph with gusts
to 45 mph after midnight.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to around 60 at high elevations.
Northeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 55 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to lower 50s
at low elevations to the lower to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks. Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to lower 50s at
low elevations to the 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the mid 50s to lower 60s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the 40s to around 50 at
low elevations to the upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and
peaks.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 50s to mid 60s at low
elevations to the upper 40s to mid 50s at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows from the mid 30s to mid 40s at low elevations to the mid 20s
to around 30 in colder valleys and peaks.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of rain or snow in the afternoon. Highs from the
50s at low elevations to the 40s at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow in the
evening, becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or
snow after midnight. Lows from the 30s to around 40 at low
elevations to 19 to 26 in colder valleys and peaks.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
mid 40s to mid 50s at low elevations to the mid 30s to around 40 at
high elevations.
$$
CAZ353-240130-
Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains-
Including Big Pine Mountain, Figueroa Mountain,
and San Rafael Mountain
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the lower to mid 60s at high elevations. Northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows from around 50 at low elevations to the
lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks. East winds 15 to
25 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. East
winds around 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 50 at low
elevations to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
East winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. East winds
15 to 25 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from around 50 at low elevations
to the lower to mid 40s in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the upper 60s to mid 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid 40s to around
50 at low elevations to around 40 in colder valleys and peaks.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of rain or snow in the afternoon. Highs from the
mid 50s to lower 60s at low elevations to the mid 40s to lower 50s
at high elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow in the
evening, becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or
snow after midnight. Lows from around 40 at low elevations to the
upper 20s to mid 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
upper 40s and 50s at low elevations to the upper 30s to mid 40s at
high elevations.
$$
CAZ340-240130-
San Luis Obispo County Beaches-
Including Arroyo Grande, Avila Beach, Cambria, Morro Bay,
and Pismo Beach
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s at the beaches to the mid
70s inland. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Northeast winds around 15 mph in the morning.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70. East winds 15 to
25 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the lower to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the mid 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
50s.
$$
CAZ341-240130-
San Luis Obispo County Inland Central Coast-
Including Lopez Lake, Nipomo, and San Luis Obispo
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to around 40. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
50s.
$$
CAZ346-240130-
Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches-
Including Lompoc and Vandenberg Space Force Base
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches to
the lower to mid 70s inland. North winds around 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. North winds around 15 mph in the
evening.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s at the beaches to
the mid 70s inland.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s at the beaches to
the lower to mid 70s inland.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the mid to upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the mid
50s to lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the lower to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid to upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid to upper 50s.
$$
CAZ347-240130-
Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast-
Including Buellton and Santa Maria
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. Northwest winds around 15 mph in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50. North winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s to around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. West winds around 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then low clouds and
fog. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to around 40. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ348-240130-
Santa Ynez Valley-
Including Lake Cachuma, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Northwest winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50. Northeast winds
around 15 mph in the evening.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to around 80. West winds
around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows in
the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to around 40. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to around 60.
$$
CAZ343-240130-
Southern Salinas Valley-
Including Atascadero, Lake Nacimiento, Paso Robles, San Miguel,
and Templeton
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Northeast winds
around 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40. Northeast winds
around 15 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Patchy frost in the morning. Highs in the upper
60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs in the
lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning,
then a chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to
around 60. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s.
$$
CAZ342-240130-
Santa Lucia Mountains-
Including Hearst Castle and Irish Hills
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s except around
40 colder valleys. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. East
winds around 15 mph in the morning.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50. East
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Northeast winds
15 to 25 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s to around 50.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear except for patchy low clouds and fog
after midnight. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then mostly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 30s and 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
upper 40s to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ344-240130-
San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys-
Including Carrizo Plain, Creston, and Shandon
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and 60s. East winds around
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s. East winds around
15 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. East
winds around 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
East winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. East winds
around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny except for patchy low clouds and fog in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the 30s to around 40.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the upper 20s and 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 40s to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ345-240130-
San Luis Obispo County Mountains-
Including Caliente Range, La Panza Range, and Santa Margarita Lake
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s at low
elevations to the upper 50s to mid 60s at high elevations.
Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 40s. East winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 70s at low
elevations to the mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations. East
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
East winds 15 to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 70s at low elevations
to the mid 60s to around 70 at high elevations. East winds 15 to
25 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the mid to upper 40s at low
elevations to around 40 in colder valleys and peaks.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from around 70 at low elevations to the
lower to mid 60s at high elevations.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows from the lower to mid 40s at
low elevations to the mid to upper 30s in colder valleys and peaks.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid to upper 60s at low elevations
to around 60 at high elevations.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s and 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain or snow after
midnight. Lows in the 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
lower to mid 50s at low elevations to the mid to upper 40s at high
elevations.
$$
CAZ038-240130-
Cuyama Valley-
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. East winds around
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds around 15 mph.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. East
winds around 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s and 40s. East
winds around 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s. East winds around
15 mph in the morning.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 30s to around 40.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy with
a 20 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 50s to
around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain in the evening,
becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 40s to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ549-240130-
San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands-
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to around 70.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs from the mid 60s near the coast to
the mid 70s interior.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from the
upper 50s near the coast to the upper 60s interior.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows
around 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then partly cloudy. A
20 percent chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s to around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s to mid 60s.
$$
CAZ550-240130-
Santa Cruz and Anacapa Islands-
307 AM PST Wed Nov 23 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THANKSGIVING DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s. East winds 20 to
35 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs from the lower to mid 60s near the coast
to the lower 70s interior.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear early then low clouds and fog. Lows
around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny after morning low clouds and fog. Highs from around
60 near the coast to around 70 interior.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then cloudy. Lows
around 50.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs from the upper 50s near the coast to
the upper 60s interior.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then partly cloudy. A
20 percent chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then sunny. Highs from the
mid 50s near the coast to the mid 60s interior.
$$
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Reasmey Choun, 27, and her family visited their apartment in South Park, the basement unit of a duplex that they escaped from through a window during the flood a few days before. They were there Friday morning to see if they could move back in temporarily while they look for a permanent home.
“It stinks in here,” Choun’s 13-year-old niece cried immediately upon entering.
The room was filled with a pungent smell wafting up from the wood underneath the vinyl flooring, wet and moldy, said Choun’s 55-year-old mother, Saveoun Keo. The still-damp couch cushions were strewn around the living room in an attempt to dry them out. The refrigerator, stove and $1,000 karaoke machine that Keo and neighbors used to sing Khmer songs were broken.
It didn’t take long for Keo to determine she couldn’t stay there. She has asthma, and the mold made her run out of breath while moving a bag of water-damaged clothes from one end of the room to the other.
But the family has few other options.
Since the waters overwhelmed the banks of the Duwamish River on Tuesday, Keo and her family have been living in a hotel paid for by the city of Seattle. But the city originally said it would stop footing the bill on Wednesday.
Choun has called friends, family and a homeless shelter to find a place to stay. But they have all told her they can’t accommodate her entire family — her mother, 9-year-old daughter, a niece she considers a daughter, a dog and a cat.
“We all just want to stay as one right now,” Choun said. “We need each other.”
Searching for help
A king tide and stormy weather created the natural disaster that has knocked Choun’s family onto the brink of homelessness. This is a phenomenon that will likely grow more common in the Puget Sound region with the expected effects of climate change. Scientists anticipate global temperatures will tick upward, sea levels will rise and severe weather events will become more common. Choun’s family is also indicative of who will bear the burden of these events: people of color living paycheck to paycheck in low-income neighborhoods.
Seattle Public Utilities, the city’s first responders for urban flooding, estimates Tuesday’s flood damaged 25 homes and a handful of businesses.
The city’s Office of Emergency Management and the American Red Cross are working with the people staying in hotels to determine whether they have families they can stay with or if they need help finding an apartment.
As the Wednesday deadline approaches, mayor’s office spokesperson Jamie Housen said in a statement that the city would “assist those families with securing a housing solution” if they have nowhere to go.
American Red Cross spokesperson Betsy Robertson said people whose homes were damaged by the flood can get financial support from the agency. Staff will be going around the neighborhood to assess the damage and determine how much families will receive by the end of this week.
The city is also seeking state and federal disaster funds, but officials say that is far from guaranteed.
“So many people think that a disaster happens and [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] comes in and gives money. Very rarely is it that easy,” said Kate Hutton, spokesperson for Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management.
Choun said she’s hoping to quickly move her family into a new apartment. She set up a GoFundMe to help pay for it.
Organizations like the Duwamish River Community Coalition and the Khmer Community of Seattle King County have been in South Park all week as well, providing translation, advocacy, food and supplies to the residents affected by flooding.
A contaminated, redlined community
The recent flood only adds to a litany of environmental and health challenges South Park residents face.
Cars spew exhaust as they drive down a highway that splits the neighborhood while roaring planes fly low overhead to and from Sea-Tac Airport. Toxic chemicals from over a century of industrial use contaminate a 5-mile stretch of the Duwamish River that runs through there, which has been designated as an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. And the state Department of Ecology has identified part of the area that saw flooding as an “independent metals site,” where the soil is full of carcinogens like PCBs and metals like arsenic and lead.
A study funded by the EPA found in 2013 that residents of the Duwamish Valley are sicker and die younger than those living in other parts of the city. Residents of South Park and Georgetown in particular live eight years fewer on average than the rest of Seattle and King County, most likely due to pollution, lack of green space and other environmental stressors, the report found.
Some residents fear floods will worsen their health.
“Contaminated in the industrial area. Contaminated in the river. And now all combined,” said Mónica Pérez, a South Park resident and director of community initiatives at the local food bank, Cultivate South Park.
She waded through water several inches deep at the food bank on Thursday, as she moved boxes of food to the nearby office headquarters to keep them dry.
Places like South Park that were historically redlined and yellowlined — deemed “hazardous” or “definitely declining” by the federally sponsored Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in the 1930s for a number of factors, such as the racial makeup of the neighborhood — have a higher risk of flooding, a 2021 Redfin analysis found. Often these marginalized communities struggle to secure funding for flood mitigation projects.
That research held true for Seattle, where about 6% of homes in formerly redlined and yellowlined areas face a high flood risk today, compared to about 3% of homes in neighborhoods deemed desirable.
Many of those neighborhoods are still home to a higher percentage of low-income families and people of color. But communities of color are less likely to receive disaster relief, according to FEMA’s 2020 National Advisory Council report. Low-income households are less likely to have flood insurance than affluent households, or have the savings and wealth to financially recover after a natural disaster.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell visited South Park on Wednesday to see the impacts of the flooding, talk with neighbors and small businesses, and thank the volunteers and organizations supporting the affected residents. In a statement, his office wrote that the mayor recognizes the neighborhood “faces a disproportionate impact from the effects of pollution, climate change, and severe weather.”
“We know climate change will only make severe weather events more common and more intense, and our strategies and investments will continue to reflect the need to urgently build climate resilience and support frontline communities,” Harrell said in a written statement.
Seattle Public Utilities is improving drainage and building a pump station in South Park that will suck water from streets faster during high tide events.
Those improvements would reduce the duration of flooding but not prevent water from getting into people’s homes, said Keri Burchard-Juarez, a deputy director at Seattle Public Utilities.
The Duwamish River flowed over banks and into South Park on Tuesday due to a combination of a king tide, an especially high tide, and a low-pressure storm system, which both reduced the weight of the air above the river and poured additional water into it.
The flooding was not necessarily the result of climate change, but National Weather Service hydrologist Brent Bower said more events like this will happen. And with sea levels expected to rise along with global temperatures, he said a similar flood could have more disastrous consequences in the future.
Persistent problems
Residents of South Park, many of whom speak English as a second language and are low income, say the effects of flooding are already difficult to bear.
Alfredo Alvarez, a mechanic, has been living in the same house in South Park for the past 15 years along with seven family members. He said this is the fourth time their home has flooded.
Alvarez said he spent three hours using a bucket to empty the water from his room and kitchen. The water destroyed his stove, couch, clothes and the work boots he bought for $100. He estimates the recent flood destroyed several thousand dollars’ worth of belongings.
Like many residents in South Park, he can’t afford flood insurance, which can cost upward of $1,000 per year, according to online quotes.
Seattle Public Utilities’ Burchard-Juarez said the long-term solution to prevent flooding in South Park is to build a berm or barrier along the Duwamish River. A project like that falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The city of Seattle requested that the Corps take on such a project in 2017. However, the project has not been selected due to a “limited amount of funding” for flood control projects nationwide, according to Andrew Munoz, the Seattle district spokesperson for the Corps.
On Friday morning, Choun and her family were in their basement apartment in South Park, waiting for staff from the city and American Red Cross to inspect their home.
At 10:40 a.m., Choun’s neighbor upstairs, who she calls her aunt, ran into their living room in a panic. There was a fire, she said.
They ran outside to see gray smoke pouring out of the unit above. Within a few minutes, 10 trucks from the Seattle Fire Department arrived to put out the fire. A department spokesperson later said it was likely caused by an electrical issue.
Choun said the lights have been flickering on and off in the building since the flood. Electrical problems are common in South Park homes, according to residents.
The fire, she said, was yet another indicator of how flooding has ravaged the neighborhood.
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PGA TOUR, DP World Tour, LIV Golf merge commercial operations under common ownership
Agreement establishes common goal to promote and grow the game globally for the benefit of all stakeholders, ends litigation
NEW YORK and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia and PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The PGA TOUR, DP World Tour and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) today announced a landmark agreement to unify the game of golf, on a global basis. The parties have signed an agreement that combines PIF's golf-related commercial businesses and rights (including LIV Golf) with the commercial businesses and rights of the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour into a new, collectively owned, for-profit entity to ensure that all stakeholders benefit from a model that delivers maximum excitement and competition among the game's best players.
In addition, PIF will make a capital investment into the new entity to facilitate its growth and success. The new entity (name TBD) will implement a plan to grow these combined commercial businesses, drive greater fan engagement and accelerate growth initiatives already underway. With LIV Golf in the midst of its second, groundbreaking season, the PGA TOUR, DP World Tour and PIF will work together to best feature and grow team golf going forward.
Notably, today's announcement will be followed by a mutually agreed end to all pending litigation between the participating parties. Further, the three organizations will work cooperatively and in good faith to establish a fair and objective process for any players who desire to re-apply for membership with the PGA TOUR or the DP World Tour following the completion of the 2023 season and for determining fair criteria and terms of re-admission, consistent with each Tour's policies.
"After two years of disruption and distraction, this is a historic day for the game we all know and love," said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan. "This transformational partnership recognizes the immeasurable strength of the PGA TOUR's history, legacy and pro-competitive model and combines with it the DP World Tour and LIV – including the team golf concept – to create an organization that will benefit golf's players, commercial and charitable partners and fans. Going forward, fans can be confident that we will, collectively, deliver on the promise we've always made – to promote competition of the best in professional golf and that we are committed to securing and driving the game's future.
"We are pleased to move forward, in step with LIV and PIF's world-class investing experience, and I applaud PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan for his vision and collaborative and forward-thinking approach that is not just a solution to the rift in our game, but also a commitment to taking it to new heights. This will engender a new era in global golf, for the better."
"Today is a very exciting day for this special game and the people it touches around the world," said PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan. "We are proud to partner with the PGA TOUR to leverage PIF's unparalleled success and track record of unlocking value and bringing innovation and global best practices to business and sectors worldwide. We are committed to unifying, promoting and growing the game of golf around the world and offering the highest-quality product to the many millions of long-time fans globally, while cultivating new fans.
"There is no question that the LIV model has been positively transformative for golf. We believe there are opportunities for the game to evolve while also maintaining its storied history and tradition. This partnership represents the best opportunity to extend and increase the impact of golf for all. We look forward to collaborating with Jay and Keith to bring the best version of the game to communities around the world."
Under the terms of the agreement, the Board of Directors of the new entity will oversee and direct all the new entity's golf-related commercial operations, businesses and investments. The new entity will work to ensure a cohesive schedule of events that will be exciting for fans, sponsors and all stakeholders. PIF will initially be the exclusive investor in the new entity, alongside the PGA TOUR, LIV Golf and the DP World Tour. Going forward, PIF will have the exclusive right to further invest in the new entity, including a right of first refusal on any capital that may be invested in the new entity, including into the PGA TOUR, LIV Golf and DP World Tour. The PGA TOUR will appoint a majority of the Board and hold a majority voting interest in the combined entity.
Separately, PGA TOUR Inc. will remain in place as a 501(c)(6) tax exempt organization and retains administrative oversight of events for those assets contributed by the PGA TOUR, including the sanctioning of events, the administration of the competition and rules, as well as all other "inside the ropes" responsibilities, with Jay Monahan as Commissioner and Ed Herlihy as PGA TOUR Policy Board Chairman. PIF's Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan will join the PGA TOUR Policy Board. The DP World Tour and LIV Golf will retain similar administrative oversight of events on their respective Tours.
The Board of Directors of the new commercial entity will include Al-Rumayyan as Chairman and Monahan as Chief Executive Officer; the new entity's Board will also include an Executive Committee comprising Al-Rumayyan, Monahan, Herlihy and PGA TOUR Policy Board member Jimmy Dunne. The full Board will be announced at a later date, and it is anticipated that all three founding members will have representation.
Keith Pelley, Chief Executive of the DP World Tour, said "This is a momentous day. We are delighted to be able to not only reignite our relationship with PIF, but also to have the opportunity to build on our current Strategic Alliance partnership with the PGA TOUR. Together we will be stronger than ever and well positioned to continue to bring the game to all corners of the globe. To partner in this new entity and influence the growth of the game for all our DP World Tour members is energizing and exciting."
All parties will work in the months to come to finalize terms of the agreement, with details to be announced in due course.
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PIF, teneosports@teneo.com, +1-347-868-2439
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Four-day conference to include appearance by VA's Under Secretary for Health Dr. Shereef Elnahal, 50+ cutting edge exhibits, and more
WASHINGTON , Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paralyzed Veterans of America today kicked off its 10th Healthcare Summit and Expo – a four-day conference comprised of attendees from over 100 acute care and rehabilitation hospitals and community care centers across the country, more than 75 renowned speakers, and 50 plus exhibitors – all specialized in the field of spinal injury and disease (SCI/D). Complete with workshops, break-out sessions, and PVA's Clinical Excellence Awards recognizing clinicians who have gone above and beyond in the care for Veterans and others living with paralysis, this year's Summit will also include a Department of Veterans Affairs update from their Under Secretary for Health Dr. Shereef Elnahal.
"When Paralyzed Veterans of America started its Healthcare Summit & Expo in 2010, our goal was to bring the latest in research, technology, and best practices in the field of spinal cord injury and disorders directly to our health care workers," said Charles Brown, National President of PVA. "We remain committed to that goal, as well as to advancing education of MS and ALS, and to investing in VA and all clinicians who provide the best in specialized care to all Veterans and others living with paralysis."
"We are so proud to be back with PVA again, this time at the Healthcare Summit and Expo," said Christopher Caggiano, National Director of Veterans Affairs and VERSAJET Systems at Smith&Nephew, Inc. "Supporting our nation's healthcare professionals and all those with mobility impairments, as well as helping them regain their independence and enhance their quality of life is not only what PVA's conference is all about but it is at the very heart of what drives Smith&Nephew, Inc."
In 2021, more than 26,000 Veterans with a spinal cord injury received care from the VA. An additional 28,000+ Veterans with MS regularly receive care from the VA annually, while more than 1,000 Veterans are newly diagnosed with ALS each year. These are just a few stats facing our nation's Veterans and impacting today's healthcare system. They are also the reason PVA regularly hosts the Healthcare Summit & Expo.
"Spinal cord injuries and neurological diseases can strike anyone at any time," continued Brown. "PVA has long helped veterans and others living with SCI/D, MS and ALS, and our Summit is an extension of that support. This event is much more than just another conference, it is lifeline for those with paralysis – supporting new therapies and treatments, finding a cure for paralysis, learning about advancements in care and pain management, and keeping pace with improvements in SCI/D, MS and ALS care and treatment."
In March 2022, PVA created its first-ever MS Committee, a permanent committee of the Board of Directors – made up of eight PVA members from across the country who represent the everyday interests of veterans with MS. The committee acts as a voice on legislative issues concerning veterans with MS; provides first-hand input from its members with MS; puts out a weekly podcast on issues specific to those with MS; and serves as an expert resource for all veterans living with the disease. In addition to its new committee and advocacy efforts, PVA also partners with expert groups in the field of MS, including the National MS Society and the VA's Multiple Sclerosis Centers of Excellence – both of whom will be in attendance at this year's Summit.
Attended by VA physicians, nurses, therapists, and psychologists, as well as private health-care professionals, PVA's Summit is one of the largest and most sought-after healthcare conferences in the U.S. PVA is grateful to our generous sponsors for the support of this year's Healthcare Summit and Expo, which include Smith&Nephew, Inc., Biogen, Onward Medical Inc., Novartis, NMEDA, First Nation Group, and Quantum Stealth. Visit SummitPVA.org to learn more.
Paralyzed Veterans of America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated solely for the benefit and representation of veterans with spinal cord injury or diseases. The organization ensures veterans receive the benefits earned through service to our nation; monitors their care in VA spinal cord injury units; and funds research and education in the search for a cure and improved care for individuals with paralysis.
As a life-long partner and advocate for veterans and all people with disabilities, PVA also develops training and career services, works to ensure accessibility in public buildings and spaces, and provides health and rehabilitation opportunities through sports and recreation. With more than 70 offices and 33 chapters, Paralyzed Veterans of America serves veterans, their families, and their caregivers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Learn more at PVA.org.
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Saturday marked one of the first days of early voting in Georgia in a run-off election to decide who will win its Senate seat: current Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock or Republican Herschel Walker.
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Saturday marked one of the first days of early voting in Georgia in a run-off election to decide who will win its Senate seat: current Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock or Republican Herschel Walker.
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Reporter arrested during news event on Ohio train derailment
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — A broadcast reporter was pushed to the ground, handcuffed and arrested for trespassing while covering a news conference about the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio.
NewsNation posted video of correspondent Evan Lambert being arrested Wednesday in the gymnasium of an elementary school in East Palestine where Gov. Mike DeWine was giving an update about the accident.
Lambert was held for about five hours before being released from jail, NewsNation reported.
“I’m doing fine right now. It’s been an extremely long day,” Lambert said after his release. “No journalist expects to be arrested when you’re doing your job, and I think that’s really important that that doesn’t happen in our country.”
At the end of his news conference, DeWine said he didn’t authorize the arrest and reporters have “every right” to report during briefings.
“If someone was stopped from doing that, or told they could not do that, that was wrong,” DeWine said.
A following statement from the governor’s office said DeWine didn’t see the incident because a bank of cameras blocked his view but he did hear a “disagreement toward the back of the gymnasium.”
DeWine “has always respected the media’s right to report live before, during, and after his press briefings” the statement said.
Mike Viqueira, NewsNation’s Washington Bureau chief, called the arrest an infuriating violation of the First Amendment.
The Washington, D.C.-based Lambert could still face charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing, NewsNation said.
The Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office administration said the arrest was made by officers from the East Palestine Police Department. A message seeking comment from the department was not immediately returned.
About 50 train cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash Friday night on the edge of East Palestine. Federal investigators say a mechanical issue with a rail car axle caused the derailment.
Nearby residents in Ohio and neighboring Pennsylvania were ordered to evacuate when authorities decided on Monday to release and burn chemicals from five tankers filled with vinyl chloride, sending hydrogen chloride and the toxic gas phosgene into the air.
At the news conference, authorities said sampling had shown air quality in the area was safe and residents could return home, although DeWine said some residents may want to wait until the air inside their homes is checked.
The news conference started more than two hours late and DeWine started speaking at the same instant Lambert had to do a live broadcast from the back of the gym, Preston Swigart, a photographer who was with Lambert, told NewsNation.
Swigart said police officers approached Lambert and asked him to stop talking. Lambert finished the live report but was then asked to leave by authorities, who tried to forcibly remove him from the event, NewsNation reported.
“From their standpoint, he didn’t obey orders,” Swigart said. “Gymnasiums are echoey and loud and sound kind of carries, so I’m guessing that they just didn’t like the fact that there was sound competing with the governor speaking, even though it was all the way at the other end of the room.”
The anchor handling the report said she heard the reporter saying, “The governor has just started speaking. I’m being told that I have to quit my report” before it was cut short.
Video captured by NewsNation affiliate WKBN-TV showed Lambert on his face on the ground being handcuffed. He was then taken outside and placed in the back of a sheriff’s patrol car.
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Mother charged with murder in death of 2-month-old baby, police say
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Police say a Texas mother has been charged with murder in the death of her 2-month-old baby, KFDA reports.
Officers responded to a call about a baby not breathing around 6:25 p.m. last Tuesday at a home in Amarillo, Texas. Police say when responders arrived, the 2-month-old girl was dead.
During an investigation, police say evidence was found to place the baby’s mother, 19-year-old Ashley Harper, under arrest for injury to a child. She was booked into the Potter County Detention Center that night.
After further investigation, police say a warrant was issued Tuesday for Harper. The charge against the mother was changed to murder.
Harper remains in the Potter County Detention Center.
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Clair Norman, Dir. of Marketing & Donor Relations with Cameron K. Gallagher Foundation shared some information on their Toolkit Resources featuring topics such as Stress Awareness, Mental Health Awareness, Resilience, Life Transitions, and Cultural Sensitivity. For more information, visit their website.
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rittal North America, a global manufacturer of industrial and IT enclosures, announces the expansion of its smart cooling unit solutions for enclosures with the new Blue e+ S that has lower output categories of .3 kW, .5 kW, and 1 kW. Additionally, the Blue e+ S offers smart capabilities and innovative energy-saving features for the production process. This latest generation of Blue e+ S cooling units have been designed for efficiency helping to ensure a smaller footprint, provide energy savings, minimize CO2 emissions, and lower costs.
Solutions that reduce the carbon footprint during production are in high demand. But at the same time, these solutions need to be intelligent and communication-enabled so that they can be easily integrated into digitalized manufacturing environments. Seven years ago, Rittal responded to this demand with its extremely efficient Blue e+ range of enclosure cooling units, which provided an average energy savings of 75%. The new Blue e+ S enclosure climate control units for lower cooling outputs of .3 kW, .5 kW, and 1 kW are based on the same design and energy saving principles as the Blue e+ series, but also offer added smart capabilities.
Energy-savings and therefore cost reduction is enabled due to the technology used, combining a heat pipe with inverter-controlled components. The heat pipe works without a compressor, expansion valve, or other regulating elements eliminating the need for electrical energy except to operate the fan. Depending on the thermal energy generated in the enclosure and the current ambient temperature, cooling can be performed with the heat pipe alone. The additional compressor cooling only operates if a large amount of heat has to be dissipated from the enclosure or if the ambient temperature is very high. When it does operate, the compressor cooling is far more energy-efficient than conventional units due to the compressor and fans that possess an inverter-controlled drive which automatically adjusts their speeds depending on the cooling requirements. As a result, the temperature within the enclosure remains constant, and the energy efficiency is significantly higher than with other more conventional cooling units.
Alongside energy efficiency, the new Blue e+ S also reduces the carbon footprint by using a refrigerant with a Global Warming Potential (GWP) that is 56% lower than those used in comparable cooling units. Furthermore, instead of the R-134a previously used, the cooling circuit in the new generation of units now runs with R-513A refrigerant.
With their additional smart functions, the new cooling units also help in the digitalization process. With a fully integrated IoT interface as standard, the cooling units can be intelligently monitored in digitalized environments and easily connected to Rittal's new Smart Service Portal, where available. This optimizes the service processes and increases efficiency through predictive maintenance. As a result, fewer unplanned downtime occurs which helps to manage the high cost of production, especially with Industry 4.0 processes.
These cooling units in the lower output classes also have a new design with an integrated colored LED light strip on the front. This means that warning messages can be immediately seen, even from far away. A display on the front of the enclosure provides additional up-to-date information. Moreover, the cooling units are equipped with the Near Field Communication (NFC) interface, which enables them to communicate with mobile devices that have the Rittal Scan & Service app installed.
For more information on Rittal's new Blue e+ S enclosure cooling units visit https://rittal.us/blue-e-s, for additional information on how Rittal's climate control solutions can help reduce the carbon footprint of machines and systems visit https://rittal.us/co2-footprint.
