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LEMOORE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Daughtry returns to the Central Valley on November 19 at the Tachi Palace Casino Resort.
Daughtry’s concert will take place in the resort’s all-new Yokut Hall at 8:00 p.m. Since his days on American Idol, Daughtry won four American Music Awards, and seven Billboard Music Awards, and was nominated for four Grammys.
“We are excited to welcome Daughtry to Tachi Palace’s brand-new state-of-the-art Yokut Hall,” said Michael Olujic, General Manager of Tachi Palace Casino Resort. “Daughtry is one of the many world-class performances that we will be adding to our concert lineup as we continue to offer our patrons a wide range of entertainment experiences.”
Tickets will go on sale Friday, September 23 at 10:00 a.m. and can be purchased on-site at the Koy’ Wae’ Lounge, online, or by phone by calling 1-800-514-3849. Ticket prices range from $50 – $125. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/entertainment-news/daughtry-returns-to-the-valley-in-november/ | 2022-09-21 19:41:20 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/entertainment-news/daughtry-returns-to-the-valley-in-november/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — U2 is familiar with rocking out in major sporting arenas and stadiums, but the legendary band will soon hit the stage to create a new immersive concert experience inside a high-tech, globe-shaped venue in Las Vegas.
Live Nation and Sphere Entertainment announced Monday the dates for U2’s upcoming “U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere” shows starting Sept. 29. The rock band’s special five-night run of shows will be held until Oct. 8 at The Venetian’s Sphere with a state-of-the-art audio and visual system designed for each concertgoer.
“This is a venue designed for entertainment, not sports,” said U2 guitarist The Edge in a recent interview. He first learned about the cutting-edge venue after lead singer Bono sent him a link about the concept. He said the screen is 20 times bigger than the one during the band’s Joshua Tree tour in 2019 — the last time U2 performed live in a concert setting.
“Sports is a simple formula. You want to see the action,” he continued. “But no one really sits down when they’re designing one of these sports arenas and thinks about sound. That’s way, way down on their list of priorities. But in this venue, it’s one of the first things they thought about.”
The massive spherical venue will have 17,500 seats with a scalable capacity of nearly 20,000 guests. Along with high resolution LED screens that wrap halfway around the audience, the venue is also equipped with thousands of speakers that will deliver a “crystal-clear” multi-layered audio system for every seat inside.
As a musician, The Edge said the venue’s concept is an “amazing thought” in helping performers like U2 capture the full essence of their sound. He said their shows will offer an opportunity to “literally transport people to some other space and time” and open a variety of “creative possibilities.”
“What we’re able to do — because of the design and the fidelity of the sound — is introduce not just the best sounding rock ‘n’ roll band of all time in an indoor venue,” he said. “But also, radical intimacy where you can actually deliver a vocal or a simple music arrangement that’s really delicate. The people will be able to hear perfectly. Whereas if you’re trying that in an arena or a stadium, it would just be impossible.”
During the band’s rehearsals, The Edge has already seen a significant difference from the sphere venue compared to an arena or stadium — which normally “imposes on your sound.” He said their music preparations haven’t changed much, but they are starting to try to understand how to use the immersive sound as a creative tool.
The Edge believes the band’s performances at Sphere could be a “quantum leap forward” in terms of the sensory impacts of a live concert.
“It’s technology that has never been available,” he said. “We can literally in sonic terms, but also in visual terms, have our audience not kind of be looking at the show, but be in the middle of the show and in the middle of the sound. It’s sound all around you. … I’m already starting to think about the mixes and our songs and think about how this spatial audio could come into its own in terms of just where we place different parts of our sound.”
The Edge said U2 is pumped to return to the stage for the first time in four years, especially after the pandemic. The band’s upcoming show will mark the first time performing without drummer Larry Mullen Jr., who is recovery from back surgery. In Mullen’s absence, Bram van den Berg will fill in as drummer.
“We’re so excited,” he said. “We’ve been on lockdown. I’ve been in the recording studio for the last 18 months doing the acoustic collection, ‘Songs of Surrender.’ I can’t wait to get out there and be a part of something huge like this.” | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/u2-creating-new-experience-with-sphere-las-vegas-concerts/ | 2023-04-24 15:31:35 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/u2-creating-new-experience-with-sphere-las-vegas-concerts/ |
Christian Arroyo Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Twins - June 19
Published: Jun. 19, 2023 at 7:28 AM EDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
Christian Arroyo -- with an on-base percentage of .216 in his past 10 games, 54 points lower than his season-long percentage -- will be in action for the Boston Red Sox against the Minnesota Twins, with Pablo Lopez on the hill, on June 19 at 7:40 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless performance (0-for-4) against the Yankees.
Christian Arroyo Game Info & Props vs. the Twins
- Game Day: Monday, June 19, 2023
- Game Time: 7:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Target Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Twins Starter: Pablo Lopez
- TV Channel: BSN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -200)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +725)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +230)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +180)
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Christian Arroyo At The Plate
- Arroyo has nine doubles, two home runs and five walks while hitting .231.
- Arroyo has gotten a hit in 18 of 35 games this season (51.4%), with at least two hits on six occasions (17.1%).
- In 35 games played this season, he has homered in two of them.
- Arroyo has driven in a run in nine games this year (25.7%), including four games with more than one RBI (11.4%).
- He has scored in 13 games this season (37.1%), including three multi-run games (8.6%).
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Twins Pitching Rankings
- The 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Twins pitching staff ranks third in MLB.
- The Twins have a 3.59 team ERA that ranks third across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Twins pitchers combine to give up 72 home runs (one per game), the fifth-fewest in baseball.
- The Twins will send Lopez (3-3) to make his 15th start of the season. He is 3-3 with a 4.27 ERA and 101 strikeouts through 84 1/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out came on Tuesday against the Milwaukee Brewers, when the righty threw six innings, surrendering three earned runs while allowing four hits.
- The 27-year-old ranks 45th in ERA (4.27), 23rd in WHIP (1.115), and eighth in K/9 (10.8) among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season.
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LAS VEGAS, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jeff Dunham and his somewhat-inappropriate-proteges, Peanut, Walter, José Jalapeño, Bubba J. and Achmed the Dead Terrorist, announce six dates for his new show, "Still Not Canceled," at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
The six 2023 performances going on sale are:
- Sunday, May 28
- Sunday, July 16
- Sunday, Sept. 3
- Sunday, Oct. 22
- Sunday, Nov. 12
- Friday, Dec. 8
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Tickets go on sale to the general public Saturday, March 4 at 10 a.m. PT at www.ticketmaster.com/JeffDunhamVegas. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m.
Members of Jeff Dunham's official fan club will have access to a presale beginning Wednesday, March 1 at 10 a.m. PT.
Caesars Rewards members, Caesars Entertainment's loyalty program, as well as Live Nation and Ticketmaster customers, will have access to a presale beginning Thursday, March 2 at 10 a.m. PT. All presales end Friday, March 3 at 10 p.m. PT.
About Jeff Dunham
Sold-out global concert tours. Ratings-shattering broadcast specials. A best-selling author. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And a few Guinness Book of World Records set for good measure. Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is a comedy superstar and one of the world's most inventive entertainers. After graduating from Baylor University, he moved to Los Angeles to base his global touring and never looked back. The man Slate called "America's favorite comedian" has 11 record-breaking comedy specials to his credit – three were Comedy Central's most viewed specials of their respective years ("Me the People," 2022; "Minding the Monsters," 2012; "Controlled Chaos," 2011), and his "Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special," 2008, remains the network's highest rated program of all time. His NBC primetime special, "Unhinged," ranked as the time period's top non-sports program on the Big 4, rebroadcast six weeks later on Comedy Central to become its top rated special of 2016. His most recent special "Me the People" arrived as the highest rated stand-up special since "Jeff Dunham: The Unrehearsed Pandemic Special" two years ago, and the most watched comedy special of 2022.
His autobiography, All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed and Me, landed Dunham on the New York Times' Best Seller list three weeks in a row. He was also named Billboard's Top Comedy Tour for three consecutive years. The versatile entertainer created an animated film for CMT, hosted the Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship, guested on ABC's "Ellen," NBC's "30 Rock," Disney's "Sonny with a Chance," did commercials for Hertz, and appeared in Jay Roach's Dinner for Schmucks, featuring Steve Carrell and Paul Rudd. Dunham, "a dressed-down, more digestible version of Don Rickles with multiple personality disorder" according to TIME, can currently be seen on his Jeff Dunham Still Not Canceled tour. For more information visit JeffDunham.com.
About Live Nation Las Vegas
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. Live Nation Las Vegas produces residency shows from Garth Brooks, Sting and Rod Stewart at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace; Maroon 5, Usher, Lady Gaga, Aerosmith and Bruno Mars at Dolby Live at Park MGM; The B-52s, FOREIGNER, Styx, ZZ TOP, Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago at The Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas; The Chicks, Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino; and Santana at House of Blues. Live Nation Las Vegas also brings other world-famous artists to many of the city's other premier concert venues including Allegiant Stadium, T-Mobile Arena, MGM Grand Garden Arena, Michelob ULTRA Arena, the Pearl at Palms Casino Resort, Downtown Las Vegas Events Center and more. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com. Find Live Nation Las Vegas on Facebook, Instagram and follow us on Twitter.
About Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is the centerpiece of the famed Las Vegas Strip, with 2,500 beautifully redesigned guest rooms and suites showcasing some of the best views in town, along with endless options of unparalleled shopping, distinguished dining, popular entertainment and a bustling nightlife. A bright, bold addition to the resort's portfolio, the Ultra Hip Rooms feature contemporary elegance and luxury bedding. Known as the place to play for its roster of A-list celebrity guests, Planet Hollywood's 231 restyled suites feature stunning views of the glittering skyline and daring décor elements such as suspended sofas, lounge-style living spaces and oversized modern artwork. The resort encompasses more than 100,000 square feet of gaming, Caesars Sportsbook at Planet Hollywood, The Scene Pool Deck, several lounges, an intimate wedding chapel, and a relaxing spa and salon. Impressive restaurants include Gordon Ramsay Burger, KOI, Strip House and more. Home to the first pop music residency in Las Vegas, Zappos Theater is one of the largest theaters on the Vegas Strip and showcases a variety of resident headliners including superstars like The Chicks, Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert. Magician Criss Angel performs an over-the-top visual spectacular of "Criss Angel MINDFREAK®" in the Criss Angel Theater. The property is encircled by Miracle Mile Shops with more than 170 specialty stores and restaurants. Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is operated by a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR). For more information, please visit planethollywoodresort.com or the Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas media room. Find Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Facebook and follow on Twitter and Instagram. Must be 21 or older to gamble. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling or texting 1-800-GAMBLER ©2021, Caesars License Company, LLC.
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Two children suffered burn-like injuries after playing on playground slides that had been doused with acid.
On Sunday, police and firefighters in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, went to Bliss Park Playground after a suspicious substance was reported on its equipment. At the same time, the fire department said, emergency response teams went to a nearby home for a report of two kids injured after leaving the same park.
The children's mother told a local publication, Western Mass News, she assumed the liquid pooled at the bottom of the park's slides was rainwater when they arrived that morning.
"I didn't really think much of it, and then, my baby, who is one, just started crying," Ashley Thielen said."That was when I knew this liquid that they were around wasn't water."
Investigators at the park determined someone had broken into a storage room where pool chemicals were "stored properly in a secured area." One chemical was muriatic acid, the Hazmat team said, and it was found poured on three of the playground's slides.
The perpetrators had climbed two fences to reach a ventilation shaft, which had a torn-off cover. Then they used the shaft to access the storage room, exerting a "great deal of effort" to enter the space, the fire department said.
Police gathered evidence and sent it to a crime lab for forensic analysis and fingerprinting, but officials are still asking for the public's help in finding the suspects. They asked anyone to come forward if they saw any suspicious activity at the park Saturday night or if they have seen anyone with new burns.
"We suspect that the perpetrators may have suffered acid burns to their hands or arms and their clothing may have indications of being degraded from contact with the acid," the Longmeadow Fire Department said.
As for the kids, their wounds are mostly superficial, with some swelling and blistering. But Thielen said it could have been a closer call.
"The bottom of the slide, where it was, there was a good amount of it collected there. I was surprised he didn't start splashing in it," she said.
The playground is still fenced off as officials determine the safety and cleanliness of the space, though all hazardous materials have been cleaned and removed.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Thirty years ago, a group of disrupters with baggy shorts and black socks changed college basketball as we know it, and took a good slice of American culture along for the ride.
Those freshmen known as the Fab Five ended up one win short of the title, which is exactly where San Diego State — a team coached by a former Fab Five assistant, Brian Dutcher — finds itself in 2023 during another transformative period in college hoops.
The Aztecs (32-6) themselves certainly aren’t trying to deliver change to the game or the culture when they face UConn (30-8) in the title game Monday.
But the fact that they’re here — a team with Michigan bloodlines that was forged quickly through the newly liberated transfer portal and enriched by opportunities that have sprung from name, image and likeness deals — speaks volumes about where those Fab Five superstars were trying to take the game three decades ago.
“We got to college and started understanding the hypocrisy in the game, with the schools making millions and us sitting around poor as hell,” said Fab Five guard Ray Jackson. “We wanted to change the dynamics of that, get the athletes feeling empowered a little more.”
One of the greatest ironies is that the coach who essentially built the 21st-century version of San Diego State is Dutcher’s longtime boss at both Michigan and SDSU, Steve Fisher. Fisher made his way to the West Coast after losing his job at Michigan in the wake of one of the most complex and sordid illicit-benefits scandals in NCAA history.
In essence, the coach, who retired and handed over the SDSU reins to Dutcher in 2017, got caught up in a series of events that, frankly, wouldn’t be frowned upon nearly as harshly today. Back then, it was a shady booster with gambling ties trying to funnel money to players. These days, sports gambling is legal in many states (the NCAA brought the Sweet 16 to Las Vegas for the first time last week), while everyone from car dealers to social media conglomerates pay players in the open.
Fisher is in Houston this week, hanging with his son, Mark, a special assistant for the fifth-seeded Aztecs who has ALS.
“I had the ability to close my eyes and dream, and dream of this, to be honest with you,” Fisher said earlier this week.
A Final Four wasn’t so much a dream as an expectation for the Fab Five — Jackson, Jalen Rose, Chris Webber, Juwan Howard and Jimmy King — who, in many opinions, remain the most electric single recruiting class in college history.
They showed up at Michigan in 1991 and made not one but two appearances in the national title game. They got blown out by Duke 1992 with Bobby Hurley, the brother of current UConn coach Dan Hurley, doing some of the damage. In 1993, it was Webber’s costly timeout when the Wolverines didn’t have one that made the difference in a close loss to North Carolina.
So, no title, but the Fab Five ended up with more — namely, they opened the world to embracing the style they brought to the playground, while making an indelible statement about the way they felt college players should be treated.
“It could get frustrating and un-fun at times,” Jackson said. “We just wanted to be transcendent. We wanted to bring the culture we came from, which was street basketball, community basketball, and bring that fun back to game.”
They also ended up as successes after college, building careers in worlds as diverse as nonprofit, finance, TV and even coaching; Howard just finished his fourth season as coach of the Wolverines.
“Isn’t that the end goal, when the ball stops bouncing, you’re doing something that’s productive with your life?” said Dutcher, who has heard from everyone in the group during his program’s first run to the cusp of a title.
In many ways, Dutcher’s group came together in the polar opposite fashion as the Fab Five. San Diego State’s starters came from different places at different times. They could separate themselves from the Michigan greats in another way if they can win the title that eluded Dutcher & Co. for all those years.
It’s a tall task.
SDSU is coming off an emotionally and physically taxing 72-71 win over Florida Atlantic on Saturday night. When Lamont Butler hit the game-winner at the buzzer, it marked the first time in Final Four history that a buzzer-beater took a team from trailing to a victory.
In addition to the bounce back, there is the opponent. Nobody has come within double digits of fourth-seeded UConn during the tournament. Adama Sanogo has averaged 20 points and nearly 10 rebounds a game over the stretch for the Huskies.
But Jackson, for one, insists this is far from a lost cause. He says Dutcher is a master at “breaking down film, knowing game strategy and preparing for a short turnaround.”
“I remember sitting in film sessions and going crazy, laughing at some team and thinking, we’re going to beat their” butt, Jackson said. “Dutch is running film back and saying, ‘I’m not kidding, these guards are good, and if you don’t take this seriously, they’re going to beat your'” butt.
That, Jackson said, was key all those years ago to the lasting success of a group of cocky teenagers whose impact went well beyond how they fared against the next day’s opponent.
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AP Sports Writer Larry Lage contributed to this report.
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Judge: Sheriff had no right to block Line 3 pipeline protesters
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. – A judge in Minnesota has ruled that sheriff’s officials had no right to block access to a camp set up in opposition to the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline.
In an order issued Tuesday, Hubbard County District Judge Jana Austad ruled the pipeline protesters were using a private driveway, not a county trail, to access Camp Namewag near Menahga.
In June 2021, Hubbard County Sheriff Cory Aukes served notice on American Indian activist Winona LaDuke and Tara Houska, who manages the site, that the road to the camp was a county-owned trail which would be barricaded and that those who drove on it would be arrested.
The blockade lasted about three days, according to court filings, and then was in place occasionally after that. Sheriff’s deputies made a number of arrests and blocked people from bringing food and water onto the property, according to the civil complaint filed by LaDuke and Houska.
Austad ordered the sheriff to take down any notices prohibiting motor vehicle traffic on the driveway. She also voided the citations LaDuke and Houska were given for driving on the roadway.
In her order, Austad wrote that the easement and driveway clearly were linked to the camp, which would be landlocked without them, and the county had no right to block the road.
In 2018, LaDuke bought land near Menahga and secured an easement to reach it across county-managed land, using the existing driveway.
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The Vilcek Foundation has partnered with artist Hiroki Otsuka on the third in a series of biographical manga celebrating outstanding immigrants
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vilcek Foundation has published a new manga biography celebrating the creative roots of Ghanaian-born artist Samuel "Blitz" Bazawule. A musician, visual artist, filmmaker, and novelist, Bazawule received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Music in 2013. The Vilcek Foundation Prizes recognize outstanding immigrants and honor immigrants' contributions to the arts, culture, and society in the United States.
The manga comes at a time when Bazawule's work is reaching more audiences than ever before. His debut novel, The Scent of Burnt Flowers, was published to critical acclaim in June 2022. Bazawule also recently wrapped filming on The Color Purple, a new full-length musical drama based on Alice Walker's 1982 novel.
"With each new medium Blitz explores, his creative vocabulary and reach expands, adding new layers to the stories he shares with audiences and readers," says Vilcek Foundation President Rick Kinsel. "It has always been the foundation's intention that our Creative Promise Prizes could catalyze growth and new developments for the young artists who receive them. Blitz's trajectory since his receipt of the prize demonstrates the influence that a meaningful investment in artists can have on their career."
Following his receipt of the Creative Promise Prize, Bazawule tried his hand at filmmaking, with short films and his debut feature, The Burial of Kojo in 2018. In 2020, Bazawule was named a Guggenheim Fellow; later that year, millions would see his directorial work on Beyoncé's Black Is King, for which he received a Grammy.
The manga is the third in a series of visual biographies produced as a collaboration between the Vilcek Foundation and artist Hiroki Otsuka. The series celebrates notable immigrant artists and scientists living and working in the United States. Previous editions highlighted architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown (b. Zambia), and molecular biologist Mohamed Abou Donia (b. Egypt).
The full manga is available as a free download from the Vilcek Foundation. Through this engaging visual format, the foundation aims to celebrate the importance of immigration in a format that is accessible to readers of all ages.
The Vilcek Foundation raises awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States and fosters appreciation for the arts and sciences. The foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia. The mission of the foundation was inspired by the couple's respective careers in biomedical science and art history. Since 2000, the foundation has awarded over $6.6 million in prizes to foreign-born individuals and has supported organizations with over $5.8 million in grants.
The Vilcek Foundation is a private operating foundation, a federally tax-exempt nonprofit organization under IRS Section 501(c)(3). To learn more, please visit vilcek.org.
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The Vilcek Foundation
212-472-2500
elizabeth.boylan@vilcek.org
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Hosted by Roy Wood, Jr. and Featuring a Live Musical Concert by Diana Ross
The Event Will Take Place at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on Saturday, April 29th
LOS ANGELES, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Allen Media Group's African American-focused news, sports, lifestyle, and entertainment multi-platform media outlet, theGrio (www.thegrio.com), will honor CBS News journalist Gayle King with theGrio's "Journalist Icon Award" for her tremendous career accomplishments and service to America during a star-studded event in Washington, DC. Scheduled to immediately follow the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) on the evening of Saturday April 29, 2023. The event--entitled BYRON ALLEN PRESENTS THE WASHINGTON, DC GALA--will take place at The Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture in Washington, DC. In addition, the best moments of the gala will be captured and shared on a one-hour television special entitled THE WASHINGTON, D.C. GALA, featuring interviews with today's leading political icons, power players, and stars. The special will air on theGrio Television Network and other platforms on Monday, May 1, 2023.
Roy Wood, Jr. -- comedian, Emmy-nominated producer, and correspondent for THE DAILY SHOW on Comedy Central -- will host the event which will feature a special musical concert by music legend Diana Ross, fresh off her electric performance at Byron Allen's 5th Annual Oscar Gala last month in Beverly Hills, which raised money for Children's Hospital Los Angeles. BYRON ALLEN PRESENTS THE WASHINGTON, DC GALA is an illustrious affair featuring A-list guests and politicos, including stars from film, music, sports, and television. The event is sponsored by: Allen Media Group, Procter & Gamble and My Black is Beautiful.
The evening's honoree, CBS News' Gayle King, is co-host of CBS MORNINGS, and she is also editor-at-large of Oprah Daily and hosts a live, weekly radio show titled "Gayle King in the House" on SiriusXM. King has received numerous awards for her extensive work as a journalist, including three Emmys. Most recently, Gayle was honored with the 39th Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism presented by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2018 she was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame and in 2019 she was selected for the TIME 100, Time magazine's annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world.
The legendary Diana Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Supremes, and is one of the rare performers to have two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was the recipient of a Special Tony Award in 1976, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and 2023. In 2021, Billboard magazine ranked her the 30th greatest Hot 100 artist of all time.
"Gayle King and Diana Ross are both American treasures, and I can't think of a better way to honor their excellence than by hosting this event at The Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture," said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group. "I created the Washington, DC Gala to be a spectacular celebration, informative, and a great deal of fun."
About Allen Media Group
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NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. — Firefighters battling the 904-acre Rices Fire in Nevada County gained some containment overnight ahead of a day that may prove challenging for crews dealing with winds on the frontlines.
The Rices Fire, which started Tuesday near Rices Crossing in Nevada County, is 26% contained, an increase of 2% overnight.
While containment increased slightly, crews say wind gusts expected to be as high as 22 mph out of the southwest, could complicate the firefight Saturday.
Firefighters hope increased humidity and lower temperatures will help them protect 10 structures still said to be threatened by the Rices Fire, the largest active wildfire in the state as of Saturday. 13 structures have already been destroyed and another one damaged, CalFire said in a Saturday morning update.
The wildfire began with a building fire Tuesday in Nevada County near the Yuba River. It burned that building and three nearby outbuildings, fire officials said. The fire burned down to the Yuba River but did not cross over into neighboring Yuba County.
More than a dozen firefighters suffered dehydration and other heat-related injuries, authorities said.
Evacuation orders had been issued for 250 homes in small nearby communities but some of those orders were lifted Thursday as firefighters made progress.
About 132 animals have also been given refuge at the county fairgrounds.
KEY FIGURES:
- Acres: 904
- Containment: 26%
- Firefighter Injuries: 14
- Civilian injuries: 1
- Structures destroyed: 13
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Evacuation Map
July 2 Update
Residents in Nevada County zone E029 along Rices Crossing, Troost Trail, Den Court, Mark Court and Cranston Road are still under evacuation orders.
Residents in zone CSP-E028 north of the South Yuba River and Pleasant Valley Road, South of Cranston Road, East of the Yuba River, Cranston Road and Rices Crossing Road and West of Pleasant Valley Road are also still under evacuation orders.
Those living in Nevada County's zone NCO-E029-B and NCO-E329 are under evacuation warnings.
Those areas include neighborhoods south of Birchville Road on Pleasant Valley Road to Denn Court, and south to Rices Crossing at Pleasant Valley Road. Areas north of Pleasant Valley Road and Jones Bar Road, south of the Middle Yuba River and Fair Haven Drive, and east of Pleasant Valley Road and Little Shady Drive are under evacuation warnings.
Live updates on evacuations can be found through the Zonehaven map below.
Evacuation Centers
- Madelyn Helling Library at 980 Helling Way
- Nevada County Fairgrounds at McCourtney Road open to animal shelters
Road Closures
- Pleasant Valley Road at Birchville
- Pleasant Valley Road at Bridgeport
- Birchville Road at Hwy. 49
- Pleasant Valley Road between Birchville Road and Bridgeport is open to residents only, with valid ID - this will be monitored by Grass Valley California Highway Patrol officers.
FIRE MAP
This wildfire map was created using data from NASA, NGA, USGS and FEMA.
WILDFIRE PREPS
According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres were burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
Some counties use Nixle alerts to update residents on severe weather, wildfires, and other news. To sign up, visit www.nixle.com or text your zip code to 888777 to start receiving alerts.
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Blinken says China’s balloon spy program has been exposed
MUNICH (AP) — The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first high-level contact between their countries since the U.S. shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken sending the message that Beijing’s surveillance program had been “exposed to the world.”
Blinken and Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, held the talks in Munich, where they were attending an international security conference, according to the U.S. State Department.
“The secretary directly spoke to the unacceptable violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law by the PRC high-altitude surveillance balloon in U.S. territorial airspace, underscoring that this irresponsible act must never again occur,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
He said Blinken “made clear the United States will not stand for any violation of our sovereignty, and that the PRC’s high-altitude surveillance balloon program — which has intruded into the airspace of over 40 countries across five continents — has been exposed to the world,” Price said.
Blinken had canceled a trip to Beijing earlier this month due to the balloon incident, which has become a major issue of contention between the two countries. A meeting at the conference in Germany had been widely anticipated.
Blinken also told Wang that the U.S. does not seek conflict with China, repeating a standard talking point that the Biden administration has provided since it has come into office.
“The United States will compete and will unapologetically stand up for our values and interests, but that we do not want conflict with the PRC and are not looking for a new Cold War,” Price said. Blinken “underscored the importance of maintaining diplomatic dialogue and open lines of communication at all times.”
In addition to the balloon incident, Price said Blinken had reiterated a warning to China on providing assistance to Russia to help with its war against Ukraine, including assisting Moscow with evading sanctions the West has imposed on Russia.
Earlier Saturday, Wang had renewed Beijing’s criticism of the United States for shooting down what Washington says was a Chinese spy balloon, arguing that the move did not point to U.S. strength.
Beijing insists the white orb shot down off the Carolina coast on Feb. 4 was just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and had only limited “self-steering” capabilities.
Wang, the director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, repeated that insistence in a speech at the conference and accused the U.S. of violating international legal norms in destroying the object with a missile fired from an U.S. fighter jet.
“The actions don’t show that the U.S. is big and strong, but describe the exact opposite,” Wang said.
Wang also accused the U.S. of denying China’s economic advances and seeking to impede its further development.
“What we hope for from the U.S. is a pragmatic and positive approach to China that allows us to work together,” Wang said.
His comments came shortly before an address to the conference by Vice President Kamala Harris, who didn’t mention the balloon controversy or respond to Wang’s comments. She stressed the importance of upholding the “international rules-based order.”
She said Washington is “troubled that Beijing has deepened its relationship with Moscow since the war began” in Ukraine and that “looking ahead, any steps by China to provide lethal support to Russia would only reward aggression, continue the killing and further undermine a rules-based order.”
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SANTA CLARA — Running back Elijah Mitchell returned to practice as the 49ers look to activate him off injured reserve for the second time this season. Mitchell sprained his left knee Nov. 27 against the New Orleans Saints; he sprained his right knee in the Sept. 11 opener at Chicago.
In the only other two games he’s played, he had 18 carries for 89 yards in the Nov. 13 win over the Los Angeles Chargers, and he had a team-high nine carries for 59 yards in a Nov. 21 victory in Mexico City against the Cardinals, who trailed just 14-10 before losing 38-10.
Mitchell missed six games last season and endured multiple injuries as a rookie (adductor, ribs, finger, concussion, knee) and he underwent a knee procedure in the offseason.
Christian McCaffrey, acquired Oct. 20, has started every game during the 49ers’ nine-game win streak. He emerged with a mild ankle sprain from Sunday’s overtime win at the Raiders, and he will not practice Wednesday.
The 49ers have had 15 different ball carriers, their most in any season since Shanahan’s arrival in 2017; McCaffrey (701 yards, 4.7 yards per carry) will be the 49ers’ sixth different leading rusher in as many seasons. This year’s other top rushers: Jeff Wilson Jr. (468 yards; 5.1 ypc), Jordan Mason (230 yards; 6.6 ypc), Deebo Samuel (228 yards; 5.6 ypc), Mitchell (224 yards; 5.6 ypc), Ray-Ray McCloud (78 yards; 19.5 ypc), Ty Davis-Price (72 yards; 2.8 ypc) and Trey Lance (67 yards; 4.2 ypc).
HAMLIN IMPACT
Coach Kyle Shanahan did not address his team collectively about Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest in the Buffalo Bills’ game Monday night, but he did speak to players individually. “We made our doctor, our clinician, available here all day. A lot of players used it. Most of them used it for their wives,” Shanahan said. “Most of our players were doing alright but the wives needed it the most.”
