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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday that her government will not pursue any moves to change the country into a republic following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Ardern said she thought New Zealand will eventually become a republic, and it would probably happen within her lifetime, but that there were more pressing issues for her government.
The remarks were her first about the New Zealand republic debate since the queen’s death, and reflect previous comments she has made on the issue. Ardern has also previously expressed her support for the country eventually becoming a republic.
Under the current system, the British monarch is New Zealand’s head of state, represented in New Zealand by a governor-general. The governor-general’s role these days is considered primarily ceremonial.
Still, many people argue that New Zealand won’t fully step out from the shadows of its colonialist past and become a truly independent nation until it becomes a republic.
“There’s been a debate, probably for a number of years,” Ardern said. “It’s just the pace, and how widely that debate is occurring. I’ve made my view plain many times. I do believe that is where New Zealand will head, in time. I believe it is likely to occur in my lifetime.
“But I don’t see it as a short-term measure or anything that is on the agenda any time soon,” Ardern said.
She said that becoming a republic was not something her government planned to discuss at any point.
“As I say, in large part actually because I’ve never sensed the urgency,” Ardern said. “There are so many challenges we face. This is a large, significant debate. I don’t think it’s one that would or should occur quickly.”
The death of Elizabeth and ascension of King Charles III to the throne has revived the republic debate in many countries around the world.
Charles became the head of state not only in the United Kingdom and New Zealand but also in 13 other countries, including Canada, Jamaica and Australia.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese started laying the groundwork for an Australian republic after he was elected in May. But he said Sunday that now is not the time for a change but rather for paying tribute to Elizabeth. He previously said that holding a referendum on becoming a republic is not a priority of his first term in government.
Many people in New Zealand have speculated in the past that the republic debate would gather momentum only after the death of Elizabeth, given how beloved she was by so many.
Ardern said she didn’t link the two events. “I’ve never attached it in that way,” she said.
Elizabeth’s image features on many of New Zealand’s coins and banknotes. prompting the nation’s central bank to advise people the currency depicting her remains legal tender following her death.
Ardern also announced Monday that New Zealand will mark the death of Elizabeth with a public holiday on Sept. 26. The nation will hold a state memorial service on that day in the capital, Wellington.
Ardern said Elizabeth was an extraordinary person and many New Zealanders would appreciate the opportunity to mark her death and celebrate her life.
“As New Zealand’s queen and much-loved sovereign for over 70 years, it is appropriate that we mark her life of dedicated public service with a state memorial service and a one-off public holiday,” Ardern said.
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Wawa Celebrates Eagles Super Bowl With Free Coffee Giveaway
Hey, Eagles fans. There's one more reason to look forward to this Super Bowl Sunday.
In honor of the big game, Wawa is offering free coffee at South Jersey Wawas and all New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware stores this Sunday, Feb. 12, until kickoff at 6:30 pm.
Here are the terms of the deal: There's a limit of one per customer. The offer includes self-serve coffee up to 24oz.
"At Wawa, we've always had a special connection to our Philadelphia sports teams, and we get just as excited as our customers do when one of them is playing for a chance to win a championship," said Alex Costabile, Chief Customer Officer, in a press release. "So, in honor of this year's football team and to toast this championship game, we are thrilled to offer free any size hot coffee until kickoff to customers across PA, NJ and DE."
"At Wawa, we've always had a special connection to our Philadelphia sports teams, and we get just as excited as our customers do when one of them is playing for a chance to win a championship," said Alex Costabile, Chief Customer Officer, in a press release. "So, in honor of this year's football team and to toast this championship game, we are thrilled to offer free any size hot coffee until kickoff to customers across PA, NJ and DE."
Wawa is offering some other big game day specials, like $5 Shorti hoagies, $6 Classics, and $1 Wawa iced teas and drinks when you order through the app between. 10 to 12.
If you want to order catering, Wawa is offering 20% off with a promo code that will be in effect until Sunday, Feb. 12. | https://wpst.com/wawa-celebrates-eagles-super-bowl-with-free-coffee-giveaway/ | 2023-02-10 15:59:34 | 0 | https://wpst.com/wawa-celebrates-eagles-super-bowl-with-free-coffee-giveaway/ |
World-renowned hospitality brand continues partnership with country's leading anti-child trafficking organization by educating and engaging over 1 million high school students on risks
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hard Rock International announced it has signed the ECPAT Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct, the world's first and only voluntary set of business principles travel and tour companies can implement to prevent sexual exploitation and trafficking of children.
For several years, Hard Rock has implemented comprehensive protocols, trained over 27,000 hotel and casino team members globally, and collaborated with community partners and advocacy groups, in an effort to prevent human trafficking. Earlier this year, Hard Rock and ECPAT-USA launched the Social Identity Quest, a program designed to educate youth on self-protecting against the risks of being lured online. Today, Hard Rock and ECPAT-USA are proud to share the program has reached, educated and engaged over 1 million high school students across the USA.
"By signing the ECPAT Code, we are honored to play a role in helping strengthen our industry's response to human trafficking. Social purpose is the life of Hard Rock and our motto 'Take Time to be Kind' exemplifies our commitment to addressing and preventing sexual, labor and other forms of exploitation of children and vulnerable people, while supporting human rights," said Jim Allen, Chairman of Hard Rock International, who joined Marcellus W. Osceola Jr., Chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Lori L. Cohen, CEO of ECPAT-USA, and Harold F. Pryor, Broward County State Attorney to sign the Code. "Hard Rock team members around the globe remain committed to working with non-profit organizations, government officials and the communities we operate in to serve as an example within the hospitality and entertainment industry."
The ECPAT Code is a joint venture of the tourism and hospitality sectors and ECPAT-USA, the leading policy organization in the U.S. seeking to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The Code offers a framework for companies to establish policies and protocols, provide training, education and support to collaborate with allied services in local communities, such as survivor support groups and law enforcement.
Hard Rock's Social Identity Quest, with content developed by experts at ECPAT-USA and EduNetwork Partners, launched nationally in January 2022. The results from this innovative program show that we can increase students' online safety literacy by 13% on average, based on a learning evaluation.
"Effective education is essential for preventing exploitation and protecting young people so we partnered with Hard Rock to create the Social Identity Quest (SIQ), an educational quest game, to prompt student-driven conversations to reflect on online habits and emphasize healthy decision making," said Lori L. Cohen, CEO of ECPAT-USA. "More and more, exploiters are using social media to identify and contact young people. The fact that we have reached more than 1 million students across 45 states in a few months shows how valuable and urgently needed this program is."
Human trafficking disproportionately victimizes indigenous communities. Survey data from four regions across the US and Canada found an average of 40 percent of women involved in sex trafficking identified as indigenous or First Nations, despite representing only 10 per cent of the population in those places.
Given the strong demand for the program, Hard Rock and ECPAT-USA are exploring adapting it to support Indigenous American communities across the country, and working with ECPAT-Mexico to reach student populations in Mexico.
"To protect children and vulnerable people we must collaborate across law enforcement, state attorneys' offices, community groups and industry," said Harold F. Pryor, Broward County State Attorney. "We are happy to join Hard Rock, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and ECPAT-USA in their efforts to combat human trafficking here in South Florida and around the world."
Photo assets from the signing of the ECPAT Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct can be found here. For more information about ECPAT-USA and the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct, please visit www.ecpatusa.org. For more information about Hard Rock's social purpose and mottos, please visit: www.hardrock.com/living-our-mottos.aspx.
Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in 68 countries spanning 253 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Hotels, Casinos, Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world's largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 86,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. In 2021, Hard Rock was honored as one of Forbes Magazine's Best Employers for Diversity, a Top Employer for Women and the Top Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry. Hard Rock was also designated as a U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal and named the top performing hotel brand in J.D. Power's North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study for the third consecutive year in 2021. The brand is owned by HRI parent entity The Seminole Tribe of Florida. For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com or shop.hardrock.com.
ECPAT-USA is the leading anti-child trafficking organization in the United States seeking to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children through awareness, advocacy, policy, and legislation. ECPAT-USA is a member of ECPAT International, a network of organizations in 104 countries with one common mission: to eliminate the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children around the world. For more information, visit www.ecpatusa.org.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Drug prices in the US have been the subject of long and intense debate, as Americans spend on average over 200% more than their neighbors to the north in Canada. The high cost of drugs has forced many Americans into rationing medication or completely skipping doses, which can lead to severe health complications and can even be fatal.
Due to lower drug prices in Canada, the country has become a hot spot for pharma-tourism, where Americans can fill their prescriptions with massive discounts. Canada offers lower drug-pricing due to strict pricing regulation by both the federal and provincial governments on prescription drugs.
With PharmaGiant.com, Americans can avoid the long trip to Canada and securely order medication online with a prescription from their doctor while saving up to 90%.
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Pharma Giant has also partnered with doctors across the United States through a no-cost membership program that helps pass affordable drug savings onto their patients.
Millions of Americans fall into a drug coverage gap each year known as the "donut hole". This means their healthcare plan will stop covering drug costs which results in having to pay full-price for necessary medications. Pharma Giant is ideal for those who find themselves in this scenario, where getting access to affordable drugs is of crucial.
With a prescription from a doctor, patients can easily and securely order their prescription online and have it express shipped to their address in the US. Cold chain medications such as insulin are shipped in insulated containers with gel-packs so that quality is maintained throughout the delivery process.
Pharma Giant also offers bulk pricing discounts. For example, Humalog insulin, which normally retails for $362 in the US, can be purchased for $70 per vial or eight vials for $256. Additional savings can also be earned through newsletter promotions and by participating in the patient referral program which rewards patients with a $20 credit when they refer family & friends to the site.
With a prescription, Americans can easily & securely order prescription medication online through Pharma Giant (www.pharmagiant.com) or by calling toll-free at 1-888-513-2294.
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Tupelo’s basketball team has been spending Thanksgiving week putting itself through a meat grinder.
The Golden Wave (4-2) lost to two strong teams earlier this week at the Memphis Hoopfest: 74-57 to Memphis East on Monday, and then 88-84 in overtime to Olive Branch on Tuesday.
It gets no easier Saturday, when Tupelo battles Huntsville (Ala.) at the annual Lighthouse Classic in Corinth. Coach Robert Green hopes to see a more consistent Golden Wave on the floor.
“We can’t have too many dead periods or too many transitions without doing the right thing,” Green said. “You’ll have five trips doing exactly right, and then you’ll come down and do the next two trips and get off-script a little bit. That knocks you back.”
Green assembled a brutal early season schedule so that his team could learn those lessons quickly and get toughened up for division play. The Daily Journal’s No. 1-ranked squad has the pieces to make a deep playoff run, and this is the early prep work.
The Wave are led by Gavin Shannon (20.2 points, 8.5 rebounds per game), London Fields (17.5 ppg, 6.0 rpg) and Dayveun Anderson (18.8 ppg). Point guard Chris Crump will be out the next few weeks with a foot injury he suffered Monday.
Huntsville (5-2) is big all over the floor, with the likes of 6-foot-9 forward Caleb Harrison and 6-5 guard Simon Walker.
“As long as we’ve still got our three main guys, I’ll still put us on the court with anybody,” Green said.
Tupelo-Huntsville, which is slated for a 7 p.m. start, is one of eight games Saturday. The Lighthouse tips off today with seven games, including No. 2 Starkville versus Grissom (Ala.) at 4:30 p.m.
Other local teams in the field include Alcorn Central, Corinth, Kossuth, Pontotoc and Potts Camp.
As always, several elite prep schools will participate. Moravian Prep out of Georgia will battle Canada’s Ft. Erie International Prep today in the first Lighthouse Classic Challenge semifinal. The other semi features The Rock School, from Florida, against Colorado Prep.
“Definitely excited to get to play in the event, especially two years in a row,” Green said. “I know it’s an event where they’re not looking for good coaches, so to speak, they’re looking for good players and good teams.”
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The ashes of Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura in the original “Star Trek” television series and died in July, will be launched into space later this year.
Celestis, a private spaceflight company that works with NASA, will carry her ashes on a rocket set to travel 150 million to 300 million kilometers (about 93,000 million miles to 186 million miles) into space beyond the Earth-moon system and the James Webb telescope.
Nichols, one of the first Black women to have a leading role on a network television series, died at age 89 from heart failure.
As Uhura, the communications officer on the starship USS Enterprise, Nichols was not only a pioneering actor, but she was also credited with inspiring women and people of color to join NASA.
The United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is set to carry more than 200 capsules containing ashes, messages of greetings and DNA samples when it launches later this year from Cape Canaveral, Florida, into deep space.
