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Isolated storms possible tonight and Sunday evening
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Additional rain and storm chances are expected this weekend, after a soggy evening, for some, Friday. Areas along and north of I-90 saw periods of heavy rain as isolated to scattered thunderstorms passed through the region. Many locations received anywhere from 1-2″ of rainfall.
Following a mainly dry and cloudy Saturday, isolated showers and thunderstorms are possible again this evening before midnight. The overall threat of severe weather is low, but some storms could become strong with small hail, frequent lightning, and heavy rain the primary concerns. After midnight, the overnight looks quiet with mainly cloudy skies and patchy fog. Temperatures will be in the mid-50s with winds out of the southeast at 5-15 mph.
Sunday is expected to stay mainly dry throughout the day with morning clouds and afternoon sunshine. Temperatures will be warm in the mid to upper 70s with light west winds at 5-10 mph. Our next chance for isolated to scattered showers and storms is expected to arrive Sunday evening, mainly after 6 pm. Again the overall threat of severe weather is low, but a few storms could become strong with small hail and gusty winds as the main hazards. The majority of this activity will be south of I-90 in northern Iowa.
Lingering isolated showers and storms are possible early Monday morning before conditions dry out for the remainder of the day. Mostly cloudy skies are expected, but a few peeks of sun are possible late in the day. Afternoon highs will be in the upper 60s to low 70s with light northeast winds.
Rainfall amounts between Saturday evening and early Monday morning will range from 0.10″ to 0.50″ with potentially higher amounts here heavy rain sets up.
A break in the active weather settles in for a few days early in the week. Partly to mostly sunny skies are in store for Tuesday and Wednesday with highs in the low to mid-70s.
Above-average temperatures in the mid to upper 70s continue into the late week with partly sunny skies Thursday and Friday. Aside from a stray shower or two, Thursday is expected to be mainly dry with isolated shower and thunderstorm chances returning Friday and Saturday.
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Devastated mom forced to travel out of state for abortion of unviable fetus
(CNN) - Oklahoma has some of the most restrictive abortion bans in the nation, with the procedure almost fully outlawed.
Advocates have pledged to challenge that law, but with all abortion providers in the state having shut their doors, it’s already too late for some women.
Lori Brown-Loftis is one of them. She and her family were preparing to welcome its newest member into the world, even getting the nursery started. Her first daughter even started wearing a T-shirt that said “big sister.”
But what should have been a happy time soon turned to crushing devastation when an ultrasound revealed a rare genetic disorder.
“The doctor kind of explained that this disorder is not compatible with life,” Brown-Loftis said. “It was a little girl that, you know, she would not be viable, that most children either die during childbirth or shortly after.”
With no chance of the baby surviving outside the womb, Brown-Loftis made the painful choice to have an abortion.
“That is one of the most difficult things that I’ve ever had to do, it was the hardest decision,” Brown-Loftis said. “Had I been forced to carry that pregnancy, knowing that I would not get to bring that child home, would have caused so much trauma.”
At 23 weeks pregnant, Brown-Loftis was forced to travel out of state for the three-day, invasive procedure with significant financial and emotional cost.
Brown-Loftis said the worst part was being met at the clinic by protesters.
“Just the assumption that I didn’t want my baby, I think that was probably the hardest part,” she said.
This was in January, when Oklahoma allowed abortions up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Today, the state has one of the most far-reaching abortion bans in the nation – prohibiting the procedure at the moment of fertilization with very narrow exceptions.
Abortion is now effectively outlawed in Oklahoma, with all four of its clinics no longer providing the service. If they can afford it, women seeking an abortion will now need to travel out of state, just like Brown-Loftis did.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican, said he does not want abortion allowed in the state.
“I don’t know how much clearer we can be. We don’t believe in abortion in Oklahoma. We don’t want it in our state,” Stitt said.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue an opinion that could effectively overturn Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks. If that happens, many other states could become like Oklahoma.
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Nate Lowe Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. Dodgers - July 23
Published: Jul. 23, 2023 at 3:26 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
On Sunday, Nate Lowe (batting .417 in his past 10 games) and the Texas Rangers face the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose starting pitcher will be Emmet Sheehan. First pitch is at 2:35 PM ET.
In his most recent game, he strung together two hits (going 2-for-4 with a triple and two RBI) against the Dodgers.
Nate Lowe Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 23, 2023
- Game Time: 2:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Globe Life Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Emmet Sheehan
- TV Channel: BSSW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +525)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +150)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Nate Lowe At The Plate
- Lowe leads Texas with an OBP of .372 this season while batting .283 with 53 walks and 64 runs scored.
- Among qualifying hitters, he ranks 26th in batting average, while his on-base percentage ranks 18th and he is 60th in slugging.
- Lowe will look to extend his six-game hitting streak. He's batting .389 with one homer during his last outings.
- Lowe has had a hit in 75 of 98 games this season (76.5%), including multiple hits 27 times (27.6%).
- Looking at the 98 games he has played this year, he's homered in 11 of them (11.2%), and in 2.5% of his trips to the dish.
- Lowe has driven home a run in 38 games this season (38.8%), including more than one RBI in 12.2% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on two occasions..
- He has scored a run in 47 games this season, with multiple runs 13 times.
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Nate Lowe Home/Away Batting Splits
Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The Dodgers pitching staff ranks 17th in MLB with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Dodgers' 4.41 team ERA ranks 19th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Dodgers rank 11th in baseball in home runs surrendered (108 total, 1.1 per game).
- Sheehan makes the start for the Dodgers, his sixth of the season. He is 3-0 with a 4.91 ERA and 18 strikeouts through 25 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out came on Monday against the Baltimore Orioles, when the righty tossed five innings, surrendering four earned runs while giving up five hits.
- In five games this season, the 23-year-old has an ERA of 4.91, with 6.3 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are batting .207 against him.
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Multiple city fire departments battle active Willoughby Apartment fire
Published: Feb. 17, 2023 at 6:51 AM EST|Updated: 33 minutes ago
WILLOUGHBY, Ohio (WOIO) - There is currently an active structure fire at the Chagrin River Walk Apartments.
Firefighters arrived at the apartment complex on 38401 Mentor Ave. between Erie Street and Kirtland Road around 6:10 a.m.
Multiple fire departments are on the scene.
The Lake County Sherrif says to please use caution and an alternate route.
This is a developing story. Return to 19 News for updates.
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The singer behind one of the most recorded songs in history has died.
With her breathy vocals, Astrud Gilberto helped make the breezy and sensual "The Girl From Ipanema" into a global sensation. Her death was confirmed by her son, bassist Marcelo Gilberto. She was 83.
Gilberto was married to famed Brazilian musician and singer João Gilberto. During a recording session for an album with Stan Getz, a publisher had the idea to add some English-language vocals to the tune, originally composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. Astrud volunteered. The album, Getz/Gilberto, went on to win four Grammys.
Though she wasn't credited, and reportedly only made 120 dollars for the session, Gilberto followed up her vocal debut with an illustrious career, recording and performing solo and with others including Quincy Jones and Chet Baker. In 2008, the Latin Recording Academy honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Boise High School senior, newly voted in Boise School Board Member and climate change activist Shiva Rajbhandari recently returned from the international U.N. Climate Change Conference meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. He was selected by the League of Women Voters to receive a scholarship to attend the meeting. Boise Weekly caught up with Rajbhandari via email to ask how the conference went. The following conversation has been gently edited.
The goal of COP27 is: “to strengthen and hasten the international response to the climate crisis that continues to wreak havoc across the globe.” Can you talk a little about what kinds of issues or topics are being discussed in order to meet that goal?
In 1992, the U.N. General Assembly identified climate change as a significant threat to humanity which would require international action. They ratified the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and all countries agreed to meet every year starting in 1995 in a “Conference of Parties” or COP to work together to solve global warming. At COP 20 in 2015, world leaders met in Paris and collectively committed to prevent global warming greater than 1.5oC by reducing greenhouse gas emissions — the cause of human-caused climate change — 45% by 2030 and 100% by 2050 from 2005 levels. 1.5oC is not some made up number. It’s prescribed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of thousands of climate scientists. They say that 1.5oC is a threshold after which global climate systems will be irreparably damaged. Each country then created nationally-determined contributions — non-binding commitments for emissions mitigation. Developed countries like Europe and the United States have the greatest greenhouse gas emissions per capita and are best equipped to decarbonize their economies, hence, in the Paris Accords, the greatest pressure is placed on those parties to drastically reduce emissions. Developing countries, such as China, India, and Brazil, are not even required to peak their emissions until 2030 or later.
Since Paris, the negotiations at COPs have revolved around three items: pushing countries to make bigger commitments to greenhouse gas emissions reduction, adapting to warming temperatures and mitigating the effects of climate change, and holding polluters accountable. This year, the third item was most in-focus. In the Paris Accords, developed countries promised to create an annual $100 billion global fund to pay for loss and damage inflicted on indigenous communities, island nations, and least developed states by 2020. In 2019, they created the Santiago Network, which would govern the distribution of these funds, but they never operationalized the network because COVID changed their priorities. Talks at COP27 revolved around the operationalization and funding of this international loss and damage facility.
This COP was also framed as the Implementation COP. World leaders were supposed to chart a course toward achieving the commitments they had set. Instead of talking about emissions reductions, it was time to talk about what it would take: an end to fossil fuels. In a world where fossil fuel subsidies total over $5.9 trillion, we have a long ways to go.
There are more than 200 delegates attending COP27 from all over the world. We only know how people in the U.S. feel about the climate crisis, which in many ways has become political and divisive. What are you hearing from people representing other countries, other parts of the planet?
First off, I would argue that climate action isn’t as polarizing an issue as it’s made out to be in the U.S. According to the Pew Research Center, 63% of Americans say climate change is affecting their local community; 65% say the federal government should do more to reduce the effects of global warming; 79% say that the priority for the nation’s energy supply should be developing wind and solar, as opposed to increasing fossil fuels. The notion that we are divided on the issue of climate change is what fossil fuel lobbyists rely on to prevent real action.
That being said, what I heard from activists in Egypt painted a bleak picture of where we as a country are on climate change. The Friday before I arrived in Sharm El-Sheikh, President Biden spoke to the delegates. He called the U.S. a “global leader on climate,” touting his Inflation Reduction Act as evidence. The IRA is a big deal and I’m grateful to the organizers around the country who made it happen. However, it is not global climate leadership by any sense of the term. It puts the U.S. on track for a 40% emissions reduction from 2005 levels by 2030. That’s 5 points less than IPCC calls for worldwide in that timeframe. This contrasts with Europe’s Green Deal which will achieve emissions reductions of 55%. After his speech, the U.S. received the COP 27 Fossil of the Day Award (which was given out by the Climate Action Network every evening after negotiations) two days in a row, ultimately receiving the Colossal Fossil award last Friday.
To compound Biden’s hypocrisy, the U.S. ended up being the drag on a lot of the negotiations at COP. Fossil fuels are responsible for 80% of global warming. In order to implement the commitments made in the Paris Accords, we must rid ourselves of this dirty energy source. Most of the parties argued for a “total phase down of fossil fuels” to be included in the Sharm El-Sheikh agreement language. The U.S. delegation would not accept that, and argued instead for a phase down of “unabated fossil fuels.” Thanks to their lack of support, ultimately the agreement called for a “phasedown of unabated coal,” leaving out oil and natural gas.
The reparations side was even more a disaster for the U.S. delegation. Every single country in the world, except the U.S. (and Taiwan, which was not invited to COP) agreed on funding for a loss and damage finance facility. When Biden visited, he promised a one-time $12 billion in loss and damage grants to developing countries — far short of the annual $100 billion that was promised in the Paris Accords. All week, we marched in the streets of the convention: “Pay up! Pay up! Pay up for loss and damage!” “Show us the money! Where is the money?” “Anti- Anti- Anticapitalista” calling on the U.S. to pay reparations to countries most harmed by the effects of the crisis we largely created. It wasn’t until the negotiations were on the verge of failure last Saturday around midnight that the U.S. agreed to an international loss and damage facility.
“You need to get your country under control,” was something I heard frequently from activists.
Beyond the shortfalls of our country, the eloquent youth activists at COP said some really thought provoking things. In the People’s Plenary, one thing that was discussed over and over was solidarity — what does that mean? Twenty-year old indigenous activist Sumak Helena Gualinga said that solidarity looked like a seat in the negotiation room — not just at the press conference — for First Peoples. Indigenous peoples protect 80% of all biodiversity around the world, are seeing the first and foremost effects of climate change, and are at the forefront of solutions to the climate crisis. Solidarity looks like money, not just words, 26-year old Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate said. She’s been leading the fight for climate reparations. Solidarity looks like inclusion of all genders, ages, and abilities in decision making, Omnia El Omrani, the COp president’s youth envoy said. Solidarity looks like governments putting people over profit, said Asad Rehman, leader of the Climate Justice Coalition.
You said: “We live in the country most responsible for global warming. That means the need for urgent action rests squarely on our shoulders. I want to be able to have kids knowing that they will be able to enjoy the same outdoor experiences that I have.” How do you think that can happen, what type of urgent action can we take now? In the future?
El pueblo unido jamas será vencido. “The people united will never been defeated.” Despite seeing complacency and impotency from elected leaders my entire life, I remain a fierce climate optimist. Why? Because all around me I see fierce, unrelenting climate justice warriors. Our movement is regenerative; it’s people-powered; and it’s growing every single day. We can still defeat the fossil fuel industry. We can still create an inclusive, decolonized, democratic world. But the clock is ticking, and we need all hands on deck.
What we need: a rapid total phase out of fossil fuels and a transition to clean energy, transportation, and industry led by Black, brown, indigenous, and queer femmes and centering the frontline and fenceline communities — folks that have been largely left out of our collective prosperity for a very long time.
What we need: decolonization — loan forgiveness and grants to indigenous communities, small island states, and the global south as they adapt and respond to warming-induced disasters for which we are responsible.
What we need: a revenue neutral carbon tax and dividend — charge the 4,000 richest companies and individuals for their emissions and distribute that money indiscriminately to the American public.
What can we do: organize everywhere — from the streets to the suites we need fighters for climate justice. What’s beautiful about our movement is that all are welcome: gay, straight, fat, skinny, Black, white, rich, poor, socialist, libertarian — we need everybody. There are many things we each can do to fight climate change and they differ from person to person. For me, that looked like starting a club at my school, organizing protests, contacting my elected officials, and lately, running for office; but action could look entirely different for someone else. Just bring your whole self to the table. Shameless plug: if you want to get involved with climate organizing but don’t know where to start, join us Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. at the Idaho Conservation League here in Boise, 710 N. Sixth St. :).
Of the four themes being focused on at COP27 — mitigation, adaptation, finance, and collaboration — of which do you feel is paramount in importance, and why?
How can an indigenous community adapt to a third of flora and fauna extinct? How can a small island state mitigate the sea level? How can the international community collaborate on solutions to climate change with 636 oil lobbyists (yes, really!) present at COP. The paramount theme at COP 27 this year was finance. For centuries, indigenous peoples and communities of the global south have been exploited for profit at the expense of the entire planet. It’s a vicious cycle: colonizers exploit people, extract resources leaving instability in their wake → local environments are ravaged by climate change → colonizers profit off of high-interest loans to rebuild so they can exploit communities once again. Despite promises of $100 billion, only $79 billion in climate finance was given to developing countries in 2019. Of that, only 20% was loans. This is insufficient. Climate action without reparations is apartheid. Thanks to youth organizers around the world and in Sharm El-Sheikh, a loss and damage grant fund was created at COP 27 and the Santiago Network was finally operationalized.
What would you like to see happen, if there was to be a sea change moment of which all people could grab onto, as it relates to our climate?
Dr. Katherine Hayhoe is Texan climate scientist who’s renown for her work in science communication. Several weeks ago, she came to Boise State and I had the opportunity to hear her speak. She says that the biggest thing we can do to fight climate change is to talk about it. That’s one thing we can do every day: in the hallways at school, during sermon at church, during family time or dinner, I challenge readers to find a thorn, bud, and rose — one thing that scares us, one place that gives us hope, one good thing (there’s oh so many good things going on) — that involve climate change and share it with someone in our lives every day. For more action, you can also contact your elected officials (hi!) — especially the local ones who will give you time of day — and urge action. There’s tons of civil society groups doing amazing things here in Boise. Idaho Conservation League, Sierra Club, Conservation Voters of Idaho, the Boise School District Sustainability Committee, and the Citizens Climate Lobby are just a few. Take time to rest (I went to Amsterdam after Egypt) and never lose hope. We can do this.
Notable takeaways:
The power of civil society — loss and damage finance wouldn’t have happened without relentless pressure from youth activists.
The suppression of protest — only allowed in designated areas with specific messages inside the convention center. We are lucky to live in a country where freedom of speech is (mostly) upheld. We must use this power!
The incredible youth organizers from around the world who know the power of their voices — this really is a people-driven movement.
The importance of local organizing — world leaders are ineffective. The neighborhood association, school board, and city council meetings are where climate action truly happens. | https://www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/news/citizen/citizen-q-and-a-with-shiva-rajbhandari/article_3f56b9bc-6b62-11ed-9ff3-43a4c57e6d8f.html | 2022-12-01 09:15:09 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/news/citizen/citizen-q-and-a-with-shiva-rajbhandari/article_3f56b9bc-6b62-11ed-9ff3-43a4c57e6d8f.html |
WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 9, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
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1123 AM PST Thu Dec 8 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST FRIDAY...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT...
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* WHAT...For the Winter Weather Advisory, total snow accumulations
between 2 and 4 inches with highest accumulations from Ritzville
north to Wilbur and Republic. For the Winter Storm Watch, heavy
snow possible. Total snow accumulations between 6 and 10 inches
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possible.
* WHERE...Wauconda, Inchelium, Highway 20 Wauconda Summit, Sherman
Pass, Republic, Chesaw Road, and Boulder Creek Road.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, until 4 AM PST Friday. For
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the Winter Storm Watch, from Friday evening through late Saturday
night.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous conditions
could impact the Thursday evening and Friday morning commutes.
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* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 4
inches with highest accumulations from Ritzville north to Wilbur
and Republic.
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* WHERE...Coulee City, Wilbur, Harrington, Ritzville, Grand Coulee,
Creston, and Odessa.
* WHEN...Until 4 AM PST Friday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
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between 3 and 7 inches. For the Winter Storm Watch, heavy snow
possible. Total snow accumulations between 4 and 8 inches
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possible. Lowest valleys will see 1 to 4 inches.
* WHERE...Athol, Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint, Flowery Trail Road,
Schweitzer Mountain Road, Newport, Northport, Orin-Rice Road,
Kettle Falls, Eastport, Springdale-Hunters Road, Colville, Priest
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River, Chewelah, and Deer Park.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, until Noon PST Friday. For
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 3 and 5
inches. Locally higher amounts above 3000 feet of 5 to 8 inches.
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* WHERE...Mullan, Spokane Valley, Davenport, Worley, Osburn, Post
Falls, Airway Heights, Pinehurst, Cheney, Fairfield, Hayden,
Kellogg, Lookout Pass, Fernwood, Downtown Spokane, Rockford,
Wallace, Dobson Pass, Fourth Of July Pass, Coeur d'Alene, and St.
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Maries.
* WHEN...Until Noon PST Friday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be difficult. The hazardous conditions
Heaviest snowfall expected during the Thursday evening commute.
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* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 1 and 3
inches. Local accumulations 3 to 5 inches north of a line from
Colfax to Potlatch.
* WHERE...Oakesdale, Uniontown, Pullman, Tekoa, La Crosse, Colfax,
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Rosalia, Potlatch, Moscow, Plummer, and Genesee.
conditions could impact the Friday morning commute.
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
SATURDAY AFTERNOON...
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* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations between 8 and
12 inches possible.
* WHERE...Mazama, Plain, Leavenworth, Loup Loup Pass, Holden
Village, Methow, Stehekin, Winthrop, Twisp, Conconully, and
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Stevens Pass.
* WHEN...From Friday afternoon through Saturday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult.
SATURDAY EVENING...
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* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations between 6 and
10 inches possible.
* WHERE...Pangborn Airport, Wenatchee, Omak, Badger Mountain Road,
Waterville, Number 2 Canyon, Bridgeport, Disautel Pass, Brewster,
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Entiat, and Mansfield.
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CHICAGO — A 2-month-old was caught in the middle of a chaotic, bizarre crime spree involving car crashes and a carjacking in Ravenswood Sunday.
It all began in the 4700 block of North Clark Street where a car crash between at least five vehicles, including an unmarked police car, took place.
Amir Rouzati was one of the vehicle owners whose car was damaged in the Ravenswood crash. He believes the car that did all the damage was stolen too, with the driver also running away shortly thereafter.
“He originally hit a cop car off of Lawrence and then turned right and hit all these cars,” Rouzati said. “After that, I heard he ran on foot, carjacked another car or something.”
Police said just before 11 a.m., a 41-year-old man was getting out of his Honda inside a parking lot in the 1500 block of West Lawrence Avenue when someone came up to him and stole his car — with his 2-month-old inside.
Then later Sunday afternoon, a car was rear-ended on Lower Wacker Drive.
“He slammed into us, we were at a dead stop,” said Krista Tarrien, the driver who was rear-ended. “We were at the stop light and a car rammed into our car. I didn’t really see what was happening.”
As Tarrien’s vehicle moved aside, a man jumped out of the vehicle that hit her from behind and slid through a gap in the ramp to run away. Moments later, a 2-month-old boy was discovered by police in the back seat.
“We all pulled over, I saw the officers running to the car and they pulled a baby out,” Tarrien said.
The 2-month-old boy was taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Police believe the crashes and the carjacking are related and are continuing to investigate the string of incidents.
Police have a person of interest in custody and are questioning them regarding the crashes and carjacking. | https://wgntv.com/news/crime-spree-2-month-old-caught-in-the-middle-of-car-crashes-carjacking-do-not-publish-yet/ | 2022-11-14 04:25:47 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/crime-spree-2-month-old-caught-in-the-middle-of-car-crashes-carjacking-do-not-publish-yet/ |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
05-17-18-28-39
(five, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-eight, thirty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $68,000
¶ The numbers are listed in sequential order, but any combination wins. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17703941.php | 2023-01-09 04:51:47 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-game-17703941.php |
EXPLAINER: How to navigate Affordable Care Act enrollment
By CORA LEWIS and AMANDA SEITZ
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The vast majority of Americans will have multiple choices for health insurance coverage next year now that open enrollment has begun under the Affordable Care Act. People searching for plans on the government marketplace HealthCare.gov beginning Tuesday should consider their budget, health, doctors and a variety of other factors before picking a plan. The Biden administration says 80% of consumers should be able to find a plan for $10 a month or less after tax credits. Currently, more than 14.5 million people get their health insurance through the ACA, commonly known as “Obamacare.” | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/11/01/explainer-how-to-navigate-affordable-care-act-enrollment/ | 2022-11-02 15:47:35 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/11/01/explainer-how-to-navigate-affordable-care-act-enrollment/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — A federal judge in Orlando has temporarily blocked the enforcement of a Florida law that opponents say stifles the free expression of drag artists, according to newly released court documents.
On Friday, Judge Gregory A. Presnell ordered a preliminary injunction in response to a lawsuit challenging the bill, which was filed by a drag-themed restaurant, Hamburger Mary’s, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB-1438, titled “Protection of Children Act,” into law last month. State leaders say the legislation aims to shield children from obscene “adult live performances.” Opponents of the bill say it is “anti-drag.” Any business caught violating the statute is subject to fines and could have their operating or liquor licenses revoked by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR).
The lawsuit, filed by Hamburger Mary’s, alleges that the bill “seeks to explicitly restrict, or chill speech and expression protected by the First Amendment based on its content, its message, and its messenger.” The business claims it has been forced to cancel its family-friendly events and to censor themselves out of fear because the statute’s language is “unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.”
In his ruling, Presnell said the Protection of Children Act “is specifically designed to suppress the speech of drag queen performers.” The judge quoted the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Randy Fine, who said the legislation “will protect our children by ending the gateway propaganda to this evil — ‘Drag Queen Story Time.’”
The defendants in the case, which include Gov. DeSantis and DBPR Secretary Melanie Griffin, filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. They alleged that the lawsuit is a “shotgun pleading,” accusing Hamburger Mary’s of throwing “a mish-mash” of legal arguments at the wall and seeing what sticks. The defendants also sought to dismiss the lawsuit because they claim the the suit lacks legal standing to bring the case and that the State of Florida and its governor are protected by sovereign immunity.
Presnell denied the motion to dismiss, saying Hamburger Mary’s faces “a substantial risk to its licenses due to (the law’s) vague and overbroad language.” He specifically pointed out the terms, “live performance,” “child,” “lewd conduct,” and “lewd exposure of prosthetic or imitation genitals or breasts” as examples of vague wording.
As justification for issuing the injunction, Presnell cited what he called “the Florida Legislature’s failure to narrowly tailor (the law) and is its inevitable clash with the Florida ‘Parents’ Bill of Rights’ and other laws.”
The “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by its opponents, states that: “All
parental rights are reserved to the parent of a minor child in this state…including…[t]he right to direct the upbringing and the moral or religious training of his or her minor child.”
Presnell said the “Protection of Children Act” likely contradicts Florida Statute 847.013, which controls minors’ exposure to “harmful motion pictures, exhibitions, shows, presentations, or representations.” Specifically, the judge pointed to part of the law that “allows for a minor accompanied by his or her parents to attend any such exhibitions, regardless of the minor’s age.” Presnell compared a parent taking their child to a drag show to a parent taking their child to see an R-rated movie.
The “Protection of Children Act” was set to go into effect on July 1. Presnell ordered that Griffin and the DBPR must not enforce the law until the court can conduct a trial on the merits of the case.
In response to the ruling, a spokesperson for Gov. DeSantis said the following:
Of course it’s constitutional to prevent the sexualization of children by limiting access to adult live performances. We believe the judge’s opinion is dead wrong and look forward to prevailing on appeal.
Jeremy Redfern, Press Secretary
A similar bill passed in the Lone Star State during its latest legislative session. Texas Senate Bill 12 bans “sexually oriented performances” in the presence of minors, with similarly broad language that has concerned many LGBTQ advocates.
Lambda Legal South Central Regional Director Shelly Skeen told KXAN News in Austin: “When you have bills like this one [SB 12] — it’s very ambiguous — that makes it more likely subject to a legal challenge, because you could be arrested for something and not know that the thing that you’re doing could be a violation.”
Sexuality and drag performance
It’s important to note that while some segments of drag performance can be sexual in nature, this is not always the case. Generally, “family-friendly” events merely feature performers in more comedic settings and situations. Nevertheless, detractors claim drag is inherently sexual.
Questions about drag have arisen in conversations around transgender identities, as the two are often conflated, despite having two different meanings. In its most basic sense, “drag” typically refers to an art form of men (either heterosexual or queer) dressing as women for theater – a tradition that dates back to Shakespearean days, BBC reports.
Trans people have been integral to the development of drag, particularly American performers like activist and Gay Liberation Front co-founder Marsha P. Johnson, who were at the forefront of LGBTQ+ civil rights in 1970s New York City.
Often, drag queens use their drag for more serious activism and even light-hearted comedy. It’s important to note that the art form of drag is not inherently sexual or tied to any one sexual orientation or identity. | https://phl17.com/nmw/judge-blocks-florida-anti-drag-law-in-response-to-hamburger-marys-lawsuit/ | 2023-06-23 23:58:58 | 0 | https://phl17.com/nmw/judge-blocks-florida-anti-drag-law-in-response-to-hamburger-marys-lawsuit/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Compass Minerals International, Inc. ("Compass Minerals") (NYSE: CMP) shareholders:
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden's son Hunter is expected to appear before a federal judge on Wednesday to plead guilty to two tax crimes and admit possessing a gun as a drug user in a deal with the Justice Department that's likely to spare him time behind bars.
U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika, who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump, will preside over the hearing and must sign off on the deal, in which prosecutors are recommending two years of probation. Hunter Biden is not expected to be sentenced on Wednesday.
The deal, announced last month, comes after a yearslong Justice Department investigation into the taxes and foreign business dealings of the Democratic president's second son, who has acknowledged struggling with addiction following the 2015 death of his brother, Beau Biden.
While legally this will clear the air for Hunter Biden and avert a trial that would have generated weeks or months of distracting headlines, the politics remain as messy as ever, with Republicans insisting he got a sweetheart deal and the Justice Department pressing ahead on investigations into Trump, the GOP's 2024 presidential primary front-runner.
Trump is already facing a state criminal case in New York and a federal indictment in Florida. But last week, a target letter was sent to Trump from special counsel Jack Smith that suggests the former president may soon be indicted on new federal charges, this time involving his struggle to cling to power after his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
Republicans claim a double standard, in which the president's son got off easy while the president's rival has been unfairly castigated. Congressional Republicans are pursuing their own investigations into nearly every facet of Hunter Biden's dealings, including foreign payments.
On Tuesday, a dustup arose after Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee filed court documents urging Noreika to consider testimony from IRS whistleblowers who alleged Justice Department interference in the investigation.
Shortly after their motion was filed, a court clerk received a call requesting that "sensitive grand jury, taxpayer and Social Security information" be kept under seal, according to an oral order from the judge. The clerk said the lawyer gave her name and said she worked with an attorney from the Ways and Means Committee but was in fact a lawyer with the defense team.
Noreika demanded the defense team show why she should not consider sanctioning them for “misrepresentations to the court.” Defense attorneys responded that their lawyer had represented herself truthfully from the start and called the matter a misunderstanding.
President Biden, meanwhile, has said very little publicly, except to note, "I'm very proud of my son."
Under the terms announced last month, Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay more than $100,000 in taxes from over $1.5 million in income in both 2017 and 2018. The back taxes have since been paid, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. The maximum penalty for the charges would be a year in prison.
Hunter Biden also was charged with possession of a firearm by a person who is a known drug user: He had a Colt Cobra .38 Special for 11 days in October 2018. According to the pre-trial agreement, he agreed to enter into a diversion agreement, which means that he won't technically plead guilty to the crime, but if he adheres to the terms of his agreement the case will be wiped from his record. If not, the deal is withdrawn. This type of agreement is an option usually for nonviolent offenders with substance abuse issues. Otherwise, the charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Christopher Clark, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, said in a statement last month when the deal was announced that it was his understanding that the five-year investigation had now been resolved.
“I know Hunter believes it is important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life,” Clark said then. “He looks forward to continuing his recovery and moving forward.”
___ Long reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this report.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — On Friday, Elon Musk announced that NBC Universal’s Linda Yaccarino will serve as the new CEO of Twitter. Yaccarino is a longtime advertising executive credited with integrating and digitizing ad sales at NBCU. Her challenge now will be to woo back advertisers that have fled Twitter since Musk acquired it last year for $44 billion.
Since taking ownership, Musk has fired thousands of Twitter employees, largely scrapped the trust-and-safety team responsible for keeping the site free of hate speech, harassment and misinformation, and blamed others — particularly mainstream media organizations, which he views as untrustworthy “competitors” to Twitter for ad dollars — for exaggerating Twitter’s problems.
In April, the two met for an on-stage conversation at a marketing convention in Miami Beach, Florida. Here are some highlights of their conversation:
MUSK AND YACCARINO SPAR OVER CONTENT MODERATION
The Miami discussion was cordial, although both participants drew some distinct lines in the sand. On a few occasions, Yaccarino steered the conversation toward issues of content moderation and the apparent proliferation of hate speech and extremism since Musk took over the platform. She couched her questions in the context of whether Musk could help advertisers feel more welcome on the platform.
At one point, she asked if Musk was willing to let advertisers “influence” his vision for Twitter, explaining that it would help them get more excited about investing more money — “product development, ad safety, content moderation — that’s what the influence is.”
Musk shut her down. “It’s totally cool to say that you want to have your advertising appear in certain places in Twitter and not in other places, but it is not cool to to try to say what Twitter will do,” he said. “And if that means losing advertising dollars, we lose it. But freedom of speech is paramount.”
MUSK REPEATS: NO SPECIAL INFLUENCE FOR ADVERTISERS
Yaccarino returned to the issue a few moments later when she asked Musk if he planned to reinstate the company’s “influence council,” a once-regular meeting with marketing executives from several of Twitter’s major advertisers. Musk again demurred.
“I would be worried about creating a backlash among the public,” he said. “Because if the public thinks that their views are being determined by, you know, a small number of (marketing executives) in America, they will be, I think, upset about that.”
Musk went on to acknowledge that feedback is important, and suggested Twitter should aim for a “sensible middle ground” that ensures the public “has a voice” while advertisers focus on the ordinary work of improving sales and the perception of their brands.
PRESSING ELON ON HIS OWN TWEETS
Musk didn’t pass up the opportunity to sell the assembled marketers a new plan to solve Twitter’s problems with objectionable tweets, which the company had announced the day before. Musk called the policy “freedom of speech but not freedom of reach,” describing it as a way to limit the visibility of hate speech and similar problems without actually removing rule-breaking tweets.
Yaccarino took a swing. “Does it apply to your tweets?” Musk has a history of posting misinformation and occasionally offensive tweets, often in the early morning hours.
Musk acknowledged that it does, adding that his tweets can also be tagged with “community notes” that provide additional context to tweets. He added that his tweets receive no special boosts from Twitter.