HEALTH UPDATES
Others not practicing Wednesday: guard Aaron Banks (ankle, knee), linebacker Dre Greenlaw (back), quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (foot), left tackle Trent Williams (rest) and defensive linemen Nick Bosa (rest), Javon Kinlaw (knee) and Kevin Givens (knee). Defensive tackle Arik Armstead (ankle) remains limited.
CARDINALS’ PLANS
David Blough will start at quarterback for the Cardinals, who’ve lost six straight and fallen to 4-12. He is 0-6 as a starter, including Sunday’s 20-19 defeat at Atlanta where he passed for 222 yards (24-of-40) with a touchdown and no interceptions; he went 0-5 with the 2019 Detroit Lions.
Coach Kliff Kingsbury ruled out Colt McCoy, who lost to the 49ers on Nov. 21 and could be next season’s starter as Kyler Murray recovers from knee reconstruction. Murray’s surgery Tuesday went well to repair his anterior cruciate ligament and a meniscus tear, Kingsbury told reporters.
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A first-of-its-kind database for tracking the world's fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions launches on Monday to coincide with climate talks taking place at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels includes data from over 50,000 oil, gas and coal fields in 89 countries. That covers 75% of global reserves, production and emissions, and is available for public use, a first for a collection of this size.
Until now there has been private data available for purchase, and analysis of the world's fossil fuel usage and reserves. The International Energy Agency also maintains public data on oil, gas and coal, but it focuses on the demand for those fossil fuels, whereas this new database looks at what is yet to be burned.
The registry was developed by Carbon Tracker, a nonprofit think tank that researches the energy transition's effect on financial markets, and the Global Energy Monitor, an organization that tracks a variety of energy projects around the globe.
Corporations, investors and scientists already have some level of access to private data on fossil fuels. Mark Campanale, founder of Carbon Tracker, said he hopes the registry will empower groups to hold governments accountable, for example, when they issue licenses for fossil fuel extraction.
“Civil society groups have got to get more of a focus on what governments are planning to do in terms of license issuance, both for coal and oil and gas, and actually begin to challenge this permitting process,” Campanale told The Associated Press.
The release of the database and an accompanying analysis of the collected data coincide with two critical sets of climate talks at the international level — the U.N. General Assembly in New York beginning on September 13, and COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November. Data like what's being released in the registry could arm environmental and climate groups to pressure national leaders to agree to stronger policies that result in less carbon emissions.
And we're in dire need of carbon reductions, Campanale said.
In their analysis of the data, the developers found that the United States and Russia have enough fossil fuel still underground untapped to exhaust the world’s remaining carbon budget. That's the remaining carbon the world can afford to emit before a certain amount of warming occurs, in this case 1.5 degrees Celsius. It also shows these reserves would generate 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, which is more than all of the emissions produced since the Industrial Revolution.
“We already have enough extractable fossil fuels to cook the planet. We can’t afford to use them all — or almost any of them at this point. We’ve run out of time to build new things in old ways,” said Rob Jackson, a Stanford University climate scientist who was not involved with the database.
“I like the emphasis on transparency in fossil fuel production and reserves, down to specific projects. That’s a unique aspect to the work.”
Jackson compared the global carbon budget to a bathtub.
“You can run water only so long before the tub overflows," he said. When the tub is close to overflowing, he said, governments can turn down the faucet (mitigating greenhouse gas emissions) or open the tub's drain more (removing carbon from the atmosphere).
The database shows that we have much more carbon than we need as a global community, Campanale said, and more than enough to overflow the bathtub and flood the bathroom in Jackson's analogy. So investors and shareholders should be holding decision makers at the world's largest oil, gas and coal companies accountable when they approve new investments in fossil fuel extraction, he said.
Campanale said the hope is the investment community, “who ultimately own these corporations,” will use the data to begin to challenge the investment plans of companies still planning to expand oil, gas and coal projects.
“Companies like Shell and Exxon, Chevron and their shareholders can use the analysis to to really begin to try and push the companies to move in a completely different direction.”
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In an about-face, Twitter says it has restored free access to a key tool for verified government and “publicly owned” services so they can tweet weather, transit and other alerts after New York City’s transit agency said earlier this week it would no longer use the platform for its service advisories.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is among countless official and unofficial accounts that abruptly lost access to Twitter’s API, or application programming interface, to send out automated alerts about service changes and emergencies last week. By Thursday afternoon, senior executives agreed to cease publishing service alerts to the platform altogether.
The decision put the country’s largest transportation network among a growing number of accounts, from National Public Radio to Elton John, who have reduced their Twitter presence or left the platform since its takeover by Elon Musk.
Twitter had signaled that the days of private accounts disseminating troves of information at no cost may be ending. Last month, the company announced a new pricing system that would charge for access to its API, which is used by accounts that post frequent alerts, such as transit and weather agencies.
MTA officials estimated the cost could run as high as $50,000 a month. For a transit agency that faces a multibillion dollar deficit, paying that much raised concerns.
So last Thursday, the MTA told its 1 million Twitter followers that it will no longer use the platform for service alerts and information.
On Tuesday, Twitter backtracked and announced that “Verified gov or publicly owned services who tweet weather alerts, transport updates and emergency notifications may use the API, for these critical purposes, for free.”
In recent days, MTA officials have been in touch with Twitter’s development team, though the agency has not said whether it will return to publishing service alerts on Twitter in light of the change.
A representative for the MTA did not immediately respond to a message for comment.
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One man is injured after a shooting in Marion County
Published: Jun. 20, 2023 at 12:24 AM EDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - A shooting is under investigation in Marion County.
Deputies received multiple reports of shots being fired in the area of NW 22nd Avenue in Ocala.
They say one man was injured during the shooting.
The victim is hospitalized in critical condition.
Deputies are searching for any possible suspects.
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Baltimore police arrest 17-year-old suspect in block party shooting that killed 2, wounded 28
BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities have arrested and charged a teen who detectives believe was involved in a mass shooting at a Baltimore block party over the holiday weekend that left two people dead and 28 others wounded, officials announced Friday.
Members of the homicide and SWAT teams arrested the 17-year-old boy around 7 a.m. Friday after a search warrant was executed at a home, police said in a news release. He was taken to the Central Booking Intake Facility, where he was charged with possession of a firearm by a minor and possession of an assault weapon, as well as reckless endangerment and having a handgun in a vehicle, police said.
Police referred to the teen in the release as a person of interest. He is charged as an adult, but police aren’t identifying him since he is a minor, according to department spokesperson Detective Freddie Talbert.
Detectives are still actively investigating the shooting in the Brooklyn Homes area in the southern part of the city, Talbert said. A reward for up to $28,000 is being offered for any information that leads to an arrest and charges in the case.
There was a wave of shootings this week as the U.S. celebrated the Fourth of July. The gun violence that flared this week in Washington, D.C.; Louisiana; Florida; Pennsylvania; Texas; Maryland and Massachusetts left more than a dozen dead and more than 60 wounded — including children as young as 2 years old.
Earlier this week, interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said that investigators believed there were multiple shooters in the block party shooting, and that it wasn’t clear if the shooting was targeted or random.
“We don’t know exactly how many, but we do know more than one person was shooting,” Worley said. The event has been held for decades, but no permit was issued this year and police didn’t find out about it ahead of time, as they have in past years, Worley said.
Police identified the two people killed as 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez and 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi. The 28 injured victims ranged in age from 13 to 32, with more than half younger than 18, officials said. Of those injured, police said Friday that three victims remain at hospitals in fair condition.
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CANTON, Ohio, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare sharing ministries have experienced significant change in the past several years, much of it driven by actions in Washington, D.C., and numerous state capitols. Liberty HealthShare® has weathered these challenges, fortified by its vision of building a healthcare sharing ministry that exemplifies Jesus Christ and empowers Americans to manage their healthcare journey.
"Keeping up with the transition from the government penalizing people for not having insurance to offering subsidies to pay them for enrolling, has been trying for all healthsharing ministries," said Dorsey Morrow, chief executive officer of Liberty HealthShare.
"Despite this, and several challenges unique to our ministry, we have persevered and demonstrated our resolve in facilitating the sharing of more than $231 million in eligible medical expenses during 2022," he added. "And, we did this while reducing our backlog of pre-2022 expenses by one-third."
Since 2019, Liberty HealthShare members have shared more than $1.25 billion in eligible medical expenses. This sharing included more than 1.6 million individual medical bills submitted by members and their providers.
Looking further back, since 2014, Liberty HealthShare has facilitated the sharing of more than $4.5 billion in medical needs for its members.
Continuing to strengthen the ministry's procedures has been a focus over the past year. Liberty HealthShare has instituted new, rigorous quality control, auditing and member resolution processes to help ensure that submitted expenses are not only eligible and accurate, but also fair and reasonable.
"We take our obligation to steward their financial contributions and provide the best possible member experience very seriously. We assess every program, every support process and every vendor contract with this in mind," said Morrow.
Liberty HealthShare is a non-profit 501(c) (3) charitable Christian medical cost-sharing ministry focused on members helping each other in times of need. The faith-based program, which facilitates healthsharing for nearly 90,000 members, is a caring community of health-conscious individuals and families who choose to support one another and agree to the Christian values of stewardship to make healthcare affordable for all.
As it is not insurance, Liberty HealthShare enrollment is available year-round, with no requirement for special life events to qualify. For more information about its healthcare sharing programs visit libertyhealthshare.org or call (855) 585-4237.
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Saturday forecast: Frosty start, chilly day
Tracking better rain chances to start next week
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Temperatures this morning range from 30 degrees along the Nebraska state line to the low 40s farther south and west. Some have seen their first freeze of the season today and this afternoon will stay on the cooler side with highs in the mid 60s. Winds today will be light out of the west around 5 mph with skies becoming sunny. Sunday is around normal in the mid to upper 70s with south winds returning around 5 to 10 mph. We see a pattern change beginning Monday night with a chance for rain showers and again on Tuesday night followed by another cool down to end next week.
Taking Action:
- If you haven’t yet checked your heater to see if it works, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to turn it on today or tonight. That way if it doesn’t work you have time to get it fixed as temperatures warm back up.
- Rain chances next week look like we may see some actual moisture Monday night and Tuesday night. Best rainfall will be in east Kansas where 0.25″ and 0.50″ is possible in early estimates. Central Kansas may see between 0.10″ and 0.25″ at most unfortunately.
Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Clear skies. Lows in the low 40s. Winds light and variable.
Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Monday: Sunny. Highs in near 80º. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
You’ll likely want a sweatshirt all day today with temperatures this afternoon topping out in the mid 60s. Skies will stay sunny so it all around it should be a nice fall day. We become cold again overnight tonight with lows in the low 40s and upper 30s. We should escape any frost/freeze overnight. Sunday looks nice in the upper 70s. Monday is a little warm near 80 degrees with a chance for scattered rain in East Kansas Monday night.
Rain Monday night will mainly be in East Kansas with places generally west of Highway 75 seeing very little if anything Monday night. We stay warm Tuesday near 80 degrees again only this time winds will be breezy out of the south at 10 to 20 mph, gusting to 30 mph at times. There may be some lingering showers Tuesday morning before becoming partly cloudy that afternoon.
Another rain chance arrives Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. This chance is a little better than Monday night with folks farther west finally getting involved in this round of rain. However, there is still disagreement on how scattered rain showers will be this time. Right now, scattered rain showers are likely Tuesday night with rainfall amounts likely between 0.25′-0.50″ in the east and 0.10″-0.25 towards the west.
Wednesday begins our cooling trend with temperatures in the low to mid 70s dropping to the low to mid 40s that night. We’ll see 60s for highs Thursday and may see another frost next Thursday night.
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Melbourne Announced as WSX Championship Host City in Multiyear Deal, Exclusively for the Australian and New Zealand Region
QUEENSLAND, Australia, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Melbourne was announced as host of round 02, and the exclusive Australian city to secure the rights to host a round of the FIM World Supercross Championship in 2022 - 2024. Following on from Round 01 at Cardiff's Principality Stadium, Saturday 8 October, the WSX Australian Grand Prix, will transform Melbourne's Marvel Stadium into the ultimate dirt battlefield for two days of unmissable action on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22.
Australian & global supercross superstar, Chad Reed, has been confirmed to come out of retirement to challenge for his third FIM World Supercross Championship title, in the WSX (450cc) category. Reed joins the well-established American supercross operation, MDK Motorsports.
"Opportunities like WSX don't come along every day. After two years of retirement, I have a new perspective on racing at the highest level. I am beyond excited to get back on the bike, into the athletic mindset and ready to compete to win in October," said Reed. "I haven't raced in Melbourne since 2019, so it'll be an unbelievable experience to get back there in October and go up against the best current riders in the world. It's going to be an epic experience competing for an FIM-sanctioned World Championship."
The Australian Champion will join a star-studded field of world-class riders including current World number two, German, Ken Roczen, World number ten Justin Brayton, Vince Friese, Cole Seely and more from the USA, with the UK's best Dean Wilson (Scotland) and Max Anstie (Britain), going head-to-head with the remaining field made up of riders from France, Italy, Brazil and more.
"The addition of two-time FIM World supercross legend and two-time world champion Chad Reed to the ten team and 40 world class rider field is incredible," said Adam Bailey, SX Global's managing director – motorsport. "He only adds to what is already a star-studded lineup of the world's best supercross riders and it's going to be great watching him mix it with the likes of Roczen and Brayton. The WSX Championship is the future of World Supercross."
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Astros first. Jose Altuve flies out to deep center field to Cal Stevenson. Jeremy Pena strikes out swinging. Yordan Alvarez singles to deep right field. Alex Bregman homers to left field. Yordan Alvarez scores. Kyle Tucker grounds out to second base, Nick Allen to Seth Brown.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Astros 2, Athletics 0.
Astros second. Trey Mancini flies out to deep right field to Ramon Laureano. Chas McCormick singles to left center field. Christian Vazquez singles to left center field. Chas McCormick to second. Jake Meyers lines out to center field to Cal Stevenson. Jose Altuve doubles to deep left center field. Christian Vazquez scores. Chas McCormick scores. Jeremy Pena grounds out to shallow infield, Seth Brown to Cole Irvin.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Astros 4, Athletics 0.
Astros sixth. Kyle Tucker singles to shallow center field. Trey Mancini flies out to deep center field to Cal Stevenson. Chas McCormick flies out to deep right field to Stephen Piscotty. Christian Vazquez singles to left center field. Kyle Tucker scores. Jake Meyers reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Christian Vazquez out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Astros 5, Athletics 0.
Astros seventh. Jose Altuve pops out to shallow infield to Nick Allen. Jeremy Pena reaches on error. Fielding error by Vimael Machin. Yordan Alvarez grounds out to shallow infield, Seth Brown to Austin Pruitt. Jeremy Pena to second. Alex Bregman doubles to deep right center field. Jeremy Pena scores. Kyle Tucker grounds out to first base, Seth Brown to Austin Pruitt.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 left on. Astros 6, Athletics 0.
Athletics eighth. Nick Allen homers to center field. Tony Kemp singles to right field. Vimael Machin grounds out to shallow infield. Tony Kemp out at second. Seth Brown singles to center field. Stephen Piscotty grounds out to shallow infield, Jeremy Pena to Trey Mancini.
1 run, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Astros 6, Athletics 1.
Athletics ninth. Elvis Andrus singles to shortstop. Stephen Vogt doubles to deep right field. Elvis Andrus to third. Jonah Bride grounds out to shallow infield, Alex Bregman to Trey Mancini. Elvis Andrus scores. Cal Stevenson walks. Sean Murphy pinch-hitting for Nick Allen. Sean Murphy reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Cal Stevenson to second. Stephen Vogt out at third. Tony Kemp singles to right field. Sean Murphy to second. Cal Stevenson scores. Vimael Machin grounds out to shallow infield, Ryan Pressly to Trey Mancini.
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More March Madness chaos in the women’s NCAA Tournament could be looming on the horizon if the past few months of upsets are any indication.
Upsets haven’t been a hallmark of the women’s tournament. Since 2007, 11 women’s teams seeded 10th or lower have reached the Sweet 16. That’s less than half the number of lower-seeded men’s team that have made that run.
But signs are this year’s tournament is ripe for more surprises.
“The talent is spread out a little bit more now,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. “I think this might be one of the more exciting tournaments in recent years.”
This season has been full of eye-popping upsets, including 19 losses by top 10 teams to unranked schools. That was the seventh most in a season since 2000, according to Stats Perform. That continued a trend from the 2021-22 season when there were 24 — the second most over that span.
For the Huskies, it’s already been a historic year — not one they would want to bookmark. Connecticut, beset by injuries for most of the season, lost consecutive games for the first time in 30 years, ending one of the most impressive streaks in sports history. One of those defeats came to unranked Marquette a few days after losing to No. 1 South Carolina — the only unbeaten team heading into the NCAA Tournament.
The Gamecocks were the only team immune to the upset bug this season. Dawn Staley’s squad did face challenges, trailing at the half in three contests and by double-digits in a few others.
“Well, until somebody beats South Carolina, they are still undefeated,” Auriemma said of the defending champions. “They’re still the favorite as they should be.”
The Gamecocks are most likely be in the best position to get to the Final Four in Dallas when the NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed on Sunday night. South Carolina will play its opening two games at home and are a lock to be playing the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games 90 minutes away in Greenville, South Carolina.
The NCAA did its second reveal of the top 16 seeds for the tournament on Feb. 23 and since then only four teams — South Carolina, UConn, Virginia Tech and Iowa — didn’t lose games. It took a last-second shot by Caitlin Clark against Indiana for the Hawkeyes to stay in that group.
It wasn’t just the top-ranked teams that were being beaten. Ten regular season conference champions lost in their postseason tournaments, including several that didn’t even make it to the final. With so many favorites falling, the NCAA Tournament selection committee faces some difficult decisions.
“As challenging as it makes it for us, it’s good for the game,” selection committee chair Lisa Peterson said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “The only thing we can agree on right away is the number one overall seed. The upsets have inspired a lot more in-depth conversations. There’s so many things that have happened in the last few weeks that are exciting for the game.”
Last season the Creighton women’s team made a run to the regional final as a 10-seed. That was only the fifth time a double-digit seed had made it that far. Auriemma thinks that could happen more often with the right draw.
“Where you’re seeded may be important, but who’s bracket you’re in and if you catch the wrong team at the wrong time could change it,” he said. “Years ago that didn’t matter as much as the favorites just rolled through.”
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Janine Alexander Brings 26+ Years' Experience to Her Work with Southeastern States' Water, Utility Professionals
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association (DIPRA) welcomes Janine M. Alexander, P.E. as the Senior Regional Engineer for the Southeastern States.
"Janine Alexander is a top professional engineer, and we couldn't be more excited to welcome her onboard with us at DIPRA," said association President Patrick J. Hogan. "Her immense experience will be invaluable as she works with utility and water professionals on projects involving Ductile iron pipe. Janine joins our highly experienced and knowledgeable engineering staff who frequently participate and speak at conferences and publish research on the superior health, environmental and safety benefits of Ductile iron pipe used in drinking water systems by communities and utilities across the country."
As a Senior Regional Engineer, Janine will provide technical expertise to utility managers, engineers, and water system operators who have questions about all aspects related to the application of Ductile iron pipe.
Janine has more than 26 years of experience in utilities, including project management for the design of new facilities, relocations of existing facilities, utility coordination, permitting, construction administration and management, and inspections. She holds certifications for numerous public and private sector projects and has written and presented more than a dozen technical papers at conferences, including the North American Society for Trenchless Technology's annual conference, NASTT No Dig; the American Society of Civil Engineers' Utility Engineering & Surveying Pipeline Conference, and the Florida Section American Water Works Association conference.
Janine has been involved in the design of more than 180 miles of pipelines. In her most recent project, she was Senior Project Manager and Engineer-of-Record for an $82M WIFIA-funded gravity sewer rehabilitation program. She will represent DIPRA as a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon Engineering Honor Societies. Additionally, Janine is certified by the National Association of Sewer Service Companies in its Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP®), Lateral Assessment Certification Program (LACP®) and Manhole Assessment Certification Program (MACP®) along with certification of cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) and manhole rehabilitation installations (ITCP).
Janine is a licensed professional engineer in both Florida and Texas. Her education includes a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Central Florida. Prior to joining DIPRA, Janine worked for Tetra Tech as a Senior Project Manager.
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LIMA, OH (WLIO) - It's something that many new moms want to do but run into challenges making it difficult.
Breastfeeding comes naturally to some and brings headaches to others. The baby not latching and the lack of milk production are just a few problems they can face. To help, a free mom-to-mom lactose services support group meets on the second Monday of each month at the Bradfield Community Center. It gives moms a chance to talk with other moms about what they are going through.
"I think it's just nice that folks learn from each other too because sometimes it's nothing I say. It's somebody else with a 6-month-old baby that talks with a newborn mom and they can just exchange so much encouragement between them," said June Myers, lactation consultant.
Again, the support group meets on the second Monday of each month at 3 p.m. at the Bradfield Community Center located at 550 S Collett St, Lima, OH 45805. | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/bradfield-community-center-is-hosting-a-mom-to-mom-breastfeeding-support-group/article_c3602b3c-0ae8-11ee-a43e-6b126e0d9c44.html | 2023-06-20 02:13:37 | 1 | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/bradfield-community-center-is-hosting-a-mom-to-mom-breastfeeding-support-group/article_c3602b3c-0ae8-11ee-a43e-6b126e0d9c44.html |
Children ages 6 and 9 shot getting off DC bus
WASHINGTON (WJLA) - Two children were among the victims of a shooting on a Washington, D.C. Metro bus.
Police say three people, including a 6-year-old and 9-year-old, were shot after getting off a bus where a fight was happening. Authorities say the children and the adult male victim are in the hospital and expected to recover from their injuries.
Police say they are looking for a male shooting suspect in the case, as well as men who came on the bus and assaulted a passenger.
Resident Jacquie Morrison says she couldn’t just walk past the scene.
“It’s gotten considerably worse. People are hurting,” Morrison said. “People are hopeless and people are just tired, you know, and they’re acting out.”
Police say the fight spilled off the bus, and one of the attackers fired recklessly, hitting another uninvolved passenger and the children.
“All they were doing was riding the bus, coming home from school, and an idiot with a gun shot it indiscriminately,” said Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee called it unacceptable.
“You will always hear me talk about accountability when it comes to people who commit reckless acts in our community,” Contee said.
Still, Morrison said the words are not enough.
“Nothing against the police chief, but it seemed like a rolling script. How many of those speeches have been the same?” she said. “It’s almost like you can just cut it out on a card. Until you get to the heart and the morals of people, of children, of adults, nothing’s going to change.”
It was especially difficult after going through another act of senseless violence days ago so close to the scene.
“Just last week, we were on Georgia Avenue and a 9-year-old was shot in a gun fight,” said Janeese Lewis George, D.C. City Council. “We are at a space in our city where it’s all hands on deck.”
Bowser said they must be proactive to prevent crimes.
“There are not enough Metro Transit police to put on every bus. I’m just going to tell you that right now,” she said. “There are not enough Metropolitan police officers to put on every corner, so we have to work collectively to identify young people who are in trouble, who need to get help, before they use a gun.”
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STAMFORD, Conn., May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Verbio North America Holdings Corporation announced today the signing and closing of a purchase agreement with Mercuria Investments US, Inc. to acquire South Bend Ethanol, LLC, an operating ethanol plant located in South Bend, Indiana. As a global leader in the renewable energy industry, this will be Verbio`s second US production facility following the successful commissioning of its Nevada, IA plant. Verbio intends to subsequently expand and develop the plant into a modern biorefinery at an estimated total investment of $230 million.
"We are excited about the opportunity to integrate the production of ethanol with renewable natural gas (RNG) in the state of Indiana," comments Stefan Schreiber, Executive Board Member for North America of Verbio AG, the German based parent company. "We believe this transaction provides an excellent path for Verbio to further strengthen its North America business and growth strategy. The site offers a competitive location as well as existing infrastructure and meets our requirements for access to the natural gas grid, electricity, feedstock sources and water supply."
Integration of the ethanol production with the RNG production process, unique to the Verbio brand and developed successfully at the company`s facilities in Europe over the past decade, will result in higher efficiencies and improved sustainability. The site will be developed over the next three years incorporating Verbio's advanced engineering and operating technology practices. Following commissioning, the production capacity of the plant will be at 85 million gallons of corn ethanol and 2.8 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of RNG per year.
Verbio will retain the assets of the existing ethanol plant and seek to improve yields and reduce energy consumption over the next several months. The investment will incorporate additional equipment and processes necessary to produce value-added by-products, such as liquid fertilizers. Further, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, aiming to boost investments in climate protection and clean energy in the United States, offers provisions that will benefit the Verbio project. (…)
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BEIJING, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReTo Eco-Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: RETO) (the "Company") today announced that a consortium comprised of its subsidiary, REIT Ecological Technology Co., Ltd. ("REITOrdos"), has won the bid to design and operate Ordos solid waste recycling and land rehabilitation ecology-oriented project (the "EOD Project"), which focuses on the ecological protection of Yellow River Basin in China.
According to the bidding documents, REIT Ordos, CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Co. and Hainan Shiyuan Tongda Private Equity Fund Management Co. will join forces to design, develop and operate the EOD Project in Ordos.
The EOD Project involves construction of two coal gangue recycling plants, with REIT Ordos being responsible for plant construction, gangue transportation and processing, and the transformation of gangue residues into recycled materials, such as block bricks and nutrient soil conditioner. The construction period is expected to last for three years, with an estimated operation period of 15 years.
As outlined in the bidding documents, the EOD Project is expected to process 13 million tons of coal gangue annually, producing 650,000 tons of low-quality coal, refractory bricks and other ceramic granules each year. It is also expected to use coal gangue to produce soil improvement materials and low-intensity sand. These soil improvement materials are expected to be used to rehabilitate 150,000 mu of saline, sandy and degraded land, effectively recycling coal gangue.
Mr. Hengfang Li, Chairman and CEO of the Company, commented, "We are honored to be part of the team for the Ordos EOD Project and will utilize our expertise and technological know-how to promote innovative environmental protection at the Yellow River Basin."
"We believe the EOD Project will be effective in recycling coal gangue and transforming the residues into ecological resources, as part of our efforts to promote sustainable development of the 'green' industry."
"We hope that the EOD Project will help build an ecological environment network at the Yellow River Basin that promotes the development of modern agriculture and provides diverse employment opportunities in Ordos. Our company is committed to protecting the ecological environment and continues to explore the potential of the EOD project model to revitalize rural areas in Ordos and contribute to the overall sustainable development of economic and social prosperity in the region."
About ReTo Eco-Solutions, Inc.
Founded in 1999, ReTo, through its proprietary technologies, systems and solutions, is striving to bring clean water and fertile soil to communities worldwide. The Company, through its operating subsidiaries in China, is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of eco-friendly construction materials (aggregates, bricks, pavers and tiles), made from mining waste (iron tailings), as well as equipment used for the production of these eco-friendly construction materials. In addition, the Company provides consultation, design, project implementation and construction of urban ecological protection projects and parts, engineering support, consulting, technical advice and service, and other project-related solutions for its manufacturing equipment and environmental protection projects. The Company also offers roadside assistance services and software development services utilizing Internet of Things technologies. For more information, please visit: http://en.retoeco.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. When the Company uses words such as "may," "will," "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate," or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the following: the Company's goals and strategies, including those related to the EOD Project, the Company's future business development such as municipal construction projects; product and service demand and acceptance; changes in technology; economic conditions; the growth of the industries in China in which the Company operates; reputation and brand; the impact of competition and pricing; government regulations; fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing and other uncertainties and risks contained in reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). For these reasons, among others, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company's filings with the SEC, which are available for review at www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof.
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The Alabama Legislature today recognized eight law enforcement officers for life-saving deeds and other heroics in the line of duty during the last year.
Bibb County Deputy Brad Johnson, who was fatally shot last June in pursuit of a suspect, was posthumously awarded the Legislative Medal of Honor for Law Enforcement. Bibb County Deputy Chris Poole, who was shot while pursuing the same suspect, was also awarded the Medal of Honor.
Others who were recognized as nominees at today’s ceremony in the State House:
- Jefferson County Deputy School Resource Officer Darrius Black, who in December conducted an investigation to find a student carrying a loaded handgun and removed that student from the classroom.
- Morgan County Deputies Jerry Bingman, Jacob Boenig, and Kel Roberts, who rescued a victim from a house fire in Decatur in May.
- Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department Corporal Derrick Riego, who was recognized for swift actions that saved the life of Deputy Skylar Campbell after Campbell had incidental contact with what was believed to be fentanyl during a traffic stop and went into respiratory distress. That happened in April.
- Alabama State Trooper Charles May, who in January rescued a hunter, David Washburn, who had been caught in rushing waters from a collapsed beaver dam and was suffering from severe hypothermia.
In April, the Legislature passed the Deputy Brad Johnson Act, which cut back on correctional incentive time for state prisoners, called “good time.” The man charged in Johnson’s death, Austin Patrick Hall, has a long criminal record but had accumulated more than 2,000 days of good time while incarcerated, the Associated Press reported. The Deputy Brad Johnson Act cut back on how quickly inmates could shave time of their sentences and made other changes to the correctional incentive time law.
Poole, Johnson’s former colleague who had come to the State House to support that bill, was back today to accept the Medal of Honor. Johnson’s daughters, Lana Johnson, 13, and Livy Johnson, 6, joined Poole on the House floor for the ceremony. Other officers from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Department watched the ceremony from the House gallery.