Nichols’ son, Kyle Johnson, is providing a DNA sample to join his mother on the space journey. “My only regret is that I cannot share this eternal tribute standing beside my mother at the launch,” Johnson said in a statement.
Celestis said the rocket would launch into space and send a lunar lander toward the moon. It would then enter a stable orbit around the sun with the Celestis Memorial Spaceflight payload. At the end of the rocket’s powered burn and coast phase, the flight will become the Enterprise Station, which was named in tribute to “Star Trek.”
Some of the ashes of other “Star Trek” figures, and fans, will also be onboard the spaceflight.
They include Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” and his wife, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who played Nurse Chapel in the original series; James Doohan, who played Montgomery Scott, the chief engineer of the USS Enterprise; and Douglas Trumbull, who created visual effects for “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” as well as “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Blade Runner.”
Gene Roddenberry’s ashes have been sent to space several times before, including in 1997 on the first Celestis spaceflight to carry ashes. The cremated remains of Timothy Leary, an LSD advocate, were also onboard that journey.
For the Celestis spaceflight this year, the company is collecting tributes to Nichols from the public to be digitized and included in the flight.
After Nichols appeared on the original “Star Trek” series, which aired from 1966-69, she began a decadeslong association with NASA.
Starting in 1977, she helped promote the space agency and helped its efforts to recruit people from underrepresented backgrounds. NASA has credited her with inspiring thousands of women and people from minority groups to apply to the agency, including the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, and Charles Bolden, the NASA administrator from 2009-17.
Mae Jemison, who became the first woman of color to go to space in 1992, often said Nichols’ performance on “Star Trek” inspired her interest in the cosmos.
After Nichols’ death, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement that her “advocacy transcended television and transformed NASA.”
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Amber Alert issued for 3-year-old Texas girl
(Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for a 3-year-old Texas girl.
Lincy Guitry was last seen on Sunday at around 2:00 a.m. at her parents’ apartment complex in the 12800 block of North Borough Drive, Houston, Texas, according to the alert.
Lincy is described as having black hair and brown eyes, and is 3-feet tall. She was last seen wearing purple pajamas.
Authorities have identified the suspect as 50-year-old Holman Hernandez, according to the alert. He has black hair, brown eyes and is 5-feet, four-inches tall.
The Houston Police Department tweeted that the suspect was believed to be in a 2007 gray Nissan Xterra with Texas license plate number NKD7882.
Houston TV station KPRC reports that Hernandez’s vehicle has been located in Houston, though Lincy and Hernandez have yet to be found.
Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to immediately call the Houston Police Department at 713-308-3600 or dial 911.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LEADx, the leading behavioral change platform for leadership development, announced the launch of LEADx TeamView for Managers today.
This new feature gives managers one-tap access to team members' personalities, strengths, and work styles and advice on precisely individualizing their leadership behaviors to coach, grow and engage each direct report.
Whether you are trying to reduce turnover, battle "quiet quitting," or just want to maximize performance–managers are the key. In fact, according to Gallup 70% of the variance in employee engagement is tied back to the manager's behaviors.
But too often, managers take a "one size fits all" approach to leading their team. Even if a team undergoes a behavioral assessment, managers often forget their teammates' unique profiles, so they fail to individualize their leadership.
With LEADx TeamView and LEADx iNudge, organizations can turn all of their managers into legacy leaders.
"There's the old saying, average managers play checkers while great leaders play chess," said Kevin Kruse, CEO of LEADx. "Instead of moving all the pieces the same way, we need to learn how each piece moves. Individualizing our approach to leadership–knowing how to engage each unique team member–that's the only way to win the culture game."
The LEADx platform combines behavioral science, smart algorithms, and expert insights to dramatically improve leadership behaviors, employee engagement, and productivity. LEADx TeamView joins a suite of other powerful features including:
- LEADx iNudge: delivers hyper-personalized behavioral nudges that drive employee engagement
- LEADx Big 5: the most widely used and validated personality model in the world unlocks deeper levels of self-awareness
- LEADx CAT Scan (Culture Analysis Teams): manager effectiveness survey measuring 12 key engagement-driving behaviors
To learn more about how to put the power of personality and individualized leadership literally into your managers' hands, visit LEADx.org.
Founded in 2017, LEADx is the only mobile-first leadership development platform that scales training and sustains habits with a unique combination of nudges, micro-coaching, micro-learning, and assessments. The LEADx platform is designed for today's busy professionals: anywhere, anytime, on-demand. LEADx is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and helps emerging and experienced leaders at organizations like Estes Trucking, Northwestern Mutual, Biohaven, Deltek, and IAT Insurance Group. To learn more, visit www.leadx.org.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's health care authorities declined to include Pfizer's COVID-19 treatment drug in a national reimbursement list that would have allowed patients to get it at a cheaper price throughout the country, saying it was too expensive.
Paxlovid, an oral medicine developed by New York-based drugmaker Pfizer, has been widely sought after in China since the country began phasing out its “zero-COVID” restrictions and a surge of infections started sweeping through the country. Although it is supposed to be prescribed by medical professionals, that hasn't stopped people scrambling to purchase it on their own through any means at their disposal — including buying generic Indian versions of the drug through the internet, according to local media reports.
Health care policymakers can leverage bulk purchases to lower prices in negotiations with pharmaceutical companies that, in turn, can net a steady source of revenue. A drug must be included on the reimbursement list to be covered by the national insurance scheme. China will include two other COVID-19 drugs: the Chinese-made antiviral Azvudine and the Chinese herbal blend medicine Qingfei Paidu Granules, said the National Healthcare Security Administration in a statement Sunday.
Paxlovid will still be available for use for those patients who can afford it. Paxlovid and Azvudine are prescription drugs used to prevent mild COVID-19 cases from becoming more severe.
While the Chinese government has blocked the import of non-Chinese-made vaccines like the Pfizer mRNA shot, relying on domestically made vaccines, it nonetheless approved the company's COVID-19 drug for import in February 2022.
The country is grappling with a major COVID-19 wave, as the virus has swept through major cities like Beijing and Chengdu. Sunday marked the first day in almost three years that visitors would no longer have to quarantine when traveling into China.
The Bay Area took a brief break from powerful winter storms before rain began to fall again Sunday night. Residents prepared for more battering on Monday and Tuesday. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Pfizer-s-Paxlovid-not-included-in-China-s-17704109.php | 2023-01-09 09:28:24 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Pfizer-s-Paxlovid-not-included-in-China-s-17704109.php |
What can local government do when residents are dealing with problems they believe stem from a neighbor’s overgrown property?
The answer is complicated, and often frustrating, as Woodland Drive resident Eileen Richards has learned.
Richards brought her case to the Zachary City Council Tuesday, pleading for help with what she said has been a years-long ordeal of trying to get someone to do something about an abandoned property next door to her home of 40 years.
“It has become a forest,” she said.
Richards has repeatedly contacted local officials about her concerns, she said, and many have even visited to take a look for themselves. Yet the property still looks the same.
“They can see it’s a mess — a complete mess,” she said. “And I’m overrun by wild animals coming onto my property.”
She has seen raccoons, opossums, rats and snakes.
“I can’t buy anything to take care of my property as far as mulch or dirt to fill in my flowerbeds,” Richards said. “I come home and it’s scattered everywhere because these wild animals are getting into it.”
“I shouldn’t have to live within the city limits and put up with this,” she added.
Mayor David Amrhein said the city has already sent letters to the property owner about the issue. As for the animal problems, he said Richards needs to call East Baton Rouge Parish animal control officers.
She said she has already done that.
“The animal control people said, ‘No, that’s a city problem.’ So I’m just thrown back and forth and back and forth, and my husband and I are too elderly to deal with this anymore,” she said. “It’s just gone beyond reason.”
Some of the complications on the city’s end relate to its rules regarding grass cutting.
“We don’t have an ordinance that says you need to clear-cut your property,” said city inspector Scott Masterson. “A lot of the yard now is not grass. It’s brush. It’s tallow trees. … There’s nothing that we can say to go cut.”
Masterson said the city sent another letter in late July to the property owner via registered mail. No one has signed for the letter yet, nor has the post office indicated the letter is undeliverable, he said.
“I am wasting my time here,” Richards said, returning to her seat in the audience. “But thank you anyway.”
She then picked up her things and walked out of the council chamber.
“That doesn’t bother y’all — the way she left out of here?” Councilman Lael Montgomery asked his fellow council members.
“If we can’t fight for our seniors,” he added, “then I don’t know why I’m here.”
Amrhein responded that the city’s hands are somewhat tied at this point.
“I don’t think from a legal perspective … that you can stop people from growing trees,” he said.
City Attorney John Hopewell noted that Richards’ home is near a large wooded area, making it difficult to prove the neighbor’s property is the sole source of her trouble with wild animals.
“It’s still on the radar, but there’s very little that we can do,” Hopewell said.
Also on Tuesday:
- Amrhein agreed to have the city study the possibility of adding stop signs on Rollins Road where it meets Ada Street, which would create a three-way stop. Montgomery brought up the issue, saying drivers routinely speed near that intersection, which is near Zachary High School.
- The council agreed to issue a subpoena to a Joan Street resident who has junk vehicles on her property and has not responded to two letters ordering her to remove them. A second subpoena regarding junk vehicles was on the agenda too, but the owner of that property, located on New Weis Road, was at the meeting and agreed to get rid of the vehicles.
- Demetric Hunter, who is organizing a fall festival, is seeking help running children’s activities and with the cost of putting on the event. The festival will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 31 at the Zachary Community Park.
- City planner Bryant Dixon said the city will observe Flood Awareness Week Aug. 29 to Sept. 2. Displays with information to help people protect themselves and their properties during floods will be set up at the local library and at city offices. | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/zachary/article_b531b928-2406-11ed-a4ae-9b186e6c276c.html | 2022-08-25 08:33:54 | 1 | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/zachary/article_b531b928-2406-11ed-a4ae-9b186e6c276c.html |
BOISE — West Nile virus has now been detected in mosquitoes in Ada County, at two locations, for the first time this year, prompting warnings to drain standing water and take measures to prevent being bitten by infected mosquitoes.
The Ada County Mosquito Abatement District announced the findings on Friday morning. The mosquitoes that tested positive for the virus were at North Five Mile Road and West Nazareth Way in Boise; and at East Deer Flat Road and South Cloverdale Road in Kuna.
West Nile virus is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito, and not from person to person. It first showed up in Idaho in 2003; in 2006, Idaho led the nation with nearly 1,000 cases and 23 deaths.
"We strongly encourage Idahoans to take measures against biting mosquitoes," Dr. Leslie Tengelsen, state public health veterinarian for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, said this week in a press release. "These include wearing insect repellent and protective clothing and reducing standing water around gardens and homes where mosquitoes can lay their eggs.”
Last year, West Nile virus infections were reported in 16 people, 15 horses and two birds in Idaho, and contributed to two human deaths. Eight of those human cases were of the dangerous neuroinvasive form of the virus, which can cause disability and death.
Virus detections in mosquitoes reached historically high numbers in Ada County in 2021, with 107 positive tests at 53 trap locations between July 27 and Sept. 15, according to the Ada County Mosquito Abatement District.
In 2020, Idaho saw six human West Nile virus infections and no deaths, but five of the six were of the dangerous neuroinvasive type of the virus. That included three residents of Ada County, one in Gem County and one in Gooding County.
In 2019, Idaho reported 13 symptomatic human cases of West Nile virus, including five patients who suffered from the neuroinvasive disease.
In 2018, Idaho had 16 cases, and 10 were neuroinvasive disease, according to the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare.
From 2003 to 2019, Idaho had 1,382 human infections, of which nearly 20% were classified as neuroinvasive. A total of 30 Idahoans died from West Nile over that time.
In addition to people, horses and birds can be infected with West Nile virus. There’s a vaccine for horses; there isn’t one for humans.
The Ada County Mosquito Abatement District advises residents to take these preventive steps:
• Drain or dump standing water weekly. For example, dump standing water from flowerpots, planter bases, bird baths, toys, cans, rain gutters, pet dishes, buckets, and old tires.
• Ensure that screen doors and windows are tight-fitting and good condition.
• Avoid overwatering your lawn and landscape.
• Limit outdoor activities during dusk and dawn to prevent mosquito bites. Those are the times when the mosquitoes that transmit WNV are most active.
• Dress in long-sleeve shirts and long pants, preferably in light colors when recreating outdoors during dawn and dusk.
• Apply insect repellent following label instructions.
