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Athletico is looking forward to continuing its quality of care throughout the state of Texas
ROCKWALL, Texas, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Athletico Physical Therapy has opened a new location in Rockwall, Texas, located at the intersection of Horizon Road and Ridge Road near Target. This location offers convenient hours, including early morning and late evening appointments, and does not require a referral or prescription to start treatment. To learn more, or to schedule a free assessment, visit www.athletico.com/RockwallSouth.
"I am excited to open a new clinic where patients and employees feel like they are part of a community," said Emily Pierce, PT, DPT, CSCS, DN Cert., and Clinic Manager of Athletico Rockwall South. "Members of the Rockwall community should know that Texas is a direct access state, where patients can come to physical therapy without a referral. This can help initiate their healing process faster and can also improve their quality of life."
In addition to in-clinic treatment at Rockwall South, Athletico is expanding access to care by offering virtual appointments from the convenience of your own home. Patients have the option to have their condition assessed and treated virtually by a licensed physical therapist through a secure online video chat.
Services available at Athletico Rockwall South include:
- Physical therapy – Our physical therapists treat you to reduce pain, improve or restore mobility, and to help you remain at your optimal health without further risk of injury. We also offer joint replacement therapy, headache treatment, concussion therapy and more.
- Free assessments – If you have a strain, sprain or nagging pain, you can see one of our experts for a free, 30-minute assessment. We evaluate your injury and recommend treatment. If needed, we can begin treatment immediately, no referral necessary. Please note, restrictions apply.
- Headache rehabilitation – Our headache specialists provide treatment for headaches that fall into the cervicogenic and migraine categories. Physical therapy can decrease and/or resolve the intensity and frequency of headache symptoms, as well as improve your function, mobility and quality of life.
- Golf rehabilitation –Our staff utilizes their expertise in golf fitness and rehabilitation to treat injuries, keep players active and minimize the risk of future injury. We also offer golf fitness services with programs catered to your experience and fitness levels.
- Dry needling – If you are experiencing pain, you may benefit from dry needling. This technique involves placing ultra-thin needles into painful areas of the body to stimulate the pain-causing trigger points in the muscle and connective tissues.
Additionally, Athletico Rockwall South:
- Accepts all major insurance plans, so you don't need to worry about your visits not being covered.
- Offers convenient hours, including early mornings and late evenings.
- Does not require a physician referral or prescription to start treatment.
- Schedules each initial evaluation quickly, sometimes the same or next day, but always within 24-48 hours.
- Provides ongoing patient education on diagnosis, treatment plans and prescribed home-exercise programs.
- Practices clear, consistent communication between therapist, physician and patient regarding progress.
Athletico – Rockwall South
2930 Ridge Rd., Suite 120
Rockwall, TX 75032
Phone: 469-887-1070
www.athletico.com/RockwallSouth
RockwallSouthTX@athletico.com
Athletico Physical Therapy is a leading provider of the highest quality orthopedic rehabilitation services to communities, employers and athletes. With the recent acquisition of Pivot Physical Therapy, Athletico operates more than 900 locations in 24 states and the District of Columbia. We are committed to our patients and referring physicians through our patient-centric focus, inclusive work environment, and attention to quality and high standard of care. Delivering market-leading patient outcomes and satisfaction are at the core of what we do, as measured by our industry leading patient satisfaction scores and recognition as a National Top-Tier Provider by the CMS Quality Payment Program. We are also passionate about giving back to the communities we serve through outreach, volunteer and fundraising initiatives supported by the Athletico Cares Foundation. Our comprehensive services include physical and occupational therapy, workers' compensation and onsite employer services, athletic training, and over 50 specialty services, including free assessments, pelvic health, spine health, hand therapy, concussion management, and more. For more information, or to find an Athletico clinic near you, visit www.athletico.com.
Media Contact:
Dana Andreoli
Athletico Physical Therapy
dana.andreoli@athletico.com
630-259-5156
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PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A rapid deployment team of FBI cyber experts is heading to Montenegro to investigate a massive and coordinated attack on the tiny Balkan nation’s government and its services, the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Wednesday.
“This is another confirmation of the excellent cooperation between the United States of America and Montenegro and a proof that we can count on their support in any situation,” the ministry said of the deployment of the Cyber Action Team.
Last weekend, Montenegro’s Agency for National Security said the country was “under a hybrid war at the moment,” blaming the attack squarely on Russia. Meanwhile, a Cuban hacker group has claimed responsibility while experts said it could also be the work of both individuals and organized criminal groups.
Montenegrin officials said Russia has a strong motive for such an attack because the Balkan state, once considered a strong Russian ally, joined NATO in 2017 despite strong opposition from the Kremlin. It has also joined Western sanctions against Moscow because of its invasion of Ukraine.
Other Eastern European states deemed enemies of Russia have recently also sustained cyberattacks, mostly nuisance-level denial of service campaigns, in recent weeks. Targets have included networks in Moldova, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Albania.
But the attack against Montenegro’s infrastructure seemed more sustained and extensive with targets including water supply systems, transportation services and online government services, among many others.
On Monday, government officials said that an attack by hackers on the information system of Montenegrin institutions was still ongoing, but that the system will not suffer permanent damage.
“A huge amount of money was invested in the attack on our system”, said Minister of Public Administration Maras Dukaj He added that his ministry cannot determine the source of the attack, but that there is “strong indication that it is coming from Russia.”
The Director of the Directorate for Information Security, Dusan Polovic, said that “150 cells” in a dozen state institutions were infected, and that the data of the Ministry of Public Administration was not permanently damaged.
“The infected stations have been removed from the network and hard drives have been removed from them for further forensics,” he said, adding that “the priority is to put the tax system into operation, but this will be done only when it is completely secure.”
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AP writer Dusan Stojanovic contributed from Belgrade, Serbia. | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-fbis-team-to-investigate-massive-cyberattack-in-montenegro/ | 2022-08-31 13:02:11 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/technology/ap-fbis-team-to-investigate-massive-cyberattack-in-montenegro/ |
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being released by A.B. Data, Ltd., the Court-appointed Settlement Administrator for the Automobile Antitrust Cases I and II, JCCP Nos. 4298 and 4303, CJC-03-004298 and CJC-03-004303, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Francisco.
COURT-AUTHORIZED LEGAL NOTICE
Did you buy or lease a new car or truck in California of any of the following vehicle makes at any time from January 1, 2001 through April 30, 2003?
If so, YOU MAY RECEIVE A PAYMENT from
an $82 million cash class action settlement.
Please Visit www.CalCarsSettlement.com or Call 1-877-354-3833
The settlement resolves a class action antitrust lawsuit titled Automobile Antitrust Cases I and II, JCCP Nos. 4298, 4303, pending in San Francisco County Superior Court. The settlement provides $82 million cash, minus Court-approved fees and costs, for the benefit of Class Members. If you are a Class Member, you must file a claim to receive payment. You may also object to the settlement. Visit the website or call the number above to learn about the lawsuit and the settlement, whether you are a Class Member, and all of your options and the deadlines to act.
ACT NOW. Go to the website to file a claim for payment—
the deadline to file is DECEMBER 31, 2022.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer allied with Donald Trump is expected to testify Monday before a New York grand jury, giving the former president an indirect opportunity to make a case that he shouldn’t face criminal charges over hush money paid during his 2016 campaign.
Robert Costello was asked to appear by the Manhattan district attorney’s office after he said he had information raising questions about the credibility of Michael Cohen, a key witness in the investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss secret legal proceedings.
His testimony will come two days after Trump said he expected to face criminal charges and urged supporters to protest his possible arrest. In a series of social media posts through the weekend, the Republican former president criticized the New York investigation, directing particularly hostile rhetoric toward Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat.
It was unclear whether Costello’s testimony has any potential to change the course of a grand jury probe that seems close to concluding.
Costello briefly acted as a legal adviser to Cohen after the FBI raided Cohen’s home and apartment in 2018. At the time, Cohen was being investigated for both tax evasion and for payments he helped orchestrate in 2016 to buy the silence of two women who claimed to have had sexual encounters with Trump.
For several months, it was unclear whether Cohen, a longtime lawyer and fixer for the Trump Organization who once boasted that he would “take a bullet” for his boss, would remain loyal to the president.
Cohen ultimately decided to plead guilty in connection with the payments to porn actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal, which he said were directed by Trump. Since then, he has been a vociferous Trump critic, testifying before Congress and then to the Manhattan grand jury.
Trump, who has denied having sex with either woman, has castigated Cohen as a liar. Costello broke with Cohen before he pleaded guilty, after it became clear he was no longer in Trump’s camp.
In the years since, Costello, a veteran New York attorney, has represented Trump allies including his former political strategist Steve Bannon and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment on Sunday.
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Tucker reported from Washington.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Divisive social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, have been charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women, prosecutors in Romania said Tuesday.
Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said prosecutors filed the charges against the brothers, who are both British-U.S. dual citizens, along with two Romanian women.
In a statement, the agency said that the four defendants formed a criminal group in 2021 “in order to commit the crime of human trafficking” in Romania as well as the United States and Britain. It alleged that seven female victims were misled and transported to Romania, where they were sexually exploited and subjected to physical violence by the gang.
The Tate brothers and the two Romanian suspects were detained in late December in Romania’s capital Bucharest. The brothers won an appeal on March 31 to be moved from police custody to house arrest.
Tate, 36, is a professional kickboxer with millions of Twitter followers. He has resided in Romania since 2017, and was previously banned from various social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.
He has repeatedly claimed Romanian prosecutors have no evidence and alleged their case is a political conspiracy designed to silence him.
Prosecutors have ordered the confiscation of assets from the Tate brothers including 15 luxury cars, luxury watches and about $3 million they held in cryptocurrency, the agency’s statement said.
On Tuesday, Tate’s spokesperson Mateea Petrescu said the brothers were prepared to “demonstrate their innocence and vindicate their reputation.”
“Tate’s legal team are prepared to cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities, presenting all necessary evidence to exonerate the brothers and expose any misinterpretations or false accusations,” Petrescu said. | https://fox59.com/news/ap-top-headlines/romanian-prosecutors-file-rape-trafficking-charges-against-andrew-tate/ | 2023-06-20 13:14:21 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/ap-top-headlines/romanian-prosecutors-file-rape-trafficking-charges-against-andrew-tate/ |
Splashing into Summer
On the 4th of July, we celebrate Independence Day to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, when the 13 North American colonies declared their intention and right to be “Free and Independent States” and no longer be governed by the English monarchy.
FOR KIDS: MAKE A 4TH OF JULY ROCKET!
On Independence Day, we celebrate with fireworks, cook-outs, and hanging by the pool! But have you ever thought of making your own rocket using recyclables? Even though this rocket doesn’t fly in the sky, it is a festive way to celebrate! After making your rocket, learn more about why we celebrate Independence Day with one of these stories.
FOR PARENTS: WATER PLAY ON A HOT JULY DAY!
Water play can benefit children at all different developmental stages. Whether it is experimenting with water or investigating how objects sink or float in different types of water, children of all ages can participate in water play.
Children can also explore water in different forms by making ice chalk or an ice sculpture!
FOR EDUCATORS: TEACHING ABOUT WATER
Students in all grades can learn about water and experiment with its properties. Younger students will enjoy this experiment with pennies and water.
Older students may be interested in learning about the water cycle or investigating during this water on a string experiment. Water is all around us and is a great and easy way to spark curiosity in students! | https://www.ctpublic.org/learning-snacks/splashing-into-summer | 2022-06-30 05:32:16 | 0 | https://www.ctpublic.org/learning-snacks/splashing-into-summer |
WEST BEND, Wis. — It's a transformation for the books. A former strip club once located along Highway 33 is now where Ozaukee Christian School calls home.
"We knew somewhere, sometime, God will provide just the right one, and he did," said Kris Austin, the head of the Christian school.
Ozaukee Christian School purchased the 40-acre property in 2019 and has slowly renovated the former California-based Spearmint Rhino club. In addition to the gentlemen's club, the school also got a shopping center.
"Because it had been a strip mall in addition to being a strip club, much of it had never even been built out," said Austin. "It was fairly easy for us to kind of turn that into classroom space little by little."
The place that once was lined with poles and stages now has classrooms for kindergarten, first, and second graders.
"We just found that humorous. We took the drywall off of the windows because it was just a darker environment in many, different ways and we've, let the light in and we think of it as the light of Jesus," said Austin.
Now the school is ready to introduce the new building to the world with an open house on Aug. 25 from 4-7 p.m.
The West Bend Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony, and attendees will be treated to free root beer floats from Cedar Crest Ice Cream and Sprecher Brewery.
The renovation came together gradually over time.
In 2019, the school finished 7,000 square feet, enough space for 57 students. But in 2020, the building was emptied due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By last August, enough space was completed to house 93 students.
Now that the upgrades are complete, the 22,000-square foot building can hold up to 150 students - the first time enrollment has passed 100 students in the school's 32-year history.
"This is our school. This is our place and a safe place," said Jennifer Boettcher, an English language arts teacher. "Showing students freedom and hope and life and having it come from something that was not any of those things."
"God provided in such unique ways, only he could write the story that is OCS's," said Austin.
“Just like God provided manna for the Israelites wandering in the desert, His provision for each step of this project came at just the right time. God is never late, but rarely early,” said Dave Swartz, the school's board vice-president.
The school says it completed construction for $1.6 million, $1.5 million of which was donated. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/former-strip-club-in-wisconsin-transformed-into-christian-school | 2022-07-27 17:27:40 | 0 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/former-strip-club-in-wisconsin-transformed-into-christian-school |
Joel Wakefield isn’t just an armchair epidemiologist. His interest in tracking the spread of COVID-19 is personal.
The 58-year-old lawyer who lives in Phoenix has an immunodeficiency disease that increases his risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19 and other infections. He has spent lots of time since 2020 checking state, federal and private sector COVID-19 trackers for data to inform his daily decisions.
“I’m assessing ‘When am I going to see my grandkids? When am I going to let my own kids come into my house?’ ” he said.
Many Americans have moved on from the pandemic, but for the millions who are immunocompromised or otherwise more vulnerable to COVID-19, reliable data remains important in assessing safety.
“I don’t have that luxury to completely shrug it off,” Wakefield said.
The federal government’s public health emergency that’s been in effect since January 2020 expires May 11. The emergency declaration allowed for sweeping changes in the U.S. health care system, like requiring state and local health departments, hospitals and commercial labs to regularly share data with federal officials.
But some shared data requirements will come to an end and the federal government will lose access to key metrics as a skeptical Congress seems unlikely to grant agencies additional powers. And private projects, like those from The New York Times and Johns Hopkins University, which made COVID-19 data understandable and useful for everyday people, stopped collecting data in March.
Public health legal scholars, data experts, former and current federal officials and patients at high risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes worry the scaling back of data access could make it harder to control COVID-19.
There have been improvements in recent years, such as major investments in public health infrastructure and updated data reporting requirements in some states. But concerns remain that the overall shambolic state of U.S. public health data infrastructure could hobble the response to any future threats.
“We’re all less safe when there’s not the national amassing of this information in a timely and coherent way,” said Anne Schuchat, former principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A lack of data in the early days of the pandemic left federal officials, like Schuchat, with an unclear picture of the rapidly spreading coronavirus. And even as the public health emergency opened the door for data-sharing, the CDC labored for months to expand its authority.
Eventually, more than a year into the pandemic, the CDC gained access to data from private health care settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes, commercial labs, and state and local health departments.
CDC officials have been working to retain its authority over some information, such as vaccination records, said Director Rochelle Walensky.
Walensky told the U.S. House in February that expanding the CDC’s ability to collect public health data is critical to its ability to respond to threats.
“The public expects that we will jump on things before they become public health emergencies,” she later told KFF Health News. “We can’t do that if we don’t have access to data.”
The agency is negotiating information-sharing agreements with dozens of state and local governments, Walensky said, as well as partnering with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It is also lobbying for the legal power to access data from both public and private parts of the health care system. The hospital data reporting requirement was decoupled from the health emergency and is set to expire next year.
But it’s an uphill battle.
“Some of those data points we may not have anymore,” Walensky said, noting how access to COVID-19 test results from labs will disappear. That data became a less precise indicator as people turned to at-home testing.
Moving forward, Walensky said, the CDC’s COVID-19 tracking will resemble its seasonal flu surveillance, which uses information from sample sites to establish broad trends. It’ll offer a less granular view of how COVID-19 is spreading, which experts worry could make it harder to notice troubling new viral variants early.
Overall, federal courts — including the U.S. Supreme Court — have not been supportive of expanded public health powers in recent years. Some issued rulings to block mask mandates, pause mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements, and end the nationwide eviction moratorium.
Such power limits leave the CDC with its “utterly dysfunctional, antiquated” data collection system, said Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. It’s like a “mosaic,” he said, in which states and territories collect data their own way and decide how much to share with federal officials.
Although COVID-19 numbers are trending down, the CDC still counts thousands of new infections and hundreds of new deaths each week. More than 1,000 Americans are also hospitalized with COVID complications daily.
“When we stop looking, it makes it all more invisible,” Gostin said. “COVID knowledge and awareness is going to melt into the background.”
State and local public health officials are generally willing to share data with federal agencies, but they often run into legal hurdles that prevent them from doing so, said Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
It will take a lot of work to loosen state restrictions on public health data. And the political will may be lacking, considering many jurisdictions have rolled back public health powers in recent years. Until rules change, the CDC’s power to help states is limited, Plescia said.
“Their hands are tied a little bit in how much they can do,” he said.
Public health officials rely on data to target interventions and track how well they’re working. A lack of information can create blind spots that exacerbate poor outcomes for high-risk populations, said Denise Chrysler, a senior adviser for the Network for Public Health Law.
“If you don’t have the data, you can’t locate who you’re failing to serve. They’re going to fall between the cracks,” she said.
The lack of COVID-19 data broken down by race and ethnicity in the early days of the pandemic obscured the outsize impact COVID had on marginalized groups, such as Black and Hispanic people, Chrysler said. Some states, like New Jersey and Arizona, issued rules to mandate the collection of race and ethnicity data for COVID-19, but they were temporary and tied to state emergency declarations, she said.
Inconsistent local data precipitated the end of privately run projects that supplemented government resources.
The available data researchers could pull from “was just terrible,” said Beth Blauer, associate vice provost for public sector innovation at Johns Hopkins, who helped launch its dashboard. The decision to end the program was practical.
“We were relying on publicly available data sources, and the quality had rapidly eroded in the last year,” she said.
The fast collapse of the data network also raises questions about state and local agencies’ long-term investments in tracking COVID-19 and other threats.
“I wish that we had a set of data that would help us guide personal decision-making,” Blauer said. “Because I’m still fearful of a pandemic that we don’t really know a ton about.”
To Schuchat, formerly of the CDC, there’s a lot of ground to regain after years of underinvestment in public health, long before the COVID-19 pandemic — and high stakes in ensuring good data systems.
The CDC’s detection of a vaping-related lung illness in 2019 was recognized after case reports from a hospital in Wisconsin, she said. And she attributed the nation’s slow reaction to the opioid crisis to poor access to emergency room data showing a troubling trend in overdoses.
“We’re much better when we detect things before there’s an emergency,” Schuchat said. “We can prevent major emergencies from happening.”
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Free Music Friday: Reagan Quinn
Published: Apr. 22, 2022 at 8:14 PM CDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
Here to kick off the weekend is Reagan Quinn performing her song “Rainbow”.
Reagan opens the Starlight Music Series tomorrow, April 23rd. Along with Max Stalling and Brazos Authority. This is being held at Wolf Pen Creek Ampitheater. Show starts at 7 p.m.
You can find Reagan’s music on any of the mainstream music apps.
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A New York man was killed after his SUV struck a concrete barrier at a New Jersey Turnpike toll plaza in Salem County and burst into flames, authorities said.
Henry Subin, 77, of Katonah, was driving northbound in Carneys Point Township around 9:45 a.m. on July 22 when his vehicle struck the barrier at the Interchange 1 toll plaza, according to a New Jersey State Police spokesman.
The SUV then overturned and caught fire, the spokesman said.
Toll plaza lanes one through four were closed for about four hours as a result of the crash, which remains under investigation, according to police.
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- Significantly Expands MasTec's Clean Energy & Infrastructure Segment
- Strong Cultural Alignment and Experienced Leadership Team
- Transaction Expected to Close Late Q4 2022 and be Accretive to MasTec's 2023 Adjusted EPS Before Synergy Benefits, with Potential Revenue and Operational Synergies in 2024 and Beyond
- MasTec Updates Financial Guidance for the Second Half of 2022
- MasTec to Host Conference Call at 8:30 AM ET Monday, July 25, 2022, to Discuss the IEA Acquisition
CORAL GABLES, Fla. and INDIANAPOLIS, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MasTec (NYSE: MTZ) ("MasTec") and IEA (Nasdaq: IEA) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which MasTec will acquire all of the outstanding shares of IEA in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $14.00 per IEA share. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both MasTec and IEA, and is subject to customary closing conditions, including IEA stockholders and Hart-Scott-Rodino approvals, with an expected closing late fourth quarter of 2022.
Founded in 2011 with roots dating to 1947, IEA is a premier services provider in renewable energy and infrastructure solutions, with extensive expertise and capabilities spanning engineering, procurement, construction and other related services. IEA has deep and long-standing relationships across a diverse blue-chip customer base. It has completed more than 260 utility-scale wind and solar projects across North America and executed a range of complex public and private infrastructure construction projects.
Jose Mas, MasTec's Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are proud to expand our service capabilities, scale and expertise providing critical infrastructure to support the nation's energy transition to secure and sustainable renewable sources. We are excited to welcome JP, the IEA management team and almost 6,000 IEA team members to the MasTec family. We have long admired IEA's operating excellence, and we have a strong cultural alignment with IEA in safety and customer service."
Mr. Mas continued, "We believe that the addition of IEA's union based clean energy power generation services, coupled with MasTec and IEA's combined non-union craft labor capacity, will provide increased scale and capacity needed to meet expected growing customer demand for renewable power generation over the next decade. We also believe that MasTec's existing electrical transmission and distribution service capabilities, coupled with expanded renewable power generation services from the IEA acquisition, will provide a compelling and complete suite of services to support customer's needs for both power generation and power grid system infrastructure required to transition to renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions."
JP Roehm, President and Chief Executive Officer commented, "The combination with MasTec will create new opportunities for IEA's employees and our customer base. Our joint resources and capabilities will advance our ability to serve our customers in the renewable energy, power delivery and infrastructure markets. We believe that IEA stockholders will benefit from MasTec and IEA's combined operations and scale, and this belief is reflected in our agreement to receive 25% of the transaction proceeds in MasTec common stock. MasTec is the ideal owner for IEA and I am excited to continue to lead the IEA team during this exciting new chapter of our story."
Transaction Information
Under the terms of the agreement, IEA stockholders will receive $14.00 per share, comprised of $10.50 per share in cash and 0.0483 of a MasTec share, with a value of $3.50 per share, based on MasTec's closing share price on July 22, 2022, and represents a 34% premium to IEA's closing stock price on July 22, 2022.
The acquisition is expected to close late fourth quarter of 2022, subject to IEA stockholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. MasTec has entered into agreements with various IEA stockholders, which collectively own approximately 35% of IEA's outstanding stock, to vote their shares of IEA common stock in favor of the transaction. Based on estimated IEA net debt levels at closing, the total transaction consideration will be approximately $1.1 billion. MasTec expects to issue approximately 2.8 million MasTec shares in the transaction.
IEA is reaffirming its expectation that full year 2022 revenue will range between $2.3 to $2.5 billion, with net income ranging between $45 to $51 million, adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) ranging between $140 to $150 million. For 2023, MasTec expects that IEA will generate revenue between $2.6 to $2.7 billion, with adjusted EBITDA ranging between $160 to $170 million, exclusive of any post transaction synergies1. MasTec expects near term post transaction annual cost savings of approximately $10 million primarily from the combination of reduced IEA public company reporting and other costs. Inclusive of both transaction finance costs as well as expected synergies, MasTec expects that IEA will generate approximately $45 to $50 million of adjusted net income (a non-GAAP measure) in 2023.
MasTec has obtained committed bridge financing from Bank of America and J.P. Morgan, should it be needed, to complete the transaction. MasTec, however, intends to pursue certain other debt financing alternatives to finance the cash portion of the transaction consideration.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is serving as financial advisor to MasTec, and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Holland & Knight LLP are serving as legal counsel. Lazard is serving as financial advisor to IEA, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is serving as legal counsel.
MasTec Second Half 2022 Guidance Update
MasTec also announced today that it is updating its annual guidance for 2022, primarily due to expected higher levels of costs during the second half of the year. The Company is not adjusting its guidance expectation for the second quarter. Updated 2022 guidance also excludes any effects from the IEA acquisition. The Company continues to expect that annual full year 2022 revenue will approximate $9.2 billion, with full year GAAP net income and diluted earnings per share expected to approximate $95 million and $1.24, respectively. Full year 2022 adjusted EBITDA is expected to approximate $750 million and adjusted diluted earnings per share are expected to approximate $3.09.
Second half 2022 revenue is expected to approximate $5 billion, with second half 2022 GAAP net income expected to approximate $114 million and adjusted EBITDA expected to approximate $471 million or 9.4% of revenue. The Company will provide initial commentary on its updated 2022 outlook during today's conference call with additional commentary during its second quarter earnings conference call on August 5, 2022.
Jose Mas, MasTec's Chief Executive Officer commented, "While our expected second half 2022 performance represents a 280-basis point improvement in adjusted EBITDA margin rate versus first half 2022 results, our current expectation reflects higher expected project costs, inefficiencies and delays including the impact of higher fuel, labor and material costs from sustained levels of inflation. We believe that these impacts will be largely mitigated in 2023 as new projects and contractual cost escalators take effect. We continue to expect MasTec legacy operations in 2023 will generate strong revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth and look forward to the expected incremental contribution in 2023 of the IEA acquisition."
Conference Call
In conjunction with this announcement, MasTec has scheduled a conference call for this morning, Monday, July 25, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, which will also be broadcast live over the Internet. MasTec will utilize a slide presentation to accompany its prepared remarks, which will be viewable through the webcast and will also be available in the "Events and Presentations" area of the "Investors" section of MasTec's website prior to the start of the call. To participate in the call, dial (856) 344-9290 or (800) 289-0571 at least 15 minutes before the conference call begins and ask for the MasTec call using conference code 9021201. You may also visit the Investor Relations section of the MasTec website at https://investors.MasTec.com/events-presentations to access the Internet broadcast. For those who cannot participate live, a recording will be available on the Company's website for approximately 30 days by dialing (719) 457-0820 and referencing the same conference code.
MasTec, Inc. is a leading infrastructure construction company operating mainly throughout North America across a range of industries. The Company's primary activities include the engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of communications, energy and utility and other infrastructure, such as: power delivery services, including transmission and distribution, wireless, wireline/fiber and customer fulfillment activities; power generation, primarily from clean energy and renewable sources; pipeline infrastructure, including natural gas pipeline and distribution infrastructure; heavy civil; and industrial infrastructure. MasTec's customers are primarily in these industries. The Company's corporate website is located at www.MasTec.com. The information contained on the Company's website is not incorporated into this press release.
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives is a leading infrastructure construction company with renewable energy and specialty civil expertise. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with operations throughout the country, IEA's service offering spans the entire construction process. The Company offers a full spectrum of delivery models including full engineering, procurement, and construction, turnkey, design-build, balance of plant, and subcontracting services. IEA is one of the larger providers in the renewable energy industry and has completed more than 260 utility scale wind and solar projects across North America. In the heavy-civil space, IEA offers a number of specialty services including environmental remediation, industrial maintenance, specialty transportation infrastructure and other site development for public and private projects. For more information, please visit IEA's website at www.iea.net. The information contained on IEA's website is not incorporated into this press release.
Additional Information and Where to Find It:
This communication relates to a proposed acquisition of Infrastructure & Energy Alternatives, Inc. (IEA) by MasTec, Inc. (MasTec). In connection with the proposed acquisition, MasTec and IEA intend to file relevant materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including a Registration Statement on Form S-4 to be filed by MasTec that will include a preliminary proxy statement of IEA and also constitute a prospectus with respect to the shares of common stock of MasTec to be issued in the proposed transaction. The information in the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus will not be complete and may be changed. IEA will deliver the definitive proxy statement to its stockholders as required by applicable law. This communication is not a substitute for any prospectus, proxy statement or any other document that may be filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed business combination.
INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION.
Investors and security holders will be able to obtain these materials (when they are available) and other documents filed with the SEC free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. Copies of documents filed with the SEC by MasTec (when they become available) may be obtained free of charge at MasTec's website at MasTec.com. Copies of documents filed with the SEC by IEA (when they become available) may be obtained free of charge on IEA's website at iea.net.
Participants in the Solicitation:
IEA and its directors, executive officers and certain other members of management and employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the proposed transaction. Information regarding these persons who may, under the rules of the SEC, be considered participants in the solicitation of IEA stockholders in connection with the proposed transaction and their interests in the transaction will be set forth in the proxy statement/prospectus described above filed with the SEC. Additional information regarding IEA's executive officers and directors is included in IEA's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on March 7, 2022 and IEA's proxy statement for its 2022 annual meeting of stockholders filed with the SEC on March 23, 2022. These documents may be obtained free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, or IEA's website, iea.net.