“I want to thank y’all,” Poole said after receiving the award. “It’s been tough. But we’re going to get through it. And we’re a great state. We’re a great state.” | https://www.al.com/news/2023/05/alabama-law-enforcement-officers-recognized-for-life-saving-actions.html | 2023-05-18 21:06:56 | 1 | https://www.al.com/news/2023/05/alabama-law-enforcement-officers-recognized-for-life-saving-actions.html |
UN envoy urges lifting of sanctions harming Syrian civilians
By ALBERT AJI
Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A U.N. envoy is urging Western and Arab countries to lift sanctions imposed on Syria, warning that the measures are exacerbating “the destruction and trauma” Syrian civilians have been exposed to since the conflict began 11 years ago. The U.N. official, Alena Douhan, said on Thursday that the sanctions are leading to shortages of medicines and medical equipment, which affects the lives of ordinary Syrians. Sanctions by the United States, the European Union and some Arab countries have been in place since 2011, after President Bashar Assad’s security apparatus cracked down on protests against his rule and the country descended into civil war. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/11/10/un-envoy-urges-lifting-of-sanctions-harming-syrian-civilians/ | 2022-11-10 17:42:49 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/11/10/un-envoy-urges-lifting-of-sanctions-harming-syrian-civilians/ |
Arizona’s summer is glittering with gold and silver.
Shaina Pellington (Canada), Helena Pueyo (Spain), Kailyn Gilbert (USA) and Lemyah Hylton (Canada) medaled while playing for their national teams. Gilbert won gold at the FIBA U18 Women's Americas Championship, held in Buenos Aires in June. Pueyo took home gold playing 3x3 at FIBA’s U23 Mediterranean Games in Algeria. And Pellington took home the victory at the Globl Jam event in Toronto.
All four Wildcats played with the blessing of coach Adia Barnes. Pellington called her coach "very understanding, very flexible with our schedules and what we can and can’t do."
"To have a coach who is willing to do those things for you, I think is really, really important. More important than people think it is," Pellington added. "It makes you as a coach, a person more desirable look up to — just more respect. You have more respect for somebody who is willing to work for you, hear you out and understand you, your future goals and your pathways.
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"There’s not just one pathway for Coach Adia. She knows that there are a lot of pathways and avenues for players. … I think that's what makes Arizona a lot different from a lot of other institutions.”
Pellington and Barnes are now working on a way to allow the Wildcats' point guard to participate in the World Cup for Team Canada in Sydney at the end of September. The event would force Pellington — should she make the team — to miss a significant amount of school time. (As an international student, Pellington is only allowed to take a certain number of online classes combined with in-person classes.)
There's a reason why Barnes is all-in on national teams — and not just America's. She is also part of the USA Basketball coaching pool. Barnes was an assistant coach at the AmeriCup last summer, coaching against Pellington, and in April was a "court coach" for training camp. This has allowed her to see how this process all unfolds from her players’ perspective.
And each player's experience is different.
Take the freshmen, Hylton and Gilbert, who both participated in the Women’s Americas Championship. Gilbert was sidelined with COVID-19. She quarantined for five days and watched the last two games, including Team USA championship win over Canada, from courtside.
"I was really, really excited and blessed just to be a part of it. … I was able to go and watch my team win gold," she said. "And I mean, it felt just as good, like I was playing, so I'm not upset. I'm not used to certain accolades like that and just seeing my hard work finally paid off, it really meant a lot to me.”
Hylton, a captain for Team Canada, guarded UCLA freshman Kiki Rice in the gold-medal game.
“I just saw her picking her (Rice) up full court and I was like, ‘Whoa! That takes a lot of like strength to do because she is a great player,'" Gilbert said. "At times she made it very hard for (Rice), but I really liked that about (Hylton). Her defense is really what sparked my interest.”
Hylton averaged 8.3 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game during the tournament. She also collected 12 steals. Hylton called it "heartbreaking" to finish second, but knew it was an accomplishment, too.
“We could have not placed; we could have not made it to Worlds. We checked off a lot of the boxes that were on our list,” Hylton said. “And I think that's what was really important. And now we know that we're there and that we can take the next step to improve and get better and maybe win gold one day. Which is just the biggest piece for us is seeing how far we can get and continuing to push ourselves to get there.”
Pueyo, who has been part of her national team for many years, tried a new sport this summer — 3 x 3 — and struck gold. The 3-on-3 half-court game debuted in the Olympics last summer.
“It so different from actual basketball, like 5-on-5,” Pueyo said. “It’s faster — so fast you can make four points in 20 seconds. You have to be in better shape, and this game helped me to control everything better on the court. … It’s really fun.”
Pellington is also no stranger to playing for Team Canada — she’s been at it for seven years. Last summer, she played in the Olympics. This time around, she took part in Globl Jam in Toronto.
Pellington scored eight points, dished three assists and had one block against Team USA in the semifinals, and had 10 points and three assists in the final against France. She played the wing position — not her usual point guard spot.
“That was really different for me, but it was something that I had to get used to and I was trying to adjust playing off the ball more,” Pellington said. “I think that’s something I added to my game and knowing how to read from that position, as well.”
Pellington has spent extra time training with her UA coaches before and the tournament. Expect to see a few other improvements in her game this season.
“My shot has gotten a lot better,” Pellington said. “I am really working on becoming more of a consistent shooter all-around really. Consistent from the from the pull up and working on getting consistent from the three. I think that is something an area for me that has gotten a lot better. And little different things like ball handling, ball control. Defense is defense, but more so the offensive side of things.” | https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/basketball/summer-shimmers-for-four-wildcats-on-national-teams/article_ee5613fc-1506-11ed-8be7-b7eba2b49feb.html | 2022-08-06 22:12:21 | 0 | https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/basketball/summer-shimmers-for-four-wildcats-on-national-teams/article_ee5613fc-1506-11ed-8be7-b7eba2b49feb.html |
Kitchen Basics will join Del Monte Foods, Inc.'s powerful portfolio of brands, offering delicious, accessible and quality meal ingredients to families across the country.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Del Monte Foods, Inc., announced today that it completed the acquisition of Kitchen Basics®, a line of ready-to-use stocks and broths from McCormick & Company. Kitchen Basics® will join Del Monte's brand portfolio as the company expands its national retail presence in the category.
Kitchen Basics® has an extensive portfolio of conventional and organic stocks and broths, including Chicken, Unsalted Chicken, Beef, Unsalted Beef, Vegetable, Unsalted Vegetable, Turkey, Seafood, and Creamy Bean & Vegetable.
The Kitchen Basics® brand was founded in 1996 as the pioneer in liquid stock and remains an industry leader in the U.S. today. The purchase of the brand supports the company's overall growth strategy, as Del Monte Foods focuses on innovation, renovation and customization of its iconic brand portfolio, and expands the geographic reach of its stocks and broths business. No employees were involved in this transaction, and specific terms were not disclosed.
"Del Monte Foods has gone through a positive transformation over the past five years, and we have become a leading innovative CPG growth company," said Greg Longstreet, President and CEO of Del Monte Foods. "As we plan for the next decade of growth, we're committed to strengthening our branded product portfolio to meet consumers' changing needs. Building on our regional College Inn® brand, the acquisition of Kitchen Basics® will provide synergies across our business to scale our broth and stock portfolio across North America."
"We've seen heightened interest in broth and stocks over the last few years as consumers double down on home meal preparation, health and wellness," said Bibie Wu, Chief Marketing Officer of Del Monte Foods. "Kitchen Basics® is well-known for its culinary quality. We're excited to bring Kitchen Basics into the Del Monte family of brands to help people create healthful meals they love."
Del Monte Foods, Inc. is one of the country's largest producers, distributors and marketers of premium quality, branded food products for the U.S. retail market. With the addition of Kitchen Basics® stock and broth items, Del Monte Foods will continue in its goal of nourishing families by building brands with quality products that are perfectly wholesome and thoughtfully prepared.
For more than 135 years, Del Monte Foods, Inc. has been driven by our mission to nourish families with earth's goodness. As the original plant-based food company, we're always innovating to make nutritious and delicious foods more accessible to consumers across our portfolio of beloved brands, including Del Monte®, Contadina®, College Inn®, S&W® and Joyba®. We believe that everyone deserves great tasting food they can feel good about, which is why we grow and produce our products using sustainable and earth-friendly practices for a healthier tomorrow. Del Monte Foods, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of Del Monte Pacific Limited (Bloomberg: DELM SP, DELM PM) and is not affiliated with certain other Del Monte companies around the world, including Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., Del Monte Canada, or Del Monte Asia Pte. Ltd. For more information about Del Monte Foods and our products, please visit www.delmontefoods.com or www.delmonte.com.
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New Texas facility will be 700 percent larger and allow ECL to provide a wider variety of
services to meet growing demand
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL), the first highly automated, secure, and centralized cloud laboratory, today announced the move to a new facility located in Austin, Texas. The new facility will allow ECL to offer a wider variety of experimentation services and greater throughput to customers in industries spanning pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and life sciences research.
ECL provides customers with remote access to the company's cutting-edge cloud lab where scientists can run multiple experiments in parallel, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from anywhere on earth. This new approach allows researchers to spend less time managing their laboratory and more time designing and analyzing new experiments and data.
"Our mission at ECL has always been to provide scientists with the tools they need to accomplish groundbreaking research," said Brian Frezza, co-founder of Emerald Cloud Lab. "We're elated that this relocation will allow us to increase lab productivity further and address reproducibility challenges at an even greater capacity than before."
"The Austin area is emerging as one of the fastest-growing hubs for life sciences in the United States," added ECL co-founder D.J. Kleinbaum. "Austin's Chamber of Commerce estimates the region is home to 300 life sciences companies, and a specialized workforce of over 18,000. We're looking forward to making a real impact on both the economy and scientific ecosystem here."
The 105,000-square-foot facility will house over 230 unique types of instruments needed to run most experiments, all controlled by a single unified software interface, ECL Command Center®. ECL's platform grants researchers access to over 4,500 different functions, including machine learning, image processing, and multi-dimensional analysis.
Since ECL's launch in 2016, the concept of cloud labs has since exploded in popularity. In 2021, ECL and Carnegie Mellon University entered into a partnership to build the world's first cloud lab in an academic setting, set to open in the fall of 2023.
Emerald Cloud Lab aims to open the new facility in July 2023. The company is also developing new highly automated technology to expand workflow capabilities of numerous scientific disciplines, including cell biology and organic chemistry.
About Emerald Cloud Lab
ECL was founded by scientists, for scientists. Our vision is to build a system that sweeps aside the daily grind scientists face in the laboratory and allows the day-to-day work to center on orchestrating science. There is transformative potential in a world where scientific ideas have a more direct route to realization and where progress in science and medicine is driven more by the strength of our ideas than our labor in the lab. Succeeding in this mission has the chance to provide unprecedented leverage and autonomy to scientists worldwide and in doing so to accelerate the rate of progress in pharmaceutical research, materials science, medical diagnostics, and agriculture.
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TORONTO, March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Greenbrook TMS Inc. (NASDAQ: GBNH) ("Greenbrook" or the "Company") today announced that it has (i) completed a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") of common shares of the Company (the "Common Shares") for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately US$6.25 million, and (ii) entered into amendments to its credit facility (the "Credit Facility") with Madryn Asset Management, LP and affiliates thereof ("Madryn"), whereby Madryn has agreed to extend two additional tranches of debt financing to the Company in an aggregate principal amount of US$2.0 million (the "New Loan").
Pursuant to the Private Placement, an aggregate of 11,363,635 Common Shares were issued at a price of US$0.55 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately US$6.25 million. The Private Placement included investments by Madryn, together with certain of the Company's other major shareholders, including Greybrook Health Inc. ("Greybrook Health") and affiliates of Masters Special Situations LLC ("Masters").
The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Private Placement to finance the Company's previously announced ongoing restructuring plan (the "Restructuring Plan") as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment of indebtedness. In connection with the Private Placement, all investors have received customary registration rights.
The offer and sale of the Common Shares in the Private Placement was made in the United States solely to accredited investors pursuant to the exemption from registration in reliance on a private placement exemption under Section 4(a)(2) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and in Canada pursuant to and in compliance with exemptions from the prospectus requirements of applicable Canadian securities laws.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
Madryn has agreed to extend two additional tranches of the New Loan to the Company, each in the amount of US$1.0 million, representing an aggregate principal amount of US$2.0 million. US$1.0 million of the New Loan was funded prior to closing of the Private Placement, with the balance expected to be funded by the end of the month. The terms and conditions of the New Loan are consistent with the terms and conditions of the Company's existing aggregate US$59.0 million loan under the Credit Facility (the "Existing Loan" and together with the New Loan, the "Madryn Loan") in all material respects.
The New Loan also provides Madryn with the option to convert up to approximately US$182,000 of the outstanding principal amount of the New Loan into Common Shares at a conversion price per share equal to US$1.90 (the "Conversion Price"), subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments. This conversion feature corresponds to the conversion provisions for the Existing Loan, which provide Madryn with the option to convert up to approximately US$5.4 million of the outstanding principal amount of the Existing Loan into Common Shares at the Conversion Price. After giving effect to the New Loan, an aggregate of approximately US$5.6 million of the Madryn Loan is convertible into Common Shares at the Conversion Price.
Following completion of the Private Placement and the New Loan, and in conjunction with anticipated cost savings from the Restructuring Plan, the Company intends to continue to explore additional options to enhance and strengthen its liquidity position and enable the Company to meet its cash requirements.
Greybrook Health is an insider of the Company. Accordingly, the Private Placement is considered a "related party transaction" for purposes of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). Pursuant to MI 61-101, the Company will file a material change report providing disclosure in relation to each "related party transaction" on SEDAR under the Company's issuer profile at www.sedar.com. The Company did not file the material change report more than 21 days before the expected closing date of the Private Placement as the details of the Private Placement and the participation therein by the "related parties" of the Company were not settled until shortly prior to the closing of the Private Placement, and the Company wished to close the Private Placement on an expedited basis for business reasons.
The Company is relying on exemptions from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements available under MI 61-101. The Company is exempt from the formal valuation requirement in section 5.4 of MI 61-101 in reliance on section 5.5(a) of MI 61-101 as the fair market value of the transaction, insofar as it involves interested parties, is not more than 25% of the Company's market capitalization. Additionally, the Company is exempt from the minority shareholder approval requirement in section 5.6 of MI 61-101 in reliance on section 5.7(1)(a) as the fair market value of the transaction, insofar as it involves interested parties, is not more than 25% of the Company's market capitalization.
Operating through 133 Company-operated treatment centers (following completion of the Restructuring Plan), Greenbrook is a leading provider of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ("TMS") and Spravato® (esketamine nasal spray), FDA-cleared, non-invasive therapies for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder ("MDD") and other mental health disorders, in the United States. TMS therapy provides local electromagnetic stimulation to specific brain regions known to be directly associated with mood regulation. Spravato® is offered to treat adults with treatment-resistant depression and depressive symptoms in adults with MDD with suicidal thoughts or actions. Greenbrook has provided more than one million treatments to over 27,000 patients struggling with depression.
Certain information in this press release, including statements with respect to the Private Placement, the New Loan (including the timing for funding the balance thereof) and the anticipated use of proceeds therefrom, as well as statements regarding the Company's liquidity and ability to meet its cash requirements, constitutes forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws in Canada and the United States, including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "targets", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "an opportunity exists", "is positioned", "estimates", "intends", "assumes", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate" or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management's expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.
Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this press release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including, but not limited to, macroeconomic factors such as inflation and recessionary conditions, substantial doubt regarding the Company's ability to continue as a going concern due to recurring losses from operations; inability to increase cash flow and/or raise sufficient capital to support our operating activities and fund our cash obligations, repay our indebtedness and satisfy our working capital needs; inability to satisfy debt covenants under our Credit Facility and the potential acceleration of indebtedness; the possible failure to complete the Restructuring Plan on terms acceptable to us or our suppliers (including Neuronetics Inc.), or at all; risks relating to our ability to realize expected cost-savings and other anticipated benefits from the Restructuring Plan; risks related to the Company's negative cash flows, liquidity and its ability to secure additional financing; increases in indebtedness levels causing a reduction in financial flexibility; risks relating to our dependence on Neuronetics Inc. as our exclusive supplier of TMS devices; and the other factors described in greater detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, in the "Risks and Uncertainties" section of the Company's management's discussion and analysis for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, and in the Company's other materials filed with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities and the SEC from time to time, available at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov, respectively. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ringo Starr has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the former Beatle to cancel several scheduled concerts in Canada with his All Starr Band.
Five concert dates from Tuesday to Sunday — in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Lethbridge, Alberta; and the British Columbia cities of Abbotsford and Penticton — will be rescheduled.
“Ringo hopes to resume as soon as possible and is recovering at home. As always, he and the All Starrs send peace and love to their fans and hope to see them back out on the road soon,” said a statement from the band.
The drummer-singer is 82.
Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band — consisting of Toto’s Steve Lukather, Men at Work’s Colin Hay, Average White Band’s Hamish Stuart and Edgar Winter — were also forced to cancel last weekend shows in New Buffalo, Michigan, and at Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, Minnesota. | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/ap-ringo-starr-tour-on-hold-as-he-recovers-from-covid-19/ | 2022-10-04 03:32:56 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/ap-ringo-starr-tour-on-hold-as-he-recovers-from-covid-19/ |
Willi Castro Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Guardians - May 6
Published: May. 6, 2023 at 12:23 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Saturday, Willi Castro (.143 slugging percentage in past 10 games, with zero homers) and the Minnesota Twins face the Cleveland Guardians, whose starting pitcher will be Logan Allen. First pitch is at 6:10 PM ET.
Willi Castro Game Info & Props vs. the Guardians
- Game Day: Saturday, May 6, 2023
- Game Time: 6:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Progressive Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Guardians Starter: Logan Allen
- TV Channel: BSGL
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +825)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +230)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +175)
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Willi Castro At The Plate
- Castro is hitting .189 with two doubles, a home run and five walks.
- This year, Castro has recorded at least one hit in five of 22 games (22.7%), and had multiple hits twice.
- He has gone deep in one of 22 games, and in 2.3% of his plate appearances.
- Castro has driven in a run in three games this season (13.6%), including one multiple-RBI game.
- In five of 22 games this year, he has scored, including multiple runs once.
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Willi Castro Home/Away Batting Splits
Guardians Pitching Rankings
- The Guardians pitching staff ranks last in MLB with a collective 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Guardians' 3.91 team ERA ranks 12th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Guardians give up the 10th-fewest home runs in baseball (32 total, one per game).
- The Guardians will look to Allen (1-1) in his third start this season.
- The left-hander last appeared on Sunday against the Boston Red Sox, when he tossed five innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up four hits.
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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Officials in a West Texas city have lifted an order that had called for its more than 131,000 residents to boil their tap water before drinking or using it.
The boil order in Midland was lifted Saturday. It had been in effect since Thursday.
The city said water quality test results it sent to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality confirmed the tap water meets regulatory standards and is safe to drink.
Midland officials said the boil water notice was issued after a series of mishaps. It began with a water main break that resulted in the loss of approximately 6.5 million gallons of water. During the city’s efforts to replace that loss with newly treated water, dirty water entered the treatment process, resulting in the shutdown of a water treatment plant.
Midland’s boil water notice took place more than a month after officials in Houston issued a similar order for more than 2 million people. The boil order in November was issued after two transformers failed at a water plant in the nation’s fourth-largest city. The problem affected the plant’s ability to treat and pump water into the transmission system, resulting in low pressure. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/West-Texas-city-lifts-boil-water-order-for-131K-17703195.php | 2023-01-08 19:14:16 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/West-Texas-city-lifts-boil-water-order-for-131K-17703195.php |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A homeless man has been found competent to stand trial in the stabbing of a Florida teenager who went missing while riding his bike.
Lawyers for Semmie Williams, 39, had argued — over his objections — that he should be found incompetent and sent to a forensic mental health facility for further evaluation, the Palm Beach Post reported.
Ryan Rogers, 14, was killed in November after leaving home to go on an evening bicycle ride, prosecutors said. His body was later found near an Interstate 95 overpass.
Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Charles Burton sided with two court-appointed psychologists who deemed Williams able to understand the charges and participate in his defense. They completed separate evaluations of Williams in March.
“It is evident to the Court that the Defendant has a strategic disagreement with his attorneys over how to present the case to the jury,” the judge wrote. “That, in and of itself, does not make him incompetent to proceed.”
Burton, who handles cases in the court's mental health division, referred the case back to the trial division for a June 21 hearing.
Prosecutors have indicated they'll seek the death penalty.
The ruling doesn't prevent a future court finding that Williams is incompetent.
His mental health has been in question ever since his arrest in December. His lawyers have said he has a “long-standing and persistent mental illness,” and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Assistant Public Defender Scott Pribble acknowledged that Williams wants to be declared competent.
“We’re in this precarious situation where we’re kind of walking a tightrope between having information that we believe establishes that he’s not competent to proceed and protecting confidences that Mr. Williams has disclosed to us and to experts that we’ve retained,” Pribble told the judge.
Psychologist Gretchen Moy testified for the defense that while Williams has a factual understanding of the case, his delusional thoughts keep him from having a rational understanding.
She noted Williams believes he's the victim of a nationwide conspiracy that includes having electronic chips planted throughout his body, having holes poked in his face and being “attacked by demons and other supernatural forces.”
She testified that Williams, against the advice of his attorneys, expects to present a defense rooted in delusional beliefs rather than evidence.
“The defense is essentially arguing that the defendant is so incompetent and yet so savvy that he knows who to talk to, what to say, and how to hide his mental issues from two experienced doctors who spent at least an hour with him,” Assistant State Attorney Ettie Feistman wrote in her response.
Court records show that Williams spent two years in a Georgia hospital before he was found competent enough to take a plea deal in a separate case. He was homeless at the time of his arrest. In court on Tuesday, Williams told the judge he understood the information being presented by his attorneys. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Delusional-man-found-competent-for-trial-in-17232770.php | 2022-06-10 13:34:36 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Delusional-man-found-competent-for-trial-in-17232770.php |
Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks to host ACM Awards in May
Dolly Parton will return for a second consecutive year as host of the Academy of Country Music Awards but this year she's bringing a new plus-one to help — Garth Brooks.
The show is set for May 11 and will stream live on Amazon Prime Video from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. A full rebroadcast of the ceremony and performances will stream the next day for free on Amazon Freevee.
It’s the second consecutive year that the show will be hosted by Parton but marks the first time Brooks will take the stage to host an awards show.
“I am thrilled to return to host the ACM Awards, this time with my friend Garth,” Parton said in a statement. “While I’ve had the pleasure of spending time with him throughout the years, I can’t believe we’ve never had the chance to work together.”
“Anyone with Dolly Parton makes a fantastic couple,” Brooks added. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/dolly-parton-garth-brooks-acm-awards/43456301 | 2023-03-29 20:17:51 | 1 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/dolly-parton-garth-brooks-acm-awards/43456301 |
There is no shortage of reasons Republicans are expected to retake the House this year, including President Biden’s low approval ratings and the long history of struggles for the president’s party in midterm elections.
But there’s another issue that looms over the race for the House, one that doesn’t have anything to do with the candidates or the voters at all: the fairness of the newly redrawn congressional maps.
You might assume that the House map is heavily gerrymandered toward Republicans, especially after Republicans enacted aggressive gerrymanders in critical states such as Texas and Florida. Many of you might even presume that this gerrymandering means that the House isn’t merely likely to go to the Republicans, but that it’s also out of reach for Democrats under any realistic circumstances.
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In reality, Republicans do have a structural edge in the House, but it isn’t anything near insurmountable for the Democrats. By some measures, this is the fairest House map of the past 40 years.
Here’s one way to think about it: If you believe Democrats have a good chance to win the Senate, they ought to at least have a chance to win the House — even if Republicans are favored there.
Let’s start with a simple fact: On the new House map, 226 districts would have voted for Biden in 2020, compared with 209 for Donald Trump.
Now, Biden won the national vote by 4.5 percentage points, so even a map that’s biased toward Republicans might still have more Biden districts than Trump districts. But the simple fact that Biden won the most districts is a clear enough indication that the Republican advantage in the House isn’t totally insurmountable.
To account for Biden’s victory in 2020, a somewhat better — though more complex — measure is needed: a comparison between how districts voted and how the nation as a whole voted. If Biden won a district by more than he did nationally, it might be said to be a district where Democrats have the advantage if the national vote is tied. On a perfectly fair map, half the districts would lean toward Democrats with respect to the nation, while half would vote for Trump or vote for Biden by less than 4.5 points. And on this perfectly fair map, the district right in the middle — the median district — would have voted for Biden by 4.5 points, just like the nation.
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So what does this House look like by those measures? The median district backed Biden by 2.1 points, a little bit more to the right of the nation as a whole. And overall, there are 215 districts where Biden won by at least 4.5 percentage points, compared with 220 districts where Trump won or where Biden won by less than 4.5 points.
Both of these measures show a map tilted toward Republicans. To retain control of the House in our hypothetical, Democrats would need to win at least three districts where Biden did worse than he did nationwide, including a district where he won by 2.1 points or less. Republicans could theoretically prevail by defending districts where Trump won or lost by less than he did nationwide.
This is a real Republican edge, but it is not a daunting one for Democrats. Here are three ways to put it in perspective.
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First, the Republican edge is flimsy. In a chamber with dozens of competitive races, a three-seat advantage just isn’t that much. If Republicans nominated a few too many unelectable stop-the-steal candidates or if a few too many Democratic incumbents proved too resilient, the Republican structural edge would evaporate.
Second, the edge is historically small. In fact, there are more Democratic-tilting districts — 215 — than at any time in the past 40 years.
As recently as 2012, there were just 195 districts where Barack Obama had fared better than average nationwide in the prior election. That was such a large advantage that you really could (and I did!) dismiss the possibility of a Democratic win anytime soon, even if the party could narrowly win the House popular vote. Not anymore.
Third, the Republican structural advantage is fairly comparable to that of the Senate and the Electoral College — two bodies where, yes, the Republicans command structural advantages, but where no one really questions whether the Democrats can win.
Consider this: While Democrats could win the House by carrying every district that Biden won by at least 2.1 points, the Democrats would lose the presidency and the Senate if they only won states where Biden won by 2.1 or more. In the Senate races, Georgia and Arizona seats would flip to the Republicans, while Democrats would fail to flip seats in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Ohio.
Or put differently, if Democrats can win the House races that resemble Senate contests in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Nevada, they can probably win the House.
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There is one catch in this comparison, and here’s where gerrymandering comes into play: Democrats will need to win a higher proportion of competitive districts than they do in the Senate. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/30/nation/gerrymandering-isnt-giving-republicans-advantage-you-might-expect/ | 2022-09-30 21:34:10 | 1 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/30/nation/gerrymandering-isnt-giving-republicans-advantage-you-might-expect/ |
Fatalities reported after 2 planes collide in California
Published: Aug. 18, 2022 at 7:30 PM EDT|Updated: moments ago
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Multiple fatalities have been reported after two planes collided in Northern California while trying to land at a local airport.
The collision happened at Watsonville Municipal Airport shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday.
The Federal Aviation Administration says there were two people aboard a twin-engine Cessna 340 and only the pilot aboard a single-engine Cessna 152 during the crash.
It was not immediately clear whether any of them survived.
The pilots were on their final approaches to the airport when the collision occurred.
No one on the ground was injured.
Watsonville is about 100 miles south of San Francisco.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
03-06-15-16-43
(three, six, fifteen, sixteen, forty-three)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
03-06-15-16-43
(three, six, fifteen, sixteen, forty-three) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17605539.php | 2022-11-23 05:27:44 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17605539.php |
DALLAS — Luka Doncic had a franchise-record 60 points, 21 rebounds, and 10 assists in a historic triple-double, including the tying basket off his intentionally missed free throw to force overtime as the Dallas Mavericks rallied for a wild 126-121 victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday night.
Dallas was down 9 points with 33 seconds left in regulation before getting even in a back-and-forth sequence capped by Doncic missing a free throw on purpose, ending up with the loose ball on the rebound, and hitting a jumper for a 115-115 tie with one second remaining.
The first 60-point game in Dallas history also included Doncic’s career high in rebounds and was the first 60-20-10 game in NBA history. The 23-year-old superstar had his seventh triple-double of the season.
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The Mavericks moved three games over .500 with a fourth consecutive victory, both marks matching their season bests.
Quentin Grimes scored a career-high 33 points and Dallas native Julius Randle had 29 points and 18 rebounds for the Knicks, who lost a fourth consecutive game coming off an eight-game winning streak, their longest in almost nine years.
Jalen Brunson missed the game with a hip injury, unable to play in what would have been his return to Dallas.
After Miles McBride missed 1 of 2 free throws with 11.5 seconds left, Spender Dinwiddie, who scored 25 points, hit a 3-pointer to get Dallas within 113-112.
McBride made both free throws the next time for a 115-112 lead with 7.7 seconds to go, then Grimes fouled Doncic before the Dallas superstar could attempt a potential tying 3-pointer.
The Mavericks inserted seldom-used center JaVale McGee for the rebound, and Dallas kept the ball alive on Doncic’s intentional miss. The ball bounced to the Slovenian star, and he hit the 11-foot jumper for the tie.
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Dallas led for less than a minute of regulation but never trailed in overtime. Doncic put the Mavericks ahead for good at 118-116 with two free throws midway through the extra period.
Brunson missed his first game of the season in his first visit to Dallas, where the point guard spent his first four seasons before signing with the Knicks in free agency last summer.
The two-time NCAA champion from Villanova got to play against his former team in early December in New York, when the Mavericks rolled to a 121-100 victory. | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/28/sports/mavericks-star-luka-doncic-scores-60-points-historic-triple-double-ot-win-over-knicks/ | 2022-12-28 06:04:07 | 0 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/28/sports/mavericks-star-luka-doncic-scores-60-points-historic-triple-double-ot-win-over-knicks/ |
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a member of the Democratic Party, about provisions in the debt ceiling bill approaching a Senate vote.