“Will you agree to be more specific and not tweet after 3 a.m.?” Yaccarino asked.
“I will aspire to tweet less after 3 a.m.,” Musk replied. | https://www.kark.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/when-elon-sparred-with-christine-3-takeaways-from-their-on-stage-interview/ | 2023-05-13 02:46:26 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/when-elon-sparred-with-christine-3-takeaways-from-their-on-stage-interview/ |
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A federal jury in Virginia on Tuesday found mostly in favor of two police officers who were sued by a U.S. Army lieutenant after he was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed during a traffic stop.
Video of the 2020 incident in the small town of Windsor got millions of views after Caron Nazario filed the federal lawsuit, highlighting fears of mistreatment among Black drivers and raising questions about reasonable police conduct.
The jury in federal court in Richmond found former Windsor police officer Joe Gutierrez liable for assault and awarded Nazario $2,685 in compensatory damages, according to attorneys on both sides of the case.
The jury also awarded Nazario $1,000 in punitive damages after Windsor police officer Daniel Crocker illegally searched Nazario’s SUV, the attorneys said. A federal judge already ruled last year that Crocker was liable for the search.
The jury found in favor of Crocker and against Nazario’s claims of assault and battery and false imprisonment, the attorneys said. The jury found in favor of Gutierrez regarding the soldier’s claims of battery, false imprisonment and illegal search.
“Having now heard all of the evidence and learning the full picture of this case, we believe the jury reached the correct decision,” one of Crocker’s attorneys, Anne Lahren, said in a statement. “In the present climate, this took a lot of courage and we thank the jury for their service.”
Nazario filed his lawsuit in 2021. Video shows Crocker and Gutierrez pointing handguns at a uniformed Nazario behind the wheel of his Chevy Tahoe at a gas station. The officers repeatedly commanded Nazario to exit his SUV, with Gutierrez warning at one point that Nazario was “fixing to ride the lightning” when he didn’t get out.
Nazario held his hands in the air outside the driver’s side window and continually asked why he was being stopped.
Nazario also said: “I’m honestly afraid to get out.”
“You should be,” Gutierrez responded.
Nazario stayed in the vehicle. Gutierrez went on to pepper spray him through the open window. Once Nazario exited the SUV, the officers commanded him to get on the ground, with Gutierrez using his knees to strike Nazario’s legs, the lawsuit states.
Nazario has developed anxiety, depression and PTSD, according to his lawsuit. A psychologist also found that Nazario, who is Black and Latino, suffers from race-based trauma associated with violent police encounters, which can exacerbate injuries “in ways that do not commonly affect the white populations.”
Crocker is still on the force, but Gutierrez was fired in April 2021, the same month Nazario filed his lawsuit.
Both Crocker and Gutierrez denied ever threatening to kill Nazario. They contended that Nazario misconstrued Gutierrez’s statement that Nazario was “fixing to ride the lightning.” Gutierrez spoke those words while holstering his gun and drawing his Taser and was referencing his stun gun, not an execution, according to court filings.
Crocker and Gutierrez argued that they performed their duties within the law after Nazario failed to immediately pull over and refused to exit his vehicle. Plus, a federal judge already found they had probable cause to stop Nazario for an improperly displayed license plate, and to charge him with eluding police, as well as obstruction of justice and failure to obey.
In August, a special prosecutor determined that Gutierrez should not be criminally charged but should be investigated for potential civil rights violations.
U.S. District Judge Roderick C. Young had narrowed the scope of Nazario’s lawsuit. Young ruled last year that federal immunity laws shielded Crocker and Gutierrez from Nazario’s claims that they violated his constitutional protections against excessive force and unreasonable seizure, as well as Nazario’s right to free speech by threatening him with arrest if he complained about their behavior.
Nazario was allowed to present claims under state law of false imprisonment and assault and battery to a jury, the judge ruled. The judge also found Crocker liable for illegally searching for a gun in Nazario’s SUV, leaving the question of damages on that point to a jury. Nazario had a concealed-carry permit for the weapon.
The jury was also asked to consider whether Gutierrez was liable for the illegal search. The former officer denied he knew Crocker was conducting the search. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-jury-mostly-backs-police-sued-by-soldier-over-a-traffic-stop/ | 2023-01-18 20:07:42 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/ap-jury-mostly-backs-police-sued-by-soldier-over-a-traffic-stop/ |
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former police sergeant who authorities said led a group of officers who illegally stopped and searched numerous people and vehicles and stole thousands of dollars from them was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in federal prison.
Michael Cheff, 51, an Oakland resident who served on the force in Paterson, was convicted in May of a civil rights violation and filing a false report. Five Paterson officers who have already pleaded guilty to various charges stemming from the long-running corruption probe testified against Cheff, and some said they routinely gave him a portion of the funds they stole.
The officers have said Cheff knew about the thefts that occurred from 2016 to 2018. They said he approved their false reports and helped them log evidence to make it appear they were doing legitimate police work. They also said he ensured complaints against the officers went nowhere.
Cheff, who maintains his innocence, received a 33-month prison term and will also have to serve three years of supervised release once he's freed. The five other officers were all sentenced last week and received terms ranging from probation to 24 months in prison. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Sergeant-accused-of-leading-rogue-cops-gets-17436248.php | 2022-09-12 19:14:44 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Sergeant-accused-of-leading-rogue-cops-gets-17436248.php |
Eichner, who co-wrote and stars in “Bros,” has just the right spiky-and-sweet voice for the job. He plays Bobby Leiber, a cynical New York podcaster whose expertise is hidden gay histories and whose latest project is opening a museum dedicated to same. In the giddy whirlwind of the film’s opening section, Bobby narrates his life with the mordant panache of Woody Allen at his most dryly amusing. No sooner is he delivering an impassioned stemwinder on “the erasure of gay love over centuries” than he’s cutting to his daily life on Grindr, where the banal “Hey, what’s up?” manages to convey untold volumes of terror and promise in three little words (and a question mark).
Bobby is happy, comfortable in his skin and extremely lonely, a condition largely of his own compulsively critical making. “I support them, but I don’t trust them,” he says of his fellow gay men at one point. At another, he recoils from the rainbows-and-unicorns phrase “Love is love,” so often trumpeted by self-congratulatory straight liberals. “Love is not love,” he insists grumpily. In other words, it’s mortifyingly, confoundingly singular — and, for him at least, unknowable. One of Bobby’s funniest observations is the untapped market for an app aimed at gay men “who just want to talk actresses and go to sleep.”
Bobby’s wry one-liners, delivered by way of Eichner’s distinctive caustic sneer, blast out of a fire hose filled with vinegar throughout “Bros,” which was directed by Nicholas Stoller (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Neighbors”) from a script the two co-wrote. At its raunchiest moments — and there are more than a few — the film exists firmly in the world that Stoller helped create with producer Judd Apatow. Whereas Apatow’s past films have included their share of lame homophobic humor, here he lends his expertise to icky sight gags involving masturbation and one of the most hilarious group sex scenes possibly ever committed to film.
With its in-jokes, badinage-y dialogue and pacey editing, “Bros” makes for a breezy sendup of everything from the earnest excesses of identity politics — one of Bobby’s museum board members wants a display like the blue whale at the Museum of Natural History “except it’s a lesbian” — to throuples and the resentments of aging boomers and Gen Xers toward their millennial colleagues. “We got AIDS, they got ‘Glee,’ ” Bobby snipes. But his tone begins to soften ever so slightly once he meets Aaron, a hunky, no-drama sweetheart played with disarming sincerity by Hallmark movie stalwart Luke Macfarlane.
Forget whether this marriage can be saved: Can the courtship even begin? That’s the question chased throughout a knowing comedy of modern-day manners that includes a generous helping of fun cameos — Bowen Yang as a dismissive producer, Debra Messing as a burlesque of herself — as well as deftly deployed zingers and a thoroughgoing dismantling of hookup culture in all its liberated glory and self-abnegating humiliation. “Bros” got its start as a bit that Eichner did on his television show “Billy on the Street,” when he wore a turned-around baseball cap and khakis to inhabit the persona of a generic heterosexual dude. He gets to revisit the bit here, but thankfully, the movie feels like more than an extended track. Underneath the acid and attitude, “Bros” turns out to be thoughtful meditation on the multitudes we all contain, and how we choose which ones to bring to the party.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — With President Biden visiting Syracuse on October 27, let’s take a look back at past presidents who have also visited the area!
- September 10, 1839 – Martin Van Buren
- The eighth president, Van Buren gave an “address” while waiting for a train in Syracuse.
- September 6, 1849 – Zachary Taylor
- The 12th president, Taylor was looking to spend some time at the fair but became sick, so he took the next train home.
- February 23, 1861 – Abraham Lincoln
- The 16th president, Lincoln took a journey across the country. During that time he stopped in several cities in New York, and on that list was Syracuse.
- It was estimated that 10,000 people waited out in a snowstorm for Lincoln.
- Lincoln also stopped in Utica and Rochester, but only had a brief few minutes with them as there was too much commotion.
I see you have erected a very fine and handsome platform here for me and I presume you expected me to speak from it. If I should go upon it you would imagine that I was about to deliver you a much longer speech than I am. I wish you to understand that I mean no discourtesy to you by thus declining. I intend discourtesy to no one. But I wish you to understand that though I am unwilling to go upon this platform, you are not at liberty to draw any inferences concerning any other platform with which my name has been or is connected. [Laughter and applause.] I wish you a long life and prosperity individually, and pray that with the perpetuity of those institutions under which we have all so long lived and prospered, our happiness may be secured, our future made brilliant, and the glorious destiny of our country established forever. I bid you a kind farewell.
Abraham Lincoln, from a platform in Syracuse, in front of the Globe Hotel
- August 1, 1866 – Andrew Johnson
- The 17th president, Johnson made a brief appearance at a platform in Geneva during his “Swing Around the Circle” tour. During the tour, he was scheduled to visit New York City, West Point, Albany, Auburn, Niagara Falls, and Buffalo, New York.
- August 4, 1897 – William McKinley
- The 25th president, was the first president to visit the area in 31 years.
- September 7, 1903 – Theodore Roosevelt
- The 26th president came and visited the NYS Fairgrounds.
- September 15, 1909 – William Howard Taft
- The 27th president came by train, and only stayed 10 minutes. He was traveling between Albany and Rochester.
- October 19, 1916 – Woodrow Wilson
- The 28th president stopped on his way to Chicago. He delivered a brief campaign speech and then was on his way.
- September 30, 1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The 32nd president, arrived in Syracuse on September 29, to dedicate the cornerstone of Syracuse University’s School of Medicine. From there, he kicked off his second-term campaign.
- October 9, 1948 – Harry S. Truman
- The 33rd president made a campaign in the city of Syracuse. Up there with him was Mayor Frank Costello. Although, Costello appeared like he had better places to be.
- August 5, 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson
- The 36th president was in town to dedicate Syracuse University’s Newhouse School but actually ended up giving his “Gulf of Tonkin” speech, ahead of the Vietnam War.
- October 28, 1976 – Gerald Ford
- The 38th president made a brief stop in the area for his campaign.
- Jimmy Carter
- September 27, 1985 – The 39th president spent a night in Hotel Syracuse after Hurricane Gloria closed airports in the New York City area.
- April 30, 2000 – Lectured at Hamilton College.
- Bill Clinton
- August 30, 1999 – The 42nd president vacationed with his family on Skaneateles Lake. They stayed until September 3.
- 2000 – Bill and Hillary spent a little over 24 hours in the area, they visited the State Fair while they were here.
- January 3, 2001 – Clinton attended the funeral of Jack McAuliffe.
- 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 – He attended The News York State Fair.
- 2003 – Commencement speaker for Syracuse University.
- 2010 and 2014 – Campaigned in the area for Dan Maffei.
- August 22, 2013 – Barack Obama
- The 44th president went to Henniger High School to lay out and explain his plans for making college more affordable.
- October 27, 2022 – Joe Biden
- The 46th president will be at the Onondaga Community College campus and will be talking about Micron Technology and its planned superfab plant in the Town of Clay in Onondaga County. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/new-york-state-news/history-of-presidents-who-have-come-to-cny/ | 2022-10-27 18:00:27 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/new-york-state-news/history-of-presidents-who-have-come-to-cny/ |
LANSING, MI — Benzie, Manistee and part of Washtenaw County are now part of a state quarantine that restricts the movement of hemlock trees and other forest products.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is expanding its hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) quarantine following tree-killing pest detections this year in Frankfort and Ann Arbor.
The quarantine restricts movement of hemlock and tiger-tail spruce trees, forest products and nursery stock from the quarantine areas to other areas in the state.
It takes effect Aug. 1.
Existing counties under an HWA quarantine include Allegan, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, and Ottawa counties along the lakeshore, where the bug is devastating hemlock forests along the Lake Michigan coast after infestations began showing up about six years ago.
In Norton Shores, more than 3,000 hemlock trees at Lake Harbor Park are being treated this summer for the bug as part of an effort to treat 600 acres of public property in Muskegon and Ottawa counties. An “Adopt-a-Hemlock” effort in Grand Haven allows supporters to pay $15 to help save a tree.
“Our goal is to protect the 170 million hemlock trees that live in Michigan’s forests,” said Mike Philip, director of MDARD’s Pesticide and Plant Pest Management Division.
Hemlock woolly adelgid is a small insect that uses long, siphoning mouthparts to extract sap from hemlock trees. This weakens needles, shoots and branches. Over time, growth slows and trees become grayish-green. Without treatment, infested trees die within four to 10 years.
Infestations are recognizable by the appearance of tiny “cotton ball” like masses at the base of hemlock needles on the underside of tree branches. Treatment involves a painstaking insecticide application.
The bugs pose a major threat to Michigan’s estimated 170 million hemlock trees, an evergreen that’s largely found along streams, rivers and coastal dunes in northern forests but which is also used in park and residential landscaping.
According to the U.S. Department Forest Service, hemlock trees have a strong impact on streamside habitat conditions and stream health, said Phillip. “Loss of hemlock could result in a rise in water temperatures in streams and an increase in soil erosion, something Michiganders certainly don’t need to further experience.”
“If left unchecked, hemlock woolly adelgid could spread throughout Michigan’s hemlock trees, causing significant losses and affecting the timber and lumber industries, nursery and landscaping industries, the Christmas tree industry, and the tourist industry,” Philip said. “Hopefully, by expanding quarantine area, we can keep the pest from moving to new areas in the state and slow the spread within the currently infested areas.”
Infested trees should be photographed and reported with a detailed location by either emailing MDA-Info@Michigan.gov, calling 800-292-3939, or using the Midwest Invasive Species Information Network reporting tool or smartphone app.
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With 240 wrestlers from 40 different teams, the Queen of the East Tournament at Jackson Liberty on Saturday was a big event with a wide variety of action. There was plenty that went on behind the headlines, so this is the rest of what we learned at the Queen of the East:
The Jags and Dragons better watch their backs: Just like last year, Jackson Memorial won the team championship, finishing just ahead of runner up Kingsway. But lurking not too far behind was Lakewood, which finished in fourth place, just two points behind third place finisher Pennsauken. The Piners are clearly a team on the rise. Last year, while Kingsway and Memorial battled it out for the Kingsway Duals championship, Lakewood quietly took third place, defeating fourth place finisher Vernon on criteria. Kyle Shelly’s squad had three place winners at the Queen in Jessenia Camargo, who finished second at 107 after a medical forfeit in the final, Marlen Castillo, who was fourth at 114, and Daniela Palacios, who was third at 165. But eight other wrestlers scored points for the Piners as they combined for 13 individual wins throughout the tournament.
Freshmen can surprise you: There were lots of freshmen having success at the Queen on Saturday. Kingsway’s Reagan Roxas won a title at 120 as did Jackson Memorial’s Madison Rucci at 100. Rucci was part of a Jags tandem that met in the final as fellow Jackson Memorial freshman Ava Bonilla also advanced to the final round.
“I think semifinal round I knew I could do it,” Rucci said, referring to her win by first period pin in the semis over Bordentown’s Sarah Santoro. “It was crazy, I’m shocked that I even got on the podium.
“It was really hard,” she added of her bout in the finals. “I hate wrestling my best friend.”
While she didn’t win, freshman 235 pounder Sam Domask of Palmyra might just have turned in the most impressive debut of any freshman at the tournament. She lost in the final when she was pinned by Kingsway’s Brea Heil, who had placed fourth at states last season. But Domask’s run to the final was astounding as she fought all the way from the 15th seed, recording a 50 second pin over fellow frosh Madelyn Hansen of Warren Hills in the round of 16 and pinning another ninth grader, Gabriell Maldonado of Gloucester City in the quarterfinals. She finished the run by pinning BCIT-Westampton’s Marima Sow in the first period of the semifinal. Sow had finished sixth at states a year ago.
“This is my first high school tournament, first match of the season,” Domask said of her performance. “I’ve been around wrestling since I was really little. My older brothers wrestled. They both graduated so I’m the only person in my family left in high school. I’m honestly just trying to get my name out there as much as my brothers did. I’m the only girl on my team. The boys were at a different tournament today. I’m the only one here representing my school. Just being around the energy of everyone here, it feels right.”
Lift more weights: Garfield’s Taylor Peterson was already one of the top wrestlers in the state, finishing second at 145 a year ago in Phillipsburg. But Saturday, fans got to see a stronger, more disciplined version of Peterson as she won the 145 title by recording three first period pins before socring an 8-4 decision in the finals over St. Thomas Aquinas’ Sanayah Queen. Queen, who finished fifth in the state at 126 last season, is a notoriously difficult wrestler to move in the neutral position, yet Peterson was able to dominate on her feet, including getting a late third period takedown that put the bout out of reach.
“I just played it through and took my time,” Peterson said of her work on her feet. “Staying in my stance and taking it one step at a time.
Her ability to do that, according to Peterson, was directly related to work she had done in the off season, particularly a program of weight training that she feels has improved her performance.
“I was lifting,” Peterson laughed when asked how she spent her time in the off season. “I’ve gotten stronger. The squats help me stay in my stance.”
And eat your vegetables: Wrestlers rarely drop a weight class from season to season as the usual custom is to move up in class to accommodate growth. But Northern Highland’s Amanda Connors turned that way of thinking on its head Saturday. A year ago, Connors was a state runner-up at 132 pounds. But she weighed in on Saturday at the Queen at just 114. That means Connors dropped three full weight classes during the off season. That produced not just a new look but also a new style for Connors, who abandoned most of the upper body throws she had previously preferred and relied more heavily on leg shots. It worked, as Connors blew through the tournament with four straight pins to take the title.
“I cut a lot of weight from last year, so it was kind of an iffy point,” Connors said. “I didn’t know if the girls were going to be too fast or too small. I didn’t know how this was going to go. So I came in open minded and open to new strategies. Instead of going upper body, I was doing more shooting, more leg attacks and working on set ups and my speed. And I ended up winning, so I guess this is where I’m staying now.”
While most wrestlers would put a lot of planning into dropping three weight classes, Connors is anything but conventional. And she makes it clear that there was something natural about the way it all happened for her.
“Honestly, I didn’t even make a decision,” she said. “In the summer I just started taking care of myself and eating clean and taking care of my body. And my weight dropped itself. It does (feel like a different sport) because there is so much more that was lacking previously as a wrestler that I have gained now. Last year my leg attacks were very rare and there were no set ups. But this year I have really built off of that. So now I’m a very well rounded wrestler and I expect a great season.”
Things change but remain the same: Since girls wrestling has become a state sanctioned sport, Jackson Memorial and Kingsway have been battling it out and over the past couple of seasons the Jags have maintained their edge, but just barely. Kingsway’s head coach, Farid Sayed, who had guided the program since its inception, stepped down at the end of last year and the Dragons welcomed a new coach in Frederick Reynolds. In spite of finishing second to Memorial once again, Reynolds was not unhappy with his debut tournament.
“I’m very proud of the girls today,” Reynolds said of his squad. “They exhibited excellent sportsmanship, they worked hard, they brought it to this tournament. Second place is a good starting point for us in the season. Two first places, a third place finisher and a handful of fifth/sixth and seventh eighth place winners, we couldn’t be happier.”
Jackson saved the day: When Pennsauken made the decision to no longer host the Queen of the East Tournament, it appeared for a time that one of the premier girls wrestling events in the state might not be held. But the staffs, wrestlers, parents and friends of both Jackson Memorial and Jackson Liberty wrestling rallied to the cause, made their case to school administration, and staged the event at Liberty. The result was impressive, from the concession to the head table, as the tournament ran like clockwork in front of a full and raucous crowd. Jackson Memorial coach Joe Lemke made special mention of the effort after the tournament and promised the Queen’s return to Liberty next season.
“It was an honor to host the Queen of the East this year,” he said. “I’ve got to thank Greg McLain, our AD at Jackson Liberty and John Christopher, our tournament director. We couldn’t have done it without the supporting staff we have. And not just my assistants, who are second to none, but the town. The town really came together for this tournament and you saw it. Parents dedicated their time. The kids and boys from the boys wrestling team dedicated their time. This was a very special event for us as Jackson and it ran as well as I could have imagined it. It was because of the hard work people were putting in for the last couple of months and it was really special.”
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Tuesday marks a year since a fiasco at the Winter Olympics involving the team figure skating competition. Russia won but it was marred by a positive doping test. Medals still haven't been awarded.
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Vouchers for Tractors, Forklifts, Construction Equipment and More Help Reduce Emissions and Improve Air Quality
PASADENA, Calif., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The California Air Resources Board (CARB) opens the second round of its Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project (CORE) today, providing point-of-sale discounts on off-road zero-emission equipment. The project is administered by CALSTART and has $125M in funding available, more than double the amount allocated to the project when it first launched in January 2020. Originally only for freight, in 2022, CORE is expanding to include funding for the commercial harbor craft and agriculture and construction sectors.
Participation in the project has been streamlined for ease of use, and key elements include:
- Qualified participants will receive vouchers for point-of-sale discounts on off-road zero-emission equipment, up to a maximum of $500,000 per voucher
- There is no requirement to "scrap," sell, or retire existing equipment
- Additional funding may be available for charging/refueling infrastructure, equipment operated in disadvantaged communities, and small businesses
"California is backing up its commitment to clean the air in overburdened communities and carry out the direction of the Governor's Executive Order with a significant investment in zero-emission vehicles and sustainable transportation," CARB Deputy Executive Officer Craig Segall said. "CORE is specifically designed to assist industry sectors that currently use off-road equipment and can help clean up the communities hardest hit by air pollution."
"The streamlined process incorporates feedback from program participants and we are anticipating significant interest in this second round," said Niki Okuk, deputy director at CALSTART. "The industry is continuing its transition to zero-emissions and CORE provides a clear market signal that helps bring new products to the market."
CORE supports the following nine equipment categories:
The first round of CORE resulted in over 460 vouchers for vehicles and electric vehicle supply equipment totaling over $62 million, with terminal tractors being the most requested equipment type.
CORE is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, improving public health and the environment, and providing meaningful benefits to the most disadvantaged communities, low-income communities, and low-income households.
About California Air Resources Board (CARB)
CARB's mission is to promote and protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and considering effects on the economy. CARB is the lead agency for climate change programs and oversees all air pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain health-based air quality standards.
About CALSTART
A national nonprofit consortium with offices in New York, Michigan, Colorado, California, Washington, D.C., central Europe and partners world-wide, CALSTART works with 300+ member company and agency innovators to build a prosperous, efficient and clean high-tech transportation industry. We knock down barriers to modernization and the adoption of clean vehicles. CALSTART is changing transportation for good.
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-Groundbreaking Web3 film, powered by base on the Eluvio Content Blockchain, to provide exclusive access to trailers, behind-the-scenes content, specially minted NFTs, and incrementally released exclusive content
-Fans will have the opportunity to become part of the filmmaking experience, purchase exclusive minted assets and collectibles, access behind-the-scenes content, win experiences in real Cannonball race cars, and more
-Premium tier fans and NFT holders will also receive film credits and a red carpet invite to the movie premiere
-Web3 filmmaking details to be showcased at Eluvio Community Event at IBC on September 10, Hall 8, at 1 PM
LONDON, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- base, a leading provider of cloud-native media solutions, today announced a groundbreaking Web3 film experience for The Real Cannonball Run, a fast-paced upcoming film, which will tell the true story of the legendary coast-to-coast automotive protest race across America. Initial details can be found at http://realcannonball.com/.
This will be one of the first films to have ever been produced, curated, and distributed on the blockchain directly to fans. The film initiative uses cutting-edge cloud and Web3 technology provided through a technical solutions partnership with base, and powered by Eluvio's Content Blockchain.
"We have been curating this exclusive content for years, including the original film archive from 50 years ago," said Gero Hoschek, the indie filmmaker driving The Real Cannonball Run. "There are millions of fans across generations and continents who will want the documentary to be launched and become part of the story themselves. With Eluvio and base, we are uniquely placed to do things differently, and use technology in new, creative ways, from pre- production fan engagement, all the way through to direct-to-fan 4K streaming."
"This is such an exciting project, combining feature filmmaking, a global fan base and a totally new paradigm of movie post-production and Web3 distribution," said Ben Foakes, CEO, base. "We are writing a new rule book for production. We plan to create a rich content world and special 'experience' built and distributed on Eluvio, a blockchain content fabric that delivers hyper-efficient decentralized storage, distribution and monetization. Dedicated Cannonball fans can purchase a subscription token (NFT) and get exclusive access to trailers, behind-the-scenes content, specially minted assets and incrementally released exclusive content throughout the lifecycle of the film. Certain subscriber NFT tiers will even be able to receive exclusive minted collectibles such as handmade scale models of original Cannonball race cars. Premium tier level NFT holders will also get their name on the film's end credits and a red carpet invite to the premiere. It is a new type of value exchange, and an entirely new way to engage with your favourite media."
To bring the film to life, the team is building an end-to-end online content chain with base. Archive film, 4K digital camera rushes and third-party contributor content is securely uploaded to the cloud and automatically transformed to viewing proxies in an Iconik Media Library for the director to view from anywhere and commence tagging and clip selection. Editing is performed using Adobe CC, hosted entirely in the cloud, leveraging BeBop OS, enabling the editors, directors, producers and post supervisor to collaborate across global locations.
When the film is completed and mastered, entirely conducted on base's cloud solutions platform, the finished exports will be uploaded on the Eluvio Content Blockchain, leveraging a custom integration with BeBop OS. BeBop OS not only provides the operating system used by base, enabling Adobe editing to take place on virtual workstations hosted in the cloud, but is also directly connected into Eluvio's global blockchain infrastructure.
"The Real Cannonball Run will showcase the transformational potential of Web3 for filmmakers, and we're honored to have this experience happening on the Eluvio platform," said Michelle Munson, CEO and Co-founder of Eluvio. "This is a first of a kind Web3 native production and distribution of a film. We're bringing together several blockchain stakeholders to create a dream experience for everyone who loves racing, pop culture, technology, creativity, and film history. Fans will have the chance to become active participants in this unique and historic experience rather than passive viewers. Gero Hoschek, along with Ben Foakes and the team at base, are at the forefront of a revolutionary new way of producing, curating, and monetizing films. With the Eluvio Content Blockchain, filmmakers can use NFTs and tokenized access to help participate in the creation of films; activate exclusive community experiences before and after a film's release; and stream films to a global audience—all while controlling access and monetization via blockchain."
"BeBop and base are long-time partners and champions of adapting new technology for media and entertainment; working together with Eluvio and as stakeholders in the Eluvio Content Blockchain has allowed us to show what's possible, in a practical and tangible way, when Web 3.0 is leveraged with remote, virtual post-production on the BeBop OS," said David Benson, President & Chief Product Officer for BeBop Technology. "For The Real Cannonball Run, we'll be direct-publishing to the Eluvio network, but this only scratches the surface of our exciting product roadmap and joint plans with base in the months and years to come."
Both Bebop and base are node providers in the Blockchain Content Fabric Network and stakeholders in the utility value of the network, allowing their earnings to offset utility costs such as streaming distribution and other production expenses. On September 10 at IBC at 1 p.m. in Hall 8 (8.MS4), Filmmaker Gero Hoschek and base's Ben Foakes will join others from across the industry at a global Eluvio Community Event to discuss the use of the Blockchain Content Fabric for multi-chain content ownership and distribution (registration info at https://live.eluv.io).
The Real Cannonball Run will feature experiential NFTs, rather than one-off transactional NFTs, as part of its Web3 experience. The first NFT drop for fans will happen on September 10 and will include complimentary film artwork and pre-release trailer access. In addition, one lucky fan will receive early access to mint a one-of-kind, 3D-rendered digital twin (NFT) of the legendary Cannonball Countach LP400S Supercar. Tiered experience NFTs will then drop on September 17, concurrent with the Great Marques Concours, Long Island, New York auto show, where hundreds of Cannonball fans and historical participants will congregate.
Additional details about The Real Cannonball Run will be disclosed in the coming months.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mo’Nique and Netflix reportedly have settled her lawsuit that accused the streaming service of racial and sexual discrimination for allegedly making her a lowball offer for a proposed comedy special.
The matter has been “amicably resolved,” Michael Parks, an attorney representing Mo’Nique in the suit, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The terms of the settlement between the streaming giant and the comedian and Oscar-winning actor weren’t disclosed Wednesday, when they jointly filed in a Los Angeles federal court for the case’s dismissal.
Netflix didn’t respond to a request for comment, and the law firm representing the company in the suit declined comment.
Mo’Nique’s lawsuit said Netflix officials warmly praised her work before they offered her $500,000 in early 2018 for a comedy special and refused to negotiate further. Her suit said that reflected a company tendency to underpay Black women.
In contrast, the suit claimed, Netflix was willing to negotiate with other comics and made deals reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars for comedy specials from Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais.
Netflix denied the main allegations of the suit, filed in November 2019, in a statement made at the time.
“We care deeply about inclusion, equity, and diversity and take any accusations of discrimination very seriously,” Netflix said then. “We believe our opening offer to Mo’Nique was fair – which is why we will be fighting this lawsuit.”
The suit alleged that Netflix violated California’s fair employment and civil rights laws and is representative of the major pay inequity in all employment for Black women.
“I had a choice to make,” Mo’Nique said in a post on her Instagram account after the filing. “I could accept what I felt was pay discrimination or I could stand up for those who came before me and those who will come after me. I chose to stand up.”
Mo’Nique, whose birth name is Monique Angela Hicks, first gained fame as one of stand-up’s Queens of Comedy and starred in the UPN series “The Parkers.” She won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for the 2009 film “Precious.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Northern California homicide suspect who fled a hospital while in custody and under guard was recaptured Monday afternoon, more than 24 hours after he escaped, authorities said.
The Placer County Sheriff's Office wrote in a Facebook post that Eric Abril had been caught. The post provided no additional details.
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Abril, 35, escaped Placer County Sheriff's Office custody around 3 a.m. Sunday morning from the Sutter Roseville Medical Center, the sheriff's office said.
He was arrested in April after authorities said he shot a California Highway Patrol officer and two hostages, killing one, in a park in Roseville. The city lies about 16 miles (26 kilometers) northeast of Sacramento. Abril was charged with murder, aggravated kidnapping and attempted murder of a peace officer in connection with the shooting. He was booked in the Placer County jail without bail.
Authorities said he was taken to the hospital on Thursday, but they have not said why.
Law enforcement is investigating how Abril escaped. He was supposed to be under 24-hour surveillance at the hospital, but he managed to get away from a deputy by running down a flight of stairs and out the doors early Sunday morning.
The Placer Sheriff's Office said the deputy guarding Abril was awake when the suspect escaped. The preliminary investigation determined that Abril "was able to defeat his restraints."
"We have begun conducting a thorough review of all corrections policies and procedures regarding inmate transportation and inmate supervision and security," the Placer Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
More than 70 police from roughly a dozen law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service, searched the area throughout the day using helicopters, drones, police dogs and armored vehicles to sweep through neighborhoods in the quiet suburbs. Police had investigated 64 leads since Sunday, authorities said.
Police had asked residents in the area to "exercise extreme caution" and call 911 if they saw Abril.
The April shooting he's accused of happened in a park where families played at nearby baseball fields and children attended camp. Highway patrol officers were attempting to serve Abril a warrant when he allegedly started shooting, wounding one officer.
When Roseville police arrived, Abril was seen carrying a gun and fleeing. Authorities say he then grabbed two civilians and held them hostage, shooting both and killing one. ___ This story has been updated to correct the name of the law enforcement agency to the Placer County Sheriff's Office, not Department. | https://abc30.com/eric-abril-caputred-roseville-ca-placer-county-sheriffs-office-escape/13486392/ | 2023-07-10 21:47:11 | 1 | https://abc30.com/eric-abril-caputred-roseville-ca-placer-county-sheriffs-office-escape/13486392/ |
Hello readers,
This spring, the Richmond Times-Dispatch sent a list of questions to all of the House of Delegates and Senate races that we are covering in the 2023 General Assembly elections. The goal is for readers like you to compare and contrast responses to the same sets of questions among your candidates.
This is in part because in the weeks ahead, we will be launching a Voter Guide — a one-stop-shop where you’ll be able to find voting information and resources, learn more about your candidates, and coverage of key issues and proposed solutions to them that are prominent across many state elections this year.