This presentation contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to expectations regarding the future financial and operational performance of MasTec or IEA; the projected impact and benefits of IEA on MasTec's operating or financial results; expectations regarding MasTec's or IEA's business or financial outlook; expectations regarding MasTec's plans, strategies and opportunities; expectations regarding opportunities, technological developments, competitive positioning, future economic conditions and other trends in particular markets or industries; the potential strategic benefits and synergies expected from the acquisition of IEA; the development of and opportunities with respect to future projects, including renewable and other projects designed to support transition to a carbon-neutral economy; MasTec's ability to successfully integrate the operations of IEA; the expected closing of, and financing sources for, the acquisition of IEA; the impact of inflation on MasTec's costs and the ability to recover increased costs, as well as other statements reflecting expectations, intentions, assumptions or beliefs about future events and other statements that do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. These statements are based on currently available operating, financial, economic and other information, and are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties. A variety of factors in addition to those mentioned above, many of which are beyond our control, could cause actual future results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Other factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to: risks related to completed or potential acquisitions, including the acquisition of Henkels & McCoy Group, Inc., as well as the ability to identify suitable acquisition or strategic investment opportunities, to integrate acquired businesses within expected timeframes and to achieve the revenue, cost savings and earnings levels from such acquisitions at or above the levels projected, including the risk of potential asset impairment charges and write-downs of goodwill; risks related to the impact of inflation on costs as well as economic activity, customer demand and interest rates, risks related to adverse effects of health epidemics and pandemics or other outbreaks of communicable diseases, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, including its effect on supply chain or inflationary issues, as well as, the potential effects of related health mandates and recommendations; market conditions, technological developments, regulatory or policy changes, including permitting processes and tax incentives that affect us or our customers' industries; the effect of federal, local, state, foreign or tax legislation and other regulations affecting the industries we serve and related projects and expenditures; the effect on demand for our services of changes in the amount of capital expenditures by our customers due to, among other things, economic conditions, including potential adverse effects of public health issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic on economic activity generally, the availability and cost of financing, and customer consolidation in the industries we serve; activity in the industries we serve and the impact on our customers' expenditure levels caused by fluctuations in commodity prices, including for oil, natural gas, electricity and other energy sources; our ability to manage projects effectively and in accordance with our estimates, as well as our ability to accurately estimate the costs associated with our fixed price and other contracts, including any material changes in estimates for completion of projects and estimates of the recoverability of change orders; the timing and extent of fluctuations in operational, geographic and weather factors affecting our customers, projects and the industries in which we operate; the highly competitive nature of our industry and the ability of our customers, including our largest customers, to terminate or reduce the amount of work, or in some cases, the prices paid for services, on short or no notice under our contracts, and/or customer disputes related to our performance of services and the resolution of unapproved change orders; our dependence on a limited number of customers and our ability to replace non-recurring projects with new projects; the effect of state and federal regulatory initiatives, including costs of compliance with existing and potential future safety and environmental requirements, including with respect to climate change; risks associated with potential environmental issues and other hazards from our operations; disputes with, or failures of, our subcontractors to deliver agreed-upon supplies or services in a timely fashion, and the risk of being required to pay our subcontractors even if our customers do not pay us; risks related to our strategic arrangements, including our equity investments; any exposure resulting from system or information technology interruptions or data security breaches; any material changes in estimates for legal costs or case settlements or adverse determinations on any claim, lawsuit or proceeding; the adequacy of our insurance, legal and other reserves; the outcome of our plans for future operations, growth and services, including business development efforts, backlog, acquisitions and dispositions; our ability to maintain a workforce based upon current and anticipated workloads; our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, key management and skilled employees, including from acquired businesses, and our ability to enforce any noncompetition agreements; fluctuations in fuel, maintenance, materials, labor and other costs; risks associated with volatility of our stock price or any dilution or stock price volatility that shareholders may experience in connection with shares we may issue as consideration for earn-out obligations or as purchase consideration in connection with past or future acquisitions, or as a result of other stock issuances; restrictions imposed by our credit facility, senior notes and any future loans or securities; our ability to obtain performance and surety bonds; risks related to our operations that employ a unionized workforce, including labor availability, productivity and relations, as well as risks associated with multiemployer union pension plans, including underfunding and withdrawal liabilities; risks associated with operating in or expanding into additional international markets, including risks from fluctuations in foreign currencies, foreign labor and general business conditions and risks from failure to comply with laws applicable to our foreign activities and/or governmental policy uncertainty; a small number of our existing shareholders have the ability to influence major corporate decisions; as well as other risks detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable; however, you should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations. Furthermore, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if any of our underlying assumptions are incorrect, our actual results may differ significantly from the results that we express in, or imply by, any of our forward-looking statements. These and other risks are detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to reflect future events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law. We qualify any and all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary factors.
1 Reconciliations of fiscal year 2022 non-GAAP measures are included in this release. Reconciliations of fiscal year 2023 forward-looking financial measures for IEA included in this presentation that are non-GAAP financial measures to the corresponding GAAP financial measures are not included, due to variability and difficulty in making accurate forecasts and projections, particularly in light of the purchase accounting impact on IEA's GAAP results following its acquisition, as well as, because certain information is not currently ascertainable or accessible, and because not all of the information necessary for a quantitative reconciliation of these forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures is available to MasTec without unreasonable efforts. Estimated adjusted EBITDA and estimated adjusted net income includes the impact of, among other things, amortization of intangible assets and depreciation, which may be significant and difficult to project with a reasonable degree of accuracy, as the allocation of the purchase price to intangible assets and to property and equipment has not yet been performed. Therefore, reconciliations of IEA's estimated adjusted EBITDA and estimated adjusted net income to estimated net income are not available without unreasonable effort. For the same reasons, we are unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information, nor can we accurately predict all of the components of the applicable non-GAAP financial measures and reconciling adjustments thereto; accordingly, the corresponding GAAP measures may be materially different than the non-GAAP measures. Non-GAAP measures should not be considered in isolation from, as a substitute for, or alternative measure of, GAAP net income and should be reviewed in conjunction with the provided reconciliation thereto. Such forward looking information is also subject to uncertainty and various risks, including those set forth in the risk factors discussed below, and there can be no assurance that any forecasted results or conditions will actually be achieved.
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Officials in New York are on track to spend $1 billion taxpayer dollars refurbishing 40-year-old Winter Olympic sports and tourism sites near Lake Placid. Critics doubt it will pay off.
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Officials in New York are on track to spend $1 billion taxpayer dollars refurbishing 40-year-old Winter Olympic sports and tourism sites near Lake Placid. Critics doubt it will pay off.
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LONDON (AP) — Nigel Lawson, the tax-cutting U.K. Treasury chief under the late Margaret Thatcher and a lion of Conservative politics in the late 20th century has died. He was 91.
Lawson, who led the Treasury from 1983 to 1989, spearheaded the drive to place key public sector companies into private control. He also modernized financial markets in what became known as the Big Bang of deregulation, which strengthened London’s position as a global financial hub.
Conservative Party politicians rushed to offer tributes, a reflection of the fact that his policies remain revered. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson described him as a “fearless and original flame of free-market Conservatism.”
“He was a tax-cutter and simplifier who helped transform the economic landscape and helped millions of British people achieve their dreams…he was a giant,” Johnson said.
Lawson, who also worked on the Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph, had six children, including celebrity food writer Nigella Lawson.
The Telegraph newspaper first reported his death. His family did not immediately comment. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/free-market-ex-uk-treasury-chief-nigel-lawson-dies/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world | 2023-04-04 09:41:45 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/free-market-ex-uk-treasury-chief-nigel-lawson-dies/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
It would be tough to match athletic resumes with Billy Pappas, who was a three-sport athlete at Manchester High School Central and then a standout in each of those three sports (football, basketball and baseball) at the University of New Hampshire.
Pappas, a Manchester native who died Monday at age 89, was a quarterback, defensive back and kicker on the 1957 UNH football team that went 7-1 overall and won the Yankee Conference with a 4-0 record. He later played football while he was in the Air Force.
Pappas graduated from UNH in 1955, and some say he was better in basketball than he was in football. He is currently 13th on UNH’s all-time scoring list (1,228 points) and third in career free throws made (334).
“My mother was Billy’s sister,” said former Manchester Central football coach Jim Schubert. “We moved up to Manchester from Brooklyn in 1954 and that’s all we heard about. The great athlete of the Pappas family in Manchester. We didn’t go to his games, but I remember my father taking us to UNH and Billy was trying out for the New York Titans, but I think that was after he played football in the service. That’s the only time I ever saw him throw a football.
“Billy was like Mr. Manchester when he came back to the city. I’m sure you would hear that from a lot of different people. Never saw him play anything, but I heard a lot of stories about him.
“I remember out in the back of the house on 432 Hanover Street they had a hoop set up and every once in a while he’d come out of the house and us little rugrats would be throwing the ball up trying to get a basket and he’d come over and start shooting those one-legged shots where you throw your other leg up. He’d never miss.”
Toni Pappas, Billy’s wife, met her future husband in Germany at a Greek Easter party in 1967. They were married in 1971.
“He was extraordinarily cheerful, optimistic and he had smiling eyes and a smile on his face that captivated people,” Toni said. “He had an amazingly quick wit. He loved verbally sparring with people in a good-natured way, and he had a dynamic energy. Always on the move. But the best part about him, I think, is he was always willing to help out whenever needed, in any situation, and he was generous with his time and he loved his family. He loved all the achievements of his nieces and nephews. He was very proud of them.
“He’s famous for his dancing. He got along with everyone. I don’t think there’s anyone who could say a bad word about Billy Pappas.”
Pappas is a member of the Manchester Central Hall of Fame, the NHIAA Hall of Fame, the Queen City Athletic Hall of Fame and the UNH Hall of Fame. He was also on the board of directors for the Joe Yukica Football Foundation.
“I don’t think I ever heard him talk about how good he was at UNH or at Central,” Jim Schubert said. “The stories just preceded him. Everywhere I went in Manchester people would say: ‘You’re Billy Pappas’ nephew? You’re Billy Pappas’ nephew?’ You know how many years I heard that?
“He was cool. He was a cool uncle.”
Steve Schubert, Jim’s younger brother, said Billy set the bar high in a family full of athletes.
“He was someone for us to all emulate, but more so, as we got going through our sporting careers, someone for us to go after and try to match what he had done,” he explained. “We were all athletes in that family.”
Pappas ran the Gobbler’s Knob, a restaurant in Manhattan. One of his partners was Art Heyman, who played basketball at Duke and was the first overall pick in the 1963 NBA Draft.
“He was a good businessman,” Toni said. “He would watch sports occasionally, but not all the time. “He had other interests. He loved to read and he loved keeping fit — running. We used to run marathons together. We ran the Boston Marathon together. New York City Marathon also. No matter what he was doing, he was enjoying it.”
Toni said Billy also loved jazz, and would listen to music all day long.
“He was very humble,” she said. “He never talked about his athletic background. I didn’t really understand it when I first met him because at that point he wasn’t playing sports anymore. When we came to Manchester after we were married, I was really surprised what a legend he was. What an icon he was. | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/college/billy-pappas-was-a-three-sport-star-and-much-more/article_0c69438f-dee7-57f4-b4d7-20b991c046e4.html | 2023-03-30 00:46:10 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/college/billy-pappas-was-a-three-sport-star-and-much-more/article_0c69438f-dee7-57f4-b4d7-20b991c046e4.html |
Green comet to appear in sky for first time in 50,000 years
Published: Jan. 10, 2023 at 12:46 PM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago
(CNN) – People looking at the morning sky this month might notice a rare celestial body.
NASA says a glowing green comet will make an appearance for the first time in 50,000 years.
It will have streaking tails of dust and could appear fuzzy.
The comet will be closest to the sun Thursday and closest to Earth between Feb. 1 and 2.
NASA says sky gazers in the northern hemisphere should be able to see the comet in the morning sky throughout January.
People in the southern hemisphere should be able to see it in early February.
The comet was first discovered in March.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock will face Republican football legend Herschel Walker for a coveted Senate seat in Georgia after both handily defeated primary challengers on Tuesday to set up a historic, high-stakes showdown.
Walker, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, defeated five GOP challengers in his race, clearing the 50% mark needed to avoid a runoff. Warnock easily defeated beauty industry professional Tamara Johnson-Shealey.
The general election matchup between Warnock and Walker marks the first time that two major party candidates for U.S. Senate in Georgia are Black.
The contest is expected to be heated as the GOP tries to take back the seat Warnock won last year, helping Democrats squeak out a congressional majority. Republicans looking to regain control of the Senate have targeted the Georgia race.
Walker is a former college football celebrity with huge name recognition. Warnock is the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached. He became the first Black senator elected from Georgia when he defeated appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in 2021 weeks after Democrats won the state’s presidential election for the first time since 1992.
As a senator, Warnock has derided Republicans’ push for tighter voting rules, calling them “Jim Crow in new clothes;” stressed his work in bringing home funding for health care, national security research and other projects; and highlighted his efforts to try to cap the cost of insulin and temporarily suspend the federal gasoline tax.
Walker — a political newcomer — has nearly unmatched name recognition in Georgia from his days as a college football running back. He led the University of Georgia football team to a national title during the 1980 season and won the Heisman Trophy in 1982. He counts Trump as a close friend.
The Trump endorsement was the chief reason Pam Leonard said she voted for Walker. But the 71-year-old said Tuesday outside of a polling place in Woodstock that she remembers those football days, too.
“I know his story,” Leonard said. “Especially when he was a child, he was bullied and he built himself up by running against trains. That takes a lot of gumption.”
But some of his Republican opponents had questioned Walker’s electability. Walker has a history of violence against women and has made multiple gaffes on the campaign trail. He also skipped the primary debates. He has been open about his long struggle with mental illness and acknowledged violent urges.
Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black made the sharpest attacks on Walker, saying he couldn’t win in November because of domestic violence allegations and other past problems. Former Trump administration official and Navy veteran Latham Saddler had questioned Walker’s preparation for a potential debate with Warnock.
The other GOP primary candidates were: retired brigadier general Jon McColumn; contractor and Air Force veteran Kelvin King and former state Rep. Josh Clark.
David Butler didn’t vote for Walker.
“I think he’s probably going to get the nomination, but I don’t think he deserves it,” Butler said before the race was called. “I think he’s getting it because of his name, because he played football at Georgia.”
Associated Press writer Jeff Martin in Woodstock, Georgia, contributed to this report. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/election/former-football-star-herschel-walker-wins-gop-nod-for-us-senate/ | 2022-05-25 01:51:07 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/election/former-football-star-herschel-walker-wins-gop-nod-for-us-senate/ |
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop of a deepening opioid crisis.
The proposal could overhaul the way millions of Americans get some prescriptions after three years of relying on telehealth for doctor’s appointments by computer or phone during the pandemic.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said late Friday it plans to reinstate once longstanding federal requirements for powerful drugs that were waived once COVID-19 hit, enabling doctors to write millions of prescriptions for drugs such as OxyContin or Adderall without ever meeting patients in person.
Patients will need to see a doctor in person at least once to get an initial prescription for drugs that the federal government says have the the most potential to be abused — Vicodin, OxyContin, Adderall and Ritalin, for example. Refills could be prescribed over telehealth appointments.
The agency will also clamp down on how doctors can prescribe other, less addictive drugs to patients they've never physically met. Substances like codeine, taken to alleviate pain or coughing, Xanax, used to treat anxiety, Ambien, a sleep aid, and buprenorphine, a narcotic used to treat opioid addiction, can be prescribed over telehealth for an initial 30-day dose. Patients would need to see a doctor at least once in person to get a refill.
Patients will still be able to get common prescriptions like antibiotics, skin creams, birth control and insulin prescribed through telehealth visits.
The new rule seeks to keep expanded access to telehealth that's important for patients like those in rural areas while also balancing safety, an approach DEA Administrator Anne Milgram referred to as “expansion of telemedicine with guardrails.”
The ease with each Americans have accessed certain medications during the pandemic has helped many get needed treatment, but concerns have also mounted that some companies may take advantage of the lax rules and be overprescribing medications to people who don’t need them, said David Herzberg, a historian of drugs at the University of Buffalo.
“Both sides of this tension have really good points,” said Herzberg. “You don’t want barriers in the way of getting people prescriptions they need. But anytime you remove those barriers it’s also an opportunity for profit seekers to exploit the lax rules and sell the medicines to people who may not need them.”
U.S. overdose deaths hit a record in 2021, about three-quarters of those from opioids during a crisis that was first spun into the making by drug makers, pharmacies and doctors that pushed the drugs to patients decades ago. But the grim toll from synthetic opioids like fentanyl far outstripped deaths related to prescription drugs that year, according to Centers for Disease Control Data. Fentanyl is increasingly appearing on the illicit market, pressed into fake prescription pills or mixed into other drugs.
The proposed rules deliver a major blow to a booming telehealth industry, with tech startups launching in recent years to treat and prescribe medications for mental health or attention deficit disorders. The industry has largely benefitted from the reprieve on in-person visits for drugs brought on by the pandemic, although some national retailers stopped filling drug orders generated by some telehealth apps over the last year.
The DEA has grown increasingly concerned over the last two years that some of those startup telehealth companies are improperly prescribing addictive substances like opioids or attention deficit disorder medication, putting patients in danger, a DEA official told The Associated Press on Friday.
The official said the agency plans to have the new rule in place before the COVID-19 public health emergency expires on May 11, which will effectively end the loosened rules. That could mean people who may seeking treatment from a doctor who is hundreds of miles away need to start developing plans for in-person visits with their doctors now, pointed out Boston-based attorney Jeremy Sherer, who represents telehealth companies. Patients will have six months to visit their doctor in person when the regulation is enacted.
“Providers and their patients need to know what that treatment is going to look like moving forward and whether, once the public health emergency ends in May, if they’re going to need to figure out a way to have a visit in person before continuing treatment, and that can be a real challenge," he said.
Many states have already moved to restore limitations for telehealth care across state lines. By October, nearly 40 states and Washington, D.C., had ended emergency declarations that made it easier for doctors to see patients in other states. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/telehealth-prescription-limits/507-08fb5f1d-5838-41bc-9f0f-c44770c84169 | 2023-02-25 02:48:25 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/telehealth-prescription-limits/507-08fb5f1d-5838-41bc-9f0f-c44770c84169 |
Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina
(AP) - Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge Jim Crow laws will have their sentences posthumously vacated Friday, more than seven decades later.
“While this judicial action is taking place 75 years after the injustice occurred, never should we falter in examining past wrongs, seeking reparation, and lifting those heavy burdens from our hearts and minds so that future generations may know justice,” Renée Price, chairman of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, said in a statement.
On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court Morgan v. Virginia ruling declaring segregation on interstate travel unconstitutional.
The men boarded buses in Washington, D.C., setting out on a two-week route that included stops in Durham, Chapel Hill and Greensboro, North Carolina. As the riders attempted to board the bus in Chapel Hill, several of them were removed by force and attacked by a group of angry cab drivers. Four of the so-called Freedom Riders — Andrew Johnson, James Felmet, Bayard Rustin, and Igal Roodenko — were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for refusing to move from the front of the bus.
After a trial in Orange County, the four men were convicted and sentenced to serve on a chain gang. Rustin later published writings about being imprisoned and subjected to hard labor for taking part in the first freedom ride, which was also known as the Journey of Reconciliation.
In 1942, five years before the Chapel Hill episode, Rustin was beaten by police officers in Nashville, Tennessee, and taken to jail after refusing to move to the back of a bus he had ridden from Louisville, Kentucky, author Raymond Arsenault wrote in the book “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.” A pioneer of the civil rights movement, Rustin was an adviser to the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was instrumental in organizing the March on Washington in 1963.
Dr. Adriane Lentz-Smith, an associate professor and associate chair in the department of history at Duke University, described Rustin as “a shepherd and a shaper of the 1960s movement.” But Lentz-Smith said his role in the struggle eventually diminished over concerns that his being gay and a former member of the Communist party could hurt the movement.
“He was deliberately moved out of the spotlight,” Lentz-Smith said. “The very things that make him remarkable and admirable to us ... in 2022 made him profoundly vulnerable” then, she said.
Last month, five District Court judges marked the 75th anniversary of the arrests of Rustin and the three other men in Chapel Hill by reading a statement of apology.
“The Orange County Court was on the wrong side of the law in May 1947, and it was on the wrong side of history,” the statement read. “Today, we stand before our community on behalf of all five District Court Judges for Orange and Chatham Counties and accept the responsibility entrusted to us to do our part to eliminate racial disparities in our justice system.”
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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesys Spine announced today the first two patients have been enrolled in the prospective SIros™ Lateral Sacroiliac Fusion Study. Dr. Tyler Ptacek, Rapid City, S. Dak. and Dr. Douglas Beall, Oklahoma City, Okla., were the first physicians in the study to enroll patients. This clinical study will be conducted across four centers in the United States.
"We are thrilled to announce the enrollment of the first patients in the SIros SI Fusion Study. The SIros system transfixes and stabilizes the SI joint to relieve pain and we are confident it will be the preferred lateral solution. It is exciting to become part of the limited group of companies that have data to support the lateral SI joint fusion procedure. We are working with Talosix, our research partner and a leader in real world evidence, to conduct this study and anticipate presentation of the data in 2023," said Genesys Spine's Chief Strategy Officer, SI Fusion, Meredith Gavlick.
"A couple of years ago, I incorporated the SIros system into my practice as a solution for SI joint pain. Not only have I been impressed with my patient outcomes, but I am also confident the results of this study will reinforce what I have seen firsthand," said Tyler Ptacek M.D. DABA.
"Up to 25 percent of low back pain patients experience sacroiliac joint pain*. Being able to treat these patients with a reliable transfixing implant coupled with the flexibility to tailor the procedure to my patient population has been paramount. I am proud to be able to offer it to my patients who are suffering from SI joint pain," said Chief of Operations of Clinical Radiology of Oklahoma and Director of Interventional Spine Services and Principal Investigator of the Study, Douglas P. Beall, M.D.
The SIros Sacroiliac Joint Fusion System is intended for sacroiliac joint fusion for conditions including degenerative sacroiliitis and sacroiliac joint disruption. The system consists of 3D Printed implants designed to transfix the sacroiliac joint and minimize micromotion to enable bony fusion.
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Despite war, some Ukrainian families reunite for New Year
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — For millions of Ukrainians, many of them under Russian bombardment and grappling with power and water shortages, New Year’s celebrations will be muted as Russia’s 10-month war rumbles on with no end in sight. Explosions rang out across the country as a new wave of Russian attacks was reported Saturday.
But for some families, the new year is nevertheless a chance to reunite, however briefly, after months apart.
At Kyiv’s central railway station on Saturday morning, Mykyta, still in his uniform, gripped a bouquet of pink roses tightly as he waited on platform 9 for his wife Valeriia to arrive from Poland. He hadn’t seen her in six months.
“It actually was really tough, you know, to wait so long,” he told The Associated Press after hugging and kissing Valeriia.
Nearby, another soldier, Vasyl Khomko, 42, joyously met his daughter Yana and wife Galyna who have been living in Slovakia due to the war, but returned to Kyiv to spend New Year’s Eve together.
The mood contrasted starkly with that from 10 months ago when families were torn apart by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Back in February, fathers, husbands and sons had to stay behind as their wives, mothers and daughters boarded trains with small children seeking safety outside the country. Scenes of tearful goodbyes seared television screens and front pages of newspaper across the world.
But on the last day of the year marked by the brutal war, many returned to the capital to spend New Year’s Eve with their loved ones, despite the ongoing Russian attacks.
Multiple explosions were heard across the country Saturday, and air defenses were activated in several regions. One of the explosions in Kyiv occurred in a residential area, among the multi-story buildings of Solomianskyi district. One person was killed and three wounded, said the capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko.
As Russian attacks continue to target power supplies leaving millions without electricity, no big celebrations are expected and a curfew will be in place as the clock rings in the new year. But for most Ukrainians being together with their families is a luxury.
Valeriia first sought refuge from the conflict in Spain but later moved to Poland. Asked what their New Year’s Eve plans were, she answered simply: “Just to be together.”
The couple declined not to share their family name for security reasons as Mykyta has been fighting on the front lines in both southern and eastern Ukraine.
On platform 8, another young couple reunited. University student Arseniia Kolomiiets, 23, has been living in Italy. Despite longing to see her boyfriend Daniel Liashchenko in Kyiv, Kolomiiets was scared of Russian missiles and drone attacks.
“He was like, ‘Please come! Please come! Please come!’” she recalled. “I decided that (being) scared is one part, but being with beloved ones on the holidays is the most important part. So, I overcome my fear and here I am now.”
Although they have no electricity at home, Liashchenko said they were looking forward to welcoming 2023 together with his family and their cat.
In an attempt to ensure residents have light during their celebrations, the regional government of Ukraine’s southwestern Odesa province is planning to limit the work of the most energy-intensive industries on Dec. 31 and Jan 1.
Regional head Maksym Marchenko made the announcement on Friday via Telegram, and said that power engineers in the province had used all means possible to “eliminate the consequences” of Russia’s barrage of attacks on Ukraine on Thursday and reinstate the power supply.
In Kyiv, recent attacks have left many on edge, unsure about whether the skies will be peaceful on the last day of the year.
“We are hoping there will be no surprises today,” said Natalya Kontonenko who had traveled from Finland. It was the first time she had seen her brother Serhii Kontonenko since the full-scale invasion began on Feb. 24. Serhii and other relatives traveled from Mykolaiv to Kyiv to meet Natalya.
“We are not concerned about the electricity, because we are together and that I think is the most important,” he said.
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Developed in Coordination with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the Plan Offers an Estimated $50 Billion of Impact
- 25 new stores in LMI and/or majority-minority communities
- $21 billion in home lending to Low- and Moderate-Income and diverse borrowers
- $7.75 billion in small business lending
- $17.5 billion in community development loans and investments
CHERRY HILL, N.J., Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, today announced a five-year Community Benefits Plan (CBP), developed in coordination with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC). The CBP will provide an estimated $50 billion of impact to local communities across TD Bank's expanded U.S. presence following the approval and close of its planned acquisition of First Horizon Corporation. This plan will provide lending, philanthropy, banking access and other activities for the benefit of diverse and underserved communities.
"Banks have an important role in providing economic opportunity and supporting changes that help Low- and Moderate-Income (LMI), diverse and underserved communities achieve their financial goals," said Leo Salom, President and CEO of TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®. "This is rooted in the belief that our business only does well when the people we serve are flourishing. Our Community Benefits Plan builds on TD Bank's and First Horizon's longstanding focus on our communities. We are excited to continue this focus in First Horizon markets as we move forward with combining our two organizations. Thank you to the NCRC and its member organizations for their collaboration and critical insight as we developed an effective Plan that addresses the priorities and needs of the communities we serve."
To identify areas of greatest need in communities across 22 states and Washington, D.C., the bank solicited feedback from NCRC leadership and non-profit groups from both TD and First Horizon markets through months of consultation. TD will meet annually with the NCRC to discuss and measure progress on the elements of the Plan.
"TD Bank's brought dedication and open minds to the meetings with NCRC members that brought us to this strong and promising agreement," National Community Reinvestment Coalition President and CEO Jesse Van Tol said. "The deal we just signed will ensure that communities of need see tangible increases in resources and economic opportunity in their neighborhoods – as every bank merger is legally required and morally bound to do. This agreement reflects the hard work of our members and the bank's staff in numerous ways, including TD's commitment to opening 25 new physical bank branches in marginalized communities – the largest such pledge to date by any of the 20-plus banks that have signed onto a community benefits agreement with NCRC members. I applaud everyone involved for bringing the candid, constructive energy these deals require to our meetings and producing such a robust final package."
Advancing TD and First Horizon's Strong Track Records of Community Engagement
The CBP extends TD and First Horizon's shared commitment to positively impact social and economic outcomes in local markets and address financial inclusion across diverse communities, including Black, Indigenous, minority, women, veteran and LGBTQ2+ individuals and their businesses, while also enhancing access to safe and affordable products and services. The plan includes the following:
Banking Access
Consistent with TD's goal to make banking accessible to its customers, it will open at least 25 new stores and 25 ATMs in LMI and/or majority-minority markets over the next five years. The bank also commits that all banking locations will be open at least five days a week. In addition, there will not be any merger-related First Horizon store closures.
Mortgage Lending and Consumer Products
TD Bank will enable affordable home ownership by increasing residential mortgage loans, including first-time homebuyer and home improvement loans to $21 billion for LMI and minority borrowers, and in LMI and majority-minority census tracts, which represents a 65% increase. In support of this goal, TD will hire additional diverse Mortgage Loan Officers and Community Mortgage Loan Officers who reflect the communities we serve.
The bank will also provide affordable retail products and services that are designed to meet the needs of economically vulnerable consumers across the footprint.
Small Business Support
The Plan builds on the bank's ongoing commitment to support the critical role small businesses play in local economies by offering an estimated $7.75 billion in lending to small businesses with under $1 million in annual revenue, with a focus on minority- and women-owned businesses and those in LMI and/or rural areas.
Community Development Loans and Investment
TD Bank will provide $17.5 billion in community development loans and other investments to support economic development activities and affordable housing projects (including rental housing) within TD and First Horizon markets. This represents a 21% increase over the combined TD and First Horizon previous five-year average.
Additional Highlights
- $200 million in Community Reinvestment Act-related philanthropy through the TD Office of Charitable and Community Giving, which includes creating a $40 million TD New Horizon Foundation, with a focus on giving in Memphis, TN, and other First Horizon markets over five years.
- Creation of a Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) / Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) Impact Strategy, to provide lending and equity investments, with a total estimated impact of $1 billion.
- Increased spending with certified diverse suppliers in the US by 50%.
- Engagement and support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through institutional support, recruitment of students and alumni, and financial access.
Additional Information Regarding the CBP
TD and the NCRC are pleased that 59 community organizations have endorsed this impactful CBP. For more information and resources, please visit: https://stories.td.com/us/en/article/td-bank-community-benefits-plan.
About TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®
TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank ®, is one of the 10 largest banks in the U.S., providing over 9.8 million customers with a full range of retail, small business and commercial banking products and services at more than 1,100 convenient locations throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Metro D.C., the Carolinas and Florida. In addition, TD Auto Finance, a division of TD Bank, N.A., offers vehicle financing and dealer commercial services. TD Bank and its subsidiaries also offer customized private banking and wealth management services through TD Wealth®. TD Bank is headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J. To learn more, visit www.td.com/us. Find TD Bank on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TDBank and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TDBank_US and www.twitter.com/TDNews_US.
TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank, is a member of TD Bank Group and a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank of Toronto, Canada, a top 10 financial services company in North America. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges under the ticker symbol "TD". To learn more, visit www.td.com/us.
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North Dakota regulators have scheduled public comment hearings on a proposed Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. electric rate increase and a planned expansion of a Basin Electric Power Cooperative natural gas-fired power plant in Williams County.
The state Pubic Service Commission will hold the power plant hearing in Williston in January, and the rate hearing in Bismarck next spring.
Bismarck-based MDU wants an overall 12.3% rate increase, or $25.4 million annually. The increase for residential customers would be 17%. For a residential customer using 800 kilowatts of power per month, the dollar increase would be just under $15.
The PSC last summer approved an interim increase of about 8.9%, or $10.9 million, effective the following day. An interim rate increase is common in such cases. Customers will be reimbursed if the final order from the PSC is less than the interim rate.
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The 8.9% hike is applied to base charges on customers' bills, not to all components of the bill. That means an average residential customer sees an increase of 6.3% on their total bill, or $5.09.
MDU serves 93,500 electric customers in 119 North Dakota communities. It has cited investments in company facilities -- including a new turbine at Heskett Station north of Mandan, which is being converted from coal to natural gas -- along with increases in expenses and also inflation as reasons for the rate hike request. The company last had an electric rate increase in 2017, of 3.7%.