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Vandals continue to strike Sabino Canyon Visitor Center
Published: Oct. 31, 2022 at 12:17 PM MST|Updated: 14 minutes ago
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - A vandal continues to strike the Sabino Canyon Visitor Center in Pima County.
The Coronado National Forest said someone has been shooting out and breaking windows while also setting fires at the visitor center over the past few months.
“We have tried to increase law enforcement presence, repair damages, and work with our volunteers to keep an eye out,” the CNF said in a Facebook post. “Unfortunately, our efforts have proven ineffective.”
The restrooms at the center will now be locked outside of normal operating hours. Everyone is asked to report any suspicious activity to 911.
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Just three years ago, on Jan. 30, 2020, the head of the World Health Organization made a landmark declaration: A "novel coronavirus" that had first been identified in China had spread to a degree where it was now a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)."
The virus now known as SARS-CoV-2 — which causes the disease COVID-19 — is still spreading. But for those who study infectious diseases, talking about possible next pandemics is a necessity.
That's why the World Health Organization keeps a list of viruses and bacteria with pandemic potential. Jill Weatherhead of Baylor College of Medicine says prioritizing diseases is generally based on two factors: their ability to spread and the ability of humans to treat them.
The list helps guide scientists, governments and organizations in investing energy and funds to study the pathogens most likely to cause the greatest devastation to humans. The WHO develops "blueprints" with strategic goals and research priorities for each disease on the list.
Here are the diseases on the current list. A revised list is expected in the coming months: In late 2022, the World Health Organization convened more than 300 scientists to assess and update the list.
Note: The infrastructure to detect diseases in different parts of the world varies, as does the fact that mild cases of an illness may not be known or reported. Fatality rates are based on the best available data.
Nipah virus
What animals carry it: fruit bats, including those called flying foxes, and domestic animals such as pigs, horses, cats and dogs
How it spreads: Nipah virus can be transmitted to humans from animals or contaminated foods. It can also be transmitted directly from human to human.
Its toll: 40% to 75% fatality rate. The virus can also cause encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.
Medical toolbox: There is no vaccine available for either people or animals. Monoclonal antibody therapies are in development.
Pandemic potential: Outbreaks occur almost every year in parts of Asia, but there are known ways to prevent spread of the virus. Prevention efforts include avoiding exposure to bats and sick animals, avoiding consumption of fruits that bats may have nibbled on and not drinking certain raw juices from fruits that bats feed on. The risk of international transmission can be lowered by washing those fruits and fruit products thoroughly and peeling them before eating.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
What animals carry it: ticks, livestock
How it spreads: Humans usually get the virus from contact with ticks or infected livestock. To get the virus from another person requires close contact with blood or other bodily fluids from an infected person.
Its toll: 10% to 40% fatality rate. The disease is endemic, meaning it occurs regularly, in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia. The virus causes severe outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fever, a condition that can damage the body's organ systems and cardiovascular system and that often includes severe bleeding.
Medical toolbox: Although a vaccine is in use in Bulgaria, no research has been published on how well it works, and it's not licensed anywhere else. Other vaccines are in development, and an antiviral drug called ribavirin appears to help treat infections.
Pandemic potential: It's difficult to tell when an animal is infected and should be avoided, and the WHO says the ticks that carry the virus are numerous and widespread. The threat could be reduced by trying to avoid tick bites and wearing gloves and other protective clothing when around livestock.
Lassa fever
What animals carry it: rats and other rodents
How it spreads: The virus is endemic in parts of West Africa. Rats excrete the virus, and humans pick it up when exposed to the rodents' urine and feces, either through direct contact or eating contaminated food. It can also spread between humans through direct contact with an infected person's secretions (blood, urine, feces), through sexual contact and in medical settings via contaminated equipment.
Its toll: 1%, but up to 15% in severe hospitalized cases. It can be deadly for people and fetuses in the third trimester of pregnancy. Besides death, a common complication is deafness, which can be permanent.
Medical toolbox: There is no vaccine, but ribavirin seems to help treat infections.
Pandemic potential: Because the primary method of transmission is exposure to a certain type of rat, potential for the spread of the disease is most likely limited to the countries where the rat lives.
Rift Valley fever
What animals carry it: mosquitoes. The insects can transmit the virus to both humans and their own offspring. Livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo and camels can also get infected.
How it spreads: It spreads to people through contact with blood, other body fluids or tissues of infected animals.
Its toll: Although the fatality level is less than 1% and the disease is mild for most people, about 8% to 10% of people infected develop severe symptoms, including eye lesions, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fever.
Medical toolbox: Although a vaccine has been developed, it is not yet licensed or available.
Pandemic potential: Rift Valley fever has spread from Africa to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Flooding seems to contribute to more Rift Valley fever because more virus-infected mosquitoes buzz about after heavy rainfalls. Rapid case detection, including prompt laboratory testing of people with symptoms, has limited recent outbreaks.
Zika
What animals carry it: mosquitoes
How it spreads: In addition to mosquito bites, the virus can spread from a pregnant person to a fetus. The disease can also be transmitted through sex and probably through blood transfusions.
Its toll: It's rarely fatal, but Zika can cause severe brain defects in fetuses, including microcephaly. It has also been linked to miscarriage, stillbirth and other birth defects.
Medical toolbox: No treatment or vaccine
Pandemic potential: So far, it's largely limited to areas where Zika-carrying mosquitoes live.
Ebola and Marburg virus disease
What animals carry them: Bats and nonhuman primates are believed to carry the viruses, from the filovirus family, that cause these hemorrhagic fevers.
How they spread: Both viruses are believed to spread in the same way. After the initial spillover from an animal, humans spread the viruses to other humans through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids of a person who is symptomatic or who has died from the disease. The viruses can also spread through objects or surfaces contaminated with bodily fluids and through semen from people who have recovered from the disease.
Their toll: The average fatality rate is about 50%, though rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks.
Medical toolbox: Vaccines have been used for Ebola in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Monoclonal antibodies approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 can also help with treatment of Ebola. Vaccines for Marburg virus are in development.
Pandemic potential: These viruses can spread quickly in health care settings, especially when proper sterilization isn't used. However, the disease spreads only when a person is symptomatic, making it easier to control.
MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome)
What animals carry it: camels
How it spreads: After the initial spillover event from camels to humans, this coronavirus can spread from person to person through close contact with an infected person.
Its toll: The reported fatality rate, according to the WHO, is 35%.
Medical toolbox: Several vaccines are in development, but none has been approved.
Pandemic potential: 27 countries have reported infections since 2012. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes MERS grows deep in the respiratory tract, making it much less likely to be transmitted through sneezing and coughing.
SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome)
What animals carry it: Palm civets were largely blamed for the 2003 outbreak. Bats and possibly other wildlife also carry it.
How it spreads: After the initial spillover event from animal to human, SARS can spread from person to person through close contact with an infected person. It's believed to usually spread through droplets from coughs and sneezes and sometimes through surfaces touched by infectious people.
Its toll: less than a 1% fatality rate
Medical toolbox: No treatment or vaccine has been approved.
Pandemic potential: Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which can spread before people know they're infectious, this SARS virus is usually spread only by those with known symptoms, making it much easier to contain through public health measures such as quarantining. The 2003 outbreak was contained after causing about 8,000 cases and 700 deaths in 29 countries.
Disease X
The WHO says it does not rank diseases in any order of potential threat, but it acknowledges the possibility that an as-yet-unknown disease could cause a serious pandemic.
In her work with bat viruses, for example, Raina Plowright of Cornell University says that even in the small proportion of bat species that have been studied, the animals carry thousands of viruses, "and we have no clue how many present risk," she says. "We don't have the technology to take a sequence and say with certainty whether it can infect humans or can transmit from human to human. We're blind, really."
Not to mention that variants pose threats, she says. "Just the tiniest genetic change can have a profound effect. What if we had [a pathogen] with a 50% fatality rate that transmitted efficiently?"
Sheila Mulrooney Eldred is a freelance health journalist in Minneapolis. She has written about COVID-19 for many publications, including The New York Times, Kaiser Health News, Medscape and The Washington Post. More at sheilaeldred.pressfolios.com. On Twitter: @milepostmedia.
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WILKES-BARRE — A man from Plains Township charged after Wilkes-Barre Township police and agents with the Luzerne County Drug Task Force found cookie size chunks of crack cocaine inside a motel room was sentenced to state prison.
Luzerne County President Judge Michael T. Vough sentenced Reginald Lee Redfearn II, 41, of North Main Street, to five-to-10 years in prison on a charge of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. Redfearn pled guilty to the charge March 15.
Township police and the county drug task force executed a search warrant at a motel room at Wilkes-Barre Lodge on Kidder Street, arresting Redfearn on April 28, 2021.
At the time, Redfearn was wanted on a drug possession charge.
During a search of the motel room, police found three bags containing chunks of crack cocaine known as cookies in a dresser, according to police.
Redfearn was given credit for 209 days time served at the county correctional facility. | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1570601/plains-township-man-sentenced-for-peddling-crack-cocaine | 2022-08-20 03:43:38 | 0 | https://www.timesleader.com/news/1570601/plains-township-man-sentenced-for-peddling-crack-cocaine |
DES MOINES, Iowa — The bad news is that no one won Wednesday night's huge $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot.
The good news is that means the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion ahead of the next drawing Saturday night. That is the third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.
The numbers drawn Wednesday night were: 2, 11, 22, 35, 60 and the red powerball 23.
No one has won the top Powerball prize since Aug. 3, making for 39 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all six numbers.
What's behind three months of lottery futility? It's simple math. The odds of winning the jackpot are an abysmal 1 in 292.2 million.
It is because of those long odds that the grand prize has grown so large.
The new $1.5 billion prize is actually for winners who opt for an annuity, paid out annually over 29 years. Nearly all winners choose cash, which for Saturday's drawing would be $745.9 million.
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Elena Delle Donne scored 22 points and Washington defeated Indiana 95-83 on Sunday in a regular-season finale.
The Mystics (22-14), already headed to the WNBA playoffs as the No. 5 seed, got 15 points from Ariel Atkins, 11 from Shakira Austin, and 10 from Natasha Cloud.
Tiffany Mitchell scored 18 points for Indiana (5-31), which finishes the season on a league-record 18-game losing streak. Emma Cannon added 14 points and Lexie Hull scored 11.
The Mystics took the lead for good with 3:19 remaining in the first quarter and never looked back. The score was 57-40 by halftime, with Delle Donne racking up 16 points.
The Mystics made 30 of 35 free throws while Indiana made 17 of 20.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Source Advisors, a specialized tax consulting firm offering nationwide R&D Tax Credit, Cost Segregation, LIFO inventory, §179D, and §45L solutions, announces its global expansion plans with the strategic acquisition of GovGrant, a prominent U.K.-based research and development (R&D) tax credit consulting firm.
With a focus on tax incentives, cost recovery, and energy management, Source Advisors has become a trusted industry leader in tax consulting for over 40 years. The company has delivered outstanding results for clients across a wide range of industries and has established itself as a steadfast and innovative firm.
As part of its global expansion strategy, Source Advisors has acquired GovGrant, a premier R&D tax relief consulting firm in the United Kingdom. GovGrant is renowned for its comprehensive R&D tax relief services and Intellectual Property consultancy and has earned an excellent reputation in the industry. Its proven track record and extensive experience make it an ideal partner for Source Advisors.
"We are excited to enter this new chapter of our growth story," said Chris Henderson, CEO of Source Advisors. "We remain committed to providing unparalleled service and support to our clients worldwide. The acquisition of GovGrant enhances our ability to offer solutions to businesses globally, strengthening our position as the leader in specialty tax consulting."
Luke Hamm, CEO of GovGrant, said, "This acquisition with Source Advisors will provide GovGrant the platform for exponential growth and allow us to accelerate both our organic and inorganic strategy. The U.K. is seen as a key territory, and we are fully aligned with Source Advisors in our commitment to quality, ambition, and culture. We are delighted to be joining the team."
Together, Source Advisors and GovGrant will continue to provide unique expertise, tailored solutions, and stellar client service. They will work closely to ensure a smooth transition for their clients and employees as they expand their reach worldwide.
Source Advisors has helped CPA firms and their clients maximize specialized federal and state tax incentives for more than four decades. Headquartered in Fort Worth, TX, Source Advisors collaborates with accounting firms throughout the country to bring R&D Tax Credit, Cost Segregation, LIFO, §179D, and §45L solutions to their clients. With a nationwide team of more than 200 professionals, Source Advisors serves many of the nation's most prominent accounting firms, associations, and Fortune 1000 companies and has earned a reputation for delivering exceptional results for its clients. Source Advisors has been backed by Boston-based BV Investment Partners since 2022. https://www.sourceadvisors.com
GovGrant is a premier research and development tax credit and innovation consulting firm based in the United Kingdom. GovGrant empowers businesses to realize their innovation potential. Through a deep understanding of the R&D ecosystem and technical capability, GovGrant creates lasting value for its clients by recognizing their R&D and maximizing the value of their Intellectual Property. For more information, please visit www.govgrant.co.uk
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will provide $1.2 billion more in long-term military aid to Ukraine to further bolster its air defenses as Russia continues to pound Ukraine with drones, rockets and surface-to-air missiles, U.S. officials said Monday.
The aid package is expected to be announced on Tuesday and the money will be provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. Unlike the U.S. equipment, weapons and ammunition that are more frequently sent to Ukraine from Pentagon stocks — so they can be delivered quickly — this money is to be spent over the coming months or even years to ensure Ukraine’s future security needs.
The assistance initiative will fund HAWK air-defense systems, air-defense munitions and drones for air defense. It will also buy artillery, rockets, satellite imagery assistance, and funding for ongoing maintenance and spare parts for a variety of systems, according to the officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the aid package has not yet been formally announced.
Including this package, the U.S. has provided Ukraine nearly $37 billion in military aid since Russia invaded in February 2022.
The decision comes as Ukraine prepares to launch a spring offensive against Russian forces, with air defense a persistent issue.
Ukraine’s air defenses shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over Kyiv in Russia’s latest nighttime assault, officials said Monday. Wreckage from a drone struck a two-story apartment building in Kyiv’s western Svyatoshynskyi district, while other debris struck a car parked nearby, setting it on fire, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Telegram post.
Russian shelling of 127 targets across northern, southern and eastern parts of Ukraine killed three civilians, the Ukrainian defense ministry said.
Facing economic sanctions and limits on its supply chains due to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has routinely turned to Iran’s Shahed drones to bolster its firepower. And U.S. aid packages — including more immediate military weapons and support — have included systems to shoot down and otherwise defeat the drones.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers wasted no time this week before returning to an issue that has become a popular topic in GOP-led statehouses: Trying to limit medical options doctors are allowed to provide transgender youth.
On the second day of the legislative session, a committee began considering a policy that would stop minors from receiving gender-affirming health care — including surgery or puberty blockers. They also began considering a proposal to require schools to notify parents when kids want to change which pronouns they go by, and another that would limit when transgender people under 18 can change the sex listed on their birth certificates.
Each measure advanced through the committee on a 5-2 party line vote.
The proposals reflect how lawmakers in red states continue to make matters related to gender, sexuality and youth central to their legislative agenda. As LGBTQ Americans become increasingly visible in popular culture, some social conservatives have rallied around issues such as the bathrooms that transgender kids can use, sports teams they are allowed to play on and the health care their doctors can prescribe.
This year, 11 states have introduced proposals that would enact restrictions on doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, hormones or surgery to transgender kids and teens, regardless of what their parents want. Republicans on Tuesday introduced a transgender health care proposal in South Dakota, where one supportive lawmaker called puberty a “natural cure” for gender dysphoria.
State Sen. Mike Kennedy, a Republican family doctor sponsoring Utah’s proposal, said it didn’t make sense that health care policy related to gender and youth — which is at times reversible and other times irreversible — would be subject to no government oversight.
He acknowledged the topic was emotional for the families of transgender youth, yet said it was government’s responsibility to address issues of children’s consent and development.
“Caring for our children does not mean riding the latest radical wave,” he said. “We must ask questions: Does the child understand the long-term ramifications of their decision?”
“We can’t allow social policy to outpace science,” he added, arguing for more research on gender dysphoria and noting how medical fields in countries such as Finland and Sweden have tightened regulations governing transgender youth health care.
Questions about transgender youth and their health care dovetail with another growing Republican priority: parental rights. Jeri Brummett, a transgender woman and member of the Salt Lake County Republican Party, called the proposal excessive governmental intervention into individual medical decisions.
The bill, she said, “purports to protect transgender minors from their doctors and parents, yet its real effect is to place this Legislature and our state government between parents, their children and their doctors.”
Greg Walker, a Utah parent whose daughter has identified as transgender “since she could talk,” said it was disheartening to see the health care decisions his family and their doctors have made politicized.
At each juncture – before she went on puberty blockers or estrogen, for example — the Walkers and their doctors thoroughly deliberated and relied on experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics to understand “the risks of doing it and not doing it.”
Walker said he was particularly concerned about the disproportionately high suicide rates for transgender youth and of the potential harm that could result in the absence of treatment.
“As a parent. my first priority is to take care of my child and make sure my child’s safe,” Walker said.
In Utah, where a majority of residents and politicians are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lawmakers have for years focused heavily on social issues, including pornography and alcohol. Last year, the Republican-supermajority Legislature enacted a ban on transgender kids in girls sports. It was subsequently challenged in court and put on pause. While the case undergoes review, a commission of experts is making eligibility decisions for transgender youth.
One concern that arose during discussions about eligibility decisions was the use of birth certificates to verify athletes’ sex because transgender people routinely apply to change them. The Utah Supreme Court affirmed their right to make the changes two years ago.
State Sen. Dan McCay, a Republican who led the charge for last year’s youth sports ban, said limiting the changes would help Utah enforce its youth sports policy and only affect minors. Opponents who testified at the hearing said identification document changes were an individual liberty issue and deeply emotional for transgender people who don’t want to out themselves on a daily basis. | https://www.koin.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-transgender-youth-reemerge-as-statehouse-focal-point-in-utah/ | 2023-01-19 14:45:37 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-transgender-youth-reemerge-as-statehouse-focal-point-in-utah/ |
Southern Baptist Convention scandal: Denomination faces pressure to release list of sex abusers
HOUSTON (AP) - A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly accessible database of pastors and other church personnel known to be abusers.
The creation of an "Offender Information System" was one of the key recommendations in a report released Sunday by Guidepost Solutions, an independent firm contracted by the SBC’s Executive Committee after delegates to last year’s national meeting pressed for an investigation by outsiders.
The proposed database is expected to be one of several recommendations presented to thousands of delegates attending this year’s national meeting, scheduled for June 14-15 in Anaheim, California.
"Those recommendations will be open to questions, debate and comments on the meeting floor," said SBC President Ed Litton.
He expressed hope that the shocking findings in the Guidepost report will bring "lasting change" to the SBC, America’s largest Protestant denomination. It has been losing membership steadily in recent years, while being wracked by internal divisions over race and gender roles.
The Guidepost report said survivors of abuse by SBC clergy repeatedly shared allegations with the Executive Committee, "only to be met, time and time again, with resistance, stonewalling, and even outright hostility from some within the EC."
"Our investigation revealed that, for many years, a few senior EC leaders, along with outside counsel, largely controlled the EC’s response to these reports of abuse ... and were singularly focused on avoiding liability," the report said.
The motion for an independent investigation was put forward at last year's national meeting by the Rev. Grant Gaines, senior pastor of Belle Aire Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Reading the Guidepost report, Gaines said he was struck by repeated examples of a callous disregard for survivors, as well as leaders prioritizing protection of the SBC from liability over abuse prevention.
"We’re at a fork in the road," Gaines said. "I think this report provided the information that we needed for there to be a groundswell of support to take the right actions."
Specifically, Gaines said he supports the proposal to create a system that alerts communities to known offenders.
"I think that’s one of the first things we should do," he said.
Lawyer and writer Christa Brown, who says she was sexually abused as a teen by the youth minister at her SBC church, has been pressing the SBC since 2006 to create a publicly accessible database of known abusers. She was heartened that Guidepost was recommending such a system, but said questions remain about its implementation.
"What is absolutely critical is that the local church cannot function as the default or presumed starting place for a survivor to try to obtain an investigation of clergy sex abuse," she said via email. "If the local church is deemed to be a requisite first stop for survivors to pursue action, then many survivors’ voices will be choked in their throats before sound is ever uttered."
The final decisions about recommendations to submit to the Anaheim delegates will be made by the SBC's Sexual Abuse Task Force, comprising seven members and two advisors. Its work over the past year has been an emotional journey, said Pastor Bruce Frank, who led the group.
"We saw patterns and things that were deeply concerning," he said. "Our main job was to empower Guidepost to do their job, and they have done a truly remarkable job in the last nine months to look at events that occurred over 20 years."
In the next week or so, the task force will bring forth formal motions in "precise language," which will be made public and presented to the delegates in Anaheim for a vote, said Frank, lead pastor of Biltmore Baptist Church in Arden, North Carolina.
Frank said the crux of the task force’s recommendations based on Guidepost’s report can be summarized in two words – prevention and care.
"Our main goal should be preventing sexual abuse," he said. "And if abuse does occur, how do we care for survivors in a much better pastoral way? How can we better communicate to make sure (abusers) don’t go from one church to another?"
His hope is that this report serves as "a catalyst for change."
"Any person who is fair-minded will look at what’s in that report and demand that things be better," Frank said. "SBC is a big family with 48,000 churches. There might be some disagreement on how to make things better. But I’m confident that we’ll work through the difficulties."
In addition to sex abuse, the agenda for the meeting in Anaheim includes election of a new SBC president to succeed Litton.
One of the leading contenders is Bart Barber, a pastor from Farmersville, Texas, who expressed dismay at the mean-spirited behaviors attributed to some SBC officials in the Guidepost report.
If elected, Barber said in a broadcast interview Monday, "I’m praying that God will give me the wisdom to know what to do.... We’re sailing into uncharted waters."
"The work’s not done," he added. "We’ve gotten the report, but I think everybody in the survivor community that I’ve heard from has said reports are one thing, but we’ll see if this family of churches has the courage and resolve to take action."
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NEW YORK (AP) — After being knocked out of the NCAA Tournament by a Florida Atlantic team that has defied expectation and description all season, Kansas State coach Jerome Tang described the secret to the Owls’ success under coach Dusty May.
“Well, when you draw up plays with X’s and O’s, on some teams, all the O’s don’t have to be guarded so you can put your X’s in the right spot to make it hard for the team to score on offense,” Tang said. “Every one of his O’s can score the ball, and that’s what makes it hard to guard. It doesn’t matter if they can score 30; they can all shoot, they can all dribble, they can all pass, and that puts your defense in a bind.”
The Owls (35-3) from Boca Raton, Florida, are heading to the Final Four for the first time in school history with Division I’s winningest team, a collection of interchangeable pieces that has been greater than the sum of the parts.
“Extremely rewarding to see a group give as much as these guys have all season — shots, playing time, minutes, everything you could imagine, grit, everything 100% every day in practice — and then be rewarded because there’s never a guaranteed,” May said Saturday night. “In this era where everyone wants the whole pie, these guys continued sharing the pie every single day, and this was the result.”
FAU, the lowest-seeded team left in the field, will face either Creighton or San Diego State in Houston on Saturday.
To win four tournament games so far, each by single digits, has taken contributions from up and down the roster.
The Owls have had three different leading scorers (Giancarlo Rosado vs. Memphis, Johnell Davis vs. FDU and Tennessee and Alijah Martin vs. Kansas State), three different leading rebounders (Vladislav Goldin, Davis and Nick Boyd) and three different leaders in assists (Boyd, Davis and Brandon Weatherspoon).
Seven different players have registered at least one double-digit scoring performance, but only one of more than 17 points.
Davis is the closest thing the Owls have to a star, and he was coming off the bench for much of this season. The Conference USA Sixth Player of the Year has been a starter throughout the NCAA Tournament.
FAU’s Elite Eight victory at Madison Square Garden against Kansas State epitomized the Owls’ ethos.
The Wildcats had the player of the game in Markquis Nowell. The dynamic 5-foot-8 point guard from Harlem has been arguably the best player of the entire tournament through two weekends.
In two East Regional games at The Garden against Michigan State and FAU, Nowell had 50 points and 31 assists. According to ESPN Stats and Info, he became just the second player in NCAA Tournament history to have consecutive 20-10 games.
FAU was able to rotate several defenders on Nowell, who played all 40 minutes in the 79-76 loss to the Owls.
“We game planned for him, and he still put up numbers,” FAU’s Bryan Greenlee said. “But we just know it’s a team effort, and it’s going to take the whole unit to really win this game, and it’s not just one guy who can shut somebody down. It’s just a group effort.”
On the final possession of the game, Kansas State had no timeouts and 6.9 seconds left.
Boyd appeared to be the primary defender on Nowell, who started his dribble near the left sideline and worked his way to the middle of the floor as he crossed midcourt.
When Boyd was screened, Davis immediately switched to Nowell, with Martin lurking to the point guard’s right side.
Sensing a double-team with 2.2 seconds left and still more than 30 feet from the basket, Nowell made a short pass to his right to Ismael Massoud, near the sideline. Davis and Martin quickly converged and Davis swiped the ball away from Massoud.
Martin said he wasn’t surprised Nowell gave up the ball.
“He’s a smart player,” Martin said. “Win, lose or draw you got to make the right play, you got to live with that. And that’s what he did.”
FAU made only one previous appearance in the NCAA Tournament before this season, going one-and-done in 2002. The Owls had only one previous 20-win season before this one. The FAU Arena where they play home games seats 2,900.
Asked if he thought something like this would be possible when he signed to play with FAU two years ago, Martin chuckled and said: “No, not really, honestly.”
Then how does FAU get to the Final Four?
“Leadership. Support. Sacrifice. And no ego, no pride,” Martin said. “We just try to stay positive and just be great teammates.”
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MADRID (AP) — Drought now affects 60% of the Spanish countryside, with crops like wheat and barley likely to fail entirely in four regions, the main Spanish farmers’ association said on Thursday.
Spain’s long-term drought is causing “irreversible losses” to more than 3.5 million hectares of crops, the Coordinator of Farmers’ and Ranchers’ Organizations (COAG in its Spanish acronym) said in a new report.
Some cereals need to be “written off” in the prime growing regions of Andalusia, Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura and Murcia, and are likely to be lost in the driest areas of three other regions, according to the report. In the wine-growing region of La Rioja, farmers were in the exceptional situation of “having to irrigate cereals … when normally they are never watered,” the association said.
Nuts and vineyards are also struggling, and olives will be badly affected if rain does not arrive in the next few weeks, the report stated. The lack of available water was further impacting the ability of farmers to irrigate corn, sunflowers, rice and cotton, likely leading to reduced sowing of these crops over the summer, it added.
Three years of very low rainfall and high temperatures have put Spain officially into long-term drought, the country’s weather agency said last month. Last year was Spain’s sixth driest — and the hottest since records began in 1961.
Spain’s agriculture ministry has called a meeting with farming representatives on Wednesday to discuss the crisis. COAG will plead for immediate financial relief, it said.
“This has been the most expensive planting season on record, and with harvests ruined or reduced by 60-80%, there will be many farms that will have a very tough time surviving if they don’t receive an injection of capital,” said Javier Fatas, head of water and the environment for the association.
In addition to crop failures, ranchers will struggle to feed cattle due to dried-up pasture, the farmers’ association further warned. This will also be the third consecutive season without honey for beekeepers, as bees lack vegetation and flowers to feed from in the mountains due to a shortage of water.
Reservoirs in Andalusia, Spain’s most important food-exporting region, have water levels of 30%. The regional capital, Seville, may face drinking water restrictions by the summer if not enough rain falls.
In the northeastern Catalonia region, average reservoir levels are hovering around 27% of their capacity. There are restrictions on agricultural and industrial water use, and it is forbidden to use drinking water for washing cars or filling swimming pools.
The spokesperson for Spain’s state weather agency, Rubén del Campo, said the prognosis for the next few weeks was unlikely to improve. “This drought is probably the most intense since the 1960s,” he told Spanish radio network Cadena Ser.
“In some areas, such as Catalonia or the east of Andalusia, it is at the level of the worst droughts due to the scarcity of rainfall in the last three years,” he said.
The picture is not any rosier in the long-term either, especially for those crops which rely on rainwater.
“There is no plan B,” COAG’s Fatas said. “While there have been improvements in irrigation systems to make them more efficient, this is becoming a very, very difficult situation for crops that rely on rainwater, like cereals, almonds and our vineyards.”
Spain as a whole has warmed 1.3 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 1960s, according to weather agency data, a phenomenon that is noticeable year-round but especially in summer, when the average temperatures are 1.6 C higher than they were decades ago.
Amid bone-dry conditions, Spain’s fire season started early this year, with a blaze last month in the country’s east.
Some 267,000 hectares (666,000 acres) of land burned last year in Spain, making 2022 its worst year of fire destruction since 1994, government statistics say.
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Wilson reported from Barcelona.
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WASHINGTON, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global expert services and consulting firm Berkeley Research Group (BRG) announced today that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Cyber Division Senior Executive Chris Stangl has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a managing director in its Cybersecurity and Investigations practice.
Stangl, who was an FBI Special Agent for over 20 years, recently led cybersecurity strategy and operations in the agency's Science and Technology Branch, serving in a business information security officer (BISO) role, where he assisted FBI executives in conducting risk assessments to track and identify cyber risks and implemented a cybersecurity sprint plan to protect information technology from threats. During his tenure, Stangl reinforced the security of investigative and intelligence operations across multiple FBI verticals, protecting applied science and operational technology resources through NIST Cybersecurity and Risk Management Frameworks.