For now, we present a candidate questionnaire for the 56th District in the House of Delegate, which stretches from parts of Goochland outside of Richmond and over towards Appomattox outside of Lynchburg. (Read more about the candidates here) < LINK TO WALKUP
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Three Republican candidates are set to face off in a convention this weekend (with the winner of that likely representing the Republican-leaning district next year). Party-run conventions are more limited in nature than state-run primaries, so a few hundred of people will be selecting their nominee in this particular race (but we wanted you to still learn about them even if you’re not one of the people voting for them). However, the bulk of the General Assembly elections in our area will hold primaries next month. If you’re registered and interested, you can vote.
In the weeks ahead, we will formally launch the Voter Guide with questionnaires, profiles, and feature articles to help you stay in the loop for the June 20 primaries and the general elections in November. Stay tuned!
— Charlotte Rene Woods
State Politics Reporter
What is one district-specific issue you want to tackle if elected?
Kevin Bailey: My campaign slogan has been protection and prosperity. I am so proud of my many endorsements from my friends in law enforcement. My top priority is to make sure our men and women in blue have every resource they need to get the job done and keep our communities safe. They swore to serve and protect us, and I promise to stand up and fight for them in Richmond.
Jennie Wood: A majority of this district is served by volunteer public safety who are severely under-funded and under-supported. We need to better fund our volunteer fire-rescue departments and make sure our volunteers feel supported so that we can better serve our citizens with lower response times and better training and equipment.
Tom Garrett: Rural economic Development
What's the most important bill you would introduce if elected and why is it important?
Bailey: When elected, I will prioritize legislation that protects society’s most vulnerable, the unborn. I believe life begins at conception and from that moment should be cherished and protected. The United States Supreme Court has finally returned the issue of life to where it belongs - the people, and it is our responsibility to pass legislation that promotes life.
Wood: School choice- COVID showed us the importance of school choice- we saw private schools stay open and successfully continue to educate kids. If parents had an option, we could have prevented the severe learning loss we've seen from covid across the state.
Garrett: We need to work on wholesale Education reform and school choice. We are teaching are kids things that aren't true and things that are deleterious to good outcomes for both our children and our nation.
Where do you stand on abortion access in Virginia?
KB: Unapologetically pro-life. Period.
JW: I would support a 6 week ban with exception for the health of the mother. We also need to better support women with resources and reform adoption policies so that we can change our culture to eliminate the need for abortion.
TG: I'm 100% pro life.
Should individual income tax rates and business taxes be adjusted and if so how?
KB: 100%. Taxes should be cut! As someone who has had to make payroll and had employees count on our business’s success to provide for their families, it makes no sense for the career politicians in Richmond to keep our money ($2B surplus, by the way) instead of giving it back to us. Families need that extra money to help pay the bills, especially now during these times of high inflation caused by Congress and their reckless spending.
JW: Yes- we need to lower our tax rates across the board and reduce the associated government bloat. The more money we can keep in the pockets of the people of Virginia, the better.
TG: Yes, given our surplus, we clearly took in more revenue than needed and as such the rates should be lowered.
How would you approach reducing gun violence?
KB: First off - let's acknowledge that it is, in fact, by definition criminals who commit crimes of violence, not law abiding citizens. To that point, I'll fight to protect the Second Amendment from Liberal overreach, and I’ll be as vigilant against violent crime as I am about making sure our local law enforcement is fully funded and have the resources they need to do their jobs.
JW: I think we need to address mental health in order to combat gun violence. I think Governor Youngkin is doing a good job at starting to address the issue by allocating resources and removing barriers to expanding care.
TG: Mental Health treatment, and incorporate basic values training into education curriculum
How do you plan to address opioid deaths and addictions? What about opioid dealers?
KB: We have to secure the southern border. And to do that we must work together to elect a Republican for President in 2024. We must pass legislation that prohibits Big Pharma from advertising their highly addictive narcotics. It is unconscionable that Big Pharma can advertise a product that has devastated the lives and families of countless millions. The General Assembly needs to appoint judges that will sentence drug dealers to lengthy prison sentences and at the same time, first look to treatment instead of incarceration for those who are truly addicts and minor offenders.
JW: We need harsher penalties for drug dealers and drug trafficking. We also need to fix the barriers we've created for police being able to do their job after an overdose. We need to treat the illness of addiction and help put people on the road to recovery instead of stigmatizing them.
TG: I spent almost 10 years as a prosecutor, I know how to deal with Opioid dealers. We need to reduce the prevalence of prescription drugs in our culture. We need to address the myth that just because a doctor prescribes something that means it's safe. We need to de stigmatize the issue of addiction and encourage people at the precipice of addiction to seek help sooner
Should Virginia establish a legal recreational cannabis market? Why or why not?
KB: If smoking and selling dope is your thing, I’m not your guy. The slippery slope that proponents want to ignore is real and it is costly to families. With expanded drug markets come other problems like human trafficking. No, Virginia should not get in the marijuana business, or turn a blind eye to the crimes that have proven to follow. We need to only look at other states that have legalized marijuana and the “unforeseen” costs that were the result.
JW: The holes in the existing law need to be fixed. Medical marijuana has shown tremendous benefits, especially when it comes to treating chronic illness, cancer, and even things like alcohol dependency, PTSD, and anxiety. Many people prefer the natural remedy of cannabis vs the pharmaceutical options. We also need to support hemp farmers and ensure the regulations put on them don't kill their businesses.
TG: No, because the government should stay out of it. While we are at it, we ought to privatize ABC (Alcohol Beverage Company).
What’s a fun fact about yourself or your favorite hobby that people may not know about?
KB: I love playing old-school video games with my 3 girls - The Legend of Zelda is one of our favorites. Here lately with the campaign, I have had no time to play video games. I am so looking forward to summer vacation when we can spend some time “watching daddy” play Nintendo.
JW: I'm a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and have a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school in Goochland called Street Level Jiu-Jitsu.
TG: I've overnighted for a combined total of months as nations listed as state-sponsors of terrorism while doing work advocating for ethnic and religious minorities.
Lastly, why should people vote for you?
KB: Every decision I make will have to pass a strict three-pronged test: (a) does my action/vote adhere to my Christian values; (b) does my action/vote adhere to the Republican principles of limited government and lower taxes; and (c) is it in the best interest of the voters I represent?
JW: Being a single mom and a small business owner, I understand the pressures that families and businesses face from the government. Covid directly impacted me in so many ways and when I stood up to fight, I was told the government knows best. I believe the people know best and I want to go be that relatable voice in Richmond. I'm also a very hard worker- I don't stop until the job is done. I've run this whole campaign with 2 people and less than $15k. That takes a lot of hard work and some really savvy resourcefulness!
TG: Well done is better than well said. I was named Virginia Freshman state legislator of the year in 2012 and later legislator of the year by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce in the Virginia State Senate. I have been honored by the NRA, The Virginia Society of Human life, The American Conservative Union, and many others. | https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/read-the-responses-to-our-56th-house-district-candidate-questionnaire/article_b1197582-f4f9-11ed-8415-1fb4ed1f90da.html | 2023-05-18 00:23:09 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/read-the-responses-to-our-56th-house-district-candidate-questionnaire/article_b1197582-f4f9-11ed-8415-1fb4ed1f90da.html |
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kurt Kitayama only had to look around at the players next to him in the practice area and right below him on the leaderboard at Bay Hill to know what he was up against Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
“You can’t ignore it. You got to know where you’re at and you know who is there and just embrace the whole situation, I guess,” Kitayama said after a final two hours of pure theater for his first PGA Tour win.
He got the result he desperately wanted in a fashion he never imagined.
First came the wild tee shot that sailed out-of-bounds on the ninth hole that led to triple bogey and let an All-Star cast — Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler, Tyrrell Hatton and Harris English — back into the tournament.
And then the 30-year-old Californian, who has played on 11 tours around the world to hone is game, delivered the winner.
Part of a five-way tie for the lead with three holes to play, he drilled a 6-iron to just inside 15 feet on the par-3 17th and holed it for birdie to take the lead. From the gnarly rough left of the 18th fairway, he gouged an 8-iron onto the green to 50 feet. Needing two putts to win, the first one stopped an inch from the cup.
The tap-in for an even-par 72 was the easiest shot he faced all day, giving him a one-shot win over McIlroy and English.
The soft-spoken Kitayama was due. Over the last year he finished one shot behind to Jon Rahm in Mexico, to Xander Schauffele in Scotland, to McIlroy in South Carolina.
This time, he beat them all.
“I think just a little bit of luck finally went my way,” Kitayama said. “When it’s that close at the top, that’s what you need. Anyone probably could have won it. Luckily, it just happened to be me.”
He finished at 9-under 279 and earned $3.6 million, moving to No. 19 in the world.
McIlroy roared into the mix with four birdies in a five-hole stretch around the turn, took on a shot he didn’t need because he didn’t realize he was tied for the lead on the 14th, and ultimately missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole and shot 70.
English remarkably went bogey-free on brittle Bay Hill for the entire weekend. He missed an 18-foot birdie putt on the last hole for a 70.
“I know Kurt more from European tour stuff,” McIlroy said. “But he’s done really well. He’s persevered and played wherever he could get starts and all of a sudden he’s won one of the biggest events on the PGA Tour. So good for him.”
Scheffler was a foot away from having a close look at birdie on the 18th and a chance to take the lead. Instead, his ball spun back into the rough, his chip came out weakly and he finished with a bogey for a 73.
“I wish I played a little bit better, but at the end of the day I put up a good fight,” Scheffler said. “But Kurt played fantastic golf today. I think to birdie 17 and par 18 to finish and win by one is pretty special.”
Spieth was among six players who had at least a share of the lead over the final two hours. He missed four straight putts inside 8 feet from the 14th through the 17th holes — three of them for par. After taking the lead with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 13th hole, he played his last five holes in 3 over.
“I wouldn’t have hit any of the putts differently. I hit my line on every single one of them. I misread all four by just barely,” Spieth said.
Spieth (70), Scheffler Patrick Cantlay (68) and Hatton (72) all finished two shots behind.
They all had a chance, mostly because of one swing. Kitayama had a two-shot lead when he hit a wild hook out-of-bounds on the ninth hole, leading to triple bogey.
“It went south on 9,” Kitayama said. “All of a sudden, I’m not leading any more. I just fought back hard, and I’m proud of myself for that.”
The finish kept everyone guessing, especially when there was a five-way tie for the lead deep in the round, all of them one swing or one putt away from potentially winning.
“I certainly felt it on the golf course, so I’m sure it was pretty good to watch,” McIlroy said. “It’s hard because the lead was changing hands with guys making bogeys, not really making birdies. So don’t know how people find that entertainment value.
“But it was a great back nine. It was great to be involved with,” he said. “I’m really happy for Kurt. He’s been playing well for a while now and I’m happy to see him get his first win.”
Of the top seven players, all of them have either won majors or played in the Ryder Cup. The exception is Kitayama, who groomed himself for a moment like this with so many close calls against players with polished pedigrees.
Kitayama, who played at UNLV, didn’t find much success on the Korn Ferry Tour and took his trade overseas to the Asian Tour and European tour, along with stops in Canada, South Africa, China, Korea, Japan, the PGA Tour of Australasia and the Asian Development Tour.
Now he has a red cardigan for winning at Arnie’s place and a big feather in his cap for the players he had to beat.
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US puts 3 dozen more Chinese companies on trade blacklist
BANGKOK (AP) – The U.S. Department of Commerce is adding 36 Chinese companies to an export controls blacklist, citing concerns over national security.
The addition of the companies to the “entity list” means that export licenses will likely be denied for any U.S. company trying to do business with them.
It signals a hardening of U.S. efforts to prevent China, especially its military, from acquiring advanced technologies such as leading edge computer chips and hypersonic weapons.
That comes as the Biden administration is moving to beef up American manufacturing capabilities for semiconductors and other advanced technologies.
The list of changes to the entity list was in the Federal Register, scheduled for publication Friday.
To read more details about the blacklisted companies, click here.
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Potent single-molecule inhibition of all major classes of EGFR activating and resistance mutations, including C797X and T790M, with a high degree of kinome and wild-type EGFR selectivity
Deep and durable tumor regressions in models of osimertinib-resistant EGFR-mutant NSCLC; substantial CNS activity and extended survival in intracranial mouse models
IND submission to US FDA anticipated in H2 2023
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Theseus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX) (Theseus or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the lives of cancer patients through the discovery, development, and commercialization of transformative targeted therapies, today announced preclinical data characterizing its fourth-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor, THE-349, will be detailed in a live poster presentation at the 34th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on molecular targets and cancer therapeutics (ENA), taking place in Barcelona, Spain on October 26 – 28, 2022. THE-349 is currently in preclinical development as a single-molecule inhibitor of all major classes of EGFR activating and resistance mutations consisting of single-, double- and triple-mutant EGFR variants, including T790M and C797X, for treatment of EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
"We are pleased to share preclinical data characterizing THE-349, our newly nominated fourth-generation EGFR inhibitor," said William Shakespeare, Ph.D., President of Research and Development at Theseus. "NSCLC is the most common form of lung cancer, and, depending on geographical region, between 10-50% of patients with NSCLC have tumors driven by mutations in EGFR, the vast majority of which are found in exons 19 and 21, and for which osimertinib, a third-generation inhibitor, is now considered standard of care treatment. However, patients will inevitably progress on osimertinib, with on-target, C797X-mediated resistance observed in approximately 10% of patients receiving first-line osimertinib and 20% of patients receiving osimertinib after prior treatment with an earlier-generation EGFR inhibitor. No targeted therapy effectively inhibits C797X, and since EGFR mutational heterogeneity increases during sequential treatment with EGFR inhibitors, we believe a potent and selective single molecule capable of targeting all combinations of major EGFR activating and resistance mutations is the optimal way to address this urgent medical need. We look forward to progressing THE-349 and plan to file an IND in the second half of 2023 to evaluate THE-349 in patients with EGFR-mutant NSCLC."
These preclinical data demonstrate that THE-349, as a single agent, exhibits highly potent inhibition of all major EGFR mutant variants with a high degree of kinome and wild-type EGFR selectivity. Coupled with excellent oral bioavailability, this drives deep in vivo tumor regressions in osimertinib-resistant models of EGFR-mutant NSCLC, as well as substantial CNS activity in intracranial mouse models. The activity profile achieved by THE-349 positions the asset for development as a single agent and potentially in combination with other, non-EGFR inhibitor modalities.
Key preclinical data highlights include:
In vitro
- THE-349 potently inhibits both major classes of EGFR activating mutations – exon 19 deletions (D) and L858R (L) – alone, or in combination with one or both major resistance mutations – T790M (T) and C797X; including C797S (C) and two other variants that drive resistance to osimertinib.
- THE-349 exhibits a high degree of kinome and wild-type selectivity.
In vivo
- THE-349 induces robust anti-tumor activity, with deep and sustained tumor regressions observed at well-tolerated doses, in mouse models expressing single-, double- and triple-mutant EGFR.
- Pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) analysis establish a wide selectivity window following a single dose of THE-349 at active levels while sparing wild-type.
- THE-349 demonstrates brain-penetrability and exhibits substantial CNS activity, which is necessary to address the relatively common recurrence of NSCLC in the brain.
Presentation details:
Title: Preclinical characterization of CNS-active, mutant-selective fourth-generation EGFR inhibitors with potent activity against single, double, and triple mutant EGFR variants including T790M and C797S
Poster Number: 236
Session Date and Time: Thursday, October 27, 2022: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (CEST)
Presenter: Sen Zhang, Ph.D. (Theseus Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, United States)
About EGFR-mutant NSCLC
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common form of lung cancer, accounting for approximately 85% of the estimated 2.2 million cases of lung cancer diagnosed globally in 2020. Activating mutations in EGFR occur in 10-15% of Caucasian and up to 50% of Asian NSCLC patients, with up to 90% of those mutations found in exons 19 and 21. In response to treatment with approved EGFR TKI, patients' tumors can develop one or more additional EGFR mutations, causing resistance and rendering current therapies ineffective.
About Theseus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Theseus is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving the lives of cancer patients through the discovery, development and commercialization of transformative targeted therapies. Theseus is working to outsmart cancer resistance by developing pan-variant tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) to target all known classes of cancer-causing and resistance mutations that lead to variants in a particular protein in a given type of cancer. Theseus' lead product candidate, THE-630, is a pan-variant KIT inhibitor for the treatment of patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), whose cancer has developed resistance to earlier lines of kinase inhibitor therapy. Theseus is also developing THE-349, a fourth-generation, selective epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor for C797X-mediated resistance to first- or later-line osimertinib treatment in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). For more information, visit www.theseusrx.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements included in this press release are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words such as "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "expect," "plan," "potential," "outlook," and similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: Theseus' strategy, future operations, prospects and plans; the structure and timing of its preclinical studies and clinical trials, expected milestones, market opportunity and sizing and objectives of management; the significance of results of preclinical studies of THE-349, including the ability of the development candidate to potentially inhibit EGFR variants and the outlook of the EGFR inhibitor program; and expectations regarding the submission of an IND for THE-349.
Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important risks, uncertainties and other factors, including, but not limited to: uncertainties inherent in preclinical studies; risks and uncertainties regarding whether results from preclinical studies will be predictive of the results of future trials; risks related to the expected timing of submissions to regulatory authorities; risks and uncertainties related to the approval of any potential IND application for THE-349; and other risks, uncertainties and other factors such as those described from time to time in the reports Theseus files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including Theseus' Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022, which are on file with the SEC and available on the SEC's website at https://www.sec.gov/. However, new risk factors and uncertainties may emerge from time to time which may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied by the forward looking statements in this press release, and it is not possible to predict all risk factors and uncertainties. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on the current expectations of Theseus' management team and speak only as of the date hereof, and Theseus specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
5-6-2-7
(five, six, two, seven)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
5-6-2-7
(five, six, two, seven) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-4-game-17545160.php | 2022-10-30 17:39:40 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-4-game-17545160.php |
Fatality reported in crash on Interstate 65 near Gardendale
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Fatality reported in crash on Interstate 65 near Gardendale
A Warrior woman died after a crash on Interstate 65 in Jefferson County.The Alabama State Troopers reported Kimberly Mahaffey, 50, was driving a Toyota RAV4 when it struck a tractor-trailer truck at about 7:45 a.m. on Feb. 15.The collision happened just north of Gardendale.The state troopers said a juvenile was a passenger in the RAV4 and was taken to a hospital for treatment.The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Highway Patrol Division continues to investigate.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. —
A Warrior woman died after a crash on Interstate 65 in Jefferson County.
The Alabama State Troopers reported Kimberly Mahaffey, 50, was driving a Toyota RAV4 when it struck a tractor-trailer truck at about 7:45 a.m. on Feb. 15.
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The collision happened just north of Gardendale.
The state troopers said a juvenile was a passenger in the RAV4 and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Highway Patrol Division continues to investigate. | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/fatality-reported-in-crash-on-interstate-65-near-gardendale/42929014 | 2023-02-16 01:38:30 | 1 | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/fatality-reported-in-crash-on-interstate-65-near-gardendale/42929014 |
April Jeppson: If you can take a break this weekend, do it
Published 8:45 pm Friday, September 2, 2022
Every Little Thing by April Jeppson
Happy Labor Day weekend!
As a child I always enjoyed long weekends with my family. If you’ve read my articles, you may already be familiar with Wild Rice Days. If not, it’s when my little northern Minnesota town of 400 really comes to life. As a youth, I loved walking through my town and eating cotton candy and going on rides until I threw up. That’s not just an expression, there’s actually many stories of how I tried to be stronger than my motion sickness.
Anyway.
I’m heading up north this weekend to enjoy the annual celebration with my family. In recent years I’ve made a conscious effort to go home for the weekend. My children enjoy the parade, and we all enjoy the activities and food. It’s like the end of summer hoorah! Thanks for being great summertime, we’ll see you next year.
I look forward to this trip. I look forward to running into classmates and spending time with relatives. I look forward to the slower pace that small town life brings. I know Albert Lea isn’t a huge metropolis, but we do have three McDonald’s. Where I’m from, you have to drive a good 25 minutes to get a Big Mac.
Labor Day was set aside to celebrate and honor those who labored and served and paved the way. Promoted by Unions, it was a chance to say thank you to all those people who worked so hard in often grim conditions. I may not be working in a coal mine for 12 hours a day, but I am thankful for the long weekend.
I enjoy work. I like helping people. I often lose track of my day and spend way too much time and energy at the office. For the most part, it doesn’t bother me one bit. But every once in a while I can feel the weight of it all. It just hits me out of nowhere. I need a break.
It hit me today.
Someone had a question. Someone else needed help with something. There was an upset person on the phone that wanted to talk to me. So and so could no longer work their shift. Oh, and if you have a minute can we talk?
If you know me, you could have read the expression on my face from a mile away. April’s about to lose it. To everyone else, I tried my best to hide it. The only thing that got me through was knowing that I had a three-day weekend ahead of me.
I know 120-some years ago this day wasn’t intended to give workers like me a day off. However, I’m super glad that we have it. I’m not going to take this extra day for granted. I’m going to rest and recover and fill my cup. I’m going to return to work next week renewed and ready to take on all the simple stresses in my life. Happy Labor Day!
Albert Lean April Jeppson is a wife, mom, coach and encourager of dreams. Her column appears every Saturday. | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/09/april-jeppson-if-you-can-take-a-break-this-weekend-do-it/ | 2022-09-03 02:27:21 | 1 | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/09/april-jeppson-if-you-can-take-a-break-this-weekend-do-it/ |
State Master Plan Ignores Costs of Electric Conversions and Limits Choices
TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Jersey consumers deserve to know what electric conversion mandates will cost them under the State's Energy Master Plan and other related energy programs, according to regulatory comments filed by the New Jersey Propane Gas Association (NJPGA).
Although the Master Plan was updated in 2019, incomplete cost estimates were only disclosed Aug. 17 by the State Board of Public Utilities (BPU), without addressing the largest prospective cost categories that consumers will face. The cost estimates are also fraught with pricing forecasts and other assumptions with little or no supporting documentation.
In addition to hiding prospective costs to consumers, the Energy Master Plan would prevent consumers from choosing an energy source that best fits their needs---and budgets. The Plan would force consumers to go all-electric for their homes and businesses while incurring operating costs four to five times greater than propane, natural gas or fuel oil. New equipment and retrofitting would incur thousands more for each electric conversion, a cost category ignored by the BPU's cost estimates.
In its comments about the State Clean Energy Program and its New Construction component, NJPGA objected "to the inherent bias described in the New Construction Program's repeated references to electrification of new and existing structures. Despite the Clean Energy Program's stated goals of energy efficiency, the proposed updates ignore the significant costs and tradeoffs implicit for electrification.
"There appears to be no hint, let alone discussion or analyses of the costs of equipment, conversion and operating costs.."
NJPGA continued, "The New Construction Program's objectives discourage investigation of energy options, including propane, which are safe and often more cost-effective than electrification, with environmental advantages."
According to publicly available statistics, using propane produces 43 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than using an equivalent amount of electricity generated from the U.S. grid. And, next to solar and wind, propane is one of the cleanest renewable fuels approved under the (federal) Clean Air Act.
NJPGA said, "Everyone wants a clean environment. Everyone likewise needs to know the full costs of the State's planned energy transition, and how that transition will dictate enormous costs to consumers compared to the energy choices they currently enjoy."
NJPGA (www.njpga.org) is the statewide trade association representing propane distribution and service companies serving more than 120,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers who rely on propane for their energy needs including space heating, water heating, cooking, recreational uses, manufacturing processes and transportation.
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With early Black Friday deals already in full swing, one travel guide company is offering hundreds of dollars off its guided tours that span destinations from Greece to Ireland.
EF Go Ahead Tours is currently offering up to $600 off select tours, including a 12-day Nile River cruise and more than a week in the Italian cities of Venice, Florence and Rome. The company, which offers nearly 200 guided trips across the globe, bills itself as a gateway to exclusive and immersive experiences thanks to expert guides and support.
“When you’re on tour, you won't just learn about local life. You’ll live it,” the team writes on its website. “We’ll take you inside workshops, kitchens, homes, and other private spaces where locals bring their trades and time-honored traditions to life—and where you can, too.”
On the nine-day Italy trip, for example, guests are invited to step inside St. Mark’s Basilica, enjoy a glass-blowing demonstration, take a Rome cooking class, and more. The trip includes an optional two-day extension to the Sorrento Peninsula for stops at Pompeii and Capri.
"We are seeing record demand for guided group travel. Travelers are ready to take those long-awaited trips," EF Go Ahead Tours President Heidi Durflinger said in a press release announcing the next month of sales. "The value, special access, ease and convenience as well as the focus we place on educational and immersive experiences is driving the demand we are noticing."
The company’s current slate of deals ends Nov. 3, but additional sales will open up through Nov. 25 on a weekly basis. From Nov. 4-10, for example, trips will center on Spain, Italy and Greece. On Nov. 11, solo travelers can grab free private rooms on certain departure dates.
You can see a full preview of all the travel group’s deals here. It’s just one of many Black Friday travel deals to take advantage of this holiday season.
Check out our Black Friday coverage to score early discounted gifts for everyone on your shopping list. | https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/ef-go-ahead-tours-black-friday-sale-17539586.php | 2022-10-27 23:05:25 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/shopping/article/ef-go-ahead-tours-black-friday-sale-17539586.php |
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Sadaidriene Hall’s 18 points helped SFA defeat New Mexico State 69-60 on Wednesday night.
Hall also had three blocks for the Lumberjacks (11-5, 3-0 Western Athletic Conference). Latrell Jossell scored 15 points, making 5 of 10 from 3-point range. Roti Ware finished with 11 points.
The Aggies (7-8, 0-3) were led in scoring by Xavier Pinson, who finished with 20 points and seven assists. Marchelus Avery added 16 points and 10 rebounds for New Mexico State. Issa Muhammad had 11 points.
Both teams play on Saturday when SFA hosts Grand Canyon and New Mexico State hosts Cal Baptist.
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A sinkhole opened in a San Luis Obispo neighborhood Wednesday after a water main broke.
City officials tell KSBY that they received call at 4:15 p.m. about a water main break at Calle Lupita and Calle Jazmin.
The sinkhole formed after a city truck responded to the leak and the truck dropped into the 24 by 8-inch hole. The truck was lifted out of the hole and sustained no damage.
Crews repaired the water main and patched up the hole.
City officials say that in the next few weeks they will fill the hole with asphalt.
12 homes were impacted by the break, but should all have their water back. | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/sinkhole-opens-in-slo-neighborhood-after-water-main-break | 2022-11-03 05:24:24 | 1 | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/sinkhole-opens-in-slo-neighborhood-after-water-main-break |
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Police: Man wanted to take wife’s boyfriend’s 'soul' in deadly Florida shooting
According to accounts, a man angry about his estranged wife's new relationship shot and murdered her partner on Monday in a Miami Beach condominium.
Around 7:45 a.m., police officers arrived at the scene of the shooting and discovered Jose Aranibar-Camacho, 41, wandering outside the apartment building with a revolver and blood on his hands.
NBC station WTVJ reports that the man admitted to shooting his wife and killing her lover inside the residence. Officers entered and discovered the boyfriend inside with many gunshot wounds. At the scene, he was declared dead. The woman was sent in serious condition to a local hospital.
Authorities discovered a 2-year-old daughter inside the apartment who wasn't hurt. The infant is reportedly the daughter of Aranibar-Camacho and his wife, according to WTVJ.
“Thankfully, the child is OK, and she’s fine — it is a very traumatic situation for a child to experience the incident that just occurred, but thankfully, so far she is OK,” Miami-Dade police spokesman Luis Sierra said.
Aranibar-Camacho admitted to the shooting after being apprehended and that he was upset that his wife was seeing someone else, according to the TV station. Officials said Aranibar-Camacho desired “to take the male victim’s soul.”
WTVJ reports Aranibar-Camacho even wrote a message describing the intended shooting and expressing regret to his family the previous evening.
The Department of Children and Families took custody of his daughter.
First-degree murder, attempted murder, and child negligence accusations led to Aranibar-arrest. Camacho is being held in the jail without bail. | https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-man-shoots-wife-s-boyfriend/42099451 | 2022-11-29 19:30:45 | 0 | https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-man-shoots-wife-s-boyfriend/42099451 |
The worst advice you can give to people trying to find themselves is to look within. That presumes a person is like an onion, with layers of social selves to peel off to get closer and closer to the inner core, the true self. The idea is that if you sit in a room with yourself and focus on yourself, you will get in touch with the “real you” or self-actualize the “real you.”
People who try this sometimes find there is no “real you,” or they just make up a bunch of stories and poses about who they think themselves to be.
That’s because a person is not a closed system that can be studied in isolation. A self exists only in relation to something else, while perceiving something and interacting with the world.
It’s more useful to conceive of a person as an artist. On the journey toward becoming themselves, artists often begin by copying some predecessor whose work they admire. Early on, the Beatles copied Buddy Holly and other artists. Countless writers started out by trying to copy George Orwell or Toni Morrison.
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We’re mimetic creatures. We learn by imitating what excellent others have done before us.
Then artists branch out and start finding more people to be influenced by. As Ian Leslie and Austin Kleon note in a couple of related internet posts, our notions of influence are completely backward. Critics conventionally say that John Keats influenced Oscar Wilde or that Vincent van Gogh influenced Jean-Michel Basquiat. The implication is that the earlier artist imposed a way of thinking or seeing on the later artist.
But really, it’s the later artist who reaches back and seizes upon what he or she can find useful from the earlier artists. It is the later artist taking the initiative, grabbing, incorporating something to use in his or her own expression.
Writers don’t read the way civilians do. Civilians read to enjoy. Writers read to steal — to find some style or fact or device they can use in their own work. As the narrator puts it in Wallace Stegner’s novel “Crossing to Safety,” his English professor friend “came to the tradition as a pilgrim, I as a pickpocket.”
As we get older we multiply the number of people from whom we borrow to create ourselves. Artists “are pretty much defined by the struggle to be themselves,” Ian Leslie writes, “to absorb influences without surrendering to them; to be open to others and stubbornly individual.”
Everybody is like that in a way. Everybody is grabbing from the world bits and pieces of thought and fashion that they can mishmash into their own personal way of being. The more sources you borrow from, the more interesting your self is likely to be.
In an essay for The Atlantic called “1963: The Year the Beatles Found their Voice,” Colin Fleming argues that part of what set the Beatles apart is they didn’t just copy the musicians whom others were copying — like Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard. They extended their reach and copied from Broadway musicals, soul, girl groups and R&B. By 1963 they were master collagists, throwing a bunch of different influences into the Cuisinart and coming up with their own distinct blend.
Then artists throw stuff up before their audience to see what works. Our ideas about this are backward too. We assume the artist supplies and the audience receives. But in reality, the audience calls forth a version of the artist that the audience wants him or her to be. It’s an interaction.
This happens too in normal life. Our friends call forth this version of our self or that version of our self.
“A man with few friends is only half-developed,” Randolph Bourne observed. “There are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open them.”
Gradually, out of these interactions a self emerges. This is the hardest phase. You can pile up myriad influences. You can pile up performances. But eventually it all has to cohere into a distinct way of perceiving the world, a distinct way of expressing yourself in the world.
This simplifying process can make a person’s voice more powerful and focused. Zora Neale Hurston went back to her hometown Eatonville, Florida, as a setting from which she could express what she wanted to say about life. For his second Inaugural Address, Lincoln went back to the Bible to get the cadences and truths he needed to express his point of view.
Everybody who is writing a book or making a presentation or being a person in the world has to eventually wrestle with that cohering question: What’s the core here? Or as Miles Davis put it, “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/columnists/david-brooks-how-to-find-out-who-you-are/article_cc4649b4-0edd-11ed-91c5-d33131a013d3.html | 2022-07-30 07:22:28 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/columnists/david-brooks-how-to-find-out-who-you-are/article_cc4649b4-0edd-11ed-91c5-d33131a013d3.html |
Which baby car seat toys are best?
Finding a great car seat toy can make traveling with a baby much easier and more enjoyable. Whether it’s a colorful toy that stimulates their development or a soft toy that makes interesting sounds, you’re sure to find a toy that will interest your child. A top pick is the Funsland Clip-on Car Seat Toy with Rattles. It has a rattle, plays bell sounds and features plenty of soft toys, too.
What to know before you buy a car seat toy
Size
One of the most important things to think about is the size and space you have available for a baby car seat toy. This will vary based on the model of the car as well as the car seat itself. Most car seat toys are small enough to hang overhead or fit in the child’s lap. Parents should also consider how to store car seat toys when they are not in use.
Color and style
If you or your little passenger like cute characters, baby car seat toys are sure to impress. Most feature soft, lovable animals with charming smiles to engage your baby. Many baby car seat toys are brightly colored, but you can find some in black and white or muted colors.
Engagement
One of the best things about baby car seat toys is they provide stimulation and engagement for your baby while they ride in the car. Many engage multiple senses by using bright colors, crinkle sounds and varying textures. Older babies will love car seat toys that they can interact with by pressing or kicking buttons to make sounds.
What to look for in a quality baby car seat toy
Secure attachment
Car seat toys often attach to the overhead bar on infant seats or they can use them as lap toys that attach to the seat of the car. The best ones have an attachment mechanism that is hard to pull down, so babies don’t accidentally hurt themselves. Look for one with strong velcro or a plastic ring clip. Just make sure that any attachment pieces are free of small parts and safe for your baby to put in their mouth.