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Trump answers questions for 7 hours in NY fraud lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump answered questions for nearly seven hours Thursday during his second deposition in a legal battle with New York’s attorney general over his company’s business practices, reversing an earlier decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and remain silent.
The Republican met all day with lawyers for Attorney General Letitia James, who sued Trump last year. Her lawsuit claims Trump and his family misled banks and business associates by giving them false information about his net worth and the value of assets such as hotels and golf courses.
Shortly after Trump entered the Manhattan skyscraper that houses James’ offices, his attorney, Alina Habba, said he was “not only willing but also eager to testify.”
“He remains resolute in his stance that he has nothing to conceal, and he looks forward to educating the Attorney General about the immense success of his multi-billion dollar company,” Habba said in a statement.
The lawsuit is unrelated to the felony criminal charges filed against Trump by the Manhattan district attorney, which led last week to his historic arraignment, the first for a former president.
In a social media post Thursday morning, Trump called the suit “ridiculous, just like all of the other Election Interference cases being brought against me.”
He raised a fist as he left his apartment at Trump Tower in the morning, arriving by motorcade at the attorney general’s office around 9:40. The two sides took a break for lunch. Trump departed in the motorcade just before 6:15 p.m. and did not stop to speak to reporters.
James declined to answer a question about the deposition at a news conference on an unrelated matter Wednesday.
Trump previously met with James’ lawyers Aug. 10, but refused to answer all but a few procedural questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights more than 400 times. At the time, James had not yet brought her lawsuit and it was unclear whether questions about the way Trump valued his company would become the basis of a criminal case.
“Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool,” he said in that deposition, which was recorded on video and later released publicly. Trump predicted a “renegade” prosecutor would try to make a criminal case out of his answers, if he gave them.
“One statement or answer that is ever so slightly off, just ever so slightly, by accident, by mistake, such as it was a sunny, beautiful day, when actually it was slightly overcast, would be met by law enforcement at a level seldom seen in this country, because I’ve experienced it,” he said.
Circumstances since then have changed. The criminal charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney focused on how the company accounted internally for payments to a lawyer, Michael Cohen, for his work paying off people not to go public with stories about extramarital sexual encounters Trump said never happened.
The lawsuit James brought is scheduled to go to trial in October. Video recordings of Trump’s depositions could potentially be played at the trial, if the lawsuit is not settled.
Thursday’s deposition was conducted in private.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork on Monday declaring his campaign for president in 2024, setting up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House ended with an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Pence fleeing for his life.
Pence, the nation’s 48th vice president, will formally launch his bid for the Republican nomination with a video and kickoff event in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, which is his 64th birthday, according to people familiar with his plans. He made his candidacy official Monday with the Federal Election Commission.
While Trump is currently leading the early fight for the nomination, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis polling consistently in second, Pence supporters see a lane for a reliable conservative who espouses many of the previous administration’s policies but without the constant tumult.
While he frequently lauds the accomplishments of the “Trump-Pence administration,” a Pence nomination in many ways would be a return to positions long associated with the Republican establishment but abandoned as Trump reshaped the party in his image. Pence has warned against the growing populist tide in the party, and advisers see him as the only traditional, Reagan-style conservative in the race.
A staunch opponent of abortion rights, Pence supports a national ban on the procedure and has campaigned against transgender-affirming policies in schools. He has argued that changes to Social Security and Medicare, like raising the age for qualification, should be on the table to keep the programs solvent — which both Trump and DeSantis have opposed — and criticized DeSantis for his escalating feud with Disney. He also has said the U.S. should offer more support to Ukraine against Russian aggression, while admonishing “Putin apologists” in the party unwilling to stand up to the Russian leader.
Pence, who describes himself as “a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” has spent months laying the groundwork for an expected run, holding events in early voting states like Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire, visiting churches, delivering policy speeches and courting donors.
Pence’s team sees Iowa and its evangelical Christian voters as critical to his potential path to victory. Advisers say he plans to campaign aggressively in the state, hitting every one of its 99 counties before its first-in-the-nation caucuses next year.
The campaign is expected to lean heavily on town halls and retail stops aimed at reintroducing Pence to voters who only know him from his time as Trump’s second-in-command. Pence served for more than a decade in Congress and as Indiana’s governor before he was tapped as Trump’s running mate in 2016.
As vice president, Pence had been an exceeding loyal defender of Trump until the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump falsely tried to convince Pence and his supporters that Pence had the power to unilaterally overturn the results of the 2020 election.
That day, a mob of Trump’s supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol building after being spurred on by Trump’s lies that the 2020 election had been stolen. Many in the crowd chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” as Pence, his staff and his family ran for safety, hiding in a Senate loading dock.
Pence has called Trump’s actions dangerous and said the country is looking for a new brand of leadership in the 2024 election.
“I think we’ll have better choices,” he recently told The Associated Press. “The American people want us to return to the policies of the Trump-Pence administration, but I think they want to see leadership that reflects more of the character of the American people.”
Pence has spent the 2 1/2 years since then strategically distancing himself from Trump. But he faces skepticism from both anti-Trump voters who see him as too close to the former president, as well as Trump loyalists, many of whom still blame him for failing to heed Trump’s demands to overturn the pair’s election defeat, even though Pence’s role overseeing the counting of the Electoral College vote was purely ceremonial and he never had the power to impact the results.
Pence joins a crowded Republican field that includes Trump, DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, U.S. Sen Tim Scott of South Carolina, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to launch his own campaign Tuesday evening in New Hampshire, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will announce his bid Wednesday in Fargo.
With Trump, a thrice-married reality star, facing skepticism among some Republicans during his 2016 run, his pick of Pence as a running mate assuaged concerns from evangelical Christians and others that he wasn’t sufficiently conservative. As vice president, Pence refused to ever criticize the former president publicly and often played the role of emissary, trying to translate Trump’s unorthodox rhetoric and policy proclamations, particularly on the world stage.
After Trump’s legal efforts to stave off defeat of the 2020 election were quashed by courts and state officials, he and his team zeroed in on Jan. 6, the date that a joint session of Congress would meet to formally certify President Joe Biden’s victory. In the weeks leading up to the session, Trump engaged in an unprecedented pressure campaign to convince Pence he had the power to throw out the electoral votes from battleground states won by Biden, even though he did not.
As the riot was underway and after Pence and his family were rushed off the Senate floor and into hiding, Trump tweeted, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done.” Video footage of the attack shows rioters reading Trump’s words aloud and crowds breaking into chants that Pence should be hanged. A makeshift gallows was photographed outside the Capitol.
Pence has said that Trump “ endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day” and that history will hold him accountable.
Despite his harrowing experience, Pence opposed efforts to testify in investigations into Trump’s actions on and in the lead-up to Jan. 6. He refused to appear before the House committee investigating the attack and fought a subpoena issued by the special counsel overseeing numerous Trump investigations, though he did eventually testify before a grand jury.
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Just keep swimming: SoCal study shows sharks, humans can share ocean peacefully
LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’re gonna need a bigger … drone.
That’s right, “Jaws” fans. Researchers at California State University, Long Beach-based Shark Lab used drones to study juvenile white sharks along the Southern California coastline and how close they swim to humans in the water.
Turns out, it’s pretty close. Almost within the bite radius.
Still, it’s safe. There were no reported shark bites in any of the 26 beaches surveyed between January 2019 and March 2021, according to the Shark Lab.
The juvenile white sharks mostly grouped together in two locations — in southern Santa Barbara County and central San Diego County — the researchers discovered through roughly 1,500 drone flights over the two years. Adult white sharks are generally solitary animals.
In those two spots, the juvenile sharks swam near humans on 97% of the days surveyed, the researchers wrote in a paper published Friday. The sharks often swam within 50 yards (45.72 meters) of the wave breaks — closest to surfers and stand-up paddle boarders.
“Most of the time water users didn’t even know the sharks were there, but we could easily see them from the air,” said Patrick Rex, a Cal State Long Beach graduate student who led the study.
The researchers confirmed that surfers, swimmers and sharks can coexist peacefully but “we never expected to see so many encounters every day with no incidents” of bites, said Chris Lowe, a marine biology professor and the Shark Lab’s director.
“It’s not just about sharks, it’s about people,” Lowe said. “This study may change people’s perception of the risk sharks pose to people that share the ocean with them.”
So just keep swimming.
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Expanded IRS free-file system one step closer in Dems’ bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The flagship climate change and health care bill passed by Democrats and soon to be signed by President Joe Biden will bring U.S. taxpayers one step closer to a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system.
It’s something lawmakers and advocates have been seeking for years. For many Americans, it’s frustrating that beyond having to pay sometimes hefty tax bills, they also have to shell out additional money for tax preparation programs or preparers because of an increasingly complex U.S. tax system.
“It’s definitely something we should do, and when the IRS is adequately resourced, it’s something that will happen,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at a June Senate Finance Committee hearing.
And now that the IRS is set to receive nearly $80 billion through the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” the agency has the means to develop new systems to help Americans pay their taxes. The legislation passed Congress on Friday.
Several hurdles stand in the way. Even in a best-case scenario, it will likely take years to get a new, free system up and running. There’s also pushback from commercial tax preparation companies, which question whether Americans want the IRS to prepare their taxes.
Perhaps this biggest hurdle is an agreement between the IRS and some commercial tax preparation companies, known as the Free File Alliance, which prevents the federal agency from creating its own free tax return filing system. In short, the IRS agreed not create its own filing system if companies would instead provide free services to taxpayers making $73,000 or less.
This program, though, has been marred with controversy, with commercial firms misrepresenting their services and low taxpayer participation rates.
The Government Accountability Office in April reported that while 70% of taxpayers were eligible for services through the Free File Alliance, only 3% of taxpayers actually use the service. The watchdog recommended the IRS find new free filing options before the Alliance expires in October 2023.
With the funding in the bill, the IRS has an opportunity to create a new system.
Included is a provision that allots $15 million to the IRS to make plans for a free direct e-file tax return system. Those plans would have to be developed within nine months and would include cost estimates for creating and administering a system. They would also require public input.
There are also legislative attempts to move this effort along.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in July resubmitted a bill called the Tax Filing Simplification Act that would require the IRS to create its own free online tax filing service and move away from its partnership with private online tax preparation companies.
“I’ve been pushing for a free tax filing system for years, and now the IRS is on the verge of having significant funding to modernize its IT systems, which means it’s time to develop simplified filing tools laid out in my Tax Filing Simplification Act,” Warren told The Associated Press.
“Americans spend too much time and money to file their taxes, and the IRS should adopt these proposals to help millions of Americans file taxes and claim refunds.”
At her Finance Committee appearance, Yellen called for a new system.
“There’s no reason in the world that a modern economy shouldn’t have a system that makes it easy for such a large group of taxpayers to file their returns,” she said.
Vanessa Williamson, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, said “if the IRS moves forward with a free product, it could save lower-income families the money they used to give to H&R Block or TurboTax.”
“Tax prep companies are notorious for tricking tax filers into paying for services they should be getting for free,” Williamson said, “so an IRS free file service would be a very welcome step that would save Americans money.”
In 2019, ProPublica wrote about Intuit’s TurboTax and H&R Block Inc.’s efforts to mislead taxpayers away from the federally supported free services for which they qualified. And in May, New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a $141 million settlement with Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc., which had to pay restitution to some taxpayers.
Intuit withdrew from the Alliance in July 2021, stating in a blog post that the company could provide its benefits without the Free File Alliance’s limitations. H&R Block withdrew from the partnership in 2020.
“Most Americans don’t want the tax collector to also serve as the tax preparer,” said Derrick L. Plummer, a spokesman for Intuit.
“The IRS already has a core mission that it needs to focus on, and creating a new system would cost billions of taxpayer dollars and jeopardize the financial freedom of millions more,” he said. A spokesperson for H&R Block did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
Ideas for what a government run free-file program might look like are already being studied.
Bruce Sacerdote, a Dartmouth economist, has examined systems in other countries in which taxpayers don’t have to enter much data on their electronic forms because the government has already done so.
“The IRS has tremendous amounts of information on wages and dividends,” he said, adding that a government-supported tax filing system “could be a wonderful thing.”
Such systems are used in Germany, Japan and other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries that collaborate to develop policies that promote economic growth.
“As a taxpayer, there could be a great benefit to pre-population,” he said. “Filing taxes is enormously time-consuming. Given all the information has on taxpayers, the IRS could they simply send you a completed return.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For the economy, 2022 was a throwback year. And not in a good way.
At times, it felt like the 1970s or early ’80s. Inflation running rampant. The United States and its European allies engaged in a not-so-Cold War with Russia. A bleak outlook leaving people feeling sour and anxious.