"For two decades, Chris was on the front lines protecting the American people against mounting cybersecurity threats," said Thomas Brown, global leader of BRG's Cybersecurity and Investigations practice. "During my time as a federal prosecutor, I worked with Chris on many significant investigations and know the invaluable experience he will bring to our growing Cybersecurity investigations practice. We couldn't be more excited to have him on board."
Stangl investigated a wide range of cyber cases at the FBI, including computer intrusions by cybercriminals and nation-states, counterintelligence and insider threats, intellectual property rights violations, online child exploitation, extortion, and internet fraud. The cases for which Mr. Stangl was responsible included matters involving millions of dollars of illicit funds transferred to Russia via a digital currency exchange; a cross-jurisdictional, coordinated takedown of over 70 cybercriminals associated with the "Zeus Trojan" email malware; the apprehension and conviction of the creator of "Gozi" malware; a multinational investigation into the use of stolen account information from a hacked ATM network, resulting in nine convictions and millions of dollars seized in cash and property; dismantlement of the LulzSec hacking group; and the FBI's response to nation-state–sponsored distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks' websites—the most significant and sustained DDoS attacks against US critical infrastructure originating from a nation-state actor in history.
Stangl held leadership roles at the FBI's New York and Newark field offices as well as FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. He served as Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge at the FBI Newark field office, leading the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Counterintelligence squads, and Cyber Task Force. He also held the position of Chief of Operations for the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, enhancing interagency information exchange and intelligence integration; and led the Cyber Division 24/7 watch, where he facilitated the FBI's threat response activities under Presidential Policy Directive, U.S. Cyber Incident Coordination to support victims across public and private sectors, including the SolarWinds response following the supply chain attack and the Colonial Pipeline Network ransomware attack.
Stangl earned a number of awards for distinguished government service, including the FBI Director's Award for Excellence in Outstanding Cyber Investigation in 2010 for his instrumental role in identifying and dismantling an international cybercrime organization that targeted US critical infrastructure; and again in 2011 for his leadership in an innovative investigation into a prolific cybercrime enterprise.
During his time at the FBI, Stangl emphasized partnering with the private sector by fostering shared situational awareness of the cyber threat landscape through collaboration, information exchange and intelligence sharing. In 2015, he received the Director of National Intelligence's National Intelligence Community Award for Intelligence Integration for leadership in neutralizing a threat country through analytic, operational and outreach initiatives.
"I am thrilled to join BRG as the team continues to expand its sophisticated cybersecurity practice," Stangl said. "I look forward to working with this talented group of professionals and leveraging my cybersecurity experience to best serve the firm's clients."
BRG's Cybersecurity and Investigations group is uniquely prepared to help clients with a full range of data security, data protection and privacy challenges. The team has special expertise in cyber-incident response and helps clients forensically navigate the legal and regulatory aftermath of an incident. BRG's cross-border, interdisciplinary team also offers vulnerability assessments, cybersecurity improvement plans, enterprise security architecture design and assistance with cyber-regulatory compliance and audits.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia called a Security Council meeting Tuesday on last September’s explosions at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Western Europe after circulating a resolution calling for a U.N. investigation of the sabotage.
Ahead of the meeting, the ambassadors of Denmark, Sweden and Germany sent a letter to council members saying their investigations have established the pipelines were extensively damaged “by powerful explosions due to sabotage.”
The letter, circulated Tuesday morning, said further investigations are being conducted in all three countries and that it’s unclear when they’ll finish. It says Russian authorities have been informed about the ongoing investigations.
Security Council experts held closed consultations Monday on the Russian draft resolution and council diplomats said there was opposition to it. No vote was expected at Tuesday’s meeting, council diplomats said.
Some council diplomats view the resolution as a “spoiler” attempt to take the spotlight off U.N. meetings and adoption of a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demanding the withdrawal of all its forces on Thursday, the eve of the first anniversary of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Nord Stream 1 carried Russian gas to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies at the end of August 2022. Nord Stream 2 never entered service as Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. The explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines took place on Sept. 26.
Russia has alleged that the U.S. was behind the attack, and the country’s resolution says the sabotage “occurred after the repeated threats to the Nord Stream by the leadership of the United States.”
The U.S. denies the allegation. U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price last week called it “pure disinformation” that the U.S. was involved in targeting Nord Stream.
In their letter to the council, Denmark, Sweden and Germany reiterated that acts of sabotage against the pipelines were “unacceptable, endanger international security and give cause for our deep concern.”
Concerns about the indirect effects on greenhouse gas emmissions are ”substantial and worrisome,” the letter said.
The Russian draft resolution, circulated to Security Council members and obtained by The Associated Press, expresses serious concern at the “devastating consequences to the environment” from the acts of sabotage which also “pose a threat to international peace and security.”
It asks U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to urgently establish an independent international investigation of the sabotage to identify “its perpetrators, sponsors, organizers and accomplices.” It says pipeline operator Russia and other interested parties have been barred from national investigations into the matter. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-russia-calls-un-meeting-on-nord-stream-pipelines-sabotage/ | 2023-02-22 15:31:09 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/ap-russia-calls-un-meeting-on-nord-stream-pipelines-sabotage/ |
Man taken off life support months after he was run over by tractor, family says
CRITTENDEN, Ky. (WXIX/Gray News) - The family of a Kentucky man is in mourning as he was removed from life support three months after he was injured in a farm accident.
WXIX reports 74-year-old Larry Posey died on Mother’s Day from injuries he suffered when he was run over by a tractor while working on a farm in Crittenden.
Posey’s daughter, Tracey Deleon, said she is “dead inside” at the loss of her father.
“I’m dying right now. It’s like, killing me,” she said. “Every night I’m on my back porch, sitting away from the kids so they don’t see the emotions, until 3 a.m. I’m crying out on the porch by myself.”
The accident that injured Posey happened on Feb. 13 as he was helping a friend repair a tractor on the farm he owns. Deleon said she later got a call informing them of his injuries.
“There were a couple of different stories. First, it was told that once the filter was put on, the tractor jumped out of gear and ran over him,” she said. “Then, another story was told that he was under it. We’re not sure exactly which of those stories is the truth.”
Posey was flown out to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with a fractured skull, fractured ribs and a punctured lung.
He was placed on life support and eventually transferred to The Christ Hospital, where he would die three months later.
“With him gone, that leaves us with nothing,” Deleon said. “I call his cell phone just to hear his voice on his voicemail. I’m lost.”
Deleon said the work her father was doing that day was typical of the man known locally as a handyman, who didn’t mind getting his hands dirty and bending over backward for those who needed him.
“He would come up and help on the farm to not be sitting,” she said. “He would cut the grass, he would take care of the cows, and he would take care of the horses. He was a great person. The best.”
Deleon said Posey was a retired coal miner and a major financial provider for the family. Now, she’s hopeful a GoFundMe page created in his honor will raise enough to cover his funeral expenses.
“My dad was amazing. He was amazing. He taught me everything I need to know about car work. He was always there for me, always there for me,” she said. “He deserves to be buried with dignity and respect. No matter what I have to do.”
The family is working with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to determine what exactly happened.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:
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In lately’s financial local weather plagued by means of nagging inflation and a possible recession, many Americans is also searching for new and leading edge techniques to offer protection to their cash. This can take the shape of conventional deposit cars like certificate of deposit accounts (CDs) or high-yield financial savings accounts. It can additionally contain some distinctive funding varieties like gold.
By making an investment in gold by the use of a gold IRA or different account sort, investors can each diversify their portfolio and offer protection to towards any main swings within the inventory marketplace. Because gold historically has an inverse courting to the buck it can additionally help with losses suffered in different investments.
That mentioned, the advantages of gold making an investment range from investor to investor and from age to age. This selection funding sort can help investors of all ages however in several techniques.
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How gold can help investors of all ages
Here’s how gold can help investors in 3 various age teams.
Young investors
While gold is regularly thought to be an funding for seniors it can if truth be told receive advantages younger folks, too. Younger investors can take benefit of gold as a result of they’ve extra time to bear any marketplace ebbs and flows that may inevitably stand up. Gold costs most often stay stable (in spite of contemporary upticks). But despite the fact that they had been to drop, more youthful investors may well be larger placed to climate the volatility as opposed to older investors who might want extra dependable, income-producing investments. That’s to not say seniors can’t additionally get pleasure from placing some cash into gold, however their reason why for making an investment is also other than for more youthful folks taking a look to diversify their funding portfolio.
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Middle-aged investors are normally better-positioned career-wise than more youthful folks, and regularly have extra revel in. This approach they can take a extra experimental strategy to their investments than the ones people who find themselves simply getting began of their careers. Most monetary advisers suggest handiest placing 5% to ten% of gold in a single’s portfolio however middle-aged investors might need to tweak that formulation to look what works very best for them. This may imply purchasing bodily gold like bullion or cash or just making an investment in a gold IRA or a gold ETF. Gold futures can be price pursuing for investors on this age vary.
Seniors
Older investors searching for some way to offer protection to the cash they have got already earned might in finding it useful to place some of it into gold. Gold is most often no longer idea of with the intention to develop revenue up to this can be a approach to offer protection to it, in particular right through instances of excessive inflation. This may well be in particular useful for seniors on a good funds.
The historic context is encouraging. The Nineteen Seventies, for instance, had inflation that rocketed from 5.84% to just about 14% by means of 1980. Gold costs right through that point, consistent with NASDAQ information, grew exponentially from round $35 in keeping with proportion to $850. That’s to not say that historical past will at all times repeat itself. But if seniors wish to put their cash someplace slightly protected (not like shares, which had a horrible 2022) then they might do worse than making an investment a small portion in gold.
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The final analysis
Investing in gold in the correct amount and kind for you can be recommended for investors of all ages, for various causes. It may well be useful for more youthful investors instead funding supply to diversify. For an identical causes, it is price making an investment in by means of middle-aged investors who’re most often larger placed financially to play with their portfolio greater than more youthful or older investors are. Finally, it generally is a excellent hedge towards inflation for seniors who can have in a different way skilled deficient returns by the use of inventory making an investment in lately’s economic system. | https://blackchronicle.com/how-gold-can-help-investors-of-all-ages/ | 2023-04-28 14:04:40 | 1 | https://blackchronicle.com/how-gold-can-help-investors-of-all-ages/ |
It is shaping up to be a busy legislative session at the Statehouse, and I am eager to work with lawmakers to support the teens and young adults transitioning out of foster care in Indiana.
At Foster Success, we ensure that the 24,000 teens and young adults transitioning out of the state’s foster care system are healthy, stable and have the tools they need to succeed. A big part of that is improving the systems that surround them through change at the state level.
Our efforts and our impact increase each year as we grow our team and support more and more young people with foster care experience. Last year, we directly supported 800 teens and young adults across the state, and we plan to support at least 1,000 this year.
Having a presence at the Statehouse is important, and including the voices of individuals who experienced foster care in every conversation is even more vital.
Their lived experience in the foster care system is something most of us don’t have and can’t fully comprehend, so we empower them to speak for themselves and for their peers.
We’ll be hosting a Day at the Statehouse on Feb. 2 for lawmakers to hear directly from those who have spent time in foster care.
Foster Success is focusing on four key initiatives this year, including increasing access to affordable driving for Indiana’s older foster youth.
Last year, the Indiana General Assembly created the Insuring Foster Youth Trust Fund to improve access to legal driving and increase self-sufficiency and access to educational and employment opportunities for Indiana’s older foster youth. This year, we are looking to provide base funding to the trust fund.
We also hope to reduce barriers to entry into the State Auto Insurance Plan for older foster youth. The goal is to get more teens and young adults safely on the road to their future.
With partner organizations, we will work to encourage high-quality legal representation for older foster youth throughout their foster care experience.
Oftentimes, children and teens don’t understand that they can and should ask for their own attorney – separate from their family’s and the state’s – to advocate for their interests.
To encourage more giving to nonprofit child welfare organizations such as Foster Success, we will work to increase private support for them, and to extend and improve the Foster Care Tax Credit the General Assembly created in 2021.
And, of course, at the forefront of everything we do is ensuring young people’s basic needs are met. We will keep a close eye on all housing, mental health care and education-related legislation to ensure that young people transitioning out of foster care are healthy and safe, and have the same opportunities as their peers.
We will not rest until all young people with foster care experience are on an equal playing field with their peers, until their needs are met and their voices are heard.
Maggie Stevens is president and CEO of Foster Success, an Indiana-based nonprofit that provides financial, educational and social support to foster care youth. | https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/legislative-session-offers-chance-to-improve-lot-of-foster-teens/article_bf951938-9b2e-11ed-96d1-3bce0491f71a.html | 2023-01-24 07:47:55 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/legislative-session-offers-chance-to-improve-lot-of-foster-teens/article_bf951938-9b2e-11ed-96d1-3bce0491f71a.html |
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Japan snapped a four-game losing streak with a 3-0 victory over Canada on Wednesday in the SheBelieves Cup.
Japan had not scored in four straight matches, including two SheBelieves games, until Kiko Seike put her team in front with a goal in the 26th minute. Canada starting goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo was injured on the play and was replaced by Canada's regular starter Kailen Sheridan.
Yui Hasegawa added a goal on a penalty kick before halftime and Jun Endo scored in the 77th minute as Japan and Canada wrapped up their final game of the round-robin tournament.
The Canadian players, in the midst of a labor dispute with their federation, again wore purple T-shirts reading “Enough is Enough” for the anthems and they wore purple wristbands during the match.
The United States was scheduled to play Brazil on Wednesday evening in the late match. All four teams playing in the SheBelieves Cup have qualified for the Women’s World Cup this summer in Australia and New Zealand. | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/japan-snaps-skid-with-3-0-win-over-canada-in-17800012.php | 2023-02-23 00:01:25 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/japan-snaps-skid-with-3-0-win-over-canada-in-17800012.php |
From the Zugspitze to the North Sea or Berlin – every edition of Check-in presents a different region in Germany. Hosts Nicole Frölich and Lukas Stege take it in turns to discover the local tourist attractions and explore the sights. They go climbing, diving or hiking and try out the local culinary specialties. | https://www.dw.com/en/check-in-exploring-europe-in-an-e-van-part-2/video-60701988 | 2023-01-28 07:32:46 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/check-in-exploring-europe-in-an-e-van-part-2/video-60701988 |
Vladimir Putin’s international warlord in chief — the convicted criminal Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of Russia’s Wagner Group, a mercenary army — has lately cast a spotlight on the deepening fissures in Moscow’s military apparatus. In just the first half of May, his self-promoting pronouncements have left the impression of not just the regime’s disarray but also its potential disintegration.
First Mr. Prigozhin threatened to withdraw from Bakhmut his Wagner mercenaries, many of them convicted prisoners fighting on the promise that they would be freed if they survived that grinding battle in eastern Ukraine, the longest and bloodiest of the past 15 months of Russia’s illegal war. Then he rescinded the threat. Then he reiterated it.
In the process, he took what was widely interpreted as a public swipe at Mr. Putin, his patron — although the target could also have been Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu — referring to a certain unnamed “geezer” who must be “a complete moron.” (This is one of the less offensive possible translations.) In one foul-mouthed social media assault, he accused both Gen. Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s army chief, whom he called “scum,” of starving his Wagner forces of ammunition, the ostensible rationale for his original threat to pull them off the front lines, where they have been used as cannon fodder.
“Shoigu! Gerasimov!” Mr. Prigozhin fulminated, standing next to a macabre backdrop of dozens of piled corpses, ostensibly those of Wagner soldiers slaughtered in Bakhmut. “These are somebody’s [expletive] fathers and somebody’s sons! ... They came here as volunteers and are dying for you so that you can have a wealthy life.”
- D.C. Council reverses itself on school resource officers. Good.
- Virginia makes a mistake by pulling out of an election fraud detection group.
- Vietnam sentences another democracy activist.
- The Biden administration releases a review on the Colorado River.
- Biden has a new border plan.
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Mr. Prigozhin is a gangster whose outbursts represent a political sideshow against the backdrop of Mr. Putin’s ruinous war in Ukraine. They have inspired debates about whether Mr. Putin tolerates, encourages or suffers the lurid public feuding.
Arguably, Mr. Prigozhin — long known as Mr. Putin’s chef, for the government catering contracts that made him rich — is a convenience for the Russian tyrant, providing him with a counterbalance to the regular military and any potential threat it might pose to the regime. Yet while the Wagner Group is a small piece of Russia’s overall deployment in Ukraine, its troops have done a disproportionate share of the fighting and dying in Bakhmut, the only place where Moscow’s forces have made territorial gains since the fall. U.S. intelligence estimates that of the more than 100,000 Russian casualties since December around Bakhmut, including 20,000 dead, about half are Wagner soldiers.
And Mr. Prigozhin has helped cast the Kremlin’s influence far beyond Ukraine. Wagner troops have exploited mining, timber and other industries in Africa and elsewhere, flexing Russia’s muscle and making a fortune for Mr. Prigozhin, memorialized by Wagner’s gleaming skyscraper headquarters in St. Petersburg.
The Prigozhin spectacle, amplified by the media platforms and channels he controls, is nonetheless a symptom of the regime’s dysfunction and mismanagement of the war, and it raises questions about Mr. Putin’s grip on power. It should also transmit some lessons about Russia to the West.
One is about the Kremlin’s disastrous leadership, which has been inflexible, ill-informed and incoherent, a major reason for the Russian military’s sclerotic performance on the battlefield and the invasion’s strategic failure. Russian military bloggers have documented those failures with withering accounts of the armed forces’ blunders — effectively the only remaining facsimile of free media in Russia — though they carefully exempt Mr. Putin himself from blame.
Already through 15 months of full-scale war, Mr. Putin has shuffled and reshuffled his military top brass. That, along with poor planning, logistics and supplies, has fed Russian troops’ abysmal morale and depleted fighting ability.
Another takeaway from the domestic criticism of Russia’s military performance, amplified by Mr. Prigozhin’s public invective, is that all is not calm among Russia’s elites. And if restiveness continues to mount in this critical constituency in Mr. Putin’s regime, the result might easily be growing instability in Moscow, which the West is likely to exploit.
There are multiple conceivable dangers in that scenario. They include the impossibility of predicting who might succeed Mr. Putin if he were to fall from power, or whether that successor would represent a greater or lesser threat to international stability. And in any shake-up in the Kremlin, questions would be raised about the security and chain of command of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, the world’s biggest.
The West, then, should proceed with due caution — but also a sense of opportunity. If the United States and its allies can further pressure Russian elites — for example, by cracking down on the bankers, lawyers and others who service them — the pressure on Mr. Putin to end the war would grow further.
Russia’s army in Ukraine might not collapse anytime soon; it might be able to hold its deeply entrenched positions in the face of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive. But the jockeying pitting Mr. Prigozhin against Russia’s top brass, which makes a mockery of command unity, reflects the rot of a regime for which cynicism, repression, lies and violence are defining features. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/21/yevgeniy-prigozhin-russia-ukraine-war-putin/ | 2023-05-22 11:08:02 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/21/yevgeniy-prigozhin-russia-ukraine-war-putin/ |
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VIKEN, Sweden, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TikoMed, a biopharmaceutical company focused on harnessing the medical potential of the body's ability to self-repair and regenerate, today announced the publication in Frontiers in Phamacology of peer-reviewed research supporting the unique broad spectrum mechanism of action of TikoMed's ILB® neuroprotective drug platform. In multiple preclinical and clinical studies across a variety of neuroinflammation-driven diseases, the low molecular weight dextran sulfate compound both mobilized and modulated naturally occurring tissue repair mechanisms and restored cellular homeostasis and function by releasing heparin-binding growth factors. TikoMed believes this approach to enhancing the body's self-repair and regeneration capabilities has the potential to transform current cell and gene therapy paradigms.
"These studies show that ILB® releases, re-distributes and modulates the bioactivity of endogeneous heparin-binding growth factors that target disease compromised nervous tissues to initiate a cascade of transcriptional, metabolic and immunological effects that play a key role in controlling glutamate toxicity, normalising tissue bioenergetics, and resolving inflammation to improve tissue function. ILB®'s unique mechanism of action supports the potential to treat various acute and chronic neurodegenerative disease, including sTBI and ALS," said Ann Logan, Scientific Director at Axolotl Consulting and, Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Warwick.
In summary, the studies provided evidence that ILB® has a profound therapeutic effect on molecular and cellular dysfunctions causing neurodegenerative diseases. Gene expression analysis demonstrated substantial similarities in the functional dysregulation induced by severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) and various human neurodegenerative conditions including ALS. Changes in gene expression following ILB® treatment supported a cascading beneficial effect of ILB® on growth factor activation resulting in the observed therapeutic effect. The transcriptional signature after ILB® treatment is relevant to cell survival, inflammation, glutamate signalling, metabolism and synaptogenesis, and is consistent with the activation of neuroprotective growth factors. The ability of ILB® to elevate circulating levels of heparin-binding growth factors in animal models and humans also supports its neuroprotective and regenerative effects in vivo.
"ILB® is currently being in development both as a therapeutic and as an enabling technology for advanced therapies, and this peer-reviewed research indicates even wider potential. We have initiated development programs for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and islet cell transplantation and will now consider broader use across a wider range of diseases," said Anders Kristensson, CEO of TikoMed.
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“The Challenge: USA” continues tonight. The new reality competition series will air on CBS tonight, Aug. 10 at 8 p.m. central. You can stream the show on Paramount+, DIRECTV STREAM and fuboTV.
The show brings reality stars and champs from other popular CBS shows to battle it out for a $500,000 and continue their “Challenge” careers.
From CBS: For the first time in “Challenge” history, reality titans from the CBS universe will compete in the most unpredictable and demanding game of their lives. With an ever-changing game, players will be in a constant state of paranoia, unable to trust anyone but themselves. The CBS all-stars from “Survivor,” “Big Brother,” “The Amazing Race” and “Love Island” will compete on “The Challenge: USA” this summer on CBS for a chance to join the upcoming “The Challenge: Global Championship, streaming on Paramount+.
Tonight’s episode is called “A Civil War.”
What channel is “The Challenge: USA” on?
New episodes will air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. central on CBS.
When can I stream new episodes?
You can stream the show on Paramount+, DIRECTV STREAM and fuboTV.
What is the premise?
Upon arrival, the challengers are given $1,000 to start their individual challenge accounts, and they quickly discover they must battle to keep and increase their handsome reward. In each episode, an algorithm pairs contestants who will face off to earn money for their accounts by winning challenges or eliminating their opponents. They will be paired with a randomly selected competitor every episode, making alliances and strategies more difficult than ever. Players must adapt to survive the game and protect their challenge accounts. With the $500,000 grand prize and title of Challenge Champion on the line, players will be in a constant state of paranoia, unable to trust anyone but themselves.
Who is in the cast?
Male cast members: Ben Driebergen (Survivor 35 winner), Cashel Barnett (Love Island 1)*, Melvin “Cinco” Holland Jr. (Love Island 3)*, Danny McCray (Survivor 41), David Alexander (Big Brother 21, 22), Derek Xiao (Big Brother 23), Domenick Abbate (Survivor 36), Enzo Palumbo (Big Brother 12, 22), James Wallington (The Amazing Race 32 winner)*, Javonny Vega (Love Island 3)*, Kyland Young (Big Brother 23), Leo Temory (The Amazing Race 23), Tyson Apostol (Survivor Tocantins), Xavier Prather (Big Brother 23)*.
Female cast members: Alyssa Lopez (Big Brother 23), Angela Rummans (Big Brother 20), Azah Awasum (Big Brother 23)*, Cashay Proudfoot (Love Island 3), Cayla Platt (The Amazing Race 33), Cely Vasquez (Love Island 2)*, Desi Williams (Survivor 35), Justine Ndiba (Love Island 2 winner), Kyra Green (Love Island 1), Sarah Lacina (Survivor: Cagayan), Shan Smith (Survivor 41)*, Shannon St. Clair (Love Island 3), Tasha Fox (Survivor: Cagayan)*, Tiffany Mitchell (Big Brother 23)*.
*Eliminated
Who is hosting “The Challenge: USA?”
TJ Lavin, host of “The Challenge” on MTV since 2005, will serve as host. So, no quitters...
How can I watch old episodes of “The Challenge?”
Past seasons of “The Challenge” are now streaming on Paramount+. You can also stream seasons on Netflix and Hulu. All three seasons of “The Challenge: All Stars” are streaming on Paramount+.
How can I follow “The Challenge” on social media?
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Members of Congress are hearing calls for gun legislation following the Nashville school shooting, but federal changes aren't likely. Polarized politics have pushed any action to the states.
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Members of Congress are hearing calls for gun legislation following the Nashville school shooting, but federal changes aren't likely. Polarized politics have pushed any action to the states.
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A school district in southwestern Missouri decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students — if their parents agree — despite warnings from many public health experts that the practice is detrimental to students.
Classes resumed Tuesday in the Cassville School District district for the first time since the school board in June approved bringing corporal punishment back to the 1,900-student district about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of Springfield. The district had dropped the practice in 2001.
The policy states that corporal punishment will be used only when other forms of discipline, such as suspensions, have failed and then only with the superintendent’s permission.
Superintendent Merlyn Johnson told The Springfield News-Leader the decision came after an anonymous survey found that parents, students and school employees were concerned about student behavior and discipline.
“We’ve had people actually thank us for it,” he said. “Surprisingly, those on social media would probably be appalled to hear us say these things, but the majority of people that I’ve run into have been supportive.”
Parent Khristina Harkey told The Associated Press on Friday that she is on the fence about Cassville’s policy. She and her husband did not opt-in because her 6-year-old son, Anakin Modine, is autistic and would hit back if he were spanked. But she said corporal punishment worked for her when she was a “troublemaker” during her school years in California.
“There are all different types of kids,” Harkey said. “Some people need a good butt-whipping. I was one of them.”
Morgan Craven, national director of policy, advocacy and community engagement with the Intercultural Development Research Association, a national educational equity nonprofit, called corporal punishment a “wildly inappropriate, ineffective practice.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that corporal punishment is constitutional and left it up to states to set their own policies. Craven said 19 states, many in the South, have laws allowing it in schools. The most current data from 2017-18 shows about 70,000 children in the U.S. were hit at least once in their schools.
Students who are hit at school do not fare as well academically as their peers and suffer physical and psychological trauma, Craven said. In some cases, children are hurt so badly that they need medical attention.
“If you have a situation where a kid goes to school and they could be slapped for, you know, some minor offense, it certainly creates a really hostile, unpredictable and violent environment,” Craven said. “And that’s not what we want for kids in schools.”
But Tess Walters, 54, the guardian of her 8-year-old granddaughter, had no qualms about signing the corporal punishment opt-in papers. She said the possibility of being spanked is a deterrent for her granddaughter, who has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
“I’ve read some some people’s responses on Facebook recently, and they’re just going over the top like, ‘Oh, this is abuse, and, oh, you’re just going to threaten them with, you know, violence.’ And I’m like, ‘What? The child is getting spanked once; it’s not beatings.’ People are just going crazy. They’re just being ridiculous,” Walters said.
Mitch Prinstein, chief science officer with American Psychological Association, said decades of research shows corporal punishment will not reduce inappropriate behavior and is likely to increase aggression, rage, hostility and could lead to depression and self-esteem problems.
Prinstein said better methods for eliminating undesirable conduct including problem-solving training; rewarding positive behavior, such as with extra recess; and providing extra attention in the classroom.
“Parents are experts on what works for their own children,” Prinstein said. “But it’s important for parents to be educated on very substantial science literature demonstrating again that corporal punishment is not a consistently effective way of changing undesirable behavior.”
Sarah Font, an associate professor of sociology and public policy at Pennsylvania State University, coauthored a 2016 study on the subject. Her research found that districts using corporal punishment are generally in poor, Republican-leaning rural areas in Southern states. Font said Black children are disproportionately subjected to it.
The disparity frustrates Ellen Reddy, of the Nollie Jenkins Family Center, which advocates on issues such as corporal punishment and special education.
“Look at the history of violence against Black and brown bodies,” said Reddy, who described herself as a Black mother of sons and a grandson. “Since we’ve been in this country, there’s been violence perpetrated against our children, our families, our foreparents. So when do we stop that kind of violence?”
Disabled students also are more likely to be subjected to corporal punishment, said Elizabeth Gershoff, a professor of human development and family sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She said that led four states — Tennessee, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Louisiana — to ban using it for those students.
She noted that overall, corporal punishment is on the decline, with the numbers dropping steadily since the federal government started tracking it in the late 1970s.
“Most schools are realizing, ‘You know what, we can discipline children, we can guide their behavior without hitting them,'” said Gershoff, who authored the 2016 study with Font.
Cassville School District spokeswoman Mindi Artherton was out of the office Friday and a woman who answered the phone in her office suggested reading the policy. She said staff had already done interviews. “At this time, we will focus on educating our students,” she added, before hanging up.
The policy says a witness from the district, which is in a county that is around 93% white, must be present and that the discipline will not be used in front of other students.
“When it becomes necessary to use corporal punishment, it shall be administered so that there can be no chance of bodily injury or harm,” the policy says. “Striking a student on the head or face is not permitted.”
In Missouri, periodic efforts to ban corporal punishment in schools have failed to gain traction in the Legislature. The state does not track which districts allow spanking because those decisions are made at the local level, a spokeswoman for Missouri’s K-12 education department said.
U.S. Sen. Christopher Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, is pushing for a ban on the use of corporal punishment in schools that receive federal funding. He has called it a “barbaric practice” that allows teachers and administrators to physically abuse students. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-missouri-school-district-reinstates-corporal-punishment/ | 2022-08-27 11:31:35 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-missouri-school-district-reinstates-corporal-punishment/ |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 8, 2022
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
316 PM MDT Wed Jun 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central
Hudspeth County through 345 PM MDT...