Development and learning
Playing with car seat toys is a great way for babies to learn. They can learn about colors, size, shape and cause and effect. Even very young infants will enjoy watching the overhead toys move around as the car drives, which is great for their eyesight and development.
Sensory engagement
The best baby car seat toys engage multiple senses. Not only does this help with development, but it will also keep your child engaged for longer, which every parent and caretaker wants from a car toy. Look for car seat toys with sounds, lights, multiple colors and different textures to provide the most engagement.
Versatility
Car seat toys that get the most use are ones children can use in multiple ways and for a long time. An infant might like the bright colors and lights, while an older child may prefer buttons or sounds they can manipulate. Keep in mind that your baby will eventually transition from rear-facing to forward-facing, so find a versatile car seat toy you can use in both configurations.
How much you can expect to spend on a baby car seat toy
Baby car seat toys vary in price depending on brand, size and additional features. You’ll likely find basic baby car seat toys are less expensive but also are less engaging. Toys with extra features will cost more. Expect to spend between $8-$35 for a baby car seat toy.
Baby car seat toy FAQ
When can my child start using a car seat toy?
A. Most baby car seat toys will list a recommended age for use, typically from newborn to three years old. As long as the toy attaches securely to the car seat and does not have small pieces, even newborn babies can benefit from the sensory experience of having a car seat toy.
Do all car seat toys make noise?
A. Each car seat toy has its own features, which can include noises. Some have electronic parts that make noise, while others use materials that crinkle. Fortunately, you can find the right car seat toy that suits your preferences and your baby’s interests.
What’s the best baby car seat toy to buy?
Top baby car seat toy
Funsland Clip-on Car Seat Toy with Rattles
What you need to know: This car seat toy has multiple appealing animal friends that make noises and crinkle. It has bright colors and features a strong clip to ensure your child stays safe.
What you’ll love: It has three hanging toys that spin and engage the senses with fun colors, sounds and textures. Parents and caretakers will appreciate that it folds for easy storage and attaches securely to the car seat.
What you should consider: The toy is bulkier than some other options and might hang very close to your baby, depending on your car seat model.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top baby car seat toy for the money
Skip Hop Silver Lining Cloud Rattle with Built-in Loop
What you need to know: This budget-friendly compact toy has a lot of features, including a rattle, teether, grab rings and adorable moon plush.
What you’ll love: The colors of the soft moon and pull tabs are soothing, while the rings and teether components will keep your baby engaged for the first few years. It is also a fantastic choice for those who want a smaller, less expensive option.
What you should consider: The attachment ring is a bit flimsy, so your child will be able to pull it off their car seat within a few months.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Taf Toys Toe Time Infant Car Seat Toy
What you need to know: This car seat toy offers multiple ways for your child to engage, including interactive buttons, grab toys and a baby-safe mirror.
What you’ll love: This is the ideal car seat toy for rear-facing babies who love to kick. They can play music with their toes, grab onto the hanging toys and giggle at their reflection. You can also adjust the height with easy velcro straps.
What you should consider: This is a more expensive toy and may not work with all cars.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A fire at a prison in southwestern Colombia has killed at least 51 people and injured a dozen more, prison authorities reported Tuesday.
The director of the national prison system, Tito Castellanos, told Radio Caracol that it’s not clear if all of the dead were prisoners. He initially said 49 had died, but the Justice Ministry later raised the toll to 51.
He said the fire broke out during what appeared to be an attempted riot early Tuesday at the medium security prison in the city of Tulua.
He said inmates had set mattresses on fire without considering the consequences.
Justice Minister Wilson Ruiz added that more than 20 inmates were being treated for injuries in hospital, and said that two prison guards sustained minor injuries.
President Iván Duque expressed condolences to the families of those who died and said he had ordered investigations into the cause. | https://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/2022/06/at-least-51-dead-in-fire-after-apparent-riot-attempt-at-colombia-prison.html | 2022-06-28 22:41:30 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/2022/06/at-least-51-dead-in-fire-after-apparent-riot-attempt-at-colombia-prison.html |
Indiana governor signs ban on gender-affirming health care for minors
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor signed a bill banning all gender-affirming care for minors Wednesday, joining at least 12 other states that have enacted laws restricting or banning such care.
Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the legislation after Republican majorities in the Legislature approved it. The law will go into effect July 1, and trans youth currently taking medication to transition would have until the end of the year to stop doing so.
Holcomb had told reporters Tuesday that the bill on his desk was vague and had not indicated he would sign it or veto it.
“Permanent gender-changing surgeries with lifelong impacts and medically prescribed preparation for such a transition should occur as an adult, not as a minor,” Holcomb said in a statement.
Opponents of the legislation said the types of care the bill would ban, such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers, are vital and often life-saving for transgender kids. Medical providers say most of the procedures banned in the bill are reversible and safe for minors. Transgender medical treatments for children and teens have been available in the U.S. for more than a decade and are endorsed by major medical associations.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana called Holcomb’s decision “a devastating development for transgender youth” and said it intended to fight the law.
“In addition to targeting an already vulnerable group, this law blatantly disregards the rights of parents and families to make decisions about their children’s health,” the group’s executive director, Jane Henegar, said in a statement. “The ACLU is dedicated to overturning this unconstitutional law and is confident the state will find itself completely incapable of defending it in court.”
But supporters of the legislation have contended such care is not reversible or carries side effects that only an adult — and not a minor’s parent — can consent to.
Lawmakers also banned gender-transition surgeries for minors in the state, though hospital representatives in Indiana told lawmakers doctors do not perform genital surgeries for minors or provide them surgery referrals.
At least 12 other states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Utah, South Dakota and West Virginia. Federal judges have blocked enforcement of laws in Alabama and Arkansas, and nearly two dozen states are considering bills this year to restrict or ban care.
Most recently, Republican Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill criminalizing gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth into law on Tuesday evening.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A nurse who previously worked at a Florida hospital has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing fentanyl and replacing the powerful pain medication with saline.
Monique Elizabeth Carter, 36, of Middleburg, was sentenced Tuesday in Jacksonville federal court, according to court records. She pleaded guilty in April to tampering with a consumer product.
According to the plea agreement, Carter was working in the neural intensive care unit of Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville last September when a hospital pharmacist examining the ICU wing’s inventory of fentanyl found a syringe missing a tamper-proof cap but with some form of foreign adhesive remaining at the tip. A second fentanyl syringe had a cap that appeared to have been glued back onto the syringe, it said.
Authorities said a pharmacist supervisor reviewing hospital records found a pattern of Carter checking out doses of fentanyl for patients but then canceling the transactions and checking syringes back into the hospital’s inventory. Records showed that Carter did so 24 times over the preceding month.
When confronted with the findings, Carter eventually admitted that she had been stealing fentanyl for personal use for several months, officials said. Carter denied injecting herself with the drug while on duty. Law enforcement officers reported finding needles, saline syringes and adhesive in her bag.
As a registered nurse, Carter knew that her actions likely resulted in critically ill patients receiving diluted fentanyl that was not safe and effective, prosecutors said. Having been deprived of sterile, medically necessary medication, such patients were exposed to possible infection and endured unnecessary pain and suffering, officials said. They said the failure to anesthetize or control pain in intensive care unit patients can also increase the risk of illness or death from respiratory, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal complications. | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/nurse-gets-year-in-prison-for-replacing-fentanyl-with-saline/ | 2022-07-21 13:04:18 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/ap-health/nurse-gets-year-in-prison-for-replacing-fentanyl-with-saline/ |
- The average profitability for the top automotive suppliers more than doubled in 2021
- Chinese suppliers recorded the biggest sales gains at 40 percent
- Raw material pricing reached record highs in 2021, depressing the industry's profitability
DETROIT, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The top automotive suppliers saw significant growth in 2021 despite challenges from the ongoing pandemic, the chip crisis and record raw material costs, according to the 2022 Berylls Top 100 Supplier Study.
For the 11th consecutive year, Berylls Strategy Advisors analyzed the world's 100 largest automotive suppliers in the areas of revenue and profitability. Unlike 2020, which was impacted primarily by COVID-19, 2021 was massively affected by the ongoing pandemic, the chip crisis and the intensified situation on the raw materials markets. Despite these challenges, many suppliers were able to report significant increases in sales and profits in fiscal year 2021.The 2022 study shows overall industry sales in 2021 will be just under $900 billion, about two percent below the all-time high of $917 billion in 2019, which indicates suppliers are approaching pre-pandemic levels.
"Despite continued pricing and supply chain challenges, suppliers still put together one of the industry's best years," said Martin French, Berylls U.S. managing director. "Overall, Chinese suppliers led the way with significant growth, while their German and Japanese counterparts lost some ground."
Chinese battery manufacturer, CATL, appeared in the Top 10 for the first time after experiencing more than a 183 percent growth in 2021. The Top 10 includes five Asian and four European suppliers, with Bosch leading the rankings for the seventh straight year.
The Top 10 automotive suppliers include:
Additional insights from the 2022 Berylls Top 100 Supplier Study include:
- The contribution of Chinese suppliers to international sales is growing steadily, with a nine percent share in 2021 compared to five percent in 2018
- Raw materials prices chipped away at supplier profitability, with metal and plastics seeing significant price increases from 2020 to 2021 (copper +23.5 percent, steel +66.7 percent, aluminum +37.8 percent, and polypropylene +94.4 percent)
- E-mobility is now a major growth driver for the industry, with Bosch expected to increase its activities in this area by 500 percent by 2025.
Looking Ahead
While suppliers will face familiar threats the rest of 2022, Berylls predicts significantly greater changes to the industry and its Top 100 list over the next decade. Suppliers with a high proportion of combustion engines, such as Mahle, will likely be passed without any countermeasures. Electronics groups with strong software expertise, like Bosch and Continental, will grow disporportionately. Asian suppliers, especially Chinese companies, will gain importance through organic growth and acquisition.
"We will see a shift towards Asian auto suppliers due to the growing importance of electric vehicle battery manufacturing, IT and Infotainment," said French. "And, if the Chinese companies can consistently continue their recent success in battery production, they will take the lead in the supplier rankings by 2028. A truly unimaginable feat just a few years ago."
French added, "The road to success, however, remains rocky as the transformation that suppliers are going through demands high investment with payback over several years. That means supplier profitability in the early years will be much lower."
The complete Top 100 Supplier Study can be found at www.berylls.com/en/category/top-100-en/ and includes additional breakdowns in sales and profitability, as well as a video showcasing key supplier moments and movements the past 11 years.
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SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) _ Five9 Inc. (FIVN) on Monday reported a loss of $23.2 million in its third quarter.
The San Ramon, California-based company said it had a loss of 33 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and amortization costs, came to 39 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 36 cents per share.
The provider of cloud-based software to call centers posted revenue of $198.3 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $196.5 million.
For the current quarter ending in December, Five9 expects its per-share earnings to range from 40 cents to 42 cents.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $204 million to $205 million for the fiscal fourth quarter.
Five9 expects full-year earnings in the range of $1.35 to $1.37 per share, with revenue ranging from $774.5 million to $775.5 million.
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NEW YORK, May 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Fulcrum Therapeutics Inc., (NASDAQ: FULC) between March 3, 2022 and March 8, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important June 27, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Fulcrum securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Fulcrum class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=15766 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 27, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the preclinical data submitted in support of FTX-6058 (a prospective drug for the potential treatment of sickle-cell disease) showed safety concerns regarding potential hematological malignancies; (2) the foregoing safety concerns increased the likelihood that the FDA would place a clinical hold on preclinical studies of FTX-6058; (3) accordingly, the Company had overstated FTX 6058's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) will receive federal reimbursements for purchases of protective gear and disinfecting supplies used for patient care during COVID-19.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will give CAMC $1,868,053, as announced on Tuesday by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Joe Manchin (D-WV).
“Our medical professionals at CAMC sprang into action at the beginning of the pandemic to treat those who were infected and help stop the spread of COVID-19 in our communities,” Capito said. “There is no doubt that their actions helped save the lives of so many West Virginians.”
The funding comes after the $3,504,837 that Senators Capito and Manchin announced for CAMC in December 2021.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has tested every West Virginian, especially our healthcare workers and first responders who have gone above and beyond throughout the crisis to keep our fellow West Virginians safe,” Senator Manchin said. “I am pleased CAMC is receiving $1.8 million in reimbursements from FEMA for personal protective equipment and disinfecting supplies used during the pandemic.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/fema-to-give-1-8b-to-camc-for-covid-19-supplies-costs/ | 2022-07-12 17:39:05 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/fema-to-give-1-8b-to-camc-for-covid-19-supplies-costs/ |
CHICAGO, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - This quarter's BMO Real Financial Progress Index results found that inflation and rising consumer costs are severely affecting Americans. Nearly 60% of those surveyed said that inflation has adversely affected their personal finances, of which about one in four said that they have felt a major impact. As a result of inflation, 36% of Americans have reduced their savings and 21% have reduced their retirement savings. A quarter of Americans will need to delay their retirement. Younger Americans are feeling the most impact - over 60% of those aged 18-34 said they had to reduce contributions to their savings.
These findings are from the latest BMO Real Financial Progress Index, a quarterly survey conducted by BMO and Ipsos that measures Americans' sentiment around financial confidence. The survey was conducted from March 30 to April 25, 2022.
80% of Americans surveyed plan to change their actions to offset the impact of inflation and rising costs of everyday essentials:
- 42% are changing how they shop for groceries. This includes opting for cheaper items, avoiding brand names and buying only the essentials.
- 46% are either dining out less or consciously spending less when dining out.
- 31% are driving less to offset the soaring cost of gas.
- 23% are spending less on vacations or canceling them altogether.
- 22% are taking measures such as canceling subscriptions to the gym, cable, etc.
Nearly half of women plan to adjust the way they shop for groceries (47% vs. 36% men), dine out less (49% vs. 43% for men), and 25% of women plan to cancel subscriptions vs. 20% of men.
"Prices across the board – from cars and gasoline to groceries and other everyday essentials – are rising at the fastest pace since the 1980s. Consumers must think differently about their finances in this inflationary environment," said Paul Dilda, head of consumer strategy for BMO Harris Bank. "Seek advice from a financial expert on ways to successfully manage your personal finances, from learning ways to save and which types of accounts to use, to moving from knowing what you should do with your money, to actually doing it. By learning about what do to differently, and what not to change, during a period of inflation, consumers can maintain momentum toward their financial goals."
Americans understand that planning and budgeting can help them better manage their finances and plan for increased costs. Compared to Q1 of 2022, the survey results show an increase in the percentage of Americans setting yearly budgets (39% vs. 42%), having a written financial plan (33% to 37%) and meeting their financial advisors on a monthly basis (15% to 22%).
When asked who is most important in helping reach financial goals, 55% said their bankers were crucial (up 5 points from last quarter) and 52% said their investment company financial advisors were important (up 6 points from last quarter).
Overall, the survey showed a slight increase in confidence levels from the last quarter (75% to 78%) which could be attributed to more and more Americans taking control of their personal finances, having a written financial plan, and checking in more often with their financial advisor.
- Review and adjust your budget to account for the rising cost of every day items.
- Assess your ongoing expenses such as streaming services, cable subscriptions, gym memberships or cell phone plans to negotiate lower prices or see if any of these can be reduced or eliminated.
- Postpone big-ticket purchases. Some price increases may be temporary, in which case it may be worthwhile to wait.
- Review monthly payments, such as the homeowners' or auto insurance, to ensure it is appropriate and you are getting the most for your money.
- Speak with an expert to help ensure your savings and spending goals are still on track. If not, make adjustments.
To find out how BMO can help customers make financial progress, visit: https://www.bmoharris.com/main/personal
Launched in February 2021, the BMO Real Financial Progress Index is an indicator of how consumers feel about their personal finances and whether they are making financial progress. The index aims to spark dialogue that will help consumers reach their financial goals and to humanize a topic that causes anxiety for many – money.
The research detailed in this document was conducted by Ipsos in the United States from March 30-April 25, 2022. A sample of n=3,407 U.S. adults ages 18+ were collected. Quotas and weighting were used to ensure the sample's composition reflects that of the U.S. population according to census parameters.
For more information on how BMO's products and services can help consumers make real financial progress, visit www.BMOHarris.com.
BMO Harris Bank provides a broad range of personal banking products and solutions through more than 500 branches and fee-free access to over 40,000 ATMs across the United States. BMO Harris Bank's commercial banking team provides a combination of sector expertise, local knowledge and mid-market focus throughout the United States. For more information about BMO Harris Bank, visit the company fact sheet. Accounts are subject to approval. BMO Harris Bank N.A. Member FDIC. BMO Harris Bank is part of BMO Financial Group, a highly diversified financial services provider with total assets of CDN$1.04 trillion as of April 30, 2022.
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DALLAS, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP (BAL) is once again ranked as one of the most diverse law firms in the country, ranking #1 among all firms for our percentage of Asian attorneys and #2 for Hispanic attorney representation, according to The American Lawyer's 2022 Diversity Scorecard.
"We take pride in steering the legal industry toward greater diversity, and we're thrilled to lead in the representation of Asian and Hispanic attorneys," said BAL Partner Frieda Garcia, who manages the firm's West Coast operations. "Our diverse legal team enables us to better serve clients from every corner of the globe. We look forward to continuing to grow our DE&I initiatives to provide even more leadership opportunities for legal professionals of color."
More than half, 55%, of BAL's 169 attorneys identify as people of color, and diversity is integral to the firm's leadership—52% of attorneys in supervisory roles are minorities and 38% of the firm's equity partners are minorities.
"We have always known that it's our diverse cultures and experiences that make BAL such a phenomenal place to work," said Jeremy Fudge, BAL's Managing Partner. "We want to welcome more minority partners and promote diverse rising stars, which will expand all of our perspectives. We are redoubling our efforts in minority recruiting with specific and unique programs to increase and sustain opportunities for African American and Black lawyers. It's an ongoing effort and we're in this for the long haul – in the coming years, we fully expect to lead the industry in every DE&I metric."
BAL's ranking reflects the firm's intentional efforts to create an inclusive workplace culture—leadership renewed its commitment to those efforts following the national racial reckoning in the summer of 2020. Through more than 40 DE&I initiatives such as creating a DE&I board, adding affinity groups, engaging in firmwide focus groups, and increasing minority and HBCU recruiting efforts, BAL has cultivated a culture where diverse employees feel welcomed and empowered to pursue career and personal growth.
BAL won The Best Company for Diversity in 2021 by Comparably, based solely on employee ratings. Minority employees at BAL give the firm an "A+" in rating their team, manager and compensation.
"When we recruit diverse employees, we ensure that our firm is greater than the sum of its very talented parts," said Partner Rob Caballero, who manages BAL's Houston and Austin operations. "Drawing from our unique backgrounds, we learn from and inspire each other as we make a positive difference in people's lives around the world."
BAL, the world's leading corporate immigration law firm, is singularly focused on meeting the immigration challenges of corporate clients around the world in ways that make immigration more strategic and enable businesses to be more successful. Established in 1980, BAL has consistently provided immigration expertise, people-centered client services, and leading technology innovation. BAL's Cobalt® digital immigration services platform won the 2020 CODiE Award for Best Legal Tech Product, the prestigious CIO100 award for Innovative Use of Intelligent Automation in Immigration Services, and Legalweek's Most Innovative Law Firm Operations Team of 2021. In 2018, BAL entered into a first-of-its-kind strategic alliance with Deloitte U.K. to create the world's first global immigration service delivery model. BAL has ranked #1 on multiple industry rankings for diversity, equity and inclusion, including #1 on the Diversity Scorecard by The American Lawyer (2020 and 2021), Law360's Diversity Snapshot (2020 and 2021), and the #1 Law Firm for Women according to the National Law Journal (2019, 2020 and 2021). BAL and its leaders are highly ranked in every major legal publication, including Best Lawyers, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and Who's Who Legal. See website for details: https://www.bal.com.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The plastics industry says there is a way to help solve the crisis of plastic waste plaguing the planet’s oceans, beaches and lands— recycle it, chemically.
Chemical recycling typically uses heat or chemical solvents to break down plastics into liquid and gas to produce an oil-like mixture or basic chemicals. Industry leaders say that mixture can be made back into plastic pellets to make new products.
“What we are trying to do is really create a circular economy for plastics because we think it is the most viable option for keeping plastic out of the environment,” said Joshua Baca, vice president of the plastics division at the American Chemistry Council, the industry trade association for American chemical companies.
ExxonMobil, New Hope Energy, Nexus Circular, Eastman, Encina and other companies are planning to build large plastics recycling plants. Seven smaller facilities across the United States already recycle plastic into new plastic, according to the ACC. A handful of others convert hard-to-recycle used plastics into alternative transportation fuels for aviation, marine and auto uses.
But environmental groups say advanced recycling is a distraction from real solutions like producing and using less plastic. They suspect the idea of recyclable plastics will enable the steep ramp up in plastic production to continue. And while the amount produced globally grows, recycling rates for plastic waste are abysmally low, especially in the United States.
Plastic packaging, multi-layered films, bags, polystyrene foam and other hard-to-recycle plastic products are piling up in landfills and in the environment, or going to incinerators.
Judith Enck, the founder and president of Beyond Plastics, says plastics recycling doesn’t work and never will. Chemical additives and colorants used to give plastic different properties mean that there are thousands of types, she said. That’s why they can’t be mixed together and recycled in the conventional, mechanical way. Nor is there much of a market for recycled plastic, because virgin plastic is cheap, she said.
So what is more likely to happen than actual recycling, said Enck, a former regional administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is the industry will shift to burning plastics as waste or as fuel.
Lee Bell, a policy advisor for the International Pollutants Elimination Network, thinks chemical recycling is a public relations exercise by the petrochemical industry. The purpose is to dissuade regulators from capping plastics production. Making plastic could become even more important to the fossil fuel industry as climate change puts pressure on their transportation fuels, Bell said.
The industry has made roughly 11 billion metric tons of plastic since 1950, with half of that produced since 2006, according to industrial ecologist Roland Geyer. Global plastic production is expected to more than quadruple by 2050, according to the United Nations Environment Programme and GRID-Arendal in Norway.
The international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says the share of plastic waste that is successfully recycled is projected to rise to 17% in 2060 from 9% in 2019 if no additional policies are enacted to restrain plastic demand and enhance recycling, but that wouldn’t begin to keep up with the projected growth in plastic waste. With more ambitious policies, the amount of plastic waste that is recycled could rise to 40% to 60%, according to OECD.
Two groups working to reduce plastic pollution, the Last Beach Clean Up and Beyond Plastics, estimated that the U.S. rate for recycling plastic waste in 2021 was even lower — 5% to 6%, after China stopped accepting other countries’ waste in 2018.
The U.S. national recycling strategy says no option, including chemical recycling, should be ruled out. The way to think of these new plants, the industry says, is as manufacturing plants. They should be legally defined that way, and not as waste management. About 20 states have adopted laws in the past five years consistent with that wish. Opponents say it’s a way to skirt the more stringent environmental regulations that apply to waste management facilities.
EXISTING PLANTS
The U.S. facilities currently recycling plastic into new plastic are small — the largest is a 60-ton-per-day plant in Akron, Ohio, Alterra Energy, according to the ACC.
Alterra Energy says it takes in the hard-to-recycle plastics, like flexible pouches, multi-layered films and rigid plastics from automobiles — everything except plastic water bottles since those are recycled mechanically, or plastics marked with a “3” since they contain polyvinyl chloride, or PVC.
“Our mission is to solve plastic pollution,” said Jeremy DeBenedictis, company president. “That is not just a tag line. We all truly want to solve plastic pollution.”
The Ohio facility typically takes in 40 tons to 50 tons per day, heating and liquifying the plastic to turn it back into an oil or hydrocarbon liquid, about 10,000 gallons to 12,000 gallons daily. About 75% of what comes into the facility can be liquified like that. Another 15% is turned into a synthetic natural gas to heat the process, while the remainder — paper, metals, dyes, inks and colorants — exit the reactor as a byproduct, or carbon char, DeBenedictis said. The char is disposed of as nonhazardous waste, though in the future some hope to sell it to the asphalt industry.
The process doesn’t involve oxygen so there’s no combustion or incineration of plastics, DeBenedictis said, and their product is trucked as a synthetic oil to petrochemical companies, essentially the “building blocks on a molecular level for new plastic production.”
The materials they take in, that haven’t been able to be recycled until now, should not be sent to landfills, dumped in the ocean or incinerated, DeBenedictis said.
“That next level has to be a new technology, what you call chemical recycling or advanced recycling. That’s the next frontier,” he said.
“Let’s not kid ourselves here. This is the right time to do it,” added company CEO Fred Schmuck. “There is absolutely no way we can meet our climate goals without addressing plastic waste.”
DeBenedictis said he’s licensing the technology to try to grow the industry because that’s the “best way to make the quickest impact to the world.” A Finnish oil and gas company, Neste, is currently working to commercialize Alterra’s technology in Europe.
The main chemical recycling technologies use pyrolysis, gasification or depolymerization. Neil Tangri, the science and policy director at the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, is skeptical. He says he has been hearing that pyrolysis is going to change everything since the 1990s, but it hasn’t happened. Instead, plastic production keeps climbing.
GAIA views chemical recycling as a false solution that will facilitate greater production of virgin plastic — a high-energy process with high-carbon emissions that releases hazardous air pollutants, Tangri said. Instead, GAIA wants plastic production to be dramatically scaled back and only recyclable plastics to be produced.
“Nobody needs more plastic,” Tangri said. “We keep trying to solve these production problems with recycling when really we need to change how much we make and what we make. That’s where the solution lies.”
EQUITY ISSUES IN SITING PLANTS
In Rhode Island, state lawmakers considered a bill this year to exempt such facilities from solid waste licensing requirements. It was vigorously opposed by environmental activists and residents near the port of Providence who feared it would lead to a new plant in their neighborhood. State environmental officials sided with them.
Monica Huertas, executive director of The People’s Port Authority, helped lead the opposition. The neighborhood is already overburdened by industry, she said, so much so that she sometimes has asthma attacks after walking around.
Dwayne Keys said it’s unfair that he and his neighbors always have to be on guard for proposals like these, unlike residents in some of the state’s wealthy, white neighborhoods. The port area has enough environmental hazards that residents don’t benefit from economically, he added. Keys calls it environmental racism.
“The assessment is, we’re the path of least resistance,” he said. “Not that there’s no resistance, but the least. We’re a coalition of individuals volunteering our time. We don’t have wealth or access to resources or the legal means, as opposed to our white counterparts in higher income, higher net worth communities.”
The chemistry council’s Baca said the facilities operate at the highest standards, the industry believes everyone deserves clear air and water, and he would invite any detractors to one of the facilities so they can see that firsthand.
U.S. plastics producers have said they will recycle or recover all plastic packaging used in the United States by 2040, and have already announced more than $7 billion in investments in both mechanical and chemical recycling.
“I think we are on the cusp of a sustainability revolution where circularity will be the centerpiece of that,” Baca said. “And innovative technologies like advanced recycling will be what makes this possible.”
Kate O’Neill wrote the book on waste, called “Waste.” A professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, she has thought a lot about whether chemical recycling should be part of the solution to the plastic crisis. She said she has concluded yes, even though she knows saying so would “piss off the environmentalists.”
“With some of these big problems,” she said, “we can’t rule anything out.”
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – An LSU student accused of breaking into Tiger Stadium and stealing $1,500 in merchandise was arrested Sunday, authorities say.
According to LSU Police, Bryce Pelayo Tilotta, 19, admitted to stealing numerous cases of beer from the arena.
In an affidavit, police say a group of college-age men was spotted with several cases of beer near the stadium around 3 a.m. Sunday. When they saw an LSU police officer, they ran away.
Campus police were not able to catch them at the time. Investigators found that the group broke into the stadium and took multiple cases of beer. How they entered the stadium, which has a security fence, has yet to be determined.
LSU Police say the arena’s surveillance footage showed the group taking beer from Tiger Stadium and loading it into a black pickup. Some of the men left in the truck.
Police tracked the vehicle to Spruce Hall on campus and identified Tilotta as the truck’s owner.
According to investigators, Tilotta agreed to let them search his room, where they found cases of beer.
The affidavit said, “After being advised of his Miranda right in an interview, Tilotta admitted to taking the beer from the stadium in his truck.”
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Man accused of striking officer during US Capitol attack arrested
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A Michigan man accused of attacking a police officer with a flagpole during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been arrested in Florida, officials said.
Jeremy Rodgers, 28, of Midland, Michigan, faces several felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, according to court records. He was arrested Friday in Orlando, Florida, and made his initial court appearance there. The case will be prosecuted in District of Columbia federal court.
According to court documents, Rodgers joined with others in objecting to Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory over then-President Donald Trump. A mob stormed the Capitol to try to stop Congress from certifying election results for Biden over Trump, a Republican, authorities have said. Five people died in the violence.
According to the criminal complaint, surveillance video shows Rodgers carrying a blue flag attached to a wooden flagpole as he approaches a line of law enforcement officers guarding the entrance to the East Rotunda Door. Investigators said Rodgers used his flagpole to strike a U.S. Capitol police officer three times on the helmet and then swung the flagpole twice more in the direction of officers.
Rodgers also used the flagpole to prevent officers from closing the door so that he could enter the building, prosecutors said. Once inside, Rodgers removed railings so the others in the crowd could enter the building, officials said.
Rodgers was part of a crowd that pushed through a police line outside the entrance to the House Chamber, investigators said. After another scuffle with police, Rodgers paraded through the Rotunda waving his flag before finally leaving, officials said.
Online court records didn’t list an attorney for Rodgers who might speak on his behalf.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for alleged crimes related to the Capitol breach, according to officials. More than 350 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chanting crowds marched in the streets of Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Saturday in a show of international support for demonstrators facing a violent government crackdown in Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of that country’s morality police.
On the U.S. National Mall, thousands of women and men of all ages — wearing green, white and red, the colors of the Iran flag — shouted in rhythm. “Be scared. Be scared. We are one in this,” demonstrators yelled, before marching to the White House. “Say her name! Mahsa!”
The demonstrations, put together by grassroots organizers from around the United States, drew Iranians from across the Washington D.C. area, with some travelling down from Toronto to join the crowd.
In Los Angeles, home to the biggest population of Iranians outside of Iran, a throng of protesters formed a slow-moving procession along blocks of a closed downtown street. They chanted for the fall of Iran’s government and waved hundreds of Iranian flags that turned the horizon into a undulating wave of red, white and green.
“We want freedom,” they thundered.
Shooka Scharm, an attorney who was born in the U.S. after her parents fled the Iranian revolution, was wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom” in English and Farsi. In Iran “women are like a second-class citizen and they are sick of it,” Scharm said.
Iran’s nationwide antigovernment protest movement first focused on the country’s mandatory hijab covering for women following Amiri’s death on Sept. 16. The demonstrations there have since transformed into the greatest challenge to the Islamic Republic since the 2009 Green Movement over disputed elections. In Tehran on Saturday, more antigovernment protests took place at several universities.
Iran’s security forces have dispersed gatherings in that country with live ammunition and tear gas, killing over 200 people, including teenage girls, according to rights groups.
The Biden administration has said it condemns the brutality and repression against the citizens of Iran and that it will look for ways to impose more sanctions against the Iranian government if the violence continues.
Between chants, protesters in D.C. broke into song, singing traditional Persian music about life and freedom — all written after the revolution in 1979 brought religious fundamentalists to power in Iran. They sang one in particular in unison — “Baraye,” meaning because of, which has become the unofficial anthem of the Iran protests. The artist of that song, Shervin Hajipour, was arrested shortly after posting the song to his Instagram in late September. It accrued more than 40 million views.
“Because of women, life, freedom,” protesters sang, echoing a popular protest chant: “Azadi” — Freedom.
The movement in Iran is rooted in the same issues as in the U.S. and around the globe, said protester Samin Aayanifard, 28, who left Iran three years ago. “It’s forced hijab in Iran and here in America, after 50 years, women’s bodies are under control,” said Aayanifard, who drove from East Lansing, Michigan to join the D.C. march. She referred to rollbacks of abortion laws in the United States. “It’s about control over women’s bodies.”
Several weeks of Saturday solidarity rallies in the U.S. capital have drawn growing crowds.
In Berlin, a crowd estimated by German police at several tens of thousands turned out to show solidarity for the women and activists leading the movement for the past few weeks in Iran. The protests in Germany’s capital, organized by the Woman(asterisk) Life Freedom Collective, began at the Victory Column in Berlin’s Tiergarten park and continued as a march through central Berlin.
Some demonstrators there said they had come from elsewhere in Germany and other European countries to show their support.
“It is so important for us to be here, to be the voice of the people of Iran, who are killed on the streets,” said Shakib Lolo, who is from Iran but lives in the Netherlands. “And this is not a protest anymore, this is a revolution, in Iran. And the people of the world have to see it.”
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Blood reported from Los Angeles.
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Jesuits ask victims to come forward in artist abuse case
By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis’ Jesuit order on Sunday asked any more victims to come forward with complaints against a famous Jesuit artist who was essentially let off the hook by the Vatican twice despite devastating testimony by women who said he sexually and spiritually abused them.
The Jesuits asked for new evidence against the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik, and offered a timeline about his case in an effort to tamp down the scandal.
The Slovenian priest is relatively unknown among rank-and-file Catholics but is well known in the hierarchy because he is one of the church’s most sought-after artists. His mosaics decorate chapels, churches and basilicas around the globe.