AARP North Dakota opposes the proposed increase, saying it unfairly targets residential customers and doesn't give them enough ability to counteract the hike by reducing usage. AARP has concerns that a jump in rates would adversely impact people age 50 and older, for whom the group advocates.
The PSC will hold the public hearing in the Commission Hearing Room on the 12th floor of the state Capitol in Bismarck on Monday, May 1.
Power plant
Bismarck-based Basin Electric is seeking state approval to expand the capacity of the Pioneer Generation Station northwest of Williston from 242 megawatts to 583 megawatts — a $670 million project. A transmission line to connect to the grid would boost the figure to $790 million.
The co-op cites in part the region's growing data center industry, which requires a large amount of electricity. It would be Basin’s largest single-site electric generation project since the 1980s.
The PSC will hold the public hearing at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 5, at Williston City Hall in the John Kautzman Chamber Room. Williston City Hall is at 22 E. Broadway.
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CARMEL, Ind. (WXIN) — An Indiana mother has been sentenced to 115 years in prison after being found guilty in an oatmeal-poisoning murder plot that stemmed from a contentious custody battle between her and the father of her 2-year-old child.
Heidi Littlefield, 42, was found guilty of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in August by a Hamilton County jury in the death of her ex-boyfriend, Francis Kelley.
Kelley was found dead on a couch in his Carmel home on Jan. 18, 2021.
According to court documents, Littlefield conspired with her daughter, Logan Runyon, in plotting the death of Kelley. Kelley and Littlefield shared a 2-year-old child together and had been in a custody battle when Littlefield began plotting Kelley’s murder.
Court documents reveal that between October 2020 and January 2021, Littlefield worked with Runyon to poison Kelley with fentanyl, in hopes of making his death look like an overdose.
Investigators spoke with Robert Walker of Englewood, Ohio — another accused conspirator in the plot — who told detectives that Littlefield put fentanyl in Kelley’s miso soup in October 2020. Walker also told police it was Littlefield’s idea to put the fentanyl in Kelley’s oatmeal, which he ate on January 15, 2021, the last day anyone heard from Kelley.
Court documents reveal a text conversation between Kelley and Littlefield that may have been his last.
“Did you do something to the oatmeal that was in my fridge?” Kelley texted Littlefield on Jan. 15, 2021, at 1:37 p.m.
“What the actual f— are you talking about???” Littlefield responded.
“You were in my fridge last night and it tasted funny after a couple bites and now I’m lightheaded,” Kelley responded at 1:41 p.m., adding he was having trouble focusing on work.
Kelley had been working from home that day. Court records show that the last email Kelley sent was at 1:56 p.m. Calls and messages to Kelley after 1:56 p.m. were marked unanswered and unread. Kelley’s employer said it was “highly unusual” for Kelley to go dark during this time frame since he was usually active until 5 p.m.
Littlefield continued to text Kelley after he asked her about the oatmeal. She accused him of being on drugs and berated him. In a message sent at 1:52 p.m., she said she was tired of him “telling false info about me.” This message went unread. So too did her message at 4:04 p.m. where Littlefield told him she had stopped by his house a little earlier with their daughter but her knocks at his door went unanswered.
Carmel police ended up making a welfare check at Kelley’s home two days later after a different ex-girlfriend became concerned when Kelley failed to pick up their 9-year-old child as previously scheduled. Police didn’t enter Kelley’s home nor did they make contact with Kelley on Jan. 17, however. It wasn’t until the following afternoon that Kelley was found when the same ex went to his home and discovered him dead on his couch.
Police were called to Kelley’s Howe Drive home where an inspection of Kelley’s body noted bruising found around his right eye, right elbow, knees and left hand. A small baggy was also found under the couch. It tested positive for cocaine but an autopsy later revealed fentanyl in Kelley’s system, not cocaine.
On Jan. 20, 2021, the coroner determined Kelley’s manner of death to be asphyxia due to manual strangulation. There was also blunt force trauma to his head.
When Walker was arrested on a warrant in Ohio in March 2021, he told detectives with the Carmel Police Department that he wanted to tell them about Kelley’s death and Littlefield and Runyon’s involvement.
Walker told police that Littlefield paid him $2,500 to hire someone to kill Kelley. Walker instead used the money on drugs, saying he had no intention to go through with his promise.
According to Walker, Littlefield talked about killing her “baby’s daddy” because “she would be failing her daughter if (Kelley) didn’t end up dead.”
Walker even implied Littlefield wanted Runyon to take the fall, asking her own daughter if she was “cool with going to prison for the rest of her life.”
Walker told investigators the details of Kelley’s death, saying it was Runyon who’d told him what happened in Kelley’s home in Carmel.
According to Walker’s interview, Littlefield poisoned Kelley’s oatmeal by adding fentanyl to the food. Then, she and Runyon pried open the window and snuck inside Kelley’s home where he was found unresponsive but still breathing. Littlefield then allegedly used Kelley’s “favorite tie” to strangle him while also smashing his head against the ground.
Runyon, who was sentenced to 26 years in prison for her part in the murder, testified against her mother as part of her plea deal. Runyon corroborated the events Walker described.
Littlefield maintains her innocence, according to the IndyStar, stating she intends to appeal the court’s decision. Two of Littlefield’s own children reportedly told the judge that society was better off, however, with Littlefield behind bars.
Court documents also reveal Littlefield’s boyfriend at the time of Kelley’s murder, who is also the father of the child Littlefield was pregnant with at the time of her arrest, recorded conversations between Littlefield and himself that he gave to police. In these conversations, Littlefield can be heard plotting to overdose Kelley on fentanyl and talking about how she wants Kelley dead.
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A 20-year study of more than 15 million women showed the number getting tested for cervical cancer dropped to 8.5% in 2019 from 19% in 1999, according to JAMA Internal Medicine, a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that the older women get the less likely they are to have been tested for cervical cancer in the previous five years. This despite an age-related increase in cervical cancer rates that make women even in their 80s who haven't had a hysterectomy as likely to develop the disease as younger women.
“It is unfortunate we tend to see less women for preventive visits as they age,” says Samantha Merritt, women’s health nurse practitioner at NorthShore Health Centers, adding that some women feel like they do not need the OB/GYN outside of pregnancy. “In my experience, the reasons are as individual as the person.”
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According to Dr. Tonja Austin, family medicine physician at Rush Munster, most women establish with a physician during their child-bearing years.
“During this time period, most women receive their cervical cancer screens, aka Pap smears, at the recommended surveillance intervals,” she says. “Once most women no longer desire to bear children or become consumed with the demands of motherhood, they tend to postpone or forget about their own health-care needs.
“The risk of developing cancers for which we have screening tests, like breast cancer and colon cancer, increases as we age,” says Austin. “Screening or surveillance at the recommended age is key in prevention of certain cancers such as colon and curative treatment of others such as breast cancer. For example, colonoscopy is the gold standard for colon cancer screening because it allows the doctor to directly visualize the inside of the colon. If the doctor sees growths, referred to as polyps, these can be removed.”
“Unfortunately, most breast cancers are not palpable or felt during office visits or self-breast exams," she says. "Hence, mammography allows for early detection of breast cancer. Studies consistently show that early detection of breast cancer leads to more favorable outcomes in treatment.”
“Preventive health care such as Pap smears, mammograms and osteoporosis screenings are important because they allow us to detect issues at an earlier stage, making treatments more effective,” Merritt continues. “Delaying these screenings may run the risk of diseases or cancers progressing and becoming more difficult to treat.“
Dr. Anthony N. Gentile, clinical associate of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UChicago Medicine, points out that the American Cancer Society’s changing guidelines have left some confused as to when diagnostics are needed.
The cancer society recommends mammograms every year for women at average risk at age 45-54 and every two years starting at age 55. A woman is considered to be at average risk if she doesn’t have a personal history of breast cancer, a strong family history of breast cancer or a genetic mutation known to increase risk of breast cancer.
In May, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that regular screenings begin at 40.
“You have to do 1,500 mammograms to find breast cancer in women age 40 to 50 but it’s a more aggressive cancer,” says Gentile. “But at age 50 you have to do 1,000 mammograms to find cancer but it would be less aggressive.”
ACS guidelines for cervical cancer screenings have changed twice since 2012. Before that annual pap smears were recommended. Now, cervical cancer screenings with an HPV test are recommended every five years from 25 to 65. After 65, no further screenings are needed if a series of prior tests were normal.
“HPV test looks for the human papillomavirus, which is a virus that can cause cervical cancer,” says Gentile, noting that Pap tests have a lower sensitivity in detecting cancer. PLEASE EXPLAIN? WHY TAKE THEM IF THEY ARE NOT REALIABLE?
Gentile says other factors such as family history, health habits, lifestyle and prior positive results warrant screenings after a certain age and adds it's important that women talk to their doctors about the best schedule to follow. | https://www.nwitimes.com/life-entertainment/local/wellness/pap-tests-mammograms-decline-as-women-age-guidelines-change/article_d1d3e5e0-f009-11ed-9a90-5b6c1e3dfcbe.html | 2023-07-26 16:05:15 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/life-entertainment/local/wellness/pap-tests-mammograms-decline-as-women-age-guidelines-change/article_d1d3e5e0-f009-11ed-9a90-5b6c1e3dfcbe.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon's $9 billion contract to build its cloud computing network, a year after accusations of politicization over the previously announced contract and a protracted legal battle resulted in the military starting over in its award process.
The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability is envisioned to provide access to unclassified, secret and top-secret data to military personnel all over the globe. It is anticipated to serve as a backbone for the Pentagon's modern war operations, which will rely heavily on unmanned aircraft and space communications satellites, but will still need a way to quickly get the intelligence from those platforms to troops on the ground.
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The contract will be awarded in parts, with a total estimated completion date of June 2028, the Pentagon said in a statement.
Competition is intense to snap up big corporate and government cloud contracts — awards to build global computing networks where information is stored, shared and secured over the internet instead of on local computer systems. The Pentagon's award is seen as one of the most coveted because it’s a stamp of approval in a market where ensuring a client’s data security is important.
“It’s the most important cloud deal to come out of the Beltway,” said analyst Daniel Ives, who monitors the cloud industry for Wedbush Securities. “It’s about the Pentagon as a reference customer. It says significant accolades about what they think about that vendor, and that’s the best reference customer you could have in that world.”
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Last July, the Pentagon announced it was cancelling its previous cloud computing award, then named JEDI. At the time, the Pentagon said that due to delays in proceeding with the contract, technology had changed to the extent that the old contract, which was awarded to Microsoft, no longer met DOD's needs.
It did not mention the legal challenges behind those delays, which had come from Amazon, the losing bidder. Amazon had questioned whether former President Donald Trump's administration had steered the contract toward Microsoft due to Trump's adversarial relationship with Amazon's chief executive officer at the time, Jeff Bezos.
In July when the cancellation was announced, the Pentagon’s chief information officer, John Sherman, said it was “likely” both Amazon and Microsoft would get some portion of the business in a new award.
A report by the Pentagon's inspector general did not find evidence of improper influence, but it said it could not determine the extent of administration interactions with Pentagon decision-makers because the White House would not allow unfettered access to witnesses.
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Forrester analyst Devin Dickerson said awarding the contract to four companies instead of one shows a “multicloud strategy” that could improve the Pentagon's bargaining position with major cloud providers and make it easier for individual offices within the Defense Department to acquire cloud technologies and services.
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DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ)— A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
The jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer’s vacation home.
Croft, 46, a trucker from Bear, Delaware, was also convicted of another explosives charge.
It was the second trial for the pair after a jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Two other men were acquitted and two more pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors.
The result was a victory for the government following the shocking mixed outcome last spring.
“You can’t just strap on an AR-15 and body armor and go snatch the governor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler told jurors.
“But that wasn’t the defendants’ ultimate goal,” Kessler said. “They wanted to set off a second American civil war, a second American Revolution, something that they call the boogaloo. And they wanted to do it for a long time before they settled on Gov. Whitmer.”
The investigation began when Army veteran Dan Chappel joined a Michigan paramilitary group and became alarmed when he heard talk about killing police. He agreed to become an FBI informant and spent the summer of 2020 getting close to Fox and others, secretly recording conversations and participating in drills at “shoot houses” in Wisconsin and Michigan.
The FBI turned it into a major domestic terrorism case with two more informants and two undercover agents embedded in the group.
Fox, Croft and others, accompanied by the government operatives, traveled to northern Michigan to see Whitmer’s vacation home at night and a bridge that could be destroyed.
Defense attorneys tried to put the FBI on trial, repeatedly emphasizing through cross-examination of witnesses and during closing remarks that federal players were present at every crucial event and had entrapped the men.
Fox and Croft, they said, were “big talkers” who liked to smoke marijuana and were guilty of nothing but exercising their right to say vile things about Whitmer and the government.
“This isn’t Russia. This isn’t how our country works,” Croft attorney Joshua Blanchard told jurors. “You don’t get to suspect that someone might commit a crime because you don’t like things that they say, that you don’t like their ideologies.”
Fox attorney Christopher Gibbons said the FBI isn’t supposed to create “domestic terrorists.” He described Fox as poor and living in the basement of a Grand Rapids-area vacuum shop, which was a site for meetings with Chappel and an agent.
Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed then-President Donald Trump for stoking mistrust and fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn hate groups and right-wing extremists like those charged in the plot.
Over the weekend, she said she hadn't been following the second trial but remains concerned about “violent rhetoric in this country.”
Trump recently called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 2, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
117 AM CDT Mon May 2 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN EASTLAND AND
SOUTHEASTERN STEPHENS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for
north central Texas.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 AM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL ERATH AND SOUTHERN PALO PINTO COUNTIES...
At 116 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Gordon, or 15
miles northeast of Ranger, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Gordon, Strawn and Mingus.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northern La Salle,
McMullen and northwestern Live Oak Counties through 200 AM CDT...
At 120 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Los Angeles, or 9 miles northeast of Cotulla, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This strong thunderstorm will be near...
Los Angeles around 130 AM CDT.
Fowlerton around 145 AM CDT.
Zella around 150 AM CDT.
Tilden around 200 AM CDT.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 35 between mile markers 63 and 82.
Interstate 37 between mile markers 69 and 83.
US Highway 281 between mile markers 618 and 628.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2830 9814 2822 9878 2840 9939 2864 9940
2864 9834 2861 9833 2877 9811
TIME...MOT...LOC 0620Z 272DEG 35KT 2850 9910
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Isaiah McGuire joined the Browns as a fourth-round pick a couple of weeks ago, but he’s no longer the new guy on the block at defensive end in Cleveland.
The Browns traded for Za’Darius Smith last Friday and McGuire discussed his reaction to that move during the team’s rookie minicamp this weekend. The move may make it harder for the rookie to find the field, but he said he thinks “everyone can stay fresh” thanks to the added depth and that he sees a chance to learn from his older teammate.
“For me, it was definitely exciting ,” McGuire said, via Chris Easterling of the Akron Beacon Journal. “Me being a rookie, coming in, having the opportunity to learn from a great vet such as Za’Darius, as well as the other people in the room, it’s truly honor and a blessing. I’m excited to learn from those people, pick their brains and just improve overall.”
New Browns defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz was brought in to increase the pressure on opposing offenses and anything Smith, McGuire, and anyone else can do to help that effort will be much appreciated in Cleveland this year. | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/browns-rookie-de-isaiah-mcguire-definitely-exciting-to-learn-from-zadarius-smith | 2023-07-01 09:28:37 | 1 | https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/browns-rookie-de-isaiah-mcguire-definitely-exciting-to-learn-from-zadarius-smith |
Something unusual lurks in the windows of the Famous Hardware building in downtown Springdale.
Many parts are globular, other parts are straight, but all are connected. From the outside on the first floor, you see mainly white with a couple of red, somewhat vein-like strands that go through it. White and red, that is, until it begins to pulse with color — royal blue, hot pink, neon orange — up and down it changes, making it feel more life-like.
It might take you a minute to tear your eyes away from the throbbing, colorful spectacle to notice that something else is above. Black and white, something skeletal pervades the building from the second floor. However long it takes to absorb the combined effect, you can still find more to take in, whether you step inside Famous Hardware or cross the street, because some enormous octopus and jellyfish-like figures can be seen at the very top.
“The Body Overwhelms” is a series of sewn, inflatable sculptures by Nicole Anona Banowetz that is on display in downtown Springdale through mid-August. Seeing the works is a different experience based on time of day, thanks to the lighting elements that run through them, fading and changing.
Banowetz’s work often uses “the animal, plant, mineral and bacterial world to address human qualities and relationships. It combines the familiar and the strange, allowing viewers to question the world around them.”
She will be discussing her work, inspirations and process at 214 by CACHE in Springdale at 6 p.m. today. Afterward, a public reception will take place at Famous Hardware.
INSPIRATION
“When I started making inflatables, I became interested in microscopic forms, tiny things that you can’t see, and making them large,” Banowetz said by Zoom earlier this week. “This idea of playing with that scale and the whimsy of that.”
The experience of living through the pandemic was inspiration for these works, Banowetz says. Not only did so many people begin to think more consciously about both the vulnerability and adaptability of their bodies while collectively facing a threat to them, it made her think about what it really meant to have a physical body.
Banowetz’ own experience was heightened by having a broken knee and experiencing some blood clots and other medical issues, all at the time that you might think twice about checking in to a hospital. She had those experiences at the top of her mind when she made the inflatable sculptures, she says, creating figures while thinking of dripping bones.
The pieces in the front window she describes as figural, with sort of arm and head forms, while she describes the interior work as skeletal, muscular and very loosely figural.
“The Body Overwhelms” is the first thing that Banowetz has created since she was able to get moving properly again.
“It’s all about the body and the processes of the body,” she says. “They’re overwhelming in a beautiful and horrifying way, but the healing process is so magical.”
This particular exhibit of hers is a grouping of her works.
The pieces inside were made first, for a previous exhibit called “The Intervening Substance,” which was inspired by ectoplasm, a supernatural viscous substance that is said to exude from the body of a spirit medium during a spiritualistic trance, and the medium who produced it. The interior works are white, a nod to the most frequent color of ectoplasm, and it moves this portion of “The Body Overwhelms” into a more mystical space, she says.
“Historically, after flu pandemics, there were big surges of spiritualism, seances, talking to the dead after losing people,” Banowetz says. “How do we process all of it and the grieving?”
So while this part was created before the covid pandemic and therefore not specifically about it, it did fit naturally into the rest, she says, because the mystical and the physical fit hand in hand.
“The mystical, when we don’t understand what’s happening with the physical body, it’s where we go to understand its mysteries,” she says.
The forms on the third floor are from another mysterious realm, inspired by life underwater. Both symbolize connections to other worlds.
THE MAKING
To make a giant sculpture, you would ordinarily need a giant studio, expensive materials and equipment. Banowetz picked up some experience in the traditional art world first as a teenager when she participated in Art Street, a program in which professionals mentor young, budding artists.
In her case, she collaboratively designed public sculptures that were presented to clients, some of which were then made. Having a solid piece out there in the world for all to see, including friends and family that she brought by, gave her the confidence that her skills could be harnessed into a successful career.
Choosing inflatables as her medium gave her a certain flexibility that more traditional sculpting didn’t. Banowetz was able to make these inflatable creations on her own sewing machines at her home, which doubles as her studio.
Banowetz has a lot of sewing machines and loves the vintage models, but the main one she uses for this work is a sail maker, a semi-industrial piece of equipment that is designed for sewing upholstery and could be operated without electricity in a pinch. She uses outdoor fabrics most often employed for tents and other recreational structures, and she buys it by the bolt, 100 to 200 yards at a time.
Often the work is done in sections at a cutting table. Banowetz makes her own patterns (just one pattern alone can take 40 hours), as well as a little clay model to keep track of the shapes and sections. Then she builds them, sewing it together inside out. One sculpture can take 80 hours, give or take, and this exhibit houses several.
Once the giant piece is done, she takes it outside and inflates it, letting the air turn it right side out.
The most challenging portion of “The Body Overwhelms” is displayed in the front windows. It has an inner inflatable and a translucent, outer inflatable, like a skin. She knew that one was going to take a while, but it took even longer than expected.
“My studio is my home, and it’s not giant, but I have a garage too,” Banowetz says. “They can become gigantic, but the stuff up at Famous Hardware I sent in six boxes.”
Transporting her works is always a little perilous. Sometimes she’s able to check the artwork as luggage, while other times she has it shipped. In the event that it gets lost, she tries to make peace with the fact that it would be completely gone because she doesn’t like replicating works, making each piece irreplaceable.
Seeing her most recent work is a bit of a treat because each piece Banowetz makes informs the next one.
“It took a long time, figuring out patterns,” she says. At first she made “only white (sculptures). Now I’ve done color and applique and make ones that I wear—those are some of my favorite pieces.”
Banowetz recently returned from the UFO Festival in Roswell, N.M., where one of her exhibits was on display. She was dressed in an inflatable alien-like costume, a spiky, otherworldly white wearable informed by insect behavior, and spent her time moving through the installation. She enjoys performing in these suits because she gets to see people’s responses to and interaction with her artwork.
Banowetz will not be in a wearable sculpture today — each suit requires batteries, which she obviously can’t take on a plane — but she has enjoyed the process of working in Famous Hardware. She hopes that her work will cause more people to go inside and interact with art, especially if they don’t think of themselves as being interested in art to begin with.
“It’s been cool to highlight that space, it’s such an amazing building,” she says. “I hope ‘The Body Overwhelms’ pulls them in further [to investigate] why these strange forms are in there.
“Art should be a part of everyone’s life. Hopefully these inflatables are not scary in an intellectual sort of way that make people comfortable interacting with [them].”
April Wallace can be reached by email at awallace@nwadg.com .
GO & DO
Artist talk
Artist Nicole Banowetz will be in downtown Springdale for an artist talk at 6 p.m. today at 214 by CACHE at 214 S. Main St., followed by a public reception at 7 p.m. at the Famous Hardware Building at 113 W. Emma Ave. Her art installation, “The Body Overwhelms,” will be in place through mid-August.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, February 12, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
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...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
White Oak Creek Near Talco affecting Franklin, Titus and Morris
Counties.
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For the White Oak Creek...including Talco...Minor flooding is
forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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The next statement will be issued Thursday evening at 830 PM CST.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL SUNDAY EVENING...
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* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...White Oak Creek Near Talco.
* WHEN...Until Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...At 18.0 feet, Minor lowland flooding. Move livestock
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* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:30 PM CST Wednesday the stage was 16.7 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
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ending at 7:30 PM CST Wednesday was 16.7 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 18.0
feet early tomorrow afternoon. It will then fall below flood
stage early Sunday morning.
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- Flood stage is 16.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
18.0 feet on 03/31/1990.
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...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL MONDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and major flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Sulphur River Near Talco.
* WHEN...Until Monday afternoon.
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* IMPACTS...At 27.0 feet, Expect moderate flooding of lowland areas
with some secondary roadways closed. All cattle and equipment
nearby the river should be moved to higher ground.
- At 7:45 PM CST Wednesday the stage was 24.0 feet.
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ending at 7:45 PM CST Wednesday was 24.0 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 27.5
feet early Friday afternoon. It will then fall below flood
stage late Sunday evening.
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- Flood stage is 20.0 feet.
27.5 feet on 05/01/1908.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON UNTIL FURTHER
NOTICE...
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* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Sabine River Near Mineola.
* WHEN...From Thursday afternoon until further notice.
* IMPACTS...At 18.0 feet, Expect a couple of flooded barns. Also
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expect water to overflow the bridge approaches to Farm to Market
Highway 1804 between Hoard and Lindale. Expect several hundred
acres of flooded pasturelands next to the river both upstream and
downstream. Move livestock and equipment to higher ground.
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- At 7:15 PM CST Wednesday the stage was 11.2 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
early tomorrow afternoon and continue rising to a crest of
17.4 feet Sunday morning.
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- Flood stage is 14.0 feet.
17.3 feet on 11/20/2015.
...FLOOD WATCH IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Watch for portions of southwest Arkansas, southeast
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Oklahoma, and northeast Texas has been cancelled.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...
* WHERE...Attoyac Bayou Near Chireno.
* WHEN...Until early Sunday morning.
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* IMPACTS...At 14.0 feet, Expect lowland flooding for the next
several days of the heavily wooded floodplain. Ranchers that have
cattle and equipment near the river should move them to higher
ground.
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- At 7:30 PM CST Wednesday the stage was 14.8 feet.
ending at 7:30 PM CST Wednesday was 15.6 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
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evening.
14.8 feet on 06/05/2016.
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Mother, toddler struck by vehicle in Weslaco
A mother and her two-year-old child were hit by a car in Weslaco.
Weslaco police say the mother and her child were on a crosswalk at 18th Street and Bridge Avenue when they were struck by a Sedan at around 8 a.m. Friday.
The driver did stop but was arrested by police on an unrelated charge. Police say the mother and child are in good condition. | https://www.krgv.com/news/mother-toddler-struck-by-vehicle-in-weslaco | 2023-04-29 21:24:54 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/news/mother-toddler-struck-by-vehicle-in-weslaco |
SEATTLE — It took more than 1,000 career games, but Eugenio Suárez finally got to experience the exhilaration of hitting a game-ending home run.
Suárez hit a three-run homer off Sergio Romo in the 11th inning, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 on Friday night for their season-best sixth straight victory.
Suárez didn’t miss on a 2-1 slider from Romo (0-1) and kept it fair down the left field line. It was his 15th home run of the season and improved Seattle to 43-42, the first time the Mariners have been above .500 since they were 12-11 on May 2.
Seattle has won 14 of its past 17.
“Obviously we’re going really well right now,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “We all know how baseball goes. It’s up and it’s down and it’s all over the place. But you have to ride the streak and we’re in a good one right now.”
Romo threw just four pitches in his brief outing. The veteran was designated for assignment by Seattle late last month before signing with the Blue Jays.
Former Toronto reliever Ryan Borucki (1-0) picked up the win, pitching the 10th and 11th innings without allowing a run. Borucki got out of the 10th thanks to Matt Chapman lining into a double play. In the 11th, Chapman reached third with one out, but Borucki struck out Cavan Biggio and got a fly out from George Springer.
“I was just in a different world, I felt like. And it was just good to really step up,” Borucki said. “I was telling guys I’ve never felt like this in my life, just the joy of just being able to do what I did today.”
Seattle tried to win it in the 10th on J.P. Crawford’s line drive single to left field. Third base coach Manny Acta made the aggressive decision to send Abraham Toro from second, but Lordes Gurriel Jr’s. throw was on target and Toro was easily tagged out.
Dylan Moore had an RBI double in the second inning, and Crawford added an RBI double in the third that scored Julio Rodríguez from first base. Rodríguez nearly homered to start the game, but his drive hit the top of the wall in center field and he was thrown out after stumbling and falling between second and third.
Toronto starter Ross Stripling allowed two runs and seven hits over five innings.
Gurriel had an RBI single in the second inning and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doubled and scored on Teoscar Hernández’s RBI single in the fifth.
“We got plenty of baseball left. I’m sure this lineup is going to get hot again and we’re going to score runs,” Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo said. “But again, credit to our pitching that gave us a chance today.”
Seattle starter George Kirby lasted 4 1/3 innings and allowed 10 hits, but the Blue Jays could manage only two runs despite the constant traffic on the bases. Toronto left the bases loaded in fourth inning and left runners at second and third in the fifth.
ALL-STAR NODS
Toronto ended up with a pair of All-Star Game starters after Guerrero and catcher Alejandro Kirk won the final vote to be starters at their positions for the July 18 game in Los Angeles.
It will be the second All-Star Game appearance for Guerrero, but the first for Kirk, who entered Friday hitting .312 with 10 homers and 33 RBIs.
Guerrero beat out Seattle Ty France for the nod at first base.
ROSTER MOVE
Toronto activated RHP Yimi García from the 15-day injured list and optioned RHP Casey Lawrence to Triple-A Buffalo. García had been out since June 22 with a back strain.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: Toronto has not named a starter for Sunday’s series finale, with Montoyo saying he wanted to see how the next two days went before deciding on a starter. He also said there remains a chance the RHP Kevin Gausman (ankle) will be healthy enough to make the start. Gausman was scheduled to start Thursday but was scratched after getting hit on his ankle in his last start.
Mariners: RHP Ken Giles left the game due to tightness in the back of his shoulder with one out in the eighth inning and in the middle of an at-bat. Giles got the first out of the inning, but then called for a trainer after falling behind 3-1 to Santiago Espinal.
UP NEXT
Blue Jays: RHP Alek Manoah (9-3, 2.33) looks to rebound from a loss in his last start and strengthen his All-Star worthy resume. Manoah allowed four earned runs in 5 2/3 innings in his last start against Oakland. The four earned runs matched a season-high allowed.
Mariners: LHP Robbie Ray (7-6, 3.62) get to face his former team for the first time. Ray did not travel with the Mariners to Toronto when the teams met in May due to border restrictions related to the COVID-19 vaccine. Ray is 4-1 with a 0.80 ERA and 40 strikeouts in 33 2/3 innings over his past five starts.
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
Associated Press
Many homes near America’s largest wildfire survived the latest barrage of howling winds and erratic flames but New Mexico’s governor said Tuesday the risk of more destruction is high and that the long-term costs of recovering from the massive blaze will soar.
Two more days of strong winds and dangerously bone-dry conditions are in the forecast before some relief is expected Friday.
Crews were most concerned Tuesday night about the potential for the massive fire east of Santa Fe to spread farther north toward rural towns and mountain resort communities closer to Taos — about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from its current northern edge.
Gusty winds that grounded aerial attacks Tuesday were pushing flames that direction along the the Sangre de Cristo Range on the southern edge of the Rocky Mountains stretching out of Colorado.
The main highway north from Holman to Taos was closed and additional communities were placed on alert for potential evacuations.
“It is very active. This is a big push, a lot of energy right now,” fire spokesman Todd Abel warned Tuesday night.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said during a briefing earlier Tuesday that she has not received any reports in recent days of widespread damage to homes amid the latest round of fierce winds that fanned the blaze and created challenges for firefighting crews.
Crews have been trying to direct flames around homes in numerous small villages on the northern and southern ends of the fire — bulldozing firebreaks, putting up sprinklers, clearing trees and raking pine needles. A force of nearly 1,800 firefighters and support personnel are assigned to the blaze, including specially trained teams.
The cost of fighting the blaze and another smaller fire burning near Los Alamos National Laboratory has topped $65 million.
The cost is expected to grow with wind predicted through Wednesday, and Lujan Grisham said the cost to reconstruct homes, prevent post-fire flooding and restore the forest charred by the larger fire after it is out will likely reach billions of dollars.