It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this.
When the Federal Reserve’s policymakers made their 2022 forecasts a year ago, they seemed almost cheery. After two years of tumult ignited by the pandemic, they foresaw the U.S. economy returning to something close to normal.
They expected consumer inflation to reach 2.6% at the end of 2022 compared with 12 months earlier. That would’ve been only a few ticks above their 2% annual target but nothing ominous — and a clear recovery from high inflation earlier in 2021.
The Fed’s officials, it turns out, underestimated how pay increases, federal aid, supply shortages and a pent-up desire by consumers to spend would conspire to accelerate inflation — and keep it high. But mainly they didn’t foresee that President Vladimir Putin would send tens of thousands of Russian troops to invade Ukraine in February this year — an act of shocking aggression that upended world trade in energy and farm products and sent oil, natural gas and grain prices soaring.
“Without that Russian invasion,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, “we’d be in a very different place today.”
Normal would have to wait.
U.S. inflation, an afterthought for decades, resurged with a vengeance this year, reaching heights unseen since the early 1980s. Galloping prices shrank Americans’ inflation-adjusted pay — despite high wage growth for many — and put consumers in a foul mood. The price spikes forced the Fed to raise interest rates aggressively at the risk of plunging the world’s largest economy into recession.
It was hardly just the United States. Inflation buffeted countries across the world. The International Monetary Fund expects worldwide inflation to hit 8.8% this year. That would be the highest rate since 1996.
Europe has been especially pummeled by Putin’s energy shock. Consumer prices are rising at double-digit rates across the continent and the United Kingdom. The spending power of consumers has been crushed. Many see a European recession in 2023 as a near-certainty.
As the year ends, though, it looks like relief may be coming — tentatively, gradually, perhaps, but still likely on its way. Inflation numbers in Europe and especially in the United States are edging down.
“I think we’ve seen the peak in inflation; it was probably back in the summer,’’ Zandi said. “We will see much better inflation numbers over the course of the next 12 to 18 months.’’
Yet for now, the pain of higher prices continues to inflict hardships on many. For American workers, inflation-adjusted hourly pay fell 1.7% in November from a year earlier. It was the 20th straight month that that figure has declined year-over-year.
And even though overall inflation in the United States eased in November for a fifth straight month, food prices kept surging. Compared with 12 months earlier, coffee was up 15%. Bread rose 16%, frozen vegetables 18%, canned fruit 21% and eggs an eye-glazing 49%.
Businesses large and small are struggling to contain the higher costs and to determine whether and by how much they can pass their higher costs on to their customers as higher prices.
Wayne Shumar, who owns Pepperronnies Family Restaurant in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, became so exasperated with inflation that he posted his receipts for shredded lettuce and tomatoes on his restaurant’s Faceook page. Those prices had doubled in six months.
To save money, Shumar has shifted from using one vendor to four. He scans each of their websites for the best deals before placing an order. He also picks up orders himself to avoid vendors’ fuel surcharges.
“Before I spent more time out in the dining room,” Shumar said. That’s what a family restaurant entails. Now I spend more time sitting here, looking at a computer screen, trying to keep costs down.”
Likewise, Logan’s Roadhouse, a chain of 136 restaurants, is contending with a 28% increase in premium sirloin prices. It expects those prices to surge an additional 20% early next year.
“We are constantly evaluating the cut of meat,’’ said Josh Kern, CEO of Logan’s parent company, SPB Hospitality. “Are there recipe changes that we can do?”
In another cost-cutting move, Logan’s switched from premium-priced waffle fries to straight-cut fries. (So far, diners haven’t rebelled.) Butter is up 42% from a year ago. So Kern’s company is negotiating with butter vendors.
The chain is now making its own macaroni and cheese instead of buying it from a manufacturer.
“We looked at everything in the pantry, and we could make just as good macaroni and cheese, ” Kern said.
Pucker Up Lemonade, which sells drinks at its stand in Compton, California, and at festivals and convenience stores, used to buy its refillable cups from a local vendor for $1 each. Now, those cups are $2.50. The owner, Karneisha Christian-Stewart, is preparing to buy them from China, having calculated that she could save $15,000 on a bulk order of 10,000 cups.
“I’ve never imported before,’’ Christian-Stewart said. “I have to do that because the cost savings is a lot for a small business.’’
John Catsimatidis, who owns the New York supermarket chains Gristedes and D’Agostino’s, complains that beef and chicken cost about 30% more than they did a year ago. Fish prices are up even more.
Inflation’s unexpected and unwelcome re-emergence in 2022 wasn’t the only wild turn the economy has taken since early 2020.
First, COVID-19 brought economic activity to a sudden halt as businesses shut down or reduced hours and consumers stayed home as a health precaution. In the United States, the economy imploded: It contracted at a record annual rate of more than 30% from April through June 2020. Employers wiped out a staggering 22 million jobs in March and April 2020.
The Fed and other central banks slashed rates, and governments delivered huge economic stimulus through spending programs. The result was a stunning rebound. Flush with government aid, consumers, especially in the United States, splurged on furniture, appliances, exercise equipment, video games and other manufactured goods.
The sudden burst of spending caused shortages, delayed shipments and higher prices. Companies recalled many of the workers they’d laid off in early 2020. Yet they still couldn’t hire fast enough to keep up with customer orders. Many of them sharply raised wages to try to attract and keep workers.
Consumer prices began to tick up in the spring of 2021. But Fed Chair Jerome Powell suggested that higher inflation was likely “transitory’’ and would ease once global supply chain bottlenecks unsnarled.
Yet month after month, the supply shocks refused to fade. Sometimes, bizarre incidents intervened. A surprise freeze in Texas paralyzed petrochemical production. A mammoth container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal and severed trade between Asia and Europe. A drought in Taiwan disrupted semiconductor manufacturing. An avian flu wiped out a near-record number of poultry.
Those factors combined to send inflation steadily up toward multi-decade highs well into 2022.
“Some of this stuff you can’t make up,’’ said Daniel Swan, co-leader of the operations practice at the consultancy McKinsey & Co. “I don’t know what normal is anymore.’’
Worst of all, Putin invaded Ukraine and blew up global energy and food markets.
In response, the Fed has raised its benchmark rate seven times this year, most recently on Wednesday. Its key rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, is now at its highest level since 2007.
The Fed intends the higher rates to slow the economy enough to bring high prices under control without tipping the economy into a recession — a notoriously difficult maneuver to achieve.
At least supply chains are gradually working out their kinks as demand for manufactured goods slows. Many ports, which had strained under backlogs at the start of 2022, are operating normally again. Lower shipping costs alone are likely to shave half a percentage point off global inflation, Simon MacAdam, senior global economist at Capital Economics, has estimated.
The official inflation numbers are looking better. The U.S. government reported this week that American consumer prices rose 7.1% last month from a year earlier — still high but a big improvement. Year-over-year price increases peaked at 9.1% in June and have slowed every month since.
Even the 10% inflation last month in the 19 countries that share the euro currency was down from 10.6% in October. The United Kingdom’s government reported that annual inflation dipped to a still-painful 10.7% last month from 11.1% in October.
Oil prices have plunged since early November, easing prices at the pump. A gallon of unleaded gasoline cost an average $3.19 on Thursday, down from $5.02 in mid-June, according to AAA.
All that said, the fight against inflation is hardly over. Some economists worry that worker shortages will endure, especially in labor-dependent services businesses, thereby keeping upward pressure on wages and prices.
Inflation has been shifting from goods to services, where it is typically more intractable. According to the inflation gauge the Fed favors — the government’s personal consumption expenditures price index — services prices were up a brisk 0.4% in October and 0.6% in both September and August.
“Inflation is very likely to have peaked and will be lower in 2023 than it was in 2022,’’ said Jason Furman, a Harvard economist who was a top adviser to President Barack Obama. “The problem is that ‘lower’ could mean 3% or 4%, which would still be too high for the Fed. And lower is happening in part because the economy is weakening.’’
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D’Innocenzio reported from New York. AP Business Writer Dee-Ann Durbin contributed from Detroit. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-high-inflation-and-efforts-to-tame-it-defined-2022-economy/ | 2022-12-15 19:09:18 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-high-inflation-and-efforts-to-tame-it-defined-2022-economy/ |
UVALDE, Texas (KETK/NEXSTAR) — Police in Uvalde, Texas, are investigating a shooting at the Uvalde Memorial Park on Thursday night, where police say people were injured. The Texas city has remained in international headlines since May 24, when 21 people — including 19 children — were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School.
According to a Facebook statement on Thursday, officers responded to a call around 5:30 p.m. The public is asked to avoid the area as the investigation continues.
Controversy has pervaded in Uvalde, which has about 16,000 residents, in the months following the school shooting, which is the third-deadliest in U.S. history. Questions about response time and actions of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department led to national outrage and the August 24 firing of police chief Pete Arredondo.
NOTE: While Thursday’s shooting happened in Uvalde, police have not given any indication of relation to the Robb Elementary School shooting. The Texas Department of Public Safety said Thursday the shooting is suspected to be gang-related, though that information is preliminary.
Uvalde Memorial Park is about 1.3 miles away from Robb Elementary, which is scheduled to be demolished.
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Trump sat in dining room for hours on Jan. 6: ‘The president didn’t want anything done’
Then-President Trump sat in the West Wing’s dining room for more than 2½ hours after being informed of the violence raging at the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to evidence presented at Thursday’s congressional hearing on the insurrection.
“There is no official record of what President Trump did while in the dining room. ... The chief White House photographer wanted to take pictures because it was, in her words, ‘very important for his archives and for history.’ But she was told, quote, ‘no photographs,’” said Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.).
Trump was informed of violence at the Capitol within 15 minutes of leaving the stage after his speech at the Ellipse on the morning of Jan. 6. He then proceeded to remain in his dining room from 1:25 p.m. to 4 p.m. The White House call log during this time was empty as well, Luria said.
The House select committee investigating the violence said that Trump spent at least part of the time calling senators “to delay or object to the certification of votes.” It’s unclear which senators he called, Luria said. Trump also had a four-minute phone call with his campaign lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
While in the dining room, Trump made no phone calls to the National Guard, Department of Defense, FBI, Homeland Security, Secret Service or Capitol Police regarding the insurrection at the Capitol, according to evidence presented by the House committee.
The House committee also presented audio testimony from an anonymous former White House employee, who said: “The president didn’t want anything done.”
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Conditional Marketing Authorization in EU Granted for Kinpeygo®
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "On July 15th the European Commission issued the conditional marketing authorization for Kinpeygo, which marked the first time that any drug has achieved approval for this rare disease in EU. We immediately started the process of transferring the market authorization to our European partner, STADA Arzneimittel AG, in order to enable a launch in Europe as quickly as possible. STADA is initially launching the product in Germany, with other European countries to follow over time.
With approval and commercial efforts now ongoing in both the US and Europe, we are looking forward to the regulatory process in China, where our partner, Everest Medicines, expects to receive NDA acceptance notice from NMPA this quarter. We are excited to support Everest as they work with regulators in China, who are expected to reach a decision regarding a potential approval in the second half of next year. If Nefecon is approved, this would be the first and only approved medication for the by Everest estimated 5m biopsy-proven IgAN patients in China.
In the US, we continue to build on our early commercial success. Net sales from TARPEYO grew by 94% when compared to Q2, resulting in net sales from TARPEYO of SEK 123.4 million ($12.1m) for Q3. There is a growing number of nephrologists choosing to prescribe TARPEYO, with 166 new prescribers added in Q3, bringing total unique prescribers to 480 at the end of the quarter. We continue to see a continuous build of interest which mirrors the natural cadence of nephrology visits, which aligns with our expectations regarding this fairly silent, progressive disease. We expect to achieve net sales from TARPEYO for the year of between $35 - 40m, which aligns with our internal plans for 2022. We also expect to see significant continued growth in 2023 as nephrologists become more familiar with the clinical data, access becomes more streamlined, and as topline data from the Part B of the NefIgArd trial becomes available.
We were delighted to be able to have the Part A data published in Kidney International in October, 2022, as regulators also posted their review assessments. This data set, showing increasing reduction of proteinuria across the entire patient population during the 9 months on drug as well as significant continued reduction of proteinuria across the entire study population in the following 3 months when no drug was administered, showing a highly differentiated profile. The significance of this data was further confirmed by countless interactions at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week in early November, where we had the opportunity to engage not only with KOLs but with the broader nephrology community treating IgAN patients."