The scandal exploded this past week after the Jesuits admitted he had been excommunicated for having committed one of the gravest crimes in the Catholic Church — using the confessional to absolve a woman with whom he had engaged in sexual activity.
He was declared excommunicated in May 2020, but the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith lifted the excommunication later that month after he repented, an unusually quick turnaround for such a serious violation.
A year later, the same Congregation decided not to prosecute him for another allegation of spiritual and sexual abuse of a former nun, declaring the statute of limitations had expired. The Congregation, which routinely waives the statute of limitations, is headed by a Jesuit prefect, has a Jesuit sex crimes prosecutor and a former No. 2 who lived in Rupnik’s Jesuit community.
The Congregation has not responded to requests for information about the case, which has exposed the Vatican’s general refusal to consider spiritual and sexual abuse of adult women as a crime that must be punished. Rather, the Vatican has long considered such abuse a mere lapse of priestly chastity that can be forgiven, without considering the trauma it causes victims.
The Jesuit appeal came on the same day the Italian newspaper Domani published the most explosive testimony yet by the former nun who made the complaint in 2021. She detailed years of sexual abuse and spiritual manipulation by Rupnik and said she made repeated efforts to turn him in only to face Jesuit and other superiors who routinely protected Rupnik at her expense.
“It was truly an abuse of conscience,” said the nun, who was not identified but whose account was confirmed to The Associated Press by someone familiar with the case.
“His sexual obsession was not impromptu but was profoundly connected to his concept of art and his theological thinking. Father Marko started slowly and sweetly infiltrating my psychological and spiritual world, leveraging my uncertainties and fragility and using my relationship with God to push me into sexual experiences with him.”
She said that her first complaint about his behavior dated from 1994 in Slovenia but that it was ignored as Rupnik’s community — first in Slovenia, then in Rome — grew and gained an international following.
In the meantime, other sisters were similarly harmed, she said, describing the use of pornography, humiliation and multiple partners “in the image of the Trinity” in Rupnik’s spiritual and sexual abuse.
The scandal has been accentuated by conflicting accounts given by the Jesuits.
After the first allegations of the 2021 complaint were aired in Italian blogs and websites this month, the Jesuits issued a statement only referring to the 2021 case. But under questioning by AP at a Christmas reception, the Jesuit superior, the Rev. Arturo Sosa, admited Rupnik had previously been excommunicated for the confession-related crime.
Sosa said that Rupnik’s ministry had been restricted and that he was forbidden from hearing confessions, giving spiritual direction or leading spiritual exercises. However, Rupnik is listed as scheduled to deliver spiritual exercises Feb. 13-17 at the Loreto Marian shrine on Italy’s Adriatic coast, according to the Loreto website.
On Sunday, Rupnik’s immediate superior, the Rev. Johan Verschueren, said he wanted to try to clarify some of the questions that have erupted about the case. In a statement, he appealed for anyone with old or new allegations to come forward. He provided an email address: teamreferente.dir@gmail.com.
“My main concern in all of this is for those who have suffered, and I invite anyone who wishes to make a new complaint or who wants to discuss complaints already made to contact me,” he said.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — There was an intentional grounding penalty against Carson Wentz, and the two interceptions for Washington’s defense that got wiped out by penalties. And those were only a handful of the mistakes for the Commanders.
Maybe that season-opening victory for Wentz in his return to the NFC East was a false start.
“I go in this locker room after the game and guys are frustrated. Guys are obviously not happy about it,” Wentz said, adding that he can see it in their eyes that they are hungry to learn, get better and win.
The Commanders (1-3) are back at the bottom of the division after three consecutive losses, the latest a penalty-marred 25-10 setback against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
“I don’t think surprise is the word. Disappointed,” defensive tackle Jonathan Allen said of their start. “We know what kind of team we have and we’re the only ones in this world that believes in us and who we can be. I mean, you are what you put on film. So at this point we’re 1-3. Long season ahead.”
A week after Wentz was sacked nine times in a loss to division rival Philadelphia, the Commanders outgained the Cowboys (297 total yards to 279) and averaged 5.3 yards per rushing attempt. But they were plagued by 136 penalty yards — eight more than they had combined the first three games.
“I think this team stands where it’s time to take another step,” third-year Washington coach Ron Rivera said. “You look at the players and then some of the things that go on. You watch the entirety of the game, play by play by play by play, and you see enough that tells you they should play better. … We’ve got to get going.”
Allen said the team wasn’t going to turn on each other and start making excuses. At the same time, he described the officiating as “horrible” and “one-sided,” but adding that isn’t why they lost.
“It helped, but that’s not the reason why we lost,” Allen said.
The Commanders had a 7-6 lead when Wentz threw a 10-yard touchdown to Jahan Dotson midway through the second quarter. Three plays later, Benjamin St.-Juste intercepted a pass near midfield, but was penalized for illegal contact instead.
Down 12-7 early in the second half, Washington’s defense had the Cowboys backed up to their own 8 when Kamren Curl had what appeared to be another interception — again wiped out by penalty, this one a defensive holding call against William Jackson III. The cornerback also was flagged twice for pass interference against receiver Michael Gallup — for 38 and 27 yards.
Rivera said he understood one of the pass interference calls, since Jackson got his hand up when he went for the ball after running stride-by-stride with Gallup.
“The other one, I’m still trying to figure it out,” Rivera said. “I thought there was something on the hand fighting, and I thought somebody starts in the hand fighting, then whatever happens, happens. That was surprising that one got called.”
Wentz finished 25-of-42 passing for 170 yards with two interceptions. The second overall pick by Philadelphia in 2016 had 650 yards passing and seven touchdowns in his first two games back in the NFC East, after last season with Indianapolis. He had 211 yards passing against his former team.
“Well, I thought he had his moments,” Rivera said of Wentz’s latest performance. “But again, it’s the same thing, we’ve got to sustain the success that we’re having.”
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party is holding its twice-a-decade national congress starting Sunday, at which Xi Jinping is expected to receive a third five-year term as the uncontested head of the party, government and military of the world’s second-largest economy.
The proceedings surrounding the event are shrouded in secrecy, as is typical in China’s authoritarian one-party state. But the congress, the 20th in its more than 100-year history, is expected to produce a new set of leaders handpicked by Xi, who faces no term limits and has yet to indicate a successor after a decade in the top spot.
The 96 million-member party is led by a Central Committee and Politburo. Their top cadres, who now number seven, form the powerful Politburo Standing Committee.
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WHAT IS AT STAKE AT THIS YEAR'S MEETING?
No significant changes to the political or economic system are expected. Using a wide-ranging anti-corruption campaign and relentless crackdown on dissidents and free speech, Xi has eliminated virtually all opposition and placed loyalists in most of the key positions.
Yet his hard-line “zero-COVID" policy that has placed tens of millions under quarantine, severely restricted travel and imposed a growing economic cost has sparked rare protests, including the appearance of anti-Xi banners in Beijing's high-tech business district of Haidian this week.
Authorities refused to comment on the incident and shut down all discussion about it on the internet — the only sphere of public life where criticism of the regime is possible, at least until party censors move in.
Xi's administration says such tight COVID-19 controls are the only way to prevent a wider outbreak in the world's most populous nation.
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HOW WILL THE CONGRESS AFFECT CHINA GLOBALLY?
China's more assertive foreign policy, sometimes described as the “wolf warrior" approach based on the name of a popular action film, has prompted a backlash from the U.S., Europe and regional neighbors. China's claim to virtually the entire South China Sea has raised tensions with fellow claimants, the U.S. and others, while its forces have clashed with Indian troops along their disputed border.
Beijing's close alignment of its foreign policy with Russia and refusal to criticize Moscow's invasion of Ukraine have also heightened tensions with the West.
That's also focused attention on China's threat to invade the self-governing island democracy of Taiwan to bring it under its control, a move that would draw in the U.S. and allies such as Japan and Australia.
Xi has shown no sign of a change in foreign policy direction, although China's sharply reduced economic growth rate and challenges facing his signature “Belt and Road" foreign investment program are seen as reducing his leverage. The internment of more than 1 million Muslim minorities in Xinjiang and the quashing of opposition voices and free speech in Hong Kong have also drawn broad criticism abroad, placing many local leaders under U.S., U.K. and EU travel and financial restrictions.
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WHO IS REPRESENTED AT THE CONGRESS?
State media report that 2,296 representatives were “elected” to the congress. All candidates are carefully vetted and no open campaigning is allowed. Of those, 771 are described as frontline party members who hold jobs outside of the party bureaucracy, either in the armed forces, which functions as the party's military branch, or in agriculture or technical professions.
The party and the congress's makeup remain heavily dominated by men from China's main Han ethnic group. Women and members of minority groups account for 27% and 11.5% of representatives respectively, according to the official state news agency, Xinhua.
Following what is expected to be a lengthy policy address Sunday, the congress will be conducted mainly behind closed doors.
If past protocols are followed, the new leadership will be unveiled at its closing session, with is highest-ranking members emerging from behind a curtain to take their places in the hierarchy based on their distance to the left and right of Xi.
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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — An eight-vehicle crash occurred on I-75 resulting in serious injuries on Tuesday, according to authorities.
The Lebanon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said the crash occurred on northbound Interstate 75 near mile post 32 at approximately 4:48 p.m. in Turtle Creek Township in Warren County, near Middletown.
Multiple occupants from the vehicles involved have been hospitalized, officials say.
All northbound lanes of Interstate 75 at mile post 32 are currently closed. The left two lanes of southbound Interstate 75 at mile post 32 are currently closed.
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Prep sports
Schedule
Week 9 Football
Friday, Oct. 14
Fremont at Lake Station, 6:30 p.m.
North Newton at Tri-County, 6:30 p.m.
Bishop Noll at South Central, 7 p.m.
Crown Point at Michigan City, 7 p.m.
EC Central at Morton, 7 p.m.
Hanover Central at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Hobart at Munster, 7 p.m.
Kankakee Valley at Highland, 7 p.m., rrsn.com, Facebook Live (video)
LaPorte at Portage, 7 p.m.
Lowell at Andrean, 7 p.m., rrsn.com (live audio and delayed video)
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Merrillville at Chesterton, 7 p.m., WEFM-FM (95.9); rrsn.com
River Forest at Bowman, 7 p.m.
Tinley Park at TF South, 7 p.m.
Valparaiso at Lake Central, 7 p.m.
West Side at Indianapolis Attucks, 7 p.m.
Wheeler at Griffith, 7 p.m.
Whiting at Boone Grove, 7 p.m.
Marian Catholic at Brother Rice, 7:30 p.m.
Reavis at TF North, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 15
Hammond Central vs. Madison at Greenwood, 1 p.m.
prep Results
Saturday’s Late Results
Boys Soccer
Class 3A Hobart Sectional
Portage 3, Valparaiso 2
PORTAGE—Malachi Chavez 1 goal; Colin Szczudlak 1 goal, 1 assist; Alex Jennings 1 goal; Peter Martinez 1 assist; Diego Gomez 1 assist.
prep Pairings
Boys Soccer
Sectional championships
Saturday, Oct. 8
Class 3A
Lake Central Sectional
Championship: Lake Central 4, Morton 0
Hobart Sectional
Championship: Portage 3, Valparaiso 2
South Bend Adams Sectional
Championship: Penn 2, South Bend Adams 1
Class 2A
Illiana Christian Sectional
Championship: Bishop Noll 4, Illiana Christian 0
Class A
Wheeler Sectional
Championship: Wheeler 5, Hammond Academy 0
Marquette Sectional
Championship: Marquette 0, Morgan Township 0, Marquette wins on PKs
Regional semifinals
Wednesday, Oct. 12
Class 3A
Penn Regional
Lake Central vs. Portage
Class 2A
Mishawaka Marian Regional
West Lafayette vs. Bishop Noll
Class 1A
Westview Regional
Marquette Catholic vs. Wheeler
Girls Soccer
Class 3A
Hammond Central Sectional
Thursday, Oct. 6
Hammond Central 11, EC Central 0
Lake Central 1, Munster 0
Saturday, Oct. 8
Championship: Lake Central 5, Hammond Central 0
Portage Sectional
Thursday, Oct. 6
Crown Point 7, Hobart 0
Chesterton 9, Portage 0
Saturday, Oct. 8
Championship: Crown Point 2, Chesterton 1
South Bend St. Joseph Sectional
Thursday, Oct. 6
Penn 4, South Bend St. Joseph 3
South Bend Adams 2, LaPorte 0
Saturday, Oct. 8
Championship: Penn 1, South Bend Adams 1, Penn wins on PKs
Class 2A
Highland Sectional
Thursday, Oct. 6
Hanover Central 3, Lowell 3 (Hanover wins in shootout, 3-1)
Boone Grove 2, Griffith 1 (OT)
Saturday, Oct. 8
Championship: Hanover Central 6, Boone Grove 1
Kankakee Valley Sectional
Thursday, Oct. 6
Rensselaer 6, Twin Lakes 0
West Lafayette 5, New Prairie 0
Saturday, Oct. 8
Championship: West Lafayette 8, Rensselaer 0
Class A
DeMotte Christian Sectional
Thursday, Oct. 6
Andrean 1, Illiana Christian 0
Bishop Noll 4, Hebron 0
Saturday, Oct. 8
Championship: Andrean 4, Bishop Noll 0
Kouts Sectional
Thursday, Oct. 6
Kouts 5, Marquette 1
Saturday, Oct. 8
Championship: Kouts 0, Morgan Township 0, Kouts wins on PKs
Regional semifinals
Thursday, Oct. 13
Class 3A
Penn Regional
Lake Central vs. Crown Point
Class 2A
Mishawaka Marian Regional
West Lafayette vs. Hanover Central
Class 1A
Westview Regional
Andrean vs. Kouts
Girls Volleyball
Class 4A
Munster Sectional
Tuesday, Oct. 11
M1: Lake Central vs. Hammond Central, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 13Valparaiso Sectional
Tuesday, Oct. 11
M1: Lowell vs. Kankakee Valley, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 13Class 3A
Highland Sectional
Tuesday, Oct. 11
M1: River Forest vs. Highland, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 13Class 2A
Andrean Sectional
Tuesday, Oct. 11
M1: Illiana Christian vs. Gary Lighthouse, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 13Class A
Morgan Twp. Sectional
Tuesday, Oct. 11
M1: Kouts vs. Morgan Twp., 7 p.m.
college football
Rankings
AP TOP 25 POLL
The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Oct. 8, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
Record Pts Prv
1. Georgia (32) 6-0 1535 2
2. Ohio St. (20) 6-0 1507 3
3. Alabama (11) 6-0 1489 1
4. Clemson 6-0 1348 5
5. Michigan 6-0 1319 4
6. Tennessee 5-0 1232 8
7. Southern Cal 6-0 1214 6
8. Oklahoma St. 5-0 1150 7
9. Mississippi 6-0 1061 9
10. Penn St. 5-0 974 10
11. UCLA 6-0 907 18
12. Oregon 5-1 893 12
13. TCU 5-0 819 17
14. Wake Forest 5-1 748 15
15. NC State 5-1 746 14
16. Mississippi St. 5-1 589 23
17. Kansas St. 5-1 559 20
18. Syracuse 5-0 393 22
19. Kansas 5-1 330 19
20. Utah 4-2 328 11
21. Cincinnati 5-1 257 24
22. Texas 4-2 150 -
22. Kentucky 4-2 150 13
24. Illinois 5-1 117 -
25. James Madison 5-0 105 -
Others receiving votes: North Carolina 98, Baylor 91, BYU 61, Coastal Carolina 61, Notre Dame 58, Florida 56, Tulane 42, Purdue 34, Florida St. 18, South Carolina 12, Washington St. 10, Minnesota 5, LSU 4, Maryland 4, San Jose St. 1.
pro GOLF
LIV
Bangkok
Tambon Chiang Rak Noi, Thailand
Purse: $20M; Yardage: 6,812; Par: 72
Final Round, Sunday
$4,000,000
Euginio Lopez-Chacarra 65-63-69—197 -19
$2,125,000
Patrick Reed 68-65-67—200 -16
$1,175,000
Paul Casey 71-65-65—201 -16
Richard Bland 65-68-68—201- 15
Sihwan Kim 67-66-68—201 -15
$735,500
James Piot 69-65-68—202 -14
Harold Varner III 67-66-69—202 -14
$602,500
Charles Howell III 69-67-67—203 -13
Brooks Koepka 67-67-69—203 -13
$477,500
Abraham Ancer 69-68-68—205 -11
Laurie Canter 70-66-69—205 -11
Ian Poulter 66-70-69—205 -11
Marc Leishman 66-69-70—205 -11
$270,000
Bryson Dechambeau 69-68-69—206 -10
$233,600
Matt Jones 71-70-66—207 -9
Dustin Johnson 70-70-67—207 -9
Phil Mickelson 69-69-69—207 -9
Carlos Ortiz 72-65-70—207 -9
Lee Westwood 69-66-72—207 -9
$174,286
Joaquin Niemann 72-71-65—208 -8
Sergio Garcia 68-72-68—208 -8
Sadom Kaewkanjana 71-69-68—208 -8
Peter Uihlein 70-68-70—208 -8
Talor Gooch 70-67-71—208 -8
Jediah Morgan 67-69-72—208 -8
Kevin Na 67-68-73—208 -8
$157,000
Charl Schwartzel 70-73-66—209 -7
Phachara Khongwatmai 71-70-68—209 -7
Shaun Norris 71-69-69—209 -7
Jason Kokrak 69-70-70—209 -7
Turk Pettit 71-68-70—209 -7
Wade Ormsby 70-68-71—209 -7
$144,000
Chase Koepka 74-69-67—210 -6
Sam Horsfield 73-70-67—210 -6
Bernd Wiesberger 73-69-68—210 -6
Henrik Stenson 71-71-68—210 -6
Martin Kaymer 73-69-68—210 -6
Hudson Swafford 70-68-72—210 -6
Cameron Tringale 70-68-72—210 -6
$136,000
Pat Perez 71-71-69—211 -5
$131,000
Anirban Lahiri 71-71-70—212 -4
Cameron Smith 72-70-70—212 -4
Graeme McDowell 68-73-71—212 -4
Matthew Wolff 74-66-72—212 -4
$125,000
Louis Oosthuizen 71-72-73—216 E
Scott Vincent 70-72-74—216 E
$120,000
Hideto Tanihara 70-72-75—217 +1
Teams Scores
Fireballs GC (S.Garcia, A.Ancer, C.Ortiz, E.Chacarra), $3,000,000 -45
Crushers GC (B.DeChambeau, P.Casey, C.Howell, A.Lahiri), $1,500,000 -38
Cleeks GC (G.McDowell, M.Kaymer, R.Bland, L.Canter), $500,000 -37
Iron Heads GC (K.Na, S.Kaewkanjana, P.Khongwatmai, S.Kim) -36
Niblicks GC (H.Varner, H.Swafford, J.Piot, T.Petit) -36
4 Aces GC (D.Johnson, P.Perez, P.Reed, T.Gooch) -35
Majesticks GC (I.Poulter, L.Westwood, S.Horsfield, H.Stenson) -32
Smash GC (B.Koepka, J.Kokrak, P.Uihlein, C.Koepka) -32
Punch GC (C.Smith, M.Leishman, M.Jones, W.Ormsby) -28
Hy Flyers GC (P.Mickelson, B.Wiesberger, M.Wolff, C.Tringale) -24
Stinger GC (L.Oosthuizen, C.Schwartzel, B.Grace, S.Norris) -20
Torque GC (J.Niemann, S.Vincent, H.Tanihara, J.Morgan) -18
PGA
Shriners Children’s Open
At TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas
Purse: $8M; Yardage: 7,255; Par: 71
Final round, Sunday
$1,440,000
Tom Kim 65-67-62-66—260 -24
$712,000
Patrick Cantlay 67-67-60-69—263 -21
Matthew NeSmith 68-66-63-66—263 -21
$336,667
Tom Hoge 63-72-65-64—264 -20
Seonghyeon Kim 65-69-64-66—264 -20
Mito Pereira 67-63-67-67—264 -20
$270,000
Sungjae Im 65-70-63-67—265 -19
$242,000
Jason Day 66-71-66-63—266 -18
Si Woo Kim 64-68-67-67—266 -18
$210,000
Adam Hadwin 67-67-65-68—267 -17
Maverick McNealy 64-68-71-64—267 -17
$170,000
Andrew Putnam 68-69-64-67—268 -16
Adam Schenk 69-66-67-66—268 -16
Davis Thompson 66-69-66-67—268 -16
$130,000
Harry Hall 66-70-69-64—269 -15
Brian Harman 70-67-68-64—269 -15
Taylor Montgomery 70-66-66-67—269 -15
Robby Shelton 68-63-68-70—269 -15
J.J. Spaun 66-71-68-64—269 -15
$81,500
Christiaan Bezuidenhout 68-67-67-68—270 -14
Hayden Buckley 68-69-68-65—270 -14
Lucas Herbert 67-70-65-68—270 -14
Max Homa 67-67-69-67—270 -14
Justin Lower 70-68-67-65—270 -14
J.T. Poston 67-69-63-71—270 -14
Aaron Rai 69-68-62-71—270 -14
Kevin Streelman 66-67-69-68—270 -14
$51,350
Harris English 69-69-68-65—271 -13
Mark Hubbard 69-66-70-66—271 -13
Ryan Moore 68-70-68-65—271 -13
Chad Ramey 67-66-69-69—271 -13
Patrick Rodgers 66-68-70-67—271 -13
Sam Ryder 65-69-70-67—271 -13
Brendon Todd 69-68-69-65—271 -13
Matt Wallace 69-68-67-67—271 -13
Patrick Welch 71-67-68-65—271 -13
$36,457
Dean Burmester 71-65-69-67—272 -12
Joel Dahmen 66-72-68-66—272 -12
Cameron Davis 67-66-68-71—272 -12
Chesson Hadley 67-70-69-66—272 -12
Martin Laird 66-69-68-69—272 -12
Kyoung-Hoon Lee 72-66-65-69—272 -12
Kevin Yu 69-68-66-69—272 -12
$23,000
Byeong Hun An 69-68-73-63—273 -11
Stewart Cink 69-66-71-67—273 -11
Will Gordon 65-72-73-63—273 -11
Chris Gotterup 68-70-65-70—273 -11
Nick Hardy 67-69-69-68—273 -11
Jim Herman 69-67-71-66—273 -11
Stephan Jaeger 66-72-67-68—273 -11
Spencer Levin 71-65-69-68—273 -11
David Lipsky 69-68-71-65—273 -11
Alex Noren 68-69-68-68—273 -11
Taylor Pendrith 71-67-66-69—273 -11
Greyson Sigg 68-69-68-68—273 -11
$18,560
Doug Ghim 68-68-70-68—274 -10
Tano Goya 68-67-71-68—274 -10
Michael Thompson 68-68-68-70—274 -10
Brandon Wu 72-65-69-68—274 -10
Austin Eckroat 71-66-68-70—275 -9
$17,920
Ben Griffin 68-69-67-71—275 -9
Keith Mitchell 65-69-70-71—275 -9
Austin Smotherman 68-69-71-67—275 -9
$17,200
Tyson Alexander 72-65-73-66—276 -8
Beau Hossler 69-68-64-75—276 -8
Philip Knowles 70-68-67-71—276 -8
Ben Martin 70-68-72-66—276 -8
Aaron Wise 69-67-67-73—276 -8
$16,560
Thomas Detry 65-73-65-74—277 -7
Harrison Endycott 67-71-69-70—277 -7
Adam Svensson 67-70-67-73—277 -7
$16,240
Tyler Duncan 65-71-70-72—278 -6
$16,000
Emiliano Grillo 71-67-73-69—280 -4
Andrew Landry 72-66-71-71—280 -4
$15,680
Patton Kizzire 67-69-71-74—281 -3
Matthias Schwab 71-67-71-72—281 -3
$15,440
Trevor Werbylo 68-70-70-75—283 -1
pro basketball
NBA Preseason
Friday’s games
Boston 112, Charlotte 103
New York 131, Indiana 114
Chicago 131, Denver 113
Houston 116, Toronto 100
Miami 111, Memphis 108
New Orleans 107, Detroit 101
Orlando 110, Dallas 105
Saturday’s games
Atlanta 118, Milwaukee 109
Sunday’s games
Chicago 115, Toronto 98
Oklahoma City 144, Maccabi Ra’anana 97
New Orleans 111, San Antonio 97
L.A. Lakers at Golden State (n)
Portland at Sacramento (n)
Minnesota at L.A. Clippers (n)
Monday’s games
Philadelphia at Cleveland, 6 p.m.
Washington at Charlotte, 6 p.m.
Houston at Miami, 6:30 p.m.
Phoenix at Denver, 8 p.m.
pro HOCKEY
NHL PRESEASON
Friday’s games
Pittsburgh 7, Buffalo 1
Detroit 4, Toronto 2
Edmonton 5, Seattle 3
Winnipeg 5, Calgary 3
Vancouver 4, Arizona 0
Saturday’s games
St. Louis 6, Chicago 0
Tampa Bay 5, Florida 2
Los Angeles 6, Anaheim 3
Minnesota 5, Dallas 1
Toronto 5, Detroit 1
Washington 4, Columbus 3, OT
New Jersey 5, Boston 3
N.Y. Islanders 3, N.Y. Rangers 1
Vegas 5, Arizona 1
End of preseason.
NHL REGULAR SEASON
Friday’s result
Nashville 4, San Jose 1
Saturday’s result
Nashville 3, San Jose 2
Tuesday’s games
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m.
Vegas at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.
pro soccer
MLS
Eastern Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Philadelphia 19 5 10 67 72 26
CF Montréal 20 9 5 65 63 50
New York City FC 16 11 7 55 57 41
New York 15 11 8 53 50 41
Cincinnati 12 9 13 49 64 56
Inter Miami CF 14 14 6 48 47 56
Orlando City 14 14 6 48 44 53
Columbus 10 8 16 46 46 41
Charlotte FC 13 18 3 42 44 52
New England 10 12 12 42 47 50
Atlanta 10 14 10 40 48 54
Chicago 10 15 9 39 39 48
Toronto FC 9 18 7 34 49 66
D.C. United 7 21 6 27 36 71
Western Conference
W L T Pts GF GA
Los Angeles FC 21 9 4 67 66 38
Austin FC 16 10 8 56 65 49
FC Dallas 14 9 11 53 48 37
LA Galaxy 14 12 8 50 58 51
Nashville 13 10 11 50 52 41
Minnesota United 14 14 6 48 48 51
Real Salt Lake 12 11 11 47 43 45
Portland 11 10 13 46 53 53
Vancouver 12 15 7 43 40 57
Colorado 11 13 10 43 46 57
Seattle 12 17 5 41 47 46
Sporting Kansas City 11 16 7 40 42 54
Houston 10 18 6 36 43 56
San Jose 8 15 11 35 52 69
Sunday’s games
New York City FC 2, Atlanta 1
New England 1, Chicago 1, tie
Cincinnati 5, D.C. United 2
CF Montréal 3, Miami 1
New York 2, Charlotte FC 0
Orlando City 2, Columbus 1
Philadelphia 4, Toronto FC 0
Colorado 1, Austin FC 1, tie
FC Dallas 2, Sporting Kansas City 1
LA Galaxy 3, Houston 1
Nashville 1, Los Angeles FC 0
Minnesota 2, Vancouver 0
Real Salt Lake 3, Portland 1
San Jose 2, Seattle 2, tie
Regular season ends
NWSL
W L T Pts GF GA
OL Reign 11 4 7 40 32 19
Portland 10 3 9 39 49 24
San Diego 10 6 6 36 32 21
Kansas City 10 6 6 36 29 29
Houston 10 6 6 36 35 27
Chicago 9 7 6 33 34 28
North Carolina 9 8 5 32 46 33
Angel City 8 9 5 29 23 27
Louisville 5 9 8 23 23 35
Orlando 5 10 7 22 22 45
Washington 3 9 10 19 26 33
Gotham FC 4 17 1 13 16 46
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
Saturday, Oct. 15
Chicago at San Diego, 8 p.m.
Odds
FanDuel.com line
Home team in CAPS.
College Football
WEDNESDAY
FAV. Op. Now O/U U-DOG
at MARSHALL 6½ 7½ (OFF) La.
THURSDAY
Baylor 4½ 3½ (OFF) at W. VIRGINIA
at UCF 24½ 24½ (OFF) Temple
FRIDAY
at SMU 20½ 10½ (OFF) Navy
UTSA 27½ 34½ (OFF) at FLA. INTERNATIONAL
SATURDAY
at TEXAS 14½ 14½ (OFF) Iowa St.
at OKLAHOMA 7½ 7 (65) Kansas
at OLE MISS 14½ 14½ (OFF) Auburn
at MICHIGAN 6½ 7 (OFF) Penn St.
at COAST. CAR. 10½ 11 (57) Old Dom.
Minn. 3½ 3½ (OFF) at ILLINOIS
Central Mich. 13 13 (58½) at AKRON
Miami (OH) 6½ 7 (47) at B. GREEN
Miami 7½ 7½ (OFF) at VA.TECH
Buffalo 18 16 (47) at UMASS
Cal 14 14 (49) at COLO.
at BALL ST. 11 10½ (46½) UConn
at GEORGIA 37½ 38 (58) Vanderbilt
Maryland 10½ 10½ (OFF) at INDIANA
Alabama 13½ 7½ (OFF) at TENN.
at TROY 15½ 15½ (48½) Texas St.
at BYU 2½ 2½ (OFF) Arkansas
at TCU 1½ 2½ (OFF) Okla.St.
at E. MICH. 2 2 (63) No. Illinois
at SYRACUSE 4 3½ (44) NC St.
at TOLEDO 8½ 8 (61½) Kent St.
at UAB 23½ 23½ (62½) Charlotte
We. Kent. 5½ 7 (66) at MID. TENN.
at W. MICH. 3 2½ (59½) Ohio
at NO. TEX. 5½ 6 (71) La. Tech
J. Madison 10½ 10½ (63½) at GA. SOU.
Wisc. 4½ 4½ (OFF) at MICH. ST..
Tulane 10½ 10½ (54½) at S. FLA.
at WASH. 15 15 (71) Arizona
at FLA. ATL. 5 5 (56½) Rice
Utah St. 9 9 (48) at COLO. ST.
at SO. MISS 3½ 4 (56½) Ark.St.
at FLA. 3½ 3½ (OFF) LSU
at SO. ALA. 17½ 17½ (54½) UL Monroe
at EAST CAR. 3½ 3½ (59½) Memphis
at ND 17½ 14½ (OFF) Stanford
Miss. St. 1½ 6½ (OFF) at KENTUCKY
Clemson 10½ 6½ (OFF) at FLA. ST.
at PURDUE 12½ 12½ (OFF) Nebraska
at UTAH 3 2½ (OFF) USC
North Car. 6½ 6½ (OFF) at DUKE
New Mex. 6½ 6 (38) at NM ST.
at ORE. ST. 3½ 3½ (OFF) Wash.St.
Air Force 9½ 9½ (OFF) at UNLV
San Jose St. 4½ 4½ (OFF) at FRESNO ST.
SUNDAY
Nevada 4½ 4½ (OFF) at HAWAII
NFL
MONDAY
FAV. Op. Now O/U U-DOG
at K.C. 6½ 7½ (51½) Las Vegas
Transactions
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
ARIZONA COYOTES — Claimed D Jusso Valimaki off waivers. Waived D Cam Dineen.
BOSTON BRUINS — Waived F Nick Foligno.
COLORADO AVALANCHE — Waived F Anton Blidh. Reassigned D Nate Clurman from Colorado (AL) to Utah (ECHL).
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Waived F Emil Bernstrom for the purpose of assigning him to Cleveland (AHL). Loaned G Jet Greaves to Cleveland.
EDMONTON OILERS — Acquired C Klim Kostin from St. Louis in exchange for D Dmitri Samorukov. Waived F Devin Shore.
LAS VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS — Reassigned F Marcus Kallionkieli from Henderson (AHL) to Savannah (ECHL).
MINNESOTA WILD — Waived Cs Nicolas Petan and Mason Shaw. Ressigned G Hunter Jones from Iowa (AHL) to Iowa (ECHL).
MONTREAL CANADIENS — Waived Ds Corey Schueneman and Madison Bowey.
NEW YORK RANGERS — Signed F Jimmy Vesey to a one-year contract.
PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Waived Cs Zack MacEwen and Cooper Marody. Reassigned D Mason Millman from Lehigh Valley (AHL) to Reading (ECHL).
ST. LOUIS BLUES — Waived F Josh Leivo.
SEATTLE KRACKEN — Waived F John Hayden.
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed F Pierre-Cedric Labrie to a one-year, two-way contract. Waived D Philippe Myers.
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Waived F Wayne Simmonds and C Adam Gaudette. Signed F Zach Aston-Reese to a one-year contract.
WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Waived F Axel Jonsson-Fjallby, D Lucas Johansen and C Henrik Borgstrom.
WINNIPEG JETS — Waived C Jansen Harkins.
Minor League Hockey
American Hockey League
CALGARY WRANGLERS — Assigned F Lucas Feuk to Rapid City (ECHL).
COLORADO EAGLES — Assigned Fs Tarun Fizer, Zachary Tsekos, Cameron Wright and G Lukas Parik to Utah (ECHL).
HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Assigned G Parker Gahagen, Ds Luke Martin, Louka Henault, Fs Zach Jordan, Cristiano DiGiacinto, Ryan Lohin and Easton Brodzinski to Jacksonville (ECHL).
HENDERSON SILVER KNIGHT — Assigned G Jordan Papirny and F ALex Swetlikoff to Savannah (ECHL).
IOWA WILD — Assigned Fs Kevin Conley and Mitchell Balmas to Iowa (ECHL).
LAVAL ROCKET — Assigned D Santino Centorame and F Anthony Beauregard to Trois-Rivieres (ECHL).
East Coast Hockey League
ALLEN AMERICANS — Signed G Erik Schuette to tryout agreement.
CINCINNATI CYCLONES — Added Ds Dajon Mingo, Dakota Betts, Josh Burnside, Jalen Smereck, Matt Cairns, Arvin Atwal, Samuel Hunter, Kyler Matthews, Fs Louie Caporusso, Lee Lapid, Justin Vaive, Cody Caron, Matt McLeod, Lincoln Griffin, Brandon Yeamans, Jeremiah Addison, Philip Lagunov, Patrick Polino, Matt Perry, Zack Andrusiak, Maurizio Colella, Peyton Francis, Gs Mark Sinclair and Trevin Kozlowski to the training camp roster.
IDAHO STEELHEADS — Added Gs Peter Thome, Jake Kupsky, Ds Matt Register, Darren Brady, Cody Haiskanen, Adam Samuelsson, Matt Stief, Patrick Kudla, Fs A.J. White, Zach Walker, Colton Kehler, William Knierim, Jordan Timmons, Wade Murphy, Ty Pelton-Byee, Jade Miller and Michael Ferraro to the training camp roster. Suspended D Macoy Erkamps.
IOWA HEARTLANDERS — Released D Trey Phillips. Added Gs Corbin Kaczperski, Cody Karpinski, Ds T.J. Fergus, Ryan Wheeler, Riese Zmolek, Connor Russell, Justin Wells, Nolan Orzeck, Brendan St-Louis, Fs Cole Stallard, Jake Smith, Yuki Miura, Zach White, Tommy Parrottino, Alec Broetzman, Chandler Yakimowicz, Alec Baer, Nick Campoli, James Sanchez, Guus van Nes, Brendan Robbins, Brendan Soucie, Griff Jezka, Sam Hu, Kevin Conley, F/D Carter Shinkaruk to the training camp roster. Suspended Fs Jack Billings, Ben Sokay, Ds Jake Stevens and Skylar Pacheco.
JACKSONVILLE ICEMEN — Signed G Talyn Boyko to tryout agreement and added him to the training camp roster. Added G Charles Williams, Ds Victor Hadfield, Jacob Panetta, Roshen Jaswal, Brendan Less, Tim Theocharidis, Pavel Vorobei, Bo Hanson, Brandon Fortunato, Garret Cockerill, Fs Matt Salhamy, Sam Sternschein, Jake Witkowski, Travis Howe, Luke Keenan, Jake Hamacher, Luke Lynch, Brendan Harris, Derek Lodermeier, Christopher Brown, Ara Nazarian, Jake Pappalardo, Adam Berg to the training camp roster.
KALAMAZOO WINGS — Added D Tyler Rockwell to the training camp roster.
RAPID CITY RUSH — Added G Brad Arvanitis, Ds Quinn Wichers, Tyson Helgesen and F Logan Nelson to the training camp roster.
READING ROYALS — Added Fs Brendan Hoffman and Shane Sellar to the training camp roster.
SAVANNAH GHOST PIRATES — Released G Hayden Stewart and D Cade McNelly. Added Gs Darion Hanson, Chase Perry, Josh Benson, Ds Clayton Phillips, Tristan Thompson, Mackenzie Dwyer, Darick Louis-Jean, Aaron Thow, Bryan Etter, Jeff Solow, Alex Carlson, Fs Spencer Dorowicz, Spencer Naas, Brian Hawkinson, Vincent Marleau, Marshall Moise, Max Kaufman, Grant Jozefek, Logan Drevitch, Alexandre Carrier, Westin Michaud, Brent Pedersen, Brennan Blaszczak and Carson Rose to the training camp roster.
SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Signed G Francis Marotte to tryout agreement.
TROIS-RIVIERES LIONS — Signed D Davide Asselin and G David Richer to tryout agreements and added them to the training roster. Added Gs Thomas Sigouin, Sebastien Lefebvre, William Lavalliere, Ds Mathieu Brodeur, Bradley Johnson, Francis Thibeault, Alex Breton, Philippe Bureau-Blais, Chase Carter, Fs Cedric Montminy, Jonathan Joannette, William LeBlanc, Connor Welsh, Nicolas Lariviere, Conner Chaulk, James Phelan, Nicolas Guay, Timotej Sille, Jackson Keane, Olivier Ouellet, Jordan Briere, Raphael Gosselin, Charles-William Gagne, Benjamin St-Onge to the training camp roster.
UTAH GRIZZLIES — Released F Arseni Smekhnov. Signed D Victor Bartley to a tryout agreement.
WHEELING NAILERS — Signed F Nick Fea and added him to the training camp roster. Added Gs Mario Culina, Tristan Cote-Cazanave, Ds David Drake, Dilan Peters, Davis Bunz, Zach Wilkie, Jason Horvath, Drayson Pears, Roy Kanda, Fs Bobby Hampton, Tyler Drevitch, Felix Pare, Samuel Tremblay, Griffin Lunn, Eetu Selanna, Aaron Aragon and F/D Alex Koopmeiners to the training camp roster.
COLLEGE
NEW MEXICO — Announced offensive coordinator Derek Warehime has been relieved of his duties. Named quarterbacks coach Heath Ridenour interim offensive coordinator for the remainder of the season and graduate assistant Matt Clark interim tight ends coach.
ON THIS DATE
Oct. 10
1920 — The Chicago Cardinals play to a 0-0 tie with the Chicago Tigers in their first American Professional Football Association game. The game is held at Cubs Park, later renamed Wrigley Field.
1920 — Cleveland Indians Bill Wambsganns completes an unassisted World Series triple play.
1936 — Ohio State trumpet player John Brungart dots the ‘i’ in “Script Ohio” for the first time during halftime of the Buckeyes’ 6-0 loss to Pittsburgh at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. After Brungart, the honor began to go exclusively to sousaphone players, with exceptions made for well-known fans of the Ohio State program, like John Glenn, Jack Nicklaus and Bob Hope.
1964 — John Henry Johnson of Pittsburgh rushes for 200 yards to lead the Steelers to a 23-7 triumph over the Cleveland Browns.
1974 — Danny Gare of Buffalo scores 18 seconds into his first NHL game as the Sabres beat the Boston Bruins 9-5.
1979 — Quebec’s Real Cloutier scores three goals in his first NHL game, but the Nordiques lose 5-3 to the Atlanta Flames.
1981 — Southern Cal’s Marcus Allen rushes for 211 yards, his fifth straight 200-plus rushing game, in a 13-10 loss to Arizona.
1987 — Columbia sets an NCAA record with its 35th straight loss, 38-8 to Princeton.
1998 — New Hampshire’s Jerry Azumah becomes the first back in NCAA Division I-AA history to run for more than 1,000 yards in four consecutive seasons. He has 165 yards and one touchdown in a 22-13 loss to Richmond.
2004 — New England wins its 19th straight game, setting an NFL record for consecutive wins — counting the playoffs — with a 24-10 victory over Miami.
2011 — NBA Commissioner David Stern cancels the first two weeks of the season after owners and players are unable to reach a new labor deal and end the lockout. Games originally scheduled to be played from Nov. 1 through Nov. 14 are wiped out.
2011 — Anthony Calvillo becomes pro football’s all-time passing leader in spectacular fashion with a 50-yard TD pass to Jamel Richardson that cements the Montreal Alouettes’ 29-19 win over the Toronto Argonauts. Calvillo needed 258 yards to break Damon Allen’s all-time CFL record of 72,381 yards.
2017 — The United States are eliminated from World Cup contention with a shocking 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad scores a pair of first-half goals and the United States will miss the World Cup for the first time since 1986. The 28th-ranked Americans needed merely a tie against 99th-ranked Trinidad, which lost its sixth straight qualifier last week.
2017 — The Vegas Golden Knights win their home opener and remain unbeaten three games into their inaugural season with a 5-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes. Marc-Andre Fleury makes 31 saves for the Golden Knights, who become the first team in NHL history to begin their debut season with three straight wins.
2020 — 19 year-old Iga Swiatek of Poland wins her country’s first singles major title as she beats American Sofia Kenin 6-4, 6-1 at the French Open.
baseball
On this date
Oct. 9
1910 — Nap Lajoie, in a batting race with Ty Cobb, had eight hits for Cleveland in a season-ending doubleheader with the Browns. The hits were tainted, however, with St. Louis third baseman Red Corriden playing back as Lajoie bunted safely six times. Regardless, Cobb won the batting title by a fraction of a point.
1916 — Babe Ruth outpitched Sherry Smith of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Boston Red Sox won the longest World Series game, 2-1 in 14 innings.
1928 — Babe Ruth hit three home runs in a World Series game for the second time in his career, powering the New York Yankees past the St. Louis Cardinals 7-3.
1934 — Dizzy Dean of St. Louis blanked the Detroit Tigers 11-0 in the seventh game of the World Series.
1944 — The St. Louis Cardinals beat St. Louis Browns 3-1 to capture the World Series in six games. Max Lanier and Ted Wilks of the Cardinals combined on a three-hitter.
1958 — Bob Turley of the Yankees pitched 6 2-3 scoreless innings in relief to beat the Milwaukee Braves 6-2 for the World Series title. New York became the first team since 1925 to win the World Series after being down 3-1 in games.
1966 — Dave McNally pitched a four-hitter for a 1-0 victory, giving the Baltimore Orioles a World Series sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Frank Robinson homered off Don Drysdale in the fourth inning.
1977 — The New York Yankees rallied for three runs in the ninth inning to beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 and take the American League pennant in the fifth game of the playoffs.
1996 — Bernie Williams homered in the 11th inning to send New York to a 5-4 victory over Baltimore in Game 1 of the ALCS. The Yankees were helped by 12-year-old fan Jeff Maier. He grabbed a ball about to be caught by right fielder Tony Tarasco, giving Derek Jeter a game-tying homer in the eighth inning. | https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/agate/101022-spt-prep-sked-merged/article_f3a788f7-b6b9-5bbe-b6ca-97112e896d5b.html | 2022-10-10 15:57:18 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/agate/101022-spt-prep-sked-merged/article_f3a788f7-b6b9-5bbe-b6ca-97112e896d5b.html |
Eagles vs. Chiefs: Super Bowl Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Spread, Home/Road Splits
Published: Jan. 30, 2023 at 9:35 PM EST|Updated: 50 minutes ago
Updated Line.
The NFL Playoffs finish with a Super Bowl matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) and the Kansas City Chiefs (14-3) at State Farm Stadium on Sunday, February 12, 2023.
The betting insights and trends for the Eagles and Chiefs can be seen below before you wager on Sunday's matchup.
Eagles vs. Chiefs Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, February 12, 2023
- Time: 6:30 PM ET
- Channel: FOX
- City: Glendale, Arizona
- Venue: State Farm Stadium
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Eagles vs. Chiefs Betting Records & Stats
Philadelphia Eagles
- The Eagles' 17 games this season (regular season and playoffs) have gone over this contest's total of 50.5 points five times.
- The average point total in Philadelphia's contests in regular season play was 45.4, 5.1 fewer points than this game's over/under.
- The Eagles' record against the spread during the regular season was 8-9-0. They are 2-0-0 versus the spread in the postseason.
- The Eagles were favored on the moneyline 16 total times during the regular season. They went 14-2 in those games. When favored on the moneyline in the playoffs, they are 2-0.
- When playing as a moneyline favorite with odds of -123 or shorter, Philadelphia has a 16-2 record (winning 88.9% of its games), including the regular season and postseason.
Kansas City Chiefs
- Chiefs games this season (regular season and playoffs) have had a combined scoring total higher than 50.5 points 10 of 17 times.
- Kansas City had a 49.7-point average over/under in its regular season outings, 0.8 fewer points than this game's total.
- The Chiefs had seven wins in 17 games against the spread in the regular season. In the postseason they are 1-1-0 ATS.
- The Chiefs split the two games they played as underdogs in the regular season, and are 0-0 in the playoffs.
- This season, Kansas City has won one of its two games when it is the underdog by at least +103 on the moneyline (in the regular season and playoffs).
Eagles vs. Chiefs Over/Under Stats (Regular Season)
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Eagles
- In its last three contests, Philadelphia has two wins against the spread, and is 3-0 overall.
- Philadelphia has not gone over the total in its past three games.
- The Eagles have 133 more points than their opponents this season (7.9 per game), and the Chiefs have scored 127 more points than their opponents (7.5 per game).
Chiefs
- Kansas City has two wins against the spread and is 3-0 overall over its last three games.
- The Chiefs have not gone over the total in their past three games.
- The Eagles have put up a total of 133 more points than their opponents this year (7.9 per game), and the Chiefs have outscored opponents by 127 points (7.5 per game).
Eagles Betting Splits
Chiefs Betting Splits
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Salt Lake City becomes 7th market with one-of-a-kind employer health center solution
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marathon Health, a national leader in employer health solutions for companies of all sizes, today announces the opening of its newest Network in Salt Lake City. The first health center, located in Draper Peaks, opens this month with more locations to follow from Ogden to Provo. Salt Lake City becomes the 7th market to provide this unique offering to local employers, joining Indianapolis; Charlotte, N.C.; Cincinnati; Columbus, Ohio; Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla.
"We love partnering with employers to design and deliver a totally different healthcare experience," said Jeff Wells, MD, CEO and co-founder of Marathon Health. "Our ability to flex and implement a solution that meets each employer's unique needs is critical, especially now as they face once-in-a-generation shifts in workplace culture."
Longtime client CHG Healthcare, based in Midvale, Utah will expand its onsite health center to include Network access for all employees and their dependents. "We're thrilled to offer another innovative solution that offers flexibility and choice for our people," said Anne Hopkins, Director of People & Operations, Benefits and Wellness for CHG Healthcare. "The Network center will provide extended hours so that our people and their families have another option for free healthcare in our hybrid work environment. Over the past 10 years, our partnership with Marathon Health has allowed us to continue to build better healthcare for our people."
Onsite health centers, which operate at an employer's place of business, are a great solution when there is a large concentration of employees in one place. For those with a hybrid workforce or with smaller concentrations across multiple offices, the Marathon Health Network is a great alternative. Network centers are located in popular areas where the employees and their families live, work and shop. That convenient access drives higher engagement, which in turn drives healthier behaviors and financial savings for the employee and the employer. This care model provides a turnkey health solution staffed with world-class providers, behavioral health counselors, onsite medications and labs, health coaches and incentive programming.
Marathon Health delivers an independent primary care model that gives providers extra time to build relationships with their patients and remains free of any hospital or health system partnership. This unique model includes multichannel access which is critical in delivering true primary care. Marathon Health's data-driven approach also gives employers comprehensive reporting and analytics to demonstrate the value of improvements and overall cost of care.
Marathon Health patients save their employers $2,000 on average annually and report better management of chronic conditions and their overall health. To date, Marathon Health has saved its clients more than $1 billion in healthcare costs.
Local employers, benefit consultants and healthcare professionals are invited to attend the grand opening of our Draper Peaks location at 131 East 12300 S. Unit R400 in Draper on August 23, 2022, from 8:30 – 10:30am. Tour the health center, meet the care team and learn more about providing this cost-saving benefit for your employees.
Marathon Health partners with employers to deliver a healthcare experience that's convenient and focused on driving real behavior change that results in better health outcomes and financial savings. Employers save an average of $2,000 for each employee who engages with Marathon Health, with the average company saving around $11 million. Marathon Health delivers its advanced primary care solution across more than 250 onsite, Network and virtual health centers in 42 states. Marathon Health was named Best in KLAS 2021 and 2020 for its excellence in Worksite Health Services. For more information, please visit www.marathon-health.com.
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SPRINGFIELD — Legislation clarifying Normal's municipal classification following a long-running legal dispute is headed to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's desk.
The Illinois Senate on Wednesday voted 43-13 to approve the bill, which essentially codifies a January ruling from a McLean County judge that the town clerk was not required to certify election petitions for candidates seeking offices that do not typically appear on the Normal ballot.
Last year, candidates filed petitions to run for town collector, town supervisor and town clerk despite the former two being non-existent positions and the latter being an appointed position within Normal town government.
Normal Mayor Chris Koos said the bill, sponsored by state Rep. Sharon Chung, D-Bloomington, and state Sen. Dave Koehler, D-Peoria, clarifies Normal’s municipal status and exempts the town from being required to elect those positions.
“It’s a very unique situation, really applicable only to the Town of Normal,” Koos said. “It just adds clarity to the status of the Town of Normal as a chartered town in the state of Illinois.”
Koos added that he thinks the governor will not have any issues passing the bill because it is clearing up the ambiguity in the state law.
“I can’t imagine there’d be anything that would impinge on that,” Koos said. “I’m happy that we’re getting it done because it has been a murky subject.”
The litigation stemmed from a legal dispute that began last year after a group of residents calling themselves Citizens for a Better Normal sought to place a referendum on the November ballot that could have changed the makeup of the Normal Town Council.
The group wanted to divide the community into districts, similar to Bloomington’s ward-based system, rather than electing council members at large.
State law allows for such ballot measures in communities that are classified as villages. Supporters of the referendum maintained that Normal meets those standards, specifically arguing that an incorporated town must elect a president, assessor, clerk and supervisor.
But Normal’s three-member board of electors found, and a McLean County judge agreed, that the community is an incorporated town.
The legislation passed the Illinois House in March.
Mateusz Janik contributed to this report.
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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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Summer is in full swing, and manicured toes make those days at the beach a little more glamorous. Skip the costly visit to the nail salon, and elevate your at-home pedicure routine with some new gadgets and products.
Shop this article: Spongeables Pedi-Scrub Foot Buffer, Rikans Colossal Foot Rasp Foot File Callus Remover and MINKINH Professional Pedicure Tools Set
What is needed for an at-home pedicure?
Exfoliating tools
A set of either steel or stainless steel tools will expedite any exfoliation process. Pumice stones are a helpful tool, but the metal-based rasps and callus removers are much easier to clean and generally are more sanitary. Exfoliation prepares your feet for any lotion or cream to soak into your skin. Without doing so, your natural skin barrier will not receive as much moisture as it would after scrubbing away dead skin.
Moisturizers and masks
Using a mask or favorite lotion enhances the skin’s health and quality. After removing dead skin and calluses, that new skin needs hydration and protection, so be sure to moisturize them with a foot mask or lotion. A moisturizing element in your pedicure routine will also help you avoid any future cracks or dead skin.
Top exfoliating tools for an at-home pedicure
Spongeables Pedi-Scrub Foot Buffer
This dual-action foot buffer is the perfect duo to exfoliate and soothe dry and tired feet. On one side, an aromatic pumice buffs away dead skin buildup and replenishes your skin with shea butter, tea tree oil and olive oil. The alternate side has a soft sponge that gently massages your newly soft feet. Available in various scents, just add water to activate the sponge and use it as needed on calluses.
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Rikans Colossal Foot Rasp Foot File Callus Remover
A staple for any pedicure kit, this foot rasp removes heavy calluses and breaks through tough layers of dry skin. To cover a significant surface area and save you time, the wide steel grate painlessly shaves away your cracked skin. Consider soaking your feet before use to achieve the best results. This product is steel and metal, and it is easy to clean and sanitize.
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Top pedicure bath for an at-home pedicure
Prepare for polish, exfoliation and hydration by bathing your feet with this foot bath. Jets and bubbles in this tub stimulate your feet and enhance your spa experience. Conveniently equipped with a pumice stone in the center of this bath, take your feet out and exfoliate immediately to ease into your routine. Avoid a mess with the toe-touch power button on top of the bath.
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MINKINH Professional Pedicure Tools Set
This set contains 26 tools to completely transform your feet from cracked and thirsty to moisturized and plush. Tools include an exfoliating rasp, callus remover, various nail bed tools, sponge separators and a travel bag. If you’re looking for a basic set to get you started, this is an economical choice. All the tools are steel and plastic-based, so sanitization will not damage the products.
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Yougai Manicure Set Nail Clippers Pedicure Kit
For a more nail-focused pedicure, this kit includes 18 stainless steel hand and foot care tools and some tools you can use for facial grooming. With a sleek travel case to carry your tools, you can take your set on the go for a quick touch-up to your pedi. This set is exclusively for nail care and does not include any tools for foot skin care.
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Top foot masks for an at-home pedicure
If you need to shed dead skin, revive your feet and moisturize the natural skin barrier, opt for this peeling foot mask. The two booties are full of enriching ingredients, including glycolic acid, orange peel and grapefruit oil. Just slide your feet into the two booties provided, and leave them on for one hour. Rinse and see results within one week. Achieve exfoliation without any harsh and abrasive scrubbing or filing.
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Full of rich vitamins and natural ingredients, these foot masks come as a six-pack for gifting or your next few pedicure treatments. Each package contains two socks that use jojoba oil, shea butter and vitamin E to restore dry feet. These socks are size inclusive and can fit up to women’s size 11 and men’s size 10. Put on the socks, and wait 20 minutes while the moisture locks into your skin.
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BERLIN (AP) — Two climbers were killed Friday and nine others injured by falling blocks of ice in the Alps in southern Switzerland, police said.
Police in Valais canton (state) were alerted shortly after 6 a.m. to the emergency in the Grand-Combin massif. Seven rescue helicopters were dispatched.
Seventeen climbers, in different groups, were in the area when the ice blocks broke off at an altitude of 3,400 meters (11,150 feet). Two people — a 40-year-old French woman and a 65-year-old Spanish man — died at the scene.
Police said another nine people were taken to hospitals in Sion and Lausanne, and that two of them were seriously hurt. Other climbers were evacuated by helicopter. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/2-killed-9-injured-in-ice-fall-in-southern-swiss-alps/ | 2022-05-27 19:18:16 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/2-killed-9-injured-in-ice-fall-in-southern-swiss-alps/ |
NEW YORK – Frank Galati, an actor, director, teacher and adapter who was a pivotal figure in Chicago's theater community and a two-time Tony Award winner, died Monday, according to Steppenwolf Theatre. He was 79.
Galati won twin Tonys in 1990 — best play and best director — for his adaptation and staging of Steppenwolf’s production of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” starring Gary Sinise as Tom Joad. He was also nominated for directing the 1998 celebrated musical “Ragtime.”
His screenwriting credits include “The Accidental Tourist,” for which he was an Oscar nominee. He also was credited for writing the teleplay to Arthur Miller’s play “The American Clock” in 1993.
He had highs but also lows on Broadway, including watching his production of “The Pirate Queen” be shipwrecked by blistering reviews and become one of Broadway’s costliest flops in 2007 and being fired in 2001 as director of “Seussical.”
Galati became a Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member in 1985 and the Goodman Theatre’s associate director a year later. He remained in that post until 2008. He was also an artistic associate at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.
In a joint statement, Steppenwolf’s co-artistic directors Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis paid tribute to Galati: “Frank had a profound impact on Steppenwolf, and all of us, over the years. For some, he was a teacher, mentor, director, adaptor, writer, fellow actor, and visionary. Regardless of the relationship, Frank always made others feel cared for, valued, and inspired in his ever-generous, joyful and compassionate presence.”
His productions at the Goodman include “The Visit,” “She Always Said Pablo,” “The Winter’s Tale,” “The Good Person of Setzuan” and “Cry the Beloved Country.” He most recently directed Asolo Repertory Theatre’s 2022 world premiere musical "Knoxville," written by the “Ragtime” team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
Galati's long career also included directing at the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as well as teaching performance study at Northwestern University for nearly 40 years.
“He seems to have five productions going at once, major ones, always juggling, always busy, always thrilled to be doing them all,” Sinise told the Los Angeles Times in 2007. “I’ve asked him several times how he does it, and he says he doesn’t know.”
Galati won several Joseph Jefferson Awards for outstanding achievements in Chicago theater, as well as two directing awards from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, a League of Chicago Theatres Artistic Leadership Award and an NAACP Theatre Award.
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Gladstone scientists engineer living biosensors to track the genetic activity of cells
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- If you want to track a person's activities for a day, you could call them up every ten minutes and ask what they're doing. Easier, though, would be to provide them with a journal to log their own actions. Scientists often rely on a method akin to the first to track how cells change over time; they pick cells out of a group at set time points and take a snapshot of their genetic activity.
Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes have developed a tool more like a journal or receipt book—it logs a cell's genetic activity for days at a time. The biological device, named a Retro-Cascorder, records data within strands of DNA, which can then be analyzed at any time to get the cell's activity log.
"This new way of collecting molecular data gives us an unprecedented window into cells," says Gladstone Assistant Investigator Seth Shipman, PhD, senior author of the new study published in the journal Nature. "In addition to providing a new tool for basic research, it lets us engineer cells to be living biosensors that can record changes to their environment."
While all cells within an organism have identical genomes, they differ in which genes are turned on or off at any given time. Researchers can measure the degree to which a given gene is turned on inside a cell at different timepoints to track how the cell's behavior, function, or identity changes over time.
Shipman and his colleagues wanted to engineer a system that would automatically record every time a particular gene was turned on. This would provide a more detailed look at a gene's activity pattern. Shipman has long been interested in the use of DNA to store data—in 2017, he encoded a movie into the DNA of living bacteria—so DNA was a natural medium for the cellular logbook.
"DNA is a flexible data storage medium in which you can really encode whatever you want," says Shipman. "It's also easy to use because it already exists within cells."
For the first step in creating the Retro-Cascorder, Shipman's group turned to retrons, bacterial elements that produce a specific sequence of DNA when activated. The researchers added a retron to the gene of interest. Every time the gene was activated, the retron machinery would also create a corresponding bit of DNA with a barcode unique to that gene.
"That retron acts like a receipt that tells you the gene was just turned on," says Santi Bhattarai-Kline, the first author of the new paper and a former research associate at Gladstone.
Next, the team wanted a molecular ledger to record these receipts in chronological order. For that, they used CRISPR arrays, long repetitive sequences of DNA where bacteria normally copy bits of genetic information they need for immune memory—in the order they receive this information.
By integrating these arrays into the same cells as the retron machinery, Shipman's group ensured that each DNA receipt produced by the retrons would be inserted into the CRISPR array. To retrieve the information contained in the CRISPR array, researchers just had to sequence the cell's genome and look at the succession of retron receipts in the array.
To show the utility of their new Retro-Cascorder, Shipman and his colleagues engineered Escherichia coli (E. coli) cells to contain retrons in genes that were known to be activated in the presence of certain chemicals. They showed that, over 48 hours, a CRISPR array could accurately record the order in which these genes were turned on—and therefore the order in which the researchers added these chemicals.
"This kind of application is what we think our system will be most useful for in the short-term," says Bhattarai-Kline. "Researchers could install multiple biosensors in a cell and use them to monitor an environment over time, from a pond or wastewater facility to the inside of the human gut."
In its current form, the Retro-Cascorder only tells researchers the order in which genes were turned on, not the amount of time that elapsed between these events. However, CRISPR arrays are constantly adding small bits of free-floating DNA inside cells as part of their immune memory function. If researchers discover that they are added at a predictable pace, these DNA bits could offer a kind of molecular clock to time precisely when each retron is integrated, and therefore when each gene activated.
So far, Shipman's group has only used the system to track a few genes at a time, rather than the many dozens that researchers might want to simultaneously monitor in the future. But the team is actively working on ways to expand Retro-Cascorders and adapt the system for use in cell types other than bacteria.
"This is not a perfect system yet, but we think it's still going to be better than existing methods, which only enable you to measure one event at a time," says Shipman.
The paper "Recording gene expression order in DNA by CRISPR addition of retron barcodes" was published in the journal Nature on July 27, 2022.
Other authors are Sierra Lear, Chloe Fishman, and Santiago Lopez of Gladstone; Elana Lockshin of Duke University; Max Schubert and George Church of Harvard University; and Jeff Nivala of the University of Washington.
The work was supported by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, the Pew Biomedical Scholars Program, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (1DP2GM140917-01), the UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research, the L.K. Whittier Foundation, the National Science Foundation (2034836), and a Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study.
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LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people are returning to England’s Glastonbury Festival as the five-day music and performing arts event reopened Wednesday for the first time in three years after being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The festival, which is marking its 50th anniversary, has 3,000 performers scheduled, including Billie Eilish, Diana Ross, Kendrick Lamar and Paul McCartney. McCartney’s weekend gig will make him, at age 80, the festival’s oldest solo headline performer.
Festival-goers started lining up to enter the gates at Worthy Farm in Somerset, southwest England, early Wednesday. Many struggled to get to the site because the festival coincided with the largest rail strike that Britain has seen in decades.
Just 60% of trains were expected to run on Wednesday, with more walkouts planned for Thursday and Saturday.
Hundreds of people waited with their bags at London’s Paddington Station to try to get on a train to the festival.
Camilla Seward, 26, described feeling “abject panic” when the rail strikes were announced.
“It is my first-ever actual festival. We bought the ticket nearly three years ago. I’ve been so stressed out about getting there that I haven’t even thought about who I am excited to see,” she said.
Jenna Conway, 30, thought she could beat travel disruption by getting to Paddington eaerly, but she and a friend were left queuing for hours.
“We got here three hours ahead of our train, we were stupid, we just thought we could jump on any train. We thought they would be kind because of the strikes, but they didn’t let us on, so now we wait,” she said.
Some 200,000 people are expected to attend the festival, which runs until Sunday.
“The wait has been so long and it’s just the biggest build up we’ve ever had,” festival organizer Emily Eavis said.
“Getting Paul McCartney for us is just the ultimate, just the person to have this year to actually bring this whole thing back and bring everybody together,” Eavis said. “And what better way to celebrate that than having Paul McCartney himself.”
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TORONTO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2022 Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Data Quadrant, naming five providers as Gold Medalists.
In the wake of the global pandemic, the urgency to transition to remote work has created new cybersecurity challenges for organizations. Emerging technologies and evolving methodologies have also created additional pressures to keep up with new business processes, further impacting core governance and regulatory compliance.
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software solutions provide an integrated and comprehensive view of an organization's GRC activities to minimize financial, legal, and other liabilities. This holistic view provides for a coordinated approach to ensure the organization is managing its risk factors and is compliant with all laws and regulations under which it operates.
To support businesses in the digital market, SoftwareReviews has identified the top GRC software providers for the year based on verified survey data collected from 372 end-user reviews. These providers have received high scores on SoftwareReviews' Data Quadrant.
Providers are ranked by a composite satisfaction score called a Composite Score (CS), which averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend.
The 2022 Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software Gold Medalists are as follows:
- Onspring GRC Suite, 9.2 CS, ranked high for vendor support.
- Oracle Enterprise Risk Management, 8.0 CS, ranked high for reports and dashboards.
- ZenGRC, 7.9 CS, ranked high for threat and vulnerability.
- OneTrust GRC and Security Assurance Cloud, 7.9 CS, ranked high for policy management.
- SAP GRC, and Cybersecurity, 7.9 CS, ranked high for workflow management.
SoftwareReviews' comprehensive software reviews provide the most accurate and detailed view of a complicated and ever-changing market. The data comes from real end users who use the software day in and day out and IT professionals who have worked with it intimately through procurement, implementation, and maintenance.
To compare and evaluate governance, risk, and compliance software providers using the most in-depth and unbiased analyst reports available, visit SoftwareReviews' dedicated GRC category page.
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UNC football coach Mack Brown has 'more unanswered questions right now than any other time in my career'
CHAPEL HILL — Mack Brown is a Hall of Fame college football coach with 33 mostly successful seasons under his belt, including a national championship. But when Brown kicks off his 34th year at the helm Saturday, he'll do so with more questions about his 2022 North Carolina team than any other he's coached.
The uncertainty isn't the kind Brown experienced during his first stint at UNC back in the late 1980s when the lack of depth and quality players led to consecutive 1-10 finishes before the Tar Heels reeled off eight straight winning seasons and cracked the national top 10.
This time it's more about inexperience as UNC attempts to rebound from a 2021 season that began with great expectations, but ended with a disappointing 6-7 finish.
"When I say there are probably more unanswered questions right now than at any other time in my career that means we've got a lot of really talented young players who haven't played, and we don't know how they are going to respond,'' Brown said earlier this week.
"We're very talented, but we're very inexperienced. You can't answer inexperience, game-type questions during the week. They've performed well in practice. We like what we see.''
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North Carolina's depth chart for the Week Zero opener against Florida A&M at Kenan Stadium (8 p.m., ACC Network) will feature 13 sophomores, six redshirt freshmen and nine true freshmen.
There will be 13 new starters in the opening lineup, including highly touted redshirt quarterback Drake Maye. Maye, the No. 9-ranked quarterback prospect in the recruiting Class of 2021, will make his initial college start as the Tar Heels kick off for the first time in three years without record-setting Sam Howell under center. Backup sophomore Jacolby Criswell is also expected to take snaps against A&M.