At 315 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Allamoore, moving northwest at 10 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...
Allamoore.
This includes Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 115 and
135.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
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TIME...MOT...LOC 2115Z 144DEG 9KT 3110 10499
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
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Marvel Studios unveiled the first trailer for “ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ” — set to “No Woman No Cry” — to fans at Comic-Con on Saturday in San Diego.
It was just one part of the massive Hall H presentation, which also included first-looks at “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and new information about Phase 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which will conclude with two Avengers movies in 2025: “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars.”
“ Black Panther: Wakanda Foreve r” director Ryan Coogler was on site in San Diego to preview the highly anticipated film, which is due to arrive in theaters on Nov. 11 and serve as the conclusion to Phase 4. Coogler paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who died in August 2020.
“The impact that he made on this industry will be felt forever,” Coogler said.
After the massive success of “Black Panther” in 2018, plans for a sequel were quickly set into motion. But those were altered after Boseman’s unexpected death from colon cancer. The studio said it would not recast Boseman’s role of T’Challa. but very little has come out about the film in the years since. Production wrapped in March after several delays, one of which was due to an injury sustained by Letitia Wright, who plays T’Challa’s brainy sister Shuri. Also returning are Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke and Angela Bassett, but not Daniel Kaluuya, whose “Nope” schedule conflicted.
Phase 5, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said, will kick off in February with “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and conclude with “Thunderbolts” in July 2024. The new “Blade,” starring Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali, also got a release date of Nov. 3, 2023, and “Captain America and the New World Order,” featuring Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson, will hit theaters on May 3, 2024.
The “Guardians of the Galaxy” will also come to an end in the midst of Phase 5 in May. Director James Gunn showed up in San Diego to confirm that “Vol. 3” would be the last for the space rogues. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillian and Dave Bautista are all returning for the film. New cast members include Will Poulter, as Guardians adversary Adam Warlock, and Maria Bakalova.
Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors and director Peyton Reed made the trip to San Diego to show some footage from “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”
Phase 6 will launch with a new “Fantastic Four” movie on Nov. 8, 2024, and finish with “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty,” set for May 2, 2025, followed by “Avengers: Secret Wars,” on Nov. 7, 2025.
Marvel also showed trailers for Disney+ series such as “Secret Invasion,” with Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill, due in the spring, and the half-hour comedy “ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” starring Tatiana Maslany, debuting in August. The second season of “Loki” is also expected next summer.
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Utah governor signs bill banning abortion clinics across the state
Posted/updated on: March 16, 2023 at 1:25 pm(SALT LAKE CITY) -- Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed a bill into law banning abortion clinics in the state, making it the latest to restrict the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Cox, a Republican, signed H.B. 467 after it passed the state Senate on March 2 and state House on March 3, both along party lines.
Abortion clinics will be required to close either by the end of the year or when their licensee expires, whichever comes first.
Additionally, after May 2 of this year, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services will not be allowed to grant or renew a license of an abortion clinic.
Under the legislation, all abortions will be required to take place in a hospital, which is defined as "a general hospital licensed by the state."
Currently, Utah bans abortion after 18 weeks. The ban was passed in 2019 but didn't go into effect until the Supreme Court overturned Roe. H.B. 467 also removes the rape and incest exemption from this law.
Cox previously told reporters he would sign the bill, which also defined the term "abortion" to remove any confusion surrounding the law.
"One of the concerns with the trigger bill that medical providers had across the state was there a lack of clarity that would have made it hard for them to perform legal abortions," Cox said at the time.
The governor's office referred ABC News to Cox's press conference on PBS Thursday when reached for comment.
Anti-abortion groups, such as Pro-Life Utah, applauded the decision.
"Thank you, Governor Cox for signing this bill into law!" the group said in a statement. "We value your commitment to protect the pre-born."
However, abortion rights advocates, slammed the bill and said it basically eliminates access in the state.
"HB 467 is nothing but shameful procedural and political maneuvering intended to get around a valid court decision and prevent Utahns from accessing abortion," Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement when the bill first passed the state House. "Today's passage is just one part of a nationwide campaign by anti-abortion extremists to end legal abortion throughout the United States, and it will have devastating impacts on Utah communities."
Utah lawmakers also passed a law in 2020 banning all abortions except if the mother's health is in danger or in cases of rape and incest reported to the police.
However, the ban was blocked from going into effect after the 3rd District Court issued an injunction, which was upheld by the state Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is courting unions as a cornerstone of the country’s economic future with a speech at a Philadelphia shipyard on Thursday — just as some major unions are weighing strikes that could disrupt the growth he wants to campaign on in 2024.
Tensions are rising between unions and companies about a rapidly evolving economy in which artificial intelligence, clean energy and e-commerce are rewriting some of the basic rules of work. Biden is trying to allay those concerns by saying unions should be part of that future. But the Democratic president also knows from past experience that a strike could harm his reelection chances.
Biden has long called on businesses to hire unionized workers, saying that the premium paid will lead to higher quality work. But companies seem reluctant to meet unions’ terms in separate contract talks with script writers, actors, autoworkers and UPS employees. In a speech last month about his economic vision, Biden recalled telling a group of CEOs that they would be better off partnering with unions.
“They said, ‘Why am I so pro-union?’” the president recounted. “And I said, ‘Because it helps you.’ It really does. Think about it. The total cost of a major project goes down when you have the best workers in the world doing it. Not a joke. It’s true.”
In Philadelphia on Thursday, Biden will drill down on this point at a steel-cutting ceremony for the Acadia, a vessel needed to build offshore wind farms that his administration says could support hundreds of new union jobs.
Despite Biden’s optimism, business and labor are at a dangerous impasse over who will benefit from the changing economy.
Hollywood production is shut down as the Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild are striking, partially over concerns about streaming revenues as well as AI taking away jobs from creative workers. The strike has put TV shows and movies in limbo.
The United Auto Workers are starting contract talks, and members say they expect a possible strike. They want to ensure there are union protections at new battery plants for electric vehicles. The union contract expires before midnight on Sept. 14.
The Teamsters are threatening a strike by 340,000 UPS workers if a deal is not reached with the delivery company by July 31. As more Americans shop online, UPS drivers say they need air conditioning in more trucks and equal pay for weekend shifts. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has asked Biden not to get in the middle of negotiations.
Senior Biden administration officials say that unions are empowered to press for more benefits and better pay because of the strong job market. Unemployment is a low 3.6%, and job openings are relatively high. The White House says that Biden’s policies have created these conditions.
But a series of strikes could also sink the U.S. economy and Biden’s message to voters.
Last year, the Biden administration hustled to forge a tentative agreement between rail companies and their unionized workers to avoid a strike that could have injured the economy ahead of the midterm elections. The tentative deal prevented a strike, but it failed to appease workers, and Congress ultimately had to intervene by imposing an agreement.
When asked if an autoworker or Teamsters strike could similarly threaten growth, Biden administration officials declined to speculate and said only that the president believes in the right of collective bargaining for workers.
Biden spent part of this week focused on efforts to expand unionization into new industries. On Monday, he met with younger workers trying to unionize at Starbucks, minor league baseball, bus-maker Blue Bird and Sega. Labor Department data shows that workers under age 35 are much less likely to belong to a union than their older peers, meaning that the future of the union movement might depend on bringing in younger generations.
Unions also aided Biden’s election victory over President Donald Trump in 2020. Just 16% of voters in 2020 lived in a union household. But 56% of people in union households backed Biden for president against Trump, a Republican, according to AP VoteCast.
Union votes generally matter more in Northern states with an industrial legacy such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, key states for a Democrat seeking to win the electoral college. But there are few union votes in sunbelt states such as Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, where Biden hopes to compete in 2024 and where many of the investments in new computer chip and battery plants are being made.
Samantha Smith, strategic adviser for clean energy jobs at the AFL-CIO, said it’s important for the shift away from fossil fuels to not come at the expense of workers, arguing the goals of renewable energy and higher pay need to be complementary goals, not competing ones. Smith said unions have confidence that the manufacturing, infrastructure and energy investments under Biden will lead to more union jobs.
“First of all, we do have the most union-friendly president that anyone can remember — that’s why we endorsed him early,” Smith said. “We have a lot of confidence in this president and his ability to turn more than $1 trillion of investments — including in clean energy — into union jobs.” | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-biden-pushes-a-strong-role-for-unions-in-tech-jobs-even-as-potential-strikes-are-on-the-horizon/ | 2023-07-20 13:47:20 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-biden-pushes-a-strong-role-for-unions-in-tech-jobs-even-as-potential-strikes-are-on-the-horizon/ |
LONDON (AP) — British children’s author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, whose creations include “The Snowman” and “Fungus the Bogeyman,” has died. He was 88.
Briggs’ family said he died Tuesday, and thanked staff at Royal Sussex County Hospital, near his home in southern England, “for their kind and thoughtful care of Raymond in his final weeks.”
“We know that Raymond’s books were loved by and touched millions of people around the world, who will be sad to hear this news,” the family said in a statement released Wednesday through Publisher Penguin Random House.
Born in London in 1934, Briggs studied art and briefly worked in advertising before starting a decades-long career as a children’s illustrator. He won a Kate Greenaway Medal — considered the Oscars of children’s publishing — in 1966 for illustrating a book of nursery rhymes, “The Mother Goose Treasury.”
He tweaked a fairy-tale story with “Jim and the Beanstalk,” published in 1970, and won a second Greenaway award for “Father Christmas.” Published in 1973, it featured a grumpy but genial Santa Claus and — like many of Briggs’ books — was adapted for television.
“Fungus the Bogeyman,” which charted a day in the life of a scary subterranean monster, disgusted and delighted children in equal measure after its publication in 1977.
The next year came “The Snowman,” a bittersweet story in which a boy’s wintry creation magically comes to life. The wordless book has sold more than 5.5 million copies around the world, and a 1982 animated adaptation has been shown on British TV every Christmas since.
Far more somber was 1982’s “When the Wind Blows,” a story about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain imbued with melancholy and anger. It was adapted as an animated film in 1986, with music by David Bowie and others.
Briggs’ anti-nuclear stance made him unpopular with members of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. So did “The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman,” a picture-book satire on the Falklands War.
Later works include “Ethel & Ernest,” a poignant graphic novel based on the lives of Briggs’ parents, published in 1998.
Briggs’ books were poignant but never saccharine, shot through with the tart humor that rippled beneath his curmudgeonly public persona. Despite creating several seasonal classics, he always claimed to hate Christmas, and once said of children: “I try to avoid them whenever possible.”
“Raymond liked to act the professional curmudgeon, but we will remember him for his stories of love and of loss,” said Briggs’ literary agent, Hilary Delamere. “I know from the many letters he received how his books and animations touched people’s hearts.”
Francesca Dow, managing director of Penguin Random House Children’s, said Briggs was “unique” and “inspired generations of creators of picture books, graphic novels and animations.”
“Raymond’s books are picture masterpieces that address some of the fundamental questions of what it is to be human, speaking to both adults and children with a remarkable economy of words and illustrations,” she said.
Briggs family said he “lived a rich and full life” and felt lucky to have had both his late wife and his late partner of over 40 years in it.
Briggs wife, Jean, died in 1973 and his partner, Liz, died in 2015. He is survived by a stepson and stepdaughter and their families. | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/the-snowman-childrens-author-raymond-briggs-dies-at-88/ | 2022-08-11 00:52:49 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/the-snowman-childrens-author-raymond-briggs-dies-at-88/ |
(KRON/NEXSTAR) — The Golden State has long been an epicenter for entrepreneurship — but that reputation has been threatened since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A variety of economic and social forces came to a head during this time, with many major companies deciding to leave.
A 2021 report by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in August 2021 found that 74 corporate headquarters left California in just the first six months of the year, in addition to 64 companies that moved out in 2020.
Bay Area counties accounted for five of the top 10 counties that saw headquarter migration — with the San Francisco Bay Area leading the way. Many of traditionally Californian companies are now resetting in the Lone Star State.
Who left California?
Tesla Motors: Palo Alto to Austin, Texas — No discussion of companies leaving California would be complete without discussing Tesla. The company officially relocated to the Lone Star State in December 2021, after a conflict between CEO Elon Musk and Alameda County health authorities over COVID-19 rules during the initial lockdown.
“California has been winning for a long time, and I think they’re taking it for granted,” Musk said when announcing the change.
Musk also moved his personal residence to Texas, which lacks a state income tax.
However it appears Musk isn’t done with California as the magnate is seeking to buy San Francisco-based Twitter.
Oracle: Redwood City to Austin — Oracle, namesake of the San Francisco Giants ballpark and the former namesake of the arena that the Golden State Warriors called home, announced its move in December 2020.
Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and Chief Executive Officer Safra Catz were major supporters of former President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported, and company leaders felt increasingly out of sync with modern Silicon Valley. The world’s third-largest software company’s leaders had also moved its annual conference, OpenWorld, from San Francisco to Las Vegas, and the company was trying to build a younger and cheaper workforce.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise: San Jose to Spring — Hewlett Packard Enterprise moved to the Lone Star State the same month, with its moved announced by Gov. Gregg Abbot (R), as Nexstar’s KRON4 reported at the time.
“As we look to the future, our business needs, opportunities for cost savings, and team members’ preferences about the future of work, we are excited to relocate HPE’s headquarters to the Houston region,” CEO Antonio Neri stated at that time. “Houston is an attractive market to recruit and retain future diverse talent and where we are currently constructing a state-of-the-art new campus. We look forward to continuing to expand our strong presence in the market.”
Charles Schwab Corp.: San Francisco to Westlake — The financial services company merged with TD Ameritrade in 2020, which resulted in a corporate HQ move to Westlake, a suburb of Fort Worth. The move was official on January 1, 2021.
Why?
The Stanford researchers found that the regulatory climate and taxes were big reasons companies chose to make the leap east. Of all U.S. states, CEOs rated California’s tax and regulation policies the worst, including a total of 518 state agencies, boards and commissions.
“Lawmakers in Sacramento continually enact laws that expand civil liability on businesses and
property owners,” the report stated, adding that another factor is that California workers also need more money than workers in other states.
“California employees often have (or demand) elevated wages to meet the high cost of living, excessive housing prices, burdensome income tax rates, expensive utilities, and in some cases payments for private schools to avoid the failing public school systems.,” the researchers stated. “For an employer, labor costs are higher than elsewhere when comparisons are made of charges that include not only wages and salaries but employer-paid statutory benefits and fringe benefits.”
Texas is considered the most entrepreneur-friendly state, and California ranks No. 49 of 50, according to the study. Forbes reported in May that Texas is the state with the most Fortune 500 companies.
Going to Texas
Y Texas, a business resource that tracks corporate relocations to Texas, shows as many as 62 companies moved in during 2021 alone. There have been at least 14 company relocations this year.
So far in 2022, a wave of major corporations have left for the Lone Star State, including construction machinery giant Caterpillar, specialty metals producer Allegheny Technologies (ATI), and fiber sensor solutions company DarkPulse.
Data shows companies relocated from 17 other states, with popular landing sites being Austin, Irving, Houston and Dallas. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/these-companies-left-california-for-texas-during-the-pandemic/ | 2022-07-03 15:42:14 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/these-companies-left-california-for-texas-during-the-pandemic/ |
MINNEAPOLIS (WHO) – Target has announced the dates of a program popular among parents looking to trade in expired child car seats for new, baby-related merchandise.
The 2023 Target Car Seat Trade-In event will take place from April 16-29, the company announced on Tuesday.
During the promotion, customers can turn in any used, old, or damaged car seat for a coupon good for 20% off a new car seat, stroller, or other baby gear. Most car seats sold in the US have an expiration date, usually six to 10 years after the date of manufacture. Over time, plastic parts that make up the bulk of car seats become worn down, lessening their ability to perform as expected in a crash.
Since starting the program in 2016, Target says that it has recycled 32.9 million pounds of car seat materials.
Customers will find a drop box near customer service in most Target stores where they can drop off a car seat and then scan a code on a sign to receive their 20% off coupon electronically.
See the Target website to find the nearest participating location. | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/target-announces-dates-for-2023-car-seat-trade-in-event/ | 2023-04-12 22:33:00 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/target-announces-dates-for-2023-car-seat-trade-in-event/ |
Grant Saves Hundreds of Thousands of Americans from Facing Financial Hardship
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 350,000 Teamster retirees are celebrating today over an announcement that the Central States Pension Fund (CSPF) will be granted $36 billion by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. The grant ensures they will enjoy their full pension benefits for the rest of their lives.
"This is an issue of fairness — of this country keeping its word to hardworking, honest people who did everything they were supposed to do in life," said Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien. "Our members chose to forgo raises and other benefits for a prosperous retirement, and they deserve to enjoy the security and stability that all of them worked so hard to earn. Labor law, bankruptcy law, the tax code — so much of public policy in America today is written by and for big corporations and Wall Street, so it's good to see elected officials stand up for working families for once."
The grant was made possible by the American Rescue Plan (ARP) that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021. Rank-and-file Teamsters held rallies, made hundreds of visits to elected officials, and made thousands of phone calls to ensure their pensions would be secure.
Ken Stribling, President of the National United Committee to Protect Pensions and a Teamster for more than 30 years, was a leader in the lobbying efforts to rescue CSPF. His wife Beverly passed away during the long battle to save his pension and those of hundreds of thousands of others.
"What this means to me is that this long fight is finally over, now that we know our pensions are secure and will be there forever," Stribling said. "My wife isn't here to share in the joy today, but I made a commitment to her when I first got involved that I would stay in this struggle until a solution was found. I can look up at the sky tonight and say, 'Sweetheart, we did it. The journey is over.'"
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NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Outset Medical, Inc. ("Outset Medical") (NASDAQ: OM) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Outset Medical common stock between September 15, 2020, and June 13, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Outset Medical, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Outset Medical includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's flagship product, Tablo Hemodialysis System ("Tablo"), would require an additional 510(k) application to be filed with The United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), as defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance"; (2) as a result, the Company could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) the Company's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected the Company to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and /or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: September 6, 2022
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If Roe v. Wade is overturned, what happens next? Your questions answered
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, laws further restricting abortion care and services will go into effect in many states. Following the leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion in which the justices appear ready to overturn Roe, we asked you what questions you had for our experts about abortion care and access in the U.S.
Many of you wrote in wanting to know more about the impact this decision could have on hospitals, in vitro fertilization, and care for miscarriages. To answer those questions, we reached out to Kristyn Brandi, an OB-GYN and family planning doctor, who is also the board chair for Physicians for Reproductive Health, and NPR health policy correspondent Selena Simmons-Duffin.
How will treatment for miscarriage be impacted? What conversations should I be having now with my OB, and will women have to prove that their miscarriages are accidents? — Erika Parr, Memphis, Tenn.
Miscarriage care is definitely going to be impacted — it’s already happening in Texas.
A lot of times people think about miscarriage as something that’s spontaneous, that somebody has no control over. That can be true, but it can also be something that people have to make decisions about. The standard of care for treating a miscarriage is the same as the standard of care for providing an abortion.
The way that can play out is if somebody has a miscarriage and they need to take medication to empty the uterus so they’re not at risk of infection, that same medication is what’s used for medication abortion. There have already been a lot of reports of pharmacists in Texas not filling those prescriptions for people who are suffering miscarriages.
There’s nothing in these laws that says if there’s a miscarriage somebody has to prove it, but there are reports, including one from a woman in Texas, about doctors questioning patients about medications they might have taken or how they might have caused a miscarriage to happen. In practical terms, getting the right treatment, on time, without barriers or questioning, might still end up being really challenging.
— Selena Simmons-Duffin
What medical conditions definitely threaten the life of the mother and medically would require a procedure that threatens the life of the mother or child? — Keston Smith, Fort Wayne, Ind.
The question of whether somebody will die from pregnancy is rarely black and white. Restrictive abortion laws often have exemptions for medical emergencies that require treatment that might involve ending a pregnancy.
There are about 700 pregnancy deaths a year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A third of those deaths are from heart disease and stroke. But, under these new restrictions, if you develop a condition like preeclampsia early in pregnancy — which could put you at high risk for a stroke — the exemption wouldn’t necessarily apply. You may have to continue the pregnancy despite the risks.
One very urgent medical situation that can come up is when someone’s water breaks too early. This is what happened 10 years ago to Savita Halappanavar — a dentist in Ireland whose water broke 17 weeks into a pregnancy. A heartbeat was still detectable, so she was denied an abortion because it was legally banned in Ireland and she ended up developing an infection and dying. Her death spurred Ireland to legalize abortion in 2018.
We are already seeing similar stories in Texas, despite the emergency exemption written into that law.
— Selena Simmons-Duffin
In states that post-Roe do not allow for termination of pregnancy for lethal fetal anomalies, what are the implications for parents of fetuses and newborns who have issues that are not compatible with life? — Dr. Emily Hamburg-Shields, Cleveland, Ohio
To put it another way, could people be compelled to carry a pregnancy to term even if it is clear that the fetus will not survive outside the womb?
According to Brandi, the answer to that could be yes.
“When I have a patient that is facing that outcome, I want to talk to them about their options and make sure that they can decide if and when and how to end that pregnancy,” she says.
“According to these abortion bans, there’s not a lot of language that allows for abortion in the cases of lethal fetal anomalies. People that are in states where abortion is restricted likely will have to continue those pregnancies to term and they would deliver how they normally would deliver either by a natural birth, potentially even a C-section, and they likely wouldn’t be able to have the palliative care system support them in an outcome that would help them, you know, grieve the potential loss of this child.”
Are hospitals ready for this change? Many rural areas and Southern states that did not expand Medicaid lost hospitals. Are there enough beds for labor and delivery non-ICU beds? Will we see rising medical care and insurance costs because of the rise of charity care for maternity services? — A questioner who asked us not to use his name because he works for a large hospital system in the South
That’s an important question, Brandi says, adding that she is also concerned about whether the health care system is ready to face the increasing number of patients who will be coming to hospitals needing labor and delivery care because they weren’t able to access abortion care.
“Rural areas, even before COVID, were facing lots of closures of hospitals and particularly labor and delivery wards,” she says. “People were already traveling long distances to get all types of care, and women’s health providers were leaving those areas. Imagine now when we double or triple the number of deliveries that are happening in those communities.”
How will IVF be affected if abortion is banned? Will IVF be banned? — Elaine Foe, Greeley, Colo.
The short answer is in vitro fertilization, or IVF, could be affected by these laws. That’s because the way certain words are defined in many of these new laws often don’t match the medical definitions.
In Texas, the law in place says that pregnancy begins with “fertilization” — when a sperm and an egg meet. But in medicine, pregnancy is defined as beginning after that fertilized egg divides, grows and implants in the uterus.
A lot of laws also include a line that says “an ‘Unborn child’ means a human fetus or embryo in any stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.” By that definition, unused embryos that were created for IVF are unborn children, and many times when people go through IVF there are lots of embryos created that end up unused and are routinely discarded.
Whether IVF will be limited through these or future laws is still up in the air, according to Liz Sepper, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “The anti-abortion movement is, in some measure, a religious fundamentalist movement that takes some of Catholic theology and combines it with some of the evangelical Christian tradition and politics,” she said. “Conservative Catholics are opposed to fertility treatments, to IVF, but that has not been a target for evangelical Christians who are supportive of IVF in order to procreate.”
Overall, it is hard to predict the consequences that overturning Roe might have on IVF because it seems the anti-abortion rights movement is not united on this point.
— Selena Simmons-Duffin
We talk a lot about women’s birth control, but what about the men? What birth control options are there for men and how can they help us? — Meagen Voss, Charlotte, N.C.
Yes, there are condoms and vasectomies. But what about newer advancements in male birth control?
“I really wish that I had better news to share about the new innovations in male birth control,” Brandi says. “Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a lot of drive for men to use birth control as far as current things that are in the works.”
Several clinical trials looking at pills, injections and other procedures for men are ongoing, but Brandi said it will be several years before those options would be available. Condoms and vasectomies are the best options available to men who want to help prevent pregnancy in their relationships, she added. | https://whyy.org/npr_story_post/overturning-roe-v-wade-what-happens-next/ | 2022-06-02 15:36:21 | 1 | https://whyy.org/npr_story_post/overturning-roe-v-wade-what-happens-next/ |
Over 7,100 square feet of premium full-motion digital Out-of-Home signage outside Baltimore's premier entertainment destination, CFG Bank Arena.
BALTIMORE, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KEVANI, Inc. ("KEVANI")—A market leader in out of home media sales and development has been awarded the long-term exclusive rights to operate, sell, and market premium exterior-facing digital advertising campaigns at the new CFG Bank Arena in Downtown Baltimore.
Branded by KEVANI, "Baltimore Duo" is a pair of synchronized displays located between two of the busiest streets in the city, presenting a powerful and rare opportunity for brands looking to reach consumers in Maryland's most populous city. The offering is the largest in Baltimore, totaling 7,128 sq feet of premium advertising space that operates 24 hours per day with an 8mm pitch display resolution. The screens will go live on October 16, 2023.
The Baltimore Duo acts as a beacon in the bustling scene of the downtown area, with the vivid screens creating over 35 million impressions per month. Located in a prime position, the displays sit on two corners of the city's newly reimagined CFG Bank arena, one of the most exciting entertainment destinations in Maryland. A cornerstone of live entertainment in the City of Baltimore, the arena is expected to have more than 1 million visitors annually and will host the biggest names in music and world-class entertainment with 120+ shows per year. Baltimore Duo is surrounded by the city's rich historical landmarks and steps away from the Convention Center, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and M&T Bank Stadium - home to the Baltimore Ravens. As part of the city's revitalization, the neighborhood continues to experience exponential growth in luxury residential housing, hotels, and high-end office space.
This new addition extends KEVANI's presence as a provider of upscale and innovative out of home media destinations across the US, with other recent additions including The Towers in Los Angeles, WeHo Quartet in West Hollywood, Soho Spectacle in New York City, Fig Spectacular in Downtown Los Angeles, and The Trio Los Angeles in Inglewood, which were all strategically selected based on their size, location and the unparalleled advertising opportunities they present.
"We are delighted to win this tender and become the exclusive media sales & marketing force behind these new digital displays. As we curate our media offering nationwide, it's pivotal for us to add only the best-in-class inventory to reaffirm our mission of offering iconic media destinations in the US" said Kevin Bartanian, CEO of KEVANI. "Baltimore Duo is massive and within walking distance of an arena, a convention center, and world-renowned hotels. This new destination attracts larger national events and live entertainment, but it's radically changing the energy and fabric of downtown Baltimore and boosting the local economy in significant ways."
Ariana Diverio, of EMI Strategies, managed the competitive media procurement process for Oak View Group, owners and operators of CFG Bank Arena.
About KEVANI
KEVANI is an out-of-home (OOH) media sales organization that promotes national and local brands through innovative outdoor advertising destinations. Our inventory provides a unique opportunity for our brand and agency partners to captivate their audience. We started KEVANI because we want to bring value to our medium, from the development of new destinations to the way the medium is sold. Simply put, our mission is to transform our industry and we do so by adhering to our Mission Statement. Follow KEVANI on Instagram (@kevaniusa)
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EMI Strategies is an executive business development consulting firm specializing in high capital, high-return asset creation, development, and revenue maximization with an emphasis on advertising strategy.
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Jan Egeland speaks in a calm manner than befits his four decades of humanitarian work, but he becomes increasingly animated when discussing the record number of people currently displaced because of humanitarian crises across the globe.
This year alone, the group that he heads, the Norwegian Refugee Council, helped those affected by the war in Ukraine, the Afghanistan earthquake in June and the ongoing devastating drought in Somalia.
In recognition of these efforts, the council this year has been awarded the world's largest annual humanitarian award for a nonprofit — worth $2.5 million.
The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, which will be handed out Oct. 21, recognizes "extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering."
Egeland is a former Norwegian foreign minister who held positions at Human Rights Watch, the Red Cross and the United Nations before becoming secretary general of the council. Upon returning from a trip to Somalia in June, he spoke with NPR about overlooked crises, equal protection for all refugees and reasons to hope.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What is the Norwegian Refugee Council?
We are a frontline humanitarian organization assisting refugees and displaced people in conflict areas. We were established in 1946 just after the liberation of Norway from Nazi occupation. At the time, Norway was a poor country receiving Marshall Aid assistance from the United States, but our founders saw that the situation was even worse for most of the rest of Europe. Our early relief efforts focused on refugees in Austria, Germany, Poland and the Balkans — and it grew from there. Today we have 16,000 field workers in most of the biggest crises and wars of our time, from Ukraine to Colombia, from Congo to Myanmar.
What does it mean to win the Hilton Humanitarian Prize?
This award could not have come at more important time for us because we are challenged like never before. Our advocacy for targeted civilians has also made us become a target for authoritarian regimes and parties to armed conflicts who do not like the truth to be told to the world. With the recognition and backing of the Hilton Prize we can do that with more authority and greater resources. It's a considerable sum of money, but of equal importance is the recognition and prestige. I regard this as the Nobel Prize for humanitarian work.
What can you do with the money?
Last year we helped over 10 million refugees and displaced people; this year we need to reach even more. The enemies are bigger and worse, so we need to be quicker and smarter, responding to crises earlier, providing support for the longer term and helping people to become self-reliant as soon as possible. We can only accomplish that with local colleagues, and the money will help us with staff development. In Afghanistan we have 1,400 humanitarian workers and just 25 of them are international. In general, 99% of our staff are non-Norwegian. This funding will also help us concentrate on conflict prevention, building on our longstanding mediation between warring ethnic groups or between farmers and herdsmen competing for land and water resources.
Where are some of the overlooked crises in the world that you are monitoring?
We issue an annual report measuring the number of people in greatest need versus the corresponding international media coverage, money directed toward the crises and diplomatic efforts to halt hostilities. Last year the top 10 of the most neglected conflicts and displacement crises in the world were in Africa. The Democratic Republic of Congo is a colossal emergency where more than 25 million people are in need, yet it receives scant attention. The same is true for Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Chad and Somalia.