CEO Renée Aguiar-Lucander
Summary of Q3 2022
July 1 - September 30
- Net sales amounted to SEK 260.1 million, whereof TARPEYO® net sales amounted to SEK 123.4 million, for the three months ended September 30, 2022. For the three months ended September 30, 2021 net sales amounted to SEK 198.2 million and no TARPEYO net sales were recognized.
- Operating profit/(loss) amounted to (SEK 36.2 million) and SEK 7.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
- Earnings/(loss) per share before and after dilution amounted to (SEK 0.17) and SEK 0.21 for the three months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
- Cash amounted to SEK 736.2 million and SEK 1,163.8 million as of September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Significant events during Q3 2022, in summary
- In July 2022, Calliditas announced that the European Commission (EC) granted conditional marketing authorization for Kinpeygo for the treatment of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) in adults at risk of rapid disease progression with a urine protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR) ≥1.5 g/gram. Kinpeygo is an orphan medicinal product and became the first and only approved treatment for IgAN in EU. Kinpeygo will be marketed in the European Economic Area (EEA) exclusively by STADA Arzneimittel AG. Subsequently, in September 2022, Calliditas transferred its Market Authorization for Kinpeygo to it European commercial partner, STADA Arzneimittel AG, who will initially launch in Germany, with additional European countries to follow.
Investor Presentation November 14, 2022 14:00 CET
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About Calliditas
Calliditas Therapeutics is a commercial stage biopharma company based in Stockholm, Sweden focused on identifying, developing and commercializing novel treatments in orphan indications, with an initial focus on renal and hepatic diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Calliditas' lead product, developed under the name Nefecon, has been granted accelerated approval by the FDA under the trade name TARPEYO® and conditional marketing authorization by the European Commission under the trade name Kinpeygo®. Kinpeygo is being commercialized in the European Union Member States by Calliditas' partner, STADA Arzneimittel AG. Additionally, Calliditas is conducting a Phase 2b/3 clinical trial in primary biliary cholangitis and a Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial in head and neck cancer with its NOX inhibitor product candidate, setanaxib. Calliditas' common shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: CALTX) and its American Depositary Shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (ticker: CALT).
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including, without limitation, statements regarding Calliditas' strategy, commercialization efforts, business plans, regulatory submissions, clinical development plans, revenue and product sales projections or forecasts and focus. The words "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "project," "potential," "continue," "target," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and important factors that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, including, without limitation, any related to Calliditas' business, operations, continued and additional regulatory approvals for TARPEYO and Kinpeygo, market acceptance of TARPEYO and Kinpeygo, clinical trials, supply chain, strategy, goals and anticipated timelines, competition from other biopharmaceutical companies, revenue and product sales projections or forecasts and other risks identified in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Calliditas' reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Calliditas cautions you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Calliditas disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any such statements to reflect any change in expectations or in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release represent Calliditas' views only as of the date hereof and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date.
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Ko Im always thought she would live in New York forever. She knew every corner of Manhattan and had worked hard to build a community of friends. Living in a small apartment, she found her attitude shifting early in the coronavirus pandemic. After her brother accepted a job in Seattle in the summer of 2020, she decided to move there too.
“It was fine until it wasn’t,” Im, 36, said of her time in New York. “The pandemic really changed my mindset about how I wanted to live or how I needed to live.”
Eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. lost population during the first year of the pandemic, with New York, Los Angeles and Chicago leading the way. Between July 2020 and July 2021, New York lost more than 305,000 people, while Chicago and Los Angeles contracted by 45,000 residents and 40,000 people, respectively.
San Francisco suffered the largest rate of decline, losing almost 55,000 residents, or 6.3% of its 2020 population, the highest percentage of any U.S. city.
The population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau capture a time early in the pandemic and don’t reflect changes since last summer. Whether the virus has permanently altered the urban landscape of America remains an open question.
Brookings Institution demographer William Frey said he believes the population declines in most of the largest U.S. cities from 2020 to 2021 have been “short-lived and pandemic-related.”
Among the 10 largest U.S. cities, only San Antonio and Phoenix gained new residents, but they added only about 13,000 people each, or less than 1% of their populations, according to the bureau’s 2021 vintage population estimates.
Justin Jordan’s move to Phoenix a year ago was motivated by a job offer paying him more money than the one in Moundsville, West Virginia, where he had been living. He has had to adjust to temperatures of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) and unwieldly traffic.
“I love the weather, the atmosphere, and all the stuff to do,” said Jordan, 33, a senior operations manager for a business services firm.
Among the largest U.S. cities, Austin and Fort Worth in Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Columbus, Ohio also registered modest population gains.
In March, the Census Bureau released estimates for metro areas and counties showing changes from mid-2020 to mid-2021. The estimates released Thursday offer a more granular perspective. For instance, the March data showed metro Dallas had the largest population gain of any metro area in the U.S., adding more than 97,000 residents, but Thursday’s estimates show the city of Dallas lost almost 15,000 residents. The growth occurred in Dallas suburbs like Frisco, McKinney and Plano.
Reasons for population changes vary from city to city, driven by housing costs, jobs, births and deaths. The pandemic and the lockdown that followed in spring 2020 made living in a crowded city less appealing for a time, and those who could leave — workers who could do their jobs remotely, for example — sometimes did.
Daniel Akerman, a New York real estate agent, said the Census Bureau data, which don’t go past July 2021, fail to capture how people have returned to the city in the past year. He said real estate transactions have skyrocketed and available rental apartments have dropped.
“People have definitely returned to the city. There are a lot more people on the streets,” Akerman said. “In July 2021, people were still guarded about COVID and a lot of that has gone away. People are a lot more free. They are out and about, going to restaurants.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams has made it a priority to get New Yorkers back to the city and recently launched a campaign to try to lure Floridians to New York following passage of legislation in the Sunshine State forbidding instruction on sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade, said Fabien Levy, the mayor’s press secretary. New Yorkers historically have been the largest domestic source of new Floridians.
“With job growth faster than the rest of the nation, an economy on the rise, a reduction in crime, and more accepting practices than Florida and other states, New York City is a welcoming and accepting place for all,” Levy said in an email.
When it came to growth rates, as opposed to raw numbers, the fastest-growing cities with populations of at least 50,000 residents were in the suburbs of booming Sunbelt metro areas. They included Georgetown and Leander outside Austin; the town of Queen Creek and the cities of Buckeye, Casa Grande and Maricopa, outside Phoenix; the city of New Braunfels, outside San Antonio; and Fort Myers, Florida. They had growth rates of between 6.1% and 10.5%.
As metro Austin has grown by leaps and bounds, so has Georgetown, located more than 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the Texas capital, said Keith Hutchinson, the city’s communications manager. The city grew by 10.5%, the most in the nation last year, and now has 75,000 residents.
“It’s not really a surprise,” Hutchinson said. “People are moving here for jobs.”
The estimates also showed population declines of 3% to 3.5% in New Jersey cities outside New York, such as Union City, Hoboken and Bayonne. Similar declines occurred outside San Francisco in Daly City, Redwood City and San Mateo, as well as Cupertino in Silicon Valley.
Lake Charles, Louisiana, which was devastated by Hurricane Laura in 2020, lost almost 5% of its residents, the second-highest rate in the U.S. behind San Francisco.
Though the Category 4 storm was the driver there, elsewhere, the pandemic created opportunities to move. Andrew Mazur, 31, had been wanting for some time to leave Philadelphia for South Florida where he grew up, and the chance to work remotely in his job at a large professional services firm arrived in November 2020. He joined almost 25,000 residents who left Philadelphia between 2020 and 2021.
Although he now needs a car to get around, Mazur loves golfing every weekend and going to the beach. He recently moved out of his parents’ home, getting his own apartment in Fort Lauderdale. He made the move official three weeks ago by obtaining a Florida driver’s license.
“I’m not going back. It has been great,” Mazur said. “Philly, New York, Chicago — tons of people from there are moving down here.”
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BAODING, China, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The HSBC BWF World Tour Finals 2022 took place in Bangkok, Thailand on December 7. As an official partner, GWM provides green commuting services for athletes and staff from different countries with its new energy vehicles (NEVs) the HAVAL H6 HEV and the HAVAL JOLION HEV.
The event wrapped up this year's world tour of the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The top eight global players with the highest points, including singles and doubles, competed in the Finals. The tight schedule brings an exciting visual enjoyment for sports fans and audiences. Two NEVs, the HAVAL H6 HEV and the HAVAL JOLION HEV, were designated as official vehicles for the Finals, offering innovative, intelligent, and comfortable rides for the participants. GWM's vehicles of green commuting and the wonderful experience of rides won wide recognition from global athletes and staff.
As the brand's star products in global markets, the HAVAL H6 HEV and the HAVAL JOLION HEV were launched to fulfill users' needs in different parts of the world. After hitting many markets worldwide, they have realized continuous growth in sales. Equipped with leading intelligent technologies and personalized entertainment systems, they offer a cozy and safe experience for drivers and passengers, thus winning global popularity. From January to November 2022, GWM sold more than 120,000 NEVs. The two models have won the first place of sales in each segmented market. Particularly in Thailand, where the event was held, the HAVAL H6 HEV has championed in sales in the C-class SUV segment for ten consecutive months, with its market share rising to 30.8% in October.
The brand shows continuous vitality in targeting users with different interests. By supporting the development of diversified sports, it combines sports spirit with product experience, advocating a green, sports-integrated, and healthy lifestyle with global users by catering to their preferences.
For example, GWM sponsored Red Bull Quicksand and Rugby World Cup Sevens in the South African market, offering opportunities for users to experience intelligent and fashionable products. In the Australian market, it cooperated with World Surf League and sponsored the IRONMAN Western Australia, presenting a young and vital brand image for local customers. In addition, it also supported Pulse, a women's netball tournament in New Zealand, the Downhill Race in Chile, and other games with local characteristics, which attract users to get test drives.
GWM clarified its globalization concept "to be user-oriented" at the 2022 Overseas Conference. Insisting on that, the company will create more green and intelligent products, and hold activities that suit regional cultures, serving global users' needs for various scenarios and customization.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving one step closer to developing a central bank digital currency, known as the digital dollar, saying it would help reinforce the U.S. role as a leader in the world financial system.
The White House said on Friday that after President Joe Biden issued an executive order in March calling on a variety of agencies to look at ways to regulate digital assets, the agencies came up with nine reports, covering cryptocurrency impacts on financial markets, the environment, innovation and other elements of the economic system.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said one Treasury recommendation is that the U.S. “advance policy and technical work on a potential central bank digital currency, or CBDC, so that the United States is prepared if CBDC is determined to be in the national interest.”
“Right now, some aspects of our current payment system are too slow or too expensive,” Yellen said on a Thursday call with reporters laying out some of the findings of the reports.
Central bank digital currencies differ from existing digital money available to the general public, such as the balance in a bank account, because they would be a direct liability of the Federal Reserve, not a commercial bank.
According to the Atlantic Council nonpartisan think tank, 105 countries representing more than 95% of global gross domestic product already are exploring or have created a central bank digital currency. The council found that the U.S. and the U.K. are far behind in creating a digital dollar or its equivalent.
Treasury, the Justice Department, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies were tasked with contributing to reports that would address various concerns about the risks, development and usage of digital assets. Several reports will come out in the next weeks and months.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers have submitted various pieces of legislation to regulate cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
The director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, told reporters that “we’ve seen in recent months substantial turmoil in cryptocurrency markets and these events really highlight how, without proper oversight, cryptocurrencies risk harming everyday Americans’ financial stability and our national security.”
“It is why this administration believes that now more than ever,” he said, “prudent regulation of cryptocurrencies is needed.”
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NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. ("SolarEdge" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SEDG). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether SolarEdge and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On August 28, 2022, the U.S. International Trade Commission ("ITC") agreed to review a patent infringement case filed by Ampt LLC ("Ampt") against SolarEdge on July 28, 2022.
On news of the ITC's vote, SolarEdge's stock price fell $8.47 per share, or 2.94%, to close at $279.46 per share on August 29, 2022.
Then, on October 19, 2022, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware stayed a parallel proceeding, filed against SolarEdge by Ampt and based on substantially similar allegations, pending the ITC's investigation.
On this news, SolarEdge's stock price fell $7.96 per share, or 3.84%, to close at $199.46 per share on October 19, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - The beginning of this week called for high temps and high humidity which typically brings people outdoors to enjoy that kind of warm weather.
However, a lot of sun with all that fun can be dangerous and officials in La Crosse want to remind everyone to take care of themselves and others in this kind of heat.
While it goes without saying, to protect ourselves in the summer heat means using sunscreen, limiting sun exposure and drinking plenty of water.