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Maye is part of two straight nationally top 20-ranked recruiting classes that Brown hopes can help answer some of the questions surrounding the 2022 squad. Twenty players from those classes, which were ranked No. 14 and No. 11 nationally by 247Sports.com, are on the depth chart for Saturday's opener and six are listed as starters.
"We've been here (UNC) going on our fourth year,'' Brown said. "We've really had two-and-a-half recruiting classes, so some of our best players are young. Last year's recruiting class was unbelievable and a lot of those guys will play Saturday for the first time.''
At least 10 true freshmen who caught the attention of Brown and team veterans in preseason camp, are expected to make their college debut Saturday.
Junior cornerback Storm Duck pointed out corner Marcus Allen as one of the freshmen who have made their mark. Allen, a 6-1, 175-pounder from Marietta, Georgia, is No. 2 on the opening depth chart behind junior Tony Grimes.
"Marcus is long, tall and quick,'' Duck said. "He's talented and real competitive, too.''
Nose tackle Travis Shaw, a 6-foot-5, 355-pounder from Greensboro, was one of the most heralded prospects in the 2022 recruiting class. Shaw was rated the nation's No. 6 defensive line prospect by 247Sports.com and chose UNC over Clemson and Georgia.
Shaw is one of four players listed on the depth chart at nose tackle, but starter Ray Vohasek believes he'll be an asset at that position.
"Travis had a great spring, especially coming right out of high school,'' Vohasek said. "Then, right when we started camp, he picked up right where he left off. He's been improving day by day. I've been trying to help him out as much as I can. I think he can really help us this year especially with what he brings to the table with his size and athleticism.''
Now it's a matter of seeing how those young and untested players perform on the field.
"We've got a lot of question marks that will be answered Saturday night at 8:15,'' Brown said. "Everybody will see it when we see it.''
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(NewsNation) — A woman has been charged after a confrontation with football star Terrell Owens in which she accused the former NFL superstar of harassing her. Many online deemed the encounter an example of a “racist Karen” unjustly attacking a Black man.
In the August incident, which was filmed by Owens, his neighbor accused him of speeding in the neighborhood, running a stop sign and nearly running her off the road. After Owens got out of the vehicle to speak with the woman, she called police to report him and told dispatchers she was being harassed.
The woman, identified in court records as Caitlin Davis, can be heard saying to Owens, “you’re a Black man approaching a white woman.”
Speaking Thursday on “CUOMO,” Owens said he was “overwhelmed” by what Davis said to him but wasn’t necessarily shocked.
“This is something we as Black people go through on an everyday basis,” Owens said. “Thankfully, now things are being exposed thanks to mobile devices and social media.”
Davis has been charged with a misdemeanor count of filing a false police report in Broward County, Florida. In a probable cause affidavit, the responding officer said Owens denied the allegations and he said he couldn’t have been speeding because he was traveling a short distance to the mailbox.
The report states there was no physical contact between the pair and that David did not have any witnesses or video to support her allegations.
Owens said he was satisfied that Davis has been charged and he wants to use his platform to help others who may be put in a similar situation.
“if the roles were reversed, they would be going to the fullest extent of the law to charge me,” Owens said. “It doesn’t matter what type of neighborhood you’re in. This is the reality of the life of a Black American.” | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/terrell-owens-neighbor-charged-in-confrontation-with-former-nfl-star/ | 2022-10-28 18:16:36 | 1 | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/terrell-owens-neighbor-charged-in-confrontation-with-former-nfl-star/ |
Dog found hanging in carrier on animal organization’s front door
OKLAHOMA CITY (Gray News) - An animal organization in Oklahoma said its staff found a dog left at its front door over Independence Day weekend.
According to the Oklahoma Humane Society, a Chihuahua was found in its carrier hanging from their front door last Saturday.
“Thankfully, the pup is just fine, but we wanted to address situations like this and ask for your help,” a spokesperson for the nonprofit wrote.
The organization said it wanted to take this time to point out the current situation when it comes to the available space at the facility.
“We don’t have sheltering facilities for animals to be housed. Even the dogs at our adoption center are dropped off and picked up by their fosters until they are adopted,” the spokesperson said.
And this comes at a time that other animal facilities are closing their doors due to the canine flu.
“We know this is frustrating, especially to well-intentioned people wanting to drop off stray animals,” the nonprofit shared. “OK Humane is currently doing everything we possibly can to step in and fill the gaps.”
The Fourth of July often keeps animal service teams extremely busy, and the animal care team in Oklahoma shared tips for keeping pets safe over the holiday.
“A collective community effort to help our community’s animals can make a difference,” the team shared.
Representatives of the Oklahoma Humane Society also urged those in the community to become foster parents to an animal in need of a home.
“Being a foster costs you nothing but your time. If you can open your home to a pet in need, you can help us save more lives,” the nonprofit shared.
The organization thanked those who have already helped adopt an animal in need, with 66 pets finding a new home the previous week.
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Trump’s target letter suggests the sprawling US probe into the 2020 election is zeroing in on him
WASHINGTON (AP) — A target letter sent to Donald Trump suggests that a sprawling Justice Department investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election is zeroing in on him after more than a year of interviews with top aides to the former president and state officials from across the country.
Federal prosecutors have cast a wide net, asking witnesses in recent months about a chaotic White House meeting that included discussion of seizing voting machines and about lawyers’ involvement in plans to block the transfer of power, according to people familiar with the probe. They’ve discussed with witnesses schemes by Trump associates to enlist slates of Republican fake electors in battleground states won by Democrat Joe Biden and interviewed state election officials who faced a pressure campaign over the election results in the days before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
It is unclear how much longer special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation will last, but its gravity was evident Tuesday when Trump disclosed that he had received a letter from the Justice Department advising him that he was a target of the probe. Such letters often precede criminal charges; Trump received one ahead of his indictment last month on charges that he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.
Though it’s not known when charges might come, the scope of the inquiry stands in stark contrast to Smith’s much narrower classified documents investigation. The vast range of witnesses is a reminder of the tumultuous two months between Trump’s election loss and the insurrection at the Capitol, when some lawyers and advisers aided his futile efforts to remain president while many others implored him to move on or were relentlessly badgered to help alter results.
A spokesperson for Smith declined to comment about the target letter or the interviews that prosecutors have conducted.
Even before Smith inherited the election interference probe last November, Justice Department investigators had already interviewed multiple Trump administration officials, including the chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence and former top lawyers at the White House, scrutinized post-election fundraising and seized as potential evidence the cellphones of numerous lawyers and officials.
Since then, Smith’s team has questioned senior administration officials including Pence himself before a grand jury in Washington and has conducted voluntary interviews with a wide array of witnesses inside and outside the federal government. Those include election officials in states where Trump associates waged fruitless challenges to get results overturned in the Republican incumbent’s favor.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was personally lobbied by Trump to “find 11,780 votes” to overtake Biden, has been interviewed by Smith’s team, as has Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, according to their representatives.
Wisconsin’s top elections administrator and election leaders in Milwaukee and Madison have spoken with federal investigators. And former Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who silenced a call from the Trump White House as he was publicly certifying Biden’s narrow victory in the state, has been contacted by Smith’s team, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
One person familiar with Smith’s investigation said prosecutors in recent months have expressed interest in the ordeal of Ruby Freeman, a Georgia election worker who along with her daughter recounted to the House of Representative’s Jan. 6 committee how their lives became upended when Trump and allies latched onto surveillance footage to level since-debunked allegations of voter fraud.
Smith’s team has subpoenaed Raffensperger’s office for any “security video or security footage, or any other video of any kind” from State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Nov. 3, 2020, according to a copy of the document obtained by The Associated Press. That’s the video Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies have claimed showed Fulton County election workers, including Freeman, pulling “suitcases of ballots” from under a table. Georgia officials have repeatedly called those claims false.
A consistent area of interest for investigators has been the role played by Trump-allied lawyers in helping him cling to power, according to people familiar with the investigation who, like others interviewed for the story, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal probe.
John Eastman, a conservative law professor, advanced a dubious legal theory that said Pence could halt the certification of state electoral votes to block Biden’s win. Another lawyer, Sidney Powell, promoted baseless claims of voter fraud and pushed an idea — vigorously opposed by Trump’s lawyers at the White House — that Trump had the authority under an earlier executive order to seize state voting machines.
Charles Burnham, a lawyer for Eastman, said Tuesday that his client had not received a target letter. “We don’t expect one since raising concerns about illegality in the conduct of an election is not now and has never been sanctionable,” he said. A lawyer for Powell declined to comment.
Multiple witnesses have been asked about a heated Dec. 18, 2020 meeting at the White House in which outside advisers, including Powell, raised the voting machines idea, people familiar with the matter said. The meeting, which devolved into a shouting match, featured prominently in the House Jan. 6 investigation, with former White House official Cassidy Hutchinson memorably describing it as “unhinged.”
Giuliani, a Trump lawyer who participated in the meeting and who spearheaded legal challenges to the election results, was asked about that meeting during a voluntary interview with Smith’s team and also detailed to prosecutors Powell’s involvement in failed efforts to overturn the election, according to a person familiar with his account. Giuliani has not received a target letter.
Giuliani’s interview was part of what’s known as a proffer agreement, the person said, in which a person speaks voluntarily with investigators while prosecutors agree not to use those statements in any criminal case they might bring. Prosecutors have worked to negotiate similar arrangements with other witnesses.
As prosecutors dig into efforts by Trump allies to thwart Biden’s victory, they’ve focused on the creation of slates of fake electors from key states captured by Biden who were enlisted by Trump and his allies to sign false certificates stating that Trump had actually won.
Smith’s team has also focused on Trump’s efforts to punish officials from his administration who contradicted his false election fraud claims.
Chris Krebs, who was fired by Trump as director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency after vouching for the integrity of the 2020 vote, was interviewed by prosecutors a couple of months ago about the perceived retaliation, according to a person familiar with the questioning.
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Associated Press writers Kate Brumback and Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta, Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis., Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix, Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Mich., and Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
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Mexican authorities find 10 dismembered bodies under the floor of events hall near Mexico City
Members of a Mexican gang lead by '666' were arrested
Authorities said Tuesday that they had unearthed 10 dismembered bodies from under the floor of an events hall in central Mexico.
The grisly discovery was made in the town of Tenango del Valle, just west of Mexico City, after an investigation into the activities of nine men believed to belong to the Jalisco drug cartel, prosecutors in Mexico State said over the weekend.
The men were arrested after kidnapping a woman and starting to cut off her fingers, prosecutors said. The leader of the gang is known by his diabolical nickname "666."
MEXICO CITY SAYS EXTORTION GANG RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING ATTACK ON REPORTER
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ARDEN HILLS, Minn., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Egg Medical, Inc., a medical device company commercializing technologies to reduce scatter radiation exposure during interventional angiographic procedures, today announced that it has achieved CE Mark for the EggNest™ XR radiation protection system. The EggNest protects the entire interventional team in hospital x-ray labs (cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, interventional radiology, and operating rooms) from the harm of long-term exposure to scatter radiation.
"Occupational exposure of hospital staff to x-rays during medical procedures is an important workplace risk. Almost everyone in the interventional cardiology and radiology profession knows someone with a radiation related illness. There have been minimal improvements in x-ray shielding over the past 30 years, leaving the medical teams working in these environments exposed to scatter radiation every day," said Robert F. Wilson MD, Egg Medical CEO. "The EggNest platform addresses the problem of hospital personnel radiation exposure for everyone working in these environments by reducing scatter radiation by an average of 91 percent."
With the CE Mark certification, Egg Medical will continue expansion into all markets recognizing the CE Mark.
"At Egg Medical, our belief is that everyone deserves protection, meaning the entire interventional team," said Wilson. "With CE mark approval of the EggNest platform, we are bringing this protection to more interventional teams worldwide."
Scatter radiation is a form of secondary radiation created when the primary x-ray beam used to image the patient's anatomy during interventional fluoroscopy procedures is reflected off the patient's body in the procedure room. Physicians and staff who work in these environments are exposed to scatter radiation during medical procedures (such as angioplasty, stenting, and transcatheter valve treatment), putting them at increased risk for long-term health effects. Mounting published data show a link between this occupational radiation exposure and cancer, cataracts, hypertension, and neuro-degenerative issues, despite the use of standard x-ray shielding.
The EggNest™ XR is a comprehensive, scatter radiation protection system fully integrated into the workflow of the modern Cath Lab. The system is built on a novel carbon fiber platform with integrated radiation shielding that replaces the patient mattress on the x-ray table. It protects the entire medical team regardless of location, dramatically reducing scatter radiation exposure. Testing performed by the company and confirmed by independent hospital studies have shown that the EggNest™ system reduces room scatter radiation by 91 percent vs. standard shielding.
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --"I wanted to create an improved sunshade system to protect a vehicle when parked in the sun," said an inventor, from Mesa, Ariz., "so I invented the ALL WEATHER SHADE. My design would prevent the vehicle interior from overheating."
The patent-pending invention provides improved window shades for a parked vehicle. In doing so, it helps keep the interior cool and comfortable and it helps to prevent heat-related damage. It also can be used to melt snow and ice from the windows in the winter. The invention features a user-friendly design that is easy to use so it is ideal for vehicle owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Phoenix sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-PBT-242, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – As more and more states legalize marijuana, and Congress sits on the cusp of passing a landmark bipartisan marijuana bill, things may be looking up for cannabis users nationwide. But not too far up, especially those gearing up to fly for the holidays – you may be held up in TSA over it.
There are numerous items you can pack while preparing for holiday travel but marijuana isn’t exactly one of them. There are, of course, exceptions.
Marijuana itself remains illegal on the federal level, TSA reminded last week. That includes certain cannabis-infused products as well, like CBD oil.
However, cannabis products containing no more than 0.3 percent THC on a dry weight basis or those approved by the FDA are the exceptions. These items are permitted in both carry-on bags and checked bags, according to TSA.
These rules apply regardless of where you’re flying from or into.
“TSA’s response to the discovery of marijuana is the same in every state and at every airport – regardless of whether marijuana has been or is going to be legalized at the state level,” TSA spokesperson Lorie Dankers tells Nexstar. “This also covers medical marijuana.”
Still, the agency’s main focus is on passenger safety and potential threats.
“The TSA has gone out of its way to say that its focus is not on marijuana,” Larry Mishkin, an Illinois lawyer at the Hoban Law Group, which offers legal services for individuals in the marijuana industry, recently told The Washington Post.
Though TSA notes its officers do not search for marijuana or other illegal drugs, officers are required to report any item they find that may violate the law during the security screening process to local law enforcement. Those authorities then decide what, if any, steps are taken next.
“Whether or not the passenger is allowed to travel with marijuana is up to law enforcement’s discretion,” Dankers adds. Either way, cannabis products can’t go through the security checkpoint if found.
Some airports, like Chicago’s O’Hare, offer cannabis amnesty boxes where travelers can ditch their weed before going through TSA. At Los Angeles International Airport, the LA Airport Police Division has “no jurisdiction to arrest individuals if they are complying with state law” while in possession of marijuana. But, the airport warns, TSA screening areas are still under federal jurisdiction – you may still have to ditch the weed, but you likely won’t be arrested.
Ultimately, as Dankers explains, “TSA’s focus is on terrorism and security threats to the aircraft and its passengers.” | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/can-you-bring-marijuana-on-a-plane-through-a-tsa-checkpoint/ | 2022-12-17 19:49:57 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/can-you-bring-marijuana-on-a-plane-through-a-tsa-checkpoint/ |
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Investigators said a University of Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder provided the gun used in the fatal shooting, but another man fired the weapon.
Investigators wrote in a court document that Darius Miles admitted to providing the handgun immediately before the shooting. Another man is accused of firing the gun and killing a young woman near the university’s campus, according to court documents filed in Tuscaloosa.
Miles, 21, a junior reserve forward from Washington, D.C., and Michael Lynn Davis, 20, of Charles County, Maryland, are charged with capital murder in the shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris. The shooting occurred early Sunday on the Strip, a student-oriented business district of bars and restaurants near the Tuscaloosa campus. Harris was sitting in the passenger seat of a car when she was struck by a bullet, investigators wrote in the court document.
Tuscaloosa police Capt. Jack Kennedy declined to say Tuesday where Miles got the gun. As of Jan. 1, Alabama stopped requiring a permit to carry a concealed handgun.
Miles and Davis remained in the Tuscaloosa County jail, and Kennedy said a probable cause hearing could take 30 to 60 days in a capital murder case.
The University of Alabama said in a statement that Miles is no longer on the basketball team. The fourth-ranked Crimson Tide are scheduled to play Vanderbilt on Tuesday night in Nashville.
Defense lawyers for Miles released a statement on Monday saying Miles maintains his innocence and that he and his family “are heartbroken” over Harris’ death.
“While Darius has been accused of being involved with this tragedy, he maintains his innocence and looks forward to his day in court,” they said. “Our firm’s own investigation is ongoing, and no further statement will be made at this time,” attorneys William White, Clayton Tartt and Suzanne Norman from the the Birmingham-based Boles Holmes White law firm wrote in the statement.
Basketball coach Nate Oats said Monday his players are going through “kind of a grieving process.”
“They didn’t have too many questions,” Oats said of the players. “It’s really just more of kind of a grieving process. I mean, they understand the severity of the situation with Jamea. They also understand the severity of the situation with Darius. There’s both sides of it, dealing with it.” | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-investigators-miles-provided-gun-in-fatal-shooting/ | 2023-01-17 22:08:13 | 1 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-investigators-miles-provided-gun-in-fatal-shooting/ |
The Dalles High School Drama Department’s spring musical “Spin: A Musical Myth,” will open Thursday, April 21.
“Spin” is a musical retelling of the myth of Arachne and Athena set to a rock, jazz, and folk score. Arachne, a headstrong teen determined to achieve success and fame as an artist is encouraged by the Muses to leave her hometown for the big city of Athens, where she is challenged to compete by the jealous goddess of weaving herself: The mighty Athena.
Performances are on April 21-23 and April 28-29 at 7:30 p.m. and April 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and students and $8 for senior citizens and children 12 and under. Doors will open 30 minutes before each performance.
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Police: Man screaming, banging on front doors was bloody, nearly naked
STOCKTON, Calif. (Gray News) – Police in California say a man is not expected to survive after he was found bloody and nearly naked, banging on people’s doors and screaming.
The Stockton Police Department said officers were called to a neighborhood late Wednesday evening for reports of a suspicious person walking up to people’s front doors and screaming.
When officers arrived, they found a man sitting on a vehicle wearing only his underwear. He was also bleeding from his head.
Officers said as they approached him, he fell off the car and began rolling on the ground, screaming. Police said the man also threw rocks at the officers.
Medics were called to the scene and the man was placed on a gurney and put in an ambulance. Stockton police said a short time later, the man became unresponsive, and first responders attempted CPR. He was taken to the hospital but is not expected to survive.
Due to the man becoming unresponsive while in police custody, the Stockton Police Department launched a multi-agency critical incident investigation to ensure proper protocols were followed. The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office, San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation, the California Department of Justice, and the San Joaquin County Medical Examiner’s Office are involved in the investigation.
Police are not publicly identifying the man. The investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to call the Stockton Police Department’s Investigations Division at (209) 937-8323.
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A 31-year-old Beaumont man was sentenced to a decade in federal prison for drug trafficking and firearms violations.
Tywayne Marquis Parker pleaded guilty in February to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, according to a news release from the United States Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Texas.
The man was caught in June 2021 when stopped for a traffic violation, the release said. During a vehicle search, police found two guns, about 100 grams of pills containing meth, "a large amount of cash and other evidence of drug trafficking," the release said.
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Tree trimmer dies after falling into wood chipper, police say
Published: Oct. 12, 2022 at 7:47 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
MENLO PARK, Calif. (Gray News) – A tree trimmer in California was killed Tuesday after falling into a wood chipper, according to the Menlo Park Police Department.
Police said the man was dead from injuries sustained in the incident when they arrived on the scene just before 1 p.m.
The man’s identity has not yet been released.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death.
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US military drops appeal of Hawaii order to drain fuel tanks
HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday dropped its appeals of a Hawaii order requiring it to remove fuel from a massive military fuel storage facility that leaked petroleum into the Navy’s water system at Pearl Harbor last year.
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Defense notified the state and federal courts of its decision. The move comes more than a month after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the military would permanently shut down the tanks and drain all of their fuel.
The Hawaii Department of Health, which issued the order, said the decision regarding the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility was a “step forward.”
“While today’s announcement is good news, the work continues,” the department said in a statement. It said it would “continue to act expeditiously and proactively to oversee the safe defueling and decommissioning of Red Hill and restoration of the aquifer.”
David Henkin, an attorney for Earthjustice which is representing the Sierra Club of Hawaii as an interested party in the case said his clients would remain vigilant to make sure the tanks are promptly defueled.
“It’s a wonderful Earth Day gift to the people of Hawaii and in particular to all the residents of Oahu who depend on safe, clean drinking water when they turn on their tap,” Henkin said.
The Navy and the Hawaii Department of Health did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
Henkin said even if Austin were to change his mind and try to keep the tanks open, the military will now face “an enforceable, unimpeachable, unchallengeable order from the Department of Health that they need to follow.”
The order from the Hawaii Department of Health requires the military to remove fuel from the tanks 30 days after it’s safe to do so. The military will have to stick to this deadline now that it’s dropping the appeal, Henkin said.
The military, with oversight from the state health department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is currently developing plans to safely remove the fuel. It’s uncertain how long this will take.
Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, said in a statement that the dropping of the lawsuit “paves the way for us to shut down Red Hill this year.”
The legal challenge made it hard for the state to work cooperatively with the Defense Department, Schatz said. He said he pushed hard for the military to make this decision.
Petroleum leaked from the Red Hill tanks into a Navy drinking water well late last year, sickening 6,000 people mostly living in military housing. Medical teams treated people complaining of nausea, headaches, rashes and other symptoms. The military put about 4,000 families in hotels for several months while it cleaned its water pipes.
The tanks also pose a threat to water consumed by 400,000 on Oahu. That’s because they sit 100 feet (30 meters) above an aquifer that serves the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, the city’s water utility, in addition to the Navy’s water system.
The city utility has suspended use of three of its wells until it can be sure petroleum won’t migrate through the aquifer from the area by the Navy’s well to its own wells.
The water utility and local leaders are also worried another spill could poison the city’s water system.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A complex of giant tents built on an island is set to open Wednesday as New York City’s latest temporary shelter for an influx of international migrants being bused into the city by southern border states.
The humanitarian relief center on Randall’s Island is intended to be a temporary waystation for single, adult men — many from Venezuela — who have been arriving several times per week on buses chartered predominantly from Texas.
Spartan and utilitarian, the tents include cots for up to 500 people, laundry facilities, a dining hall and phones for residents to make international calls.
The city’s plan is to bring single men to the facility once they arrive at the main Manhattan bus terminal and to house them there for a period of days while determining next steps, officials said. Families with children are being housed in a hotel.
“We needed a different type of operation that gave us the time and space to welcome people, provide them a warm meal shower, a place to sleep, to understand their medical needs, to really then work with them to figure out what their next step is going to be,” said Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol.
The white, plastic-walled tents also include a space where migrants can meet with case workers to determine their next steps, as well as a recreational room with televisions, video games and board games. In the sleeping area, row upon row of green cots stretch out, each one with a pillow, some sheets and a blanket, and some towels. The city said it will be able to double the sleeping capacity of the tents, if needed.
In recent months, New York City has seen an unexpected increase in migrants seeking asylum in the United States who have been sent to the city from other states including Texas and Arizona. The influx has put a strain on the city’s shelter system, leading officials to look for other places to house people and proposing the temporary tent facilities.
New York City’s homeless shelter system is now bursting with more than 63,300 residents. While there are fewer families in the shelters now than there were in the years before the pandemic, the number of single men has soared since the spring, largely because of the influx of migrants. There were more than 20,000 single adults in the shelter system Monday, up 23% from the nightly average in July.
Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency earlier this month, calling the increased demand being put on the city “not sustainable.”
The tents were initially planned for a far-off corner of the Bronx, but were moved after concerns about flooding and criticism from immigrant advocates over the remote location. Iscol said the Randall’s Island location was safe from flooding.
Advocates remain concerned even with the new location, questioning what conditions migrants will be kept in, and whether the support they get will be adequate.
Randall’s Island is located in the waters between the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens. Five bridges connect it to the three boroughs, and the city’s subway system is a bus ride or walk away.
It’s already put to a variety of uses — there are numerous athletic fields, as well as Icahn Stadium, a track and field facility. There’s also a psychiatric hospital and a fire academy for the Fire Department of New York. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/ap-nyc-opens-emergency-center-for-influx-of-bused-migrants/ | 2022-10-19 13:33:39 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/ap-nyc-opens-emergency-center-for-influx-of-bused-migrants/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Here are the 20 most-watched programs in prime-time television for the week of Oct. 24-30, according to the Nielsen company.
1. NFL Football: Green Bay at Buffalo, NBC, 19.62 million.
2. “NFL Pregame,” NBC, 15.31.
3. World Series, Game 1: Philadelphia at Houston, Fox, 11.48 million.
4. World Series, Game 2: Philadelphia at Houston, Fox, 10.8 million.
5. NFL Football: Chicago at New England, ESPN, 10.35 million.
6. “The OT,” Fox, 10.32 million.
7. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 10.24 million.
8. NFL Football: N.Y. Giants at Seattle, Fox, 9.22 million.
9. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 8.04 million.
10. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 7.07 million.
11. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.97 million.
12. “Ghosts,” CBS, 6.78 million.
13. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 5.95 million.
14. “East New York,” CBS, 5.84 million.
15. “Football Night in America, Part 2,” NBC, 5.83 million.
16. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 5.77 million.
17. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 5.76 million.
18. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 5.68 million.
19. College Football: Michigan St. at Michigan, ABC, 5.58 million.
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The federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) is launching an investigation after U.S. Forest Service-controlled burns that escaped caused the largest wildfire ever recorded in New Mexico.
The GAO is examining controlled burn policies at the Forest Service and other federal land agencies.
On May 20, USFS Chief Randy Moore halted all so-called prescribed fires on its land for a 90-day safety review. The New Mexico fire has burned more than 340,000 acres and is still not fully contained.
But many fire ecologists and forestry experts are concerned that this "pause" is only worsening the wildfire risk. Critics say it's merely masking the agency's dangerously incremental, outdated and problematic approach to intentional burns and fire mitigation, a policy that has failed to adapt to climate change and megadrought.
"A lot of the planning tools that fire managers rely upon for planning prescribed burns were built under a climate that no longer exists," says biologist and professor Matthew Hurteau, who studies the intersection of climate change, wildfire and forest ecosystems at the University of New Mexico. "That's a systemic problem," he says.
Controlled burns are seen by forest ecologists as perhaps the most essential tool for reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire and helping to undo a century of fire suppression policy that has worsened wildfire conditions that now annually wreak havoc across large swaths of the West.
Climate change makes controlled burns more urgent and dangerous
Hurteau and others are concerned that the Forest Service — and other fire agencies — continue to fail to put climate change at the fore of decision-making, despite mounting scientific evidence and the agency's own stated goals about reducing dangerously high levels of built-up fuel in western forests.
"We've seen pretty substantial changes to the climatic conditions, particularly here in the Southwest, but across much of the Western U.S. And we need to address that by developing new tools that account for the fact that we've got these persistent drying trends in a much warmer and much drier atmosphere," Hurteau says.
The Forest Service's recently released internal review of the New Mexico burn only magnifies those criticisms, as it amounts to a stunning admission by the agency that it essentially failed to take climate change into account when conducting an intentional burn during a historic drought.
Numerous sections of the report underscore that point, including noting that prescribed fire officials failed to realize it was set "under much drier conditions than were recognized." And it notes that a better understanding "of long-term drought and climate factors versus short term weather events" would have helped.
"Seems astounding," fire ecologist Timothy Ingalsbee tells NPR's Here and Now. "Never again should we have the excuse that we failed to include climate conditions and climate data in our fire management actions. That's just the era we live in," says the former Forest Service wildland firefighter who now directs the group Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology. "I can understand why people are upset. It sounds like the 'dog ate my homework' kind of excuse,' he says.
Human-caused climate change is driving ever drier conditions, extreme weather and megadrought. That's turning live vegetation into fuel even faster and making the forests' old built-up fuel more explosive.
Ingalsbee and other experts in the field say the pace and scale at which the USFS is implementing intentional fire is dangerously insufficient. He hopes the agency uses this 90-day burn pause to start to make good on its stated goal of making a fundamental shift away from prioritizing wildfire suppression.
"If we were to shift those resources and funding into prescribed burning, have as many crews as possible to manage prescribed burning, that would be a big help."
Funding to prevent fires, not just fight them
Leading politicians, too, are frustrated. In a letter, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, recently chastised the U.S. secretaries of Interior and Agriculture for not moving fast enough to hire more firefighters amid a staffing crisis and to boost pay. And he implored them to answer basic questions about wildfire mitigation strategy and spending despite a record infusion of new federal money. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed last November, provides some $8 billion for states to help mitigate wildfire risk and $600 million to raise firefighter pay.
"Your departments received this much needed support. Now, more than six months after being given this new flexibility, we are past time for action," Wyden wrote.
The people who fight wildfires are often the same ones doing the controlled burns. So there are growing calls for the Forest Service to do more to help develop a dedicated, prescribed fire workforce with training academies and recruiting. Experts have long called for creation of a professional corps dedicated to expanding prescribed fire — experts who can move swiftly across geographic and political boundaries the same way wildfires always do.
"What we need to do as a society is make a fairly substantial investment in training and developing a professionalized fire management workforce," says the University of New Mexico's Hurteau. "And, you know, that's going to take some structural changes to our federal land management agencies."
"For the United States Forest Service to say they followed their policies and procedures does not take into account that those policies and procedures themselves were flawed," says New Mexico Democratic Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, who pushed for the Government Accountability Office investigation. Large parts of her district were devastated by the historic fire.
Fernandez says she is frustrated "when I read the Forest Service kind of hiding behind that they followed their burn plan without saying 'our burn plan was flawed and we need to completely rethink how we do our prescribed burns.' That's why I want an independent investigation, because we need to regain the trust in the Forest Service," she says.
The GAO probe, she says, will examine policies and procedures and come up with recommendations lawmakers might turn into action.
Forest fuel levels are now at "crisis proportions"
The Forest Service is well aware that fuel levels, as it states in its own reports, are now at "crisis proportions." The agency's blueprint "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis" concedes that "the scale of work on the ground has not matched the need, and it will take nothing less than a paradigm shift to protect the Nation's western communities."
In announcing the intentional burn pause, Forest Service Chief Randy Moore wrote that it's "imperative for the Forest Service and partners to work together to increase fuels treatments by up to four times current levels in the West, including using prescribed burning as well as mechanical and other treatments."
But many in the field are simply fed up with the agency's minor, incremental approach to change while the climate crisis routinizes megafires that are devastating lives, property and livestock and altering the Western landscape.
"We all know federal agency agencies turn at the speed of an aircraft carrier, they're just incredibly slow," fire expert Barbara Satink-Wolfson says. "Yes, we have to be patient. But at the same time, we're all impatient because we know that we really need to make this change quickly."
The federal agency says that at least 234 million acres of forest are at a high risk of dangerous wildfire. But in the last decade, controlled burns have treated less than 1% of that total.
For those reasons and others, experts worry that the agency's prescribed fire "pause" is little more than political window dressing that tapes over those ongoing, glaring gaps between rhetoric and reality. Hurteau notes that just about all of the peer reviewed research on the issue as well as the Forest Service's own plans for reducing hazardous forest fuels call for a historic scaling-up of prescribed burns.
"The question remains: Is the agency ready to make changes to the point that it will create conditions where the personnel, their personnel can do that effectively and that they're well supported and well-resourced in order to accomplish those goals?"
As the New Mexico megafire clearly shows, prescribed fire can be risky. But prescribed fire "escapes" are still very rare — fewer than 1%. And the vast majority of those are contained relatively quickly and without widespread damage.
In an open letter to Chief Moore, dozens of forest experts with the Association for Fire Ecology recently urged him to reverse course and not make intentional burn pause nationwide. Doing so, they argued, will only make fire conditions worse in places that are not too dry to burn.
"There's basically a small window in which they can conduct the prescribed burn," says Satink-Wolfson, one of the letter signers and a fire adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension on the Central Coast. "I think other places in the country could have continued. And we definitely missed opportunities."
In addition, the Forest Service assists or coordinates with many other federal and state agencies on prescribed burns, so the pause has a much wider national ripple effect, Satink-Wolfson says. "Projects that are collaborative with the Forest Service — and there are a lot of them — those will also be held up."
USFS Chief Moore repeatedly declined NPR's interview requests. Spokesman E. Wade Muehlhof, who also declined to be interviewed, wrote in an email that the agency's burn pause will be used to assess and improve safety protocols. Muehlhof added, "The devastation caused by Las Dispenses escaped prescribed fire in New Mexico is tragic and causes enormous grief within the agency."
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ROANOKE, Va. – The Patriots certainly have shown they have the strength to hang with Salem, and tonight, they proved it.
Patrick Henry showed all of that strength with their offensive line ready to go and a tough defense that kept the blocks going.
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Chisholm Trail Municipal Band Concert, 8 p.m. today, in the gazebo of Fuqua Park, Beech Avenue and U.S. 81, Duncan. Free.