And now much media attention and global funding is going to Ukrainian refugees. The Russian invasion was launched in February. What has changed for Ukrainian refugees?
The NRC has been in Ukraine since the 2014 Donbas conflict, but now the situation is much worse, with trench warfare and the destruction of entire cities engulfing millions of civilians. Some areas have become more stable where we are able to help the internally displaced, and Ukrainians are now returning from abroad after initially fleeing. At the same time, others continue to be driven out from the south and the east of the country. I fear for the winter. Millions will be freezing soon so we are preparing a winterization program and strengthening logistic lines from the neighboring states.
Not all refugees have enjoyed the same treatment as Ukrainians.
It's a good thing that we want to help our neighbor who looks like us, has the same religion and can easily integrate in our societies but we should give protection according to need. In Europe people from the Middle East or Afghanistan are met with a cold shoulder and barbed wire whereas Ukrainians are welcomed. It's the same in the U.S., where women and children fleeing horrific violence in central America are not always well received. This is a battle of values, and we must stand squarely on the side of those who need protection.
How do you work effectively in countries where the government is one of the forces who have driven people from their homes?
We live and breathe by the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. This means we teach our colleagues not to take sides and not to get close to a government which is a party to the conflict. But at the same time, we still need to have the respect, and the protection, of those parties. We always try to work on all sides – it pains me that we're not able to work in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.
What is the right thing to do in Afghanistan?
It is now over a year since the West left Afghanistan, leaving behind 40 million mainly women and children, and they need our solidarity now more than ever. There must be engagement between the de facto authorities and the donor countries on issues such as girls' education and minority protection. The very wrong response is to impose sanctions that do not take away food from Taliban soldiers but do make women and children starve.
In this economically turbulent period, are you worried that Western countries will neglect their humanitarian obligations?
Yes, I'm afraid of that. One hundred million people have now for the first time in recorded history been displaced by war and violence. In 2011, it was 40 million. There has never been in modern times as many children going to bed hungry as there are this year. We need some countries to recognize that while they are struggling with high energy prices and nationalistic tendencies at home, it is significantly worse in the areas where we operate.
You returned from Somalia in June of this year. What is it like seeing a country in the grip of drought and starvation?
It's truly dramatic. I saw mothers and fathers walking for hundreds of kilometers to seek water and food. We need development, investment, resilience and better use of existing resources. We are part of the Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS), a group of nine national and international NGOs created to balance short-term humanitarian needs with longer-term community preparedness. I witnessed dams being built, and bore holes equipped with solar-powered pumps so people can start to feed themselves independently.
How can individuals advocate for refugees?
Join and support the international NGOs. Write to politicians to say we want to live by elementary rules of compassion and solidarity. Reach out to those refugees and migrants who come to our communities, befriend them, help them integrate.
You have worked in this field for four decades. Is this era the worst?
It is a time of horrific contrasts. Never have there been so many displaced by violence and conflict, and so many with no chance to feed themselves. Climate change, COVID and conflict have merged to create a lethal cocktail. But the good news is that never have there been more effective national and international humanitarian and development organizations, better technological advances and greater resources. Never have there been as many billionaires, so there should be a possibility for us to elevate the bottom two billion people. Those at the very top have astronomical resources and they alone could have helped us reach people in great need.
In such relentlessly depressing times, is there any cause for hope?
I come back an optimist whenever I return from visiting colleagues working in difficult and dangerous circumstances. We have now helped more than a million children go to school and when I ask them what they want to become when they are older, they don't want to be fighters or soldiers or terrorists or criminals; they all want to be doctors, engineers, farmers and builders.
Andrew Connelly is a British freelance journalist focusing on politics, migration and conflict. He tweets @connellyandrew.
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SPEEDWAY, Ind. — Hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to pack the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Sunday for the 107th running of the Indy 500, but thousands of them won’t be paying attention to the race.
Those fans will be too busy in the Snake Pit at turn 3. Called the “Biggest Party in Racing,” the Snake Pit hosts an all day EDM concert during the Indy 500.
”It’s 100% crazy,” said IMS President Doug Boles. “You’ve got 325,000 people in the venue, 25,000 of them are in the Snake Pit, listening to music, don’t know a race is happening.”
Boles said it seems odd to promote an event where fans don’t watch the race, but the Snake Pit has become their best way to recruit fans younger than 30.
”We need those kids,” Boles said. “We need that young adult to become an Indianapolis 500 fan and this is the best tool that we have.”
The structured, ticketed and fenced in concert is far from what the Snake Pit of old used to be. The Snake Pit and Indy 500 infield of the 70s and 80s was a whole different beast.
”The old Snake Pit was just this organic party where people brought their cars in and their coolers full of beer and they really didn’t care what was going on on track it was more about the party atmosphere,” Boles said.
Indiana native Kerry Worthington has been to 30 Indianapolis 500s, his earliest race days were spent partying in the infield.
”It was the hugest, biggest party you’ve ever been to in your life,” Kerry said. “We all went to watch usually the first 10 laps and the last 10 laps.”
Kerry shared pictures and video of his days at turn four and in the Snake Pit.
”I could tell you stories but they wouldn’t be good for television,” Kerry said.
Kerry’s claim to fame is a picture snapped of him and his friends standing on the beaten and burned car Kerry drove to the race in 1986. The photo now hangs in Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of the Indiana Pacers.
”It still makes me laugh every time I look at it,” Kerry said.
Kerry was always a race fan first, though. As he got older, he outgrew the infield, started to bring his young family and sat in the grandstands.
”Oh, those were good times, man. Good times,” he said.
Kerry wants every 500 fan to enjoy the party, but make sure they’re watching the action.
”Take the time and at least go to the race once in your lifetime,” Kerry said. “I promise you, it’ll be worth it.”
Just as Kerry went from infield partying to more than two dozen races watching from the stands with family, that’s what Boles hopes will become of the modern-day Snake Pit crowd.
”Hopefully as they grow up, they say, ‘You know what, this is what I do on Memorial Day Sunday. I go to the Indy 500,'” Boles said. “Just like those folks who started in the original Snake Pit who had no idea what was going on on track, now have been coming for decades.”
The 2023 Snake Pit will feature five different artists performing throughout Sunday. Grammy-nominated Kaskade is the headliners but isn’t the most well-known name.
DJ Diesel performs in the 9:15 a.m. slot. The artist is better known as Shaquille O’Neal. The NBA Champion and Hall of Famer has been making music since the 90s and got into EDM several years ago.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — On a day the Orioles welcomed Eddie Murray, Brooks Robinson and Mike Mussina back to the ballpark, Baltimore’s less heralded 2022 team thrilled the home crowd again.
Ryan McKenna hit a two-run double in the fifth inning, and the Orioles won their fifth straight game, 6-3 over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday.
The Orioles celebrated the 30th anniversary of Camden Yards with a pregame ceremony that included Murray and Mussina, and Robinson and Murray addressed the team before the game. McKenna, Jorge Mateo and Austin Voth aren’t household names like that Hall of Fame trio — but they helped add some more present-year excitement to all the nostalgia.
“When there’s 40,000 fans out there and they’re showing up, yeah, it’s definitely a playoff atmosphere,” Voth said. “That fuels us as players for sure.”
Oneil Cruz hit a two-run homer for Pittsburgh in the fourth to cut an early Baltimore lead to one, but McKenna came through as a pinch-hitter the following inning, putting the Orioles up 5-2 with a big two-out hit to left.
Baltimore has now won 21 of its last 28 games and is one game out of the last wild card in the American League. The Orioles (56-51) have already reached their highest win total in five years.
Voth (2-1) allowed three runs and six hits in five-plus innings for Baltimore, and the bullpen handled the final 12 outs.
JT Brubaker (2-10) allowed three runs and eight hits in four innings.
“Fought fastball command, especially the first two innings,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. “Threw a ton of pitches in the second and was just in the middle of the plate.”
Terrin Vavra opened the scoring with a run-scoring single in the first, and the Orioles added two more in the second on an RBI single by Mateo and a run-scoring double by Brett Phillips.
Ke’Bryan Hayes hit an RBI single for the Pirates to make it 5-3 in the sixth. Cedric Mullins hit a sacrifice fly for the Orioles in the seventh.
Pittsburgh brought the tying run to the plate in the eighth after the first two batters reached base, but Mateo, Baltimore’s shortstop, went diving to his left to start a sparkling double play on a sharp grounder by Hayes.
The Orioles are 5 for 28 with runners in scoring position over the past two games, which shows how consistently they’ve put men on base. They haven’t paid a price for leaving many of them on.
Umpire Carlos Torres (illness) was out, leaving the crew with three people until replacement Alex Tosi arrived a few batters in.
WELCOME BACK
Murray, whose 500th homer came at Camden Yards in 1996, was asked what he thought of the ballpark’s new wall in left field, which has been pushed back this year.
“Still hit it over,” he said matter-of-factly.
The attendance of 41,086 was the biggest of the year at the ballpark, aside from opening day.
“It’s awesome,” McKenna said. “The support that we feel when we’re on the field when there’s that many people in the stands is incredible. They’re a big part of it.”
DIFFERENT STORY
Pittsburgh won Game 7 of the World Series at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium in 1971 and 1979, but the Pirates are just 1-11 in their occasional visits to Camden Yards.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Orioles: OF Austin Hays (side) missed a third straight game, but manager Brandon Hyde said he could be ready in the next couple days.
UP NEXT
Baltimore tries for a three-game sweep with Spenser Watkins (4-1) on the mound against Pittsburgh’s Bryse Wilson (1-6) on Sunday.
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VIDEO: Officer rescues woman from burning car while on way home
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC/Gray News) - A police officer in South Carolina is being recognized for helping save a woman from a burning car.
The Mount Pleasant Police Department reports that Officer Doug Richards pulled a woman from a burning car while on his way home on May 28.
WCSC reports Officer Richards spotted a crash on Interstate 26 around 1:30 a.m. at exit 209.
The department shared a video of the incident that showed flames coming from the hood of the woman’s car, with Richards grabbing a fire extinguisher from his patrol car and running to her vehicle.
“Please, help me. I don’t want to die,” the woman can be heard saying in the video.
Department spokesperson Don Calabrese said officer Richards remained calm during the chaotic situation, put out the fire and rescued the woman.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — St. Paul had the worst air quality in the United States on Wednesday as smoke from massive Canadian wildfires drifted across Minnesota a week after similar smoke blanketed the northeastern U.S.
The smoke was “near the worst” on record for the Twin Cities, the Star-Tribune reported, citing Nick Witcraft, an air-quality meteorologist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Air quality hit “red” on the U.S. government’s color-coded index, meaning it was unhealthy for everyone. The air was particularly dangerous for children, older people and those with asthma and conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
Karen Berg-Moberg decided to go on a bike ride at Como Lake in St. Paul with a friend despite the air. She was ready to cut their trip short if needed but didn’t think the smoke would slow them down.
“I can smell it. It’s kind of nasty,” she said. “We debated it, but thought, ‘What the heck?’ ”
St. Paul had an air quality index, or AQI, reading of 256 at 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to AirNow.gov, a website published by U.S. government agencies. The index runs from zero to 500. The higher the number, the worse the air quality.
In July 2021, the index reached 182 in the Twin Cities, also after wildfire smoke drifted down from Canada.
Minneapolis public parks officials canceled events for music and movies in the park and outdoor activities on Wednesday. St. Paul canceled all youth and adult athletics.
Last week, massive fires burning up stretches of Canadian forests blanketed the northeastern United States, turning the air a yellowish gray and prompting warnings for people to stay inside and keep windows closed.
The small particles in wildfire smoke can irritate the eyes, nose and throat, and can affect the heart and lungs, making it harder to breathe. Health officials say it’s important to limit outdoor activities as much as possible to avoid breathing in these particles. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/canadian-wildfire-smoke-gives-minnesota-city-the-worst-air-in-the-us/ | 2023-06-15 16:59:40 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/canadian-wildfire-smoke-gives-minnesota-city-the-worst-air-in-the-us/ |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Riley Greene hit a two-run double in the seventh inning and Javier Báez added a two-run homer, leading the Detroit Tigers to a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over the reeling St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night.St. Louis fell to 0 for 11 in series openers this season. The Cardinals became the first team to drop that many series openers since the 1981 Kansas City Royals, who were 0 for 13.St. Louis lost its seventh straight game and is 3-14 in its last 17 . The Cardinals are 5-12 at home this season and have lost 11 of 14 games at Busch Stadium. The Cardinals, 1-10 in their last 11 games, have the worst record in the National League at 10-23.Matthew Boyd (2-2) pitched six innings with six strikeouts and no walks. He gave up three runs on five hits. Alex Lang earned his sixth save after giving up a leadoff double to Paul Goldschmidt. He struck out the final three batters.The Tigers scored three runs in the seventh to take a 5-3 lead. Reliever Jordan Hicks (0-3) gave up the hit on an 0-2 pitch to Greene, who entered the game in the fifth inning. He drove in pinch-hitter Zach McKinstry, who had walked, and St. Louis native Matt Vierling, who was hit by a 100 mph fastball. Spencer Torkelson hit a run-scoring double off reliever Giovanney Gallegos.Báez, who went 3 for 4 with a walk, put the Tigers up 2-0 when he hit a 1-2 curveball into the left field seats in the first inning after Andy Ibañez had doubled off starter Jordan Montgomery. It was the 20th homer allowed in a two-strike count this season by a St. Louis pitcher.Catcher Andrew Knizner, who entered the game hitting .138, had his first extra base hit this season with a two-out home run into the left field bullpen in the third inning after Boyd had retired the first eight hitters.St. Louis scored twice in the third for a 3-2 lead. The Cardinals, who left the bases loaded in the seventh, added a run in the eighth. But Mason Englert got pinch-hitter Nolan Gorman to strike out with the bases loaded to end the inning.EJECTIONSSt. Louis manager Oliver Marmol and bench coach Joe McEwing were ejected with two outs in the ninth inning by home plate umpire Junior Valentine.ROSTER MOVESCardinals: Recalled OF Juan Yepez from the Triple-A Memphis Redbirds. Yepez played in three games with St. Louis earlier this season, hitting .333 with one homer. … RHP James Naile also was recalled from Memphis, where he compiled a 3-1 record with a 2.50 ERA in six appearances.TRAINER’S ROOMTigers: OF Kerry Carpenter (right shoulder sprain) will begin hitting this weekend. … RHP Trey Wingenter (right biceps tendinitis) will be re-evaluated next week to see how he responded to getting a cortisone injection.Cardinals: OF Tyler O’Neill (lower back strain) was placed on the 10-day IL … RHP Jake Woodford (for right shoulder inflammation) was placed on the 15-day IL. … RHP Wilking Rodríguez had season-ending arthroscopic shoulder surgery earlier in the week and was moved to the 60-day IL.UP NEXTTigers: RHP Spencer Turnbull (1-4, 6.84 ERA) has only been able to get through four innings in his last two starts allowing a pair of earned runs in both.Cardinals: RHP Adam Wainwright (11-12, 3.71 ERA) gets his first start of the 2023 campaign on Saturday after recovering from a groin strain. His last appearance against the Tigers was a start at Busch Stadium in June 2009, nearly 14 years ago, and he threw seven innings in an 11-2 win opposing Justin Verlander.___AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb [https://apnews.com/hub/mlb] and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports [https://twitter.com/AP_Sports] | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/greene-b-ez-spark-tigers-to-5-4-win-over-18082669.php | 2023-05-06 03:55:32 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/greene-b-ez-spark-tigers-to-5-4-win-over-18082669.php |
EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine — On a recent balmy afternoon, at the extreme southern end of their range, a steady stream of Atlantic puffins, with their unmistakable tuxedo plumage and orange webbed feet, swooped in from the sea, alighting on the granite rocks surrounding this remote island off midcoast Maine.
Many carried in their multicolored beaks the small fish their chicks depend on for survival, and that have been increasingly difficult for puffins to find as waters warm.
Biologists are watching intently to gauge the future of this beloved, bellwether species. Maine’s population, long stressed, took an alarming hit last summer as water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine surged to record highs. As the chunky seabirds struggled to find enough to eat, the number of surviving chicks plummeted to about a quarter, down from about two-thirds in a typical year.
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“There are real red flags — warning signs — right now for these puffins,” said Donald Lyons, director of conservation science at the National Audubon Society’s Seabird Institute in Bremen, Maine. “They’re the proverbial canary in the coal mines for our oceans.”
Temperatures in the gulf have cooled slightly, and though a full picture of chick survival this year will only emerge when data become available in coming months, the seabirds so far appear to be faring better.
“This summer is going much better than last summer,” said Keara Nelson, 29, a biologist who monitors the puffins here.
Atlantic puffins, a cold-weather species that weighs about 1 pound and ranges as far north as the Arctic, have been listed as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which maintains the world’s most comprehensive list of threatened species. While their population has been estimated to exceed 10 million birds, the IUCN describes their numbers as “declining rapidly,” the result of predation by invasive species, pollution, and food shortages.
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In Maine, where puffins are designated as “threatened” on the state’s list of endangered species, scientists estimate there are only several thousand of the tourist-attracting birds left. Maine has never had a large number of the seabirds. But their population has been decimated over the years by people harvesting their eggs and feathers; entanglements in fishing nets; and predation by everything from rats to herring gulls.
Climate change has only increased the threat. As temperatures rise, their prey — small fish, such as herring and hake — tend to move into colder, deeper waters or farther offshore, beyond the reach of the seabirds. They’re also vulnerable to the heavy storms that are becoming more frequent in the region.
Nearly killed off in the 19th century, the region’s puffins rebounded in recent decades after Stephen Kress of the National Audubon Society established a puffin restoration project here in the 1970s, transferring hundreds of chicks from Newfoundland.
Since the seabirds began returning on their own to Eastern Egg Rock, a 7-acre island in the cobalt waters between Boothbay Harbor and Rockland, their numbers have climbed steadily. Biologists counted a record 188 nesting pairs in 2019, the last year for which there’s an official count.
Even as the climate worsens for the region’s puffins, their overall numbers have remained stable.
Still, Kress worries about their future in the Gulf of Maine.
“I am concerned about the pattern that is developing,” he said. “If this resilient species cannot survive in the Gulf of Maine, they are telling us that the gulf has changed so much that human life will also be greatly impacted, given our own reliance on productive oceans.”
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On Petit Manan, a national wildlife refuge in Penobscot Bay, scientists last year estimated that just 10 percent of chicks from the island’s estimated 87 puffin pairs survived long enough to take flight. The seabirds on Matinicus Rock and Seal Island, also national wildlife refuges, had more success, successfully raising an estimated 34 percent and 53 percent, respectively.
Linda Welch, a wildlife biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service who oversees the puffin-monitoring program on Petit Manan, said the seabirds had “very low productivity” during four years over the past decade, all of which had unusually high sea temperatures. As the planet warms, those temperatures are only likely to increase.
“I had really hoped that I would feel a lot more comfortable with seabird recovery efforts at this point in my career,” said Welch, who has been monitoring puffins for 25 years. “Instead, each spring I now find myself wondering if this will be the year the birds finally give up and decide not to nest on a particular island.”
Further to the north on Machias Seal Island, a disputed territory between the United States and Canada, just 10 percent of last summer’s chicks took flight.
Scientists there and elsewhere have observed other effects of climate change on the puffins.
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With less availability of their traditional food, the seabirds have been forced to feed their chicks butterfish, which can be too large to fit in their tiny mouths. Moreover, increasing numbers of adults have been arriving from their winter at sea with less girth, likely because of eating less. That has resulted in puffins laying their eggs some two weeks later than usual, leaving the chicks less time to grow and amass the strength to fly.
“I do think we will start to see population-level effects, but I hope I’m wrong about that,” said Heather Major, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of New Brunswick, who oversees the puffin-monitoring program on Machias Seal Island.
On a recent morning, as a shroud of fog lifted over Eastern Egg Rock, Lyons arrived at the island with Derrick Jackson, an author and former Boston Globe columnist who has written two books about puffins and adores them so much he wears a puffin earring.
Nelson and her colleagues guided them to one of the few structures on the island, a solar-powered hovel that doubles as office and kitchen, which they’ve dubbed the Eastern Egg Rock Hilton. There, they keep charts they use to track the feeding and other behavior of the seabirds.
“Each have different personalities,” said Nelson, who pulls the furry, pint-sized chicks from their burrows to measure their weight and wingspan, keeping them in milk cartons so they don’t waddle off.
Afterward, carrying long rods with small flags to ward off the aggressive terns shrieking overhead, Lyons and Jackson walked to a blind on the southern edge of the island, where they watched scores of the clown-like puffins landing on the granite rocks with meals for their chicks. Some had as many as a half-dozen tiny, shiny hake hanging from their sharp beaks.
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Jackson was relieved to see that the colony appeared to be doing better than last summer, which he described as the “most distressing thing I’ve seen in all my time observing puffins.”
“It looked like a battlefield of climate change, with carcasses of terns and puffins strewn along the island, as if they got hit by a wave,” he said.
Lyons said it was good to see so much high-calorie food coming in for the chicks. But if the bad years continue to accumulate, and fewer chicks survive, it’s unclear how long the Gulf of Maine will be able to sustain the region’s puffins.
“There’s certainly reason for concern,” Lyons said. “But I choose to be hopeful. They have the capacity to adapt. If we give them a chance, they can get through this.”
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Controlled environment farms can provide a variety of benefits, including better nutritional values and elimination of pesticides and herbicides
CORONA, Calif., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Container Technologies, Inc (Ticker: ACTX), said that GrowPods – the company's unique Controlled Environment Farms – can help reduce the environmental impact of traditional farming.
According to a new report republished in Science Direct, "hydroponic closed-environment agriculture could play a role in positive food system transformation, reducing environmental footprints, sparing land, and potentially helping to reconnect consumers with producers."
Better Nutritional Value
The research also found, "a valuable aspect of CEA farms is their ability to produce plants with certain desired nutritional profiles." This is accomplished through controlling lighting wavelength, temperature, and nutrient levels.
Cornell University reports consumers increasingly want fresh, high-quality vegetables free of pesticides and agricultural chemicals. However, in many regions of the United States, climate makes it impossible to meet this need year-round, so food is often shipped from far away. However, "when fresh produce is transported great distances there can be a significant loss of quality," according to the University. The solution, they suggest, is in "well-managed, local CEA operations that can provide fresh produce of high quality and free of agriculture chemicals."
Endorsed by Retailing Giants
According to Forbes, when you shop at Walmart, Whole Foods and Target, you probably assume the greens you buy are grown on sprawling outdoor farms. "The reality, however, is that large volumes of greens also are being grown indoors," the publication reports. "CEA, or controlled environmental agriculture, is catching on and coming of age as growing indoors increases in popularity."
Doug Heldoorn, CEO of ACTX, said GrowPods are transportable and scalable, so fresh, nutritious food can now be available on a consistent basis virtually anywhere in the nation.
"GrowPods allow grocers, businesses, non-profits, and big box retailers the means to grow healthy food, year-round," he said. "They return local control and improve quality."
For information on GrowPods, or for a free quote on obtaining a CEA system, call (951) 381-2555 or visit: www.AdvancedContainerTechnologies.com
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ATLANTA (AP) — Abortion providers and advocacy groups filed a new lawsuit Tuesday challenging Georgia's abortion law based on privacy protections in the state Constitution.
The law passed in 2019 effectively bans most abortions about six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women know they're pregnant. A federal judge ruled it unconstitutional and blocked it, but a federal appeals court last week allowed it to take effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had protected the right to an abortion for nearly five decades.
“SisterSong and our partners have been in the fight against Georgia’s six-week abortion ban from the beginning, and today we are sending a clear message that we’re not giving up,” said Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, the lead plaintiff.
Lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed the lawsuit on behalf of Georgia doctors and advocacy groups. It was filed in state superior court rather than federal court where the previous challenge had been filed.
The law “infringes Georgians’ fundamental right under the Georgia Constitution to be free from unwarranted State interference with their ‘life, . . . body, and health’ — a liberty interest that inherently encompasses an individual’s decision whether to carry a pregnancy to term,” the suit says.
The law bans most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
It includes exceptions for rape and incest, as long as a police report is filed, and allows for later abortions when the mother’s life is at risk or a serious medical condition renders a fetus unviable.
The suit asks that a judge declare that the Georgia Constitution’s protection for liberty and privacy encompasses a right to abortion. It also seeks to strike down parts of the law, to remove the exclusion for psychiatric illness, to strike down a requirement for a police report for incest and rape exclusions and to restrict a district attorney's ability to examine medical records without a subpoena.
Julia Kaye, an ACLU staff lawyer, argued the plaintiffs have a much better chance of winning under Georgia law despite the U.S. Supreme Court decision, saying the state constitution “is highly protective of an individual’s right to be free from political interference with their body, health and life.”
Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican seeking reelection this year, vowed to defend the law.
“We are currently reviewing this filing and we will uphold our constitutional duty, as we do with all lawsuits against the state," his spokesperson, Kara Richardson, told reporters.
Other supporters were more dismissive, with Cole Muzio, president of the anti-abortion Frontline Policy Council saying the ACLU and other groups that brought the case are posturing for donors.
“The ACLU is lighting their money on fire,” Muzio wrote on social media. “They have no case. No argument. This pathetic attempt to please fringe activists and donors is both laughable and sad.”
The suit argues that an effective ban around six weeks means some women won’t learn they are pregnant until it is too late to get an abortion in Georgia.
For a woman with a regular four-week menstrual cycle, the law's cutoff point falls only two weeks after the first missed menstrual period. The lawsuit says many women have irregular menstrual periods and may not even get that much warning.
The suit also argues that it is unfair and medically risky to make a woman who is miscarrying wait until fetal cardiac activity has ceased to get an abortion.
“Under this definition, a patient suffering a miscarriage would be able to access medical care to empty her uterus only if the process of pregnancy loss has already ended embryonic/fetal cardiac activity,” the suit says.
The lawsuit refutes the law's reasoning that there have been medical advances showing that “unborn children are a class of living, distinct persons,” saying embryos at six weeks are neither living nor distinct. It also says the early deadline presents challenges for women who have to travel to obtain an abortion and “compels patients to decide quickly how to proceed with their pregnancy — within just hours or days,” cutting off their time to reflect or consult with others.
The suit says the law forces patients experiencing a pregnancy-related mental health crisis to continue pregnancy and go through childbirth.
“A psychiatric illness is no less of a medical condition than a physical illness — and suicide is a leading cause of maternal death,” the suit says.
The law’s exception to allow abortions for rape and incest after a police report is impractical, the suit says, adding that the exception to allow abortions for certain birth defects likely to cause death presumes a doctor can predict those issues perfectly. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/State-constitutional-challenge-to-Georgia-17330224.php | 2022-07-26 20:06:09 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/State-constitutional-challenge-to-Georgia-17330224.php |
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joey Wiemer and Willy Adames hit three-run homers to back Freddy Peralta’s strong pitching and the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-3 on Monday night.
The Brewers have won their last two games after losing six straight. Milwaukee ended its longest skid of the young season Sunday with a 7-3 victory at San Francisco.
Chris Taylor hit a two-run homer in the ninth for the Dodgers, who lost for just the second time in 10 games.
Wiemer has been an impressive fielder during his first season in the majors, even making a seamless transition when a shoulder injury to fellow rookie Garrett Mitchell caused him to shift his primary position from right field to center. His hitting has been more of a work in progress, as he entered Monday’s action batting .208 with a .286 on-base percentage.
But he showed his potential at the plate Monday by going 2 of 3 with four RBIs — his first since April 29 — in arguably the best performance of his young career.
Wiemer homered off Tony Gonsolin (0-1) with two outs in the fifth. He added an RBI double against Phil Bickford in the seventh with a shot that went off the glove of diving shortstop Miguel Rojas and into shallow left.
Peralta (4-2) struck out five and allowed just three hits, one run and two walks in six innings for his third straight quality start. Peralta has allowed five runs over 18 innings in his last three appearances.
Milwaukee broke a scoreless tie by getting three unearned runs off Gonsolin in the fifth.
William Contreras led off the inning by reaching on an error by third baseman Michael Busch. After Brian Anderson struck out and Brice Turang grounded into a fielder’s choice, Tyrone Taylor singled up the middle to keep the inning alive.
Wiemer then ripped a 1-1 splitter into the left-field seats for the rookie’s third career homer.
That blast spoiled an otherwise outstanding performance from Gonsolin, who struck out six and walked none in his six-inning stint. The only three hits he allowed were Wiemer’s homer and two singles by Taylor.
The Dodgers cut Milwaukee’s lead to 3-1 in the sixth as Freddie Freeman doubled, moved to third when Jason Heyward grounded out and scored when Max Muncy grounded out.
Milwaukee broke the game open by scoring six runs against the Dodgers’ bullpen in the seventh. Bickford retired one batter and allowed four runs.
After Wiemer’s RBI double made it 4-1, Christian Yelich added a two-run single. Adames capped the outburst by homering for the second game, delivering a drive over the right-field wall against Wander Suero.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Brewers: Manager Craig Counsell said IF Luis Urías is on track in his recovery to begin a rehabilitation assignment later this month return around the start of June. Urías is on the 60-day injured list after injuring his hamstring in the opening game of the season.
Dodgers: Muncy started at designated hitter for a second straight night as he fights through an illness. Manager Dave Roberts said he hopes Muncy is able to return to the field and play third base Tuesday. Muncy has 12 homers this season and entered Monday's action leading the majors in that category.
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RHP Noah Syndergaard (1-3, 6.32 ERA) pitches for the Dodgers and LHP Eric Lauer (3-3, 4.40) starts for the Brewers as this three-game series continues Tuesday night. ___
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ATLANTA (AP) — What a debut for Brett Baty!