Of course on days like Monday and Tuesday this week, many try to stay indoors or find less exhaustive activities like sitting under a shade tree or going out for some ice cream.
But for those enjoying outdoor activities, Audra Martine, Director of the La Crosse County Health Department, shared something folks might want to keep in mind.
"If you're going to be out, out of doors, limit your time out there and remind each other to pay attention to that," Martine cautioned. "Because people will enjoy it and then I think not realize they're out there longer than they think and it might start with a little bit of sunburn but could lead to something else fairly quickly with the weather we're having."
Captain Avrie Schott of the La Crosse Police Department wants to remind the public to keep an eye on children and pets.
For example, temperatures in a vehicle can rise very quickly on hot summer days, so it's recommended children or pets are not left unattended in any vehicle, even for a few minutes.
In addition to kids and pets, Captain Schott said to look out for others too and call the La Crosse Police if you are worried about a neighbor or loved one.
"If you're concerned about your neighbor, if you're concerned about a community member," Captain Schott said. "Please give us a call, we're better when we work together. It's safer as a community if we together check on that person and make sure that everyone is safe and they have the resources that they need in a time of need such as the heat." | https://www.wxow.com/news/top-stories/beat-the-heat-with-safety-in-mind/article_f4121a40-f1be-11ec-9a17-23b1d7509e9c.html | 2022-06-22 01:23:38 | 0 | https://www.wxow.com/news/top-stories/beat-the-heat-with-safety-in-mind/article_f4121a40-f1be-11ec-9a17-23b1d7509e9c.html |
At least 3 dead in Kentucky as flooding hits Appalachia, officials say
(WKYT/WSAZ/Gray News) - Officials in Kentucky on Thursday reported three deaths related to the severe flooding, with concerns the toll will continue to rise.
Gov. Andy Beshear called it one of the “worst and most devastating flooding events” in the state’s history, saying hundreds of homes had been damaged or destroyed so far, per WKYT.
“The situation is dynamic and ongoing,” Beshear said. “In most places, we are not seeing receding water. In fact, in most places, it is not crested yet.”
The governor said during a news conference there had been two deaths in Perry County, including an 81-year-old woman, but the county coroner later clarified only one confirmed death.
In Knott County, the coroner confirmed two deaths in the region with multiple people still missing, WSAZ reported.
Beshear also said there are a number of people unaccounted for, declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard. He said he expected there will be more loss of lives.
“Hundreds will lose their homes, and this is going to be yet another event that it’s going to take not months but likely years for many families to rebuild and recover from,” the governor said.
Poweroutage.us reported more than 31,000 customers without electricity in eastern Kentucky, as well as affected areas in West Virginia and Virginia dealing with flash flooding and mudslides. Thunderstorms dumped several inches of water over the past few days.
Water service has been disrupted as well in some areas. Beshear said Kentucky has already ordered truckloads of water to assist.
Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt said many in his area are trapped by floodwaters and urged people in areas that may see more flooding to get out now.
“We had to rescue some on floating debris – a house door. We had to put a lady on a house door that would float,” Hunt said. “We are using all resources, anything that we have available to rescue these people.”
Rescue workers worked through the night and have plucked people off rooftops amid fast-rising water. Perry County Emergency Management Director Jerry Stacy described the situation as “catastrophic” as crews searched for stranded people.
“There are a lot of people in eastern Kentucky on top of roofs waiting to be rescued,” the governor added.
The storms hit an Appalachian mountain region where communities and homes are built on steep hillsides or down in the hollows between them, where the only flat land often shoulders creeks and streams that can rise in a hurry.
Roads in many areas weren’t passable after as much as 6 inches of rain had fallen in some areas by Thursday, and 1-3 more inches could fall, the National Weather Service said.
Three parks in the region were opened as shelters for displaced people.
In Kentucky’s Perry, Leslie and Clay counties, people in low areas were urged to seek higher ground after multiple swift water rescues. Breathitt County’s courthouse was opened overnight, and Emergency Management Director Chris Friley said the Old Montessori School would provide more permanent shelter once crews can staff it.
“It’s the worst we’ve had in quite a while,” Friley said. “It’s county-wide again. There’s several spots that are still not accessible to rescue crews.”
Perry County dispatchers said floodwaters washed out roads and bridges and knocked homes off foundations. The city of Hazard said rescue crews were out all night, urging people on Facebook to stay off roads and “pray for a break in the rain.”
Rescues were being done in West Virginia, and communities in southwest Virginia also were flooding. The National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, Virginia, warned of more showers and storms on Thursday.
In Buchanan County, which was hit by severe flooding two weeks ago, preliminary assessments of the previous flooding were postponed for safety amid the latest high water, according to Virginia Department of Emergency Management spokesperson Lauren Opett. Officials were determining whether its feasible to conduct the assessments virtually, she said.
And in Wise County, the Office of Emergency Management warned of imminent flooding and road closures in the Pound Bottom area on Thursday morning. Officials advised residents to shelter in place until floodwaters recede or evacuate to a shelter in an elementary school.
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The Volkswagen Group is preparing a family of subcompact EVs that will include a member for the Volkswagen brand.
VW previewed a potential design for its EV in 2021 with the ID.Life concept, though the automaker has since abandoned the boxy crossover design of the concept in favor of a sleeker hatchback shape.
The new EV, together with siblings from the SEAT and Skoda brands, will be built at plants in Spain, with the first expected in 2025. VW has previously mentioned a starting price of around 20,000 euros (approximately $21,350) for its version, though that was before the start of the ongoing inflation and energy crisis.
While rumors have pointed to the VW adopting the ID.2 name to mark its positioning below the ID.3 compact hatchback, Autocar reported on Wednesday that ID.Golf is among the names being considered, and that there may even be a sporty GTI version.
The magazine also reported the car will be the first to use an updated version of the MEB modular EV platform that debuted in the ID.3. The updated version, dubbed MEB+, will feature a new common battery cell and support charging at rates of up to 200 kw.
Thomas Schäfer, the current head of the VW brand, recently hinted that the Golf name was too good to abandon and that there’s potential for it to be used on an ID EV in similar fashion to the ID.Buzz name.
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Rockies vs. Marlins: Odds, spread, over/under - July 23
Ryan McMahon and the Colorado Rockies (39-59) will be looking for a series sweep when they take on the Miami Marlins (53-47) at LoanDepot park on Sunday, July 23. First pitch is scheduled for 1:40 PM ET.
The Marlins are the favorite in this one, at -275, while the underdog Rockies have +220 odds to win. The game's total has been set at 8 runs.
Rockies vs. Marlins Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 23, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV: BSFL
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Venue: LoanDepot park
- Probable Pitchers: Jesus Luzardo - MIA (8-5, 3.34 ERA) vs Ty Blach - COL (0-0, 6.75 ERA)
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Rockies vs. Marlins Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
Here's a look at the odds, run line and over/under for this matchup at individual sportsbooks.
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Rockies vs. Marlins Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Marlins have been favored 45 times and won 29, or 64.4%, of those games.
- The Marlins have not played a game this season with moneyline odds of -275 or shorter.
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 73.3% chance of a victory for Miami.
- The Marlins have a 2-4 record across the six games they were favored on the moneyline in their last 10 matchups.
- Over its last 10 matchups (all 10 of them had set totals), Miami and its opponents combined to hit the over six times.
- The Rockies have won in 36, or 41.9%, of the 86 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- The Rockies have won all of their six games in which they were named as at least a +220 moneyline underdog.
- The Rockies have played as underdogs in 10 of their past 10 games and have gone 6-4 in those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Colorado and its opponents have combined to hit the over just once.
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Braves vs. Rays: Odds, spread, over/under - July 9
Wander Franco will lead the charge for the Tampa Bay Rays (57-35) on Sunday, July 9, when they clash with Ronald Acuna Jr. and the Atlanta Braves (60-28) at Tropicana Field at 1:40 PM ET.
The Rays have been listed as -115 moneyline favorites for this matchup with the Braves (-105). The game's total is set at 8 runs.
Braves vs. Rays Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 9, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
- Venue: Tropicana Field
- Probable Pitchers: Zach Eflin - TB (9-4, 3.24 ERA) vs Bryce Elder - ATL (7-1, 2.45 ERA)
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Braves vs. Rays Betting Trends and Insights
- The Rays have been favorites in 75 games this season and won 51 (68%) of those contests.
- In games they have played as moneyline favorites with odds of -115 or shorter, the Rays have a 51-24 record (winning 68% of their games).
- The implied probability of a win from Tampa Bay, based on the moneyline, is 53.5%.
- The Rays were the moneyline favorite in six of their last 10 games, and they went 2-4 in those matchups.
- Over its last 10 outings (all 10 of them had set totals), Tampa Bay and its opponents combined to go over the run total four times.
- The Braves have won in five of the seven contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- The Braves have a win-loss record of 5-1 when favored by -105 or worse by oddsmakers this year.
- The Braves are not favored for the first time in a while, as they have not been underdogs in their last 10 games.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Atlanta and its opponents have combined to hit the over three times.
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Former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent who is the founding chairman of No Labels, told Fox News it may be several months before the group decides whether to run a third-party candidate, but underlined his belief the American people are fed up with President Biden and Donald Trump.
Lieberman, who was former Vice President Al Gore's running mate in the 2000 presidential election – one of a handful of races throughout U.S. history that third party nominees purportedly played a role in swinging the ultimate result – told "Your World" that there is mass dissatisfaction with the two established parties.
To those who are dissatisfied with Democrats and Republicans but believe a third-party vote is a wasted one, Lieberman has a message.
"The best way to change that and try to get two parties to come back from the left and right toward the center and common ground and try to solve our problems is to support (1) the policy agenda we put out yesterday, which is bipartisan. It's not about us and them. It's about we, the people," he said Tuesday on "Your World with Neil Cavuto."
LIBERAL MEDIA PANICS OVER POTENTIAL NO LABELS THIRD-PARTY TICKET: 'DEMOCRACY-ENDING'
"The second [reason] is if we decide to run a third ticket, a bipartisan unity ticket, to support the ticket, because other than that, the two major parties seem to have been working hard at shutting out the majority of people who are not to the left and the right, but really in that broad middle ground where they just want the country to do better than it's doing now."
In 2006 remarks around the time he struck out as an Independent Democrat, Lieberman touted his ability to work across party lines, including with then-Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and President George W. Bush.
Lieberman also broke with Democrats – who he still caucused with -- in 2008 to endorse then-Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., over then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for president.
When asked if No Labels would "stand-down" if the 2024 race shapes up differently than a Biden-Trump rematch, Lieberman was noncommittal:
"It depends," he said. "And incidentally, that's why we say that the effort we're making now to get on the ballot of all 50 states with the third line is an insurance policy, like any insurance policy, you hope you don't have to use it, but it's there if you do."
"When the field becomes clearer, then we'll decide whether we have a constructive role to play by running a bipartisan unity ticket. We'll do it if we think we actually have a chance to win, which I think we might use the public distaste for the two parties and frankly, for these two candidates is so great."
Lieberman said the group will "probably not" be able to make "a sensible decision about this until next year -- certainly after the Super Tuesday primaries in March."
Lieberman's group however, has become the target of media scrutiny, with former Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., decrying on his MSNBC program that recent "No Labels" speaker Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., would have "helped elect a fascist" as part of his epitaph.
Scarborough suggested a third-party Manchin run would ruin Biden's reelection chances.
On "Your World," host Neil Cavuto laid out how several races – including Gore's and Lieberman's – were affected by third-party bids. In their case, Green Party nominee Ralph Nader was accused of siphoning left-leaning votes in Florida enough to secure Bush's thin victory there.
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Texas tech industrialist H. Ross Perot was considered to have similarly helped secure then-Arkansas Democratic Gov. Bill Clinton's win over incumbent President George H.W. Bush.
In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt became disaffected with the Republicans and launched an independent "Bull Moose" Progressive Party bid that split votes from GOP nominee William Howard Taft. Roosevelt ultimately scored more electoral votes than Taft, and the win went to New Jersey Democratic Gov. Woodrow Wilson.
In 1968, segregationist Democratic Alabama Gov. George Wallace launched a bid as an "American Independent," garnering 46 electoral votes to former Democratic Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's 191. The split ticketing helped lead to a victory for former California Republican Gov. Richard Nixon.
Other political figures who have been associated with No Labels include former North Carolina Republican Gov. Patrick McCrory, former Utah Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and former NAACP Chair Benjamin Franklin Chavis.