Movies on the Beach: Jaws, 9 p.m. Saturday, LETRA, 7463 Deer Creek Canyon Road, Fort Sill. Free admission.
Party in the Park, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, O.H. Arnold Park, Northeast Dearborn and Albert Johnson Sr. Avenue. Free admission.
Top 25 Corvette Show, Celebrate Freedom Event and free lunch, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sunday, First Baptist Church West, 7302 Cache Road. Free. Corvette show from 8:45-10:15 a.m. Freedom celebration, 10:30 a.m.-noon; Lunch noon-1 p.m.
Kiowa Casino & Hotel annual fireworks show, 9 p.m. Sunday, at the casino, located 40 minutes south of Lawton on I-44, Exit 1, to Devol. Free admission.
Red White & Boom! fireworks show, with community activities, starting at 5 p.m. Monday, Abe Raizen Park, 2500 North N Street, Duncan. Wino Browne Band to start concert at 5:30 p.m.; fireworks show at 9:45 p.m. Also food trucks, games, youth events. Free admission.
Heroes of America Fireworks Show and Independence Day Celebration, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Tuesday, Apache Casino Hotel, 3215 E. Gore. Live entertainment, children’s activities, food vendors. Fireworks begin at 9:30 p.m. Free admission.
Old-Fashioned Independence Day Celebration, 9 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Redbud Park, 112 N. Elm, Marlow. Parade on Main Street; family-friendly activities in the park, to include games, rides, food vendors and arts and crafts. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m. Free admission. | https://www.swoknews.com/styles/this-weekend/article_50047d38-0cfd-50b8-b305-7353637b3903.html | 2023-06-30 12:20:34 | 0 | https://www.swoknews.com/styles/this-weekend/article_50047d38-0cfd-50b8-b305-7353637b3903.html |
Kate Hudson doesn’t know if she’s done having kids yet
Posted/updated on: December 13, 2022 at 8:02 amIs there a fourth baby in Kate Hudson's future? Even she can't say for sure.
Hudson, 43, tells Byrdie in a story published on Monday that she's “been having children [her] entire adult life” and hasn’t ruled out shooting for a fifth.
“I’ve got my 4-year-old, and I’ve got a kid in college,” notes Hudson, referring to her daughter Rani and 18-year-old son Ryder.
“I don’t even know if I’m done yet,” the Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery actress, who is also the mother of 11-year-old son Bingham, tells the beauty and wellness outlet. “You know, I don’t have that answer yet.”
Hudson says she's always evolving and recalibrating, asking herself, “Where am I at? And do I feel good? And do I feel healthy? And how are my kids? How’s my relationship?...Where do I need to spend some time refocusing?”
Hudson and musician Danny Fujikawa welcomed Rami in 2018 and announced their engagement this past September.
The Almost Famous star shares Ryder with ex-husband Chris Robinson, the frontman for The Black Crowes, and Bingham with ex Matt Bellamy, the frontman for Muse.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his young daughter to a soccer game celebrating the birthday of his late father, state media said Saturday, her latest in a series of public appearances that have triggered debate on whether she’s being prepped for a future leadership role.
The official Korean Central News Agency said the presence of Kim and his “beloved” daughter, known as Kim Ju Ae and believed to be around 10 years old, brought “joy and excitement” to Friday’s ceremonial game between staff members from the Cabinet and the Defense Ministry.
The Defense Ministry team won the match 3-1 and then beat the Cabinet staff again in a tug-of-war event, according to the report, which didn’t mention any comments made by Kim. The event was to celebrate the birthday of the late Kim Jong Il, the country’s previous leader and the father of the current ruler.
“The stadium was filled with joy and excitement of officials of the Cabinet and the Ministry of National Defense who had the great honor of holding significant sports and cultural events on the spring holiday of February in the presence of Kim Jong Un whom they wanted to see even in their dreams,” the KCNA report said. It said all participants at the event made a “firm pledge to serve the people with devotion with renewed courage and in high spirits.”
Photos published by North Korea’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed Kim and his daughter smiling and clapping from the VIP seats, where they sat in the center between senior government and military officials. Kim Yo Jong, Kim’s sister and one of his top foreign policy officials, was seen sitting in a row behind them.
The event marked the sixth known public appearance of Kim Ju Ae, but the first that wasn’t overtly related to her father’s nuclear arms ambitions. She was first shown on state media in November when Kim Jong Un brought her to observe a flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
She also appeared with her father in a huge military parade in the capital, Pyongyang, last week, when troops rolled out more than a dozen ICBMs, an unprecedented number that underscored how Kim continues to expand his military capabilities despite limited resources while diplomacy remains stalled.
Prior to the parade, Kim Ju Ae also joined her father in a visit to troops, where she sat in the seat of honor at a banquet while being flanked by her parents and generals. She also appears alongside her father in several new postal stamps released Friday to mark the November ICBM test, which the North has described as a success.
Analysts say Kim Ju Ae’s appearances at major events tied to the country’s military is her father’s way of reminding the world he will never voluntarily surrender his nuclear weapons and missiles, which he clearly sees as the strongest guarantee of his survival and the extension of his family’s dynastic rule. Her prominent exposure in state media could also be aimed at strengthening domestic loyalty to the Kim family and preparing for a future heredity transfer of power.
While North Korean state media’s lofty descriptions of Kim Ju Ae, who has been called “beloved” and “respected,” have fueled speculation that she’s being primed as a future leader, South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Youngse downplayed that possibility during a parliamentary session on Wednesday.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state school board in Oklahoma voted Monday to approve what would be the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional.
The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 to approve the application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma to establish the St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Charter School. The online public charter school would be open to students across the state in kindergarten through grade 12.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond had warned the board that such a decision clearly violated the Oklahoma Constitution.
“The approval of any publicly funded religious school is contrary to Oklahoma law and not in the best interest of taxpayers,” Drummond said in a statement shortly after the board’s vote. “It’s extremely disappointing that board members violated their oath in order to fund religious schools with our tax dollars. In doing so, these members have exposed themselves and the state to potential legal action that could be costly.”
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma said in the “vision and purpose of the organization” section of its application that: “The Catholic school participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out.”
Brett Farley, the executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, said: “We are elated that the board agreed with our argument and application for the nation’s first religious charter school.”
Americans United for Separation of Church and State denounced the board’s approval.
“It’s hard to think of a clearer violation of the religious freedom of Oklahoma taxpayers and public-school families than the state establishing the nation’s first religious public charter school,” the group’s president and CEO Rachel Laser said in a statement. “This is a sea change for American democracy. Americans United will work with our Oklahoma and national partners to take all possible legal action to fight this decision and defend the separation of church and state that’s promised in both the Oklahoma and U.S. Constitutions.”
Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who earlier this year signed a bill that would give parents in the state a tax incentive to send their children to private schools, including religious schools, praised the board’s vote.
“This is a win for religious liberty and education freedom in our great state, and I am encouraged by these efforts to give parents more options when it comes to their child’s education,” Stitt said in a statement.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomas Joseph, cofounder of Austin-based luxury developer Joseph Design Build, announced today the firm's in-house realty group, The Joseph Group, has joined Douglas Elliman Realty, one of the largest independent residential real estate brokerages in the country.
The three-person powerhouse team first formed in 2020, and will continue to operate out of the Joseph Design Build headquarters in South Austin.
"We are pleased to welcome The Joseph Group to our firm," said Stephen Kotler, CEO of Douglas Elliman Realty's Western Region. "Their expertise in the Austin luxury market will be an invaluable asset to the brokerage, and we are looking forward to witnessing how they grow and expand their business."
"Joining Douglas Elliman represents a powerful alignment," said Thomas Joseph. "The Joseph Group is thrilled at the opportunity to continue to learn and grow alongside the industry's top professionals, and we are excited about the ever-evolving direction of the group, and its impact on Joseph Design Build as a whole."
The Joseph Group's parent company, Joseph Design Build, is a multi-award-winning luxury design-build firm, specializing in function-forward, expertly built modern infill homes of unrivaled craftsmanship and quality. The homes developed by Joseph Design Build will now also benefit from the same best-in-class Douglas Elliman network.
The firm has grown exponentially since its founding, and currently has an active project pipeline in key neighborhoods around Downtown Austin worth more than $160 million. Earlier this year, Joseph Design Build completed development on a three-story office project in East Austin — its first of what are sure to be many ventures in the commercial sector.
"Thomas and his team come to us with an impressive track record, along with a creative, forward-thinking mindset in the luxury space," said Catherine Lee, President of Douglas Elliman Texas. "We're pleased to welcome them to the firm."
A flourishing technology hub, Austin has been among the fastest-growing real estate markets in the United States for six consecutive years.
Joseph Design Build is a turnkey design-build development firm, founded in Austin in 2014. Spearheaded by Gabe and Thomas Joseph, Joseph Design Build offers a vertically-integrated suite of luxury design-build services, including architectural and interior design, site acquisition, permitting and construction. This streamlined approach unites all relevant professions under one roof, ensuring the highest possible quality on every project.
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CHICAGO, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Janus, a leading provider of healthcare revenue cycle management technology, announced today that they have been featured in a KLAS Research Emerging Technology Spotlight Report, which examines the overall customer experience and satisfaction with their revenue cycle management platform.
KLAS Research interviewed a sample of Janus' current clients, which included academic health systems, a small-hospital health system, a standalone hospital and an RCM services firm. The report, titled "Optimizing RCM Processes through Operational Intelligence and Automation," focuses on the technology that Janus has developed to aid health systems and revenue cycle management services companies in understanding the current state of their revenue cycle, improving processes and implementing automations.
Janus received praise for its deep expertise in the revenue cycle management and EMR space, which is a value-add for customers, and provides them with confidence in the long-term viability of Janus' solution.
"Janus' engagement with our team has been really good. The vendor has people who are versed in our EMR language, so they already know what we are talking about. It has been really helpful that Janus has had somebody who knows that terminology and revenue cycle terminology, which is a whole other language in itself." said one Janus customer.
Customers also indicated that they are achieving expected outcomes, including meeting goals around collection, reallocation of resources, and increased staff productivity and efficiency.
"With the Teleport tool and the batch automation for claim statusing, the numbers are staggering. We would need over 100 people to handle the claim-status volume covered by Janus," said one revenue cycle executive. "When we started with Teleport, we saved or reallocated several FTEs of resources. As we have done more automation, we have had fewer people invoking Teleport for individual claims."
Additional takeaways from the report include:
- 100% of customers indicated they are either highly satisfied or are satisfied with Janus
- 100% of customers said they would buy again
- 100% of customers consider Janus a part of their long-term plans
"We are pleased that our customers have validated our work through their discussions with KLAS," said Janus CEO Brendan Downing. "The feedback we have received from our customers via this research is invaluable, and we look forward to continually improving our customer experience as we build lasting partnerships with these healthcare providers."
To learn more about Janus, and to download the full Emerging Technology Spotlight report, visit janus-ai.com/klas-spotlight
About Janus
Founded in 2020, Janus is a revenue cycle management technology company on a mission to help health systems get paid, at a lower cost to collect. Their end-to-end revenue cycle platform begins by understanding the current state of a revenue cycle operation, then identifies areas for efficiency, and where automation can help revenue cycle teams do more, with less. By harnessing the power of Janus' technology, revenue cycle teams can work smarter, generating as high as 2% increased net revenue while reducing cost to collect as much as 35%. To learn more about Janus, visit janus-ai.com.
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White gunman to be sentenced for killing 23 people in a racist Walmart attack in a Texas border city
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The white Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart in 2019 is expected to learn his punishment Friday, after victims’ relatives berated him for days over the shooting that targeted Hispanic shoppers on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Patrick Crusius, 24, will likely be sentenced to multiple life terms in federal prison for committing one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. However, he could still face the death penalty in a separate case in a Texas state court that has yet to go to trial.
Crusius, who pleaded guilty in February to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges after federal prosecutors took the death penalty off the table, is not expected to make a statement before he is formally sentenced by U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama.
The sentencing phase was taking place not far from the El Paso Walmart where Crusius opened fire with an AK-style semiautomatic rifle. The attack came after Crusius ranted online, warning of a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
Some of the victims were citizens of Mexico. In addition to the dead, more than two dozen people were injured and numerous others were severely traumatized as they hid or fled.
Confronting Crusius face-to-face for the first time, several relatives of the victims looked him in the eye and mocked his motivations, telling him his racist pursuits failed.
Amaris Vega, whose aunt was killed and whose mother narrowly survived a softball-sized wound to the chest, railed at Crusius’ “pathetic, sorry manifesto” promising to rid Texas of Hispanics.
“But guess what? You didn’t. You failed,” Vega told him Thursday. “We are still here and we are not going anywhere. And for four years you have been stuck in a city full of Hispanics. ... So let that sink in.”
Margaret Juarez, whose 90-year-old father was slain in the attack and whose mother was wounded but survived, said she found it ironic that Crusius was set to spend his life in prison among inmates from racial and ethnic minorities. She garnered applause from other relatives and survivors in the courtroom as she celebrated their liberty.
“Swim in the waters of prison,” she told Crusius. “Now we’re going to enjoy the sunshine. … We still have our freedom, in our country.”
One by one, family members this week described how their lives have been upended by grief and pain. Some forgave Crusius. One man displayed photographs of his slain father, insisting the gunman look at them.
Bertha Benavides’ husband of 34 years, Arturo, was among those killed.
“You left children without their parents, you left spouses without their spouses, and we still need them,” she told Crusius.
During the initial statements from victims, Crusius occasionally swiveled in his seat or bobbed his head with little sign of emotion. On Thursday, his eyes appeared to well up as victims condemned the brutality of the shootings and demanded Crusius respond and account for his actions. At one point, Crusius consulted with a defense attorney at his side and gestured that he would not answer.
The attack was the deadliest of a dozen mass shootings in the U.S. linked to hate crimes since 2006, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
Before the shooting, Crusius appeared consumed by the nation’s immigration debate, tweeting #BuildtheWall and posts praising then-President Donald Trump’s hardline border policies. He went further in his rant posted before the attack, sounding warnings that Hispanics were going to take over the government and economy.
In the years since the shooting, Republicans have described migrants crossing the southern U.S. border as an “invasion,” waving off critics who say the rhetoric fuels anti-immigrant views and violence.
As the sentencing phase got underway, some advocates for immigrant rights made new appeals for politicians to soften their rhetoric on immigration. Republicans, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, have pushed for more aggressive actions to harden the southern U.S. border.
The people who were killed ranged in age from a 15-year-old high school athlete to several elderly grandparents. They included immigrants, a retired city bus driver, teachers, tradesmen including a former iron worker, and several Mexican nationals who had crossed the U.S. border on routine shopping trips.
Two teenage girls recounted their narrow escape from Crusius’ rampage as they participated in a fundraiser for their youth soccer team outside the store. Parents were wounded and the soccer coach, Guillermo Garcia, died months later from injuries suffered in the attack.
Both youths said they still are haunted by their fear of another shooting when they are in public venues.
“He was shot at close range by a coward and there was his innocent blood, everywhere,” said Kathleen Johnson, whose husband David was among the victims. “I don’t know when I’ll be the same. … The pain you have caused is indescribable.”
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Weber reported from Austin, Texas.
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BEIJING, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jay Ian Birbeck, who is a freelance writer based in Guangzhou, contributes a feature story to China Focus.
The Ever Alot, the largest container ship ever built, sailed out of a Shanghai shipyard earlier this summer. The behemoth, constructed using only Chinese patents, is nearly as long as the Eiffel Tower and can transport 24,000 containers. Aside from these accomplishments, the Ever Alot was noteworthy for another reason: It completed China's nearly decadelong streak of record-breaking feats in the transportation sector.
Since 2012, China has pumped remarkable amounts of investment into its transportation network. In the past decade, China has completed the world's biggest airport in Beijing, opened the world's first autonomous high-speed railway (HSR) – which also includes the deepest and largest underground HSR station – and opened the planet's longest sea crossing stretching 55 kilometers across the Pearl River estuary.
Critics have disregarded many of these projects as wasteful and of little value. Advocates, meanwhile, point to the positive effects on the economy, the environment and society. So, has all of the investment been worthwhile?
The HSR network is a good place to start as it exemplifies this debate. The untiring expansion of China's HSR network, growing over 30,644 kilometers since 2012, is one of the country's most successful large-scale infrastructure initiatives. Thanks to innovative manufacturing techniques, the network is now the world's busiest and longest after just over a decade of development.
The HSR network offers definite advantages to Chinese citizens. Its comparatively low prices compared to air travel – just $70 for the 1,000-plus kilometer trip from Shanghai to Beijing – have drastically lowered the barrier to intercity travel, reducing pressure on the domestic aviation sector. The HSR has led to more people traveling between cities than ever before, helping facilitate a boom in domestic tourism.
The advantages of the system go far beyond convenience and tourism. According to the Paulson Institute, the HSR network has an annual return on investment of 6.5 percent and provides a net benefit to the Chinese economy of $378 billion. Moreover, the World Bank concluded that the network was financially viable and economically stimulating.
The success even helped China become the global leader in HSR and it has now begun shipping its trains, standards and technology abroad. In August, China delivered the initial shipment of trains for Indonesia's first HSR route after the Southeast Asian nation adopted several Chinese standards. The China-Laos Railway is another case in point, with an extension to Singapore in the works.
Meanwhile, in China's urban areas, a range of electric transportation systems have alleviated once-infamous traffic congestion in many Chinese cities and reduced air pollution by 40 percent from 2013 to 2020. New metro systems have been appearing in cities across China at an increasingly fast rate, and by 2021 a total of 40 cities had built subway lines. The construction boom has been ideal for manufacturers and increased economic output.
Above ground, a somewhat more straightforward kind of transportation has transformed China's metropolises. Shared bikes of every color line the streets, providing an affordable, environmentally friendly and congestion-easing option for getting around cities. Short-term bike sharing is a relatively new industry, but this has not stopped its rapid adoption in China. The two largest operators, Meituan Bike and Alibaba-backed Hellobike, did not even exist before 2015, yet their shared bikes have become an iconic characteristic of urban China.
Bike sharing has several advantages, including health benefits, reduced fuel use and financial savings for users.
Aiding the urban transformation, new energy vehicles (NEVs) are changing private vehicle ownership, public transportation and ride-hailing services to make them more sustainable. Several cities, such as Shenzhen, now operate taxi and bus fleets composed entirely of NEVs. In fact, above all the other transportation developments, China's growing dominance in the NEV industry may have the most significance in the years to come.
Ten years ago, the prospects for China's NEV industry were gloomy, with just seven of 25 Chinese cities fulfilling a goal of having 1,000 NEVs and hybrids on the road by 2012. China has since risen to the top of the global NEV sector and now leads industry research and manufactures the majority of the world's automotive batteries. NEVs are expected to become the dominant mode of transportation in the coming decades, so China's first-mover advantage in the industry is significant.
From cycling to electric cars, China's transportation system has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. The nation finishes the decade with the world's largest HSR network, longest highway network, most shared bikes, longest metro system and most extensive stock of NEVs.
It's no exaggeration to say that the country has crammed a century's worth of development and investment into a decade.
Meanwhile, the rate of change is showing no signs of slowing. Before 2035, China is looking to build a 100-kilometer sea tunnel across the Bohai Strait, guarantee one-day domestic deliveries and create an almost 2,000-kilometer ultra-high-speed maglev line linking Guangzhou to Beijing in three hours. Whatever achievements China makes in the coming years, they will be due to the formidable foundation it has laid over the last decade.
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- Tyson® brand is the official sponsor of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series' Tyson 250 on Saturday, May 20, during NASCAR All-Star Race weekend at North Wilkesboro Speedway
- Tyson brand's history with North Wilkesboro Speedway began when the company sponsored a NASCAR Cup Series race, the Tyson Holly Farms 400, from 1990-96; To commemorate the track's illustrious history and its relationship with the brand, North Wilkesboro's Tyson-branded manual leaderboard will return on All-Star Race weekend
- Tyson Foods remains actively involved in the Wilkes County community, employing 2,400 team members in the area, with nearby operations in Monroe, North Carolina, and Danville, Virginia
- A limited number of single-day grandstand tickets will be available for purchase on Wednesday, Feb. 22, for the Tyson 250
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NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C., Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A familiar name will return to North Wilkesboro Speedway for the track's first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race since 1996, with the Tyson® brand serving as the official sponsor of the Tyson 250 on Saturday, May 20, during NASCAR All-Star Race weekend.
Tyson Foods has a long relationship with North Wilkesboro's iconic, five-eighths-mile oval. The track's fall NASCAR Cup Series race was known as the Tyson Holly Farms 400 from 1990-96 and as the Holly Farms 400 from 1979-89, prior to Tyson Foods' acquisition of Holly Farms. Today, Tyson Foods remains vested in the Wilkes County community. It employs nearly 2,400 team members in Wilkes County with nearby operations in Monroe, North Carolina, employing over 1,400 team members. Tyson Foods also recently invested $300 million in a state-of-the-art poultry processing facility in Danville, Virginia. The facility is expected to be completed in 2023 and will create 400 jobs for the area.
"Given Tyson Foods' storied history with the North Wilkesboro Speedway, we are delighted to partner with NASCAR and bring fans back to this beloved racetrack for the first time in more than 25 years," said Stephen Silzer, senior marketing director, Tyson brand. "Throughout the years, Tyson Foods has become synonymous with the Wilkes County community, through its job creations, economic development and the significant investments in our processing facility making it an integral part of the Wilkesboro identity. Our company is about bringing people together and this partnership does just that, at one of NASCAR's most historic tracks."
The renewed Tyson-North Wilkesboro partnership also brings with it the return of the iconic, red-and-yellow manual leaderboard, which was synonymous with racing at North Wilkesboro well into the 1980s.
"North Wilkesboro Speedway has a special history with Tyson Foods, so it makes perfect sense for us to grow our partnership with the Tyson brand on NASCAR All-Star Race weekend," said Jessica Fickenscher, the executive director of the NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway. "The Tyson-branded manual leaderboard makes North Wilkesboro even more of a can't-miss place to be in May."
Race fans looking to experience the excitement of North Wilkesboro can do so on Saturday, May 20, which features the Tyson 250 as well as NASCAR All-Star Race qualifying, with a limited number of single-day tickets going on sale Feb. 22.
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In the 1930s, John W. Tyson moved his family to Arkansas and began delivering farm-raised chickens from his truck. From those humble beginnings, the Tyson brand grew, finding new ways to help feed the nation while staying true to its original belief that every family deserves to have high-quality farm-raised chicken on their table. The brand's portfolio of products includes Tyson® Fresh and Frozen Chicken, Tyson Naturals® Chicken, Grilled & Ready® Chicken, Any'tizers® Snacks, Tyson® Air Fried Chicken, Tyson® Chicken Nuggets and Crispy Strips, giving families more to love every day with its vast portfolio of products.
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Five one-of-a-kind collectibles drop for bidders on November 15
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 Sweet announced today that its latest collaboration with Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (NYSE: BBW), will drop five new, one-of-one digital collectible NFTs for auction. As in the October collectible event, each of the five non-fungible tokens are unique, ownable and transferrable digital items for collectibles featuring Silver Gala-themed bears. The NFTs will live digitally in the owner's Sweet wallet. The winner of each NFT will receive a one-of-one real plush inspired by the digital bear and accompanying utlities.* Powered by Sweet, each NFT will be minted on the carbon-neutral Polygon blockchain.
The auction will be live for bids on the five distinct Silver Gala Bear NFTs from November 15 at 12:00 PM ET and will run through November 17 at 7:00 PM ET, and 10% of the sale price (in USD) will benefit Build-A-Bear Foundation, the philanthropic entity for Build-A-Bear Workshop.** Since its founding in 2004, Build-A-Bear Foundation has contributed more than $22 million and 1.5 million furry friends to charitable organizations around the world.
In addition to the real-life collectible, auction winners will receive a brick in their name on the Build-A-Bear Foundation's Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri, a private party at a Build-A-Bear Workshop location for five people, and a virtual sneak peek at Build-A-Bear's Spring fashion line.*****
"With the launch of our first digital collectible last month, we have had the opportunity to connect our brand with our consumers in a new way, and we are excited to have a second offering that continues to blend our beloved physical bears with equally adorable bears in a digital space," said Jenn Kretchmar, Chief Digital and Merchandising Officer. "We want to provide opportunities to expand our collectability options to our guests, and our presence in Web3 provides an entirely new experience for our brand."
"We are honored to be a part of Build-A-Bear's latest collectible drop. On the heels of the last NFT's record sale, we look forward to seeing who jumps into the bidding to help celebrate this groundbreaking collection," said Tom Mizzone, CEO of Sweet.
Meet Queen of Hearts Bear DJ Bear, Silver Glam Bear, BEARoque Bear and Designer Bear, now on the auction site at sweet.io/buildabear.
ABOUT SWEET
New York-based Sweet is a highly flexible, Non-Fungible Token (NFT) platform and marketplace used by top creators, sports, entertainment, and consumer brands worldwide. Sweet delivers immersive NFT programs driving revenue, consumer engagement, and gamified experiences reaching both sophisticated and novice NFT collectors in ways never before possible. For more information, please visit: https://sweet.io/
ABOUT BUILD-A-BEAR
Build-A-Bear is a multi-generational global brand focused on its mission to "add a little more heart to life" appealing to a wide array of consumer groups who enjoy the personal expression in making their own "furry friends" to celebrate and commemorate life moments. Nearly 500 interactive brick-and-mortar retail locations operated through a variety of formats provide guests of all ages a hands-on entertaining experience, which often fosters a lasting and emotional brand connection. The company also offers engaging e-commerce/digital purchasing experiences on buildabear.com including its online "Bear-Builder", the animated "Bear Builder 3D Workshop" and its age-gated adult-focused "Bear Cave". In addition, extending its brand power beyond retail, Build-A-Bear Entertainment, a subsidiary of Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc., is dedicated to creating engaging content for kids and adults that fulfills the company's mission, while the company also offers products at wholesale and in non-plush consumer categories via licensing agreements with leading manufacturers. Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. posted total revenue of $411.5 million in fiscal 2021. For more information, visit the Investor Relations section of buildabear.com
*Physical bear offer valid only for the first purchaser of the NFT from Build-A-Bear Workshop. Subsequent purchasers of the NFT are ineligible. Physical bears may not be an exact replica of the digital collectible. If the NFT owner (i) does not respond to any communication from Build-A-Bear within five (5) days of such communication; (ii) refuses the physical bear offer; and/or (iii) any communication to the NFT owner regarding the physical bear offer is rejected or returned as undeliverable, the physical bear offer is void.
****Beginning on November 15 at 12PM Eastern Time through November 17 at 7PM Eastern Time , 10% of the sale price of the United States first sale of the Designer NFT Build-A-Bear, DJ NFT Build-A-Bear, Queen of Hearts NFT Build-A-Bear, Silver Glam NFT Build-A-Bear and BEARoque NFT Build-A-Bear, will be donated to Build-A-Bear Foundation, Inc., 415 South 18th Street, St. Louis, MO 63103.314-423-8000. Maximum Total Donation: $10,000. Not valid for first sales that occur outside the United States or where prohibited by law.
***** Offer valid only for the first purchaser of the NFT from Build-A-Bear Workshop. Subsequent purchasers of the NFT are ineligible. All elements of offer must be redeemed on or before March 31, 2023. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Build-A-Bear reserves the right to change date of offer element redemption. If the NFT owner (i) does not respond to any communication from Build-A-Bear within five (5) days of such communication; (ii) refuses the offer; and/or (iii) any communication to the NFT owner regarding the offer is rejected or returned as undeliverable, the offer is void. Brick content subject to approval by Build-A-Bear. Private Build-A-Bear store party is for up to five (5) individuals and includes: one (1) furry friend for each guest (value up to $36), one (1) clothing item, one (1) footwear item, one (1) sound, and one (1) bear carrier. All other expenses not stated herein as part of the party are the NFT owner's sole responsibility. Party offer is subject to mall and/or store location hours restrictions. Party offer excludes all other expenses or incidentals including, but not limited to, transportation, accommodations, food, beverages and parking. All guests must be 18 years of age or older at time of travel unless guest is a child or legal ward of the NFT owner. Party will occur on a date and at a store location mutually agreed upon by NFT owner and Build-A-Bear. Virtual sneak peek will occur via Microsoft Teams on a date mutually agreed upon by NFT owner and Build-A-Bear on or before January 31, 2023. NFT owner is solely responsible for all resources required to participate in the virtual sneak peek, including, without limitation, cameras, viewing devices and internet access. By accepting offer, NFT owner agrees to release, indemnify, defend and hold harmless Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc., Build-A-Bear Foundation and each of their respective promotional partners, agencies, parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and each of their respective agents, representatives, officers, directors, franchisees, shareholders and employees from and against any injuries, losses, damages, claims, actions and any liability of any kind resulting from or arising from participation in offer (including any travel or travel-related activity thereto).
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PARIS (AP) — Strong winds and hot, dry weather frustrated French firefighters’ efforts Saturday to contain a huge wildfire that raced across pine forests in the Bordeaux region for a fifth straight day, one of several wildfires scorching Europe this week.
Among the worst fires have been in Portugal, where the pilot of a firefighting plane died Friday when his plane crashed while on an operation in the northeast. It was the first fire fatality in Portugal this year but the blazes have injured more than 160 people this week and forced hundreds to be evacuated.
Fire season has hit parts of Europe earlier than usual this year after an unusually dry, hot spring that left the soil parched and which authorities attribute to climate change.
As the worst French fire moved closer to inhabited towns, some of the 11,000 people who evacuated in the region described fear and uncertainty about what they’d find when they get back home. Images shared by firefighters showed flames shooting across a mass of pine trees and black smoke stretching across the horizon.
Firefighters focused efforts Saturday on using fire trucks to surround villages at risk and save as many homes as possible, Charles Lafourcade, overseeing the French firefighting operation, told reporters.
Some 3,000 firefighters backed by water-dumping planes are battling the blazes in southern France, the president said, and Greece sent firefighting equipment to help.
French firefighters managed to contain one of the worst fires overnight, near the Atlantic coast resort of Arcachon that is popular with tourists, the regional emergency service said Saturday. But it said “tough meteorological conditions” thwarted efforts to contain the biggest fire in the region, which started in the town of Landiras, south of a valley of Bordeaux vineyards. Regional prosecutors suspect arson.
The two fires have burned at least 9,650 hectares (23,800 acres) in recent days.
In Portugal, more than 1,000 firefighters worked Saturday alongside ordinary citizens desperate to save their homes after a long week of battling multiple blazes around the country. The fires have been fanned by earlier-than-usual extreme temperatures and drought conditions.
Portuguese state television RTP reported Friday that the area burned this year — more than 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) — has already exceeded the total for 2021. Most of it burned in the past week.
Across the border, Spain was struggling to contain several fires, including two that have burned about 7,400 hectares (18,200 acres).
In southern Andalusia, 3,000 people were evacuated from villages in danger from a blaze that started near the village of Mijas in the province of Malaga. Around 200 firefighters supported by 18 aircraft tried to contain the fire. Authorities were investigating its cause.
For a sixth day, firefighters were also trying to bring under control a fire started by a lightning strike in the west-central Las Hurdes area. Some 400 people from eight villages were evacuated Friday as the flames approached their houses and threatened to spread into the nearby Monfrague National Park.
Croatia and Hungary have also fought wildfires this week, as have California and Morocco.
Many European countries are facing exceptional heat this month also attributed to climate change.
Temperature-related deaths have surged in Spain this week amid a heat wave that has kept highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in many areas. According to Spain’s Carlos III Institute, which records temperature-related fatalities daily, 237 deaths were attributed to high temperatures from July 10-14. That was compared to 25 temperature-related deaths the previous week.
Portuguese authorities said a July national record high of 47 C (117 F) hit the northern town of Pinhao on Wednesday.
Britain’s Met Office weather agency has issued its first-ever “red warning” of extreme heat for Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures in southern England may reach 40 C (104 F) for the first time.
The British government was holding an emergency response meeting Saturday to plan for the high temperatures. People in the U.K. have already been warned not to travel unless absolutely necessary and schools and nursing homes have been told to take extra precautions.
“All heat waves studied so far in Europe are getting warmer,” said Robert Vautard of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute at the Sorbonne University. “As long as greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced to zero, heatwaves will continue to intensify, become more frequent and last longer.”
In Turkey — the scene of devastating wildfires last summer — local media reported fires in the western province of Izmir and in Hatay between the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian border. Helicopters, planes and hundreds of firefighters tackled the blazes.
Fires fed by strong winds and scorching temperatures last year tore through Turkey’s Mediterranean and Aegean regions, killing at least eight people and leading to fierce criticism of the government for its inadequate preparation and response.
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Wilson reported from Barcelona, Spain. Danica Kirka in London and Andrew Wilks in Istanbul contributed.
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SAN ANTONIO — A family altercation turned violent when one man pulled out a gun a fired off shots, hitting one and grazing another at an eastside home late Monday night.
It happened around 10:57 p.m. on the 800 block of Richland Drive.
When officers arrived, they found two people with injuries. One young man was shot once and the second victim suffered a graze wound from a bullet.
The man who was hsot was taken to BAMC in stable condition and the graze victim was treated by EMS at the scene.
Police say there was some sort of altercation in the home between family members when at some point one person pulled a gun and shot towards the other two.
Police have the shooter in custody.
This is an ongoing investigation.
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