“When you think about rebuilding communities, it is not an overnight process,” Lujan Grisham said. “So we should be thinking in terms of significant resources and those resources in my view should largely be borne by the federal government given the situation.”
The nearly 320-square-mile (830-square-kilometer) wildfire has burned about 300 structures, including homes, since it started last month. Some areas remain under evacuation orders, but authorities on Monday started letting some residents on the fire’s eastern flank return home.
A federal disaster already has been declared due to the blaze, which is partly the result of a preventative fire set in early April that escaped containment. The flames merged with a separate fire a couple of weeks later, and as of Tuesday the jagged perimeter stretched more than 356 miles (573 kilometers).
Structure protection was focused Tuesday night around Mora and Holman, where Highway 518 north to Taos was closed. Authorities stressed there was no immediate threat to communities around Taos but new alerts about potential evacuations stretched as far north as the Angel Fire ski resort east of Taos.
“Coming up toward Taos, Black Lake, Angel Fire, there is the possibility with the models we are running that those areas are going to see fire,” Abel, an operations chief on the fire in the Santa Fe National Forest, said at a briefing Tuesday evening.
The governor said she’d challenge anyone who didn’t believe the federal government should accept significant liability.
“It’s negligent to consider a prescribed burn in the windy season in a state that is under an extreme drought warning,” she said.
Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation and others have called for an investigation. While forest officials have yet to release planning documents related to the prescribed fire, they have said forecasted weather conditions were within parameters for the project.
Meanwhile, the smaller blaze burning in the Jemez Mountains prompted officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear research is conducted, and the nearby town of Los Alamos to prepare for evacuations as a precaution.
Nearly 900 people were fighting that fire, with its price tag nearing $16 million on Tuesday.
Towering columns of smoke from both fires could be seen from miles away as the winds picked up Tuesday afternoon.
Wind and low humidity levels continue to be big wildfire threats around the West as the National Weather Service issued red flag warnings for extreme fire danger in much of New Mexico and parts of Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and Texas. Forecasters said New Mexico is outpacing most other recent years for the number of red flag days in April and so far this month.
Crews also were battling smaller fires elsewhere in New Mexico and Arizona.
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Associated Press writer Scott Sonner contributed to this report from Reno, Nevada.
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TIPTON — Tipton Municipal Utilities is facing a wrongful death lawsuit over one of its past employees who died last summer while clearing and burning fallen trees.
Teresa Arnett, acting as the Estate of David Arnett, filed a civil tort lawsuit, claiming TMU’s negligence lead to the death of her husband on June 30, 2021.
According to a complaint filed this past April in Tipton Circuit Court, David Arnett was tasked that day with clearing and burning fallen trees and other debris in the wooded area located at 2200 W. 200 South, more commonly known as the “Boy Scout Woods.” To do so, David Arnett was given a skid steer with an attached grapple bucket to grab the logs and then move them to a nearby burn pit.
The problem, according to the lawsuit, was the grapple attachment had a limited reach, meaning David Arnett had to “maneuver the Bobcat to the edge of the burn pit to drop the logs into the pit.”
In one instance, according to the lawsuit, the skid steer tipped forward and fell into the burning pit with David Arnett inside. He suffered “severe burns over most of his body” and died later that day due to his injuries.
The lawsuit levies one count of wrongful death due to negligence against TMU, arguing that the utility company breached its duty when it:
- “Failed to adequately inquire or investigate as to what and how the City of Tipton was going to use the grapple bucket attachment;
- Failed to adequately inquire or investigate the conditions of the area where the work would be performed in order to ascertain if the grapple bucket attachment was proper given said conditions; and
- Failed to adequately train and familiarize those who would be operating the grapple attachment on the dangers inherent with its use.”
The Estate is seeking a trial jury and damages for loss of “love, affection” for both David Arnett’s wife, Teresa, and his surviving children, for the incurred medical and funeral expenses and for any additional damages in the future. | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/widow-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-tipton-municipal-utilities/article_9a1bf240-19b9-11ed-b5a8-57be87ee58ef.html | 2022-08-15 05:35:14 | 1 | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/widow-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-tipton-municipal-utilities/article_9a1bf240-19b9-11ed-b5a8-57be87ee58ef.html |
Very Cold Water Published June 9, 2023 at 3:55 PM EDT Listen • 8:40 Ways To Subscribe Apple NPR One Stitcher Angela Combest got honest with us in her story "Very Cold Water" that she told at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke last winter. | https://www.nepm.org/podcast/valley-voices/2023-06-09/very-cold-water | 2023-06-09 21:03:55 | 0 | https://www.nepm.org/podcast/valley-voices/2023-06-09/very-cold-water |
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Eight people were struck by a U-Haul truck in a chaotic attack that spanned several blocks in Brooklyn Monday morning, according to NYPD and FDNY officials.
The truck driver hit several people near Fifth Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway in Bay Ridge and kept going before hitting a cyclist at around 10:30 a.m., law enforcement sources said. The driver struck more pedestrians near Fourth Avenue and 75th Street, sources said.
Two victims were listed in critical condition, two were in serious condition and four people suffered minor injuries, according to the FDNY. Seven of the victims were civilians and one was a police officer who was injured while trying to stop the suspect.
NYPD officers cornered the driver and a police car hit the truck, sources said. The driver was taken into custody, law enforcement sources told PIX11 News. The identity of the driver has not been made public.
During a news briefing, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said investigators were processing a total of seven different crime scenes.
“At this time, we have no indication that there is any terrorism involvement in this incident,” but the NYPD will continue to investigate, Sewell added.
AIR11 was over the scene where the NYPD vehicle stopped the truck. The U-Haul was parked on the sidewalk as NYPD officers and a K-9 unit inspected the truck.
Mayor Eric Adams has been briefed on the incident, according to his spokesperson.
“While the suspect is in custody, the NYPD is still investigating. There are no additional credible threats at this time,” City Hall spokesman Fabien Levy said in a tweet.
New York City Councilman Justin Brannan said several of the victims were badly injured.
“A man driving a U-Haul went on a rampage in Bay Ridge. He was just apprehended in Sunset Park. Several people were hit and badly injured,” Brannan said in a tweet.
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Rockies vs. Guardians Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - April 25
Tuesday's game that pits the Cleveland Guardians (11-12) against the Colorado Rockies (7-17) at Progressive Field is expected to be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 4-3 in favor of the Guardians. Game time is at 6:10 PM ET on April 25.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Cleveland Guardians will send Peyton Battenfield (0-1) to the mound, while Ryan Feltner (1-2) will answer the bell for the Colorado Rockies.
Rockies vs. Guardians Game Info & Odds
- When: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 6:10 PM ET
- Where: Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio
- How to Watch on TV: BSGL
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Rockies vs. Guardians Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Guardians 4, Rockies 3.
Total Prediction for Rockies vs. Guardians
- Total Prediction: Under 8 runs
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Rockies Performance Insights
- The Rockies have played as the underdog in eight of their past 10 games and have gone 2-6 in those contests.
- In its last 10 games with an over/under, Colorado and its opponents have combined to eclipse the total four times.
- The Rockies have gone 2-1-0 against the runline over their past 10 matchups (three of those games had a runline set by oddsmakers).
- The Rockies have won in five, or 27.8%, of the 18 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- This season, Colorado has come away with a win two times in nine chances when named as an underdog of at least +170 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Rockies have an implied victory probability of 37% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- Colorado scores the 23rd-most runs in baseball (92 total, 3.8 per game).
- The Rockies have pitched to a 5.29 ERA this season, which ranks 27th in baseball.
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DALLAS, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week was the unveiling of Indio Management's newest completed project, a 16-unit apartment community development for AIDS Services of Dallas (ASD), which will provide affordable housing for residents of ASD who have now returned to work.
Indio Management served as General Contractor on the project but will not be managing the day-to-day operations as ASD fills the newly constructed units with residents.
The project faced several obstacles, including Covid-19 and a fire that burned down one of the buildings, which delayed the initial timeline of completion. Nonetheless, the community, named La Maison, honoring the founding CEO of ASD, Don Maison, has been completed. The ribbon cutting ceremony, which took place last Thursday, December 1st, symbolically fell on World AIDS Day, making the celebration even more meaningful.
Indio's Founder and President, Seth Bame, attended the ceremony and noted the importance of the project, stating, "we're in the business of enriching the lives of others, and this project has certainly been a testament to that. We're currently undertaking a large project here in the Lake Cliff neighborhood, and we're glad that this partnership with ASD has already shown the positive impact we intend to make in this part of town."
Indio is currently in the process of combining new construction and rehabilitation efforts to revive the vibrant Lake Cliff neighborhood and build a symbolic mainstay which honors the area's rich history and provides the high level of service for which Indio is known.
Indio Management has been a leading provider of professional property management services throughout Texas since 2011. Indio is inspired and driven to offer quality apartments, superior customer service, and memorable living experiences. Entrepreneurial and responsive, Indio manages assets as they are their own and treats residents like family – their approach is the kind not taken by traditional property management groups. Indio brings a special brand of full service, institutional-like property management capability that prioritizes relationship building.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband inherited a nasty habit from his mother. He calls people “crazy” to discredit them so he can win arguments and stifle discussion. I have told him it’s lazy to pass judgment on someone that way. It also shows the world how ignorant he is, because he thinks he’ll win every argument by playing the crazy card -- a personal attack.
I think it’s immature and immoral to take advantage of others’ bias against mental health issues. He has done it to me in front of people. I have said, “You wish!” right back at him. It has reached the point that I think he’s character deficient.
His misogyny is exhausting to fight. His mother is even worse. She throws in her armchair diagnosis, which is always “schizophrenia.” My husband’s argument is an emotional one and too pervasive to enjoy time with him. Any idea how I can fight these below-the-belt punches? -- DEFINITELY NOT “CRAZY”
DEAR DEFINITELY NOT: That shouldn’t be too hard. When your husband acts this way, don’t engage with him. Ignore his comments, leave the room or the house. Spend less time with him and NO time with his mother. And while you’re doing that, ask yourself why you tolerate the disrespect you’re receiving from both of them.
DEAR ABBY: My brother is old enough to work on the farm, but he refuses. He goes to school, comes back angry and doesn’t like to be told what to do. Everyone has to work except him. We have tried time and time again to get him to help out. We appease him, but he only gets worse. How can we get him to develop good work ethics? It hurts when we ask him to do something and he gets angry and starts swearing. All we want is for him to help out. -- GOOD WORKER IN MINNESOTA
DEAR WORKER: I wish you had been clearer about who “we” is. If it’s you and your siblings, there isn’t much you can do to teach your brother the lessons he needs to learn. However, if it’s your parents you are referring to, there is plenty THEY can do to set rules and enforce them while their son lives under their roof. Hint: It involves rewards for good behavior and consequences if he is disrespectful and noncompliant.
DEAR ABBY: When my husband and I were dating, he introduced me to the sport of cycling. Before that, it had just been a means of transportation. A few years of training later, it turns out I’m actually pretty good at it. I have been on the podium three times this year, but he has not. He is definitely jealous. Should I stop competing? -- BICYCLE GAL IN MICHIGAN
DEAR BICYCLE GAL: A man who loves his wife wants to be the wind beneath her wings, not an anchor around her ankles. You should not have to give up something at which you excel in order to salve your husband’s childish ego. Rather than give you heartburn for your success, he should be praising you for your progress. Shame on him.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A little more than two years ago, Juan Guaidó was showered with bipartisan applause when President Donald Trump during his State of the Union speech praised the Venezuelan opposition leader as a “very brave man” who carries on his shoulders the democratic hopes of an entire nation.
But in a sign of how far his political fate has fallen, and how quickly U.S. geopolitical calculations can shift, the 38-year-old wasn’t even invited to this week’s Summit of the Americas — despite the Biden administration’s persistent promotion of democracy and insistence it recognizes Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president.
Meanwhile, the man Guaidó has been trying to unseat, Nicolás Maduro, is taking something of a victory lap. On a rare foreign trip to Turkey this week, Maduro, who is the target of U.S. sanctions and a federal narcotics indictment, denounced the decision to exclude him and leftist allies from Cuba and Nicaragua from the gathering as a “stab” in the back of regional cooperation.
“This is a clear win for Maduro,” Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of Americas, said from Los Angeles, where he was attending the summit. “He’s seen allies take up his cause at the summit while preventing his primary rival, whom Washington recognizes as president, from attending.”
In what may be an attempt at damage control, Biden on Wednesday spoke with Guaidó. It was the first time the two leaders have spoken and during the call, which lasted around 17 minutes, Biden reiterated his support for Guaidó, whose claim to the presidency stems from his role as head of the National Assembly elected in 2015.
“President Biden expressed his support for Venezuelan-led negotiations as the best path toward a peaceful restoration of democratic institutions, free and fair elections, and respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all Venezuelans,” according to a White House readout of the call. “They discussed the role the United States and other international partners can play to support a negotiated solution to Venezuela’s crisis. President Biden reaffirmed the United States is willing to calibrate sanctions policy as informed by the outcomes of negotiations that empower the Venezuelan people to determine the future of their country.”
But coming on the heels of weeks of silence from the White House about whether Guaidó would be invited or not, the call provided little comfort to Venezuela’s pro-democracy movement.
“We don’t want to be seen as party crashers going where we aren’t wanted,” said one Guaidó envoy on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic dealings.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan downplayed suggestions the U.S. was snubbing a staunch ally.
Speaking aboard Air Force One on its way to Los Angeles, Sullivan insisted the decision to not invite anyone from the Guaidó camp, and instead involve civil society activists from Venezuela, was a tactical one to encourage negotiations between Maduro and his opponents that leads to “ultimately a better future for the Venezuelan people.”
Guaido’s possible presence at the summit also appears to have irritated many of the Venezuelan government’s allies, including Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who decided to skip the summit over the exclusion of Maduro and the leaders of Cuba and Nicaragua.
A Mexican official confirmed that his government asked the U.S. to exclude Guaidó as part of its back-and-forth with the Biden administration on the guest list, an effort that ultimately failed to persuade López Obrador to partake in the summit. The official, who requested anonymity to discuss diplomatic dealings, said that other countries had done the same.
Joining the Mexican leader’s boycott were fellow leftist leaders of Bolivia, Grenada, Honduras, St. Kitts & Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Also staying home in protest, although not in solidarity with Maduro, were the leaders of El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as the president Uruguay, who was exposed to COVID.
But it’s not just foreign pressure that has Biden wary of inviting Guaidó.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a spike in energy prices, the U.S. has started to re-evaluate its policy on Venezuela, a country that sits atop the world’s largest petroleum reserves but whose decades-long decline in oil production has been made worse by U.S. sanctions.
In March, U.S. officials led by Juan Gonzalez, the National Security Council’s senior director for the western hemisphere, traveled to Caracas to meet with Maduro. Then, as now, Guaidó was kept on the sidelines, with U.S. officials not meeting with him during the several day trip. The goal of the talks was to dangle before Maduro the possibility of sanctions relief in exchange for a return to negotiations in Mexico with his opponents, something that so far hasn’t happened.
Meanwhile, Guaidó continues to fight for change, although his street appearances are less frequent, and crowds greatly diminished from when he launched his challenge to Maduro in 2019.
On Saturday, his supporters were met in the western city of Maracaibo, a short distance from Colombia and a flight onward to the U.S., with a barrage of flying plastic chairs and fisticuffs from allies of Maduro.
“The violent ones were left empty handed,” Guaidó told a small group of supporters to shouts of “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom” after the raucous brawl. “Let’s be clear: we are not going to take a single step backward.”
— Goodman reported from Miami. AP Writer Claudia Torrens from New York and Jorge Rueda in Caracas, Venezuela contributed to this report. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/biden-sidelines-venezuelas-pro-democracy-leader-from-summit/ | 2022-06-09 05:10:23 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/biden-sidelines-venezuelas-pro-democracy-leader-from-summit/ |
SINGAPORE, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bonanza Goldfields Corp. (OTC:BONZ) is pleased to announce that Marvion™️ has launched the inaugural movie remake hybrid DOTs for sale on its MetaStudio on 8 June 2022.
This comes after the successful acquisition of 10 licences for each of 10 types of adaptation rights from a portfolio of 20 movies from Euro Amazing Limited for a value of US$10million in Apr 2022. To recap, the acquisition covers the purchase of perpetual worldwide license for each movie to allow Marvion™️ to own the associated licensing, sub-licensing rights in whole or in part, as well as associated territorial rights to mint 10 digital ownership tokens (DOTs) per category for 10 categories of adaptation rights derived from each movie.
With the emergence of Web 3.0, Marvion™️ is taking a huge step forward by creating an ecosystem for Intellectual Property (IP) licensing business. According to Julian So, Vice Chairman of Marvion™️, "Marvion™️ aims to gradually make the IP licensing market easily accessible to IP collectors and passionate content creators around the world by initially launching a small collection of IP Remake Digital Ownership Tokens ("DOTs"). Prospective buyers can browse through a variety of IPs on our MetaStudio and purchase them as DOTs in just a few clicks. We remain committed to adopt and implement Web 3.0 technologies to disrupt the IP licensing business, to enhance efficiency and productivity and to ultimately improve people's lives. The possibilities are limitless."
Marvion™️ purports to disrupt the IP licensing business and the movie industry beginning with classic Hong Kong films. MarvionTM discerns that the IP licensing business has a multitude of opportunities, and has decided to use its proprietary "Digital Ownership Tokens" (DOTs) technology to reform the film IP licensing business. DOTs enable the IP licensing business to expand globally, minimize the business development and operating costs, and greatly reduces the operational and financial risks of the IP creation and licensing process.
By purchasing these DOTs, each buyer will have a one-time only right to remake the specific movie title into a new movie, drama series, comics, novel, animation movie, animation series or other production depending on the license embedded into the DOT, for private and/or commercial purposes and the right to retain all revenues arising from such new production and any merchandise arising solely from such new production to the exclusion of the owner of the copyright. Such right shall exist in perpetuity until it has been exercised, in which event, it shall immediately expire and cease to exist.
Marvion™️ has curated 3 IP Remake DOTs for the first drop on its MetaStudio. They include the following Hong Kong classics:
- The Sparkle in The Dark (2007/ Action)
The original was released in 2007 with a theme that focused on triads, which was vastly popular in Hong Kong back in the days. Therein lies potential for a brand new remake with gamification options such as "multi-player role playing games".
2. Toothless Vampires (1987/ Drama)
A big hit in 1987 when it was first released, this IP is due for another successful iteration. The original film tells the story of a group of disqualified vampires being deported from the vampire realm to make a living in a foreign country. The horror genre has proven to be popular amongst NFT communities because of the versatility in character development and has potential in gamifications such as Tower defence games or Third-person shooter games.
3. Sweet Revenge (2006/ Eternal)
The original film portrays a series of contradictions and conflicts that occurred when a girl, with an incurable disease, accidentally discovered that the brother she knew might be the murderer of her parents. The storyline of this IP challenges the concept of human nature - the good, and the bad. Similar to the Academy award winning film - Parasite (2009), this IP has the potential to be reworked into another masterpiece.
For more information on Marvion™️ and its DOT offerings, please visit www.marvion.media.
About BONZ
Bonanza Goldfields Corporation is a Las Vegas based mining and mineral exploration company, exploring gold and silver properties located in Goldfield, Tonopah and Comstock Mining Districts of Nevada, and the Chloride Mining District of Arizona.
The group is building an ecosystem and a metaverse for the media and entertainment industry that implements and adopts blockchain and NFT technologies, through mergers and acquisitions.
About Marvion™️
Marvion is a metaverse technology company in the media and entertainment industry, focusing on movies, drama, animation, comics, music and games that provide content and entertainment to adults and children alike. Although most media and entertainment content are digital in nature today, they exists in the real world as intangible assets, such as intellectual property, licenses and contractual rights, with intrinsic value.
Marvion applies blockchain and NFT technologies as tools to disrupt and improve the existing media and entertainment industry and its current practices. The technology underpinning NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has multiple functional use cases, some of which have the power to transform our societies, and some of which may be subject to regulations. Marvion uses NFT technology solely to create a legally-binding digital ownership token (DOT) to both tangible and intangible media and entertainment assets, which our analysis suggests would functionally fall outside any regulatory perimeter.
More Information about Marvion™️:
Website: marvion.media
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Twitter: twitter.com/marvion_media
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/marvion
Telegram: t.me/marvion_media
About Hybrid DOT (h-DOT)
A h-DOT is an integrated, best in class, digital ownership token (DOT) that contains a smart contract that can execute transactions and also contains the specific legal terms of the intellectual property ownership, license and/or rights. Each Hybrid DOT (h-DOT) contains the following:
- A copy of the SPA for the purchase of the master license.
- Evidence or warranty of ownership of the relevant intellectual property.
- Ownership of the sub-license detailing the rights of the h-DOT holder.
- Image/video/music or other file depending on what the asset is.
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The serious injury last week of a person living in a cinder block chamber beneath the Steel Bridge was the latest and most extreme example of an ongoing problem: fires at homeless encampments lit by freezing Portlanders struggling to keep warm on the streets.
In the case of the person living inside the bridge, the smoke from an out-of-control fire was nearly fatal. The victim was found unresponsive by firefighters and taken to the hospital March 8.
In a cover story last fall, WW reported that 2,048 fires started in or near homeless camps in 2021 (“Camp Fires Everywhere,” Nov. 2, 2022) That was nearly half of all fires in Portland, according to Portland Fire & Rescue, and the number had more than doubled since 2019.
New unreported data obtained by WW from the fire bureau shows this ratio continued into 2022. There were 1,959 of what the bureau calls “homeless-related fires” last year, 41% of all fires in the city. That percentage climbed during winter months when temperatures at night sometimes plunged below freezing.
The question of what to do about that trend has become among the most bitterly argued in Portland since City Commissioner Rene Gonzalez banned bureaus under his oversight from distributing tents to unhoused people. That policy shift, decried by advocates for the unhoused, occurred less than a month ago—too recently for any shift in fire counts to be statistically significant. | https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/03/15/data-shows-fires-at-homeless-camps-remained-a-large-portion-of-portland-blazes-last-year/ | 2023-03-15 14:57:02 | 0 | https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/03/15/data-shows-fires-at-homeless-camps-remained-a-large-portion-of-portland-blazes-last-year/ |
4-year-old found dead in pond after wandering off from apartments, police say
Published: Apr. 12, 2022 at 10:02 AM CDT
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) - A frantic search for a 4-year-old Georgia boy ended early Tuesday morning after his body was recovered from a pond, police confirm.
The DeKalb County Police Department said Kyuss Williams wandered away from an apartment complex and was reported missing Monday evening. A search led investigators to discover the young boy’s body in a pond just behind the residence around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Police say they do not suspect foul play at this time and believe Kyuss may have drowned.
The investigation remains ongoing.
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Fox News Poll: Voters favor gun limits over arming citizens to reduce gun violence
After a series of mass shootings this spring, including the killing of several students at a private Christian school in Tennessee, voters would prefer focusing on specific gun control measures rather than arming citizens to reduce gun violence.
A new Fox News Poll finds most voters favor the following proposals:
-- Requiring criminal background checks on all gun buyers (87%)
-- Improving enforcement of existing gun laws (81%)
-- Raising the legal age to buy a gun to 21 (81%)
-- Requiring mental health checks on gun buyers (80%)
-- Allowing police to take guns from those considered a danger to themselves or others (80%)
-- Requiring a 30-day waiting period for all gun purchases (77%)
Fox News poll on gun violence and the Second Amendment. (Fox News)
Another 6 in 10 favor banning assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons (61%). On Tuesday, Washington became the 10th state to institute a general ban on assault weapon sales.
While nearly half would encourage more citizens to carry guns to defend against attackers (45%), a slim majority is opposed (52%).
Fox News poll on proposals to reduce gun violence. (Fox News)
Democrats and Republicans mostly agree on specific gun measures, however there is a deep divide on the banning of assault weapons and equipping citizens with guns. For instance, 84% of Democrats favor banning assault weapons while just 36% of Republicans say the same, and just 27% of Democrats favor citizens carrying guns while twice as many Republicans prefer it (61%).
At least half of gun-owning households favor each of the gun proposals tested.
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Overall, 43% feel passing stricter gun control laws would make the country safer, a quarter feel it would make it less safe (25%), and a third thinks they won’t make a difference (31%).
Fox News poll on stricter gun laws. (Fox News)
The number feeling stricter gun laws would make the country safer is down 9 points from 2016: at that time, 52% said they would make the country safer, while 24% said they would make the country less safe and 20% said they wouldn’t make a difference.
The shift comes from women, Republicans, and independents, all of whom are less likely to say the laws will make the U.S. safer.
The gun issue is important to voters. When asked to say, without the aid of a list, what they feel is the most important issue facing the county, 12% cite gun control/violence. Economic issues are the only thing more important (24% economy, 16% inflation/cost of living), and no other issues receive double-digit mentions.
A Fox News poll shows the majority of Americans favor gun control laws (Photo credit GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)
Half of voters are extremely or very concerned that they or a loved one will be a victim of gun violence (51%). That includes 44% of those living in a gun-owning household. Concern is higher among those under age 45 (59%), parents (59%), urban residents (65%), and nonwhite voters (65%).
Fox News poll on gun violence. (Fox News)
Among those extremely concerned about being a victim, 67% think stricter gun laws will make the country safer.
Voters dislike how President Biden is handling the gun issue: 35% approve, while 62% disapprove. He only does worse on the economy, albeit by one point (35-63%).
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The conference championship games are over and the countdown to Super Bowl LVII begins.
Super Bowl LVII will be played at 3:30 p.m. PST on Sunday, Feb. 12. It will take place at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., the home of the Arizona Cardinals.
Here’s everything you need to know about the game.
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Who will be playing in the Super Bowl?
The Philadelphia Eagles will play the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII.
The Eagles are playing in the Super Bowl for the second time in six seasons following their 31-7 victory over the San Francisco 49ers for the NFC championship title. The Eagles are looking to win their second Super Bowl title following their victory over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII in 2018.
The Chiefs reached the Super Bowl with a thrilling 23-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC championship game. Harrison Butker’s 45-yard field goal in the closing seconds sealed the win for the Chiefs on Jan. 29. It marks the second Super Bowl appearance in three years for the Chiefs following their loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV in February 2021.
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Chiefs vs. Eagles matchup analysis
Sam Farmer breaks down what the Super Bowl teams will need to address in the big game:
CHIEFS CONCERNS: Patrick Mahomes is running in ski boots, and two weeks is not a lot of time to nurse that ankle back to some semblance of health. His receivers are banged up too. Meanwhile, Kansas City’s facing a juggernaut in the Eagles. This isn’t the underdog Philadelphia team that stunned the NFL by winning it all five years ago. This is a machine, with the best offensive line in football, and a devastating defensive front that set a franchise record with 70 sacks. The back end of that Philadelphia defense is smothering. The Eagles push open huge holes for that ground game, and Jalen Hurts can sit back and pick apart defenses.
EAGLES CONCERNS: Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones is a wrecking ball who can line up inside or outside. Even for that Philadelphia offensive line, he’ll create problems. Mahomes is Mahomes, even when he’s hurt. He’s a magician. Give Andy Reid time and he’s the best in the business at drawing up a plan, yet he’s 1-2 in Super Bowls with a couple of losses to Tom Brady, so ... The Chiefs are in the Super Bowl for the third time in four years and experience counts for something. Travis Kelce has had another tremendous season and he’ll put stress on a defense. But if the Eagles play the way they can play, they will be extremely tough to beat.
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Countdown until kickoff
Curious about how much longer you’ll have to wait before watching Super Bowl LVII? Here’s a timer counting down the days, hours and minutes until the game on Feb. 12 at 3:30 p.m. PST.
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What channel is the Super Bowl on?
The game will be broadcast by Fox (Channel 11 in the Los Angeles market) and Fox Desportes (Español).
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Where can I stream the Super Bowl?
Super Bowl LVII can be livestreamed through the following connected TV, iOS and Android applications:
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How can I listen to the Super Bowl?
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How can I purchase Super Bowl tickets?
Super Bowl LVII tickets are available through the following vendors:
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Who will perform in the Super Bowl halftime show?
Rihanna will headline the Super Bowl halftime show in what will be her first public performance in five years.
It remains to be seen if any other notable names will be joining Rihanna on stage — the Super Bowl halftime show has a reputation for featuring multiple artists. Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar performed during last year’s Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
It’s been six years since the release of Rihanna’s last studio album and her return to the public stage has sparked speculation about a potential album release later this year.
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Who will perform the national anthem?
Country music recording artist Chris Stapleton will perform the national anthem before Super Bowl LVII. Stapleton is an eight-time Grammy Award winner and 15-time Country Music Assn. award winner. Troy Kotsur will perform the national anthem in American Sign Language.
R&B artist Babyface, a 12-time Grammy Award winner, will perform “America the Beautiful” (with Colin Denny performing in ASL) and Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (Justina Miles in ASL) before the game.
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Latest Super Bowl odds
The Eagles are 1.5-point favorites to win the Super Bowl over the Chiefs.
The initial Super Bowl line for total points set minutes after the Chiefs’ win over the Bengals was at 49.5, but it has moved up to 50.5. Some sports books opened with the Eagles as -2.5 favorites, but most are at -1.5 or PK (a game with no favorite).
The lines will undoubtedly change in the days ahead.
Here are the latest gambling odds and prop bets for Super Bowl LVII:
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What are the overtime rules for NFL playoff games?
The bulk of the NFL’s playoff overtime rules were implemented in 2010, with one change approved by the league’s competition committee last spring that allows for both teams to possess the ball at least once before a winner can be determined.
The change was made following renewed scrutiny of playoff overtime rules after the Kansas City Chiefs’ AFC divisional playoff win over the Buffalo Bills in January 2022. Prior to the possession rule change, 10 of the 11 playoff games that went to overtime under the post-2010 overtime rule changes were won by the team that received the ball first.
Here’s a breakdown of the playoff overtime rules:
- A coin flip determines which team receives the opening kickoff.
- Each team will have the opportunity to possess the ball at least once before a winner is determined.
- Teams play 15-minute periods until there’s a winner.
- If the score is tied after each team’s first possession, the next score by either team (touchdown, field goal or safety) will win the game.
- There are no coach challenges, with all reviews being initiated by the replay official.
- Each team gets three timeouts per half (two overtime periods).
- If there is no winner after the fourth overtime period, there will be another coin toss before play resumes.
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Who is the referee for Super Bowl LVII?
Carl Cheffers, an NFL official since 2000, will be the referee for Super Bowl LVII. The Whittier native has refereed two Super Bowls, the first in 2017 when Tom Brady and the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons in overtime of Super Bowl LI. His last Super Bowl assignment was in 2021 when the Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs.