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Board-Certified Pediatrician Provides Tips for Parents to Help Their Kids Prepare for Back-to-School
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
For parents of kids of all ages, back-to-school season is the perfect time to take stock of your child's physical and mental health to help prepare them for a successful school year. Starting in a new school or classroom can be an exciting or stressful experience for kids. Parents should recognize not all stressful emotions are bad and dealing with stress is an important step in a child's developmental growth.
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- Consult with your pediatrician. Let your pediatrician know at their yearly physical if your child will be involved in sports during the school year. Sports physicals are important to check your child's heart and mental health before they engage in activities.
- Create an Asthma or Allergy Action Plan. For kids with allergies or asthma, have your pediatrician fill out an Asthma or Allergy Action Plan. This document will ensure the school knows what steps to take when your child has an asthma flare or allergic reaction. Your pediatrician can also sign a medication release form and provide tips to manage the costs of inhalers and other medications. GoodRx offers discounts for all FDA approved inhalers and medications; a discount can save up to 80% on your out-of-pocket cost.
- Recognize the signs of learning difficulties. Conditions that affect children's learning ability, such as ADHD or dyslexia, can develop at any time, and the signs are not always obvious.
- Set digital media boundaries. Studies have shown 1 in 4 adolescents are constantly connected to their phone, and the pandemic drove an increase in screen time among kids of all ages. Back-to-school season is an opportune time to reevaluate your child's media boundaries to ensure it is not impacting their writing or communication skills.
Dr. Preeti Parikh, Executive Medical Director at GoodRx and a board-certified pediatrician in New York City, shared tips parents can use to prepare their children for a healthy school year. Dr. Parikh also discussed why staying ahead of stress by practicing mindfulness techniques with children can help avoid it manifesting into worrisome physical symptoms.
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Dr. Preeti Parikh is the Executive Medical Director at GoodRx. She is a board-certified pediatrician practicing at Westside Pediatrics, is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and is an American Academy of Pediatrics spokesperson.
Dr. Parikh graduated from Columbia University and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and she completed postgraduate training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Parikh combines her passions of preventative medicine, advocacy, and patient education to empower people to achieve their optimal health. She has contributed to media outlets including Bump.com, Parents.com, CBSNews, and many others.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
8-9-3-6-9
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company is licensing its name for a golf resort in Oman in the first of what the company hopes will be several overseas deals, raising conflict-of-interest issues as the former president announced a third run for the White House.
The Trump Organization said the licensing deal — the first since Trump left office — is with Saudi developer Dar Al Arakan and will include a golf course, hotel and thousands of residential units in the Oman capital of Muscat.
Trump’s son Eric, who oversees the company’s global real estate interests, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the company is no longer bound by a self-imposed restriction not to make foreign deals while his father was president.
“You can expect more hotel and golf deals overseas in the future,” Eric Trump said in a text exchange.
Trump announced Tuesday that he is running again for the presidency in a speech from his Palm Beach, Florida, club.
Trump’s company struck many real estate licensing deals overseas before he entered the White House, including for hotels and residential towers in Canada, Dubai, Mexico, India and Turkey. Some branding experts had expected him to put his name on more buildings after he left office, with the added brand appeal of a former U.S. president.
With Trump possibly running again, the company may feel pressure to move fast to add to the Oman deal. Asked if the company would halt such deals if his father was elected, Eric Trump responded, “Why would we do anything differently?”
The New York Times, which first reported the deal with the Saudi developer, said the $1.6 billion Oman resort will have an estimated 400 hotel rooms and 3,500 residential units.
Trump’s close ties to Saudi Arabia’ ruling crown prince drew heavy criticism following its blockade of U.S. ally Qatar during his administration and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist critical of the regime.
Since leaving office, Trump has hosted two tournaments at his properties for the upstart Saudi-funded LIV Golf series that critics say should not be given a venue in the U.S. given the regime’s human-rights record. Trump’s son-in-law and former senior aide, Jared Kushner, has also drawn scrutiny from Democrats for a reported $2 billion investment from a Saudi sovereign wealth fund for his investment fund started after he left the White House.
Unlike Trump’s build-and-own ventures earlier in his career, licensing offers a relatively easy and risk-free way to generate cash assuming his brand remains strong. Before his 2016 election, Trump’s real estate licensing deals generated as much as $30 million in revenue in 17 months through May of that year, according to financial documents he had to file as a candidate. Much of that revenue was profit since it was Trump’s partners who owned the businesses and bore the costs, not him.
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Preliminary autopsy report results for Sheriff Kevin Corman
Published: Jun. 27, 2022 at 3:22 PM EDT|Updated: moments ago
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (WKYT) - It has been five weeks since Jessamine County Sheriff Kevin Corman unexpectedly passed away.
The coroner’s office told us Monday they are still waiting on the final autopsy report, but preliminary results show Corman died of natural causes, as originally indicated.
The final report will include a toxicology report, but is it not expected to change the cause of death.
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BRENHAM, Texas, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- May is National Salad Month and BRIANNAS Fine Salad Dressing is celebrating with seven new items including a new line of Sugar Free dressings and Seasoned Croutons.
BRIANNAS produces over 25 flavors of premium salad dressing including Home Style, Organic, Avocado Oil and Sugar Free lines. All of BRIANNAS dressings are produced in small batches using high quality ingredients to create consistently great taste in every bottle.
"National Salad Month is a great way to kick off the summer and enjoy all of the fresh produce and fruit in season! When you want a great tasting salad dressing or a trusted shortcut in the kitchen, BRIANNAS has something for everyone!" said Jenny Van Dorf, Director of Marketing and Communications.
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BRIANNAS Home Style Garlic Vinaigrette, a sweet and savory blend of garlic, oil and cracked black pepper that adds bold flavor to fresh greens or pasta salads.
BRIANNAS Sugar Free Rich Poppy Seed Dressing is a creamy, sweet twist on their top-selling dressing, made with fresh onions, poppy seeds, and no-calorie sweeteners.
BRIANNAS Sugar Free Blush Wine Vinaigrette is a marriage of tangy red wine vinegar and calorie-free sweetener with only 60 calories per serving. It's a delicious match for spinach and strawberries.
BRIANNAS Avocado Oil Caesar is made with heart-healthy avocado oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic and cracked black pepper. Pair this rich, dairy-free dressing with crisp romaine lettuce and grilled chicken.
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DULUTH — With just a few hours left before the calendar flipped to 2023, Duluth broke its December snowfall record.
The National Weather Service in Duluth tweeted the news at 6:23 p.m. Saturday, reporting that 0.8 inches of snow recorded at its 6 p.m. observation was enough to bring the city's snowfall total to 44.7 inches for the month. The total broke the previous record of 43.3 inches set in 1950, according to the tweet.
Snow was still falling when the observation was taken, the tweet said, which means additional accumulation will likely be added to the record-breaking total.
With 8 tenths of an inch of snow for our 6 PM CST ob tonight. This puts us over the top for the month of December and into 1st place. We'd like to thank our staff for all the measurements and also like to thank the letters H and O for their efforts. #WeAreNumber1 ❄🥳🎉 https://t.co/pc2Nej7VE5
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NEW YORK (AP) — Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic for the 2026-27 season, ending a heralded tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that began in 2009.
The 42-year-old Venezuelan conductor agreed to a five-year contract as New York’s artistic and music director, the orchestra announced Tuesday. Dudamel will become the first Latino to head the orchestra since its founding in 1842.
“What the orchestra told us very, very clearly was that the person that they wanted, their dream candidate, was Gustavo,” New York Philharmonic CEO Deborah Borda said. “When you’re trying to recruit the most sought-after conductor in the world, you don’t run a sort of classic search.”
Dudamel — who will hold the title of music director designate in 2025-26 — will also remain music director of the Paris Opera, a role he’s held since 2021, and of Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, a position he took in 1999 that gained him international recognition.
Dudamel, in a statement, cited the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca’s quote: “Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.”
“I gaze with joy and excitement at the world that lies before me in New York City, and with pride and love at the world I have shared — and will continue to share — with my dear Angelenos over the next three seasons and beyond,” Dudamel said. “All of us are united in our belief that culture creates a better world, and in our dream that music is a fundamental right.”
Jaap van Zweden said in September 2021 that he would leave the New York Philharmonic after the 2023-24 season, a six-season tenure as music director that will be the shortest since Pierre Boulez succeeded Leonard Bernstein and led the orchestra from 1971-77.
Borda told the New York orchestra and Dudamel informed the LA musicians of his decision in simultaneous announcements during respective rehearsals at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall and Walt Disney Concert Hall. The New York Philharmonic moved back into Geffen Hall in October following a $550 million renovation that improved acoustics, sightlines and amenities.
The New York orchestra plans a Feb. 20 news conference to introduce him.
Dudamel is among the few conductors who in recent years have gained mainstream attention. A character in Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” appeared to be based on Dudamel, who conducted the soundtrack to Steven Spielberg’s 2021 remake of Bernstein’s “West Side Story.”
Dudamel made his New York Philharmonic debut in November 2007. He has conducted the orchestra 26 times and is scheduled to lead three performances of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony from May 19-21.
“This infectious joy and deep musicality and humanism connects with audiences,” Borda said of Dudamel.
Borda, who is retiring as the New York Philharmonic’s CEO at the end of the current season, was the Los Angeles orchestra’s CEO when she hired Dudamel to succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director for the 2009-10 season.
“I remember the first day we tried to book him — he didn’t even have a manager. And look at how he’s progressed since then,” Borda said. “I hadn’t seen a conductor like this since Bernstein.”
Borda, who returned to New York in 2017 for her second stint in charge, will be succeeded by Gary Ginstling, who had been head of Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra since 2017.
“He was really the one conductor who could be transformational for the future of this institution,” Ginstling said of Dudamel. “He will be able to bring in new audiences and younger audiences and a broader range of audiences.”
Dudamel emerged from Venezuela’s music education program known as “El Sistema (The System)” and gained praise from his work with young musicians. He won the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in 2004. While Dudamel at first declined to speak of Venezuela’s economic and political turmoil, he criticized his nation’s government in 2017 for suppressing protests. Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro then canceled the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra’s U.S. tours.
Dudamel’s Los Angeles contract was extended through 2025-26 three years ago, and his 17 seasons with LA will match Salonen for the longest as that orchestra’s head. Dudamel earned $775,000 from the LA Philharmonic in the COVID-impacted year ending Sept. 30, 2021, down from $3.55 million the previous year, according to the orchestra’s tax returns.
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Amount of warming triggering carbon dioxide in air hits new peak, growing at near-record fast rate
(AP) - The cause of global warming is showing no signs of slowing as heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere increased to record highs in its annual Spring peak, jumping at one of the fastest rates on record, officials announced Monday.
Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now the highest they’ve been in more than 4 million years because of the burning of oil coal and gas. The last time the air had similar amounts was during a less hospitable hothouse Earth before human civilization took root, scientists said.
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration announced that the carbon dioxide level measured in May in Hawaii averaged 424 parts per million. That’s 3 parts per million more than last year’s May average and 51% higher than pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm. It is one of the largest annual May-to-May increases in carbon dioxide levels on record, behind only 2016 and 2019, which had jumps of 3.7 and 3.4 parts per million.
“To me as an atmospheric scientist, that trend is very concerning,” said NOAA greenhouse gas monitoring group leader Arlyn Andrews. “Not only is CO2 continuing to increase despite efforts to start reducing emissions, but it’s increasing faster than it was 10 or 20 years ago.”
Emissions used to increase by maybe 1 part per million per year, but now they are increasing at twice and even three times that rate, depending on whether there is an El Nino, Andrews said.
“The relentless rise in atmospheric CO2 is incredibly worrying if not wholly predictable,” said Brown University climate scientist Kim Cobb, who was not part of the research.
Carbon dioxide levels are rising so that each year is higher than the last. However, there’s a seasonal cycle with carbon dioxide so that it reaches its highest saturation point in May. That’s because two-thirds of the globe’s land is in the northern hemisphere and plants suck carbon dioxide out of the air, so during late spring and summer carbon dioxide levels fall until they start rising again in November, Andrews said.
Carbon dioxide levels rise more during El Nino climate cycles because it is drier in the northern hemisphere. An El Nino is brewing. That 3.0 increase may be a sign of an El Nino bump, she said.
There are two main ways of tracking greenhouse gases. One is to monitor what’s coming out of smokestacks and exhaust pipes, but about half of that is absorbed by the oceans and lands, Andrews said.
The other way is to measure how much carbon dioxide is in the air. NOAA and partner agencies measure all around the world. Hawaii has the longest history of direct measurements and is the home of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Keeling Curve, which has kept track of carbon in the air since 1958 when the May reading peaked at 317.5. Emissions have gone up about 33% since then.