Rittal North America, LLC is a global manufacturer and system solutions provider of industrial and IT enclosures, racks, and accessories, including cooling solutions and power management systems for industrial, data center, outdoor, and hybrid applications. Rittal provides innovative, high-quality solutions for practically any industrial or IT infrastructure application, from single enclosures to comprehensive, mission critical systems. Products are tested and certified to the appropriate standards that apply, including UL, CSA, ATEX, NEMA, and more. For more information, visit www.rittal.com, or follow us on: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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These days, it’s the norm to spend countless hours in front of screens, including smartphones, computer monitors and TVs. It can wear on you physically and mentally, which is why a screen break is necessary every now and then.
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How screen time affects you
Screen time is a necessary part of life, but over time, it can wear on your mind and body. Recent studies show that more than 50% of computer users experience digital eye strain, which often results in headaches, light sensitivity and dry eyes. Other common symptoms include blurred vision, difficulty concentrating and neck soreness.
Screens also emit blue light, and excessive exposure may inhibit the natural production of melatonin and disrupt circadian rhythms. Because blue light stimulates the brain, it becomes much harder to wind down and fall asleep when you spend time on the devices late at night.
Besides the physical effects of screen time, many people experience higher stress and anxiety levels from digital overstimulation. Spending too much time online, including on social media, has also been linked to decreased mood and well-being.
What you need to know about travel-size games
Why travel-size games are ideal for screen breaks
If you’re wondering why travel-size games are better than their full-size counterparts for screen breaks, it boils down to convenience.
Many standard board games have large footprints with sprawling boards, large game pieces and decks. Travel-size games, on the other hand, are space-savvy. Depending on their size, they can fit into pockets, desk drawers, luggage or the backseat of your car.
Most travel-edition games have simplified gameplay compared to standard editions. Not only are they quicker to set up, but their rules are easier to learn for new and young players alike. It’s easy for anyone — and everyone — to get on board (no pun intended) with a game instead of spending more time in front of screens.
Types of travel-size games
- Mini board games: Mini board games are smaller iterations of standard game editions. Some have magnetic boards and game pieces to prevent them from getting lost, including when they’re played during road and plane trips.
- Card games: Many card games use standard playing cards that measure 3.5 by 2.5 inches. By design, they fit easily inside pockets. There are a few outliers with larger cards; however, most of them are still travel-friendly.
- Packable games: Certain travel-size games are designed for on-the-go play with roll-up boards or pieces that fit inside space-savvy carry cases, such as many dice games. Several games in this category also have dual-purpose game pieces to optimize space.
- Portable backyard games: There are dozens of portable backyard games, ranging from travel badminton sets to cornhole games. They come with convenient carry cases, such as drawstring bags or soft-sided totes.
How you can expect to spend on travel-size games
Most travel games cost a fraction of standard editions, and there’s a game for every budget. Card and pocket-friendly games cost $10 or less, whereas mini board games typically range between $8 to $20. Portable backyard games cost the most at $30 to $125.
Best travel-size games for screen breaks
Arguably the most unique puzzle around, the Rubik’s Cube offers hours of mind-bending fun. Players twist and turn their way through billions of possible combinations in this 3-inch by 3-inch classic version, which proves challenging even for experienced cube enthusiasts.
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Scrabble Deluxe Travel Edition
This folding Scrabble board weighs a mere 1.5 pounds, and it’s easy to pack in most bags, from picnic baskets to weekend totes. It features fine wood construction and has a secure magnetic closure that prevents lost pieces.
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“Best of Mad Libs: World’s Greatest Word Game” by Roger Price
This Mad Libs collection includes a whopping 125 fill-in-the-blank stories, making it a great choice for family road trips. It’s a little smaller than a standard spiral notebook, so it slips easily into backpacks and carry-ons.
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Uno, Phase 10 and Pic Flip Bundle Tin
Get serious bang for your buck in this three-game set. It comes in an attractive storage tin that fits easily in the backseat, truck or office bookshelf. There’s a game for everyone in this all-ages-friendly set.
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Age of Civilization Strategy Travel Card Game
Popular among history buffs and gamers, this card-based game challenges players to conquer one another’s civilizations. It’s suitable for two to four players, and most games are completed in 30 minutes or less.
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Once a “Shark Tank” sensation, this game gets your blood pumping as you spike, dodge and dive for the ball. You can play Spikeball almost anywhere, including tailgate parties, beaches and parks. The net and frame break down for easy storage in a drawstring bag.
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In this award-winning strategy game, players face off to reach five tiles in a row before anyone else. The travel-friendly game comes with a carabiner that can be hung on backpacks and luggage for hands-free portability.
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Chronicle Books Pendleton Chess & Checkers Travel Set
This roll-up board has a built-in zipper pouch that stores chess and checkers game pieces. The unique design is suitable for outdoor use, thanks to its durable canvas construction. It’s perfect for gaming on the grass or sand.
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Find out how quick your reflexes are with this beloved blast from the past, now available as a pocket-friendly version. It has single- and two-players modes, and it comes with two AA batteries so you can start a game as soon as you unbox.
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Franklin Sports Table Tennis To Go
You can start an impromptu table tennis game anywhere, from the office to the campground, with this to-go set. The net has a spring-action table clamp that expands to fit most tabletops. All pieces pack into a lightweight mesh carry case.
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First-of-its-kind deal in Spectrum's 26-year history further expands the agency's capabilities following back-to-back years of double-digit growth
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectrum Science, an independent, integrated marketing, communications and media agency hyper-focused on health and science, today announced the acquisition of SONIC Health, a strategic agency that applies the science of storytelling to transform corporate and brand communications. The SONIC team will join Spectrum as the SONIC Story Lab, crafting compelling, emotive narratives and creative, innovative activations that connect with audiences, keep them engaged and drive meaningful action.
"We are excited to welcome SONIC Health to our team. Science and storytelling have always been core to our work at Spectrum and with the launch of the SONIC Story Lab, we're furthering our ability to support brands across their lifecycle with a strategy-first approach that drives game-changing content and activations," said Jonathan Wilson, Owner and CEO of Spectrum Science. "Spectrum will continue to pursue strategic opportunities like this one to enhance our capabilities to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving industry and media landscape."
SONIC Health was co-founded in 2013 by Fabio Gratton and Ross Fetterolf, veterans of the healthcare marketing industry who saw an opportunity to use strategic storytelling to create innovative and meaningful connections between clients and their audiences. With this acquisition, Fetterolf will be joining Spectrum as EVP and head of the SONIC Story Lab. Gratton will remain involved as a consultant, helping to advise on select client work.
"Telling a relatable, compelling and concise story is more important now than ever before—and joining Spectrum not only gives SONIC a bigger stage, it also significantly enhances the breadth and depth of stories we can tell," said Gratton.
In addition, this acquisition brings incredible talent and depth of experience to the Spectrum team, including experience strategist and SONIC Health partner, Alex Walters, who joins as a senior vice president, as well as SONIC's full team of experts in advertising, digital strategy and creative story production.
"The rules of storytelling are the same for Spielberg or SONIC Health," Fetterolf shared. "Telling healthcare stories is incredibly important because they have the potential to impact so many lives. Our partnership with Spectrum offers the ability to pair their deep scientific expertise with our passion for the science of storytelling, expanding the reach and resonance of our clients' brands and communications. With so many factors competing for people's attention, we need to bring more Hollywood to healthcare."
The SONIC acquisition is the first deal of its kind for Spectrum in the agency's 26-year history, and comes after a year of record-breaking revenue in 2021. Financing for the acquisition was provided by Monroe Capital.
About SONIC Health
SONIC Health is a privately held life sciences marketing company. Strategists by trade, innovators by reputation, and storytellers at heart, SONIC Health is comprised of big agency veterans offering traditional agency services that center around the story their clients want to tell the world. For more information, visit SONICHealth.com.
About Spectrum Science
Spectrum Science is an integrated marketing, communications and media agency like no other. An independent, full-service agency with end-to-end capabilities, Spectrum's team are experts in science—focused on strategic engagements with our audiences. We leverage human-centered insights, motivating creative, innovative storytelling and technology to reach audiences where they are with the content they need and want. Spectrum offers global reach as the US partner and chair of Global Health Marketing & Communications (GHMC). For more information on how Spectrum goes Beyond the Science Quo, visit www.spectrumscience.com or follow @SpectrumScience on Twitter.
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The Bismarck City Commission has approved a preliminary 2023 budget and advanced a proposal to use reserves to support a homeless shelter in the city.
The preliminary budget focuses on public safety, raises to retain city workers, cybersecurity and equipment replacement, while having no mill levy increases.
A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for Sept. 13 before the commission decides on final approval.
The preliminary general fund budget -- funded largely by property and sales taxes -- is nearly $63 million. The preliminary total budget is about $303 million. City Finance Director Dmitriy Chernyak told the Tribune that the total budget was calculated with current water rates and may change after the city finishes conducting a water rate study.
The 2022 general fund budget was just over $71 million, and the total budget was $330 million. Chernyak told the Tribune the decrease this year is due to projects funded in last year's budget that aren't in the 2023 budget.
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Bismarck's budget impacts a portion of Bismarck property owners' tax bill. Property valuations and the budgets for Burleigh County, Bismarck Public Schools, and Bismarck Parks and Recreation also impact property taxes.
The commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday to approve the preliminary budget, with Commissioner Mark Splonskowski voting against it. He did not cite his reasons during the meeting and did not immediately comment to the Tribune on Wednesday.
Shelter funding
Commissioners during Tuesday's meeting discussed using reserve funds to help maintain the Missouri Slope Areawide United Way emergency shelter. The discussion came after United Way Vice President John Weber asked for the city's support with operational costs.
Weber said that the shelter this month went from being open 24/7 to just overnight hours. He asked the commission to add $250,000 to the 2023 city budget so that the shelter can return to being open 24/7.
Chernyak in the meeting said United Way made a budget request for a capital project during the 2020 budget cycle. The city had budgeted $250,000 for both 2020 and 2021, but United Way did not request the 2021 money, he said. Weber explained that United Way did not need the allocated funds then because of other grants and federal COVID-19 funds.
Commissioner Greg Zenker suggested amending the current budget to add an expenditure for United Way -- the $250,000 that was funded in 2021 but not asked for. The money would come out of the city's cash reserve. He said having the shelter open all day is better for the community.
Bismarck's fund balance policy says the city will strive to maintain a minimum reserve balance equal to 60% of the general fund revenue. Chernyak said the city is above the threshold by 3%, or about $1.2 million, but he added that it is based on preliminary numbers and could fluctuate. If reserves go below 60%, the city must replenish the funds within five years.
Splonskowski said he feels that at least some of the money over the threshold should go back to taxpayers.
"I think we have that 60% cutoff for a reason and anything that we’re keeping over above that is, in my head, taking too much away from the taxpayers," he said. "If anything is going to happen with that money, I would like to see that go back into next year's budget in an effort to keep property taxes as low as possible. I think going too much above that becomes dangerous because that extra is on the back of the taxpayers."
The commission voted 3-2 to move forward with the proposed budget amendment, with Commissioners Steve Marquardt, Anne Cleary and Zenker voting in favor. Mayor Mike Schmitz and Splonskowski voted against. A public hearing will be held, possibly on Aug. 23.
"My concerns around a request coming in from any not-for-profit organization is what our role is and does this become an ongoing request, which I’m afraid it is," Schmitz said. "I’m not sure that’s our role given that there are other not-for-profit organizations who may also want to come to this table for the same thing. That's heartburn for me." | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/bismarck-city-commission-approves-preliminary-2023-budget-might-help-fund-homeless-shelter/article_45607c1e-0dc3-11ed-b968-53549487e63a.html | 2022-07-27 22:18:30 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/bismarck-city-commission-approves-preliminary-2023-budget-might-help-fund-homeless-shelter/article_45607c1e-0dc3-11ed-b968-53549487e63a.html |
The FBI either lied to a federal judge about having video of its secretive 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroyed the video to prevent a father-son team of treasure hunters from gaining access to it, an attorney for the duo asserted in new legal filings that allege a government cover-up.
The FBI has long insisted its agents recovered nothing of value when they went looking for the fabled gold cache. But Finders Keepers, a treasure-hunting company that led agents to the remote woodland site in Pennsylvania in hopes of getting a finder’s fee, suspect the FBI found tons of gold and made off with it.
After Finders Keepers began pressing the government for information about the dig, the FBI initially said it could produce 17 relevant video files. Then, without explanation, the FBI reduced that number to four. Last week, under court order, the agency finally revealed what it said were the contents of those four videos — and it turns out all had been provided to the FBI by Finders Keepers co-owner Dennis Parada himself, weeks before the dig, at a time when he was offering his evidence for buried treasure.
The FBI did not say it had any video of the actual excavation, which is what Finders Keepers is seeking. The treasure hunters say they have evidence the FBI indeed shot video of the dig — and they are seeking sanctions against the FBI for what their lawyer cast as a blatant, bad-faith effort to mislead.
On March 13, 2018, Parada’s hidden trail camera captured what appears to be an FBI agent in front of a video camera at the hillside dig site, with other agents in the background. The trail-cam image was included in a legal filing late Friday by lawyer Anne Weismann, who represents Finders Keepers in its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government.
The photo “suggests either the FBI has falsely claimed to have no other responsive videotapes or the FBI illegally destroyed responsive videotapes in an effort to circumvent the FOIA’s disclosure requirements,” Weismann wrote.
She asked a judge to order the Justice Department to pay a portion of Finders’ Keepers legal fees to compensate for the legal wrangling over the videos, and hold the FBI accountable for “covering up the results of its excavation … that highly advanced scientific technology indicated contained multiple tons of gold.”
A message was sent to the FBI seeking comment Monday.
The government’s initial court-ordered release of documents last month included a geophysical survey commissioned by the FBI that suggested an object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold was buried at the site. The FBI used the consultant’s work to obtain a warrant to seize any gold found at the site at Dent’s Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend says an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The agency has adamantly denied it found anything. The treasure hunters say the FBI has consistently stonewalled.
“For the FBI to now say it has no videotapes of the dig strains credulity and takes this whole affair to the next level,” Warren Getler, who has worked closely with Finders Keepers, said Monday. “We have incontrovertible photographic evidence of them videotaping the dig and interviewing their operational leader at the site. It raises a lot of serious questions.”
In addition to seeking legal fees, Weismann also asked the court to give Finders Keepers the ability to depose three FBI officials: Jacob Archer of the FBI’s art crime team in Philadelphia, who oversaw the dig; the unidentified videographer shown in the trail-cam still; and Michael Seidel, the FBI section chief for records dissemination.
“We want to answer two questions. Did the FBI create videotapes during the excavation? The picture certainly seems to answer that question. And if so, what happened to those videotapes? It seems to me these are the people best situated to have that information,” Weismann, a veteran FOIA lawyer who formerly worked at the Justice Department, said in an interview Monday.
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It's Oscar night, so we thought this would be a good time to pay homage to a convention of modern movies. It can be traced back to the original "Rocky," the Academy Award-winner for best picture in 1977. I am talking about the training montage. It's still going strong in the latest and ninth installment of the "Rocky" franchise, "Creed III," which is in theaters now. Tim Greiving has the history of this art form in miniature.
TIM GREIVING, BYLINE: It's a freezing cold Philadelphia morning. Rocky Balboa wakes up at the crack of dawn, gulps down a glass of raw eggs bundles up in his drab sweat suit and Chuck Taylors and heads out to begin his run in the train yards. In reality, this is probably a miserable workout. But in a training montage, it becomes movie magic.
(SOUNDBITE OF BILL CONTI SONG, "GONNA FLY NOW")
BILL CONTI: So what's interesting about the training? Well, not much. But could there be a story in the story?
GREIVING: Bill Conti composed the score for "Rocky" in 1976. He says director John G. Avildsen came to him with, quote, "10 miles" of just raw footage of Sylvester Stallone jogging, punching a medicine ball, doing one-handed pushups and boxing slabs of beef.
CONTI: John Avildsen says, Bill, give me about a minute and a half's worth of music so I can cut something together. Minute and a half of just boring training should be enough to get me started.
GREIVING: Conti took his main "Rocky" theme, which we've heard more slowly and wearily earlier in the picture...
(SOUNDBITE OF BILL CONTI SONG, "PHILADELPHIA MORNING")
GREIVING: ...And made it more athletic, more aspirational.
CONTI: Music that you're train to, so everybody knows what that is. In (inaudible) days, you put on that jump-around music and listen to some guy in pink shorts telling you to jump higher and faster.
GREIVING: He recorded his idea on piano and gave the tape to Avildsen and the editors.
CONTI: Give me the one running. Where's the punching bag? The punching bag doesn't fit as good as the - do the medicine ball. OK. How many miles of this can we take? But then you hear in the music - oh, the music changes here. Let's go here. Let's go there. He's running. Oh, I like the running up the stairs. Oh, leave that for last.
GREIVING: As Avildsen cut the montage together, it began to form a miniature story of overcoming adversity, to the point where Rocky is practically taking flight at the top of the stairs leading to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Avildsen kept making it longer, asking Conte to write 30 more seconds of music, then 30 more seconds until the final sequence was about three minutes long.
CONTI: He says, well, look, it's like he's getting stronger during the whole thing. Can't we say that? I said, well, John, it's your movie. You can say it if you want.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GONNA FLY NOW")
DEETTA WEST AND NELSON PIGFORD: (Singing) Getting strong now.
GREIVING: This Frankenstein sequence, powered by the heroic "Rocky" theme and backed with a '70s disco rhythm, became an iconic part of the Oscar-winning film. And every "Rocky" movie since has had a training montage. "Rocky III" opens with the Italian Stallion on a winning streak and getting soft with fame as his nemesis, Clubber Lang, played by Mr. T, trains to take down the champ. Stallone, who by now was directing the "Rocky" movies, phoned up Jim Peterik of the band Survivor.
JIM PETERIK: He was already my hero. You know, my wife and I, we named our cat Rocky because we liked those first two movies so much. He says, well, I got this new movie called "Rocky III." And I don't want to use that "Gonna Fly Now" song again, you know? I want something for the kids, something with a pulse. Can you help me out?
GREIVING: This time, the montage was already cut together when Stallone sent Peterik a rough cut on Betamax.
PETERIK: And, you know, we see Mr. T rising up, you know, looking really tough - you know? - and Stallone doing Master Charge commercials and getting a little soft. And I just was feeling the pulse of that, you know? And I just started going (playing guitar). You know, just like that. And I see the punches being thrown, and I was just kind of (playing guitar).
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EYE OF THE TIGER")
SURVIVOR: (Singing) It's the eye of the tiger. It's the thrill of the fight. Rising up to the challenge of our rival.
GREIVING: The result, "Eye Of The Tiger," joined "Gonna Fly Now" as one of the most popular workout tracks of all time.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EYE OF THE TIGER")
SURVIVOR: (Singing) And he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger.
GREIVING: By the time director Ryan Coogler revived the series with "Creed" in 2015, the training montage was an established tradition he didn't want to mess with. But he and his composer, Ludwig Goransson, made it their own. Adonis Creed, played by Michael B. Jordan, is training for a climactic fight as per usual, but this time it's intercut with Rocky going through cancer treatment. Old age and youth, sickness and health - Goransson symbolized that with a loving homage to Bill Conti and "Gonna Fly Now," but with a powerful hip-hop energy.
(SOUNDBITE OF MEEK MILL, JHENE AIKO AND LUDWIG GORANSSON SONG "LORD KNOWS/FIGHTING STRONGER")
GREIVING: The training montage has clearly taken on a life of its own, which of course means it has inspired parodies, like in an episode of the TV show "Arrested Development," when Michael Bluth trains for a father-son triathlon to the strains of a song called "Balls In The Air."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BALLS IN THE AIR")
DAVID SCHWARTZ: (Singing) Just grab a hold and juggle all those balls in the air. How hard can it be?
GREIVING: It's a funny spoof, but, like us, deep down, it knows that training montages rule.
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At the Republican National Committee's spring retreat in Tennessee over the weekend, a swing-state GOP governor told major donors the party's future political success depended in part on Fox News.
In a speech about attracting independents and young people to the Republican Party, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said he had urged Fox News to break out of its "echo chamber" for Republicans to prosper.
Sununu's remarks echo a consistent theme found unvarnished in the private communications of Fox's stars and executives by Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network: That Fox is an integral player in Republican politics and the conservative movement.
"We have to start thinking about the long game," Sununu told Republican donors at the Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville. "We get ourselves tied up in issues. I'm not saying they're not important, but they ain't making the team bigger."
He said the party had an appealing "product" for voters, including younger voters, with an emphasis on low government regulation, low taxes, and local governmental control.
Then he started to talk about Fox News.
"I was on with [Fox News business anchor and senior vice president Neil] Cavuto this morning, and I talk to the leadership at Fox all the time," Sununu said.
"I go, 'Look guys, I saw a panel discussion with four panelists on Fox and they all were literally agreeing with each other... They're talking in an echo chamber. What are you doing to grow the team?'"
"If you don't do it," he said, "we're going to lose."
Sununu said cable networks MSNBC and CNN were run by Democrats, and that Republicans should appear on their shows and own them.
That was the thrust of the governor's message, his communications director told NPR.
"He was telling Republicans they should be going on other media channels, not just Fox," Ben Vihstadt said. "Republicans watch those channels too."
NPR obtained an audio recording of an excerpt of the talk from Lauren Windsor, a liberal activist and consultant, who acquired them from an attendee. Vihstadt authenticated the governor's remarks.
Legal filings underscore Fox's cozy relationship with GOP
Sununu's remarks come at a delicate moment for Fox. Its lawyers are simultaneously girding for a six-week trial, set to begin Tuesday morning after a one-day delay, and negotiating over a possible settlement with Dominion's legal team.
Dominion's case stems from baseless assertions on Fox that the voting tech company's machines threw votes from then-President Donald Trump to Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential elections. Dominion alleges that Fox tried to win back Trump voters alienated by Fox's projection – before any other television network on election night – that Biden would win Arizona. One way the network appealed to Trump loyalists was to broadcast the lies of election fraud promoted by Trump and his allies. (The network says it was reporting on newsworthy allegations from the nation's top elected official and its allies.)
It's long been known that Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch has sought to influence elections in his native Australia, the U.K., and the U.S., both in his news pages and programs and behind the scenes. Former Republican vice presidential candidate and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan sits on the corporate board of Fox Corp. the network's corporate parent. (He was among those who argued that Fox had to release its embrace of election conspiracy theories).
And Trump drew from a roster of Fox personalities for appointments to his administration. Fox stars Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and others advised him off the air. (Dobbs would be forced out a day after another election tech company, Smartmatic, sued Fox in a $2.7 billion defamation claim.)
In response to a request for comment, a Fox spokesperson noted that surveys suggest its audiences - which are far larger than its peers - include the most Democrats and independents watching.
Back in November 2020, NPR reported that Hannity invited RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on his show on the night before Biden would be projected to win the presidency.
An internal GOP memo to prepare McDaniel reflected full knowledge of what would be asked, setting out the specifics of the show's lengthy opening segment — including its guests and subjects — and Hannity's main points. They focused on suspicions of voter fraud.
But, in case there was any doubt, the material gathered by Dominion's legal team cements the image of Fox as an institution with a deeply ingrained conservative outlook and whose leaders are closely interwoven with Republican politics.
A tip about a Biden campaign ad, a proposed Senate run and a warning about Fox journalists
In late September 2020, Murdoch warned Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, that the Biden campaign ads were better. The next day, the media magnate, whose former wife had helped reconcile Kushner with his wife Ivanka Trump after a brief split, followed up with another email.
"Your adv at 1.0 pm this Sunday an improvement, but Biden in same football [game] is extremely good. Or I think so! Will send it," Murdoch said in an email made public through legal proceedings.
On November 10th, a few days after Fox projected Biden's win, star host Maria Bartiromo texted former Trump former chief political adviser Steve Bannon, "Omg I'm so depressed. I can't take this"
She continued, "I am watching the world move forward. & it's so upsetting steve."
Bannon had no plans to stand still. He laid out a multi-point plan that included delegitimizing Biden as president, Republicans' winning both U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, and getting Bartiromo elected to the U.S. Senate in New York – all while prepping Trump for a 2024 White House bid.
On Nov 14, 2020, Fox Corp. executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's son, warned chief executive Suzanne Scott about the tone of Fox's coverage of a pro-Trump rally.
"News guys have to be careful how they cover this rally," Lachlan Murdoch wrote. "So far some of the side comments are slightly anti, and they shouldn't be. The narrative should be this is a huge celebration of the president."
On November 16, Rupert Murdoch affirmed his interest in aiding the Republican drive to win the Senate in an email to Scott: "Trump will concede eventually and we should concentrate on Georgia, helping any way we can."
Despite his criticisms of Fox, Sununu does not appear to disdain the network. He appeared on its news program, "America's Newsroom" Monday morning, less than 48 hours after his pointed remarks in Nashville.
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San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
Supervisors in San Francisco voted Tuesday to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations — following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement.
The vote was 8-3, with the majority agreeing to grant police the option despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups. Opponents said the authority would lead to the further militarization of a police force already too aggressive with poor and minority communities.
Supervisor Connie Chan, a member of the committee that forwarded the proposal to the full board, said she understood concerns over use of force but that “according to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. So here we are, and it’s definitely not a easy discussion.”
The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have pre-armed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement.
“Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives,” she said.
Supervisors amended the proposal Tuesday to specify that officers could use robots only after using alternative force or de-escalation tactics, or concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect through those alternative means. Only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize use of robots as a deadly force option.
San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low visibility situations, the department says. They were acquired between 2010 and 2017, and not once have they been used to deliver an explosive device, police officials said.
But explicit authorization was required after a new California law went into effect this year requiring police and sheriffs departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek approval for their use.
The state law was authored last year by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu while he was an assembly member. It is aimed at giving the public a forum and voice in the acquisition and use of military-grade weapons that have a negative effect on communities, according to the legislation.
A federal program has long dispensed grenade launchers, camouflage uniforms, bayonets, armored vehicles and other surplus military equipment to help local law enforcement.
In 2017, then-President Donald Trump signed an order reviving the Pentagon program after his predecessor, Barack Obama, curtailed it in 2015, triggered in part by outrage over the use of military gear during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting death of Michael Brown.
San Francisco police said late Tuesday that no robots were obtained from military surplus, but some were purchased with federal grant money.
Like many places around the U.S., San Francisco is trying to balance public safety with treasured civilian rights such as privacy and the ability to live free of excessive police oversight. In September, supervisors agreed to a trial run allowing police to access in real time private surveillance camera feeds in certain circumstances.
Debate on Tuesday ran more than two hours with members on both sides accusing the other of reckless fear mongering.
Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the policy authorization, said he was troubled by rhetoric painting the police department as untrustworthy and dangerous.
“I think there’s larger questions raised when progressives and progressive policies start looking to the public like they are anti-police,” he said. “I think that is bad for progressives. I think it’s bad for this Board of Supervisors. I think it’s bad for Democrats nationally.”
Board President Shamann Walton, who voted against the proposal, pushed back, saying it made him not anti-police, but “pro people of color.”
“We continuously are being asked to do things in the name of increasing weaponry and opportunities for negative interaction between the police department and people of color," he said. “This is just one of those things.”
The San Francisco Public Defender's office sent a letter Monday to the board saying that granting police “the ability to kill community members remotely" goes against the city's progressive values. The office wanted the board to reinstate language barring police from using robots against any person in an act of force.
On the other side of the San Francisco Bay, the Oakland Police Department has dropped a similar proposal after public backlash.
The first time a robot was used to deliver explosives in the U.S. was in 2016, when Dallas police sent in an armed robot that killed a holed-up sniper who had killed five officers in an ambush. | https://www.wgal.com/article/san-francisco-will-allow-police-to-deploy-robots-that-kill/42103590 | 2022-11-30 20:04:43 | 0 | https://www.wgal.com/article/san-francisco-will-allow-police-to-deploy-robots-that-kill/42103590 |
Breakthrough to Utilize its Expertise in Lab Development and Operations to Support Boulder's Burgeoning Yet Underserved Biotech Community
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breakthrough Properties, a leading global developer of life sciences real estate backed by a joint venture of Tishman Speyer and Bellco Capital, today announced it has acquired a 9.3-acre, four-building campus in Boulder, CO, which will be transformed into "Boulder 38 by Breakthrough" featuring 164,000-square-feet of office, lab and flex space.