The 22-year-old third baseman became the fifth player in New York Mets history to homer in his first big league at-bat Wednesday night, launching a two-run shot into the right-field seats against the Atlanta Braves.
With a runner aboard and the Mets already up 2-0 in the second inning on back-to-back homers in the opening frame, Baty took a ball from Jake Odorizzi before connecting with a hanging curve.
Ronald Acuña Jr. peeled off, looking to play the ball off the tall brick wall in right, but the 377-foot drive dropped into the seats.
Baty’s mother, father, sister and other relatives who flew in on short notice for the occasion leaped from their seats at Truist Park. Baty was swarmed by his teammates in the dugout.
The last Mets player to homer his first time up in the majors was Mike Jacobs on Aug. 21, 2005, at Washington.
One of the Mets’ top prospects, Baty batted eighth in his major league debut. He took over for Eduardo Escobar, who went on the 10-day injured list with a strained left oblique.
Baty was called up from Syracuse just a week after being promoted to the Triple-A club. Before the game, he insisted he wasn’t thinking about coming up the big leagues this quickly.
“It wasn’t on my mind at all,” Baty said. “I was just thinking about winning ballgames for Syracuse. But now I’m here, so it’s about winning ballgames for the New York Mets.”
Escobar was scratched from the lineup for Tuesday’s game after working out on the field before batting practice. Manager Buck Showalter said Escobar’s injury had taken a turn for the worse and he didn’t want to risk a long-term issue.
The No. 12 overall pick in the 2019 draft, Baty was hitting a combined .315 with 19 homers and 60 RBIs for Double-A Binghamton and Syracuse.
His offensive numbers — especially his power — have greatly improved this season over his first two years in the minors.
“I’m not putting any expectations on myself,” Baty said. “I’m just gonna go out there and play to the best of my ability. I’m here for a reason. I’ll let it show and do my best out there.”
Escobar went on the IL, retroactive to Tuesday, clearing the way for Baty to join the club.
Showalter got a chance to work with Baty in spring training. He challenged the native of Round Rock, Texas, a few times, eager to see how he would react to what the manager coyly called “constructive criticism.”
Baty passed that test.
“I trust the way I play baseball, and I trust myself out on the field,” the rookie said. “They were getting on me, but I was kind of responding.”
Center fielder Brandon Nimmo pulled Baty aside after the team arrived at Truist Park. He knows the highly touted player will be facing intense scrutiny joining a first-place team that’s trying to claim its first division title since 2015.
“Nimmo just took me aside and he was like, ‘Hey, man, slow it down. It’s gonna be a pretty big atmosphere for sure. But we all trust you out there. We have your back,'” Baty said. “That’s what I wanted to hear.”
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Brokerage Grows 104% in the Past 12 Months
TORONTO and NEW YORK , June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Real Brokerage Inc. ("Real" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: REAX) (TSXV: REAX), an international, technology-powered real estate brokerage, today announced that it has surpassed 5,000 agents. The company has grown from 2,450 agents to 5,000 agents in the past 12 months, an increase of 104%.
Over the past year, Real was listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, launched a new platform for its technology, and broadened its brokerage operations to 44 states and the District of Columbia, with an addition of 13 states including Indiana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Iowa, Michigan, Idaho, Kentucky, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arkansas, Maine and Mississippi. The Company also added an international dimension, commencing operations in Canada, including Alberta and Ontario. The Company is focused on building a new model of national real estate brokerage that breaks away from franchise fees and brick-and-mortar offices and provides agents with an attractive financial incentive structure, innovative technology tools and an enterprising, ambitious culture.
"We've seen monumental success over the past year, and I believe a large part of that can be attributed to our agent attraction momentum and comprehensive tech solutions," said Real Chairman and CEO Tamir Poleg. "Real attracts agents who are driven to succeed and who want to work with others who are equally as passionate. We build the technology and collaborative culture, and they continue to champion our growing community."
Real (www.joinreal.com) is a technology-powered real estate brokerage operating in 44 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Ontario and Alberta, Canada. Real is building the future, together with more than 5,000 agents and their clients. Real creates financial opportunities for agents through better commission splits, best-in-class technology, revenue sharing and equity incentives.
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Michigan State University is implementing several new security changes, a little more than two weeks after a gunman entered campus buildings and shot and killed three people and injured five.
Currently, most buildings on the East Lansing campus lock their doors from 11 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. and require key card access during that time. Beginning March 13, those hours will be extended from 6 p.m. until 7:30 a.m., and buildings will only be accessible by students, faculty and staff who have key cards, the school said in a statement Wednesday.
Additionally, locks will be placed on the doors of the school's approximately 1,300 academic classrooms by the beginning of the fall semester.
The school also has more than 2,000 cameras set up around campus, but will be adding more to academic buildings and near Green Light phones, which are used to call for help in emergencies.
Employees and students will also undergo mandatory active violent intruder training, which is currently voluntary.
MSU said it has been receiving feedback regarding safety enhancements since the incident. The institution will also be evaluating safety protocols at its Flint, Grand Rapids and Detroit campuses, the school said.
"Creating a safer and more welcoming campus is a stated goal of Michigan State University. The injury and loss of life that occurred Feb. 13 commits us to do more and better," The school said.
The school said while it commends the campus police department's response to the incident, it will be evaluating the response internally and with a third party.
Police say the suspect in the shooting, 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae, fled the scene and was found dead several hours later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Two students were found dead inside Berkey Hall, while another student died at the MSU student union, the building next door.
Five other students were injured, and as of a week ago, one student was listed in fair condition; two in serious, but stable condition; one was in critical condition and one student had been discharged from the hospital, MSU police said.
"We will update the campus community as these safety improvements and enhancements roll out," the school said. "Our first week back was an emotional one, but we hope you find strength in being back together."
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Imposing a traditional governance approach on an Agile project can eliminate the advantages that Agile delivery methods offer.
TORONTO, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Organizations often apply gating and governance procedures to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources. However, Agile project teams often find fault with traditional approaches as they were designed for Waterfall delivery, negating the advantages that Agile methods deliver. To help organizations develop an Agile-friendly project gating and governance approach, the global IT research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group has published a new blueprint titled Create an Agile-Friendly Project Gating and Governance Approach.
The recently published findings explain that many government organizations are adopting Agile project-delivery methods because they have proven to be more effective at responding to today's fast pace of change. These organizations have an obligation to govern projects effectively to ensure the efficient use of public resources, regardless of the delivery method being used.
"Traditional project gating and governance approaches do not align well with Agile delivery methods. Applying them to Agile projects can lead to less efficiency and even failure," says Alex Ciraco, principal advisory director at Info-Tech Research Group. "To successfully adopt Agile, organizations need to rethink their current practices and adopt a framework for effective oversight and support."
Info-Tech's resource explains how moving to an Agile-friendly gating approach can offer organizations many benefits, such as a faster response to change, improved productivity, higher team morale, better product quality, and faster releases.
The firm recommends that organizations follow a holistic approach that begins with the understanding of the fundamental purpose of project gating and governance, as well as the major differences between Agile and Waterfall delivery methods. This approach will allow organizations to guide their gating processes to meet business needs and support Agile delivery methods.
The new research blueprint outlines the three elements of an Agile gating mindset:
- Project gating or governance doesn't go away in Agile, but more of it rests with the delivery team rather than the governance body.
- Agile-friendly gating or governance needs to support Agile delivery teams so they make good decisions on time
- An Agile gating framework should focus on delivery team health and effectiveness, enabling the team to manage risk and ensure value delivery with minimal oversight.
Info-Tech's blueprint explains that not all Agile project delivery teams are created equal, and that the level of support each project receives will need to be adjusted to improve its likelihood of success.
To learn more about building an Agile-friendly approach to project gating, download the complete Create an Agile-Friendly Project Gating and Governance Approach blueprint.
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Hardware Access Control Leader Appoints CRO to Drive Go-To-Market Growth Strategy and COO to Support Its Growing Customer Base.
ROCKVILLE, Md., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sepio, the leader in Hardware Access Control, today announced that Scott Coffey has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), along with the appointment of Iftah Bratspiess, co-founder and GM for Sepio Israel as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
"These new appointments further strengthen Sepio's leadership team focusing on revenue generation and global expansion," said Yossi Appleboum, co-founder, and CEO of Sepio. "Scott brings his vast expertise to our executive team with an impressive track record as a driving force for the company's growth stage."
As CRO, Scott will be leading Sepio's global sales organization. He will be responsible for planning and executing the strategy, building the teams, and developing the channels and partnerships.
"The need for managing the risk of hardware assets inside organizations is growing fast and is starts, of course, with a need for complete detection of all deployed devices. Sepio's HAC-1 is fast and simple to deploy without the nightmare of tapping into all traffic." said Scott Coffey, CRO of Sepio. "I am looking forward to joining the existing high-performance team, as Sepio is leading this market, while visibility challenges and threats are growing exponentially."
"Taking the COO position of Sepio is an important milestone in our growth," said Iftah Bratspiess, COO of Sepio. "While we are building our global presence, we are strengthening our operations that will lead our research, engineering, data science and product activities. Creating this new position in Sepio allows us to use my vast expertise and laser-focused approach towards high quality delivery and customer approval."
About Sepio
Founded in 2016 by cybersecurity industry veterans, Sepio's HAC-1 solution helps enterprises manage risks related to their hardware assets. HAC-1 is the first hardware access control platform that provides unparalleled visibility, control, and mitigation to zero trust, insider threat, BYOD, IT, OT and IoT security programs. Sepio's physical layer fingerprinting technology discovers all managed, unmanaged, and hidden devices that are otherwise invisible to all other security and asset visibility tools. Through multiple 3rd party seamless integration support, HAC-1 insights and actionable measures are easily incorporated into existing automation processes. The company's HQ is in Rockville, Maryland and operates globally through its vast channel partners' network. Learn more: www.sepiocyber.com
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- Positive primary endpoint result of objective response rate (ORR) from the planned interim analysis of Phase II trial in advanced gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (GC/GEJ).
- Top-line data of the final analysis from Phase II to be announced in the second half of next year.
SEOUL, South Korea, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genome & Company (CEOs: Pae, Jisoo, Park, Hansoo), a global leading microbiome therapeutics developer, announced that this phase II trial (NCT05419362) will continue without modifications to move on to the second stage, based on the positive result of the interim analysis.
Using a single-strain bacteria in combination with avelumab (Bavencio®) from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and Pfizer Inc., it is the first time to show positive antitumor activity per ORR in Phase II trial. The detailed results will be presented at a conference in the second half of 2023.
On the basis of these results and in accordance with the predetermined hypothesis of the interim analysis, Genome & Company highly expect that the evidence for treatment with GEN-001 plus avelumab as a 3rd line of therapy for GC/GEJ will be strongly established.
This is a Phase II study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of GEN-001 plus Avelumab as a ≥3rd line treatment for PD-L1 positive GC/GEJ patients regardless of prior immune-oncology (IO) treatment. Following enrollment of the 21st patient, a pre-planned interim analysis was conducted and results were reviewed by an independent data monitoring committee (IDMC).
As the observed ORR met the pre-determined criteria together with no safety concerns, the IDMC recommended to continue with the second stage without modifications and enroll additional 21 patients. The detailed results will be presented at an Oncology conference in the second half of 2023. The top-line data of the final analysis from Phase II are expected in the second half of next year.
Professor Jeeyun Lee, the principal investigator of clinical trials from the Hematology and Oncology Division at Samsung Medical Center, stated, "There is a strong unmet medical need to establish 3rd line of therapy for GC/GEJ patients compared with the establishing 1st and 2nd lines of therapy. Hence, the pre-planned interim result of this trial is quite interesting. We continue to enroll patients and look forward to seeing the final analysis of this trial soon."
The CEO of Genome & Company, Pae, Jisoo, stated, "We attach great significance to presenting data-driven results for the first time through Phase II clinical trials on gastric cancer patients using the immuno-oncology microbiome therapeutic 'GEN-001' in combination with avelumab from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and Pfizer Inc." and "we intend to obtain phase II clinical data for 'GEN-001' within next year and to discuss a licensing agreement with partners or global big pharmaceutical companies."
It is also worth noting that GEN-001 is currently undergoing phase 2 clinical trial with combination therapy with MSD's pembrolizumab (Keytruda®) for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer. The first patient in will be initiated in the second half of this year. To expand treatment options for advanced biliary tract cancer with high unmet medical needs, Genome & Company recently requested approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in South Korea to amend the protocol.
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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — After another sparkling start, In Gee Chun finally hit a wayward tee shot — into the thick rough on the eighth hole at Congressional Country Club.
It was the closest she’s come to a shaky stretch through the first two days of the Women’s PGA Championship.
Chun recovered from a couple bogeys on the front nine and shot a 3-under 69 on Friday to increase her lead to six strokes at the tournament’s halfway point. Chun led by five after the first round, equaling the biggest 18-hole advantage in the history of women’s major championships.
Bogeys at Nos. 7 and 8 in the second round prevented her from pulling even further ahead, but she was still impressive in following up Thursday’s stellar performance.
“I really don’t want to think about yesterday. It was almost a perfect game I had,” said Chun, who is 11 under par through two rounds. “If I can think about yesterday, then I feel like I couldn’t make good focus on my game today.”
Lydia Ko (67) and Jennifer Kupcho (68) were second. Kupcho took the first major of the season in early April at the Chevron Championship and won a playoff Sunday in Michigan for her second LPGA Tour title.
Kupcho sounds comfortable having to chase down Chun.
“I think being behind and trying to catch up is better,” she said. “I mean, I had the lead at Chevron by a few strokes, so I know how it feels to be in her position. Being behind is at least my preferred way.”
Caroline Inglis (68) was another stroke back at 4 under, along with Brooke Henderson (69), Hannah Green (69), Sei Young Kim (69) and Jennifer Chang (70).
After wet conditions for the first round brought the course’s length into focus, it was a clear, warm day Friday, and Congressional was a bit more forgiving. Ko’s impressive performance set the tone early on. Like Chun, Ko is trying for her third major title and first since 2016.
Chun began with three birdies in the first five holes. Then she missed the green on the par-3 seventh and took a bogey. On No. 8, a 245-yard par 4, her tee shot went into the rough on the edge of a greenside bunker — the first fairway she’d missed all tournament.
Chun punched out of it backwards, then failed to get up and down for par.
Still, those were her only two bogeys of the round, and she’s kept the field at arm’s length. She finished with a birdie on the 433-yard 18th, hitting a 7-iron at a pin positioned toward the back of the green, just in front of the water.
She made the 10-foot putt for her fifth birdie of the day.
“I really want to make the finish with birdie, so I try and make really good focus. I did everything on that putt,” she said. “That’s why I say I’m so happy I made it.”
Hye-Jin Choi and Pornanong Phatlum both shot 72 after first-round 69s. They now trail by eight.
Lexi Thompson matched Ko with a 67, highlighted by an eagle when she holed out a wedge from 102 yards on the par-4 17th.
“I took one more club extra to control the spin,” Thompson said. “I had spun back a good amount of shots. So I tried to take one more and chip it, and I ended up spinning it back. It was still really going fast with the spin, but ended up going in. I just went off the crowd because we can’t see anything from down there.”
U.S. Women’s Open champ Minjee Lee (68) was with Thompson at 3 under. Defending Women’s PGA champ Nelly Korda (74) was at 1 over.
NOTES: Gerina Mendoza, who shot 79 in the first round, rebounded with a bogey-free 68 to make the cut. … On the wrong side of the cut were Angela Stanford (73), Christina Kim (73), Cristie Kerr (71), Brittany Lincicome (74) and Lizette Salas (72).
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North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley saw her fundraising advantage over Republican rival Ted Budd widen during the past three months and entering the campaign's final weeks.
Budd's campaign reported over the weekend — on the Federal Election Commission's deadline date — that it raised $4.77 million during the three months ending Sept. 30. That's barely one-third the $13.36 million that Beasley told the FEC that she raised — in keeping with what her campaign already had disclosed last week.
Beasley has been the top fundraiser among all of the candidates that sought to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Richard Burr since she entered the race 18 months ago. Her campaign also outspent Budd during the quarter by a 4-1 margin.
“Cheri has earned unmatched support in every quarter of this race because North Carolinians know she is the only candidate who will stand up for the people of North Carolina and put them first — every day, every time,” Beasley campaign manager Travis Brimm said in a news release.
For the entire election cycle, Beasley has raised $29.4 million compared to $11.1 million for Budd.
Budd’s campaign downplayed Beasley’s margin, pointing out that Democratic Senate nominees in North Carolina since 2014 — all unsuccessful — outraised their Republican rivals in the third quarter.
“The numbers that matter to the working families of North Carolina are the skyrocketing cost of living due to inflation and the rising violent crime rates,” Budd said. The three-term congressman blames those things on President Joe Biden’s policies, which he says are supported by Beasley, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court.
Budd’s monetary deficit has largely been closed by national Republican groups and other super PAC allies that are spending large sums on money opposing Beasley.
The Senate Leadership Fund — which backs Republican Senate candidates and is linked to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — has now spent $24.7 million on advertising against Beasley, according to FEC reports. Another $6.5 million has spent by the National Republican Senatorial Committee opposing her.
On the Democratic side, the Senate Majority PAC — associated with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said it has spent over $10.5 million against Budd or for Beasley. The group said late last week it had reserved another $4 million in TV advertising in the campaign's final two weeks.
PACs associated with the National Federation of Independent Business — backing Budd — and the Human Rights Campaign — supporting Beasley — unveiled ad campaigns Monday to attempt to influence the election, which could decide which party takes a majority in the current 50-50 Senate.
Both candidates are appearing with current senators to help them rally supporters and encourage voting in the campaign's final weeks.
Over the weekend, Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., appeared with Beasley at separate get-out-the-vote rallies — Booker in Charlotte and Ossoff in Chapel Hill.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-2-7
(eight, two, seven)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-2-7
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A building under construction partially collapsed Friday in New Haven, Connecticut, when a concrete pour went awry, injuring eight workers, including two critically, city officials said, adding there were no fatalities.
City firefighters and other authorities were called to Lafayette Street shortly after 12:30 p.m.
“Our units responded immediately within minutes and found several persons in varying degrees of injury, from broken bones to three that were partially buried under the rubble,” Fire Chief John Alston Jr. said during a news conference.
Firefighters used ladders and ropes to get to the victims through sharp, broken rebar and other debris, witnesses and officials said. Some victims were hoisted out of the deep hole in rescue baskets attached to ropes, while others were pulled out of the side of the building.
“We heard a crash and we jumped up,” said Danean Doheny, a medical assistant who was working on the fourth floor of a neighboring building and witnessed the rescues. “It was crazy. It was very emotional and scary. I’m just glad everybody for the most part is OK.”
Doheny said the concrete delivery equipment was still running for a time after the collapse, sending the construction mixture onto the injured workers in the hole.
There were 36 people at the work site at the time, and all were accounted for, officials said. All eight injured people were construction workers. Six were pulled out of the building by firefighters, while two were able to escape on their own, officials said. Officials later brought in dogs to search the building for any other people.
“They were doing a concrete pour on this building and as they were pouring concrete a portion of the second floor collapsed onto the first floor and then into the basement,” Mayor Justin Elicker said.
Workers at the site told first responders the concrete was being poured faster than they could spread it, and it pooled too much in one area and caused the collapse, Alston said. First responders had additional urgency to rescue the victims because the concrete was drying, he said.
Elicker said the property is owned by nearby Yale University and is being developed into what will be a seven-story residential building by RMS Companies, based in Stamford, Connecticut, which bills itself as a builder of “upscale, modern apartments and luxurious boutique hotels” on its website.
The building is currently two stories high, with two parking levels underground. Plans call for 112 residential units, Elicker said.
“There will be a significant investigation as with any construction situation like this,” the mayor said.
A person who answered the phone at RMS said the company was not commenting at this time.
Investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration were at the scene. City officials said they planned to issue a stop work order at the site until it is safe.
Lafayette Street is a short distance from Yale New Haven Hospital and the Yale School of Medicine and is home to several medical offices, about five blocks from the New Haven Green and Yale’s main campus.
Alston said city emergency officials had been talking about responding to building collapses in recent days, in response to the partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, on Sunday that left three people missing and feared dead.
“They did some excellent work under some harrowing conditions,” Alston said about New Haven first responders. “I’m very proud of that considering what happened in Iowa recently. We’ve been talking about collapses in our area so they responded admirably.” | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/people-trapped-after-building-partially-collapses-near-yale-campus/ | 2023-06-03 17:04:02 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/people-trapped-after-building-partially-collapses-near-yale-campus/ |
CA Sacramento CA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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206 FPUS56 KSTO 031832
ZFPSTO
Interior Northern California Zone Forecasts for California
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Wednesday.
CAZ013-032300-
Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County-
Including the city of Shasta Dam
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 63 to 78 higher elevations...74 to
82 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 57 higher elevations...50 to
60 lower elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 70 to 85 higher elevations...
81 to 89 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 57 higher
elevations...53 to 61 lower elevations. Prevailing south winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
53 to 68 higher elevations...65 to 73 lower elevations.
Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers.
Colder. Lows 42 to 57.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with rain showers likely. Highs 53 to 68.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers.
Colder. Lows 35 to 50.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 55 to 70.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 29 to 44.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs 45 to 60.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Lows 27 to 42.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Not as
cool. Highs 48 to 63.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SHASTA DAM 80 58 87 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ014-032300-
Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County-
Including the city of Burney
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 59 to 72. Prevailing northeast
winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 45. Prevailing northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs 70 to 82. Prevailing
east winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 50. Prevailing
southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the south after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 56 to 67. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 40 to 48.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
55 to 67.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 32 to 40.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 52 to 64.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 26 to 35.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs 41 to 54.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
rain and snow showers. Lows 23 to 32. Highs 42 to 57.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BURNEY 70 38 79 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ015-032300-
Northern Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Redding and Red Bluff
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 79 to 84. North winds 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 59. North winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 91. North winds around 10 mph
shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 56 to 62. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to
the north after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 71 to 81. South winds up to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows around 56.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
72 to 82.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Lows
47 to 53.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 78.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 42 to 48.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Breezy.
Highs 61 to 69.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. A slight chance of rain
showers. Breezy. Lows 39 to 45. Highs 61 to 71.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
REDDING 83 51 90 / 0 0 0
RED BLUFF 84 55 91 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ016-032300-
Central Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Chico, Oroville, and Marysville/Yuba City
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy, warmer. Highs 80 to 85. Northwest winds
10 to 15 mph increasing to 10 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts
up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 59. North winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 86 to 92. North winds around 10 mph
shifting to the southeast in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 53 to 61. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 78 to 83. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 56.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 77 to 84.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 48 to 54.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 81.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 46.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Breezy. Highs 65 to 71.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows around 44.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Breezy. Highs 68 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
CHICO 84 56 90 / 0 0 0
OROVILLE 83 55 89 / 0 0 0
MARYSVILLE/YUBA CITY 83 50 90 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ017-032300-
Southern Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Sacramento
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 78 to 86. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 48 to 58. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 85 to 92. Northeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon. Gusts
up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 57. South winds
around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 77 to 84. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 54.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 84.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 51. Highs
74 to 84.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 47.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs 64 to 74.
Lows around 46.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SACRAMENTO 84 52 91 / 0 0 0
SAC EXEC AIRPORT 83 50 90 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ018-032300-
Carquinez Strait and Delta-
Including the city of Fairfield/Suisun
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 79 to 85. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 52. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 83 to 89. West winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 52. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 75 to 81. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 55.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 74 to 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 51.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 74 to 80. Lows around
50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 65 to 71.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows around 46.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 67 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
FAIRFIELD/SUISUN 86 50 89 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ019-032300-
Northern San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Stockton and Modesto
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 75 to 84. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph decreasing to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 47 to 57. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 25 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 83 to 92. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 51 to 59. Northwest winds up to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 78 to 88. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 52 to 58.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 77 to 86.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 55.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 72 to 81. Lows 45 to
55.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs 62 to 72.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows 41 to 49.
Highs 63 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
STOCKTON 82 52 90 / 0 0 0
MODESTO 82 52 91 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ063-032300-
Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County-
Including the city of Alder Springs
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 58 to 73 higher elevations...75 to
81 lower elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 45 to 59 higher elevations...54 to
62 lower elevations. Prevailing north winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 65 to 80 higher elevations...
82 to 88 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 58 higher
elevations...55 to 61 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest
winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 52 to 67 higher elevations...68 to 76 lower elevations.
Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 42 to 57.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
54 to 69.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 36 to 51.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 69.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, colder. Lows 31 to 46.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Breezy. Highs 43 to 58.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy, colder. Lows 28 to 43.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers. Not
as cool. Highs 47 to 62.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
ALDER SPRINGS 66 52 73 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ066-032300-
Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Paradise
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 70 to 82. Prevailing north winds up
to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 50 to 62. Prevailing north winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 72 to 84 higher elevations...
79 to 87 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 53 to 63. Prevailing south winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 62 to 72 higher elevations...67 to 77 lower elevations.
Prevailing southeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest
in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 49 to 59.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
63 to 77.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 41 to 54.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 61 to 73.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, colder. Lows 36 to 49.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
52 to 64.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. A slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 33 to 45. Highs 53 to 68.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
PARADISE 75 60 79 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ067-032300-
Motherlode-
Including the cities of Grass Valley and Jackson
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 69 to 79. Light winds becoming
northwest 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 55. Prevailing northwest winds up to
10 mph shifting to the northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 74 to 86. Prevailing east winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 52 to 60. Light winds.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 68 to 80. Prevailing east winds
up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 49 to 55.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 67 to 79.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 45 to 53.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 63 to 75.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, colder. Lows 39 to 47.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 54 to 66. Lows
34 to 47.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 55 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
GRASS VALLEY 72 50 77 / 0 0 0
JACKSON 74 52 81 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ068-032300-
Western Plumas County/Lassen Park-
Including the cities of Chester and Quincy
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 53 to 68 higher elevations...59 to
73 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds up to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 53. Prevailing northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 60 to 75 higher elevations...
66 to 81 lower elevations. Prevailing east winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the south in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 37 to 52 higher elevations...42 to 57 lower
elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to
the southeast after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs 48 to 63 higher elevations...54 to 69 lower
elevations. Prevailing south winds up to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 37 to 52.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
51 to 66.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Colder. Lows 30 to 45.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 48 to 63.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 24 to 39.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
snow showers. Cooler. Highs 38 to 53. Lows 23 to 38.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow
showers. Highs 40 to 55.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
QUINCY 71 37 81 / 0 0 0
CHESTER 69 38 77 / 0 0 0
$$
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CAZ069-032300-
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada-
Including the city of Blue Canyon
1131 AM PDT Tue May 3 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 52 to 67 higher elevations...64 to
74 lower elevations. Prevailing northeast winds 5 to 15 mph
shifting to the north in the afternoon. Gusts up to 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 47 higher elevations...45 to
55 lower elevations. Prevailing north winds up to 10 mph shifting
to the east after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 58 to 73 higher elevations...
69 to 79 lower elevations. Prevailing east winds 5 to 15 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 51 higher elevations...48 to
58 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 51 to 66 higher elevations...
61 to 75 lower elevations. Prevailing southeast winds up to
10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Gusts up to
30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 38 to 53.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 55 to 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder. Lows 32 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 50 to 65.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear, colder. Lows 27 to 42.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow showers.
Highs 38 to 53.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
snow showers. Lows 21 to 36. Highs 38 to 53.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BLUE CANYON 65 50 68 / 0 0 0
$$
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NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- James Patterson and Michael Crichton, two of the bestselling writers in history with combined global sales of more than 675 million copies, have come together to coauthor an untitled novel about a mega-eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano that can destroy not just the island but the entire world. The event thriller will be published in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook in 2024. The manuscript was left unfinished by Michael Crichton at the time of his passing in 2008.
James Patterson said, "I've read Michael Crichton's thrillers avidly for decades and have always thought of him as one of the world's best storytellers. I'm honored that Sherri Crichton has entrusted this extraordinary story to me and that I will have the opportunity to bring Crichton's brilliant ideas to life. I'm particularly excited to be working on this wonderfully prescient novel about Mauna Loa in light of current events. It's as if Crichton could see into the future, and I'm eager to bring that vision to his readers and to mine."
Sherri Crichton, CEO of CrichtonSun, said, "Not only is James Patterson the most successful author in the world working today, but like Michael he is also a truly gifted storyteller whose books have formed a special connection with millions of readers around the world. I know that Michael would be very proud to have Jim complete the book he was writing at the time of his passing. I am honored to be joining hands with Jim on this incredible adventure."
Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch said, "This is one of the most spectacular meetings of minds in literary history. The novel that Michael Crichton was unable to complete will be brought to life by the bestselling writer in modern publishing history, James Patterson, whose ability to create constantly compelling stories and indelible characters makes him the perfect partner." Little, Brown and Company acquired world and translation rights, excluding the UK. CrichtonSun was represented by Shane Salerno of The Story Factory, and Patterson was represented by Robert Barnett and Deneen Howell of Williams & Connolly.
Michael Crichton has sold more than 250 million books worldwide. More than a dozen films and television series, which have grossed over six billion dollars combined, have been made from Crichton's novels, including the Jurassic Park franchise, Disclosure, The Andromeda Strain, Rising Sun, Congo, The Great Train Robbery, and HBO's Westworld. Crichton also wrote and produced the blockbuster film Twister and was the creator and executive producer of ER, for which he won an Emmy and which ran for fifteen seasons on NBC. James Patterson has sold more than 425 million books worldwide and has coauthored novels with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton. He's won an Edgar Award, nine Emmys for television, and the National Humanities Medal.
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