Cheffers, 62, and his crews ranked No. 1 in the league for penalties called during the 2022 regular season, averaging 14.4 flags per game, according to Profootballreference.com. During Super Bowl LV, Cheffers drew the ire of many Chiefs fans for eight first-half penalties against Kansas City. The Chiefs lost 95 yards in the game because of penalties — a Super Bowl record.
Here’s who will make up the rest of Cheffers’ Super Bowl LVII officiating crew: Roy Ellison (umpire), Jerod Phillips (down judge), Jeff Bergman (line judge), John Jenkins (field judge), Eugene Hall (side judge), Dino Paganelli (back judge), Mark Butterworth (replay official). | https://www.latimes.com/fhesowshw | 2023-02-04 18:50:05 | 0 | https://www.latimes.com/fhesowshw |
CAUGHT ON CAM: Pregnant woman attacked in road rage incident, causing miscarriage
(CNN) - New York Police Department is searching for a man who brutally attacked a pregnant woman following a road rage incident, causing her to miscarriage.
The woman is speaking out to describe how the attack tragically changed her life.
“I have a very bad PTSD right now,” Estrella Guzman said, the victim in the attack.
It’s been nearly a month since the assault occurred that left Guzman shaken.
At the time of the attack, she had no idea she was three months pregnant.
The injuries from the attack were fatal to her unborn child.
“I have back injuries, suffered a miscarriage,” Guzman said.
With a heavy heart, Guzman says it was someone’s anger that caused her to lose a second child.
“It’s not easy at all,” Guzman expressed.
She was driving on the Grand Course in the Bronx early evening on June 6, when she was met with an unruly driver.
“I didn’t let him go into the lane under the train. So, he proceeded to follow me,” Guzman said.
That’s when she made a life-changing decision to get out of the car.
“He doesn’t say a word, he just comes out with a screwdriver and literally attacks me,” Guzman said.
The man stabbed Guzman five times in the head and attempted to stab her neck.
“Honestly, I was in shock. Like I didn’t know how to react until I kept on feeling the jabs on my neck and I just started clawing at his eyes,” Guzman said.
The attacker fled the scene as police continue to search for him and his silver BMW.
“I just hope the community can help us find him because he can do this to any of our grandmothers, any of our daughters, anybody. He didn’t care that I was a female,” Guzman said.
Guzman is currently recovering from her injuries.
She says she wants the man caught so he never hurts anyone else again.
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Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh facing new criminal charges
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - Alex Murdaugh, convicted of killing his wife and son, has been indicted by a grand jury last week on new charges.
WHNS reports Murdaugh was charged with two additional counts of tax evasion. He is already facing 99 charges related to unreported taxes, fraud, stolen money and other alleged financial crimes.
The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office previously reported that Murdaugh owed nearly $500,000 in state taxes. Authorities estimated he didn’t report $6.9 million worth of income earned through illegal acts.
The latest indictment is for tax years 2020 and 2021. The attorney general said Murdaugh failed to report more than $2.1 million worth of income gained illegally. According to the indictment, the funds were part of his ongoing scheme to defraud clients of settlement money.
During his murder trial, Murdaugh admitted on the witness stand to lying and stealing from clients, his former law firm and friends.
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Nephew kills uncle after fight over who sleeps on couch, authorities say
PHOENIX (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - Police in Arizona are investigating a deadly shooting involving family members over the weekend in the Phoenix area.
Arizona’s Family reports that 22-year-old Dajoun Ty Miller has been arrested in the incident where Miller’s uncle was killed after a fight broke out over who got to sleep on a couch.
Officers were called to the family’s house at about 10:30 p.m. on July 17 regarding a shooting.
According to court documents, officers found Miller outside the home with his hands up and told them that he had just shot someone and taken the gun apart.
Inside the home, officers found Miller’s uncle, Denzell Williams, lying on the couch, shot multiple times. Police said he died at the scene.
According to court documents, officers found more than a dozen casings near Williams’ body and pieces of the gun throughout the house and yard.
Authorities said family members told them that Miller had been living at his mother’s house for a few months and became upset when his uncle also moved in.
Miller reportedly sent a message to his mother saying he wanted to sleep on the couch and would fight his uncle for the spot. Family members later heard fighting downstairs, followed by gunshots.
According to court documents, the family told police they came downstairs and saw Miller standing over Williams, shooting him. The family pleaded for Miller to stop, but he continued to shoot Williams.
Authorities said a family member told them that Miller had a history of hallucinations and undiagnosed mental problems.
According to court documents, Miller told investigators three different versions of what happened but denied having any mental health issues.
Police said Miller first told officers he was angry at his uncle for disrespecting him and ignoring him while trying to talk to him. Then, Miller told police he couldn’t remember what happened until he was in the back of the patrol car.
According to court documents, Miller changed his story a third time and told officers his uncle threatened to kill the family when they were sleeping.
Additionally, authorities said family members informed them that Miller had pointed a gun at his sister during an argument a month earlier.
The 22-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Williams.
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MADRID (AP) — NATO has for the first time singled out China as one of its strategic priorities for the next decade, warning about its growing military ambitions, confrontational rhetoric toward Taiwan and other neighbors, and increasingly close ties to Russia.
While Russia’s war against Ukraine has dominated discussions at the NATO summit, China earned a place Wednesday among the Western alliance’s most worrying security concerns.
“China is substantially building up its military forces, including nuclear weapons, bullying its neighbors, threatening Taiwan ... monitoring and controlling its own citizens through advanced technology, and spreading Russian lies and disinformation,” Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said after presenting NATO’s ten-year Strategic Concept.
“China is not our adversary," Stoltenberg said, “but we must be clear-eyed about the serious challenges it represents."
The strategic document directed its harshest language at Russia, but the mere mention of China was significant; the 2010 document did not discuss China. The official turn by NATO puts the world’s largest military alliance based on the United States armed forces on guard against China, which has the world's second-largest economy and a rapidly growing military, both in numbers and in top-notch technology.
“One of the things that (China’s) doing is seeking to undermine the rules-based international order that we adhere to, that we believe in, that we helped build,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “And if China’s challenging it in one way or another, we will stand up to that.”
China has yet to condemn Russia's four-month long war against Ukraine and has criticized sanctions brought against Moscow by NATO members.
A year ago, Russia and China extended a friendship treaty promising even more "strategic cooperation" in defending their common interests. That was followed up in November with an agreement to strengthen their military ties. Weeks before Russia's February invasion, Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for a summit at which they pledged a partnership that had "no limits."
Western leaders are concerned that Russia's aggression in Ukraine could embolden China to be more assertive over Taiwan. China considers Taiwan a part of its territory with no right to independent recognition as a state or representation on the world stage.
Speaking at an event in Madrid that was not part of the NATO summit, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that unless China is checked “there is a real risk that they draw the wrong idea which results in a catastrophic miscalculation such as invading Taiwan,” referring to the self-governing island that China claims as a province.
However, in a move interpreted to show it was somewhat uneasy over the war in Ukraine, China voted to abstain in a United Nations motion to demand Russia halt its attack.
China has greatly increased its diplomatic reach via foreign investment, above all in central Asia and Africa. Now it is seeking to match that with greater military might, especially in the South China Sea where it has built bases on disputed islands. The U.S. navy has pushed back by conducting drills in those waters.
The gathering of world leaders in Madrid, both inside the NATO summit and on its sidelines, included many from Asian nations.
It was the first time that the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand were invited to a NATO summit. They participated in a NATO session on new global challenges after holding a side meeting outside of the summit. And United States president Joe Biden sat down with the leaders of Japan and South Korea.
Following what he called a “very successful” meeting with the other three Pacific nations, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called for China to finally denounce Russia’s aggressions.
Earlier on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that NATO members had been “creating tension and provoking conflicts” by sending warships and aircraft into areas close to the Asian mainland and the South China Sea.
NATO should “give up the Cold War mentality, zero-sum game and the practice of creating enemies, and not try to mess up Asia and the whole world after disrupting Europe,” Zhao said.
A surveillance aircraft controlled by NATO member Canada was recently intercepted by a Chinese fighter in international airspace. Canadian officials called the Chinese pilot's action reckless.
Beijing continues to claim it is neutral in the Ukraine war, and it has accused NATO and the U.S. of provoking Russia into military action.
“Facts have proven that sanctions are not a way out of conflicts, and the continued delivery of weapons will not help realize peace,” Zhao said.
NATO allies debated fiercely over how to frame their approach toward China. High-level Spanish and French diplomatic officials told The Associated Press that their delegations insisted on China being considered a “challenge” and not a “threat” like Russia.
But one thing was clear: Ignoring China was no longer an option.
“The challenges we all face are truly global,” Stoltenberg told the Western allies. “The international balance of power is shifting, and strategic competition is on the rise.”
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AP writer Christopher Bodeen contributed to this report from Beijing.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge who suspended the state’s long-unenforced abortion ban in May denied a request Friday from state lawmakers seeking to disqualify her from presiding over the key abortion case.
Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Elizabeth Gleicher wrote in her decision that at least one of the arguments the lawmakers made “borders on frivolous.”
Gleicher granted a preliminary injunction in May to Planned Parenthood of Michigan that stalled the enforcement of a 1931 state law criminalizing abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, her ruling became the only legal barrier to that ban taking effect.
After Gleicher was assigned to oversee Planned Parenthood's lawsuit, she informed both sides that she regularly contributes to the group and previously represented it in an abortion case decided 23 years ago.
But Gleicher wrote in Friday’s decision that she incorrectly remembered her affiliation with that case. She said that while Planned Parenthood filed statements in support of her client, she did not actually represent Planned Parenthood. She said the Legislature’s argument about her involvement in that case “borders on frivolous.”
In filing their motion seeking to have Gleicher disqualified from the case, the Republican-controlled Michigan House and Senate contended in part that her contributions to Planned Parenthood violated an ethics standard against the “appearance of impropriety.”
She wrote that the argument that judges who have made “small contributions” to an organization involved in a case must recuse themselves was “simply unprecedented.”
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HWI to join forces with Imerys SA's High Temperature Solutions business, creating a global refractories provider with a comprehensive product portfolio and expanded reach
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Platinum Equity announced today the signing of a definitive merger agreement to acquire HarbisonWalker International (HWI), a supplier of refractory products and services in North America.
Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.
"We are pleased to provide a divestiture solution that delivers speed and certainty in a challenging M&A market," said Platinum Equity partner Louis Samson. "HarbisonWalker has built an impressive organization and we have deep respect for the company's legacy, culture and commitment to serving its customers. We are excited to continue investing in its growth."
In July, Platinum Equity announced plans to acquire Imerys SA's High Temperature Solutions business (HTS), a provider of refractory solutions serving more than 6,000 customers primarily in Europe and Asia, in a transaction that is expected to close by the end of the year.
Once both acquisitions have been completed, HWI and HTS will combine into a global business with increased reach and scale.
"HWI's presence in North America complements HTS's business in Europe and Asia," added Mr. Samson. "Their product portfolios are also highly complementary and will create a comprehensive, well-rounded offering of brick and powder-based refractories for a global customer base. We expect the combination to immediately open up new avenues for growth on both sides."
Platinum Equity said it will seek additional opportunities to help the combined company grow both organically and through additional acquisitions in key product areas and geographies.
"The refractories industry is highly fragmented and this combination will create a global platform with meaningful opportunities to further expand," said Platinum Equity Managing Director Malik Vorderwuelbecke. "We are excited about the prospects in this space and look forward to putting our M&A and operational resources to work."
Kirkland & Ellis is providing legal counsel to Platinum Equity on the acquisition of HWI.
About Platinum Equity
Founded in 1995 by Tom Gores, Platinum Equity is a global investment firm with approximately $36 billion of assets under management and a portfolio of approximately 50 operating companies that serve customers around the world. The firm is currently investing from Platinum Equity Capital Partners V, a $10 billion global buyout fund, and Platinum Equity Small Cap Fund, a $1.5 billion buyout fund focused on investment opportunities in the lower middle market. Platinum Equity specializes in mergers, acquisitions and operations – a trademarked strategy it calls M&A&O® – acquiring and operating companies in a broad range of business markets, including manufacturing, distribution, transportation and logistics, equipment rental, metals services, media and entertainment, technology, telecommunications and other industries. Over the past 27 years Platinum Equity has completed more than 350 acquisitions.
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ROWLEY, Mass., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comstar, LLC ("Comstar") is providing notice of a recent event that may affect the security of certain information.
On or about March 26, 2022, Comstar discovered suspicious activity related to certain servers within its environment. Comstar immediately took steps to secure our network, and launched a thorough investigation, with the assistance of third-party experts, to determine the nature and scope of the incident. On April 21, 2022, the investigation determined that certain systems on Comstar's network were subject to unauthorized access. However, the investigation was unable to confirm what specific information on those systems was accessed. As such, Comstar reviewed the contents of those systems to determine what information was contained therein and to whom it related for purposes of notification.
The review of the systems determined information related to certain individuals was contained within. The information varied by individual but may have included name, date of birth, medical assessment and medication administration, health insurance information, driver's license, financial account information, and Social Security number.
Individuals who have questions about this incident or believe they may be impacted by this incident, can contact our dedicated call center at 877-587-4280, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time except holidays, or visit our web site for more information at www.comstarbilling.com
Monitor Your Accounts
Under U.S. law, a consumer is entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. To order your free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. You may also directly contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below to request a free copy of your credit report.
Consumers have the right to place an initial or extended "fraud alert" on a credit file at no cost. An initial fraud alert is a 1-year alert that is placed on a consumer's credit file. Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer's credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer's identity before extending new credit. If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven years. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, please contact any one of the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below.
As an alternative to a fraud alert, consumers have the right to place a "credit freeze" on a credit report, which will prohibit a credit bureau from releasing information in the credit report without the consumer's express authorization. The credit freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent. However, you should be aware that using a credit freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit. Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a credit freeze on your credit report. To request a credit freeze, you will need to provide the following information:
- Full name (including middle initial as well as Jr., Sr., II, III, etc.);
- Social Security number;
- Date of birth;
- Addresses for the prior two to five years;
- Proof of current address, such as a current utility bill or telephone bill;
- A legible photocopy of a government-issued identification card (state driver's license or ID card, etc.); and
- A copy of either the police report, investigative report, or complaint to a law enforcement agency concerning identity theft if you are a victim of identity theft.
Should you wish to place a fraud alert or credit freeze, please contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below:
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You may further educate yourself regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and the steps you can take to protect your personal information by contacting the consumer reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or your state Attorney General. The Federal Trade Commission may be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The Federal Trade Commission also encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. You can obtain further information on how to file such a complaint by way of the contact information listed above. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. Please note that in order to file a report with law enforcement for identity theft, you will likely need to provide some proof that you have been a victim. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement and your state Attorney General. This notice has not been delayed by law enforcement.
For California residents: Visit the California Office of Privacy Protection (www.oag.ca.gov/privacy) for additional information on protection against identity theft.
For Kentucky residents: Office of the Attorney General of Kentucky, 700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 118 Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, www.ag.ky.gov, Telephone: 1-502-696-5300.
For District of Columbia residents: the District of Columbia Attorney General may be contacted at: 400 6th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001; 202-727-3400; and oag@dc.gov.
For Maryland residents: the Maryland Attorney General may be contacted at: 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202; 1-410-528-8662 or 1-888-743-0023; and www.oag.state.md.us. Comstar is located at 8 Turcotte Memorial Drive, Rowley, MA 01969.
For New Mexico residents: you have rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, such as the right to be told if information in your credit file has been used against you, the right to know what is in your credit file, the right to ask for your credit score, and the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information. Further, pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the consumer reporting bureaus must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information; consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information; access to your file is limited; you must give your consent for credit reports to be provided to employers; you may limit "prescreened" offers of credit and insurance you get based on information in your credit report; and you may seek damages from violator. You may have additional rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act not summarized here. Identity theft victims and active duty military personnel have specific additional rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. We encourage you to review your rights pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act by visiting www.consumerfinance.gov/f/201504_cfpb_summary_your-rights-under-fcra.pdf, or by writing Consumer Response Center, Room 130-A, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
For New York residents: the New York Attorney General may be contacted at: Office of the Attorney General, The Capitol, Albany, NY 12224-0341; 1-800-771-7755; or https://ag.ny.gov/.
For North Carolina residents: the North Carolina Attorney General may be contacted at: 9001 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-9001; 1-877-566-7226 or 1-919-716-6000; and www.ncdoj.gov.
For Oregon residents: Oregon Department of Justice, 1162 Court Street NE, Salem, OR 97301-4096, www.doj.state.or.us/, Telephone: 877-877-9392.
For Rhode Island residents: the Rhode Island Attorney General may be reached at: 150 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02903; www.riag.ri.gov; and 1-401-274-4400. Under Rhode Island law, you have the right to obtain any police report filed in regard to this incident. There are [#] Rhode Island residents impacted by this incident.
For Washington D.C. residents: the Office of Attorney General for the District of Columbia can be reached at: 441 4thStreet NW, Suite 1100 South, Washington, D.C. 20001; 1-202-442-9828; https://oag.dc.gov.
For All U.S. residents: Identity Theft Clearinghouse, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580, www.consumer.gov/idtheft, 1-877-IDTHEFT (438-4338).
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NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Netflix, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Netflix was exhibiting slower acquisition growth due to, among other things, account sharing by customers and increased competition from other streaming services; (2) the Company was experiencing difficulties retaining customers; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company was losing subscribers on a net basis (4) as a result, the Company's financial results were being adversely affected; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — With the latest announcement on a bipartisan gun reform bill, lawmakers weigh in on whether it is enough.
“The bill in and of itself is going to save thousands of lives. I have no doubt about that,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said.
House leaders say they are encouraged by an announced deal to pass a gun safety bill in the Senate.
“We look forward to the text,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said.
Jeffries says it is good to see the senate produce a bipartisan framework.
“Doing something to address the gun violence crisis,” Jeffries said.
The proposed legislation provides funds to improve mental health programs and school safety, something Rep. Pete Aguilar believes is essential.
“That’s what the house democratic caucus is concerned about. Will this save the lives of young people who are affected by gun violence,” Aguilar said.
Republican lawmakers are also welcoming the framework, but emphasize that they need to see the final version before providing their support.
“I just want to make sure that, you know, red flag and all this stuff doesn’t step on the second amendment. So I’ve got to see what they want,” Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas) said.
Williams and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) believe the framework is already better than ideas offered only by Democrats.
“Speaker Pelosi’s approach has been to make it harder for law-abiding citizens to get guns. President Biden even talked about taking handguns away from people, so that is not the answer,” Scalise said.
Lawmakers emphasized that even though this framework doesn’t address all concerns, some action is better than nothing. | https://www.krqe.com/news/washington-dc/house-leaders-optimistic-for-senate-bipartisan-gun-reform-bill/ | 2022-06-14 22:18:17 | 0 | https://www.krqe.com/news/washington-dc/house-leaders-optimistic-for-senate-bipartisan-gun-reform-bill/ |
Say "theater" and many people think "Broadway."
The musical 1776, perhaps, in a freshly revolutionary, re-gendered mounting by Tony winner Diane Paulis and Emmy-nominated Jeffrey L. Page. Or Hamilton, Rent, A Chorus Line. Or maybe they think of some of the plays that have won Pulitzer Prizes in the last 30 years.
As it happens, every one of those shows was first applauded — before it went to Broadway or won the Pulitzer — at America's regional theaters, a nationwide network of more than 1,800 professional, not-for-profit resident stages.
Before 2020, those theaters were producing between 14,000 and 25,000 productions each year, attended annually by an average of more than 35 million people, according to the Theater Communications Group. That's more than twice as many as attend pro football games in the U.S., according to figures from the NFL.
Regional theaters were conceived as an alternative to Broadway, but they long ago became indispensable to their showbizzy commercial cousin. In the 2010s, they helped nurture and develop eight of the 10 shows that went on to win Broadway's Best Musical Tony, including Memphis, Hadestown, Once, Dear Evan Hansen, and the runaway international smash Hamilton. The movement's success was contagious.
Alas, so was something else: a coronavirus that brought live performance staggering to a halt on March 13, 2020.
The show won't go on
'It was the worst day of my life," said Michael J. Bobbitt, who now is the highest ranking arts official in Massachusetts as the head of the Mass Cultural Council, but who was then in rehearsals as the leader of Watertown's New Repertory Theater, which was producing the Billie Holiday musical Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. To his distress, he had to say to his cast something that's almost never said in the theater: The show won't go on.
"This was one of the rare times, remembered Bobbitt, "that New Repertory Theater did shows by and about people of color, so to have to fire all those Black artists, and then let all those audience members who were excited about coming to the show know that we didn't know when we were going to bring it back was very, very hard."
Bobbitt wasn't alone. Molly Smith at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage had a world premiere that night, Celia and Fidel, by Cuban playwright Eduardo Machado, and remembered a full day of emergency conversations with theater staff and government officials about what was happening with COVID-19.
"At the end of the show" she recalled, "right after I'd done a toast with the actors in the green room, I moved them into another room because all of their friends and families were in the green room, and said, 'This was our opening and closing night.'"
What no one knew at the time was...until when.
"We closed the theater that night and didn't really reopen for almost two years," she said.
But a closed theater doesn't mean there's not an audience, or that the theater couldn't still put up a show.
Keeping the lights on, online
"We immediately started doing programming online, because we knew we needed to maintain our connection with our audiences, our artists and our patrons," Smith said.
Actors and directors taught theater classes. Smith did weekly interviews with artists that they called "Molly's Salons." They also produced several full-blown films – basically they did anything they thought might keep them in the public mind.
"And also," she said, "we were trying to give a bit back to artists so they would continue working."
Continuity was a concern at every resident theater in the country during the pandemic. Commercial touring shows could just shut down and wait. Regional stages are communities. They have staff, subscribers who might not re-up if a whole season of plays disappears, and continuing expenses like mortgages that link them to the neighborhoods they're situated in.
Arena had basically reinvented southwest Washington, D.C., as an entertainment district when it expanded its complex in 2010 and wrapped it in a spaceship-like glass shell with a swooping roof after more than a decade of planning. The surrounding neighborhood had previously been largely residential with a few seafood restaurants along the Potomac riverfront. Now known as "the Wharf," it's a sparkling day-trip destination with high-rises, music venues and teeming nightlife.
"Once we began building," said Smith, "suddenly all of the developers who had been waiting jumped on, because theaters really bring people to areas."
With that kind of community investment, regional theaters couldn't just sit back when Covid hit. They needed to use the downtime. And many used it to rethink the way they'd been operating for decades, especially regarding racial equity.
We See You, White American Theater
"We are not just props to be pushed on the stage every February," Chicago playwright Ike Holter told NPR member station WBEZ in June 2020, "we are the backbone of the theater."
Holter and much of the creative staff at the Victory Gardens Theater had just resigned en masse, partly in protest over the theater's board of directors hiring a new artistic director without consulting them. The theater later hired — and then fired — a Black artistic director, and has recently fired its entire staff, and become a presenting organization, rather than a producing organization.
All of which backs up Holter's assertion on WBEZ's show The Reset that the problem ran deeper:
"These large theaters that present themselves as liberal hotspots where, 'Oh we can talk about ideas here, we can share space here,' that's all fine and dandy, but if they do seven shows a year and only two of them are by people of color in a city that is over half people of color, that is a sign of something that is systemic, and that is a sign of something we shouldn't be silent about."
Shortly after Holter's radio appearance, a coalition of hundreds of prominent theatermakers of color issued a statement. "We See You White American Theater," it declared, and a 29-page list of demands followed, to make sure white American theater saw them back.
The open letter got the theater world's attention, with resident theaters doing some very public soul-searching, and pledging to do better.
Bobbitt said this should always have been a no-brainer, because "diversity is good for business."
"If someone were to ask me what makes me Black," he said, "I would say that art and culture are inherent in who I am. It's the music, it's the food, it's the dance, it's the words. So there's a group of people out there that a lot of organizations don't market to, or program for, or include in their planning. And they're missing out on all those people who would probably come and engage with them."
Using the pandemic pause to reflect, and shift gears
Many in the theater world argue that should be just the start, that stages should also consider things like leaping into digital experimentation the way sports leapt into television; overhauling fundraising models developed in the 1960s; and reworking labor practices, fellowships, and internships that require artists to sacrifice for their art.
And there's more. Theaters also started rethinking subscription plans that prioritize well-off people who can purchase a season's worth of prime seats in advance, while leaving everyone else scrambling for leftovers. And they began reconsidering the current, frustrating governance model at most non-profits, where theater artists must answer to a volunteer board of directors, often with little theater expertise, which has all of the authority and none of the accountability. (The board structure is among Internal Revenue Service requirements for tax-exempt organizations under subsection 501(c) of the tax code).
Bobbitt, who has both answered to boards as an artistic director and served on boards himself, wrote a much-debated open letter to American Theatre magazine, suggesting that the board model, initially intended to foster community involvement, has gotten warped over time.
"If I was a surgeon," he said to NPR, "I don't know if I would want a group of volunteers telling me how to do my surgery. I don't think the patient on the table would also appreciate that."
Taking their cue from that letter, all but the three legally-mandated board members at A Contemporary Theater (ACT) in Seattle, one of the nation's leading resident theaters, voluntarily stepped down last month.
ACT Artistic Director John Langs said in a statement that the pandemic, while immensely difficult for theater artists, has also prompted reflection. "We recognize that this moment represents a rare and unique opportunity to disrupt the status quo and lead the institution towards necessary change. By doing so openly, we hope to be a part of the long overdue cultural shift in our field."
A cultural engine roaring back to life
That shift comes at a time when the not-for-profit regionals are finally regaining their footing as a $2 billion business and a powerful cultural engine. The regionals over the last 30 years have become the originators of nearly all new American plays.
Arena's Molly Smith, who just produced American Prophet, a world-premiere musical telling the story of abolitionist Frederick Douglass using his own words as lyrics, said that nurturing new works and new artists has actually been part of the movement's DNA from its inception.
"The regional theater movement was started by three intrepid women, two in Texas [Nina Vance at the Alley Theater, and Margo Jones at Theater '47], and Zelda Fichandler [founder of Arena Stage] here in Washington, D.C."
Smith said these women didn't just give birth to a new kind of professional theater, they made it a point to nurture playwrights and artists in the process. And when Arena expanded its physical complex in 2010, Smith added a new auditorium specifically to be an incubator for new plays. To emphasize that purpose, she called it "The Cradle."
She noted that even though there were still just a handful of women in positions of authority at major resident theaters when she arrived at Arena 25 years ago, now there are "many many more women that are running theaters, and many more artists of color. It's an exciting shift."
There is also more interconnection among theaters – a network of producing organizations — ensuring that a new play doesn't rise or fall on the basis of a single production.
Ain't No Mo', for instance, an evening of satirical sketches currently playing at D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, was first nurtured at The Public Theater in New York. The show is on its way to a Broadway opening in November, where it will join that new 1776 that was reconceived from the ground up at Boston's American Repertory Theater, and is now being co-produced with another regional, the Roundabout Theatre.
So clearly, this is a system that works, if it's also — as many say from the inside — a system that needs work.
"It's time," said Bobbitt. "I think it's time for us to re-imagine. Seventy-five years of doing it the same way is a long time."
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Since the U.S. shut the door to most Venezuelans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum, thousands are stranded in Mexico, camped out on the banks of the Rio Grande.
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Virginia Mason Franciscan Health’s parent company confirmed Thursday a ransomware attack caused hospital-wide outages that have led to disruptions for patients and providers for more than a week.
MyChart, a patient portal for patients to track appointments, test results and other electronic health records, remains down and patients reported Thursday that their appointments continue to be disrupted. Neither CommonSpirit Health, the company affiliated with 10 VMFH hospitals throughout the Puget Sound region, nor VMFH have provided an estimated restoration date.
CommonSpirit Health, which has 140 hospitals in 21 states, said in a statement that it had notified law enforcement about the ransomware attack. It added that it took steps to protect its electronic systems, contain the incident and ensure continuity of care.
“Patients continue to receive the highest quality of care, and we are providing relevant updates on the ongoing situation to our patients, employees and caregivers,” CommonSpirit Health said in a statement. “Patient care remains our utmost priority and we apologize for any inconvenience this matter has created.”
VMFH said Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle and Virginia Mason regional medical centers aren’t affected and stressed that hospitals remain open. Health care providers at other facilities, however, have reported stressful shifts. A VMFH physician told the Tacoma News Tribune that his staff had been “flying blind” because of the outages. In Silverdale, the St. Michael Medical Center’s staffing shortages were compounded this week by the outages, leading to a backup of ambulances, the Kitsap Sun reported.
Ransomware is a form of malicious software (malware) that encrypts files on a device and then demands a ransom to decrypt the files, according to the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. In 2021, 66% of health care organizations surveyed in 31 countries were hit by ransomware, according to a report by Sophos, a cybersecurity company. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/virginia-mason-franciscan-healths-parent-company-says-ransomware-led-to-outages/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2022-10-14 01:48:14 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/virginia-mason-franciscan-healths-parent-company-says-ransomware-led-to-outages/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Vessels off the East Coast must slow down more often to help save a vanishing species of whale from extinction, the federal government said Friday.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made the announcement via new proposed rules designed to prevent ships colliding with North Atlantic right whales. Vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear are the two biggest threats to the giant animals, which number less than 340 and are falling in population.
Efforts to save the whales have long focused on fishing gear, especially that used by East Coast lobster fishermen. The proposed vessel speed rules signal that the government wants the shipping industry to take more responsibility.
“Changes to the existing vessel speed regulation are essential to stabilize the ongoing right whale population decline and prevent the species’ extinction,” state the proposed rules, which are slated to be published in the federal register.
The new rules would expand seasonal slow zones off the East Coast that require mariners to slow down to 10 knots (19 kilometers per hour). They would also require more vessels to comply with the rules by expanding the size classes that must slow down. The rules also state that NOAA would create a framework to implement mandatory speed restrictions when whales are known to be present outside the seasonal slow zones.
Federal authorities spent a few years reviewing the speed regulations used to protect the whales. The shipping rules have long focused on a patchwork of slow zones that require mariners to slow down for whales. Some of the zones are mandatory, while others are voluntary.
Environmental groups have made the case that many boats don't comply with the speed restrictions and that the rules need to be tighter. Environmental organization Oceana released a report in 2021 that said noncompliance was as high as nearly 90% in voluntary zones and was also dangerously low in the mandatory ones.
“The government is proposing a significant improvement in protections for North Atlantic right whales today, which are constantly at risk from speeding vessels,” said Gib Brogan, a campaign director at Oceana. “It’s no secret that speeding vessels are rampant throughout North Atlantic right whales’ migration route, all along the East Coast."