Boulder 38 by Breakthrough is situated in the heart of the city within convenient proximity to local retail, restaurants and amenities, as well as large technology and life science campuses. Located at the intersection of 38th Street and Arapahoe, the property features easy access into and out of Boulder and is just one mile from Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, a 400,000-square-foot research and teaching facility at the University of Colorado Boulder.
"We are excited to bring the Breakthrough platform to Boulder and contribute to the phenomenal growth of a thriving life science innovation market," said Daniel D'Orazi, EVP and Chief Investment Officer. "From our fully integrated design and development teams to our highly experienced lab operations platform, Breakthrough is uniquely positioned to provide best-in-class infrastructure and amenities to meet the intense and growing demand for high quality lab and office environments in this supply-constrained market."
Research conducted at the University of Colorado and the surrounding ecosystem has helped to foster a thriving regional bioscience hub. According to CBRE market report data, the Boulder life sciences market has maintained over one million square feet of active life science requirements over the past 18 months, and workspaces with elevated amenities is a desired feature of the companies located in the area.
"Boulder has succeeded in cultivating a unique ecosystem propelled by leading research and academic institutions, creative residents and premier outdoor recreational amenities," said Tishman Speyer Senior Managing Director Paul DeMartini. "We are excited by this opportunity to create a world-class research campus that will serve as a magnet for life science innovation and talent."
The acquisition and redevelopment of Boulder 38 is being capitalized by the Breakthrough Life Science Property Fund. The Fund, which held its final closing in April of this year, raised $3 billion in direct capital and co-investments to scale a global portfolio of best-in-class ecosystems for dynamic early-, mid-, and late-stage life science companies.
Since its founding just over three years ago, Breakthrough has assembled a pipeline of more than 4.6 million square feet of projects in various stages of construction and pre-development across the United States and Europe.
Boulder is the fourth new market that Breakthrough has entered during 2022. Breakthrough recently announced its acquisition of 2300 Market Street in Philadelphia's burgeoning Center City district, with plans to redevelop the site to support over 200,000 square feet of life science space. Breakthrough also recently completed its first acquisitions in the Oxford and Cambridge life science hubs in England.
Other notable Breakthrough projects include The 105 by Breakthrough in Boston, home to CRISPR Therapeutics' U.S. facility; the 10-acre Torrey View by Breakthrough campus, which will house global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)'s expanded San Diego Reagent Innovation Center for its growing BD Biosciences, in San Diego; Trinity House in Oxford, England; and The Vitrum Building, located inside St. John's Innovation Park in Cambridge, England.
Breakthrough puts sustainability at the forefront of all of its initiatives with a particular emphasis on increasing energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and providing healthy workspaces for users. The Company targets LEED Gold certification at its United States properties, as well as BREEAM Outstanding certification in all of its projects across the United Kingdom and EU markets.
About Breakthrough Properties (www.btprop.com)
Formed in 2019 as a joint venture between global real estate owner, developer and investor Tishman Speyer and biotechnology investment firm Bellco Capital, Breakthrough Properties is a life science real estate development company that leverages cross-sector collaboration to deliver environments that foster innovation and scientific breakthroughs. Breakthrough Properties' mission is to acquire, develop and operate the best life science properties in leading urban technology centers around the world and support scientific innovation across biotechnology, agriculture and nutrition. Breakthrough combines Tishman Speyer's decades of global real estate development experience with Bellco Capital's industry-making biotechnology entrepreneurship to reimagine environments where companies can create life-changing therapies for patients.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The first episode of “100 Days to Indy” featured a behind the scenes look at the IndyCar series and its personalities, and even a shirtless Josef Newgarden.
It’s meant to lure in new fans, after all.
“They made sure that Josef Newgarden was shirtless for the first half, which is a really good idea to get the audience in,” fellow driver David Malukas joked Friday.
IndyCar drivers got to see the show's premiere either in Long Beach, California, or Thursday night before convening for the Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix this weekend. The six-part documentary series, produced by Penske Entertainment and VICE Media Group, debuted on The CW Network.
It’s a showcase for a series that competes with NASCAR and Formula One for viewers — and IndyCar is hoping it helps bring a jolt of popularity with the crown jewel Indianapolis 500 coming up.
Newgarden said the series “can be really, really intimidating” for new fans trying to figure out what’s going on. "The “100 Days to Indy” show makes it more accessible and gives insight into drivers’ backgrounds and personalities, he said.
“I think this is the type of show that can make it more approachable and give you more reasons than one to follow it,” said Newgarden, a two-time series champion who drives for Team Penske. “It’s not just the great on-track competition. If you’re a car fan or a motorsports fan, it’s kind of easy to be drawn in. But if you don’t care anything about that, you’ve got to have another reason to tune in. And I think this gives people that.”
The show's crew didn’t have to talk him into going shirtless during a workout at his home gym and yard.
“It was really hot and humid the day that they were there,” Newgarden said. “When I end up outside, the shirt typically comes off.”
Fresh from his first series win at Long Beach, Kyle Kirkwood figured the first episode had a lot crammed into it and figures it will get more in-depth — and better — going forward.
“There’s a lot of aspects that will probably create interest within the personal lives of the drivers that I think people will enjoy," he said, "... I thought people could see the level of expertise from a hardcore racing fan and I feel there was a lot of things that were very easy for people to understand for just a normal guy who was just turning on The CW and said, ‘Hey, look, there’s some racing on. Let’s see what’s going on here.’”
ERICSSON’S BLISS
Marcus Ericsson’s biggest moment of 2023 came with no cheering crowd, and the bare minimum of witnesses.
The defending Indy 500 champion married Greek girlfriend Iris Tritsaris Jondahl on the coast in Santa Barbara, California, a day after the race at Long Beach.
“We want to start our life here in the States and we want to do it with just me and Iris and then we want to have a proper wedding party with family and friends in Europe in the offseason,” said Ericcson, who is from Sweden. Only his trainer Alex Elgh was in attendance.
The pair began dating weeks before the 2022 Indianapolis 500 and shared a celebratory kiss on stage.
“Iris is my biggest supporter and someone that’s been a big part of my success the last couple of years and my growth as a driver and as a person,” said Ericcson, the current series point leader for Chip Ganassi Racing.
CLOSING IT OUT
Kirkwood closed out his first IndyCar win and then promptly flew back to his hometown for another type of closure.
He closed on a home in Jupiter, Florida, which is 15 minutes from his childhood home and a mile from his mother’s art gallery. It's also near his happy place off the track: the beach.
“It’s what I love. I grew up near the water and I don’t want to leave it,” the Andretti Autosport driver said. “Indianapolis is great and I love motor racing and I love how big the motorsport industry is in Indianapolis. But there’s something about the water.
“I grew up fishing, surfing, diving and that sort of thing. Being near the beach just creates some sort of calmness within me, and I don’t ever want to leave it.”
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Tory Lanez is accused of shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Who will the jury believe?
A jury is now deliberating in the case of rapper Tory Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson. He is accused of shooting Megan Thee Stallion, whose real name is Megan Pete.
The sensational trial this month both revealed new details and created more confusion about what happened.
The shooting
Prosecutors allege the shooting happened shortly after both artists left a party in July 2020 at the Hollywood Hills home of Kylie Jenner, a member of the Kardashian clan. The pair was riding in an SUV with a woman named Kelsey Harris — a longtime friend of Pete’s from whom she is now estranged — and Peterson’s bodyguard.
Prosecutors said the two artists got into a heated dispute when Pete derided Peterson’s rap skills. At some point, Pete demanded to be let out of the car, at which time Peterson allegedly repeatedly fired at her, authorities said.
The gunshots prompted a slew of 911 calls, and Los Angeles police officers eventually pulled over the SUV near Hollywood Boulevard and found Pete with a foot injury. Initially, Pete told police that she was hurt by stepping on broken glass at Jenner’s party.
Weeks later, however, she accused Peterson in an Instagram Live video of shooting her. She has said she hesitated to report the incident to Los Angeles police out of fear police would respond with deadly force as they had in the recent killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky.
Peterson was first arrested on suspicion of possessing an unregistered firearm. From the get-go, his defense team has tried to knock down Pete’s explanation of her failure to report the shooting right away. If she had been concerned about the police response, his lawyers have said, she could have told paramedics or doctors the story of how she was injured while they removed bullet fragments from her feet.
The charges
Peterson is charged with assault with a firearm, possession of a concealed firearm and negligent discharge of a gun. If convicted on all counts and a pair of sentencing enhancements, he faces up to 23 years in prison.
The trial
On the stand, Pete talked about the depression and thoughts of suicide she had in the aftermath of the shooting. She teared up repeatedly and expressed regret for coming forward at all about the incident.
“I wish he would’ve just shot and killed me if I knew I was going to have to go through this torture,” Pete, 27, said, referring to the deluge of criticism she said she received for reporting Peterson.
Pete testified she was driving away from a party at Jenner’s house with Peterson, his bodyguard and Harris when an argument erupted inside their SUV on Nichols Canyon Road. Peterson was upset that Pete had asked him to leave the party, she said.
Then Peterson turned around and told Pete she needed “to stop lying” to Harris about their relationship.
Pete told the court that she and Peterson had become friends and bonded over the loss of their mothers in the months before the shooting. They also occasionally had a sexual relationship.
Pete asked to be let out of the car. But as she walked away, Pete said in court, Peterson opened fire on her and yelled “dance, b—!” wounding Pete’s feet.
Peterson did not take the stand.
Peterson’s team has tried to shift the blame toward Harris. Lead defense attorney George Mgdesyan has contended the case was about a romantic tryst rather than a rivalry between rappers, claiming Harris exploded following an alcohol-fueled revelation that both women had been sleeping with Peterson.
Mgdesyan also emphasized the lack of forensic evidence against Peterson. DNA tests on the gun used in the shooting were inconclusive, and Peterson’s DNA was not found on the firearm’s magazine. He questioned why only Peterson had been tested for DNA, and not Harris or Peterson’s driver, Jaquan Smith.
Mgdesyan has regularly attacked Pete’s credibility, questioning her decision to delay reporting the incident to police and her refusal to admit she’d had a sexual relationship with Peterson until the trial, which he argued is central to the case.
L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Kathy Ta pushed back on that portrayal, asking jurors what motive Pete would have to lie and reminding the panel of the severe backlash the performer has faced since reporting the incident to authorities.
Prosecutors also have pointed to voicemails and texts Peterson sent to Harris and Pete in which he apologized for his behavior within 24 hours of the incident, though he never actually admits to a crime. L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Alexander Bott called on jurors to use their common sense and infer the only thing Peterson could have been sorry for was the shooting. | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-23/tory-lanez-megan-thee-stallion-shooting-case | 2022-12-23 18:38:28 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-23/tory-lanez-megan-thee-stallion-shooting-case |
SAN RAMON, Calif. — Netflix next month will unveil the first version of its video streaming service with ads, giving cost-conscious viewers a chance to watch most of its shows at a steep discount in exchange for putting up with commercial interruptions.
The ad-supported service is scheduled to debut Nov. 3 as Netflix tries to reverse a drop in subscribers. It will cost $7 per month in the U.S., a 55% markdown from Netflix’s most popular $15.50-per-month plan, which is ad-free.
Netflix’s ad-supported option will also be rolling out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain and the U.K., according to a Thursday post by the company’s chief operating officer, Greg Peters.
Besides putting up with roughly four to five minutes of ads during each hour of viewing, Netflix subscribers who sign up for the cheaper service also won’t be able to download TV shows and movies to watch when their devices are offline. Peters also said a “limited” amount of programming available on the commercial-free service won’t be on the ad-supported version because of licensing issues.
Netflix’s 15-year-old streaming service has until now been commercial free, but the Los Gatos, California, company decided to head in a new direction six months ago after reporting its first loss in subscribers in more than a decade.
The customer erosion worsened a wrenching decline in its stock price that has wiped up more than $200 billion in shareholder wealth during the past 11 months. The shares rallied after Thursday’s announcement, but still have lost about two-thirds of their value since reaching their peak last November when the streaming service was still growing.
Through the first half of this year, Netflix lost 1.2 million subscribers, leaving it with nearly 221 million. Management in July predicted it would regain about 1 million of those subscribers during the summer months. The numbers for the July-September period are scheduled to be disclosed Tuesday.
Netflix is betting the low-priced option with ads will be particularly popular at a time that persistently high inflation is pressuring millions of households to curb their spending, particularly on discretionary items such as video streaming. The streaming market also has become crowded with tougher competition from the likes of Amazon, Apple and Walt Disney Co., which also is preparing to offer an ad-supported version of its service soon. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/oct/13/netflix-sets-7-monthly-price-for-its-ad-supported-service/ | 2022-10-13 20:08:04 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/oct/13/netflix-sets-7-monthly-price-for-its-ad-supported-service/ |
Yelp is shuttering its office at the Merchandise Mart and closing its locations in New York and Washington D.C. as it embraces remote work, more evidence of COVID-19's assault on the office market.
The San Francisco-based online review company announced today in a blog post that the three offices will close as of July 29 as it moves ahead with "a fully remote workplace and design the future of remote work at Yelp," CEO Jeremy Stoppelman wrote. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/yelp-closing-offices-chicago-fully-remote-workforce | 2022-06-23 20:13:50 | 0 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/yelp-closing-offices-chicago-fully-remote-workforce |
PROVIDENCE — Dr. Utpala Brandy, an infectious disease epidemiologist, has been appointed as the new interim director of the state health department, according to the governor’s office.
Brandy, who helped lead the state through the pandemic, will begin her new role June 26, just three days before Dr. James McDonald, the outgoing interim state health director, leaves state service.
Brandy currently serves as the director of the state health department’s Division of Preparedness, Response, Infectious Disease, and Emergency Medical Services. She has led the department’s infectious disease division since 2012.
Brandy had helped guide the state’s response to the COVID-19 and H1N1 global pandemics and has led efforts to prevent or control outbreaks of “diseases of significant concern,” such as tuberculosis, measles, rabies, and meningococcal disease.
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Brandy, who joined the health department in 1993, previously helped guide efforts to dramatically reduce rates of new HIV infections over the last three decades.
“[Brandy] has been at the center of our state’s COVID-19 response and dozens of other major public health initiatives over the last three decades,” said Governor Dan McKee in a statement on Thursday. “In addition to her work in infectious disease, she has extensive knowledge of preventive services and health promotion.”
McDonald announced earlier this month that he would be leaving his post to move closer to family. In a letter to the governor, which was obtained by the Globe, McDonald wrote that his mother has Alzheimer’s and that his father, who is 91, is struggling to take care of her.
McDonald, who has worked at the health department for the last decade, was appointed interim director after Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, the former director, stepped down in mid-January. He was the health department’s medical director and the chief administrative officer for the state’s Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline since 2012.
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Prior to joining the state, Brandy completed a pediatric residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She earned her master’s degree in public health from the Harvard University School of Public Health.
“Rhode Island has one of the best public health workforces in the country, thanks to the talented professionals at RIDOH and the community partnerships that we have developed over the years,” said Brandy in a statement.
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With 14 days remaining in duck season, mild springlike temperatures could have ducks thinking it's time to migrate north.
Results from the Midwinter Waterfowl Survey released last week showed the biggest concentration of both mallards and total duck estimates came from the Lower St. Francis River survey zone, a region known historically for more boom-or-bust duck counts driven by the extent of natural flooding on the landscape. Anecdotal reports from some hunters in the field in east-central Arkansas noted more pintails in the area on ponds and flooded fields, which often indicate the return of ducks that migrated through a few weeks back. It will be interesting to see what numbers the biologists see in their transect flights this week through the Delta and the Arkansas River Valley.
Two weeks ago, the estimates were 929,248 mallards and more than 1.74 millions ducks in the Delta. This was not only the highest mallard population recorded since the 2018 Midwinter Survey, but it was the second-highest since 2010. Total duck population estimates also exceeded 1.5 million ducks for the first time in any survey since December 2011.
Arkansas geese estimates continue to be high, with specklebelly (greater-white fronted geese) estimated to number 618,925 in the Delta. Arctic goose estimates totaled 1,693,343 light geese (lesser snows and Ross's) in the Delta. Waterfowl report observations this past weekend also noted significant geese in Arkansas and Prairie counties and points west, especially snows and blues in the Keo area in Lonoke County. Luke Naylor, AGFC chief of wildlife management, said that the aerial survey counts are designed for ducks. They are not as precise for geese and are more difficult to obtain because geese tend to be spooked by the survey planes, affecting the count estimates, compared with counting ducks on the ground.
NORTHEAST ARKANSAS
BIG LAKE WMA
North Woods GTR Mast production is good. The Bo Dock gauge level is 237.3. Target level is 235.7 with 100% flooded.
South Woods GTR Mast production is fair. The 7-mile gauge is currently at 236.26 feet. Target level is 234.5 feet with 100% flooded.
Simmons Field Native production is good in the middle and south fields. 100% flooded.
DAVE DONALDSON BLACK RIVER WMA
Upper Island GTR Moderate mast crop. Current level is inaccessible due to high water. Target level is 269.5. 100% flooded.
Lower Island GTR Moderate mast crop. Current level is inaccessible due to high water. Target level is 268.65. 100% flooded.
Upper Reyno GTR Moderate mast crop. Water level is 268.45. Target level is 266.9. 100% flooded.
Lower Reyno GTR Moderate mast crop. Water level is 268.05. Target level is 266.3. 100% flooded.
Winchester GTR Moderate mast crop. Current level is 264.15. Target level is 264.55. 100% flooded.
EARL BUSS BAYOU DEVIEW WMA
South Oliver GTR Mast production is good. Gauge reading on Dec. 20 was 2.2 ft. The area is 100% flooded.
Thompson Tract GTR Mast production has been good. 100% flooded. The Thompson Tract GTR will be allowed to rise and fall naturally without the gates being operated later and partially this season. This action is an effort to help the next generation of forest. Gauge reading on Dec. 20 was 1.9 ft. 100% flooded.
Lake Hogue WRA Primarily deep open water habitat. Normal pool level.
SHIREY BAY RAINEY BRAKE WMA
Adam Brake GTR Good mast crop. Water level is 240. 100% flooded.
Rainey Brake GTR Good mast crop. 100% flooded.
Eagle Pond GTR Good mast crop. 100% flooded.
Phase III Moist-Soil Unit Fair wetland-type vegetation. 100% flooded.
Charles Crisp Moist-Soil Unit Fair wetland-type vegetation. 100% flooded.
Ward Field Moist-Soil Unit Good wetland-type vegetation. 100% flooded.
River Field Moist-Soil Unit Good wetland-type vegetation. 100% flooded.
ST. FRANCIS SUNKEN LANDS WMA
Hunt Area Mast production is good. Water levels in the huntable areas are dependent on the St. Francis River. The water level at Oak Donnick is 216.84. The level for huntable timber is 212.11.
Snowden WRA Mixed grasses are present. 30% flooded.
Payneway WRA Pools A, B, C, and D have mixed smartweed and barnyard grasses, Moderate mast in Pools A, B, and C. Pool A is at 10%. Pool B is at 40%. Pool C is at 50% and Pool D is at 100%.
EAST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
HENRY GRAY HURRICANE LAKE WMA
North GTR Good mast crop. The White River at Augusta on Dec. 19, was 18.5 feet and falling. The water level at Glaise Creek was 192.62. All structures on the North GTR will remain open during the 2022-23 season.
South GTR Fair mast crop. The White River at Augusta is 18.5 feet and falling. The water level at Glaise Creek was 192.62 and falling. All structures on the North GTR will remain open during the 2022-23 season.
REX HANCOCK BLACK SWAMP WMA
Gregory GTR Good mast crop. 40% flooded.
Wyeville Unit Good stand of millet and native vegetation. 90% flooded. The Cache River at Patterson is 9.1 feet.
SHEFFIELD NELSON DAGMAR WMA
The Conway George units are currently available for hunting by applying for online permits. Youths may apply for Saturday and Sunday hunts, with one adult hunter allowed per one youth, up to four hunters in the blind. Visit agfc.com for maps, special regulations, permit application and draw dates. Hunters should call the Wildlife Hotline at (800) 440-1477 for current road closures. The AGFC will not put boards in at Dagmar. Water coverage depends on river level.
Mud Slough GTR Good mast crop. 60% flooded.
Apple Lake WRA (No Hunting) Good mast crop. 60% flooded.
Conway George Waterfowl Unit A Good native vegetation. 90% flooded.
Conway George Waterfowl Unit B Natural slough area with beneficial wetland plants. 90% flooded.
Conway George Waterfowl Unit C Good stand of millet and native vegetation. 90% flooded.
Dark Corner Waterfowl Unit 1 Good stand of native vegetation. 95% flooded.
Dark Corner Waterfowl Unit 2 Good stand of native vegetation. 70% flooded
Dark Corner Waterfowl Unit 3 Good stand of native vegetation. 70% flooded.
STEVE N. WILSON RAFT CREEK BOTTOMS WMA
NOTE Hunting in Raft Creek Bottoms WMA requires participation on the online draw a week before the following weekend's hunt. There is no online draw on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and permits are available at the boat accesses. Permits are required (via online application) on weekends, Tuesdays and Thursdays for the youth and mobility-impaired blinds and for the Magellan Tract. Visit agfc.com to apply for the online draw. There will be no designated holes this season.
Unit A Excellent stand of native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit B Excellent stand of millet and native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit C Good stand of native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit D (Youth Area) Good stand of native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit E Excellent stand of millet and native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit F Good stand of millet and native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit G Poor habitat conditions. 100% flooded.
Unit H (Mobility-impaired blind) Excellent stand of native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit I Poor stand of native vegetation. 50% flooded.
Unit J (Cypert Tract) Excellent stand of native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit K (Cypert Tract) Excellent stand of native vegetation. 50% flooded.
Unit L (Cypert Tract) Fair stand of native vegetation. 50% flooded.
Unit M (Magellan Tract) Good stand of native vegetation. 100% flooded.
CENTRAL ARKANSAS
CRAIG D. CAMPBELL LAKE CONWAY RESERVOIR
Habitat and water levels are normal on both Pierce and Dix creeks.
BELL SLOUGH WMA
Bell Slough GTR Fair mast crop. 100% flooded.
Palarm Creek Rest area was heavily disked late this year and millet crop did not take before the early frost. 100% flooded.
CYPRESS BAYOU WMA
Hunt Area Good mast crop. 100% flooded.
Red Cut Slough Tract Unit 1 Poor habitat conditions. Water level 70%.
Unit 2 Excellent stand of millet and native vegetation. Water level 80%.
Unit 3 Good stand of millet and native vegetation. Water level 100%.
Unit 4 Good stand of native vegetation. Water level 100%.
Unit 5 Good stand of native vegetation. Water level 100%.
Unit 6 Good stand of native vegetation. Water level 100%.
HARRIS BRAKE WMA
Harris Brake Upper Unit Good mast in the GTR. 100% flooded.
Harris Brake Lower Unit Average mast in the GTR. 20% flooded.
HOLLAND BOTTOMS WMA
Hunt Area Excellent conditions. Water level N/A.
Lake Pickthorne (No hunting) WRA Excellent crop of native vegetation and millet. East and West Units 100% flooded.
SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
DR. LESTER SITZES III BOIS D' ARC WMA
Bois d'Arc Lake WRA Closed to hunting. Normal.
Red Slough WRA Closed to hunting. Water level 90%.
GTR Good mast production. 100%.
Little Grassy Habitat is good. Water level 100%.
MILLWOOD LAKE Habitat is good. Water level 259.50.
OZAN WMA
Unit 1 Habitat good. 0% flooded.
Unit 2 Habitat good. 0% flooded.
Unit 3 Habitat good. 0% flooded.
Unit 4 Habitat good. 0% flooded.
Unit 5 Habitat good. 0% flooded.
SULPHUR RIVER WMA
Mercer Bayou Habitat conditions are fair. 90% flooded.
Henry Moore WRA Closed to hunting. 60% flooded.
SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS
BERYL ANTHONY LOWER OUACHITA WMA
The WMA has good hard mast production. The only water on the WMA currently is in the oxbow lakes.
FREDDIE BLACK CHOCTAW ISLAND WMA DEER RESEARCH AREA Habitat conditions are good. There is variable flooding associated with the Mississippi River. Use extreme caution when boating on the river.
TRUSTEN HOLDER Habitat conditions good. Flooding is river dependent.
SEVEN DEVILS SWAMP WMA Habitat conditions good. Flooded. Some roads may be impassable.
CUT-OFF CREEK WMA
Hunt Area Habitat conditions are good. Water is high. Some roads may be impassable.
Pigeon Creek WRA Habitat conditions are good. Fully flooded.
BAYOU METO WMA
Upper Vallier GTR Good habitat. Water level 179.53 feet, full pool at 180 feet.
Lower Vallier GTR Good habitat. Water level 179.55 feet, full pool at 179.18 feet.
Government Cypress GTR Good habitat. Water level 179.59 feet, full pool at 179 feet.
Buckingham Flats GTR Good habitat. 176.64 msl. First phase of pumping completed.
Temple Island GTR Good habitat. Water level 185.15.
Canon Brake Good habitat. 177.55 msl. Full pool at 177 msl.
Halowell WRA Excellent habitat. Staggered flooding of units.
Wrape Plantation WRA Excellent habitat. Staggered flooding of units.
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS
DARDANELLE WMA
McKennon Bottoms Good native moist soil vegetation. 100% flooded.
Potter's Pothole Hartman Waterfowl Unit West cell has a poor stand of moist-soil vegetation. East cell has an average stand of moist-soil vegetation. 100% flooded.
OZARK POOL
Dyer Lake Cells Cell 1 Good stand of moist-soil vegetation. Cell 2 Poor stand of moist-soil vegetation. Units 1 and 2 are 100% flooded.
Unit 3 South Cell Good stand of moist-soil vegetation and volunteer millet. 25% flooded.
West Cell Good stand of moist-soil vegetation and volunteer millet. 5%.
NIMROD LLOYD MILLWOOD WMA
Nimrod GTR The red oak mast crop is moderate this year as well as the desirable native vegetation growth. Due to abnormally dry conditions, this area is not expected to fill up as fast as in previous years. The water control structures were closed Nov. 15. 100% flooded.
ED GORDON POINT REMOVE WMA
Little Hole (Unit 1) Japanese millet. 80% flooded.
Willow Island Japanese millet and natural vegetation. 100% flooded.
Red Gate Native vegetation. 95% flooded.
Pig Trough (Units 4 and 5) Native vegetation. 80% flooded.
Cedar Ridge (Unit 6) Japanese millet. 85% flooded.
Unit 7A Natural vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit 7B Japanese millet and natural vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit 8A Natural vegetation and Japanese millet. 90% flooded.
Unit 8B Natural vegetation. 100% flooded.
Unit 8C Native vegetation. 90% flooded.
Unit 9 Native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Controversy Corner (Unit 10) Natural vegetation and Japanese millet. 100% flooded.
Remmel Marsh Native vegetation. 100% flooded.
Mud Pond (Unit 12) Natural vegetation and Japanese millet. 100% flooded.
Turkey Pond (Unit 13A) Natural vegetation and Japanese millet. 100% flooded.
Turkey Pond (Unit 13B) Natural vegetation. 90% flooded.
Turkey Pond (Unit 13C) Natural vegetation and Japanese millet. 100% flooded.
Teeny Pond (Unit 14) Natural vegetation. 75% flooded.
Salt Lick (Unit 15) Natural vegetation. 90% flooded.
Bobby's Pond (Unit 16) Natural vegetation. 90% flooded.
Race Track (Unit 17) Natural vegetation. 100% flooded.
FROG BAYOU WMA
Unit 1 Good stand of moist-soil vegetation in the upper end, while lower end has been fallow-disked. 100% flooded.
Unit 2 Has been fallow-disked. Unit is rainfall dependent. 100% flooded.
Unit 3 Average stand of moist-soil vegetation on the upper end; lower end has been fallow-disked. 100% flooded.
Unit 4 Good stand of moist-soil vegetation and planted millet 100% flooded.
Unit 5 Good stand of moist-soil vegetation on the upper end; lower end has been planted with Japanese millet. 100% flooded.
Unit 6 Good stand of moist-soil vegetation. Lower end has been fallow-disked. 100% flooded.
Unit 7 Good stand of moist-soil vegetation. 100% flooded.
GALLA CREEK WMA
Galla Creek GTR Good stands of native vegetation and Japanese millet. 100% flooded.
PETIT JEAN RIVER WMA
Santa Fe GTR Moderate mast crop. 100% flooded.
Sore-Head Moist Soil Unit Excellent stands of desirable native vegetation throughout. 100% flooded.
Slaty Crossing Moist-Soil Unit Due to ongoing waterfowl habitat enhancement projects, this unit did not grow a desirable native vegetation crop this year. Only about half of the unit produced a crop of millet, but the areas that did produce look amazing. 100% flooded.
Black Lands Moist-Soil Unit Moderate stand of desirable native vegetation throughout. Moderate mast crop in the wooded areas. 100% flooded.
Black Lands Duck Area Poor mast in the wooded sections. Moderate to great stands of desirable native vegetation mixed throughout. 100% flooded.
Pullen Pond Due to ongoing waterfowl habitat enhancement projects, parts of the central section and western section of this area is bare ground. Most of the area has a great stand of desirable native vegetation. Water level 60%.
Pond Creek GTR Moderate mast crop with moderate stands of desirable native vegetation in the open lands. 20% flooded.
Slaty GTR Moderate mast crop. 5% flooded.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, September 4, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
438 PM CDT Sun Sep 4 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Young
and northwestern Stephens Counties through 515 PM CDT...
At 438 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles east of Woodson, or 17 miles southeast of Throckmorton, moving
south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Crystal Falls.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3296 9906 3296 9895 3313 9895 3314 9882
3287 9874 3285 9910
TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 352DEG 13KT 3306 9892
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s enigmatic personality and unconventional tactics are emerging as key exhibits in a trial revolving around one of his most polarizing pursuits — tweeting.
The trial, centered on a pair of tweets announcing Musk had obtained the money to take Tesla private in 2018, reeled the 51-year-old billionaire into a federal courtroom in San Francisco for three days of testimony that opened a peephole into his often inscrutable mind.
Musk, who now owns the Twitter service that he deploys as his megaphone, was often a study in contrasts during his roughly eight hours on the stand. The CEO of the electric carmaker is facing a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Tesla shareholders after Musk tweeted about a company buyout that didn’t happen.
Through both his testimony and the evidence submitted around it, Musk came across as impetuous, brash, combative and contemptuous of anyone who questioned his motives as a game-changing entrepreneur who has inspired comparisons to Apple’s late co-founder, Steve Jobs.
At other times, Musk sounded like the savvy visionary that his supporters hail him to be — an intrepid rebel who by his own estimates has raised more than $100 billion from investors. They have been richly rewarded from his leadership of pioneering companies that include PayPal in digital payments, Tesla in electric vehicles and SpaceX in rocket ships.
“It is relatively easy for me to get investment support because my track record is extremely good,” Musk wryly observed.
But his confidence in his ability to get the money he wants to pursue his plans is one reason he found himself in court. The three-week trial is set to resume Tuesday and head for jury deliberations by Friday.
Here’s what to know so far:
PLANTING THE SEEDS
Evidence and testimony have shown Musk had started to mull taking Tesla private in 2017 so he wouldn’t have to hassle with the headaches and distractions that accompany running a publicly traded company.
After a July 31, 2018, meeting with a top representative from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, Musk sent a letter to Tesla’s board outlining why he wanted to take the automaker private at a price of $420 per share — about 20% above its stock price at the time.
Musk was serious enough that he had already discussed the pros and cons with Michael Dell, who had gone through the public-to-private transition in 2013 when he led a $25 billion buyout of the personal computer company bearing his name, according to trial evidence.
THE TROUBLESOME TWEETS
The crux of the case hinges on an Aug. 7, 2018, tweet in which Musk declared “funding secured” to take Tesla private. Musk abruptly posted the tweet minutes before boarding his private jet after being alerted that the Financial Times was about to publish a story that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had spent about $2 billion buying a 5% stake in Tesla to diversify its interests beyond oil, according to his testimony.
Amid widespread confusion about whether Musk’s Twitter account had been hacked or he was joking, Musk followed up a few hours later with another tweet suggesting a deal was imminent.
Musk defended the initial tweet as a well-intentioned move to ensure all Tesla investors knew the automaker might be on its way to ending its then-eight-year run as a publicly held company.
“I had no ill motive,” Musk testified. “My intent was to do the right thing for all shareholders.”
Guhan Subramanian, a Harvard University business and law professor hired as an expert for shareholder lawyers, derided Musk’s method for announcing a potential buyout as an “extreme outlier” fraught with potential conflicts.
“The risk is that Mr. Musk timed his announcement of his (management buyout) proposal to serve his own interests rather then the interests of the company,” Subramanian testified.
WHERE’S THE MONEY?
There’s another issue threatening to undermine Musk’s defense. He hadn’t locked up the financing for his proposed deal or even pinned down down how much would be needed to pull it off, based on testimony from Musk, other witnesses and other evidence.
That is one reason U.S. District Judge Edward Chen had decided last year that Musk’s 2018 tweets were false and has instructed the jury to view them that way.
It also prompted regulators to allege Musk misled investors with the tweets, resulting in a $40 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that also required Musk to step down as Tesla’s chairman.
Chen ruled that the 2018 settlement, in which Musk didn’t acknowledge wrongdoing and has since lamented making, can’t be mentioned to the jury.
Musk testified that he believed he had secured an oral commitment to provide wherever money was needed for a Tesla buyout during a July 31, 2018, face-to-face meeting with Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund.
That was reinforced in testimony from Tesla’s former chief financial officer, Deepak Ahuja, who was at the discussions and took al-Rumayyan on a half-hour tour of a Tesla factory.
But a text message al-Rumayyan sent to Musk after the “funding secured” tweets made it appear that the discussions about the Saudi fund financing a private buyout were preliminary.
“I would like to listen to your plan Elon and what are the financial calculations to take it,” al-Rumayyan wrote to Musk, according to a copy submitted as evidence in the trial.
Musk framed al-Rumayyan’s text as an attempt to backpedal from his previous commitment. He also insisted the Saudi fund had given an “unequivocal commitment” to financing the buyout.
MONEY MANEUVERING
After his 2018 tweets, Musk tried to get the money needed for the Tesla buyout with the help of Egon Durban, co-CEO of the private equity firm Silver Lake, which helped finance the Dell buyout in 2013. Musk also enlisted Dan Dees, a top executive with Goldman Sachs, an investment banking firm that had worked closely with Tesla.
In testimony, both Durban and Dees discussed efforts to raise money for a Tesla buyout for a wide range of potential investors that included two Chinese companies, Alibaba and Tencent, as well as Google in documents initially code-named “Project Turbo,” then “Project Titanium.”
The buyout would have required anywhere from $20 billion to $70 billion, according to the documents — funding that never came close to getting raised, Durban and Dees both testified, largely because Musk scrapped the proposal to take Tesla private on Aug. 24, 2018, after consulting with shareholders.
Tesla’s shares are now worth eight times what they were then, after adjusting for two stock splits.
Musk still contends he could have gotten the money had he wanted and, even if there was a shortfall, he could have covered any gap by selling some of his stock in privately held SpaceX. That is a strategy Musk used in his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, except he sold about $23 billion of his stock in Tesla.
Durban and Dees both testified that they had no doubt the money for a buyout could have been raised — echoed by former Tesla director Antonio Gracias.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday. He was 77.
Frank Bilotta, who represented Dow in his work as a sculptor, confirmed his death in an email to The Associated Press.
No cause was given, but Dow had been in hospice care and announced in May that he had been diagnosed with prostate and gall bladder cancer.
“Although this is a very sad day, I have comfort and peace that he is in a better place,” Dow's son Christopher said in a post on his father's official Facebook page. “He was the best Dad anyone could ask for. He was my coach, my mentor, my voice of reason, my best friend, my best man in my wedding, and my hero.”
A post on Dow's Facebook page on Tuesday prematurely reported that he had died, but his wife and management team later took down the post and explained that it was announced in error.
Dow's Wally was an often annoyed but essentially loving big brother who was constantly bailing out the title character, Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver, played by Jerry Mathers, on the show that was synonymous with the sometimes hokey, wholesome image of the 1950s American family.
Dow was born and raised in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles — his mother was a stuntwoman who acted as a double for silent film star Clara Bow — but his parents did not push him into show business.
He had done just a little stage acting and appeared in a pair of pilots. After attending an open casting call, he landed his career-defining role as Wally.
Dow would play the part for six seasons and more than 200 episodes from 1957 to 1963 on primetime on CBS and ABC, then for more than 100 episodes in the 1980s on a syndicated sequel series.
On the show, Wally, sometimes the center of the plot himself, navigated the worlds of junior high and high school — his two-faced best friend Eddie Haskell at his side — with just a little more wisdom than his little brother. The show’s plotlines suggested Wally was bound for great things — he mentions wanting to become an aerospace engineer — and he tended to find himself in moral dilemmas that stemmed from his essential goodness.
Dow’s favorite episode was one in which the always-ready-to-teach father, Ward Cleaver, played by Hugh Beaumont, wants his boys to know what his childhood was like. He takes them into the wilderness, despite their having what they felt was pressing business at home.
“The boys didn’t want to go because ‘Zombies From Outer Space’ was playing in the theater,” Dow said in a 2018 interview with Sidewalks Entertainment at Silicon Valley Comic-Con.
After the trip, at the end of the episode, Ward discovers the boys on a hilltop with binoculars, thinking they’re taking in some nature.
“They were watching Zombies from Outer Space at the drive-in,” Dow said with a laugh.
The show was still popular when it went off the air, but it had naturally run its course with Wally about to go to college and Beaver bound for high school.
Dow’s death leaves Mathers and Rusty Stevens, who played Beaver’s friend Larry Mondello, as the only surviving members of the show’s core cast. Beaumont died in 1982. Barbara Billingsley, who played mother June Cleaver, died in 2010. Ken Osmond, who played Haskell, died in 2020.
Dow would appear as a guest star on other TV series throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s, including “My Three Sons,” “Dr. Kildare,” “Adam-12,” “Emergency,” “Square Pegs” and “Knight Rider.”
He took a break from acting to serve three years in the U.S. National Guard in the late 1960s.
From 1983 to 1989, amid a cultural craze for nostalgia television, Dow reprised the role of Wally in “The New Leave it to Beaver.”
He began writing and directing episodes of that series, and would work as a director in television throughout the 1990s on shows including “The New Lassie,” “Babylon 5,” “Harry and the Hendersons” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.”
At a time when such disclosures were rare, Dow went public with his clinical depression in the 1980s and made self-help videos on accepting and dealing with the illness.
Along with appearances in later years at pop culture conventions, often alongside Mather, Dow worked as an artist, gaining a sterling reputation as a sculptor.
One of his bronze pieces was accepted at 2008′s Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, a 150-year-old art show staged annually at the Louvre.
Dow told The Associated Press in 2012 that his openings brought out as many people anxious to rub shoulders with the Beaver’s big brother as to see his art.
“I think it’s hard, especially with the Wally image, to be taken seriously at pretty much anything other than that,” he said with a chuckle and a shake of his head.
Dow is survived by his wife of 42 years, Lauren, son Christopher, daughter-in-law Melissa, and brother Dion.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME) together with its subsidiary PeriShip Global LLC ("PeriShip Global"), (together "VerifyMe," "we," "our," or the "Company") provides brand owners time and temperature sensitive logistics, supply chain monitoring, authentication, and data-rich consumer engagement, announced today that it has entered into a Mutual Sales Referral Agreement (the "Agreement") with The Agrarian Group, LLC ("TAG"). The Agreement is structured to help advance food safety and customer loyalty, as well as increase revenue for both companies. TAG specializes in education that focuses on next generation agriculture to address the growing water, energy and food security nexus.
VerifyMe's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick White, commented, "The food industry is a major growth initiative for VerifyMe. Combining our PeriShip Global segment's ability to ship perishable food along with our new food safety solutions, we are very excited to announce this new strategic relationship with The Agrarian Group. We believe advanced indoor farming will play an increasingly important role in the food supply chain and that we are well positioned with TAG and our combined granted patents and trade secrets to help ensure that food safety and sustainability goes hand in hand with food access, shipping and affordability in the U.S. and around the world."
The Agrarian Group's President, Charlie Szoradi, commented, "We see tremendous potential in working with VerifyMe to set a new paradigm for next-generation agriculture. Consumers now have fast and easy ways to use their smart phones to click on VerifyMe food packaging QR codes. They can quickly see information that ranges from product sourcing and temperature control to promotions, and this transparency helps increase food safety while also building trust that increases customer loyalty."
The Agrarian Group is an education company that focuses on next generation agriculture to address the growing water, energy and food security nexus. They provide online and in-person curriculum and events as well as communications through media such as podcasts and videos. For additional information, please visit: https://www.theagrariangroup.com/.
VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME), together with its wholly owned subsidiary PeriShip Global, is a software driven logistics provider of high-touch, end-to-end logistics management. We provide logistics management from a sophisticated IT platform with proprietary databases, package and flight-tracking software, weather, and flight status monitoring systems, as well as dynamic dashboards with real-time visibility into shipment transit and last-mile events. In addition, VerifyMe provides brand protection and consumer engagement solutions allowing brand owners to gather business intelligence. To learn more, visit www.verifyme.com.
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This release contains forward-looking statements regarding our strategic partnership and commercialization efforts. The words "will" , "expect", "believe", "should", and "provides" and similar expressions, as they relate to the Company, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of inflation and reduced discretionary spending in a recessionary environment, our ability to timely pay amounts due and comply with the covenants under our debt facilities, intellectual property litigation, our reliance on our strategic partner, the successful development of our sales and marketing capabilities, the successful integration of our acquisitions (including the acquisition of the assets of PeriShip, LLC), our ability to retain key management personnel, our ability to work with partners in selling our technologies to businesses, production difficulties, our inability to enter into contracts and arrangements with future partners, issues which may affect the reluctance of large companies to change their purchasing of products, acceptance of our technologies and the efficiency of our authenticators in the field. These risk factors and uncertainties include those more fully described in VerifyMe's Annual Report and Quarterly Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the heading entitled "Risk Factors." Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those currently anticipated. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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PHOENIX (AP) — There was no powder in an envelope that was opened at the Phoenix campaign headquarters of Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona, police said.
Phoenix police spokesperson Donna Rossi said Friday that “the state lab tested the items turned over to them,” The Arizona Republic reported. The lab “determined there was no substance inside.”
Phoenix police and fire officials said they were called to the building around 2 a.m. Sunday, on a report of an envelope containing suspicious white powder.
Police said at the time there were no reports of injuries or illness, though Lake’s campaign had said the staff member who opened the envelope was under medical supervision.
The Lake campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Republic.
The gubernatorial race between Lake and Democrat Katie Hobbs in the crucial battleground state remained too early to call as of Saturday morning. It often takes days to know the results of key races in Arizona. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Police-No-powder-in-envelope-reported-by-17579422.php | 2022-11-12 13:51:50 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Police-No-powder-in-envelope-reported-by-17579422.php |
Digital Citizenship Week, which runs October 17–21, marks the 10-year anniversary since Common Sense Education created the weeklong recognition to help educators address the critical issues children face in a fast-changing world of media and technology.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Common Sense Education is kicking off Digital Citizenship Week today by celebrating a decade of leadership. Since 2012, Digital Citizenship Week has been an opportunity to engage educators and families on the importance of kids and teens learning essential 21st century skills through Common Sense Education's award-winning and research-backed Digital Citizenship Curriculum. The free, ready-to-teach lessons have been a go-to resource for thousands of educators worldwide to prepare students to navigate their online lives.
The Digital Citizenship Curriculum has been accessed by 1.3 million educators and over 90,000 schools across the U.S. It includes 73 lessons for grades K–12, and student resources are available in Spanish. The resources have also been localized for British English and Welsh to provide teachers in the United Kingdom with relatable resources. The Curriculum was created, and has been continually updated, in collaboration with Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The Curriculum has helped schools nationwide address timely topics and prepare students to take ownership of their digital lives in a constantly evolving environment. The original Curriculum launched in 2010, when Facebook was the most popular social media platform and Instagram was still in its infancy. The iPhone had just introduced its first front-facing camera, yet only 35% of Americans owned a smartphone, and in the classrooms, lessons around technology focused on safety issues. But the Curriculum has since evolved along with today's technologies to help young users make the most of their screen time while also knowing how to confront the kinds of digital dilemmas that kids face in today's 24/7 digital world.
"The media and technology landscape has really changed since we created Digital Citizenship Week a decade ago," said Kelly Mendoza, Vice President of Education Programs at Common Sense Education. "Kids today are learning not just how to communicate and connect with others online, but also how to manage their privacy, grapple with addictive designs and media balance, and identify misinformation. Our program teaches both the skills and habits of mind to responsibly navigate the digital world. These are essential life skills they'll carry into adulthood."
"Common Sense Education's Digital Citizenship Curriculum is ever evolving to meet emerging needs and timely challenges born out of the latest research," said Carrie James and Emily Weinstein, researchers at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and co-authors of Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing). "Their newest resources are designed to meet the current demand for social emotional support and for classroom content that addresses the civic dimensions of today's social media landscape."
Beyond the flagship Digital Citizenship Curriculum, Common Sense provides additional lessons on social and emotional learning in digital life, news and media literacy, and the latest Civics in Digital Life lessons. These free lesson plans and activities for grades 8–12 are designed to spark students' sense of civic engagement, especially in digital contexts. Because teens are increasingly exposed to contentious topics online, like the upcoming midterm elections, school shootings in Uvalde and elsewhere, and the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, teachers face the challenge of helping kids understand the content they're consuming online. These new lesson plans give students the tools they need to have more positive and healthy engagements in digital conversations.
"Over the past 10 years, LA Unified's approach to digital citizenship and engaging online has become positive and proactive," says Sophia Mendoza, Director, Instructional Technology Initiative, Los Angeles Unified School District. "This included cultivating a common understanding of empowering digital citizenship practices, creating awareness of digital citizenship implications for college and career preparedness of all learners, and supporting the integration of the Digital Citizenship Curriculum across content areas."
"In every district I've had the pleasure of working in, our partnership with Common Sense Media has been crucial as we've focused on the importance of digital citizenship education in our schools," says Matt Friedman, Superintendent, Ocean City Public Schools. "We're able to encourage staff and students to use their knowledge, skills, and understanding to protect and promote human rights online, such as freedom, privacy, and security."
Educators can find digital citizenship resources for every day of Digital Citizenship Week and a calendar of quick, easy, and fun activities here. Families can also continue these conversations at home with the free resources here.
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Applications are now being accepted for special sandhill crane and pheasant hunting permits in New Mexico. Applications can be made through the online portal of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish’s website here or by calling 1-888-248-6866. The deadline to apply for these special permits is 5 p.m. on Wednesday, August 16.
Youth-Only Pheasant Hunt Draws
Two options for youth-only pheasant hunts are available via a drawing. Up to two hunters can apply per application, but they must have a game-hunting license, and they must be accompanied on the hunt by a non-hunting adult.
- Bernardo hunt area
- Hunt code: PHE-0-001
- Season date: October 21
- Bag limit: 3 males
- Permits: 20
- W.S. Huey hunt area
- Hunt code: PHE-0-002
- Season date: December 2
- Bag limit: 3 males
- Permits: 40
All-Age Pheasant Hunt Draw
There is also a pheasant draw-permit hunt open to all ages in the W.S. Huey hunt area. Up to four hunters can apply per application using the hunt code PHE-0-003 for the season date of December 9. The bag limit for that permit is three males, and there are 40 permits available. | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/permit-applications-open-for-sandhill-crane-and-pheasant-hunts-in-new-mexico/ | 2023-07-19 18:27:06 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/permit-applications-open-for-sandhill-crane-and-pheasant-hunts-in-new-mexico/ |
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) — A sinkhole that formed nearly a month ago in a downtown St. Louis park has become a passage to the past.
There are a lot of cellars, caves, and tunnels under the streets of St. Louis, and a Missouri Sewer District spokesperson said historical records indicate that the sinkhole is linked to an old beer tunnel from the 1800s once used by Winkelmeyer Brewery.
According to a Post-Dispatch article from 1902, there were once natural caves near the city’s Union Station, and the complex’s tower sits on top of one of them. The old ticket office was located over another of the caverns located around 35 feet underground.
The brewer was located on Market Street from the 1850s to the 1890s. They took advantage of natural springs in the caves to keep beer cold during the city’s hot summers. The cellars were located under Market Street.
The natural underground formations in downtown St. Louis were blasted out and divided by masonry. This is a lot like what brewers did with the caves near the city’s Lemp Brewery for cold storage. They were eventually abandoned and partially filled with debris.
The Lemp Brewery was established in 1840 in St. Louis and later became the Falstaff Brewing Corporation
The report from 1902 says that workers attempted to dynamite the Uhrig cellars located at 18th and Market Streets. They were trying to build Union Station’s foundation. The blasting did not do much and they left many of the spaces alone. The caverns are still there.
A post office is now built on a portion of the Winkelmeyer Brewery’s land. The beer cellars were exposed during the 1934 demolition. The storage rooms were kept cool by springs. They had to be diverted during the construction of the post office.
The recent tunnel collapse caused a stormwater sewer line above it to collapse. An MSD spokesperson says that the line has been repaired, and work to restore the parkland is still underway. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/sinkhole-linked-to-abandoned-cave-complex-in-st-louis/ | 2022-04-25 17:14:04 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/sinkhole-linked-to-abandoned-cave-complex-in-st-louis/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Warring factions trying to seize control of the east African nation of Sudan have plunged the country into chaos, and thousands are fleeing the capital of Khartoum and nearby battle zones. Some countries, including the U.S., have shuttered their embassies and many are coordinating daring evacuations of their staffs and other residents in an array of convoys, flights and frantic getaway drives.
But over the past week there have been dramatically different responses by various governments as they try to get their citizens and embassy personnel to safety. The U.S. has come under scrutiny for evacuating roughly 70 embassy staff in a helicopter mission by elite SEAL commandos over the weekend, while warning thousands of private American citizens in Sudan there would be no similar evacuation for them.
The State Department, which has advised U.S. citizens for years not to travel to Sudan, continues to advise Americans to shelter in place. Most of the estimated 16,000 Americans believed to be in Sudan right now are dual U.S.-Sudanese nationals and only a fraction of them have expressed a desire to leave.
But at least some of those who want to leave have managed to get to Port Sudan where they can take a ferry to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, or have gotten seats on flights operated by other countries.
A look at the situation:
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SUDAN
It all boils down to a struggle for power between two powerful generals and their armies: Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, who leads the Sudanese armed forces, and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces.
Four years ago, a popular uprising in Sudan helped depose long-time autocrat Omar al-Bashir. But in 2021, the two generals — Burhan and Dagalo — jointly orchestrated a coup that derailed efforts to develop a civilian government. Both men have a history of human rights abuses, and their forces have cracked down on pro-democracy activists.
Under international pressure, Burhan and Dagalo recently agreed to a framework agreement with political parties and pro-democracy groups. But the signing was repeatedly delayed as tensions rose over the integration of the RSF into the armed forces and the future chain of command. Tensions exploded into violence on April 15.
Each side has tens of thousands of troops in and around Khartoum and the city of Omdurman on the opposite bank of the Nile River. On Wednesday, the second day of the latest fragile ceasefire, sporadic fighting continued.
HOW THE US GOT EMBASSY STAFF OUT
As security conditions worsened late last week, including damage to the civilian airport and an attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy in Khartoum, the State Department concluded that “the only way we could do this safely for all of our diplomatic personnel was to rely on the capabilities of our military colleagues,” said Ambassador John Bass, State Department undersecretary for management.
On Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum suspended its operations and ordered staff to leave the country.
The Department of Defense had begun moving resources to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti to prepare for a possible evacuation. On Saturday, three MH-47 Chinook helicopters carrying elite SEAL commandos took off from Djibouti enroute to Ethiopia, where they refueled and then made the three-hour flight to Khartoum.
“The operation was fast and clean, with service members spending less than an hour on the ground in Khartoum,” said Lt. Gen D.A. Sims, director of operations at the Joint Staff. The helicopters flew in and out of Khartoum without taking any fire.
AMERICANS STILL IN SUDAN
While embassy staff was airlifted out, there were no plans to provide similar evacuations for potentially thousands of Americans still in Sudan.
In a security alert Tuesday, the State Department reiterated that “due to the uncertain security situation in Khartoum and closure of the airport, it is not currently safe to undertake a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation of private U.S. citizens.”
Instead, it provided details on border crossings that are available and the requirements needed at each location. It cautioned that fighting continues and that many routes are dangerous and unpredictable.
American citizens who get to Port Sudan overland and can take a ferry to Jeddah will be assisted by the U.S. consulate there. Right now, the U.S. assistance for Americans is largely limited to phone and virtual help.
The U.S. could send Navy vessels to Port Sudan to ferry Americans to Jeddah or another location where they could get transportation back to the United States. However, officials say this would depend on the security situation and whether it is safe for ships to dock. The U.S. has developed other options, such as opening a temporary consulate in Port Sudan, beefing up its consulate in Jeddah to assist Americans as they arrive, or using a nearby airfield that other European countries have used to fly citizens out.
U.S. officials believe the security situation in Port Sudan is better than in the capital, but remain concerned about the potential for an escalation of violence.
WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DOING
While the U.S. says it's too dangerous to get its citizens out, other countries are proceeding with evacuations of their nationals.
France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Holland, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, Jordan, South Africa, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are among the countries that have evacuated their citizens and those of other countries.
Germany’s defense ministry said in a tweet Tuesday it had ended its evacuation flights after flying more than 700 people out of Sudan including 200 Germans and hundreds more from more than 20 other nations. France said it had evacuated more than 500 people from 41 countries, and would keep a Navy frigate at Sudan’s main Red Sea port to continue assisting rescue operations for foreigners. The United Kingdom was continuing its military evacuations of civilians from an airport outside Khartoum. Brig. Dan Reeve told reporters Wednesday the situation was “calm” and that Sudan’s armed forces were maintaining good security around the airport.
Saudi Arabia’s state run news service said Tuesday it had evacuated about 2,150 people by ship from Sudan, including 114 Saudi citizens and more than 2,000 evacuees from 62 other nations. And Egypt, which had evacuated more than 1,500 of its citizens, said its diplomatic mission won’t leave Sudan until it ensures the evacuation of all those who want to leave. An administrator with the Egyptian embassy in Khartoum was shot dead Monday, the Foreign Ministry said.
IS THE US RESPONSE UNUSUAL?
While many Americans may recall the dramatic 2021 evacuation of diplomats and private citizens alike from Afghanistan, those circumstances were far different. In most cases, the U.S. does not evacuate private citizens when it closes an embassy.
The situation in Afghanistan was different because the U.S. was ending a 20-year military presence in the country. It was trying to extricate the residual American presence there, much of which was directly tied to Washington’s role in propping up the Afghan government. No such situation existed or exists in Sudan.
More typical has been the practice in places like Yemen, Syria and Venezuela, where the U.S. suspended diplomatic operations and removed personnel because of turmoil, but did not evacuate private citizens.
The U.S. also briefly shuttered the embassy in Kyiv because of the Russia invasion, but there was no military evacuation for either diplomats or private citizens, and the embassy has since re-opened.
In contrast with the situation in Afghanistan, the U.S. was not involved militarily in the Sudan conflict and had no military presence on the ground apart from the small number of Marine guards at the Khartoum embassy.