Many members of the shipping industry were keenly aware the new speed rules were on the way. The London-based International Chamber of Shipping, which represents more than 80% of the world merchant fleet, has been working with the International Maritime Organization and other stakeholders to better protect the right whales, said Chris Waddington, the chamber's technical director.
The chamber's members are used to complying with speed limits in whale zones, he said.
“The shipping industry takes the protection of whales seriously and has undertaken measures to safeguard them, from engaging stakeholders to reducing speed and rerouting," Waddington said. “There is always more that can be done, and that is why we are working with the IMO and conservationists on reviewing maritime guidelines.”
The whales were once numerous off the East Coast, but their populations plummeted due to commercial whaling generations ago. Although they've been protected under the Endangered Species Act for decades, they've been slow to recover.
More than 50 of the whales were struck by ships between spring 1999 and spring 2018, NOAA records state. Scientists have said in recent years that warming ocean temperatures are causing the whales to stray out of protected areas and into shipping lanes in search of food.
Environmentalists have said that's a good reason to tighten protections. The proposed shipping rules will be subject to a public comment process before they can become law.
“This proposal is a step in the right direction, but it won’t help a single right whale until it’s actually finalized,” said Kristen Monsell, an attorney for environmental group Center for Biological Diversity.
The whales give birth off the coast of Georgia and Florida and head north to feed off of New England and Canada. They're popular with whale watching tours that leave from places such as Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, in the summer.
Members of New England's lobster fishing industry have made the case that too many rules designed to save the whales focus on fishing and not on vessel strikes. Some characterized the new vessel speed rules as overdue.
Fishermen are unfairly being held accountable for whale deaths that occur due to vessel strikes, said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen's Association, which is the largest fishing industry association on the East Coast.
“This is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on the lobster industry to continue to alter our fishery to account for right whale deaths not connected to the lobster fishery,” McCarron said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ships-must-slow-down-more-often-to-save-whales-17338140.php | 2022-07-29 16:39:50 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ships-must-slow-down-more-often-to-save-whales-17338140.php |
- Clark will lead the Johnson Controls global growth strategy to serve customers and partners through innovative, high-value solutions and service offerings.
- Michael Ellis, executive vice president, chief customer and digital officer to retire at the end of the calendar year.
CORK, Ireland, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, has named Rodney Clark as vice president and chief commercial officer, effective June 1, 2022. In this role, Clark will lead global sales excellence efforts across the company, replacing chief commercial officer, Brian Young who retired at the end of last year. Clark also will take on a portion of the role being transitioned from Michael Ellis, executive vice president, chief customer and digital officer, who will retire at the end of the year.
"I am excited to welcome a proven, strategic leader such as Rodney to Johnson Controls," said George Oliver, chairman and CEO of Johnson Controls. "As we deliver on growth platforms such as decarbonization in smart, healthy buildings, Rodney will build on our progress, collaborating with customers on outcome-based solutions and service offerings through OpenBlue, while expanding our market, building scale, capacity and capability."
Clark most recently held the role of corporate vice president of global partner sales and channel chief at Microsoft. In this role, Clark led a team responsible for customer and partner relationships, accelerating growth through the Microsoft partner ecosystem, as well as cross-partner strategy and outcomes through the Microsoft partner network. Prior to this, he served as the corporate vice president of the Internet of Things (IoT) and mixed reality sales, responsible for building intelligent systems and mixed reality capability, through sales and go-to-market execution.
Earlier in his career, Clark held other notable roles at Microsoft, including general manager, Samsung Alliance; general manager, global operations; and general manager small and medium business. Additionally, he spent eight years at IBM and has held roles throughout his career in strategy, sales, marketing, mergers and acquisitions, and digital transformation. Clark holds a Bachelor of Science in marketing from California State University, Fresno.
"I'm delighted to be joining Johnson Controls, they have an incredible team that is driving innovative technology that transforms ordinary buildings into dynamic, healthier, safer spaces for all of us to enjoy," said Clark. "Adding intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions to their traditional offerings creates an enormous opportunity and will help customers address their most critical challenges – including the achievement of sustainability targets with agile, flexible and scalable solutions."
About Johnson Controls OpenBlue Digital Transformation
Johnson Controls announced its digital transformation nearly two years ago with the introduction of OpenBlue, a complete suite of connected solutions that delivers impactful sustainability, new healthy occupant experiences, and safety and security. These emerging and disruptive technologies such as cloud, Edge AI and machine learning address climate change by helping companies achieve their net zero and renewable energy goals.
Further fortifying Johnson Controls as a leader in the industry, the company acquired FogHorn, a provider of Edge AI software earlier this year. As the number of sensors and amount of data in buildings continues to grow exponentially, the value of processing data and applying intelligence at the edge, without having to send data to the cloud, becomes increasingly pronounced. This further creates value for customers by enabling real-time, secure and actionable insights.
Additionally, OpenBlue Innovation Centers, located in eight cities across the globe including San Jose, Singapore, Pune and Cork, are designed for seamless, expeditious collaboration between expert teams.
Recognition for ESG, Leadership and Innovations in Smart Building Platforms:
- Selected as a Top-Three Finalist in the 2021 Microsoft Global Independent Software Vendor Partner of the Year Awards for Business Excellence
- Received 2021 Q4 Microsoft U.S. Impact Award
- Named as a Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Launch Partner for smart, sustainable buildings
- Listed as one of FORTUNE's 2022 "Most Admired Companies"
- Named to Forbes Best employers for Diversity List 2022
- Earned Market-Leading Scores in the Verdantix Green Quadrant: IoT Platforms for Smart Buildings 2022
- Honored with the Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World
- Identified as a Sustainalytics Top-Rated ESG Performer for managing material ESG issues
- Received HRH The Prince of Wales' inaugural Terra Carta Seal
- Ranked 67 on the Drucker Institute's list of best-managed companies in America
- Named Chairman and CEO George Oliver IoT CEO of the Year for 2022
About Johnson Controls
At Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI), we transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play. As the global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet.
Building on a proud history of more than 135 years of innovation, we deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive digital offering.
Today, with a global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries, Johnson Controls offers the world's largest portfolio of building technology and software as well as service solutions from some of the most trusted names in the industry.
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Datadog has now achieved nine AWS competencies across use cases, industries and technologies
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security, Networking and Retail competencies. In total, Datadog has now received nine competencies—the most of any integrated observability company supporting AWS to date. This reaffirms Datadog's commitment to AWS and its position as a global partner across multiple industries and use cases.
The competencies announced today include:
- AWS Security Competency, which recognizes Datadog's deep technical expertise and proven customer success in securing every stage of cloud adoption, from initial migration through day-to-day management.
- AWS Networking Competency, which recognizes Datadog as a software partner that enables customers to get deep visibility into networked services and applications across complex native, cloud and hybrid environments.
- AWS Retail Competency, which certifies that Datadog provides solutions to monitor and fully understand user experiences and pain points in order to improve operational efficiency and customer engagement for retail customers.
"We are proud to support our customers as they migrate to the cloud and manage their AWS environments," said Yrieix Garnier, VP of Product at Datadog. "Our extensive history with AWS and our technical depth across use cases, industries and technologies—as evidenced by our nine AWS competencies—allows our customers to leverage AWS seamlessly and with confidence."
These latest competencies add to an already significant level of deep expertise with AWS that includes:
- AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency
- AWS DevOps Competency
- AWS Government Competency
- AWS Container Competency
- AWS Migration and Modernization Competency
- AWS Education Competency
AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify consulting and technology partners with deep industry experience and expertise. Achieving the AWS Security Competency, AWS Networking Competency and AWS Retail Competency speaks to Datadog's place within the AWS Partner Network (APN) as a member with a history of success in providing customers with specialized solutions that align to AWS architectural best practices. To receive these designations, Datadog underwent an assessment of the security, performance and reliability of its solutions and validated its deep AWS expertise.
For more information about Datadog's solutions for AWS, visit: https://www.datadoghq.com/solutions/aws/.
Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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Sadio Mane says he "will never forget" his time with Liverpool having made a move to Bayern Munich in the recent transfer window.
Mane joined the Reds from Southampton in 2016 and spent six successful years at the club, winning both the Premier League and the Champions League.
And while the 30-year-old now plies his trade in the Bundesliga, he says he will always have fond memories of playing for Liverpool.
"Honestly, I will never forget my time there," Mane told UEFA.com.
"I learned a lot – as a man and as a football player. The supporters were amazing, the people from the city were amazing. It is a club that will stay in my heart forever.
"It is also a legendary club – they have won everything. And also, it is the club that had all the best Champions League nights."
Mane cited the 2019 Champions League final win against Tottenham in Madrid as a particular highlight, adding: "I remember the second goal that Divock Origi scored very well. I was over the moon at that moment. I couldn't believe it.
"I just thought back to my childhood, when I was watching the Champions League. I found myself playing a final and, more importantly, winning it.
"It was amazing – 2019 was an outstanding year. The celebrations, the club, you just had to be there to understand. I think over half a million people were out in the streets waiting for us to parade our trophy. It was just beautiful."
The Senegal international has endured a mixed start to his Bayern career, scoring three in three league games to start the season but then going on a run of five appearances without a goal in all competitions before finally finding the net again in Friday's 4-0 thumping of Bayer Leverkusen.
And he admitted his move to Germany had not all been plain sailing so far, saying: "Switching from one club to another is not easy.
"I spent eight very nice years in England, six years at Liverpool [after] two at Southampton, and now I am in a new country. It is not easy because everything changes so suddenly, people, training, everything.
"Everything is changing so it is not easy at all. I need to adapt. I knew that and it came as no surprise. It is happening just the way I imagined it.
"People here are welcoming, and they're real players. People around the club are amazing so I am very happy.
"We have a very, very young squad. It's the first time in my career that I have been part of such a young group. What really stands out to me is that they're all hungry. They all want to develop and they're attentive too.
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Report Provides High-Level Overview of Control Failures by Previous Management Team Across Critical Functions
WILMINGTON, Del., April 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FTX Trading Ltd. (d.b.a. FTX.com), and its affiliated debtors (together, the "FTX Debtors") today announced the release of their first report, which identifies and discusses control failures by FTX Group's previous management team in critical areas, including management and governance, finance and accounting, digital asset management, information security and cybersecurity (the "Report"). The Report is based on the Debtors' review of terabytes of electronic data and communications, more than one million documents, and interviews conducted with 19 former FTX Group employees, among other information. This work was undertaken by the Debtors through a team of legal, restructuring, forensic accounting, cybersecurity, computer engineering, cryptography, blockchain and other experts.
The Report and related information can be found on the docket of the Chapter 11 cases and posted on the quick links section of the FTX Debtors Kroll site at https://cases.ra.kroll.com/FTX/.
John J. Ray III, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer of the FTX Debtors, said: "We are releasing the first report in the spirit of transparency that we promised since the beginning of the Chapter 11 process. In this report, we provide details on our findings that FTX Group failed to implement appropriate controls in areas that were critical for safeguarding cash and crypto assets. FTX Group was tightly controlled by a small group of individuals who falsely claimed to manage FTX Group responsibly, but in fact showed little interest in instituting oversight or implementing an appropriate control framework. We are continuing our efforts to review the events that factored into the fall of FTX and to identify and recover as much value as possible for creditors."
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By the time Jayson Tatum turned around to give teammate Jaylen Brown some dap for a pass to set up an easy layup, Aaron Nesmith’s inbounds pass was in his grasp. Tatum knocked the ball back to Brown, who pulled up for a 28-footer. Swish.
It was an enjoyable Friday night at TD Garden, devoid of stress, and blown leads and troublesome late-game execution. The Celtics seemingly left all of those issues on the West Coast, using an end-of-the-road-trip blowout win over the Sacramento Kings as a springboard to late-season dominance.
Brown and Tatum both played free and well in the 120-95 win over the Indiana Pacers, as the Celtics attempt to make one final run at the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.
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It’s been an interesting week for Brown, whose comments in The Ringer about his long-term future in Boston and his happiness, or lack thereof, in the city drew headlines and prompted discussion amongst Celtic faithful. Privately, Brown was unhappy with the story, feeling as if the release of the story was ill-timed and his comments may have been taken out of context.
Yet, on Monday, Brown will take his opinions to the White House. According to two NBA sources, Brown will be part of a group of Celtics who will speak to the Department of Justice about criminal justice reform. Teammate Malcolm Brogdon, who recently wrote an essay about the topic, will join Brown. The Celtics play the Washington Wizards on Tuesday.
As for his comments early this week, Brown chose to explain his stance on the City of Boston, his quest to purchase property or starting a business. Brown, who scored 27 points with seven rebounds, wants to keep it basketball.
“I’ll expand at some point,” he said. “But right now, I’m just focused on my team and getting ready for the playoffs. Anything else I consider a distraction. Right now, that’s my main point of emphasis, getting my guys ready to go and at some point I’ll expand. But this is now the time right now.”
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Brown has made headlines for non-basketball reasons because of his recent statements, which lends to the theory he has issues or isn’t content with his current situation in Boston. He attempted to dispel those concerns.
When asked if he was in a joyful mood, Brown said: “Winter is over. Spring is here. And it’s the beginning of Ramadan, so definitely being in better spirits. Trying to smile more, I guess. Just to come out and show your enthusiasm and love for the game.
“I get that a lot, I probably don’t smile enough, but it’s a lot of work we’ve got in front of us and it ain’t nothing funny.”
Brown’s serious expressions and monotone voice makes it difficult to determine his thoughts and emotions. He’s expressive when he feels the situation requires, but he also understands that Celtics fans and, perhaps, even some members of the organization are trying to figure out whether he actually likes playing for the Celtics. He doesn’t embrace that notion.
“Not necessarily, I’m the type of person that likes to let people know how I’m feeling about certain things and situations,” he said. “And sometimes when I don’t speak, people speak for you. And sometimes things get taken out of context or translation when those things happen. I pick and choose my spots. Obviously, I’m not going to overcompensate myself and just speak on everything and let everybody know how I feel about everything because sometimes it ain’t everybody’s business.
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“At the same time, communicate using my platform and try to be a leader in my community is what I pride myself on. In a sense, I do enjoy using my platform and speaking on certain topics.”
Brown has long sought to improve the American educational system and improve criminal justice reform and Monday will provide him an opportunity to speak on a global stage. What Brown doesn’t want those Boston fans to misunderstand is his love for basketball and desire to get the Celtics a championship.
He may not play with as much overt joy as perhaps Tatum, who blows kisses to the crowd after 3-pointers, but the game is fun for Jaylen Brown. Since his 35-point outburst at the All-Star Game, Brown has played with a freedom and passion; he has taken his game to the next level.
When Brown and Tatum are at their best, the Celtics are a championship level team. Brown knows that. Tatum knows that. Tatum again reiterated the importance of Brown to the organization’s short-term and long-term plan.
“Just sharing the obvious that we need him, and he’s a big part of this team, this franchise,” Tatum said. “Without him, we can’t reach our goals. You guys know that. The world knows that. The team knows that. We need him to be the best version of ourselves.”
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WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue Volleyball season is upon us with their opening matches, part of the Tennessee Classic in Knoxville, less than 2 weeks away!
Head Coach Dave Shondell is heading into his 20th season leading the Lady Boilermakers, and expectations, goals, and motivation within the locker rom at Holloway Gymnasium remain high, despite a very different looking squad than last year that made it to the Elite 8.
On the latest episode of Full Steam Ahead: A Podcast About Purdue, CBS4’s Adam Bartels talks with Shondell about preparations for this season, this year’s roster, goals, and more!
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LAKEVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Democrat Paul Steury has been confirmed as the party’s candidate for the special election to complete the congressional term of Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski following her death in a northern Indiana highway crash.
Democratic precinct committee members from Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District confirmed Steury’s selection during a caucus vote Tuesday evening.
Steury is a high school science teacher from Goshen and will face Republican Rudy Yakym and Libertarian William Henry.
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Children and families in the state’s capital show gains in economic well-being — with a drop in child poverty rates and an increase in median household income — the latest Trenton Kids Count 2023 report from Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) finds.
Advocates note more progress is needed to reach average Mercer County and statewide levels of well-being. Trenton Kids Count 2023 reports a significant drop in the percentage of Trenton children in extreme poverty, from 22% in 2011-2015 to 16% in 2016-2020.
Still, the Trenton rate lists as nearly three times the statewide rate of 6%, Median yearly income for the city’s families with children rose slightly to nearly $35,000 during that period — well below the state’s median income of nearly $107,000.
“Behind the numbers are local on-ground efforts to improve the well-being of children amid increased stress, economic hardship, food insecurity, and health challenges,” says Mary Coogan, president and CEO of ACNJ.
“Four years ago, we released our first Trenton Kids Count in over two decades, providing a benchmark to measure progress. Life in the state’s capital city is certainly improving and I am especially hopeful that, with community groups coming together, we can come up with some bold and intentional solutions to improve outcomes for children.”
Eleanor V. Horne, trustee emeritus for Princeton Area Community Foundation, referenced the report as “comprehensive” and filled with important data. She said the information could secure significant progress if used by individual organizations and collective initiatives.
Horne advised that “little lives (exist behind) the numbers.” Community assets highlighted in the report include:
Community doulas playing an integral role in improving maternal and infant health, thanks to TruDoulas of New Jersey and the AMAR Community-based Doula Program at the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey
In-home, postpartum nurse visits, providing compassionate care and helpful resources through Family Connects Mercer County
Oral healthcare and education, serving thousands of Trenton children through the KinderSmile Foundation’s Community Oral Health Center
Corrective eyecare services that include providing glasses free of charge for children who require vision correction, through the Henry J. Austin Health Center’s partnership with Vision to Learn
A residential program for high school girls called HomeWorks, where scholars live together in a dorm from Sunday to Fridayand receive academic and identity-driven leadership enrichment activities
Meeting students’ mental health needs, with training on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma-informed care, healing-centered engagement, and Youth Mental Health First Aid for teachers, administrators, school staff, and families through the Foundation for Educational Administration
The Trenton Community Street Teams (TCST), a community-based violence intervention and prevention initiative designed to eliminate the cycle of violence in Trenton by treating the issue as a public health crisis
Trenton Kids Count 2023 offers five-year data trends for children and their families in demographics, family economic security, child health, child protection, child care, education, and information regarding teens. Due to the impact of the pandemic on data collection, the report uses American Community Survey five-year estimates as well as one-year estimates.
“Data is power,” says Atiya Weiss, executive director of the Burke Foundation, a co-funder of the report with the Smith Family Foundation and Princeton Area Community Foundation. “Trenton Kids Count 2023 enables informed advocacy for policies and priorities to transform the lives of children and families.”
In a city where half of births are to mothers born outside the US, community doulas and in-home nurse postpartum visits play an integral role in narrowing maternal and infant health disparities along racial/ethnic lines. Since 2017, the number of deliveries by nurse midwives has gradually increased in Trenton and the number of births delivered by medical doctors has gradually decreased.
Consistent with state and county trends, fewer babies in Trenton were born with low birth weights and the city’s infant mortality rate declined. But data disaggregated by race show deep disparities remain: Trenton experienced a rate of 9.9 infant deaths for every 1,000 live births, but when compared to Trenton babies born to Black mothers, the rate was 13.8 – more than triple the overall statewide rate of 4.3.
During the 2020-2021 school year, Trenton witnessed a steep drop in preschool enrollment at the same time many child care centers closed due to the pandemic. Enrollment bounced back the next school year but still is below pre-pandemic levels.
“We’ve seen a sharp decrease in the number of juvenile arrests as well as admissions to detention. As mayor, I have prioritized directing resources and opportunities to youth and will continue to drive the services and initiatives needed to help our children on a pathway to success. Trenton Kids Count data is public accountability of our policy and decision-making. The data not only tells us what’s working and what’s not, but also highlights opportunities for growth,” says Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora.
“We believe in the transformative power of well-guided advocacy efforts, and Trenton Kids Count 2023 helps lay the groundwork for such work. In understanding what our fellow community members are doing coupled with the numbers outlined in the report, we can help pave the way for innovative solutions that can change lives,” says Katherine Nunnally, executive director and CEO of the Smith Family Foundation.
“We are encouraged by the promising gains shown in the data, but through our conversations with the staff of nonprofits working directly with city residents, we also know that the most vulnerable residents were hit particularly hard by economic and learning losses caused by the pandemic,” said Jeffrey Vega, President & CEO of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.
“Addressing the needs of under-resourced and vulnerable individuals, families, and communities is paramount, and we hope this report will empower community advocates to take a deeper dive into the data and help us develop solutions.”
The Smith Family Foundation hosted the well attended event attended by numerous agencies and organizations. The Burke Foundation, Advocates for Children of New Jersey and Princeton Community Foundation and Smith Family Foundation supported the Trenton Kids Count Report.
L.A. Parker is a Trentonian columnist. Find him on Twitter @LAParker6 or email him at LAParker@Trentonian.com.
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MUMBAI, India and MAHWAH, N.J., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA (Glenmark) is pleased to announce it has launched their Fingolimod Capsules, 0.5 mg, the generic version of Gilenya®1 Capsules, 0.5 mg, of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
Commenting on the launch, Sanjeev Krishan, President, Glenmark North America said, "We are very pleased to bring to market a lower cost alternative to Gilenya® Capsules, 0.5 mg. This launch confirms our commitment to provide quality and affordable pharmaceutical products to patients."
According to IQVIA™ sales data for the 12-month period ending September 2022, the Gilenya® Capsules, 0.5 mg market2 achieved annual sales of approximately $1.8 billion*.
Glenmark's current portfolio consists of 176 products authorized for distribution in the U.S. marketplace and 47 ANDA's pending approval with the U.S. FDA. In addition to these internal filings, Glenmark continues to identify and explore external development partnerships to supplement and accelerate the growth of its existing pipeline and portfolio.
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (BSE: 532296) (NSE: GLENMARK) is an innovation–driven global pharmaceutical company with a presence across Specialty, Generics and OTC businesses. It focuses on the key therapeutic areas of respiratory, dermatology and oncology. The company has 10 world–class manufacturing facilities spread across 4 continents and operations in over 80 countries. Glenmark is ranked among the world's top 100 biopharmaceutical companies (Top 100 Companies Ranked by Pharmaceutical Sales, 2020, by In Vivo/Scrip 100) and among the world's top 50 companies in the off–patent sector (Top 50 Generics and Biosimilars Companies ranked by Sales, 2020, by Generics Bulletin/In Vivo). The company was listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), one of the world's most respected and widely accepted sustainability benchmarks, under the category of emerging markets (2021) for the fourth consecutive year. For more information, visit www.glenmarkpharma.com, LinkedIn (Glenmark Pharmaceuticals), Instagram (glenmark_pharma).
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TORONTO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2022 Communications Platform as a Service Emotional Footprint, naming four providers as Champions.
Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) solutions are flexible, API-driven, cloud-based platforms that enable IT to build and customize the engine behind an organization's communications and collaboration infrastructure. Organizations can use CPaaS to quickly embed communications features, such as video or SMS, into core business processes to enhance them. These processes typically include customer service and internal communications, improving customer and employee satisfaction.
To aid organizations searching for the best solution to support their communication strategy, SoftwareReviews has identified the top CPaaS providers for the year based on verified survey data collected from 195 end-user reviews. These providers have received high scores on SoftwareReviews' Emotional Footprint.
The Net Emotional Footprint (NEF) of each software provider is a result of aggregated emotional response ratings across the areas of service, negotiation, product impact, conflict resolution, strategy, and innovation. The NEF is a powerful indicator of overall user sentiment toward the provider and its product from the software user's point of view.
The 2022 Communications Platform as a Service Champions are as follows:
- Avaya OneCloud CPaaS, 99 NEF, ranked high for being effective.
- EnableX Communication APIs, 98 NEF, ranked high for efficiency.
- Bandwidth, 92 NEF, ranked high for being trustworthy.
- Infobip, 93 NEF, ranked high for being respectful.
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 software providers using the most in-depth and unbiased analyst reports available, visit SoftwareReviews' Communications Platform as a Service dedicated category page.
For more information about SoftwareReviews, the Data Quadrant, or the Emotional Footprint, or to access resources to support the software selection process, visit softwarereviews.com and connect via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
SoftwareReviews is the most in-depth source of buyer data and insights for the enterprise software market. By collecting customer experience data from business and IT professionals, the SoftwareReviews methodology produces detailed and authentic insights into the experience of evaluating and purchasing enterprise software.
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A suspect has been taken into custody in connection to the long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders after at least 10 bodies were discovered on New York's Long Island back in 2010 and 2011, according to multiple reports.
The 13-year-old case has garnered vast public attention over the years and even influenced the popular 2020 Netflix film "Lost Girls."
It all began with the search for 24-year-old sex worker Shannan Gilbert, who had disappeared after leaving a client's house near the seafront town of Gilgo Beach. Although several searches were conducted in the area where she was last seen, her body was not discovered until 18 months after she was reported missing.
During the search for Gilbert, police uncovered the bodies of four additional victims, all of whom also advertised on Craigslist as escorts. By spring 2011, the number of victims had climbed to 10, including one man and a toddler.
It's a case that has perplexed several homicide investigators and led to few leads over the years. In 2022, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison formed a multi-agency task force consisting of representatives from the FBI, state and local police, in attempt to finally solve the case.
While it's unclear how many of the killings the suspect is linked to, Suffolk County officials and police plan to hold a news briefing at 4 p.m. ET Friday to share "a significant development in the investigation." The suspect's name was not immediately released.
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LI-COR Inc., a global leader in environmental measurement technology, announced its forthcoming LI-7825 CO2 Isotope Trace Gas Analyzer, which will measure CO2 isotopes in the lab, in the field, and on the move.
LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CO2 isotope measurements are a critical tool for studying climate change and for modelling future climate scenarios. By measuring CO2 isotopes and calculating isotopic ratios, researchers can identify the sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2, evaluate carbon sequestration efforts, partition net ecosystem carbon exchange, and gain insights into biological processes.
The LI-7825 CO2 Isotope Trace Gas Analyzer measures 12C-CO2, 13C-CO2, 18O-CO2, 17O-CO2, and H2O in air and reports CO2 isotopic ratios—δ13C, δ18O, and δ17O—with high precision and accuracy. It utilizes Optical Feedback‑Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy (OF-CEAS) and several patented technologies to perform the measurements.
"The LI-7825 δ13C CO2 precision of 0.1 per mille is competitive with laboratory laser-based analyzers but comes in a portable and field-ready form factor," said Mark Johnson, Vice President of Research and Development. "Its performance combined with the ability to measure δ17O and δ18O isotopic ratios of CO2 will enable research in novel applications and unique environments."
Backed by over thirty-five years of experience in gas analysis technology, the LI-7825 joins the LI-COR Trace Gas Analyzers used and trusted by researchers and networks around the world. LI-COR expects to ship the LI-7825 in mid to late 2023.
LI-COR is an industry-leading environmental technology innovator of high-quality instrument systems for eddy covariance, plant physiology, soil gas flux, light, gas analysis, and greenhouse gas research. LI-COR instruments and systems are used by networks and researchers around the world.
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DUBLIN, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Drone Data Services Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The global drone data services market reached a value of US$ 1.18 Billion in 2021. Looking forward, the publisher expects the market to reach a value of US$ 8.27 Billion by 2027 exhibiting a CAGR of 36.60% during 2022-2027. Keeping in mind the uncertainties of COVID-19, we are continuously tracking and evaluating the direct as well as the indirect influence of the pandemic. These insights are included in the report as a major market contributor.
Drone data services include the use of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for collecting digital data via aerial surveys. They rely on drones embedded with downward-facing sensors, such as red, green, and blue (RGB) cameras and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) payloads, for gathering images of ground from different angles and creating geo-referenced orthomosaics and 3D models of the area. As they offer high-quality, accurate, and cost-effective data, drone data services are finding applications in agriculture, oil and gas, mining, media and entertainment (M&E), insurance, aviation, marine, healthcare, and transportation industries worldwide.
At present, there is a rise in the utilization of drone data services in the construction industry to perform cadastral and corridor surveying, volumetric calculations of land, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), and automated mapping. This, along with the growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled optical sensors in security and law enforcement to enhance public safety and risk mitigation, represents one of the key factors driving the market.
Moreover, the increasing usage of drone data services in agriculture for obtaining information on hydrography, topography, soil type, and land development is positively influencing the market. In addition, there are various technological advancements in the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based storage to upload, share, store, and process aerial images, which is bolstering the market growth.
Furthermore, rapid urbanization is leading to high traffic congestion and air pollution across the globe. As a result, key market players are extensively investing in research and developments (R&D) activities to develop autonomous drones for intracity transportation, which is projected to propel the growth of the market.
Competitive Landscape:
The competitive landscape of the industry has also been examined along with the profiles of the key players being 4DMapper, Aerialair, Autodesk Inc., Cyberhawk, DroneDeploy, GeoCue Group Inc., Ninox Robotics Pty Ltd., Pix4D SA, PrecisionHawk, Sentera, Skycatch Inc. and SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd.
Key Questions Answered in this Report:
- How has the global drone data services market performed so far and how will it perform in the coming years?
- What has been the impact of COVID-19 on the global drone data services market?
- What are the key regional markets?
- What is the breakup of the market based on the service type?
- What is the breakup of the market based on the platform?
- What is the breakup of the market based on the end user?
- What are the various stages in the value chain of the industry?
- What are the key driving factors and challenges in the industry?
- What is the structure of the global drone data services market and who are the key players?
- What is the degree of competition in the industry?
Key Topics Covered:
1 Preface
2 Scope and Methodology
3 Executive Summary
4 Introduction
4.1 Overview
4.2 Key Industry Trends
5 Global Drone Data Services Market
5.1 Market Overview
5.2 Market Performance
5.3 Impact of COVID-19
5.4 Market Forecast
6 Market Breakup by Service Type
6.1 Mapping and Surveying
6.1.1 Market Trends
6.1.2 Market Forecast
6.2 Photogrammetry
6.2.1 Market Trends
6.2.2 Market Forecast
6.3 3D Modeling and Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
6.3.1 Market Trends
6.3.2 Market Forecast
6.4 Others
6.4.1 Market Trends
6.4.2 Market Forecast
7 Market Breakup by Platform
7.1 Cloud-based
7.1.1 Market Trends
7.1.2 Market Forecast
7.2 Operator Software
7.2.1 Market Trends
7.2.2 Market Forecast
8 Market Breakup by End User
8.1 Real Estate and Construction
8.1.1 Market Trends
8.1.2 Market Forecast
8.2 Agriculture
8.2.1 Market Trends
8.2.2 Market Forecast
8.3 Security and Law Enforcement
8.3.1 Market Trends
8.3.2 Market Forecast
8.4 Mining
8.4.1 Market Trends
8.4.2 Market Forecast
8.5 Others
8.5.1 Market Trends
8.5.2 Market Forecast
9 Market Breakup by Region
10 SWOT Analysis
11 Value Chain Analysis
12 Porters Five Forces Analysis
13 Price Analysis
14 Competitive Landscape
14.1 Market Structure
14.2 Key Players
14.3 Profiles of Key Players
14.3.1 4DMapper
14.3.1.1 Company Overview
14.3.1.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.2 Aerialair
14.3.2.1 Company Overview
14.3.2.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.3 Autodesk Inc.