Also, the U.S. has warned Americans for several years not to travel to Sudan and told them that consular assistance at the embassy was extremely limited. ___
Associated Press writers Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington, Jill Lawless in London and Sam Magdy in Cairo contributed to this report. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/why-the-us-evacuation-from-sudan-left-americans-17921557.php | 2023-04-27 04:39:34 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/article/why-the-us-evacuation-from-sudan-left-americans-17921557.php |
High-value Core Businesses Drive Profitable Growth, Demonstrating the Results of Transformation Strategies
TAIPEI, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LITEON Technology (2301-tw) reported the fourth quarter sales of NT$43.1 billion, supported by solid growth from power management in cloud computing and automotive electronics, which were up 31% and 48% Y-o-Y respectively. The gross margin reached 19.5%, up 2.2ppt Y-o-Y; the operating margin was 7.7%, of that, the R&D expense, out of Operating ones, has accounted for 5% of the fourth quarter sales, up 30%Y-o-Y, mainly focus on the power management for cloud computing. The net profits in the fourth quarter were NT$3.8 billion with EPS of NT$1.68. Meanwhile, the Board has approved a cash dividend of NT$3 per share for the fourth quarter. With the distributed cash dividend of NT$1.5 for the first half, the cash dividend per share for the whole 2022 will reach NT$4.5.
LITEON posted 2022 revenue of NT$173.5 billion, up 5% Y-o-Y with record annual profit margins and EPS. The gross margin and operating margin were 19.2% and 8.7%; gross profits and operating profits reached NT$33.3 billion and 15.1 billion, up 9% and 16% Y-o-Y respectively. The net profits were NT$14.2 billion and EPS of NT$6.19. The increase in profit growth attributable to the implementing transformational strategies, increased the proportion of high-value core businesses, expanded revenue scale, and optimized operating efficiency.
"In the past few years, LITEON has initiated digital transformation and strategically developed new businesses such as EV charging, power management solutions for cloud computing, and 5G/IoT, which had delivered strong potential in 2022. Our R&D will continue to develop the medium-long term growth momentum through investing on three major pillars: green data center, clean mobility, and efficient infrastructure, enabling self-developed and design capabilities to become LITEON's competitive advantages." said Mr. Anson Chiu, President of LITEON Technology.
LITEON has completed the business transfer of the Image Business at the end of 2022 for focusing on core businesses. Looking forward, in the first quarter of 2023, it is expected that high-growth and high-value core businesses will grow steadily; product mix of the IT&CE Business will continue its optimization and diversification. As for 2023, the overall R&D capacity will keep expansion; sequential growth from high-value businesses such as power management solutions of cloud computing, EV charging solutions, automotive lighting, ADAS modules, 5G small cell stations and IoT solutions are expected to enhance overall operating performance steadily.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury on Friday found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three felonies in the 2020 shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion that left her wounded with bullet fragments in her feet.
The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for one day before convicting the 30-year-old Canadian rapper, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. The counts could lead to up to 22 years in prison.
Lanez, who was wearing a powder pink winter coat with matching pants, showed no visible reaction as the verdict was read. He was handcuffed while in the courtroom.
After the jury left the courtroom, Lanez’s father, Sonstar Peterson, leapt up and began shouting. “This wicked system stands judged before God almighty!” He shouted, as deputies closed in on him. He then pointed to the two prosecutors in the case and yelled “You two are evil, wicked people. You know exactly what you did.”
Deputies removed him from the courtroom, where he continued to shout in the hallway.
Members of the media and public were forced to remain in the courtroom for a few minutes after the hearing while the hallway was cleared.
Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified during the trial that Lanez fired a handgun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding in the Hollywood Hills in the summer of 2020. She said the two had gotten into a dispute that got especially heated when she began insulting his music.
She needed surgery to remove bullet fragments from her feet.
The shooting set off a storm of cultural issues and arguments that peaked during the trial, including the r eluctance of Black victims to speak to police, the protection of Black women, gender politics in hip-hop, and online toxicity.
In closing arguments, prosecutors emphasized the courage it took for Megan come forward and the vitriol the 27-year-old has faced for it. They said she had no incentive to tell anything but the truth.
“Why would she lie?” Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott said. “She’s been subjected to a stream of hate. For what? For coming forward as a victim of domestic violence?”
Lanez’s lawyer alleged in his closing argument that the shots were actually fired by Megan’s then-best friend Kelsey Harris in a jealous fight over Lanez, who tried to stop the shooting. The attorney, George Mgdesyan, argued Megan created a more sympathetic narrative by pinning the shooting on Lanez.
“Megan Pete is a liar. She lied about everything in this case from the beginning,” Mgdesyan said. “She lied under oath here.”
Harris denied being the shooter and previously identified Lanez as the one holding the gun. Her attorney, in an email, declined to comment on her involvement.
Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major-label albums. His last two reached the top 10 on Billboard’s charts.
Megan Thee Stallion was already a major rising star at the time of the shooting, and her prominence has surged since. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021, and had No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with her own song “Savage,” featuring Beyoncé, and as a guest on Cardi B’s “WAP.”
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"When you walk home at the end of a day of rest, calm schmoozing, and not expecting anything bad, imagine us talking and all of a sudden eggs coming flying our way," Hasidic Community spokesman Yossi Gestetner said. "I think it's a problem."
On Saturday night, eggs were thrown at a woman pushing a stroller along Route 306.
The eggs did not hit her, but she was scared enough to contact the police.
In another case, two women were walking when police say a BB gun was fired in their direction. One of them was hit several times, but she was not injured.
The third incident involved a male victim in the same area.
"A male was walking on West Maple Avenue near Route 306," Ramapo police Det. Sgt. Mike Higgins said. "We have video of him being struck with several projectiles, we believe either a BB gun or some kind of pellet gun."
The Ramapo Police Department did not release the video, but investigators did put out photos of a white Ford F-150 pickup truck that was apparently used by the suspects.
Detectives are now trying to track down that vehicle and its driver.
"The community members are concerned about being able to walk down the street and not have something thrown at them or yelled at them," Higgins said. "We take this very seriously. We are going to follow this all the way."
At this time, police want to hear from any potential witnesses or victims who haven't come forward.
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The United States recorded its one millionth organ transplant Friday afternoon, a historic milestone for the medical procedure that has saved thousands of lives.
The record achievement was confirmed at 12:50 p.m. ET by the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit that runs the only organ procurement and transplantation network in the country, ABC News reported.
It's unclear which organ was the record one millionth and details about the patient are unknown at this time.
The very first successful organ transplant occurred In 1954 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston when doctors transplanted a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick into his identical twin brother, Richard, who was suffering from chronic kidney failure.
The lead surgeon, Dr. Joseph Murray, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his role in the procedure.
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Up until the early 1980s, the number of transplants every year remained low. However, success in transplants organs other than kidneys -- such as hearts, livers, and pancreases -- and the advent of anti-rejection medication led to a rise in transplants, according to UNOS.
Since then, transplants have become a far more common procedure.
More than 500,000 transplants have been performed since 2007 and, in 2021, more than 41,000 transplants occurred, which is the highest number ever recorded and twice as many as occurred 25 years ago.
Despite more patients undergoing transplants than ever before, it doesn't mean the agency is without its faults.
RELATED: 55 people to benefit from organs of man killed in 'freak accident' at beach
Approximately 5,000 people die waiting on transplant lists ever year. And a study published today in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology in October 2020 found that many donor kidneys in the U.S. are unnecessarily discarded.
But organ donors and recipients hope that by sharing their stories, they will inspire people will sign up to donate and help reduce those long waiting lists.
When Nicholas Peters was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2020, his mother, Maria Clark, honored his wishes to be an organ donor.
His heart went to Jean Paul Marceaux, a sixth grader in Arkansas who had been suffering from heart conditions for years.
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The families have since met and have become close ever since. Clark, of Madisonville, Louisiana, was even able to listen to her son's heart beating in Marceaux with a stethoscope.
"This is why we tell our story -- so that people will sign up to be donors," Candace Armstrong, Marceaux's mother, said in a statement.
Clark added, "We are all going to leave here. You have to talk to your family and let them know you want your organs to go on, to extend the lives of other people. I want people to know that Nick was love, he was the element of love, always helping, and it is just like him to keep giving and spreading love." | https://abc11.com/organ-transplant-donation-statistics-facts/12216712/ | 2022-09-09 20:25:05 | 1 | https://abc11.com/organ-transplant-donation-statistics-facts/12216712/ |
WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 2, 2023
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
440 AM CST Mon Jan 2 2023
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog.
* WHERE...In Louisiana, Vernon, Rapides, Avoyelles, Beauregard,
Allen, Evangeline and St. Landry Parishes. In Texas, Southern
Jasper and Southern Newton Counties.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM CST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
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NEW YORK (AP) — James Harden isn’t surprised Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving wanted out of Brooklyn, having tired quickly of the “dysfunction” he saw in his brief time with the Nets and asking out.
“I didn’t just ask to leave for no reason,” Harden said.
Harden was traded to Philadelphia at the 2022 trade deadline. By the time he came back Saturday just a year later for the first time in the regular season, Durant and Irving were also gone.
He wouldn’t specify his reasons for souring so quickly, but made clear he felt there were problems within the Nets organization.
“There was just a lot of dysfunction — clearly. There was a lot of internal things that I’m not going to ever just say or put in the media or anything, and that was one of the reasons why I chose to make my decision,” Harden said after scoring 29 points in the 76ers’ 101-98 victory.
“But now, fast forward to today, I don’t look like the crazy one,” he added. “I don’t look like the guy, or the quitter or whatever the media want to call me. Like, I knew what was going on and I just decided to, like, I’m not built for this. I don’t want to deal with that. I want to play basketball and have fun and enjoy doing it.”
Harden was acquired from Houston in January 2021 and the Nets quickly became a championship favorite with their potent lineup. But they lost in the second round of those playoffs after both Irving and Harden were injured against Milwaukee, then struggled to get off the ground in 2021-22 after Irving refused to be vaccinated against the coronavirus so he could be eligible to play in all their games.
After Durant sprained his knee in January 2022, the Big Three was often down to just one and Harden’s effort and interest seemed to wane while forced to carry a team that had to play unproven players around him. He told the organization he wanted to leave and the Nets sent him to the 76ers in a package for Ben Simmons.
Harden wouldn’t say if the Nets’ problems — or his frustrations — started with the difficulty in being able to count on Irving.
“I mean, that’s not something that I’m going to answer,” Harden said. “But the reason I made that decision to get out of my comfort zone, which was leave Houston and do everything that I did to get out of there, was to come in and play with KD and Kyrie. And with that being said, that didn’t happen as much as I would like to or probably the organization wanted to.”
It turned out to only be 16 games.
Durant originally asked for a trade last summer and finally got it Thursday when the Nets dealt him to the Phoenix Suns. A few days earlier, the Nets had moved quickly to grant Irving’s request to leave by dealing him to the Dallas Mavericks.
“There’s a lot of possibilities of what could’ve happened, but it’s part of life,” Harden said. “Move on, and I’m sure everybody’s in a better place, a good place.”
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FARMINGTON, Conn., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) ("Horizon") (the "Company"), a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries, announced today that it plans to release financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, after the close of market trading.
The Company has scheduled a conference call to discuss the results on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET. The conference call will feature remarks by Robert D. Pomeroy, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gerald A. Michaud, President, and Daniel R. Trolio, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. To participate in the call, please dial (877) 407-9716 (domestic) or (201) 493-6779 (international). The conference ID is 13731060. Please dial into the call at least five minutes before the scheduled start time.
The conference call will also be available via a live listen-only webcast on the Company's website, www.horizontechfinance.com. Please allow extra time prior to the call to visit the site and download any necessary software that may be needed to listen to the Internet broadcast.
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About Horizon Technology Finance
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) is a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries. The investment objective of HRZN is to maximize its investment portfolio's return by generating current income from the debt investments it makes and capital appreciation from the warrants it receives when making such debt investments. Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC is headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, with a regional office in Pleasanton, California, and investment professionals located in Portland, Maine, Austin, Texas, and Reston, Virginia. To learn more, please visit horizontechfinance.com.
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‘I felt helpless’: Kentucky family survives floods after stranded on hill for 16 hours
PERRY COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT/Gray News) - A woman in Kentucky is sharing her harrowing story of how she escaped rising floodwaters last week with her grandmother.
Naomie Williams told WKYT that she was with her 82-year-old grandmother, Carylon, when the flooding started in their southeastern Kentucky neighborhood.
“When we walked out in it, it hit us chest deep,” Williams said. “The whole time, I was saying, ‘please let me make it back home to my family.’”
Williams said the two were treading water for over an hour, trying to reach a hill behind their home.
“I can’t describe the feeling that I felt in the water. I felt helpless. It was so strong, but we made it out of there because of the Lord, honestly,” Williams said.
She said there wasn’t much to grab onto as she tried to keep herself and her grandmother, who can’t swim, above water.
“It was just a limb, not even a tree; a limb is what we held. Somehow, I managed to pull us both up out of the water,” Williams said. “We got onto the hill but couldn’t stay steady for more than a few minutes as the water kept rising. So, it was like a continuous climb up a steep mountain.”
She said their climb lasted 16 hours until emergency crews arrived.
“The next day, the rescue squad came and got to us. It was the best day of my life for sure,” Williams said.
According to Williams, the two suffered a few scratches and poison ivy in the ordeal but were both very happy to have survived the dangerous flooding.
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AMES, Iowa (AP) — Ashley Joens scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and 20th-ranked Iowa State took control near the end of the second quarter and went on to beat TCU for an 84-56 win on Saturday.
Joens entered with 2,880 career points, putting her 18th in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history for career scoring.
Reserve Morgan Kane scored 17 points and Lexi Donarski and Emily Ryan each added 12 for the Cyclones (18-8, 10-6 Big 12), who have won three of four after a three-game losing streak.
Tomi Taiwo scored 13 for TCU (7-20, 1-15), which was in search of its first conference road win and now has lost two straight.
Taiwo made a pair of foul shots to give TCU a 17-15 lead 2:48 before the end of the first quarter. From there, the Cyclones proceeded to outscore the Horned Frogs 32-7 to close the first half for a 47-24 lead. The onslaught continued as Iowa State outscored TCU 23-10 in the third and then doubled score early in the fourth 72-36.
TCU travels to play Texas Tech on Wednesday. Iowa State takes on Kansas on the road on Wednesday.
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Justice Dept: Trump can be sued by police for Jan. 6 actions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Thursday that former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The department’s position that Trump is not immune from suit was laid out in a filing before a federal appeals court. | https://www.wtvq.com/justice-dept-trump-can-be-sued-by-police-for-jan-6-actions/ | 2023-03-02 20:46:11 | 1 | https://www.wtvq.com/justice-dept-trump-can-be-sued-by-police-for-jan-6-actions/ |
It's a busy week for art galleries, museums, concerts and theater in Sarasota.
Thursday
Berlin Wall Art Auction
6 p.m. at Art Ovation Hotel, 1255 N. Palm Ave.
Free
Visit Solotzew.com.
Now's your chance to own your very own piece of history. Alexander Solotzew and several other artists have taken their time to paint on authentic concrete remnants of the Berlin Wall, and 15 of the artworks are up for auction. Solotzew's piece is entitled "Pontius Pilate: The Face of Dictatorship," and is rendered in his trademark swirling color patterns.
Friday
HD at the Opera House: In the Heat of the Night
7:30 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave.
$22
Visit SarasotaOpera.org.
They called him MISTER TIBBS. The late, great Sidney Poitier stars as a Philadelphia police detective who gets involved in a Mississippi murder investigation in the racially charged climate of the Civil Rights movement. Rod Steiger won the Academy Award for his portrayal of a small-town police chief, and the film won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Play Reading: The Suffragette’s Murder
3 p.m. at Keating Theatre, 1241 N. Palm Ave.
$10
Visit FloridaStudioTheatre.org.
Here's your chance to support a work that's still in the early stages of development. The Suffragette's Murder is a drama centered in 1857, and it's billed as part comedy and part protest. Sandy Rustin is the playwright, and she recently scored a hit by writing the book and lyrics for "American Girl Live," which toured 47 cities across America.
Blues Brothers Soul Band
7 p.m. at Venice Performing Arts Center, 1 Indian Ave., Venice
$35-$50
Visit VeniceTheatre.org.
They're a soul band. It's a tribute to Dan Akroyd and the late John Belushi that will have you foot-stomping and dancing along to some of the most familiar songs in the soul canon. Grab your sunglasses and your half-pack of cigarettes, because it's dark and the Blues Brothers are ready to hit it.
Summer Circus Spectacular
11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bayshore Road
$18 adults, $12 children 12 and under
Visit Ringling.org
It's a feast for the senses and show for all ages. The Summer Circus Spectacular brings a roster full of acrobats, balance artists and contortionists to this one-hour show, which will run all the way through August 13. Clown college graduate Chris Allison has the hard job of entertaining the audience and stitching the show back together between acts.
I M(O)ther
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail
Free with museum admission
Visit SarasotaArtMuseum.org.
Jamaica-based textile artist Katrina Coombs doesn't just want you to appreciate her work. She wants you to consider the place of women in contemporary society around the world. Coombs uses her incredible weaving skills to address topics like identity, the maternal figure, ancestry and security. The exhibit will be on display until Oct. 2.
Saturday
Jazz on the Circle
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in St. Armands Circle Park, 1 St. Armands Circle
Free
Call 263-6282.
Hot Tonic Orchestra will play jazz-styled covers of popular music from yesterday and today.
'Off the Charts!'
7 p.m. at The Plaza at Waterside Place, 1561 Lakefront Drive
Free
Visit WatersidePlace.com.
Florida Studio Theatre’s “Off the Charts!” brings its traveling entertainment to Waterside Place. “Off the Charts!” is a cabaret-style show featuring four actors singing 20 songs that span from the 1950s to now. The show also includes context to how the music was made and how it impacted the music that comes after it. If it rains July 9, the performance will be 7 p.m. July 10 at The Plaza at Waterside Place.
Tribute to the One Hit Wonders
7:30 p.m. at Sarasota Classic Car Museum, 5500 N. Tamiami Trail
$25 (including first beverage)
Visit SarasotaCarMuseum.org.
Jonathan Elgart is the guest performer, and he'll be playing songs more successful than the Edsel. Each of these songs were a hit for a performer that never had a hit again, and you'll have a chance to hang out around cars that represent the best and most interesting engineering in the history of the industry.
Sunday
HD at the Opera House: ‘Falstaff’
1:30 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave.
$22
Visit SarasotaOpera.org.
Here's a Verdi opera unlike any you've seen before. This production is a reimagining of the venerable classic by Calixto Bieito that sees the opera as a satire of entertainment and modern society. This opera ran at the Staatsoper Hamburg in 2020, and it features standout performances from Ambrogio Maestri in the title role and Maija Kovaleska as Alice Ford.
Free Second Sundays
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail
Free
Visit SarasotaArtMuseum.org.
Do you like museums? Do you like museums even more when they're free? Sarasota Art Museum is opening its doors to the public and inviting them to take in all the museum's exhibitions plus a few fun activities of the day. Ringling College faculty member Eszter Sziksz will be on hand for a tutorial on a photographic printing technique from 2-4 p.m.
Monday
Faces and Places
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami Trail
Free
Visit ArtSarasota.org.
Come see the best in art that Sarasota has to offer. Art Center Sarasota's regional juried show, Faces and Places, is on display through August 6. Amanda Cooper, chief curator of the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, served as the juror for the show, and Karla Pirona took first place for her oil painting entitled "Southgate."
Art and Backstage Tour
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 777 N. Tamiami Trail
$15
Visit VanWezel.org.
Have you ever wondered what happens behind the curtain at the Van Wezel? Now's your chance to find out. The Van Wezel offers a monthly tour of the artwork on display and the backstage portion of the arena that visitors seldom see. Get a glimpse of the orchestra pit, the dressing rooms, the rehearsal rooms and the ropes and pulleys that aid in moving sets.
Tuesday
'Rock and Roll Reignited'
7:30 p.m. at John C. Court Cabaret, 1265 First St.
$36
Visit FloridaStudioTheatre.org.
It's the roots of rock and roll brought forward into the new generation. Sit tight and sing along as Jared Mancuso and Nick Gallardo bring you the music of Buddy Holly, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and more. Mancuso and Gallardo created the show, and they'll be joined on stage by Aurora Dubois and Mike Gallardo. Runs through Aug. 7.
Wednesday
‘Love, Linda’
7:30 p.m. at Studio 1130, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail
$26.50
Visit ThePlayers.org.
This is a one-woman show starring Colleen Buchmeier that centers on the love and music of Cole Porter. Buchmeier stars as Linda Lee Thomas, Porter's muse and wife, in this song-and-dance vehicle of the hitmaker's career. This Wednesday performance is a preview; the show's actual run will go from July 14 through July 24.
‘Maytag Virgin’
3 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Keating Theatre, 1241 N. Palm Ave.
$25-$36
Visit FloridaStudioTheatre.org
Audrey Cefaly's "Maytag Virgin" is here to bring you a smalltown love story set in the Deep South. Two high school teachers become neighbors and slowly build a relationship and a deeper connection over time. Eventually, they both find themselves confronted with the age-old question: How do you know when you're ready to live and love again?
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar has agreed to plead guilty to taking $1.5 million in bribes from developers in a sweeping City Hall corruption case.
Huizar on Tuesday signed a plea agreement with prosecutors. The deal calls for prosecutors to seek no more than 13 years in prison and Huizar to seek no less than nine years.
Huizar, who also acknowledged he evaded taxes, also agreed to make as-yet-undetermined restitution.
The agreement was filed Thursday in federal court. No sentencing date was immediately set.
Huizar, 54, had been scheduled to face trial on Feb. 21 on federal charges that included racketeering conspiracy and bribery.
Prosecutors alleged that from 2013 to 2017, Huizar masterminded a $1.5 million pay-to-play scheme tied to the approval of downtown high-rise developments while he chaired the city’s powerful Planning and Land Use Management Committee.
Huizar was accused of accepting cash, casino gambling chips, luxury stays in Las Vegas, expensive meals, prostitution services, political contributions and funds to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit.
The sweeping and ongoing City Hall corruption probe already has resulted in nine defendants being convicted or pleading guilty to federal charges, including Huizar’s brother, Salvador Huizar; a former Huizar assistant, a Huizar fundraiser and two real estate developers.
The racketeering trial of the last remaining major defendant, former LA Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, is scheduled for next month. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Ex-LA-councilman-Huizar-will-plead-guilty-in-17729515.php | 2023-01-20 02:03:56 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Ex-LA-councilman-Huizar-will-plead-guilty-in-17729515.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan federal judge known for swift decisions and a no-nonsense demeanor during three decades of overseeing numerous high-profile cases was assigned Tuesday to Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency case.
The case was relegated to Judge Lewis A. Kaplan after the judge originally assigned recused herself because her husband worked for a law firm that had done work related to Bankman-Fried’s collapsed crypto exchange FTX.
Bankman-Fried, arrested in the Bahamas two weeks ago, was brought to the United States last week to face charges that he cheated investors and looted customer deposits on his FTX trading platform.
On Thursday, he was freed on a $250 million personal recognizance bond to live with his parents in Palo Alto, California, after an electronic monitoring bracelet was attached to him so authorities could track his whereabouts.
Kaplan, 78, who has held senior status in Manhattan federal court for over a decade, was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Since then, he has overseen numerous high-profile trials and several cases notable in the financial world, including what authorities had described as the first federal bitcoin securities fraud prosecution. Kaplan sentenced the defendant to 18 months in prison.
In 2014, he blocked U.S. courts from being used to collect a $9 billion Ecuadorian judgment against Chevron for rainforest damage, saying lawyers in the case had poisoned an honorable quest with illegal and wrongful conduct.
And in 2012, he delayed his acceptance of a guilty plea by a Utah banker, ordering prosecutors to explain in writing why they were letting the banker plead guilty to a misdemeanor bank gambling charge rather than a felony.
Kaplan has been known over the years to become irritable with lawyers on all sides.
In 1997, he blasted the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, as the government's immigration department was once known, for not acting fast enough in an asylum case.
“This is about as expedited as a glacier going uphill,” he snapped.
Calling the agency's behavior “absolutely outrageous,” he added: “The INS has in the three years I’ve been on the bench acquitted itself in disastrous fashion more than once, but this one takes the cake and I’m not going to stand for it much longer.”
In 2000, he ruled in favor of the motion picture industry, giving them legal protection to protect DVDs from being copied on computers.
"Computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement,″ he said.
Most recently, Kaplan presided over the fall civil trial of Kevin Spacey after a fellow actor accused him of trying to molest him in his apartment after a party when he was 14 and Spacey was 26. A jury sided with Spacey, finding that actor Anthony Rapp had not proved his case against him.
Kaplan currently is presiding over a civil case brought by former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll against ex-President Donald Trump. Carroll said Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan luxury department store in 1995 or 1996. Trump has denied the accusations. A trial is scheduled for April.
The storied judge also was presiding over sex abuse claims by an American woman against Britain's Prince Andrew before the two sides settled earlier this year, with Andrew declaring that he never meant to malign her character and agreeing to donate to the woman's charity. Prior to the settlement, Kaplan had refused Andrew's request to toss the lawsuit.
In 2019, Kaplan sentenced three men to prison after they were convicted in a college basketball scandal in which a former Adidas executive and two others paid families to persuade top college basketball recruits to play for schools sponsored by the shoemaker.
Nearly a dozen years ago, Kaplan sentenced Ahmed Ghailani, a onetime Guantanamo Bay detainee, to life in prison after presiding over a trial in which Ghailani was convicted of conspiring to destroy American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. A dozen Americans were among 224 people killed in the attacks.
And in 2015, the judge sentenced Adel Abdul Bary, an Egyptian lawyer, to 25 years in prison for his role in the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Africa.
In 2014, Kaplan sentenced Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, to life in prison for serving as al-Qaida's mouthpiece after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Kaplan also has presided over sentence reduction efforts by men convicted in the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1,000. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/no-nonsense-judge-takes-over-ftx-bankman-fried-criminal-case/BOGPXYCLUVHBJPFJMFR6MDTYWA/ | 2022-12-27 17:44:46 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/no-nonsense-judge-takes-over-ftx-bankman-fried-criminal-case/BOGPXYCLUVHBJPFJMFR6MDTYWA/ |
Underage drinking is the cause of 3,900 youth deaths each year, with Texas regularly ranked as state with highest number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities
AUSTIN, Texas, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the school year at a close and summer underway, Texans for State and Drug-Free Youth, the state's leading advocacy organization working to end underage drinking, urged increased awareness on specific risks faced by recent graduates.
The CDC recognizes underage drinking as a significant public health problem, responsible for more than 3,900 deaths and 225,000 years of potential life lost among people under age 21 each year. Because the brain continues developing until the mid-20s, alcohol has drastically more serious impact on younger users. Studies show drinking at a young age can lead to lifelong damage in brain function, memory, and coordination, and makes it more likely youth will develop addiction or substance abuse problems later in life. When surveyed, fear of youth addiction and underage alcohol-related car crashes were among Texan's highest concerns.
Recent high school graduates are among the highest at-risk: By far, the greatest percentage of high school drinking occurs in the 12th grade. According to state data, nearly half (47%) of Texas high schoolers who reported drinking within 30 days of being surveyed were seniors.
One of the greatest challenges to solving this issue is how incredibly prevalent alcohol is – 65 percent of high school seniors say it's easy to access and they also report that they mostly get it socially. With underage youth out of school and attending summer celebrations, alcohol access, likely use and associated risks and consequences all significantly increase. It is imperative adults take action to protect youth. Under no circumstances – adults present or not – is underage drinking safe.
"There is an important difference between a celebratory milestone and a developmental one," said Nicole Holt, CEO of Texans for Safe and Drug-Free Youth. "The fact of the matter is, a graduation does not transform our kids into adults overnight. We must be sure that as adults, we are doing everything possible to catapult them forward to their amazing futures – and nothing at all to hold them back."
As families and communities reflect on all that lies ahead for graduates, every single adult must be united in reducing underage drinking. Lifelong health problems, reduced brain development, poor cognitive functions, drunk driving injury or death – are all preventable.
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The 64-year-old Metro transit employee shot and killed in Washington, D.C., Wednesday while trying to stop a gunman is remembered for being "heroic."
"Metro is mourning the loss of a heroic employee, Robert Cunningham, who intervened on behalf of a customer today at Potomac Avenue Station and was a victim of senseless gun violence," a Metro statement reads.
Metro has lowered its flags to half-staff in his honor.
The incident involving Cunningham's death began as an altercation on board a Metrobus near 14th Street and Potomac shortly after 9 a.m., Executive Assistant Chief of Police Ashan M. Benedict said at a press conference.