14.3.3.1 Company Overview
14.3.3.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.3.3 Financials
14.3.3.4 SWOT Analysis
14.3.4 Cyberhawk
14.3.4.1 Company Overview
14.3.4.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.5 DroneDeploy
14.3.5.1 Company Overview
14.3.5.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.6 GeoCue Group Inc.
14.3.6.1 Company Overview
14.3.6.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.7 Ninox Robotics Pty Ltd.
14.3.7.1 Company Overview
14.3.7.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.8 Pix4D SA
14.3.8.1 Company Overview
14.3.8.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.9 PrecisionHawk
14.3.9.1 Company Overview
14.3.9.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.10 Sentera
14.3.10.1 Company Overview
14.3.10.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.11 Skycatch Inc.
14.3.11.1 Company Overview
14.3.11.2 Product Portfolio
14.3.12 SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd.
14.3.12.1 Company Overview
14.3.12.2 Product Portfolio
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Hospital evacuated over elderly man with explosive lodged in his rectum
He had a bomb in his bum.
A French hospital was reportedly evacuated after an 88-year-old arrived with an artillery shell lodged in his rectum.
It happened Saturday at Hospital Sainte Musse in Toulon, southern France.
The French publication Var-Matin reported the elderly man had a World War I artillery shell partially inside him.
Parts of the hospital were evacuated and emergency patients were diverted as they dealt with the delicate situation.
The shell was about eight inches long and two inches wide.
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- ACT for ALS Funding is for an Expanded Access Program to Study SLS-005 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients Who Do Not Qualify for Clinical Trials
NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEEL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapies for central nervous system disorders and rare diseases, today announced it will collaborate with the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS in an Expanded Access Program (EAP) that will be fully funded by a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the ACT for ALS.
"Being chosen to again collaborate with the Healey team on an EAP is a privilege and further supports our commitment to provide a meaningful contribution to the ALS community by continuing to explore investigational treatment options in this devastating disorder," said Raj Mehra Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Seelos. "Through this EAP, we will be able to offer SLS-005 to people who are unable to meet the entry criteria for any clinical trials. Our hope, through this effort, is to collect additional data to help us advance this therapy through the clinic."
Under this EAP, Seelos plans to initially enroll 70 patients in a 24-week, open-label study to evaluate SLS-005 in persons with ALS in parallel to its ongoing Phase II/III study on the HEALEY Platform.
If you are a person with ALS (PALS) or caregiver of someone with ALS (CALS) and would like more information, please visit: https://seelostherapeutics.com/patients-and-caregivers/
About the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act (ACT for ALS)
The ACT for ALS, Public Law 117-79, among other things, requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to implement a Public-Private Partnership for Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases through cooperative agreements or contracts to advance the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases and foster development of treatments for ALS and other rare neurodegenerative diseases. It requires the FDA to publish and implement a 5-year action plan to foster drug development and facilitate access to investigational drugs for ALS and other rare neurodegenerative diseases. Finally, it requires that the FDA award grants or contracts to public and private entities to cover costs of research on, and development of interventions intended to prevent, diagnose, mitigate, treat, or cure ALS and other rare neurodegenerative diseases in adults and children.
More information on ACT for ALS is available here.
More information about NINDS is available here.
About SLS-005 (trehalose injection, 90.5 mg/mL for intravenous infusion)
SLS-005 is a low molecular weight disaccharide (0.342 kDa) that crosses the blood brain barrier and is thought to stabilize proteins and activate autophagy through the activation of Transcription Factor EB (TFEB), a key factor in lysosomal and autophagy gene expression. Activation of TFEB is an emerging therapeutic target for a number of diseases with pathologic accumulation of storage material. In animal models of several diseases associated with abnormal cellular protein aggregation or storage of pathologic material, SLS-005 has been shown to reduce aggregation of misfolded proteins and reduce accumulation of pathologic material. SLS-005 is an investigational treatment and is not currently approved by any health authority for medicinal use.
About Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a group of rare neurological diseases that mainly involve the nerve cells (neurons) responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement. In ALS, both the upper motor neurons and the lower motor neurons degenerate or die and stop sending messages to the muscles. Unable to function, the muscles gradually weaken, start to twitch (called fasciculations), and waste away (called atrophy). Eventually, the brain loses its ability to initiate and control voluntary movements. The disease is progressive, meaning the symptoms get worse over time. The majority of ALS cases (90 percent or more) are considered sporadic. This means the disease seems to occur at random with no clearly associated risk factors and no family history of the disease. Although family members of people with sporadic ALS are at an increased risk for the disease, the overall risk is very low, and most will not develop ALS.
Most people with ALS eventually die from respiratory failure, usually within 3 to 5 years from when the symptoms first appear. However, about 10 percent of people with ALS survive for 10 or more years. Currently, there is no cure for ALS and no effective treatment to halt or reverse, the progression of the disease.
About Seelos Therapeutics
Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and advancement of novel therapeutics to address unmet medical needs for the benefit of patients with central nervous system (CNS) disorders and other rare diseases. The Company's robust portfolio includes several late-stage clinical assets targeting indications including Acute Suicidal Ideation and Behavior (ASIB) in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), Sanfilippo syndrome, Parkinson's disease, other psychiatric and movement disorders plus orphan diseases.
For more information, please visit our website: http://seelostherapeutics.com, the content of which is not incorporated herein by reference.
Forward Looking Statements
Statements made in this press release, which are not historical in nature, constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, among others, those regarding the number of patients to be enrolled in the EAP, the expected duration of the EAP, as well as statements regarding Seelos' registrational study in the HEALEY platform trial and statements regarding SLS-005's prospects and potential insights from the EAP. These statements are based on Seelos' current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Risks associated with Seelos' business and plans described herein include, but are not limited to, the risk of not successfully executing its preclinical and clinical studies, and not gaining marketing approvals for its product candidates, the risk that prior clinical results may not be replicated in future studies and trials, the risks that clinical study results may not meet any or all endpoints of a clinical study and that any data generated from such studies may not support a regulatory submission or approval, the risks associated with the implementation of Seelos' business strategy, the risks related to raising capital to fund its development plans and ongoing operations, risks related to Seelos' current stock price, risks related to the global impact of COVID-19, as well as other factors expressed in Seelos' periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we do not know whether our expectations will prove correct. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, even if subsequently made available by us on our website or otherwise. We do not undertake any obligation to update, amend or clarify these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
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TORONTO, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX: CJR.B) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared quarterly dividends of $0.06 per Class B non-voting participating share ("Class B Non-Voting Shares") and $0.05875 per Class A participating share ("Class A Voting Shares") payable on December 29, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 15, 2022.
The foregoing dividends are designated as "eligible" dividends for the purpose of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and any similar provincial legislation.
Corus' Board of Directors reviews the dividend on a quarterly basis. Shareholders are entitled to receive dividends only when any such dividends are declared by Corus' Board of Directors and there is no entitlement to any dividend prior thereto.
Registered shareholders who are residents of Canada and who are not currently participating in Corus' Dividend Reinvestment Plan ("the Plan") may elect to participate in the Plan through the completion of an enrollment form which can be obtained from the Company's plan administrator, TSX Trust Company, on their website at https://tsxtrust.com/ or by calling 1.800.387.0825. The Plan allows eligible holders of Class A Voting Shares and Class B Non-Voting Shares to acquire additional Class B Non-Voting Shares through reinvestment of the cash dividends paid on their respective shareholdings. Non-registered beneficial shareholders who are residents of Canada and who wish to join the Plan should consult their broker, financial institution or other intermediary through which they hold Class A Voting Shares or Class B Non-Voting Shares.
Corus' Board of Directors confirms that the Company will distribute shares purchased on the open market at no discount from the average market price to the Plan participants of record, as determined pursuant to the terms of the Plan.
There were 3,371,526 Class A Voting Shares and 196,493,632 Class B Non-Voting Shares outstanding on September 30, 2022.
Corus Entertainment Inc. reports in Canadian dollars.
Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX: CJR.B) is a leading media and content company that develops and delivers high quality brands and content across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company's portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 33 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital and streaming assets, animation software, technology and media services. Corus is an internationally-renowned content creator and distributor through Nelvana, a world class animation studio expert in all formats and Corus Studios, a globally recognized producer of hit scripted and unscripted content. The company also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, lifestyle entertainment company Kin Canada, leading 2D animation software supplier Toon Boom and children's book publishing house, Kids Can Press. Corus' roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, Magnolia Network Canada, The HISTORY® Channel, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX, along with broadly distributed Canadian streaming platforms STACKTV, TELETOON+, the Global TV App and Curiouscast. For more information visit www.corusent.com
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Lehigh County is one of 64 jurisdictions that will have monitors from the U.S. Justice Department today to ensure people’s voting rights are protected.
Staff from the department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices will be in 24 states today for the general election, part of the department’s regular monitoring of elections since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.
In addition to Lehigh, monitors will be in Philadelphia, and the counties of Berks, Centre and Luzerne.
The same locations were monitored by the department in the 2020 election as well.
Civil Rights Division staff are available all day on Election Day to receive complaints, which can be made by filling out a form on the department’s website here or by calling toll-free at 800-253-3931.
American With Disabilities Act complaints should be made via the department’s toll-free ADA information line at 800-514-0301 or 833-610-1264 (TTY), or via a form here.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A South Bay man was resentenced to 65 years in prison after his life term for first-degree murder in 2007 was thrown out because he was a minor at the time.
Leroy Mackey was 17 when he shot and killed Andre King in South Bay.
In 2015, the Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled that Circuit Judge Krista Marx should have taken his age into consideration. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that it is unconstitutional to sentence juveniles to life in prison with no chance for parole. Florida abolished parole several years ago.
Marx retired in 2021 and Circuit Court Judge Daliah Weiss sentenced him to the new term at the Palm Beach County Courthouse. Also a sentence review is to occur in 25 years, and he was credited with 5,717 days while in jail.
Wright, now 23, was convicted of shooting two men in a drive-by shooting on Aug. 12, 2007. One of the men died four days later. | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-the-glades/south-bay/south-bay-man-resentenced-to-65-years-for-murder-after-life-term-thrown-out-because-minor | 2023-04-06 00:32:37 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/news/region-the-glades/south-bay/south-bay-man-resentenced-to-65-years-for-murder-after-life-term-thrown-out-because-minor |
A port regulation adopted by Peru to combat illegal fishing by Chinese squid vessels appears to have backfired and driven the world’s largest overseas fishing fleet deeper into the shadows, increasing the risk of forced labor, according to new research.
Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day. The equipment, which tracks a vessel’s geographic position and fishing activity through a proprietary satellite communication system, sought to provide authorities with visibility into several hundred Chinese squid vessels that every year amass off the west coast of South America. With the support of Global Fishing Watch, a non-profit that encourages sustainable fishing, Peru joined a handful of countries making the information publicly available as well.
Decades of overfishing have pushed China’s fishing fleet farther from home. But its expansion to far-flung locations has been dogged by accusations of illegal fishing on the high seas, as well as instances of forced labor. It’s also drawn stiff criticism from the United States, which has made combatting illegal fishing a top priority and recently boosted efforts to monitor the Chinese fleet off the coast of South America.
Instead of increasing oversight, the new Peruvian regulations appear to have driven Chinese ships away from the country’s ports — and kept crews made up of impoverished Filipinos and Indonesians at sea for longer periods, exposing them to abuse, according to new research published by Peruvian fishing consultancy Artisonal.
Artisonal, in the r eport published on its website, found that only three of the 671 Chinese vessels authorized to fish in the eastern Pacific have installed the equipment.
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Meanwhile, port visits by Chinese vessels to Peru for maintenance, crew changes or to resupply have plummeted from over 300 in 2019 to just 21 last year. The bulk of the recent visits were the result of never before used and unspecified emergency requests — so called “forced arrivals” in Spanish — by ships lacking the at-sea monitoring devices. Instead of docking in Peru, some of the Chinese vessels appear to be making the long journey back to China between fishing seasons while others have moved to the Chilean port of Punta Arenas as an alternative logistical hub.
Relying on satellite tracking technology, Artisonal found that instead of offloading crew and restocking in Peru, the closest coastline to the fishing area, the vessels are staying longer at sea — what it says is a red flag for potential abuse of the roughly 16,000 crew members aboard the giant fleet. Before the port regulations, foreign squid vessels spent on average 10-12 months at sea but now the length of the typical fishing trip has increased to 18-24 months before returning to China, according to Artisonal.
“A crew member’s life in the open ocean does not depend on themselves but on the skipper,” said Eloy Aroni, one of Artisonal’s owners and author of the report.
Artisonal’s research cites the case of the Chang Tai 802. In August 2019, the vessel entered the Peruvian port of Chimbote to leave a crew member with a kidney infection that required emergency care. The Associated Press spotted the same vessel in July 2021 in the eastern Pacific as part of an investigation into the activities of the Chinese distant water fishing fleet, which numbers at least 3,000 vessels. During an at-sea encounter an Indonesian crew member screamed from the stern of the vessel “I want to go home.” Family members who hadn’t heard from their loved one for months expressed concern.
Instead, the Chang Tai 802 fished another year and finally returned to port, in China, in August 2022, according to Artisonal. After a brief visit, it returned to South America a month later.
The ship’s owner, Haimen Changtai Pelagic, did not respond to an email requesting comment.
Crews of several other vessels identified by Artisonal face similarly dire conditions, spending in some cases as long as three years at sea. To operate for such extended periods, giant support ships supply them with fuel and food while refrigerated cargo vessels haul their catch back to China.
China’s Agriculture Ministry, which regulates China’s fishing fleet, didn’t respond to a request for comment. Beijing in the past has said it has zero tolerance for illegal fishing and points to recent actions such as introducing a temporary moratorium every year on high seas squid fishing as evidence of its environmental stewardship. Those now criticizing China, including the U.S. and Europe, for decades raided the oceans themselves.
Aroni, who previously worked for Peru’s fishing industry, said the dramatic jump in previously unheard of “forced arrivals” last year was also a concern. He cited the case of the Zhe Pu Yuan 98, which was responsible for eight of the total 14 emergency landings recorded last year — each one lasting less than 24 hours. In the absence of additional information from Peruvian authorities, he said it was reasonable to suspect that the ship was taking advantage of the loophole to change crews. The ship’s owner, Zhoushan Putuo Deep-Sea, did not respond to an email requesting comment.
Not going to Peruvian ports allows the ships to avoid scrutiny not only of their labor practices but also potential safety risks as well as inspections for illegal fishing.
Juan Carlos Sueiro, an expert on fishing in Peru with the international conservation group Oceana, said that China’s fleet appears to be making a mockery of the new rules. He suggested Peru tighten regulations to make clear under what conditions foreign-flagged vessels can make “emergency” visits to ports in Peru.
“Activities that threaten the sustainability of resources are based on forms of modern slavery and are very dynamic,” he said in an interview. “Squid fishing is a case in point. The restrictions imposed by Peru for access to Peruvian ports has led the fleet to move to other ports, but above all by staying longer at sea, which further erodes crew members’ already precarious labor rights.”
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TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly lower Wednesday, as pessimism prevailed about higher interest rates ahead and Wall Street continued a late-summer slump.
France’s CAC 40 edged down 0.2% in early trading to 6,090.07, while Germany’s DAX shed 0.3% to 12,832.11. Britain’s FTSE 100 lost 08% to 7,242.88. U.S. shares were set to be little changed with Dow futures inching up less than 0.1% to 31,174.00. S&P 500 futures were up 0.1% to 31,171.00.
Shares fell in Tokyo, Sydney, South Korea and Hong Kong, but were little changed in Shanghai. Oil prices fell, while the Japanese yen continued to decline against the U.S. dollar to about 144 yen.
“The mood in markets is defensive ahead of key central bank decisions,” said Anderson Alves at ActivTrades.
Rising energy prices are adding to the worries about recessions in some parts of the world, he said.
In Japan, the government is giving 50,000 yen ($350) to needy families, to help cope with daily needs and energy prices in a move also designed to boost the lagging economy.
“The real solution to this inflation crisis obviously lies on the supply side, in terms of energy and other key goods. Yet that really takes us a step away from inflation-targeting and back towards an echo of how macro-stability was previously achieved,” according to RaboResearch.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.7% to finish at 27,430.30. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.4% to 6,729.30. South Korea’s Kospi slid 1.4% to 2,376.46. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped 0.8% to 19,044.30, while the Shanghai Composite was little changed, inching up less than 0.1% at 3,246.29.
China’s trade weakened in August as high energy prices, inflation and anti-virus measures weighed on global and Chinese consumer demand, and imports of Russian oil and gas surged, China’s customs data showed. Exports rose 7% over a year ago, decelerating from July’s 18% expansion, while imports contracted by 0.2%, compared with the previous month’s already weak 2.3% growth.
Demand for Chinese exports has softened as Western economies cool and the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks in Europe and Asia raise interest rates to contain surging inflation. Repeated closures of China’s cities to fight virus outbreaks has weighed on Chinese consumers’ willingness to spend.
The Federal Reserve has indicated it will not let up anytime soon on raising interest rates to bring down the highest inflation in decades.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell 78 cents to $86.10 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, fell 77 cents to $92.06 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 144.02 Japanese yen from 142.76 yen. The euro was little changed at 99 cents.
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Detective recovers $482,000 scammed from couple who were trying to buy a home
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Gray News) – A detective in California recovered $482,000 that was scammed from a couple last month, according to officials.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect impersonated a title company and successfully obtained a wire transfer from the victims as they were in the process of buying a new home.
When the victims realized they were defrauded, they immediately contacted their bank and law enforcement.
The sheriff’s office said after a thorough investigation and working with multiple financial institutions to try to intercept the wire transfer, Detective Matt Newton successfully recovered all the $482,000 that was scammed from the couple.
The sheriff’s office is commending Newton’s outstanding work.
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NY Albany NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, October 1, 2022
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677 FPUS51 KALY 020734
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FPUS51 KALY 020732
ZFPALY
Zone Forecast Product for Eastern New York and Western New England
National Weather Service Albany NY
332 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
NYZ033-022000-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Speculator and Indian Lake
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Cooler with highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder with lows in the upper 20s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. Light
and variable winds.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Light and variable
winds.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Cooler with highs in the mid 50s. Temperature falling into the lower
50s in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. A
chance of snow showers after midnight. Cooler with lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the morning,
then a chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
40s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
$$
NYZ052-022000-
Eastern Albany-
Including the city of ALBANY
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows
in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Cooler
with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ058-022000-
Western Greene-
Including the cities of Hunter, Tannersville, and Windham
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs around 60. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the upper 40s.
$$
NYZ065-022000-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds around 10 mph with gusts up
to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ041-022000-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs around 60. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with
lows in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows around 40.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ038-022000-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with
lows in the mid 30s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. South winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming
light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s. Light and variable winds, becoming northwest around 5 mph
in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows
in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
NYZ032-022000-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Colder with lows in the upper 20s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Cold with lows around 30. Northeast winds around 5 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Light and variable winds,
becoming north around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers. Cooler
with highs in the lower 50s. Temperature falling into the upper 40s
in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. A
chance of snow showers after midnight. Cooler with lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ042-022000-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Colder with lows in the upper 20s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows around 30. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Light and variable
winds, becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows
in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the afternoon.
Cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Cooler with
lows in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
NYZ083-022000-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. North winds around 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with lows in the lower
30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower
60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows
in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ043-022000-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. North winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Widespread frost after midnight. Cooler with lows in the
lower 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Sunny. Highs around 60.
North winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost after midnight. Cold
with lows in the lower 30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in
the lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ084-022000-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs around 60. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with
lows in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the lower 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows in
the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ082-022000-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Cooler with highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the mid 50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...A chance of snow showers in the morning. Mostly sunny
with a chance of rain showers. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent.
$$
NYZ039-022000-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph with gusts up
to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with
lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs around
60. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Cooler
with highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ040-022000-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with
lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs around
60. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph in the evening,
becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. Light and variable winds, becoming northeast around 5 mph
in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ047-022000-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the
mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Cooler
with highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ048-022000-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs around
60. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 40.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Cooler
with highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the upper 30s. Highs around 50.
$$
NYZ049-022000-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs around 70. Lows
in the upper 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
NYZ050-022000-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows around 40.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Cooler
with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ051-022000-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost after midnight. Cold with
lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cold with lows in the lower
30s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Cooler
with highs around 50. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ053-022000-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 60s. North winds around 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
mid 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Cooler
with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ054-022000-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost after midnight. Cooler
with lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Mostly sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cold
with lows in the lower 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Widespread frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of
showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs around 50. Chance of precipitation
30 percent.
$$
NYZ060-022000-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with
lows in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
NYZ061-022000-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds
around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with
lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
lower 60s. North winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs in
the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A 30 percent chance of showers. Cooler with lows in the
upper 30s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning. Cooler
with highs in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ059-022000-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds around
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s. North
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. North winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler with highs in the mid 50s.
$$
NYZ063-022000-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM EDT MONDAY...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 15 mph with gusts up to
30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Areas of frost after midnight. Cooler with lows
in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Areas of frost in the morning. Mostly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 50s. Northeast winds around 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the mid 40s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Cooler with lows in the mid 30s.
.SATURDAY...A chance of snow showers in the morning. Mostly sunny.
Cooler with highs in the lower 50s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
$$
NYZ064-022000-
Eastern Ulster-
Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows around 40. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. North winds around
5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Highs in
the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
NYZ066-022000-
Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
333 AM EDT Sun Oct 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in
the lower 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cooler with lows in the upper 30s.
Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
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National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
541 AM MDT Sun May 7 2023
TXZ418-080130-
Western El Paso County-
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Including the cities of Downtown El Paso, West El Paso,
and Upper Valley
541 AM MDT Sun May 7 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. West winds around 5 mph,
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increasing to southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
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15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear, breezy. Highs in the
upper 80s. Lows in the mid 50s.
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.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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TXZ419-080130-
Eastern/Central El Paso County-
Including the cities of East and Northeast El Paso, Socorro,
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and Fort Bliss
541 AM MDT Sun May 7 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southwest winds
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5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 80s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
$$
TXZ420-080130-
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Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains-
Including the cities of Hueco Tanks and Loma Linda
541 AM MDT Sun May 7 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the lower
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80s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 80s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight
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chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
TXZ423-080130-
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Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties-
Including the cities of Fabens, Fort Hancock, and Tornillo
541 AM MDT Sun May 7 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
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10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds around
5 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
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.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Clear. Highs in the upper 80s. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 50s. Highs in the lower 90s.
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.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
$$
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TXZ421-080130-
Salt Basin-
Including the cities of Cornudas, Dell City, and Salt Flat
541 AM MDT Sun May 7 2023
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.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
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$$
TXZ422-080130-
Southern Hudspeth Highlands-
Including the city of Sierra Blanca
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541 AM MDT Sun May 7 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
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.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows
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in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of
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rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of showers in the
evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight
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chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
$$
TXZ424-080130-
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Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County-
Including the city of Indian Hot Springs
541 AM MDT Sun May 7 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Northwest winds 5 to
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10 mph, becoming west 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds 5 to
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10 mph, becoming west in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Clear. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
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.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a slight chance of showers in
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the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Chance of rain 50 percent.
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Over a decade ago, about 100 people showed up to apply for the two beach lifeguard positions available in Brevard County, Fla., said Wyatt Werneth, who was the chief lifeguard at the time. This year, the number of applicants and open slots had somewhat flipped.
"With 50 positions to be filled in this open water environment, only two people came out for the initial training," Werneth told NPR.
Across the country, fewer people are up for the task to be water rescuers at their local public pools and beaches. The issue has been brewing for years, with poor pay and waning interest playing a part. The pandemic aggravated the situation.
Last summer, the stubborn shortage led to beach closures, shortened hours and slashed community programs. Werneth, who is also the spokesperson for the American Lifeguard Association, anticipates the same to happen this year — especially at public pools.
"We have over 309,000 public pools and we're looking at an impact of over 50% of them being closed or having a reduction in hours," he said.
The consequences can be fatal. According to the CDC, for children ages 5 to 14, drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death, mainly in pools, lakes, rivers or oceans.
Blame the end of Baywatch, and a halt on visas
There is a high bar to become a lifeguard — candidates have to be great swimmers, physically fit, responsible, as well as complete a series of trainings on CPR and first responder skills.
In the past, lifeguarding was considered an esteemed, prestigious career, but over the years, it has been viewed more as a part-time summer job, according to Werneth. He partly blames the declining interest on the end of the TV hit series Baywatch, which followed a group of attractive lifeguards heroically saving lives by the shore.
"I wanted to be a lifeguard because of Baywatch, Werneth said. "Everyone on that show was revered as adults, it was a career."
But over the years, pay has declined and people "just started looking at it as part-time summer jobs and it mirrored the same pay that waiting tables did," he said.
Another challenge for the lifeguard workforce has been visas. The industry has relied on thousands of people from Eastern Europe coming to the U.S. on J-1 visas to work as lifeguards. Early in the pandemic, many work visas, including the J-1, were put on pause by the Trump administration.
President Biden allowed this ban to expire in April 2021. But the pipeline hasn't caught up yet.
"The areas where [the visas] have been used in the past are getting them back," said Tom Gil, the vice president of the United States Lifesaving Association. "But there's a lot to be done on both ends of the spectrum between the applicant and the agency trying to hire."
Cities across the U.S. are scrambling to hire lifeguards
In New York City, roughly a third of the total number of lifeguards needed to staff its pools and beaches are currently filled, WNYC reported. The staffing issue comes after multiple incentives to bolster recruitment, including raising the hourly pay from $16.10 to $21.26 and offering a $1,000 bonus.
Meanwhile, in Houston, the mayor announced that the city's pools will open in three phases while officials work to hire and certify more lifeguards. In Denver, some senior citizens have stepped up to fill the shortage themselves. And in Philadelphia, the city began accepting applications from people without prior swimming experience.
How to keep yourself safe amid the lifeguard shortage
To some extent, the incentives have been working — slowly, Werneth said.
Meanwhile, he has three pieces of advice for people planning to enjoy the water this summer. First, check whether the pool or beach will have a lifeguard on the day of your visit.
Second, "if you have a group of people, assign a water watcher, kind of your own personal lifeguard for your group, someone that's going to not be distracted," he said. "You can have more than one and take turns."
Lastly, if someone does not know how to swim, make sure they don't go into the water without a Coast Guard-approved life jacket.
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Severe weather causes man to miss heart transplant
SEATTLE (KING) - The massive winter storm that slammed most of the continental U.S. caused a travel nightmare for people across the nation.
The wave of airline cancellations caused thousands of missed flights and countless missed family gatherings over the holiday weekend, but one man missed a chance on a new lease on life.
He needed to get to Seattle from Fairbanks, Alaska, for a heart transplant but wasn’t able to.
“It’s scary because your body says, ‘Let’s go, let’s go,’ and your heart says ‘no,” Patrick Holland said.
Holland, battling congestive heart failure, was put on the active transplant list three weeks ago.
“I can’t wait for the day when I get the transplant and I can enjoy life again,” he said.
He got a call Dec. 22 from UW Heart Institute that a heart for him was becoming available.
He had a rush of emotions, from sad for the person who is losing their life to scared.
“I moved on from scary to excited to the possibility of getting 10, 20 years, maybe even 30 years,” Holland said.
Holland says doctors in Seattle gave him an 8-hour window to get to the hospital, and he booked the next flight.
When he got to the airport, his overnight flight was canceled.
Alaska Airlines heard his story and put him on the next one but after 4 hours in the air, he heard an unexpected announcement.
“I heard the pilots say, ‘welcome to Anchorage,’” he said.
The flight had to be rerouted because of the ice storm grounding all flights at the airport in Seattle.
After three canceled flights in Anchorage, the window for a new heart closed.
“I think I cried more that day than I have in my life, and exerted every emotion that I’ve never had. To get out of that funk, I immediately said, ‘Thank God, there’s going to be a family that is saving someone’s dad, saving someone’s brother, saving someone’s, someone’s uncle, you know,’”
Holland is a father of seven. His children range from ages 3 to 36, and for them he is hopeful.
“I’ve had an amazing 17 years with a wife, and my kids and to be able to watch the next to graduate would be just phenomenal. I mean, it’d be a miracle, really tell the truth, it’ll be a miracle,” he said.
Holland says he will return to Seattle in a couple of weeks and stay so that he does not miss out on another chance for a new heart.
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There is value in the Right to Repair movement, but lawmakers need to make important distinctions to keep consumers safe
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research (ACI), a non-profit consumer education and research organization, launched a new initiative to keep American consumers and patients safe from potentially dangerously and incorrectly repaired medical equipment. The Safe Repair Project will help to educate and to advocate for sensible policy solutions that ensure patient safety remains at the forefront of the right to repair debate.
"Patient safety is non-negotiable," said Steve Pociask, President and CEO of the American Consumer Institute. "When you think of the 'right to repair' movement, most immediately think of repairing consumer electronics or farm equipment vital to many American's livelihoods. But when it comes to the repair of critical medical equipment, accountability should be the priority, not cost savings."
Pociask added, "Medical devices are complex machines that require expert training and federal oversight to conduct repairs and maintenance. But there is a lack of regulatory oversight on third-party servicers now, and expanding right to repair to include medical devices could jeopardize patient safety. We want to make sure policymakers understand the potential risks to patients if medical devices and surgical equipment are lumped into the same category as tractors and toasters."
The Safe Repair Project will endeavor to shed light on this important distinction in the right to repair debate and advocate for consumer-centric policies that ensure the welfare of consumers remains at the forefront of the United States policy.
Patient safety must be the foremost priority of the industries' efforts to innovate the sector. When there are lives at stake, there is no margin for error. With approximately 131.3 million emergency room visits occurring annually, it becomes an imperative to uphold maintenance and repair standards for the equipment employed in patient care. By lending support to this coalition, we can amplify our collective endeavors and significantly enhance the protection of the American people.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
News Summary
- Cisco Board of Directors declares quarterly cash dividend
- $0.38 per common share to be paid on October 26, 2022, to all stockholders of record as of October 5, 2022
- Previous dividend of $0.38 per common share paid on July 27, 2022
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced that earlier today its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.38 per common share to be paid on October 26, 2022, to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 5, 2022.