SUSPECT IN CUSTODY AFTER DC METRO TRANSIT EMPLOYEE SHOT, KILLED; 3 OTHERS INJURED
A person with a gun, later identified as 31-year-old Isaiah Trotman of Southeast D.C., was engaging passengers on the bus and followed one of them off before shooting them in the leg.
Police say the gunman then went down the Potomac Avenue Metro station escalator to the station platform and approached someone who was trying to buy a Metro card. Benedict said the gunman shot that person and attempted to bring them over the fare gate turnstile, but the victim was able to break free.
Trotman then allegedly went farther down the escalator, where he confronted a woman. That is where Metro employee Cunningham attempted to intervene but was shot and killed by the gunman.
KARON BLAKE WASHINGTON, DC, SHOOTING: CITY WORKER JASON LEWIS CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
Trotman then attempted to board a Metro train and was apparently confronted and disarmed by the passengers. He exited the train car and was taken into custody by police officers, who also recovered his weapon on the train tracks, Benedict said.
Carol Wayman lives nearby and told FOX 5 DC her account of what happened.
"I saw all these people just run, take off. Run chaotically. Jumping over fences," Wayman recalled. "I'm just horrified that three people were shot and Robert Cunningham was killed, a mechanic just doing his job."
"I just left meeting with a group of [Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority] team members, many of whom worked with our hero colleague Mr. Cunningham. Their care for each other will get us through this tragedy. A request to our customers, please show patience and grace to our team as we mourn & recover," Metro General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Randy Clarke tweeted early Thursday morning.
Trotman is currently in custody, being charged with first-degree murder while armed, kidnapping while armed, and assault with a dangerous weapon, according to FOX 5.
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The other three victims injured during the attack are expected to be okay.
Police are still looking for a motive and asking witnesses with video to call 202-727- 9000.
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FELTHAM, England, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nomad Foods Limited (NYSE: NOMD) today announced it will report results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 before New York Stock Exchange market open on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. A conference call with members of the executive management team will be held to discuss the results with additional comments and details.
The conference call is scheduled to begin at 8:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. To participate on the live call listeners in North America may dial +1-877-300-8521 and international listeners may dial +1-412-317-6026. Additionally, there will be a presentation to accompany the conference call and the call is being webcast. Both can be accessed at the Nomad Foods website at www.nomadfoods.com under Investor Relations. A replay of the conference call will be available on the Company website for two weeks following the event and can be accessed by listeners in North America by dialing +1-844-512-2921 and by international listeners by dialing +1-412-317-6671; the replay pin number is 10169497.
About Nomad Foods
Nomad Foods (NYSE: NOMD) is Europe's leading frozen food company. The company's portfolio of iconic brands, which includes Birds Eye, Findus, iglo, Ledo and Frikom, have been a part of consumers' meals for generations, standing for great tasting food that is convenient, high quality and nutritious. Nomad Foods is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Additional information may be found at www.nomadfoods.com.
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NASA tracks a newly discovered asteroid that has a ‘small chance’ of hitting Earth in 2046
By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN
A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a “small chance” of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine’s Day in 2046, according to NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
The asteroid has a 1 in 625 chance of striking Earth, based on data projections from the European Space Agency, though NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Sentry system calculated the odds closer to 1 in 560. The latter tracks potential collisions with celestial objects.
But the space rock — named 2023 DW — is the only object on NASA’s risk list that ranks 1 out of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, a metric for categorizing the projected risk of an object colliding with Earth. All other objects rank at 0 on the Torino scale.
Though the 2023 DW tops the list, its ranking of 1 means only that “the chance of collision is extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern,” according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, while a 0 ranking means the “likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero.”
“This object is not particularly concerning,” said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
NASA officials have warned that the odds of impact could be dramatically altered as more observations of 2023 DW are collected and additional analysis is performed.
“Often when new objects are first discovered,” NASA Asteroid Watch noted Tuesday on Twitter, “it takes several weeks of data to reduce the uncertainties and adequately predict their orbits years into the future.”
Risk of asteroid impact
It’s common for newly discovered asteroids to appear more threatening when first observed.
“Because orbits stemming from very limited observation sets are more uncertain it is more likely that such orbits will ‘permit’ future impacts,” the Center for Near Earth Object Studies, located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, notes on its website.
“However, such early predictions can often be ruled out as we incorporate more observations and reduce the uncertainties in the object’s orbit,” it reads. “Most often, the threat associated with a specific object will decrease as additional observations become available.”
It may be a few days before new data can be collected because of the asteroid’s proximity to the moon, Farnocchia noted in an email to CNN. The last full moon was two days ago, and it still appears bright and large in the sky, likely obscuring 2023 DW from immediate observation, he said.
“But then the object will remain observable for weeks (even months with larger telescopes) so we can get plenty of observations as needed,” he added.
The asteroid measures about 160 feet (about 50 meters) in diameter, according to NASA data. As 2023 DW orbits the sun, it has 10 predicted close approaches to Earth, with the nearest landing on February 14, 2046, and nine others between 2047 and 2054. The closest the asteroid is expected to travel to Earth is about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), NASA’s Eyes on Asteroids website notes.
The space rock was first spotted in our skies on February 2.
It’s traveling about 15.5 miles per second (25 kilometers per second) at a distance of more than 11 million miles (18 million kilometers) from Earth, completing one loop around the sun every 271 days.
Farnocchia noted the success of NASA’s DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, in September 2022 as evidence that humanity can be prepared to confront space rocks on potentially disastrous courses. DART intentionally collided a spacecraft into an asteroid to change its trajectory.
“That’s the very reason why we flew that mission,” he said, “and that mission was a spectacular success.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fred VanVleet made two 3-pointers in overtime and scored 25 points, and the Toronto Raptors beat the Washington Wizards 116-109 on Saturday to split their two-game series.
Gary Trent Jr. scored 26 points to lead the Raptors, who bounced back from their 119-108 loss Thursday night to move back ahead of the Wizards into ninth place in the Eastern Conference.
VanVleet added 10 assists and Pascal Siakam had 15 points and seven assists for Toronto.
Kristaps Porzingis had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Wizards. Bradley Beal added 21 points and 10 assists, but shot just 7 for 22 and missed a jumper that could have won it in regulation.
VanVleet snapped a 107-all tie with a 3-pointer with 1:47 remaining in OT. After Kyle Kuzma made a pair of free throws to cut it to one, VanVleet knocked down another 3 that made it 113-109, and Siakam's three-point play with 15 seconds to go put it away.
Neither team had a double-digit lead through three quarters, but Toronto appeared to be taking control when it opened a 97-84 advantage with 9:24 to play.
The Wizards charged back behind Porzingis, who had three baskets in a little more than two minutes to cut it to 105-102 with 2:21 remaining. Trent and VanVleet missed 3-pointers before Delon Wright tied it with his 3 with 30 seconds left.
VanVleet missed another 3 and Beal missed a jumper to force the extra period.
Wright had 18 points, seven assists and six rebounds.
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Raptors: O.G. Anunoby missed all six 3-pointers and finished 2 for 11 for six points. ... Toronto has won 14 of its last 16 in Washington.
Wizards: Kuzma scored 16 points. ... Corey Kispert was 4 for 4 behind the arc and scored 12 points.
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Raptors: At Denver on Monday night.
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Murder conviction for man on death row should be overturned, Oklahoma AG says
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The conviction and death sentence for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip should be thrown out and a new trial ordered, the state’s new attorney general said Thursday, as support has grown even among death penalty supporters who say Glossip is innocent.
In a filing with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said that although the state is not suggesting Glossip is innocent, the key witness against Glossip lied to the jury about his psychiatric treatment and reasons for taking the mood-stabilizing drug lithium.
That information was only recently disclosed to Glossip’s defense team after Drummond turned over a box of evidence, consisting largely of prosecutors’ notes in the case, that Drummond’s predecessor, John O’Connor, had previously designated as “work product.”
“After thorough and serious deliberation, I have concluded that I cannot stand behind the murder conviction and death sentence of Richard Glossip,” Drummond said in a statement. “This is not to say I believe he is innocent. However, it is critical that Oklahomans have absolute faith that the death penalty is administered fairly and with certainty. Considering everything I know about this case, I do not believe that justice is served by executing a man based on the testimony of a compromised witness.”
Glossip, now 60, was convicted of the 1997 murder-for-hire killing of his boss, motel owner Barry Van Treese, at two separate trials based largely on the testimony of his co-defendant, Justin Sneed. Sneed admitted robbing and killing Van Treese, but claims he only did so after Glossip agreed to pay him $10,000. Sneed received a sentence of life in prison.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals must decide whether to vacate Glossip’s conviction and order a new trial. Glossip is scheduled to be executed on May 18.
Glossip’s attorney Don Knight said in a statement that Drummond’s filing states what he has long maintained, which is that Sneed, the state’s key witness, is not credible.
“It is now clear that it would be unconscionable for the state to move forward with Mr. Glossip’s execution when there is so much doubt surrounding his conviction,” Knight said.
Drummond’s motion comes on the same day he released the findings of an independent counsel’s review of Glossip’s case. That report, conducted by former District Attorney Rex Duncan, raised numerous concerns about his conviction, including uncertainty about whether an actual polygraph exam was administered to Glossip, evidence in the case that was destroyed and a failure by the state to disclose certain information to Glossip’s attorneys.
“The state’s murder case against Glossip was not particularly strong and would have been, in my view, weaker if full discovery had been provided,” Duncan wrote. “Given the passage of 26 years, death of witnesses, destruction and loss of evidence, and 2023 evidentiary disclosures, it is, in my view, less tenable today.”
A message left Thursday with Van Treese’s family seeking comment was not immediately returned. Drummond said he acknowledges the pain the family must be going through.
“My heart truly goes out to the Van Treese family, who have been waiting decades for a final measure of justice,” Drummond said.
Glossip’s case attracted international attention after actress Susan Sarandon — who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean’s fight to save a man on Louisiana’s death row in the 1995 movie “Dead Man Walking” — took up his cause in real life. Prejean herself has served as Glossip’s spiritual adviser and frequently visited him in prison. His case also was featured in a 2017 documentary film titled “Killing Richard Glossip.”
Republican state Rep. Kevin McDugle, a self-described death-penalty supporter, called on the Court of Criminal Appeals to grant a new trial last year, after he said an independent report produced by a Houston law firm suggested there were numerous problems with his conviction.
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GRAPHIC: Police officer facing lewdness charges after allegedly masturbating during massage
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A police officer in Las Vegas is facing lewdness charges after allegedly masturbating during a chiropractic massage.
KVVU reports Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer Richard Landahl is facing the charges after a reported incident on Sept. 20.
According to authorities, a woman went to a police station on Sept. 21 to file a report. She said Landahl was at her work the day before, around 11 a.m., when he requested a massage and for her to be his massage therapist.
The woman told Landahl to dress down to his level of comfort in the private massage room. He reportedly dressed down to his underwear and laid face down, with a sheet over him.
According to warrant documents, the woman started the massage and Landahl began masturbating in front of her. When the massage therapist realized what was happening, she said she stopped the massage.
Authorities said the woman told an assistant, a receptionist and a doctor at the practice about what happened.
While speaking with the doctor, Landahl reportedly apologized for making the therapist uncomfortable but didn’t outright admit to the lewd act, the report said. The doctor asked Landahl to leave the practice.
According to warrant documents, Landahl claimed he fell asleep during the massage and ejaculated in his sleep.
Landahl has been with the Las Vegas police department for five years. The department said Landahl was on-duty as a police officer at the time of the incident.
According to court records, Landahl is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 27. He has been placed on suspension of police powers with pay pending the outcome of the investigation.
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In Texas, the holidays and a little cheer go hand in hand; but planning might be in order this holiday season due to the Texas liquor laws.
Christmas and New Year's Day fall on a Sunday this year, meaning the stores will be closed for 61 hours twice. While beer and wine will be available throughout the season, seven days a week, the liquor spirits will not be.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission regulates liquor sales, and under its regulation, sales are not allowed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. In addition, under the law, sales are not allowed the following Monday when those days fall on a Sunday.
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BERLIN (AP) — An Indonesian art collective’s banner that was widely criticized as containing antisemitic elements was covered up at a major art show in Germany and was to be taken down on Tuesday, officials said.
The large installation by Taring Padi, titled “People’s Justice,” drew objections after it was put up in a central square in the city of Kassel as part of the documenta contemporary art show.
Criticism centered on the depiction on the banner of a soldier with the face of a pig, wearing a neckerchief with a Star of David and a helmet inscribed with the word “Mossad,” the name of Israel’s intelligence agency.
On Monday, the Israeli Embassy in Berlin said it was “appalled by the antisemitic elements” that were being shown in Kassel and called for their immediate removal from the exhibition. It said that “they have absolutely nothing to do with free expression of opinion, but are an expression of an old-style antisemitism.”
Organizers said Monday — three days after it went up — that the work would be covered up, in what they said was a joint decision with the art collective. On Tuesday, Kassel Mayor Christian Geselle said that it would be taken down altogether during the day.
Germany’s culture minister, Claudia Roth, said in a statement that its removal was “overdue” and “is only a first step.”
“More must follow,” she added. “It must be cleared up how it was possible for this mural with antisemitic figurative elements to be installed there.”
This year’s documenta, which already had faced antisemitism allegations, opened on Saturday.
In a statement posted on its Facebook page after the decision to cover the banner, Taring Padi insisted that the work — which it said was first exhibited at the South Australia Art Festival in Adelaide 20 years ago — “is in no way related” to antisemitism. It said “all of the figures depicted on the banner refer to symbolism that is widespread in Indonesia’s political context.”
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California and Illinois continued to see the highest demand for outbound U-Haul trucks
PHOENIX, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas, Florida and the Carolinas were the preferred destinations of one-way U-Haul® truck customers during 2022, ranking as the top growth states on the annual U-Haul Growth Index.
U-Haul transactional data confirms that migration to the Southeast and Southwest U.S. – trends that were amplified and accelerated during the pandemic – continued through last year, although overall DIY moves slowed slightly in most states from the record-breaking number of moves in 2021.
Demand for equipment out of California, Illinois and New York remained strong in 2022, as more people opted to leave areas of the West Coast, Northeast and Midwest. California and Illinois ranked 50th and 49th, respectively, on the U-Haul Growth Index for the third consecutive year, meaning those states saw the greatest net losses of one-way U-Haul trucks.
The U-Haul Growth Index is compiled according to the net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks arriving in a state or city, versus departing from that state or city, in a calendar year. Migration trends data is compiled from more than 2 million one-way U-Haul truck transactions that occur annually across the U.S. and Canada.
Texas is the No. 1 growth state for the second consecutive year and the fifth time since 2016. Florida, which ranks second, has been a top-three growth state seven years in a row.
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, Ohio and Idaho round out the top 10 growth states. Virginia and Alabama are the biggest risers, climbing 26 spots from their respective 2021 rankings. New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois and California are the bottom five states for growth in 2022.
"The 2022 trends in migration followed very similar patterns to 2021 with Texas, Florida, the Carolinas and the Southwest continuing to see solid growth," stated John "J.T." Taylor, U-Haul International president. "We still have areas with strong demand for one-way rentals. While overall migration in 2021 was record-breaking, we continue to experience significant customer demand to move out of some geographic areas to destinations at the top of our growth list."
2021 growth rankings in parentheses
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When considering the overall environmental impact of new cars and trucks, it’s important to look not only at the powertrain, but also the curb weight, according to a new analysis from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
The group annually releases a “Greenest List” of the 12 vehicles estimated to do the least damage to the environment, as determined by a holistic look at tailpipe emissions, manufacturing, and disposal, as well as emissions related to production of electricity or fuel. It also releases a “Meanest List” of the 12 worst environmental offenders.
The 2023 “Greenest List” was entirely made up of small EVs, hybrids, and plug-in hybrids—with EVs in the top five slots. The Mini Cooper SE was named greenest of the green, followed by the Nissan Leaf, Mazda MX-30 EV, Toyota bZ4X, and Subaru Solterra. You can browse the full list at the ACEEE GreenerCars website.
The ACEEE also compiled a “Greener List” of vehicles estimated to have a low environmental impact, but that didn’t make the “Greenest List.” This contingent was led by the Honda Accord Hybrid, with the Mitsubishi Mirage, Lexus ES 300h hybrid, Honda CR-V Hybrid, and Toyota RAV4 Hybrid rounding out the top five.
Of note is that the redesigned 2023 Toyota Prius was not included on either list. It was named greenest car of 2022 by the organization, but the redesigned version arrived too late to be included on the 2023 list. The Hyundai Ioniq Plug-In Hybrid was runner up to the Prius in 2022, but Hyundai has since ended production of this model.
The “Meanest List” consisted mostly of big pickup trucks and SUVs, with the Ram 1500 TRX rated worst for the environment, followed by the Ford F-150 Raptor R, Cadillac Escalade V, Dodge Durango SRT, and Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.
Analysts also did direct comparisons for vehicles available with both all-electric and internal-combustion powertrains, including the Mini Cooper Hardtop, Ford F-150, and Volvo XC40, with all-electric versions expected to cause 46%, 30%, and 38% less environmental damage, respectively.
The gasoline Mini Cooper SE also had a lower anticipated environmental impact per mile than the Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck, authors noted—again underscoring the importance of weight.
Lighter weight has long been the favored path toward improving efficiency and boosting EV range, but it’s not cheap. A 2020 report predicted that, because of the expensive materials needed to dramatically reduce weight, improvements to battery energy density might be a better bet. Lighter cars that carry more people might be the ultimate solution, but this runs counter to vehicle-owner habits.
Thinking about the overall efficiency of EVs is important as more of them hit the road. In addition to publishing its annual “Greenest” and “Meanest” lists, the ACEEE has also argued in the past that EV efficiency and upstream emissions are a lost opportunity in U.S. vehicle standards, citing potential emissions from the electricity grid as an area of concern.
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LANHAM, Md., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU) announced today that it will report its fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial and operational results on Thursday, February 2, 2023. Christopher "Chip" Paucek, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Paul Lalljie, Chief Financial Officer, will hold an audio webcast and conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET to discuss the results.
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The Florida Senate on Wednesday approved a sweeping elections bill aimed at continuing Republican leaders’ efforts to crack down on voter-registration groups and ensuring Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t have to resign from office to run for president.
Under the bill, approved along party lines, voter-registration groups could face a maximum of $250,000 in fines each year — five times the current $50,000 annual cap — for violating laws such as failing to submit completed registration applications to elections supervisors within 10 days.
The bill (SB 7050), which now will go to the House, also would shorten the time for voters to request mail-in ballots.
The Republican-controlled Legislature for years has backed measures targeting what are known as “third-party” registration groups, imposing hefty fines and other sanctions for failing to comply with laws. About 2,000 groups have registered with the state to be able to sign up voters, but not all are active, Senate Ethics and Elections Chairman Danny Burgess, R-Zephyrhills, said during debate Wednesday.
Democrats pointed to research that indicated one out of 10 Black voters and one out of 10 Hispanic voters use third-party groups to sign up to vote. They argued that increased penalties are designed to make it harder for Black and Hispanic voters to cast ballots.
Also, Democrats said proposed changes are aimed at keeping Republicans, who hold supermajorities in the House and Senate, in control. The bill is designed to “achieve the outcomes that the people in power want,” Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Windermere, said.
“This really is suppression. It is suppression, just like poll taxes. That was suppression. Just like violence against people who wanted to vote was suppression. Just like intimidation when you had the Ku Klux Klan march through certain communities was suppression,” Thompson, who is Black, said. “So I see different characters but the same objective, and that’s to make sure that only certain people vote.”
But Burgess, who is helping shepherd the bill, disputed Democrats’ objections.
“This bill does not and will not hinder anyone’s right to vote, nor would I ever subscribe my name to something that could even remotely be concluded to be voter suppression. There is nothing in this bill that makes it harder for a lawfully registered voter to cast their ballot,” he said.
The measure also includes a contentious provision that would change the wording on voter-registration cards. The proposed change came after about 20 people were arrested for voting illegally, including some who believed they were eligible to vote because county supervisors of elections had provided voter ID cards.
Confusion over voter eligibility stems, in part, from a 2018 constitutional amendment that restored voting rights to felons who had fulfilled their sentences. Under a law passed by the Legislature and signed by DeSantis in 2019, felons must pay fees and fines associated with their crimes to be eligible to vote. But determining whether fines and fees have been zeroed out, especially in cases that are decades old, has proven to be an onerous and in some cases impossible endeavor.
The bill would change the wording on voter-registration cards to make it clear that the onus is on individuals -– not on state or local elections officials — to determine voting eligibility.
“This card is for information purposes only. This card is proof of registration but not legal verification of eligibility to vote. It is the responsibility of a voter to keep his or her eligibility status current. A voter may confirm his or her eligibility with the Department of State,” new voter-registration cards would say.
A coalition of groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Common Cause Florida and the Florida State Conference of the NAACP, sent a letter to legislative leaders on Tuesday objecting to numerous parts of the bill, including the proposed ID card wording.
The wording “sends mixed signals to voters, and in some cases may dissuade eligible citizens from voting altogether. It also continues the state’s pattern of behavior in abdicating its role in verifying voter eligibility and passes that responsibility on to average citizens, who do not know the complexities of election law,” the coalition’s letter said.
But Burgess said “adding the disclaimer is a good notice to the voter of stuff that could potentially happen today, as it is.”
The bill also would require county clerks of court to provide weekly reports to elections supervisors identifying registered voters who have been convicted of felonies and whose voting rights haven’t been restored. Currently, the state Division of Elections sends lists of flagged voters to local officials, who are responsible for removing people from the voting rolls.
Sen. Tracie Davis, a Jacksonville Democrat who worked for the Duval County supervisor of elections office for more than a decade, said local elections officials don’t have the resources or training to vet voters’ eligibility.
“We have spoken to many supervisors of elections that are saying they don’t know how to do this,” she said.
The bill also “clarifies” that an elected official in Florida would not have to resign from office to run for president or vice president. Although DeSantis has not formally announced his candidacy, he is widely expected to seek the Republican presidential nomination next year.
“What I wanted to do, because everybody has been talking about it, I just wanted to clarify it for everyone that’s out there. So, that’s what the amendment does. It says if you are running for president or vice president, you do not need to resign,” said Sen. Travis Hutson, a St. Augustine Republican who sponsored an amendment that included the resign-to-run change.
But Sen. Jason Pizzo, D-Hollywood, argued DeSantis shouldn’t get special treatment.
“Folks, I don't think that the governor should be able to be politically married but continue to date,” Pizzo said.
The bulk of the bill focuses on third-party registration groups. The proposal would make it a crime to copy or retain voter-registration applicants’ personal data. Groups would be required to provide receipts to anyone who signs up to vote. The measure also would shorten from 14 to 10 days the length of time groups have to turn in applications to elections supervisors and impose a $50-per-day fine for each application that is turned in late. The measure also would prohibit convicted felons and non-U.S. citizens from “handling” completed voter-registration applications.
The bill creates “hurdles and barriers,” Davis argued Wednesday, adding, “We are not expanding access to voting. We are crippling certain communities.”
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‘Let’s Go Brandon’-chanting official causes ruckus at NJ restaurant, manager says
HOWELL — The township's deputy mayor is facing calls for her resignation after she was accused of threatening to spit in the face of a restaurant manager.
The target of Deputy Mayor Pamela Richmond's reported ire revealed the allegations during the public comment section of the Township Council meeting on Tuesday.
Kimberly Shulskie, a manager of The Ivy League Restaurant in Howell, she Richmond and her boyfriend John Bitner had a "very disturbing and unhinged" argument on Oct. 9 after they began chanting the anti-President Biden slogan "Let's go Brandon" at the bar while watching a football game.
Shulskie — a Republican supporter for former President Donald Trump — said she calmly told them to stop as it was riling up other customers and she was concerned about things turning violent.
"Her and her partner's reaction was so aggressive and irate because they were drunk. Come to find out in hindsight they had both been at (co-owned) Chapter House drinking before they showed up at Ivy League and they were drinking the night before," Shelsky said.
Bitner and Richmond began shouting profanities and told Shulskie to "take off your mask so I can spit in your face" as children and families watched.
Shulskie said the pair climbed up on the bar, screamed in her face and threatened to have her fired.
"They tried to intimidate me by telling me she hoped I liked my job because I won't be there tomorrow and that I should call the owner Bob Jaspin so that they could both scream in my face," Shelsky said.
Richmond, a Republican, said she has hired an attorney but did not address the allegations during the meeting.
Police got involved
Shulskie said she was going to call police when Richmond and her boyfriend refused to leave. Shulskie, who said she didn't know at the time that Richmond was deputy mayor, said she tried to de-escalate the situation by walking away as Richmond bad-mouthed her to customers.
"Her and her companion's actions are completely inappropriate and despicable for a deputy mayor and community servant, which is why I am bringing this incident to light," Shelsky said at the meeting. "This type of person should not be governing any part of municipal government whatsoever. She has a drinking problem and she should see help."
Shulskie said she filed a police report and has security video of the incident.
Police Sgt. Peter Kuppler told New Jersey 101.5 that officers took a report of harassment involving Richmond and Shulskie on Oct. 9. He did not know if a complaint was signed.
A person who answered the phone at The Ivy League said the restaurant's management had no comment and declined to provide a copy of the video.
A call to step down
Two members of the council offered their apologies for Richmond's behavior.
"I'm very sorry that you had to experience that. It's inappropriate, unprofessional, unethical," Mayor Theresa Berger, a Democrat, said. She later called for Richmond's resignation, which was greeted by applause from the audience.
John Bonevich, a Democratic councilman, called the manager's account a "very serious allegation." He said the council has received emails about Richmond's behavior.
"The Deputy Mayor continues to use her position to intimidate, harass, and destroy people's lives when they disagree with her. This is unbecoming of an elected official," Berger told New Jersey 101.5 in an email. "This isn’t the first offense, and unfortunately I believe not the last. I stand by my decision, that she should resign from council, before the rest of the complainants come forward, worsening this situation. The deputy mayor didn’t even have common decency to apologize. It might have gone differently for her but her arrogance is her worst enemy."
Richmond does not appear to have plans of stepping down from her position. She posted the music video to Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" on her Facebook page and called it her theme song.
Dan Alexander is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dan.alexander@townsquaremedia.com
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GALE WARNING
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
353 AM EST Fri Nov 25 2022
...GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
1 PM EST SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and
seas 5 to 8 feet expected.
* WHERE...In Massachusetts coastal waters, Coastal waters east
of Ipswich Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine
Sanctuary, Coastal waters from Provincetown MA to Chatham MA
to Nantucket MA out 20 nm and Coastal Waters extending out to
25 nm South of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket. In Rhode Island
coastal waters, Coastal Waters from Montauk NY to Marthas
Vineyard extending out to 20 nm South of Block Island.
* WHEN...From 1 PM this afternoon to 1 PM EST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Pentagon office set up to track reports of unidentified flying objects has received “several hundreds” of new reports but no evidence so far of alien life, the agency's leadership told reporters Friday.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was set up in July and is responsible for not only tracking unidentified objects in the sky but also underwater or in space — or potentially an object that has the ability to move from one domain to the next.
The office was established following more than a year of attention on unidentified flying objects that military pilots have observed but have sometimes been reluctant to report due to fear of stigma.
In June 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that between 2004 and 2021, there were 144 such encounters, 80 of which were captured on multiple sensors.
Since then, “we've had lots more reporting,” said anomaly office director Sean Kirkpatrick. When asked to quantify the amount, Kirkpatrick said, “several hundreds.”
An updated report from the Director of National Intelligence that will provide specific figures on new reports received since 2021 is expected by the end of the year, the officials said.
The office was set up not only to examine the question of whether there’s extraterrestrial life but also because of the security risk posed by so many encounters with unknown flying objects by military installations or military aircraft.
This May, Congress held its first hearing in more than half a century on the topic, with multiple members expressing concern that whether or not the objects are alien or potentially new, unknown technology being flown by China, Russia, or another potential adversary, the unknown creates a security risk.
So far, “we have not seen anything, and we're still very early on, that would lead us to believe that any of the objects that we have seen are of alien origin,” said Ronald Moultrie, under secretary of defense for intelligence and security. “Any unauthorized system in our airspace we deem as a threat to safety.”
The office is also working on ways to improve its ability to identify unknown objects, such as by recalibrating sensors that may be focused just on known adversary aircraft or drone signatures, Moultrie said.
One reason for the hundreds of additional reports coming in may be the outreach the department has done to destigmatize reporting potential encounters. Each service has also established its own reporting processes, Kirkpatrick said.
Beyond unidentifiable objects, there’s a lot of new technology — such as future stealth bombers and stealth fighters, drones and hypersonic missiles being fielded by both the U.S. and China — that could be mistaken for a UFO. Kirkpatrick said the new office has been coordinating with the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community to get the signatures of U.S. technology in order to rule out those aircraft or drones.
“We are setting up very clear mechanisms with our blue programs, both our DOD and IC programs, to deconflict any observations that come in with blue activities, and ensure that we weed those out and identify those fairly early on,” Kirkpatrick said, referring to the “blue” U.S. aircraft programs in operation by the Pentagon or intelligence agencies. | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/pentagon-has-received-several-hundreds-of-new-ufo-reports | 2022-12-16 23:17:45 | 0 | https://www.lex18.com/news/national/pentagon-has-received-several-hundreds-of-new-ufo-reports |
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces demolished the home on Thursday of a Palestinian behind a deadly shooting in the occupied West Bank, as tensions and unrest surge in the region.
The military said the demolition was carried out after an Israeli court rejected appeals to spare the residence. The home, in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, was demolished in a controlled explosion. A flash and then grey tufts of smoke were seen emerging from the apartment in the early morning hours.
Israel says home demolitions are meant to deter future attackers but critics say they amount to collective punishment against the families of assailants and only exacerbate tensions with Palestinians.
In the fatal shooting incident last year, Muhammed Kamel al-Jabari opened fire at the entrance to an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, killing an Israeli man and wounding several civilians before a security guard shot him dead.
The demolition comes as unrest has been roiling the region for months. Israel has been conducting near-nightly arrest raids in the West Bank, which were prompted by a spate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis last spring. Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem in 2022, making it the deadliest year in those territories since 2004, according to a leading Israeli rights group.
Nearly 50 Palestinians have been killed in those lands just this year, a sign that the fighting has intensified in recent weeks, just as Israel’s new, far-right government has risen to power. It has promised to take a tough line against the Palestinians, and already has taken steps to ramp up West Bank settlement building.
Israel says most of those killed have been militants. But youth protesting the incursions and others not involved in confrontations have also been killed.
Some 30 people were killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis last year and another seven people were killed in an attack outside an east Jerusalem synagogue last month.
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Forty-seven. That’s how many days of child care Kathryn Anne Edwards’ 3-year-old son has missed in the past year.
RSV, COVID-19 and two bouts of the dreaded preschool scourge of hand, foot and mouth disease struck one after another. The illnesses were so disruptive that the labor economist quit her full-time job at the Rand Corp., a think tank. She switched last month to independent contract work to give her more flexibility to care for her son and 4-month-old daughter.
In the first and even second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, multi-week quarantines and isolations were common for many Americans, especially children. But nine weeks of missed child care, nearly three years in?
“The rest of the world has moved on from the crisis that I’m still in,” said Edwards, who studies women’s issues. “That’s sometimes how it feels like to me.”
This fall and winter have upended life for working parents of little children, who thought the worst of the pandemic was behind them. The arrival of vaccines for younger children and the end of quarantines for COVID exposure were supposed to bring relief.
Instead, families were treated to what some called a “tripledemic.” Flu, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus cases collided, stressing children’s hospitals and threatening the already imperiled child care system. Even parents of babies with less serious cases of COVID-19 have run into 10-day isolation rules that have taxed the patience of employers.
A record-high 104,000 people missed work in October because of child care problems, surpassing even early pandemic levels, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. Child care-related absences fell to 59,000 in November, but numbers still surpass typical pre-pandemic levels.
The instability has hurt many working parents’ finances. Most of those who missed work in October because of child care problems didn’t get paid, according to an analysis from the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.
Now, doctors are bracing for the number of sick children to rise after families gathered for the holidays.
“I think we’re going to have to be ready to do it all over again,” said Dr. Eric Biondi, director of pediatric hospital medicine at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Maryland.
Illnesses among teachers and children have strained a child care system that’s already short-staffed.
“This is the worst year I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” said Shaunna Baillargeon, owner of Muddy Puddles Early Learning Program in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. She faces “a constant battle of staff and children being sick with a different virus every day,” with no backups if a teacher calls in sick.
At the Washington, D.C., day care where Jana Williams teaches, illness has caused classroom shutdowns almost weekly since October. Her 19-month-old daughter is also enrolled there, coming down with the same viruses.
“It’s stressful,” she said before Christmas, when she was home with her sick toddler. “You want to stay home and care for your child. But then it’s like, you have to get to work.”
During the early months of the pandemic, women in the prime of their careers left the labor market at a rate far exceeding men. They were more likely to work in the service-oriented fields that were decimated, and they often were caring for children, Edwards said.
Women have since returned to the workforce, particularly women of color, said economist Diane Swonk of professional services firm KPMG.
But the participation of prime-age working women in the U.S. lags most industrialized nations, Swonk said. Advocates have long blamed the country’s lack of universal preschool and paid family leave.
Finding child care and heading back to work has proved far from simple. At the pandemic’s height, more than one-third of day care jobs were lost, Edwards said. Staffing hasn’t fully recovered. As of November, the country had 8% fewer child care workers than before the pandemic, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.
The strong labor market has driven up the cost to hire new workers. That means child care spots are pricey and hard to find. Even centers with openings may close when staff or kids are sick.
That babies and toddlers are prone to illnesses adds to the challenge. In the wake of COVID, day cares are more anxious about accepting a snotty toddler.
Isolation guidelines have hit parents of babies especially hard. While older preschoolers who have COVID-19 may return with masks after five days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends children under 2 stay home for 10 days, or until they test negative twice, 48 hours apart.
One issue is masks aren’t recommended for the under-2 crowd. Their smaller airways mean wearing them can increase the risk of suffocation, according to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio.
Not all centers are adhering to the CDC’s guidance. But many are following it to the letter, or even going further.
When Chicago educator Tamisha Holifield and her daughter had COVID-19 in May, the toddler had to miss 15 days of child care. Bouts of colds have followed, in what Holifield described as a “constant whirlwind” of sickness that has been stressful both financially and emotionally.
“It’s a major inconvenience. But I’m a single parent, so I don’t have a choice. If I drop the ball, the game is over,” Holifield said.
Disruption from illness can have ripple effects on young kids. Unduly stressed parents can become a stress on the baby, which can in turn cause sleep, gastrointestinal or socialization problems, said Dr. Sherri Alderman, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician.
The situation has also strained employers. Brad Lukas, chief nursing officer at Corewell Health Beaumont Grosse Pointe Hospital in Michigan, has seen eight or nine nurses calling out per shift, some because of sick children.
“We’re seeing a lot of people reduce their hours,” Lukas said. His own wife cut back nursing shifts so she can mostly stay home with their young children.
The continued chaos for young families is isolating, especially when other Americans’ lives are back to normal, said Lauren Hipp, early learning chief at MomsRising, an advocacy organization.
“I feel pretty angry about it,” said Hipp, whose own 2-, 6- and 8-year-old children have been wracked with illnesses, including RSV. “To feel like society has passed you by is a really difficult and lonely feeling.”
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AP Medical Writer Mike Stobbe in New York contributed to this report. Hollingsworth reported from Kansas City, Missouri, and Savage from Chicago.
Savage is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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RICHMOND, Va. — The average price for a gallon of gas in Metro Richmond increased more than 10 cents after a few weeks of relief.
AAA Mid-Atlantic reports the statewide average for a gallon of unleaded gas is now $4.05. The current average in Richmond is $4.06, which accounts for a 10 cent and 11 cent increase, respectively.
Central Virginia drivers are also paying $1.33 more a gallon compared to this day last year.
Morgan Dean with AAA said the switch from winter blend gas to summer blend will also help drive up prices.
“We’re continuing to see crude oil prices stay at a very high level,” said spokesman Morgan Dean. “Crude oil prices continue to sit high, there's a tight and global supply of crude oil. Then here in the US, we're right on the cusp of the summer travel season, which is higher demand at the pumps."
Diesel fuel hit another record high locally on Tuesday at $5.30 per gallon.
Chase Lehman gassed up his Toyota at the Staples Mill Road Wawa for $4.09 per gallon.
“It costs about $41 to fill up my car now. It used to cost maybe $23 dollars to fill it up — at most,” Lehman stated.
He has already changed his driving habits to save money on gasoline, but hasn’t stopped driving altogether.
“It’s starting to get ridiculous, but $5 a gallon will probably make it where I would draw the line there,” he explained.
In a recent poll, by AAA of Virginia residents, more than 40% said gas prices were not even a consideration in their travel planning. However, almost 45% said they were taking fewer or shorter trips because of gas prices. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/metro-richmond-gas-averages-rise | 2022-05-03 15:38:30 | 1 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/metro-richmond-gas-averages-rise |
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Two men caught shoplifting at a grocery store in Georgia had an estimated $26,000 worth of baby formula in their car, according to police.
Police in Cartersville caught the men walking out of a Publix store north of Atlanta with backpacks filled with cans of formula, news outlets reported. Officers searching their car found 662 more cans of formula inside, police Lt. Greg Sparacio said.
“We believe right now that they have hit several locations, Publix, Kroger, Walmart and more in just over a course of a couple of days,” Sparacio said.
The men were jailed in Bartow County on charges of shoplifting, felony theft by receiving, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. They had a 16-year-old girl with them when they were arrested Thursday. It was not immediately known if the men had attorneys representing them.
The February 2021 shutdown of a large baby formula factory and recall of many of its products because of contamination concerns helped trigger a nationwide formula shortage. Supplies have largely rebounded more than a year later. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/police-26k-in-stolen-baby-formula-found-in-17836547.php | 2023-03-13 18:16:28 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/police-26k-in-stolen-baby-formula-found-in-17836547.php |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military said Monday that it had repelled more than a dozen Russian attacks in the country’s east and north, including attempts to advance on key cities in the eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas.
In its regular Facebook update, the military’s general staff said Russian troops had attempted to push towards Kramatorsk, one of two major cities in the eastern Donetsk province that remain under Ukrainian control, but “they failed completely and chaotically retreated to their previous positions.”
In the same post, the military said Russian forces had staged an unsuccessful assault on Bakhmut, a strategic town in the Donetsk region whose capture would pave the way for Russia to take Kramatorsk and the de facto Ukrainian administrative capital, Sloviansk.
The Donetsk region is one of two provinces that make up the Donbas, where the fighting has largely been focused in recent months, since Kremlin forces retreated from around the capital, Kyiv.
Russian officials announced the full capture of the Luhansk region, the second of the two, early last month, though its Ukrainian governor has repeatedly claimed that Kyiv’s forces are holding out in a small area near the regional boundary.
In the same update, the military claimed that Russia had tried and failed to break through Ukrainian defense lines in the northern Kharkiv region, home to Ukraine’s second-largest city, but were “met harshly and thrown back.”
Meanwhile, the Russian FSB, the KGB’s main successor agency, said that it had thwarted a “sabotage and terrorist attack” on an oil pipeline in Russia’s southern Volgograd region, which it blamed on two Russian citizens colluding with Ukrainian security forces.
The claims could not be immediately verified.
Elsewhere, Russian and Ukrainian officials traded more accusations Monday about renewed shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, with each side alleging that the other was responsible for the attacks that have raised fears of a catastrophe.
The press office of the Kremlin-backed administration in Enerhodar, the Russian-controlled city where the plant is located, told the Interfax agency that Ukrainian forces were carrying out “massive shelling” of the facility, as well as Enerhodar’s residential and industrial areas.
According to the statement, the shelling came from nearby Nikopol, a Ukrainian-held city which faces the plant across the Dnieper River.
The mayor of Nikopol later said that Russians were shelling Enerhodar themselves.
Mayor Yevhen Yevtushenko and other municipal authorities in Nikopol have repeatedly accused Russian troops stationed at the plant of shelling the city, knowing that Ukrainian forces there were unlikely to fire back.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed his call for fresh sanctions against Moscow and its nuclear industry in response to the situation. He described Russian forces’ actions there as “nuclear blackmail” that may embolden malign actors worldwide.
As Russian forces kept up their artillery barrages around Ukraine, at least three Ukrainian civilians were killed and 20 others wounded, Ukrainian officials said.
The deaths and 13 of the wounded were blamed on Russian shelling that hit towns and villages in the Donetsk region, regional officials said.
In the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, seven civilians were wounded by Russian shelling that hit residential buildings and an area near a bus stop. Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Synyehubov said the wounded included a 80-year-old woman.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Monday that Russian warplanes have struck Ukrainian army positions in the southern Kherson region and in the Donetsk region. He added that the Russian air force also hit a facility in the Kharkiv region, killing at least 100 and wounding 50 “mercenaries” from Poland and Germany. His claims could not be independently verified.
Speaking at the opening of an arms show outside Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the military, which he said was “liberating the Donbas step by step.”
He also vowed to expand arms sales to Russian allies, whom he praised for continuing to offer firm support to Moscow in the face of Western pressure.
For its part, the Ukrainian military claimed to have destroyed more than 10 Russian warehouses with ammunition and military equipment in the past week.
In other developments Monday:
— Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner filed an appeal against her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported. Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted on Aug. 4. She was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage.
— The Ukrainian parliament extended martial law and the country’s general mobilization for another 90 days.
— Zelenskyy dismissed the heads of three regional branches of Ukraine’s top security agency, SBU, in the Kyiv, Lviv and Tarnopil regions. Zelenskyy’s office didn’t elaborate on the reasons behind the move. Last month, he dismissed SBU chief Ivan Bakanov and a chief prosecutor, saying their departments had too many people who faced accusations of collaborating with the Russians.
— The trial of five European men captured in eastern Ukraine got underway in a court administered by Kremlin-backed separatists, Russian media reported.
Three of the five — a Swede, a Croat and a Briton — could face the death penalty over charges of serving as mercenaries and “undergoing training in order to seize power” under the laws of the self-proclaimed, unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic, Russian state media reported.
The remaining two, both British, face prison terms.
— A British military reconnaissance plane violated Russia’s airspace, the Russian defense ministry said.
The ministry said in a statement that Russian air defense forces in Russia’s Arctic northwest had spotted the plane heading towards the border from the direction of the Barents Sea. A Russian fighter identified the aircraft as a British Air Force RC-135 and forced it out of Russian territory, the ministry said.
— German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Berlin would not back several fellow European countries that have called for an EU-wide move to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens.
The nations backing such a ban say that Russians should not be able to take vacations in Europe while Moscow wages war in Ukraine. Finland and Denmark want an EU decision and some EU countries bordering Russia already no longer issue visas to Russians.
“This is not the war of the Russian people. It is (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s war and we have to be very clear on that topic,” Scholz said.
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Fatal crash closes US 36 near SR 75 in Hendricks Co.
NEW WINCHESTER, Ind. (WISH) — A busy Hendricks County intersection is closed Wednesday afternoon due to a fatal crash.
U.S. 36 is closed in both directions at State Road 75 west of Danville so police can investigate the crash and clean up the scene, the Hendricks County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook at 11:30 a.m.
Police did not say what led to the crash or how many vehicles were involved.
The highway is expected to be closed “for an extended period of time,” the sheriff’s office says.
Drivers should avoid the area for the next few hours. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/fatal-crash-closes-us-36-near-sr-75-in-hendricks-co/ | 2023-06-07 18:23:18 | 0 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/fatal-crash-closes-us-36-near-sr-75-in-hendricks-co/ |
The San Miguel Library is under new leadership since re-opening last month.
Library staff say the closure was due to someone's retirement, which forced the library to temporarily close its doors until they hired someone new.
Grant Thompson is now the new San Miguel Library Branch manager who says when he was hired, he and staff worked to re-imagine the space and moved some shelves around to make the kids area larger and easier to access.
Thompson says he is trying to create fun programs for kids over the summer.
"The feedback I've gotten is the parents really want stuff for the kids to do that involves not being on their phone or having to drive them to Paso," Thompson told KSBY.
The library will host several different events this year. On Saturdays, they also host a Lego Club, which seems to be the most popular, they recently had 46 kids attend Lego Club.
An event calendar can be found on SLOlibrary.org. | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/san-miguel-library | 2023-04-13 01:42:00 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/san-miguel-library |
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Second, ICPPP promises to provide all customers with the latest technology applications, and to treat their brands the same as our self-owned brands.
Third, ICCPP will open up all cutting-edge technologies and the whole industry chain to invest in strategic cooperation, including all laboratories and research institutes, automated intelligent factories, overseas localized user insights and globalized marketing services, and is committed to breaking the monopoly to create an open competitive environment.
Fourthly, ICCPP will respond to the strategic planning requirements and simultaneously open multi-dimensional transformation of supply chain, operation management and digitalization to realize all-round changes from supplier selection to factory construction and even to market expansion so as to support the new ODM+ business.
All above directly solve kinds of problems at macro management level such as strategic path, business competition, resource investment and capacity matching that need to be faced from the development of self-owned brand to ODM+ business.
Compared with the ordinary ODM and OEM model, the mature globalization mindset of ICCPP ODM+ rooted in its self-owned brand can fully and comprehensively empower customers' brands, and the whole industry chain synergy it draws can truly penetrate into the customer's product design, manufacturing, sales, operation and marketing, then realizing the branding, marketization and serialization of the customer's product design, the high quality, standardization and modularization of the product manufacturing, and the localization, regionalization and user-centralization of the customer's product marketing, so as to achieve the win-win situation of the customer's brands and ODM+ business.
New strategic partnership & Innovative management operation mechanism
Promoting mutual business trust and strengthening partnerships are important grips and key supports for ODM business development. ICCPP ODM+ believes that the smooth delivery of products is not the end of ODM partnership period, but a new starting point to serve a new partnership for the development of customers' brands. Regarding the marketing and promotion of products after launched, how to help customers' brand products really penetrate into users' hearts and opening up the imagination for mutual and sustainable trust and cooperation, there are lots more that ICCPP ODM+ should and have to do. For example, in response to customers about the real dilemma of long time cycle and high cost required for product compliance and certification in regional markets, ICCPP ODM+ quickly integrated the strength of the Group's advantageous resources and deeply shared compliance certification and testing with customers. They fully open the industry's top CNAS labs and UL8139 labs in an high-efficient, high-standard and cost-effective manner to provide one-stop and customized compliance services including PMTA, TPD, etc. to solve real-life difficulties for customers' branded products on the market.
The business leadership of ICCPP ODM+, as a new business cooperation model, also lies in the construction of a new type of strategic partnership and the innovative adoption of "Big Project" operation mechanism, which ensures the smooth promotion of the new partnership and the orderly and powerful execution of the project in various aspects such as functional roles, management authority, resource scheduling and comprehensive decision-making.
In addition to the traditional project manager, "Big Project" system of ICCPP ODM+ takes a step forward and creatively introduces the role of "project supervisor" to coordinate matters related to project planning, organization, command, control, decision making, personnel, and resource scheduling. Internally, the project manager is responsible for controlling project progress and time nodes, clarifying the orderly and substantive promotion of the "list-based" project tasks, while the project supervisor is responsible for key coordination and decision making, resource scheduling and matching, ensuring effective negotiation and docking and strong coordination and processing, so as to realize the rapid landing of signed projects, and worry-free implementation of projects with substantive progress.
Externally, "Big Project" system advocates "heartfelt service" to proactive response to star customers' demands, 24 hours a day, to service customer brands' growth. The professional elite team, consisting of brand marketers, product managers, R&D managers, commercial personnel, project manager and project supervisor, adheres to the service concept of "every customer brand is a carefully incubated brand of ICCPP ODM+", thinks ahead of customer brands and products' pain points, and fits market findings and actual user needs, to provide all-round and whole-process ODM+ service from customer's branding, product development and marketing empowerment, one step faster and one step deeper, in order to seize the opportunity of rapid development for customers' brands.
Industry ecological thinking & Whole chain win-win
An open and symbiotic industrial ecology is the soil for innovation and technological change, as well as the key to shaping core competitiveness, especially in the B2B circle where ICCPP ODM+ is located. Everest Zhao pointed out that "the industry's advantage is upgraded to the integration ability of the whole industry chain in the global novel tobacco industry. Based on learning from Google's open ecology and Tesla's innovative spirit, ICCPP should be determined and pioneering to share our global experience and advantages, and continuously empower the industry through ODM+ service, thus creating an open and leading corporate culture across regions, ethnicities and countries."
There is a passage in the I Ching that says, "You will get secondary outcome when setting goals high and low results when goals are set secondarily. Your heart have long yearned for there though you can't go." Thinking from the "ego", enterprise development is based on product iteration and technology transcendence, which is the progress of "methods and instruments", while from the "industry self", openness, inclusiveness and sharing are the universal values and trends of industry innovation and development. Based on this, the constraints of value satisfaction of stakeholders in the whole industry chain, such as customers, shareholders, users, upstream and downstream partners, employees, the public, etc., can be "solved", and the lasting investment of resources, equipment, capacity and personnel is "at any cost and effort".
Since its establishment, ICCPP has insisted on the R&D and manufacturing of electronic atomization technology, and continued to invest 10% in R&D strategy every year for nearly 10 years, never wavering, and has been committed to promoting innovation and development in the field of novel tobacco. In order to further widen the moat of the industry and co-exist and co-prosper with the industry chain, ICCPP also took the lead in the industry this year by joining hands with SAP and PwC to open a digital transformation project to realize the comprehensive digitalization of R&D, production, management, marketing and supply chain. Internally, it efficiently cooperates with information and resources to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and externally, it actually promotes the orderly opening and integration and reorganization of resources of the whole industry chain, which is an exemplary key step for the formation of a truly open and lasting win-win virtuous industrial ecology.
In the future, ICCPP ODM+, as the innovative chief strategic business of the global operating and full industry chain layout electronic atomization health technology group, will continue to take innovation, openness and win-win industrial thinking as the cornerstone, take user thinking as the guide, and to fit customers' brands by deeply consolidate the inner innovation powers, further surpassing in leading technology power, premium product power, caring service power, lasting competitiveness and sincere cooperation power, and to do our best to enhance brand value, create brand and product advantages for partners, enhance mutual trust and deep cooperation, thus achieving mutual long-term sustainable development.
About ICCPP ODM+：
ICCPP ODM+ is an innovative ODM strategic cooperation model created by ICCPP Group in 2022, which provides customers' brands with premium vape solutions and helps to extend their product life cycles，so as to achieve long-term win-win success through innovations and breakthroughs in technology+, product+, flavor+, quality+, compliance+ and marketing+.
About ICCPP：
ICCPP Group is a comprehensive electronic atomization ecological group with the whole industrial chain layout. It is rapidly developing with a new business model of the matrix, internationalization, and platform, integrating technology R&D, product design, intelligent manufacturing, brand operation, and supply chain management.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The wait is — almost — over! "Ted Lasso" is returning with its third season Wednesday, March 15.
Apple TV+ made the announcement Tuesday morning, which will be the streaming service's first series to launch midweek.
Jason Sudeikis ("Horrible Bosses," "We're the Millers") stars as the titular character who is recruited to coach an English Premier League soccer team by a woman (Hannah Waddingham) to get revenge on her unfaithful ex-husband (Anthony Head). The only problem? Lasso was an American college football coach and has no experience coaching soccer.
A new episode will be released each Wednesday from March 15 through May 31.
In the teaser trailer, the players and staff write "believe" on pieces of paper to display in the locker room, to which Lasso responds, "well, if seeing is believing, I believe we've been seen."
NOTE: The below paragraph contains a spoiler alert from the second season finale.
In the first-look photo of the upcoming season, fans can see a standoff between Lasso, the head coach of AFC Richmond, and Nathan Shelley (Nick Mohammed), the team's former equipment manager who became an assistant coach. However, in a shocking twist in the second season's finale, it is revealed Shelley has joined the coaching staff of AFC Richmond's rivals, West Ham, which is owned by Rebecca's ex-husband.
Below is Apple TV+'s official logline for the upcoming season:
The newly-promoted AFC Richmond faces ridicule as media predictions widely peg them as last in the Premier League and Nate (Nick Mohammed), now hailed as the “wonder kid,” has gone to work for Rupert (Anthony Head) at West Ham United. In the wake of Nate’s contentious departure from Richmond, Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) steps up as assistant coach, alongside Beard (Brendan Hunt). Meanwhile, while Ted (Jason Sudeikis) deals with pressures at work, he continues to wrestle with his own personal issues back home, Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) is focused on defeating Rupert, and Keeley (Juno Temple) navigates being the boss of her own PR agency. Things seem to be falling apart both on and off the pitch, but Team Lasso is set to give it their best shot anyway.
"Ted Lasso" has won numerous awards for its first two seasons, including:
- Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series (2021, 2022)
- Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Sudeikis) (2021, 2022)
- Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Goldstein) (2021, 2022)
- Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Waddingham) (2021)
- Golden Globe for Best Actor — Television Series Musical or Comedy (Sudeikis) (2021, 2022)
- Screen Actors Guild for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2022)
- Screen Actors Guild for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series (Sudeikis) (2021, 2022)
The first two seasons are available to stream on Apple TV+. | https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/ted-lasso-third-season-apple-tv-plus-march-15/531-409aa232-ab70-4636-9c5a-7eae44350de3 | 2023-02-14 17:19:40 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/ted-lasso-third-season-apple-tv-plus-march-15/531-409aa232-ab70-4636-9c5a-7eae44350de3 |
A Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo, the first birth of the critically endangered animal in captivity in Europe, and is doing well after initial troubles, the park said on Thursday.
For the first few days after the baby female was born on Feb. 2, park keepers were worried because it was losing weight.
The reason was found to be that the mother, Run Hou Tang, didn’t have enough milk. Following consultations with experts from Taiwan, a program of artificial feeding with milk from a cat was introduced and the mother was stimulated to produce more of her own.
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That turned things around, with the zoo now expressing cautious optimism about the pup, which still has no name but has been nicknamed “Little Cone” because it resembles a spruce cone.
“We have only overcome the first hurdle and others are still waiting for us," zoo director Miroslav Bobek said.
The baby's birth weight was just 135 grams (4.76 ounces). Adults can reach up to 15 pounds.
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The Chinese pangolin is native to southern China and southeastern Asia and is one of the four pangolin species living in Asia, while another four can be found in Africa.
Prague received the rare animal from Taiwan last year, becoming only the second European zoo to keep the species.
Guo Bao, the male pangolin, and Run Hou Tang both came from the Taipei zoo, the leading breeder of the mammals that are hunted heavily for their scales and meat.
It’s estimated that almost 200,000 were trafficked in 2019 because of the scales that are used in traditional medicine in Asia and elsewhere.
They're difficult to breed in captivity because they require a special feed that includes drone larvae and need a particular humidity and temperature in their enclosure.
The pangolins’ arrival in Prague came after the city decided to revoke a sister-city agreement with Beijing and signed a similar deal in 2020 with the Taiwanese capital, Taipei. That agreement, which has caused tensions with China, also included cooperation between the zoos of the two cities.
Taiwan split from mainland China amid a civil war in 1949, but Beijing considers the self-ruled island part of its territory.
The Czech government recognizes the one-China principle but Prague officials said they wanted to focus on cultural and other cooperation, not on politics. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/rare-chinese-pangolin-born-in-prague-zoo-first-of-its-kind-in-captivity-in-europe/4120528/ | 2023-02-24 05:15:36 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/rare-chinese-pangolin-born-in-prague-zoo-first-of-its-kind-in-captivity-in-europe/4120528/ |
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Ons Jabeur's steady progress from year to year — up the tennis rankings, through the draws of various tournaments and, now, at Wimbledon — has carried her to a Grand Slam singles final, the first African woman and Arab woman to make it that far in the professional era.
The No. 3-seeded Jabeur, a 27-year-old from Tunisia, got past her good friend Tatjana Maria 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 in an up-and-down semifinal at a sun-splashed Centre Court on Thursday.
“I want to go bigger, inspire many more generations. Tunisia is connected to the Arab world, is connected to the African continent. ... I want to see more players from my country, from the Middle East, from Africa,” said Jabeur, who sat on her sideline chair and threw her head back after the biggest victory of her career. “We didn’t believe enough, at a certain point, that we can do it. Now I’m just trying to show (we can). Hopefully people are getting inspired.”