Cisco's previous quarterly dividend of $0.38 per common share was paid on July 27, 2022. Future dividends will be subject to Board approval.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several thousand workers at CSX will soon get one of the things that pushed the U.S. railroad industry to the brink of a strike last fall: paid sick time.
CSX announced a deal Tuesday with two of its 12 unions, becoming the first major railroad to offer that benefit that most U.S. workers take for granted.
About 4,000 track-maintenance workers in the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division union and another 1,000 mechanical workers in the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen union will get four days of paid sick leave as part of the agreements. The workers will also be able to convert three of their personal leave days into sick-leave days.
Quality-of-life concerns about the lack of paid sick time and demanding schedules that keep many rail workers on call 24-7 dominated contract talks with all the major railroads last fall. More than half of all the roughly 115,000 rail workers involved voted to reject five-year contracts that included 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses because of those concerns.
Ultimately, that contract was imposed on all the workers at CSX, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads after Congress and President Joe Biden stepped in to block a strike because of concerns about the potential dire economic consequences.
Tuesday’s deal is especially welcome to rail workers who remained frustrated after the contract was imposed because the new contract didn’t resolve most of their quality-of-life issues. Many workers say their jobs became unbearable after more than one-third of all railroad jobs were eliminated over the last six years as the railroads retooled their operations.
“It’s a beautiful thing because that’s what we’re fighting for,” said Matt Weaver, a BMWED member based in Toledo, Ohio. “Things are moving in the right direction. We just have to keep the momentum going.”
CSX CEO Joe Hinrichs said the agreements show that the railroad “is committed to listening to our railroaders and working with their representatives to find solutions that improve their quality of life and experience as employees.”
But the head of the union representing engineers said the deal doesn’t do enough to help railroad workers, especially for train crews.
“This agreement is a good start; however engineers are on call every day of the year and four paid sick days per year does not fulfill their needs,” said Eddie Hall, the newly elected president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. “Railroaders are essential workers, essential to keeping the supply chain moving, it’s essential that they be provided with adequate sick leave by all of the carriers.”
CSX, which is based in Jacksonville, Florida, and the other major freight railroads refused to offer paid sick time last fall because they said the unions had agreed over the decades to forego paid sick leave in favor of strong short-term disability benefits and higher pay. Railroad officials also said it was too late in the yearslong negotiations to work sick time into the deal.
“This paid sick leave agreement with CSX is certainly welcome but long overdue,” said Greg Regan, president of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department labor coalition that includes all the major rail unions. “We look forward to other rail crafts reaching similar agreements with CSX and other railroads following suit.”
All the other freight railroads promised to negotiate further with the unions about finding ways to improve their quality of life. Tuesday’s announcement is the first significant result of those talks.
There have been a couple other small encouraging signs of progress this year, with CSX announcing that workers would no longer be penalized for missing work for medical appointments, and Union Pacific launching a small scheduling pilot that’s giving a handful of engineers regularly scheduled days off.
BMWED spokesman Clark Ballew said the union expects the other major freight railroads to reach similar agreements on sick time, “otherwise, they look especially greedy now.” He said this agreement appears to be an effort by CSX to address the simmering concerns of its workers and sinking morale at the railroad. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-in-a-first-some-csx-railroad-workers-to-get-paid-sick-time/ | 2023-02-08 19:13:51 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-in-a-first-some-csx-railroad-workers-to-get-paid-sick-time/ |
A boil water notice for the City of Midland's water system has been issued.
Due to the recent water main break in the supply line from our ground source water and issues at the water plant, the City of Midland is not able to treat the water to standard specification. To limit risk, customers should follow the instructions contained in this release to all water, including RO water usage.
As a result of the boil water notice,
Customers should:
- Fill a pot with water.
- Heat the water until bubbles come quickly from the bottom of the pot to the top.
- Keep heating the water for one more minute.
- Turn off the heat source and let the water cool.
- Pour water into a clean, sanitized container with a cover for storage.
Customers should use boiled water that has cooled or bottled water for:
- Drinking
- Brushing teeth
- Washing fruits and vegetables
- Preparing food and baby formula
- Making ice
- Giving to pets
We will notify customers immediately once the advisory is lifted.
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Is gun violence an epidemic in the U.S.? Experts and history say it is
Six months into the year, more than 21,000 people have died because of gun-related injuries in the United States.
Doctors and public health officials have a word to describe the rising number of people killed or hurt by guns in recent years: epidemic.
“I would certainly consider the problem of firearm injuries and firearm violence as an epidemic in the United States,” said Patrick Carter, director of the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, whose research is partly funded by the National Institutes of Health.
“When we think about what the term epidemic means, it means a sudden increase in the numbers, or incidents, of an event over what would be considered a baseline level,” Carter told Morning Edition.
Since the mid-2000s, the United States has seen year-after-year increases in the number of deaths and injuries from guns “that would mirror what we would consider to be a sudden increase consistent with an epidemic,” Carter said.
The “epidemic” label and what it means
For those charged with protecting public health in the United States, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an epidemic is defined as a sudden outbreak or an unexpected spike in an illness in a single country or area. Because COVID-19 spread around the world, it was considered a pandemic.
The label — which has been applied to infectious diseases as well as things like opioid addiction — creates a sense of emergency or crisis.
The top public health official in the country, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, has long called the deaths and injuries from firearms an “epidemic.”
“Whenever you have a large number of people dying from preventable reasons that constitutes a public health crisis,” he told NPR’s Here and Now in January. “And that has been the case for gun violence, sadly, in our country for a long time.”
President Biden has also referred to the increase in gun violence in the United States as a “gun violence epidemic” several times, including on National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
So have doctors and health researchers.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research held a symposium in February titled “Addressing Gun Violence as a Public Health Epidemic.”
Experts at the symposium took an approach reminiscent of how health officials approach epidemics of disease. They discussed “expanding our lens beyond prosecuting gun crime to prevention, harm reduction and even culture-shifting.”
Gun deaths increased by 23 percent, from 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, to 2021, according to Pew Research Center.
The number of gun deaths in 2021, 48,830, was the largest on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The level of violence “most definitely is a public health emergency,” said Daniel Webster, an American health professor and director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy at Johns Hopkins.
“It is a leading cause of death for large segments of the population, including young people,” he said. “And it also has enormous impacts beyond fatalities that really affect mental health and well-being, even for those who are not directly shot.”
Numbers still high in 2023
Gun violence appeared to slightly ebb last year as the COVID-19 pandemic subsided. The final number of gun-related deaths in 2022 is still being tallied as places like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pull together numbers on suicides. There were an estimated 20,138 firearm deaths, excluding suicides, according to The Trace.
But gun violence continues to shake American life this year, especially during holidays when people are in large gatherings. There have been more than 300 mass shootings this year. And half of gun-related deaths this year were suicides.
Chicago was struck by gun violence over the Juneteenth and Memorial Day weekends, which both turned out to be some of the deadliest spans the city has seen in years, Sophie Sherry, Chicago Sun Times reporter, told Morning Edition.
Over the Juneteenth weekend 75 people were shot in the city and 13 people died.
“What the count is right now would be the most people shot in a single week,” Sherry said on the Tuesday after Juneteenth. “Memorial Day weekend was also one of the most violent since 2016 with 61 people shot here in the city. But unfortunately, obviously, this past weekend, we saw far more shootings than that.”
Over the same weekend, four people were shot in an apartment complex behind a church in Kellogg, Idaho; they all died from gunshot wounds. There were also mass shootings in California, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Washington state and Wisconsin.
The United States has been here, or close to it, before.
There were 14.6 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2021, which is the highest rate since the early 1990s, and just below the historic peak of 16.3 deaths per 100,000 people in 1974, according to Pew Research.
In the 1990s, the rise of gun deaths were also referred to as an epidemic by the National Institutes of Health.
In 1993, gun manufacturers increased the production of guns priced at $100 or less, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms slacked off, according to “The Role of Supply in 1980s and 1990s Youth Violence.” That year murders, with weapons such as guns, arson and poison, reached its highest point on record at the time.
The next year, the federal government doubled ATF law enforcement funding from $2 million to $4 million, which reinforced the Brady Background Check and reduced gun purchases, according to The Trace. As the 1990s unfolded, cheap gun manufacturers went out of business because of liability lawsuits, and gun suicide and murder rates decreased.
Taking the public health approach
“It is a public health issue. It mirrors every other public health issue that we’ve had in this country,” Carter said. “Like any other public health problem, it is possible to solve with data-driven solutions.”
Surgeon General Murthy said that viewing gun violence as a public health emergency will lead to more insight and data on the causes of violence and possible ways to curb it. Still, he’s resisting a push from the California Medical Association to publish a Surgeon General’s report on the hazards of gun violence similar to the major 1964 report on the dangers of smoking.
After declaring gun violence a “public health crisis” in 2016, the American Medical Association has regularly put forward ways to help bring down the number of deaths and injuries.
Most recently, in early June, it officially called for strengthening background checks and limiting the sale of multiple firearms. This allows more doctors to petition courts for protective orders for patients at risk of gun violence, and pushes social media companies to remove posts “glorifying firearm violence.”
Meanwhile, Webster says establishing purchaser licensing requirements reduces gun-related homicides, suicides and mass shootings.
He also suggests community violence intervention programs in low-income communities. These programs put individuals with “street credibility” in positions to promote non-violent alternatives to conflict.
Carter says identifying gun violence as an epidemic is just a step in the right direction to addressing the fatal problem in America, because it leads to thinking about how to use scientific and public health resources “toward addressing all facets of the problem.”
“I think it is an important label. But I don’t think it’s sufficient to address the problem,” Carter said. | https://whyy.org/npr_story_post/gun-violence-epidemic-suicide-mass-shooting-public-health-emergency-chicago/ | 2023-06-30 22:19:34 | 0 | https://whyy.org/npr_story_post/gun-violence-epidemic-suicide-mass-shooting-public-health-emergency-chicago/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sotheby's International Realty today announced the opening of Great Lakes Sotheby's International Realty, signifying the brand's continued growth in the state of Michigan. The addition marks the brand's seventh office in the state.
Great Lakes Sotheby's International Realty is owned and operated by Dean Groulx and Wendy Groulx, who bring more than 60 years of collective experience to the company. Headquartered in the city of Elk Rapids, the office will serve the greater Traverse City area in Michigan including Alden, Bellaire, Elk Rapids, Elk Lake, Lake Leelanau, North Port, Suttons Bay, Torch Lake, and Traverse City.
"Greater Traverse City has a robust luxury home market," said Philip White, president and CEO of Sotheby's International Realty. "It's become attractive for high-net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs and we're seeing both U.S. and international buyers purchasing primary and secondary homes in the area. Our continued growth in the state enables our brand to service this growing market and I look forward to supporting Dean, Wendy, and the entire Great Lakes Sotheby's International Realty team."
"The Traverse City area boasts a lifestyle and culture that few other places can match," said Groulx. "Our area has access to some of the largest and most pristine freshwater lakes and access to world-class entertainment and fine dining. Few real estate companies can match the background and experience of our brokers and sales associates, and our affiliation with Sotheby's International Realty will offer sellers and buyers in the greater Traverse City area an experience like no other thanks to its prestige, global presence, and marketing capabilities."
The company has plans for future growth in Alden, Bellaire, Traverse City, Northport, and Leelanau. Great Lakes Sotheby's International Realty was launched in partnership with Russ Post, owner/broker of Ocean Sotheby's International Realty.
The Sotheby's International Realty® network currently has nearly 26,000 affiliated independent sales associates located in over 1,000 offices in 81 countries and territories worldwide. Great Lakes Sotheby's International Realty listings are marketed on the sothebysrealty.com global website. In addition to the referral opportunities and widened exposure generated from this source, the firm's brokers and clients will benefit from an association with Sotheby's auction house and worldwide Sotheby's International Realty marketing programs. Each office is independently owned and operated.
Sotheby's International Realty
Sotheby's International Realty was founded in 1976 as a real estate service for discerning clients of Sotheby's auction house. Today, the company's global footprint spans more than 1,000 offices located in 81 countries and territories worldwide, including 51 company-owned brokerage offices in key metropolitan and resort markets. In February 2004, Anywhere Real Estate Inc. entered a long-term strategic alliance with Sotheby's, the operator of the auction house. The agreement provided for the licensing of the Sotheby's International Realty name and the development of a franchise system. The franchise system is comprised of an affiliate network, where each office is independently owned and operated. Sotheby's International Realty supports its affiliates and agents with a host of operational, marketing, recruiting, educational and business development resources. Affiliates and agents also benefit from an association with the venerable Sotheby's auction house, established in 1744. For more information, visit www.sothebysrealty.com.
The affiliate network is operated by Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates LLC, and the company owned brokerages are operated by Sotheby's International Realty, Inc. Both entities are subsidiaries of Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) a global leader in real estate franchising and provider of real estate brokerage, relocation and settlement services. Both Sotheby's International Realty Affiliates LLC and Sotheby's International Realty, Inc. fully support the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act.
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Biden’s inner circle thinks documents flap is mostly ‘DC elite’ making ‘DC noise’ as they prepare reelection run
By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN
President Joe Biden was planning to launch a campaign sometime in the period after his February 7 State of the Union address before word leaked about the documents found in his home — and that remains the plan, even as White House aides and his personal lawyers answer questions about who knew what when.
The plans haven’t changed, people familiar with the discussions say. The timeframe is the same.
The president and his close-knit inner circle of advisers — largely the same circle that was tight around him as he prepared to launch his 2020 campaign — are on public lockdown as they avoid saying anything to avoid tripping any legal issues. But, they still think that — barring some major and deeply damaging revelation — this will blow over in time.
In interviews with CNN, people around the president talk about the “DC elite” making “DC noise.” They argue that the attention to these documents may prove to be only the latest passing obsession, and that many of the questions they’re facing are from journalists and politicians who aren’t accepting that Biden is “honoring his promise to a T by upholding the rule of law and respecting DOJ’s process,” according to a Biden adviser.
By contrast, the adviser said, “It’s a matter of public record what Americans’ highest priority issues are — from polling, other research, and the most important poll: the midterms: The economy, cutting costs, fighting inflation, creating jobs, standing up for reproductive rights, fighting for gun reform,” adding that with Biden’s work and record, “the American people care a hell of a lot about all of that.”
Those around Biden with actual information aren’t laying their plans out to nervous donors or members of Congress, whom they know will turn around and talk publicly, and barely care about their complaints over being left out. They mock the political forecasters and the talk of “optics.” They keep private score of four years’ worth of critics whom they feel have fallen flat over and over and dismiss the idea that they’ve gotten so convinced by their own survival mythology that they always underplay whatever arises.
“Look back from shortly before the president launched his campaign to now, the accuracy rate of pundits’ negative predictions about him or his strategies is dismal,” said White House spokesman Andrew Bates, stressing that that he and others are taking the investigation seriously, but not the political talk around it. “Our MO, by contrast, has aged well: Tune out the noise, do the work, deliver; and remember that the president knows the American people and they know him.”
Asked how anything related to the documents investigations factors into the 2024 political or timing thinking for the people actually doing the thinking about it, Bates said, “It doesn’t.”
Chip on the shoulder attitude
Aides mix bitter sarcasm and exhausted jadedness as they mock advice that has come at them so many times before.
A White House official cited “a very inexhaustive list of issues that pundits have overstated the political impact of, saying they would either cost us the midterms, doom our agenda, cost us the 2020 election or some combination,” including how Biden couldn’t run a Covid-19-safe 2020 campaign, how he didn’t respond strongly enough to the Supreme Court decision striking down federal abortion rights, and when the midterms were predicted to be a disaster for his party and his agenda.
They send around old articles and clips of prognostications about all the times Biden was going to go down. News articles, full of advice from “allies” who never talk to the president or anyone who does talk to the president, get passed around in internal West Wing emails and text chains.
In part out of deliberate contrast to the daily melodrama that was the Trump White House, but mostly because the small circle of Biden’s closest advisers have all known each other for decades, neither the 2020 campaign nor the first two years of the presidency have had any significant leaks or backstabbing.
They are aware they’ve annoyed younger aides — and even seen some depart — because everyone in the White House knows there is an impenetrable ceiling for anyone outside of the small circle, who will always have the final word with the president. Even the lawyer representing Biden in the documents matter, Bob Bauer, is the same top lawyer from the campaign and the husband of trusted adviser Anita Dunn. Dunn is coordinating the communications strategy within the West Wing and among leaders on Capitol Hill while Bauer’s putting out the legal statements about what’s been discovered.
The people involved often delight in how frustrating their approach is to the contemporary political news cycle in Washington, smiling slyly at complaints and chuckling at people who tell them that they’re boring or complaints about their refusal to engage in questions about the process of how they came to their decisions.
“From the very beginning when he was running, you could see this resolve and calm consistency — even when things looked bad, he continued to press on,” said Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, the Delaware Democrat who has known Biden for most of her life and supported him from the beginning of his campaign.
Rochester said that the last time she spoke to Biden was when he called to check in at one point during the week-long balloting for House speaker. She didn’t ask him directly if he was running for reelection, but told him, “I’m there if you need me.”
“I hear you, kiddo,” she said Biden told her.
To anyone who thinks his plans might be thrown off, she said, “I would say, ‘You might not know Joe Biden.'”
Deliberate battles with Washington wisdom
No president ever has come in with more years and experience in the nation’s capital, but Biden continues not to do the standard Washington performative apologies in hastily arranged marquee interviews or push aides to take the fall for the sake of feeding a “reset” narrative.
White House aides see Biden’s nadir so far as August 2021, as just about everyone in the military and political establishment hammered him for how he ended the war in Afghanistan and footage of desperate people falling from the wheels of military planes went viral. They also point out that Biden neither backed down nor listened to the many calls for him to at least fire national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
When his legislative agenda fell apart — and then fell apart more in the fall and winter of 2021 — Biden never fully gave up on the bills, and he never dismissed White House chief of staff Ron Klain, even as top supporters in Congress like then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed their misgivings.
Both Sullivan and Klain are still in their jobs more than a year later. So is Steve Ricchetti, the top adviser to the president who was the vice presidential chief of staff at the end of the Obama administration, when any stray documents should have been accounted for. Ricchetti walked with Biden to Marine One at the end of last week to fly back to Delaware with him, where the president spent the weekend at the house where some of the documents were found.
Biden and his aides are treading carefully as the special counsel’s investigation gets started, arguing that — as frustrating as it is to be saddled with an issue in 2023 because of what may have been sloppiness in 2017 — the probe will eventually bear out that all the right steps were taken once they found the documents, including when they didn’t immediately disclose what was initially found. Any consideration of the short-term benefits of speaking up is weighed against the longer-term concern of inadvertently interfering or seeming to influence the legal process.
“I understand that there’s a tension between protecting and safeguarding the integrity of an ongoing investigation with providing information publicly appropriate with that,” was how Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House counsel’s office, put it on a call with reporters on Tuesday afternoon.
In the meantime, White House senior advisers would rather talk about success in fighting inflation than about the documents. They point to unemployment now at a 50-year low, and the drug price reductions kicking in from the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill which most had given up on until just before it passed last summer.
“President Biden has taken this matter seriously and shown leadership and respect for the law, which is what you want to see from a president,” said North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. “Ultimately, everyday people are focused on the issues that impact their daily lives — cutting costs, adding jobs, and protecting basic freedoms like women’s health and voting rights — and that’s where the Biden administration has had historic success.”
In that way, Cooper added, he hasn’t been surprised by the last week.
“President Biden has gotten where he is,” Cooper said, “by doing the right thing and keeping his focus on the issues people care about and the solutions that will make a difference.”
A contrast with Trump
Based on what is known so far, the situation Biden faces because of these documents is different in many ways from the White House documents found at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last year. There is less classified material known to be involved and it was returned voluntarily, rather than withheld in defiance of subpoenas.
A Biden 2020 campaign alum embraced that contrast, while also pointing out that for all the attention to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, there were no polls showing that to be a major voting issue in the midterms.
“Republicans are effectively defending a guy apprehended in a high-speed chase who then attacked the cops, and they’re going after a guy who self-reported a much less severe situation,” the alum said.
Biden’s team is moving forward confident that the president retains an inherent trust with many Americans who aren’t diehard Republicans, and that the combination of that faith and a deliberate, diligent approach will enable him to survive this situation like he’s survived others.
“Biden responds to these kind of DC pundit crises with an honesty and perspective that’s more in line with the average American,” said Greg Schultz, who was his campaign manager through most of the early primary efforts in the 2020 race but never joined the White House staff. “People like him, they feel that he’s trying to make some things better and they don’t get caught up in the stuff the DC elite do — and neither does Biden.”
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House to vote on stopgap bill to avert shutdown at end of the week
By Clare Foran, CNN
The House is expected to vote late on Wednesday to pass a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown at the end of this week with funding currently set to expire on Friday at midnight.
The stopgap measure will extend funding for another week — until Friday, December 23 — to give congressional negotiators time to finalize a broader, full-year government funding deal with new topline spending levels.
After the House approves the stopgap bill, the Senate will next need to take it up before it can go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The Senate could vote as soon as Thursday.
In a sign of progress, top negotiators announced Tuesday evening that an agreement had been reached for a framework that puts lawmakers on track to complete a sweeping full-year government funding package.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said in a statement that he and ranking Republican member Richard Shelby and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro “reached a bipartisan, bicameral framework that should allow us to finish an omnibus appropriations bill that can pass the House and Senate and be signed into law by the President.”
So far, however, negotiators have not provided many specifics about the agreement.
On Wednesday, Shelby said the top line is about $1.7 trillion, but would not elaborate. Shelby said the exact allocations to the different government agencies are still being negotiated.
Partisan dispute over spending bill
A bipartisan agreement for a full-year government funding deal has proven challenging to secure amid disagreement between the two parties over how much money should be spent on non-defense, domestic priorities.
Republicans are critical of recent domestic spending by Democrats and argue that measures Democrats have passed while they have been in control of both chambers of Congress, like a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill and a sweeping health care and climate bill, are wasteful and will worsen inflation.
Democrats counter by saying those measures were necessary to help the country recover from the devastating impact of the pandemic as well as to tackle other critical priorities. Democrats say that money to respond to Covid, health care and climate should not mean there should be less money next year for government operations and non-defense, domestic spending.
The announcement on Tuesday evening that a framework deal had been reached for a broader spending bill represented a breakthrough in negotiations, but there is still more work to be done now for lawmakers to finalize the fine print and the specifics of what the sprawling legislation will include.
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A recent article in the Courier-Post disclosed that among the 61 train cars that left the tracks, derailed or caught fire in East Palestine, Ohio, in February, five cars containing 900,000 pounds of toxic vinyl chloride were headed to the Oxy Vinyls plant in Pedricktown (Oldmans Township), Salem County.
As such, the train would have passed through my hometown, Woodbury, as well as other South Jersey towns between Camden and Pedricktown. Another sobering fact is that the East Palestine freight train overall had 149 cars — measuring 9,000 feet, or nearly two miles, long.
Operating trains that are this long is probably the least expensive way to move products by rail, but it’s not necessarily the safest way. If the trains were limited to 10 cargo-carrying cars, a worst-case derailment incident would involve 10 cars, not 61 or, God forbid, 149.
Some would say that reduced-length trains would affect the bottom line of shippers or end users. We ought to have a public dialogue to assess whether we want “cheap” or “safe” freight rail.
I never used to worry when tank cars, which are essential to the South Jersey economy, passed through town. Now, I worry.
Charles A. Hughes, Woodbury
Easier logistics would aid N.J.’s weed supply chain
As New Jersey’s cannabis market grows, the state is taking a smart, deliberate approach to growth. In addition to licenses for growers and retail dispensaries, New Jersey’s regulatory system offers separate “logistics” licenses for distributors wholesalers, and safe and secure transportation. As a leader in the cannabis transportation industry, Talaria appreciates this diligence and recognizes that New Jersey is a leader among states.
However, New Jersey’s supply chain also depends on local municipalities. Only around 100 of New Jersey’s 564 municipalities allow for the sale of recreational marijuana. Less than 50 permit the new logistics license types. The lack of local governments to willing to participate in this part of the cannabis marketplace could undermine the creation of a strong supply chain.
A limited patchwork of legality makes it challenging to build a reliable logistics and supply chain for the industry. Without a cohesive network of warehouses, wholesalers, distributors, and stores, the supply chain can be fractured. This creates a vacuum that fosters continued unlicensed distribution and delivery, maintaining a marijuana black market that undermines the entire industry.
Therefore, it is crucial to work together to build a safe and secure cannabis market in New Jersey. Local governments should build on the good of the state and participate in the industry to solidify the supply chain, and end the underground, black market delivery and sale of cannabis.
Ari Raptis, Philadelphia
Note: The writer is founder and CEO of Talaria Transportation LLC. Based in Newtown Square, Pa., it provides transportation, lab testing and financial services to the cannabis industry in 16 states.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the It Gets Better Project premiered a new original web-series called Industry, which takes a closer look at LGBTQ+ STEM professionals and the experiences that led them to careers within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Produced in partnership with the Howmet Aerospace Foundation, the series aims to inspire LGBTQ+ youth to consider exciting (and often overlooked) careers in STEM. The trailer and first episode are available to watch now at itgetsbetter.org.
Industry follows five LGBTQ+ professionals in the bioinformatics, immunology, neuropsychology, epidemiology, and engineering industries. Among them are Billy Jacobson, a Google coder whose drag alter ego Anna Lytical is known for her viral educational TikToks; Reiss Reid PhD, a British-Jamaican senior research scientist and t-cell immunologist; and Jiwandeep Kohli, a Doctoral Research Fellow in neuropsychology who is also an accomplished pastry chef and a semi-finalist from Season 4 of the Great American Baking Show.
"The first season of this series highlights five dynamic professionals who are changing the faces we typically see in STEM fields," said Eboni Munn, Director of Brand Marketing, Content and Creative at the It Gets Better Project. "Partnering with the Howmet Aerospace Foundation on this series is especially important to our demographic because it helps young LGBTQ+ people interested in STEM visualize new and exciting career paths to broaden their professional outlooks."
As with all original series from the It Gets Better Project, Industry will be accompanied by a free to access educational guide (EduGuide) to help foster and create opportunities for meaningful conversation around each episode. Industry follows the successful October release of the original series Queer Sex Ed and the Shorty, Telly, and Webby Award winning series Writing Our Own Dictionary, which highlights LGBTQ+ people and what their various labels and identities mean to them in their everyday lives.
Further information about Industry and the It Gets Better Project's work is available at www.itgetsbetter.org.
Launched in 2010 as the result of one of the most successful viral video campaigns in YouTube's history, the It Gets Better Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that strives to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ+ youth around the globe. The It Gets Better Project provides critical support and hope to LGBTQ+ youth around the world by leveraging the power of media to reach millions of people each year. Its origins in storytelling and media have expanded to include It Gets Better EDU, which exists to ensure educators and student leaders have access to It Gets Better series plus easy-to-use resources, information, and more wherever learning takes place, and It Gets Better Global, our Global Affiliate Network which can be found in 19 countries and in eight different languages.
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Regulatory Authorization Granted to Proceed with ATH434 Phase 2 Clinical Trial
MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) ("Alterity" or "the Company"), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing disease modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced the approval of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow evaluation of ATH434 in individuals with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), a rare and highly debilitating Parkinsonian disorder. The approval of this IND authorizes Alterity to conduct its Phase 2 clinical trial in the U.S.
"The FDA's acceptance of our IND to study ATH434 in individuals with MSA is another important milestone in the development of a much-needed treatment for this devastating condition," said David Stamler, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, Alterity. "We have been working closely with leading MSA physicians in the U.S. and expect to open our first clinical trial site for enrolment in the fourth quarter of this year. This complements our ongoing progress in other regions around the world."
The Phase 2 clinical trial is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled investigation of ATH434 in patients with early-stage MSA. The study will explore the effect of ATH434 treatment on neuroimaging and protein biomarkers, such as excess brain iron and aggregating α-synuclein, which are important contributors to MSA pathology. Clinical endpoints will permit comprehensive assessment of ATH434 efficacy along with characterization of safety and pharmacokinetics. The use of wearable sensors will allow evaluation of motor parameters that are important in patients with MSA. The study is expected to enroll approximately 60 adult patients to receive one of two dose levels of ATH434 or placebo. Patients will receive treatment for 12 months which will provide an opportunity to detect changes in efficacy endpoints to optimize design of a definitive Phase 3 study. Additional information on the Phase 2 trial can be found here: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05109091.
About ATH434
Alterity's lead candidate, ATH434, is designed to inhibit the aggregation of pathological proteins implicated in neurodegeneration. ATH434 has been shown preclinically to reduce α-synuclein pathology and preserve nerve cells by restoring normal iron balance in the brain. In this way, it has excellent potential to treat Parkinson's disease as well as various forms of atypical Parkinsonism such as Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). ATH434 successfully completed Phase 1 studies demonstrating the agent is well tolerated, orally bioavailable, and achieved brain levels comparable to efficacious levels in animal models of MSA. ATH434 has been granted Orphan designation for the treatment of MSA by the U.S. FDA and the European Commission.
About Multiple System Atrophy
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) is a rare, neurodegenerative disease characterized by failure of the autonomic nervous system and impaired movement. The symptoms reflect the progressive loss of function and death of different types of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. It is a rapidly progressive disease and causes profound disability. MSA is a Parkinsonian disorder characterized by a variable combination of slowed movement and/or rigidity, autonomic instability that affects involuntary functions such as blood pressure maintenance and bladder control, and impaired balance and/or coordination that predisposes to falls. A pathological hallmark of MSA is the accumulation of the protein α-synuclein within glia, the support cells of the central nervous system, and neuron loss in multiple brain regions. MSA affects approximately 15,000 individuals in the U.S., and while some of the symptoms of MSA can be treated with medications, currently there are no drugs that are able to slow disease progression and there is no cure.[1]
[1]National Institute of Health: Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Multiple System Atrophy Fact Sheet
About Alterity Therapeutics Limited
Alterity Therapeutics is a clinical stage biotechnology company dedicated to creating an alternate future for people living with neurodegenerative diseases. The Company's lead asset, ATH434, has the potential to treat various Parkinsonian disorders. Alterity also has a broad drug discovery platform generating patentable chemical compounds to intercede in disease processes. The Company is based in Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco, California, USA. For further information please visit the Company's web site at www.alteritytherapeutics.com.
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This announcement was authorized by David Stamler, CEO of Alterity Therapeutics Limited.
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