On Saturday, she will face another player making her major final debut, No. 17 seed Elena Rybakina, for the championship. Rybakina, a 23-year-old who was born in Moscow but began representing Kazakhstan four years ago, overpowered 2019 Wimbledon champion Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3 in the second semifinal.
“I already did a lot,” Rybakina said, “and it's just time to enjoy.”
This is the first Wimbledon final since 1962 featuring two women both appearing in their initial Grand Slam title match.
After a surprising first-round loss at the French Open in May, Jabeur is on quite a run: She has won 11 consecutive matches, all on grass courts, and 22 of her past 24. Since pro players were first admitted to major tennis tournaments in 1968, never had an African woman or Arab woman been to a Slam final.
There were supposed to be two men’s semifinals on Friday, but now there will be just one, because 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal pulled out of the tournament with a torn abdominal muscle. Nadal announced his withdrawal Thursday, which put unseeded Nick Kyrgios into his first major final. Kyrgios will face either No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic or No. 9 Cameron Norrie of Britain, who play each other Friday.
Jabeur has been rising in the tennis world in recent seasons. In 2020, at the Australian Open, she became the first Arab woman to reach the quarterfinals at a major. Last year produced all sorts of milestones: first Arab player to break into the top 10 of the men’s or women’s rankings; first Arab to win a WTA title; a quarterfinal at Wimbledon.
Now she's done that two steps better.
“I really don’t know what to say. It’s a dream coming true from years and years of work and sacrifice. I’m really happy it’s paying off,” Jabeur said through a wide smile. “One more match now.”
When their semifinal ended, she and Maria — a 34-year-old mother of two from Germany who is ranked 103th — met at the net for an extended hug. Jabeur whispered something in her pal's ear. Then, after depositing her racket on the sideline, Jabeur returned to the middle of the court for the usual victor's wave to the crowd — except, instead of going alone, she playfully tugged Maria along with her, an uncommon gesture, and encouraged the spectators to salute the player on the wrong end of the scoreline.
“I definitely wanted to share the moment with her at the end, because she’s such an inspiration for so many players, including me,” Jabeur said. “Coming back after having two babies — I still can’t believe how she did it.”
Rybakina, who upset Serena Williams in the 2021 French Open's fourth round, drew several questions from reporters about her Russian background. Players from Russia and Belarus were banned by the All England Club from competing this year because of the war in Ukraine.
“I feel for the players who couldn’t come here,” Rybakina said, “but I’m just enjoying playing here on the biggest stage, enjoying my time and trying to do my best.”
Rybakina, never beyond a major quarterfinal until now, leads the tour in aces this year and added five to her total Thursday. More surprising was the way Halep never got going, especially on her serve, double-faulting nine times.
Halep had won her past 12 matches at the All England Club, a streak that began with her title run three years ago. Wimbledon was canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, and Halep was unable to compete a year ago because she tore her left calf muscle.
Before their semifinal, Jabeur and Maria stood beside each other, waiting to take the walk through the halls of the stadium that lead to the court. Close as they are, the pair avoided exchanged any glances or chatter.
Close friends, yes. On this day, opponents, too, with quite the setting, stage and stakes.
Neither had been to a Grand Slam semifinal previously. Maria never had been past the third round in any of her 34 prior majors — and she only got that far once, at Wimbledon in 2015.
They are, to use Jabeur’s term, “barbecue buddies.” Jabeur knows Maria’s two daughters so well that the German referred to her as “Aunt Ons.”
“She’s part of our family,” Maria said.
Both offer unusual brands of speed-mixing, variety-filled tennis. On the second point of the match, Jabeur won a point by using a drop shot on a return of serve. Maria loves to hit slice forehands; Jabeur, quite capable of powerful groundstrokes, joined in on that occasionally.
“Very tricky player,” Rybakina said about Jabeur. “It's not going to be easy to play against her.”
After a strong first set, Jabeur was far less effective in the second. Suddenly, mistakes began accruing rapidly. Her serving was less self-assured. Maria took full advantage. And then, just as suddenly, Jabeur switched back to her best self, pulling out to a 5-0 edge in the third in 20 minutes.
After 17 unforced errors in the second set, Jabeur made a remarkably low total of three the rest of the way. Maria simply could not keep up.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is fighting for reelection Tuesday after a history-making but tumultuous four years in office and a bruising campaign threaten to make her the city’s first one-term mayor in decades.
Lightfoot in 2019 became the first Black woman and first openly gay mayor of the third-largest U.S. city, and only the second woman to hold the office. But Lightfoot, a former prosecutor and head of a city police review board, now faces serious challenges from multiple candidates, who have hammered her over crime that spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic and a leadership style they say is unnecessarily combative.
With none of the nine candidates likely to receive over 50% of the vote, the race is expected to move to an April runoff between the top two vote-getters. Lightfoot may not be among them.
Lightfoot has touted her record of investing in neighborhoods and supporting workers, such as by increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. She also notes that the city has navigated unprecedented challenges such as the pandemic and its economic and public safety fallout to protests over policing.
“The world is very different than it was four years ago. I believe that I’m still the right person and I think the voters will validate that, but we’ve been through a lot,” Lightfoot said after a rally on the city’s west side during the final days before the election. “We can’t go back.”
Lightfoot’s top rivals include Paul Vallas, who has run as the law-and-order candidate with support from the city’s police union and promises to put hundreds more officers on the streets, and U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, who forced then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel to a runoff in 2015. Brandon Johnson is endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, a group that has tangled with Lightfoot, including during an 11-day teachers strike in her first year in office.
If Lightfoot loses on Tuesday, she would be one of the few big-city mayors in recent history to lose their reelection bid. That’s particularly true in the first round of voting, when incumbents generally enjoy an advantage.
But this election is very different, said Constance Mixon, a lifelong Chicago resident and political science professor at Elmhurst University. Of the 10 largest U.S. cities, Chicago is the only place without mayoral term limits, which may make voters in other cities more willing to give an incumbent one more term, Mixon said.
Lightfoot also is the first mayor of a major U.S. city to face reelection following the pandemic, recession and the crime wave that’s occurred in many places, she said.
“I suspect that other mayors — and we’ve got a handful of them that are up this year, but after Lightfoot — are going to face many of the same challenges as Lightfoot,” she said.
Race also is a factor as candidates court votes in the highly segregated city, which is closely divided in population among Black, Hispanic and white residents. Lightfoot, Johnson and five other candidates are Black, though Lightfoot — who is hoping strong support from Black voters will help propel her to victory — has argued that she is the only Black candidate who can win. Garcia, the only Latino in the race, would be Chicago’s first Hispanic mayor, while Vallas is the only white candidate in the field.
Lightfoot has accused Vallas of using “the ultimate dog whistle” by saying his campaign is about “taking back our city,” and of cozying up to the president of the Fraternal Order of Police, whom she calls a racist. A recent Chicago Tribune story also found Vallas’ Twitter account had liked racist tweets and tweets that mocked Lightfoot’s appearance and referred to her as masculine.
Vallas denied his comments were related to race and says his police union endorsement is from rank-and-file officers. He also said he wasn’t responsible for the liked tweets, which he called “abhorrent,” and suggested someone had improperly accessed his account.
But Lightfoot and some of her supporters see some of the criticism of her leadership as motivated by racism, sexism and anti-gay sentiment.
“No other mayor has been asked to change this city within four years,” said city Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, who is Black, and noted that white mayors like Emanuel and Richard Daley served multiple terms. “When we get in the game, the rules change.”
At a weekend campaign stop, Vallas said he is focused on things like public safety, Chicago’s “demoralized” police department and the number of residents “fleeing” the city’s school district.
“It’s all a product of bad leadership,” Vallas said.
A former city budget director who also led school systems in Chicago, New Orleans and Philadelphia, Vallas lost a 2019 bid for mayor. This time, he has been laser-focused on public safety, saying police officers who left the force under Lightfoot’s administration will return if he’s elected.
It seems to have resonated with voters, such as Antwoin Jackson, who are concerned about an uptick in crime. Jackson said he supported Lightfoot four years ago but cast his ballot for Vallas in Tuesday’s election because he said Lightfoot “did not hold control over the violence in the communities.” Jackson said he feels particularly unsafe when riding public transit.
Johnson, who lives in one of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods, says more needs to be done to provide affordable housing and social services such as mental health care.
Garcia, a former City Council member, state lawmaker and county commissioner, has called Lightfoot too combative and says he has a record of bringing people together.
The other candidates are businessman Willie Wilson, Chicago City Council members Sophia King and Roderick Sawyer, activist Ja’Mal Green and state Rep. Kambium “Kam” Buckner.
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Associated Press writer Claire Savage in Chicago contributed to this report. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/ap-chicago-mayor-lightfoot-taking-on-8-rivals-in-reelection-bid/ | 2023-02-28 12:43:47 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/ap-chicago-mayor-lightfoot-taking-on-8-rivals-in-reelection-bid/ |
PulteGroup repeatedly raises red flags as CEO Ryan Marshall and his legal team continue to evade transparency and make false accusations against shareholder, Marine Veteran requesting records regarding the departure of the CEO's top lieutenant
ROCHESTER, Mich., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marine Veteran and PulteGroup shareholder Betty Trester is being falsely accused by national homebuilding giant PulteGroup so the CEO can avoid transparency regarding the company's probe into his fired executive lieutenant late last year, Trester's legal team said today as they filed a new response in Michigan circuit court.
"Before filing my suit against PulteGroup, I submitted to extensive negotiations resulting in my agreement to sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for reviewing investigative documents regarding the CEO's ex-lieutenant, yet nothing ever came to fruition," said Trester.
"After its latest attempt to avoid transparency, it is clear PulteGroup's Ryan Marshall has no faith in shareholders, especially Main Street investors like me, a Marine Veteran who honorably served our country."
About Trester's response
The two parties have made multiple filings in the case which is only three months old. Today, Trester's team filed a new response to PulteGroup's salacious response to Trester's initial shareholder lawsuit.
The court filing makes clear that Trester is indeed a shareholder with inspection rights who has a proper purpose for inspecting the investigative records and was willing to enter into a confidentiality agreement. "The Legislature did not intend for shareholder rights to be limited to institutional Wall Street investors or activist investment funds. The rights extend to shareholders like Ms. Trester: a middle-class grandmother who bought her stock, followed it, educated herself, received dividends, and voted in corporate elections."
About the lawsuit
The Miller Law Firm first filed the suit on behalf of Trester on March 15, 2023 in Michigan's 30th Circuit Court in Ingham County (Case No. 2023-0277-CB). PulteGroup, while operating a senior executive base in Atlanta, is incorporated in Michigan, with its main registered office in East Lansing, Michigan.
The lawsuit, Trester v. PulteGroup, seeks a transparent release of information from the company to its shareholders, pursuant to the Michigan Business Corporations Act, related to its internal investigation of questionable behavior by top company executives.
The investigation concerned whether PulteGroup and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in unlawful business practices in relation to the oversight of the Board of Directors of PulteGroup.
A copy of the filings can be obtained by contacting the team below.
About The Miller Law Firm
The Miller Law Firm, P.C., headquartered in Michigan, is ranked among the top litigation law firms in the state. It is a leader in shareholder rights litigation with over $2 billion recovered for shareholders. The firm has also recovered numerous multimillion-dollar settlements on behalf of class members. Lead attorney E. Powell Miller is highly regarded in the national legal community and has won numerous awards for his outstanding performance during complex trials.
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Ocala Spring Crafts and Food Fest draws in dozens of vendors
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Dozens of vendors participated in the Ocala Spring Craft and Food Fest. Small business owners brought art, jewelry, clothes, and goods.
The event was hosted by Specialty Pop-Up at Tuscawilla Park. Organizers said the outreach brought more than 60 vendors from all over Florida.
“We traveled from Daytona Beach ourselves, just to be here. This is how much we love Ocala. There are vendors from all over central Florida all up and down the coast,” shared Dan Lutts, with Lovin’ Squeezin’ Lemonade. “They come with Specialty Pop-Up because they know we’re going to bring a good event. We moved into the lemonade stand for our 14-year-old son It’s actually his lemonade.”
The open-air market featured food trucks, music, and photo ops with the easter bunny.
Vendors said this is an opportunity to bring goods from across the state to the North Central Florida community. Others told TV20 their business was created for a good cause.
“My business is mostly to bring awareness to M.S., multiple sclerosis.,” shared Briana Ott, with business M.S. Mom. “I was diagnosed last February, so I wanted to bring awareness. I wanted to do something good. I wanted to get my mind off and my husband was why not candles? Everyone loves candles, so let’s do it.”
Briana Ott comes from Palm Bay. She sells hand-crafted soy candles but also offers products for four-legged friends.
“I also adopted a dog with distemper which is also multiple sclerosis for dogs,” shared Ott. “I have an homage to my dog Memphis as well. We do organic dog treats, we do dog jars and we’re soon actually gonna be doing dog bandanas as well.”
Event organizers say they plan to bring back vendors and festivities this October.
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ZHUHAI, China, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The opening of the 14th China Airshow is coming soon. LoongUAV will bring a variety of cost-effective, efficient, lightweight military drones to debut, including LOONG 4 surveillance drone, LOONG 5 bombing drone, LOONG 1 targeting drone, LOONG 2 reconnaissance drone.
In recent years of local wars and armed conflicts, as an emerging air combat force, drones have highlighted their combat effectiveness. Equipping drones has become an effective means to enhance national defense strength at a lower cost.
There are various types of military drones, which can be divided into reconnaissance drones, combat attack drones, electronic countermeasure drones, decoy drones, target drones, and reconnaissance and striking drones. It can also be divided into large drones, medium drones, light drones, small drones, and micro drones by their size. Large UAVs like combat attack drones from China and USA are very expensive and have low combat efficiency. Certain Iranian UAVs have only a single function and are not recyclable. The cost for single use is more than hundreds of thousands of dollars. Although some Chinese consumer drones are low-priced, the battery life is short and the application scenarios are limited.
This drone has low cost and high cost-effectiveness. It can carry six 60mm or four 82mm mortars, through a simple module installed on shells at a cost of less than $10, the accuracy of the bombs is within 3 meters, the maximum endurance time exceeds 240 minutes, and the maximum flight speed is 80km/h. The VTOL(Vertical Take-Off and Landing) technology is used to improve deployment maneuverability and optimize flight performance. With suicide attack capability, it can lock and track dynamic targets for precise strikes. It has strong stealth, is a low-slow and small target, has no heat source, and has a very small radar reflection surface, which can effectively avoid radar monitoring and is not easy to be shot down. And it has the strong anti-interference ability and super battlefield survivability, and the current anti-UAV technology cannot defend against it.
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CHANGSHA, China, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a video report from China SCIO:
Discover Changsha's exciting nightlife and attractions as its myriad night markets, art and cultural districts, and music scenes liven up the evening sky.
Charming Changsha: Energetic nightlife
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BOSTON (AP) — Two-time Olympic gold medalist. Twelve-time major marathon winner. World record-holder.
And still, Eliud Kipchoge has something to prove.
“I think Boston is a game-changer for me,” the world’s greatest marathoner said as he prepared for his debut in the world’s most prestigious road race. “Boston is the oldest marathon ever, and I think actually any serious marathoner should put his or her own feet once — if not a lot in his life — in the Boston streets.”
A 38-year-old Kenyan who has been collecting marathon victories since 2013, Kipchoge will make his Boston Marathon debut on Monday in the 127th edition of the world’s longest-running long run. A victory would give him wins in an unprecedented five of the six major marathons.
Kipchoge also has run the two fastest marathons ever — and four of the top six — breaking his own world record in September at Berlin with a time of 2 hours, 1 minute, 9 seconds. He also owns the course records in London and Tokyo.
That doesn’t even count the 1:59:40 he ran in 2019 in an exhibition in a Vienna park — the only runner ever to break 2 hours at the 26.2-mile distance. The time does not qualify for a world record because it was run with pace-setters and other assistance that would not be allowed in an actual competition.
Even so, there has always been a sentiment among runners that no marathoner’s resume is complete without at least facing the hills and headwinds in Boston.
“I think he can be very content. But there would always be that question mark: How would he do on this course? And could he get it done and win here?” said Des Linden, a two-time Olympian and the 2018 Boston champion. “So it’s great that he’s coming out to get that answer.”
Kipchoge has four victories each in Berlin and London, and one each in Chicago and Tokyo — all flat courses. He has also never run the New York Marathon, but said winning all six major marathons is his goal.
Having never even been to Boston before this week, one of his first missions was to scout out the course, which begins with a quad-crunching descent, slaps runners with the trademark Heartbreak Hill around the 20-mile mark, and then drops down to sea level again in the Back Bay.
He said he knows it is not a course that lends itself to fast times, and he would be quite satisfied to win a slower and more tactical race.
“I don’t mind about time,” he said, “but I will try to win.”
And Boston is excited to see him try.
During a training run along the Charles River this week, gawkers were shocked to see a world-class athlete in their midst. Kipchoge also had his own news conference on Friday after the traditional pre-race scrum where the other elite athletes were distributed around tables in a hotel ballroom.
“Eliud’s arrival in Boston is beyond much-anticipated,” said Jack Fleming, the president of the Boston Athletic Association, which pursued Kipchoge for years before he committed last year with a handshake and the word: “Finally.”
Even the other competitors are looking forward to lining up against him, knowing that a win with Kipchoge in the field would be especially meaningful. C.J. Albertson, who was one of the top Americans in each of the last two years, said it’s just like other sports where the best team gets everyone else’s best effort.
“Everyone’s excited to play the best, excited to run against the best,” he said. “You definitely feel a buzz just around him. Even if you’re not thinking about it, the whole city is — the whole world is really. … And hopefully just being with the best can bring the best out of me.”
But that only goes so far.
“It’s not like I had a picture of him on my wall as a target or anything like that,” said Scott Fauble, who has twice been the top American finisher in Boston, including last year. “Once the race starts — as great as he is, as amazing as he is — he’s a body out there, just like everyone else.
“I’m sure he’ll run great. But I’m not going to take any time to kiss his feet or anything like that. He’s a competitor, just like I am,” Fauble said. “I don’t mean to diminish him in any way. But I’m not here to be like a spectator for the Eliud Show.”
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BRENHAM, Texas, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- May is National Salad Month and BRIANNAS Fine Salad Dressing is celebrating with seven new items including a new line of Sugar Free dressings and Seasoned Croutons.
BRIANNAS produces over 25 flavors of premium salad dressing including Home Style, Organic, Avocado Oil and Sugar Free lines. All of BRIANNAS dressings are produced in small batches using high quality ingredients to create consistently great taste in every bottle.
"National Salad Month is a great way to kick off the summer and enjoy all of the fresh produce and fruit in season! When you want a great tasting salad dressing or a trusted shortcut in the kitchen, BRIANNAS has something for everyone!" said Jenny Van Dorf, Director of Marketing and Communications.
The new offerings include:
BRIANNAS Home Style Garlic Vinaigrette, a sweet and savory blend of garlic, oil and cracked black pepper that adds bold flavor to fresh greens or pasta salads.
BRIANNAS Sugar Free Rich Poppy Seed Dressing is a creamy, sweet twist on their top-selling dressing, made with fresh onions, poppy seeds, and no-calorie sweeteners.
BRIANNAS Sugar Free Blush Wine Vinaigrette is a marriage of tangy red wine vinegar and calorie-free sweetener with only 60 calories per serving. It's a delicious match for spinach and strawberries.
BRIANNAS Avocado Oil Caesar is made with heart-healthy avocado oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic and cracked black pepper. Pair this rich, dairy-free dressing with crisp romaine lettuce and grilled chicken.
And coming soon, BRIANNAS Seasoned Croutons, available in three bold flavors including Honey Mustard, Sweet Onion, and Parmesan and Fine Herbs.
Celebrate National Salad Month with delicious salads and uncompromised flavor. BRIANNAS Fine Salad Dressings are available for purchase in most major retailers. For recipe inspiration, to find in a store near you, or purchase online, visit BRIANNAS.com
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May is National Salad Month!
Celebrate with BRIANNAS care, craft and uncompromised flavor.
About BRIANNAS® Fine Salad Dressings
Since 1982, BRIANNAS premium salad dressings have served retailers and distributors throughout the US and the world for more than 40 years! Produced in Brenham, Texas, the gourmet dressings are popular among consumers who value great tasting food made in small batches with premium ingredients. BRIANNAS produces 14 home style flavors, 5 organic dressings, 4 with avocado oil, and two sugar free. None of the dressings contain high-fructose corn syrup or trans fats, 23 are gluten-free, 18 are certified Kosher and five, GMO-free.
BRIANNAS delectable dressings have won numerous first place awards for their spectacular taste and have been featured in Real Simple, Southern Living, Food & Wine, Women's Health and on NBC's "The Today Show." For more information, visit BRIANNAS.com or find BRIANNAS on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
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CLEVELAND — Stephen ’tWitch’ Boss, the DJ and dancer from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” has died at age 40.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirms he took his own life.
Tributes from celebrities like DeGeneres, Justin Timberlake, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and more are pouring in for the lovable entertainer, father, and husband.
In many tributes, people talk about his light and the happiness he brought others and send the message to anyone out there who may be silently suffering to tell someone.
Millions watched tWitch on his social media pages dance with his wife, Allison Holker, and exude happiness. Still, his sudden death is another tragic example that social media or a public persona is a highlight reel that doesn’t always depict the whole story of someone’s life.
Ivan Conard is a licensed social worker and a researcher at Case Western Reserve University. He said tragedies like tWitch’s death, no matter if we knew him or not, hurt.
“It just goes to show some people are good at wearing that mask, you know, that exterior,” he said.
Conard is dedicated to taking a community approach to destigmatizing mental health in the black community.
“That stigma around seeking help, that stigma around going to counseling, of utilizing a suicide hotline or even just having a casual conversation at the dinner table to say ‘you know what? I’m not doing fine,’” he said. “This ideology of ‘this is what a man should be’ and ‘this is how he should contextualize himself in different spaces.’ So whether that's not crying, whether it's saying, ‘hey, you know, put your chest out and, you know, take it on the chin.’ I like to reframe that and kind of think about what is the community response in lieu of, you know, these areas of mental illness and then how do we somewhat rethink mental health.”
According to the Health Police Institute of Ohio, suicide deaths have increased in Ohio over the last 14 years, with black Ohioans faring worse, with a 56% increase from 2011 to 2022.
Conard said there’s not one pinpointed reason for this, but many—including stigma, racial trauma, generational trauma, the need for more community programs at schools and recreational centers, and more dedication to mental health.
“I’ve seen it with my own life. I’ve seen it with clients. It takes, once again, a community approach to say, ‘hey, are we going to decide to do better or are we going to decide to say it’s okay not to be okay,’” he said.
While the world doesn’t know what tWitch may have been going through, Scott Osiecki of the Alcohol Drug Addiction Mental Health Services Cuyahoga County, or the ADAMHS Board, said it is important to know the signs of depression or suicidal thoughts.
The symptoms can vary as each person suffers differently. Still, some of the more general ones include mood swings, depression, withdrawal or isolation, changes in daily habits like sleeping or eating, risky behavior, giving away personal belongings, recent trauma or a life crisis, and threatening suicide.
“If you're considering hurting yourself, tell somebody, right? There's nothing to be ashamed of, you know? And we find out from tWitch’s death that it affects everybody, all walks of life, mental illness or depression or thoughts of suicide,” he said.
He encourages anyone who may notice these signs in someone to ask them what they’re thinking or planning, to persuade them not to do anything until you can get them help.
He said the help that can be provided is proven to work.
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem,” he said.
If you or someone you know is suffering, call or text 9-8-8, a 24/7 national hotline, or reach a crisis counselor by text at 741-741.
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SINGAPORE, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Four of China's most established food trade fairs – "Food2China EXPO" by Guangdong (China) Imported Food Association (GDIFA) and Constellar-WorldEx, "Zhong Shi Zhan" by China Commerce Development Center (CCDC), "Guangzhou International Food and Ingredients Exhibition (GIFIF)" by the China Council For the Promotion of International Trade Guangzhou Committee (CCPIT), and "Wine to China EXPO" (originated from Shenzhen TOEWine) – have signed a long-term partnership agreement to launch the inaugural Food2China Expo, which will be held at Poly World Trade Center Expo (Guangzhou) from 21 to 23 September 2023.
Food2China Expo, collaboratively organised by the above-mentioned parties and to be managed by Constellar-WorldEx, Guangzhou Chamber of International Commerce and Shanghai Hehe Exhibition Group, will leverage on the extensive expertise and experience from the individual fairs to become the largest and most influential international food trade exhibition in Guangzhou, connecting Guangzhou to Greater China and the rest of the world.
As one of China's earliest trading ports and a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road, Guangzhou is an international gateway to Chinese cuisine and culture. A key commercial centre, it is also an international food hub where cuisines around the world can be enjoyed. With Guangzhou's strong global reputation and business credentials, Food2China Expo expects to occupy over 66,000 square metres exhibition area, attracting over 1,400 exhibitors and 80,000 visitors comprising F&B producers, processers, buyers, importers, caterers, restaurants, e-commerce and other professional service providers from over 40 countries and regions.
"Food2China Expo represents strong collaboration between the Chinese government, enterprises and industry associations to integrate resources and expertise towards the development of the largest professional food trade exhibition in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area", said Mr Wolfgang Qi, General Manager of Constellar-WorldEx. "Food2China Expo is the key trade platform for stakeholders to address changing food consumption needs and preferences, as well as improve the quality of living for Chinese citizens."
The establishment of Food2China Expo will be a significant boost to Guangzhou's exhibitions and events sector, elevating the city's reputation as the influential global hub for the food industry. Food2China Expo will host and conduct over 20 themed sessions and forums, where participants can discover new opportunities and collaborations, forge new networks, keep up-to-date with the latest trends and gain deeper insights on policy implementation, food innovations, applications and more.
Apart from the exhibition showcase, Food2China Expo will bring about a new business exchange and cooperation platform where exhibitors can optimise their participation via onsite and all-year-round business matchmaking services, connecting with over 300,000 leads in the qualified buyers' databases accumulated over 20 years from the respective individual trade fairs.
The launch of Food2China Expo presents a timely opportunity for international companies to explore the massive potential of the Chinese market. As the international joint venture partner for Constellar-WorldEx and Asia's partner of reference for curating innovative event and venue experiences, Constellar will bring to this long-term partnership its expertise in facilitating transnational collaboration and expanding networks.
"In an increasingly connected global economy, our goal is to unlock the value of international partnerships to help businesses grow," said Mr Mel Shah, Senior Vice President (International & Business Development), Constellar. "With our experience organising internationally renowned business-to-business events such as the Industrial Transformation ASIA-PACIFIC, Agri-Food Tech Expo Asia and Singapore FinTech Festival where we convene communities to showcase innovations, connect with one another and exchange knowledge, Food2China Expo will set the stage for Constellar-WorldEx to play a pivotal role in inspiring China's food trade industry for long-term collaborative and sustainable growth."
Find out more about Food2China Expo here.
For media enquiries and interview requests, please contact the Constellar Communications team at comms@constellar.co
About Constellar
Constellar connects a global eco-system of event partners and consumers through a holistic portfolio of intellectual property (IP) in the Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) industry. As Asia's partner of reference for curating innovative event and venue experiences, Constellar activates impactful networks to bring global markets, businesses and consumers together for sustainable growth. With our expertise and dedication, we are invested in helping clients to build trusted relationships with stakeholders for the long term and enabling cross-industry collaboration through world-class audience engagement solutions. Visit constellar.co for more information.
About Constellar-WorldEx
Constellar-WorldEx (previously known as WorldEx-SingEx Exhibitions (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd), who manages Food2China EXPO, is a joint venture with Singapore's Constellar Holdings - one of the leading exhibition companies in the Asia-Pacific region jointly invested by Temasek Holdings and Cuscaden Peak Investments (formerly known as Singapore Press Holdings Private Limited before it was privatised on 13 May 2022). With 20 years of experience in organising exhibitions, and leveraging on Constellar's global network and expertise, Constellar-WorldEx focuses on developing markets and networks in Asia and Greater China for sustainable growth as it connects them with the rest of the world.
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