“Current emissions are going to remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years and they’re going to continue to trap heat energy near Earth’s surface for thousands of years,” Andrews said.
Because of that “we are still dealing with CO2 in the atmosphere that was emitted in the early-to-mid 20th century,” University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado, who wasn’t part of the monitoring teams, said in an email. “This is why we have to see emissions DROP in order to have a chance to reverse climate change. And even if/when we reverse the CO2 emissions rate, it will take some time before the climate system responds.”
This year NOAA had a complication in its reading.
NOAA and the Scripps Institution have two distinct monitors that have slightly different measurements. Scripps measured 423.8 parts per million and often runs a bit below NOAA. Both have been at the remote Mauna Loa volcano for decades but last November’s eruption cut off power to the NOAA monitor and it’s been unable to use it since. NOAA established another one at Mauna Kea Volcano, 21 miles away.
Scripps got their Mauna Loa site working and put one at Mauna Kea and their data shows that Mauna Kea is an accurate substation for Mauna Loa, Andrews said.
Many activists and scientists advocate for returning to 350 parts per million levels.
“CO2 now is higher than any time in the last 4 to 4.5 million years when the atmosphere was about 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 degrees Celsius) warmer and sea levels were 5 to 25 meters (16 to 82 feet) higher,” Andrews said.
Temperatures were higher with similar amount of carbon dioxide in the air because carbon dioxide traps heat for so long and millions of years ago the build up of carbon dioxide was much more gradual, allowing heat to build and ice to melt to raise seas, scientists said.
“We are absolutely at levels unseen in human civilization,” Furtado said. “Humans are running a massive experiment on the Earth climate system via burning carbon, and the results are turning out not great for a lot of people on this planet.”
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LIVONIA, Mich., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alta Equipment Group Inc., owner and operator of one of the largest integrated equipment dealership platforms in North America., announced today the launch of Alta eMobility, a new business segment formed to handle every step – from funding sources to maintenance – in converting truck fleets and heavy equipment to electric power.
Alta eMobility will provide complete, turnkey service to customers by executing custom programs built upon the best systems and solutions available in the market to electrify, charge, operate and optimize their fleets. Alta eMobility will also lead trucking and equipment companies through the entire electrification process from strategy and funding to execution, sales, service and maintenance.
"Alta eMobility was established to assist customers in navigating the complex path of fleet electrification," said Ryan Greenawalt, CEO, Alta Equipment Group. "We know that the future of mobility is electrified, and we are excited by the opportunity that this new vertical provides."
Backed by Alta Equipment Group's nearly 40 years of innovation, unrivaled customer support, robust service network and highly-skilled technicians, Alta eMobility will focus on making it easy and profitable for customers to move through the fleet electrification process.
"There are so many reasons for fleet owners to make the shift to electric and we realize how daunting the process can be," said Mike Bucci, vice president, Alta eMobility. "We've built our team from industry experts in funding, charging, sales and maintenance to provide our customers with a seamless, turnkey experience that takes a fleet from traditional power to electric power in the most efficient way possible."
As part of its service offerings, Alta eMobility will be the primary dealer and service provider for Nikola tractors in the Arizona, Northern Illinois, New Jersey, New England, New York and Pennsylvania regions. Through its agreement with Nikola, Alta eMobility will be responsible for sales, service, commissioning and infrastructure installation.
Alta eMobility is currently operating with its headquarters in Livonia, Mich. and facilities in Phoenix, Ariz. and Syracuse, New York, serving customers in the Midwest, southwest and east coast regions.
To learn more information about Alta eMobility, visit https://emobility.altg.com/
Alta owns and operates one of the largest integrated equipment dealership platforms in North America. Through its branch network, the Company sells, rents, and provides parts and service support for several categories of specialized equipment, including lift trucks and aerial work platforms, cranes, earthmoving equipment and other industrial and construction equipment. Alta has operated as an equipment dealership for 38 years and has developed a branch network that includes over 65 total locations across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, New England, New York, Virginia, Florida, Ohio and Canada. Alta offers its customers a one-stop-shop for most of their equipment needs by providing sales, parts, service, and rental functions under one roof. More information can be found at www.altg.com.
Alta eMobility provides turnkey solutions to handle every step in converting truck fleets and equipment to electric power. Through its branch network, the company sells, rents, and provides equipment and service support for truck fleet electrification, using the best systems and solutions available in the market to electrify, charge, operate and optimize fleet efficiency and performance. Backed by Alta Equipment Company's more than 55 total locations across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, New England, New York, Virginia and Florida, Alta eMobility offers a one-stop-shop for electrification sales, parts, service, and rental functions. More information can be found at www.altaequipment.com/electric-vehicles.
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GRAPHIC: Court documents reveal extent of abuse leading up to 5-year-old’s death
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - New details are being revealed surrounding the death of a 5-year-old boy in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Denzel Jamal Blakely and Lachelle Renae Washington were arrested last week in connection to the death of Washington’s son, Edward King Lampety Jr.
According to newly released court documents, Edward suffered multiple injuries before his death, including internal bleeding, a fractured rib and lacerations to his liver, right adrenal gland and left kidney.
The court documents reported Blakely said Edward had complained of stomach pain on April 13 but he told the child he would take him to the hospital when he could arrange transportation. The next morning when Washington went to get her kids ready for school, she found Edward unresponsive and cold to the touch.
He was later pronounced dead at Gulfport Memorial Hospital.
It was later determined by a coroner that Edward died of blunt force trauma and the case was determined to be a homicide.
While police interviewed Blakely and Washington, Washington said Edward had spit on the floor of his sister’s room, so Blakely disciplined him by slapping the child in the stomach multiple times. Blakely told police that each time he hit Edward, the next strike was harder.
Washington also told authorities that as Edward was complaining of stomach pains, he began to cough up and vomit a brown-red substance with mucous. Blakely said Edward also fell in the bathroom and possibly hit his head, due to disorientation from the stomach hits.
Washington admitted she should have provided medical attention to the child, but Blakely told her not to contact medical personnel.
Two other children in the home told authorities they also saw Blakely hit Edward and saw blood in the room where he was found.
Blakely faces a capital murder charge, and Washington is held on a charge of child deprivation of necessaries with substantial harm.
Blakely is held with no bond at the Harrison County jail.
On April 29, family and friends will hold a balloon release memorial for Edward at Jones Park starting at 4 p.m. His body was taken to Texas for funeral services.
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorney urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to throw out the 29-year-old’s death sentence because of juror misconduct claims just months after it was revived by the nation’s highest court.
Tsarnaev is making a renewed push to avoid execution after the Supreme Court last year reinstated the death sentence imposed on him for his role in the bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds near the finish line of the marathon in 2013.
His lawyers are now challenging issues that weren’t considered by the Supreme Court, including whether the trial judge wrongly denied his challenge of two jurors who defense attorneys say lied during jury selection questioning.
One juror said she had not commented about the case online but had retweeted a post calling Tsarnaev a “piece of garbage.” Another juror said none of his Facebook friends had commented on the trial, even though one had urged him to “play the part” so he could get on the jury and send Tsarnaev to “jail where he will be taken of,” defense attorneys say. Tsarnaev’s lawyers raised those concerns during jury selection, but the judge chose not to look into them further, they say.
“This case was tried in Boston on a promise … that despite the extraordinary impact of the marathon bombing on this community,” a thorough questioning of potential jurors would remove anyone unqualified, Tsarnaev attorney Daniel Habib told the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges. “That promise was not kept.”
The Justice Department has continued to push to uphold Tsarnaev’s sentence even after Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021 imposed a moratorium on federal executions while the department conducts a review of its policies and procedures. The department has not indicated how long it might maintain the hold, which came after former President Donald Trump administration’s put to death 13 inmates in its final six months.
President Joe Biden has said that he opposes the death penalty and will work to end its use, but he has taken no action to do so while in office. And the moratorium doesn’t prevent federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, as they are in the case of a man currently on trial for killing eight people on a New York City bike path in 2017.
William Glaser, a Justice Department lawyer, said the trial judge did nothing wrong in his handling of the jurors. Glaser acknowledged that the jurors made inaccurate statements but said other disclosures they made to the court suggest they were merely misremembering.
“There is no indication in this record that the inaccuracies were the kind of knowing dishonesty that would lead to disqualification,” Glaser said.
But Judge William Kayatta Jr. questioned how the trial judge could know that without looking further into Tsarnaev’s claims. And Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson told the Justice Department lawyer she found it difficult to see how Tsarnaev can’t at least plausibly claim that the juror told to “play the part” was knowingly lying.
“If, for instance, the Facebook friend had said ‘get on the jury and make sure that the death penalty isn’t imposed,’ it’s hard for me to believe that you wouldn’t be in here arguing the opposite of what you are arguing now,'” she told Glaser.
Some survivors of the bombing who attended the hearing met briefly with Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins afterward outside the courtroom. Marc Fucarile, who lost a leg and suffered other serious injuries in the blast, said he came to the arguments to let the judges know survivors are “still paying attention to what they are doing.”
“At a certain point we need to draw a line in the sand and say enough is enough. It is not in question what he did,” Fucarile told The Associated Press.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers acknowledged at the very beginning of his trial that he and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, set off the two bombs that killed Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China; Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford, Massachusetts; and 8-year-old Martin Richard, of Boston.
They have argued, however, that he shouldn’t be put to death, saying his brother radicalized him and was the mastermind of the attack.
Tsarnaev was convicted in 2015 of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier during the Tsarnaev brothers’ getaway attempt. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a gunbattle with police a few days after the April 15, 2013, bombing.
The 1st Circuit in 2020 overturned Tsarnaev’s death sentence and ordered a new penalty-phase trial to decide whether he should be executed, finding that the judge did not sufficiently question jurors about their exposure to extensive news coverage of the bombing. But the Supreme Court justices, by a 6-3 vote, agreed with the Biden administration that the 1st Circuit’s ruling was wrong. | https://www.ksn.com/news/court-weighs-tossing-boston-marathon-bombers-death-sentence/ | 2023-01-11 03:36:57 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/court-weighs-tossing-boston-marathon-bombers-death-sentence/ |
The 103rd Annual Tradition and Philadelphia's No. 1 Parade Will be Star-Studded With Celebrity and Local Appearances and Performances, Featuring WPVI's Rick Williams, Cecily Tynan, Adam Joseph, Karen Rogers and Alicia Vitarelli,
With 'Good Morning America's Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee, Quinta Brunson and Sheryl Lee Ralph from 'Abbott Elementary,' Carson Kressley, and musical guest The Spinners.
Viewers Can Stream 'The 6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade' on 6abc.com, 6abc Philadelphia News App, and 6abc Connected Television Apps on Fire TV, Google TV, Apple TV and Roku Platforms. Also available live on Hulu, and on Hulu VOD through Dec. 31.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 6abc, Philadelphia's most-watched television station and leading news source, rings in the holiday season with its 12-year title sponsor Dunkin' for the "The 6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade" on Thursday, Nov. 24 (8:30 a.m. EST). Philadelphia's hometown parade begins with a half-hour preview show, followed by three hours of celebrity appearances, performances and a sweepstakes promotion throughout the parade's broadcast. The event is hosted by 6abc Action News' Rick Williams, Cecily Tynan, Adam Joseph, Karen Rogers and Alicia Vitarelli, with special guest hosts 6abc's Jim Gardner, Carson Kressley and "Good Morning America's chief meteorologist Ginger Zee.
Viewers from across the country will be able to watch the telecast in nine additional markets, including ABC-owned ABC11/WTVD-TV Raleigh Durham, and it will be available to stream live on Hulu and 6abc.com. The popular Dunkin' Fan Cam is back LIVE on the streets of Philadelphia, following hosts Alicia and Adam throughout the parade as they share in the festivities with parade-goers and engage with viewers via social media hashtag #6abcTDP. Special guests Kressley and Zee will be joined by Quinta Brunson and Sheryl Lee Ralph from the hit ABC show "Abbott Elementary." Musical guests also making appearances at the parade are The Spinners, Thelma Houston, Smokey Robinson, C+C Music Factory, Leah Marlene from "American Idol" and Chapel Hart from "America's Got Talent." Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse are always a crowd favorite, and as tradition holds, Santa and Mrs. Claus will close out the parade to mark the official start of the Christmas season! Click here for a full list of special appearances and parade participants.
"Our 6abc staff and our team of volunteers take great pride in producing this event. To share this holiday tradition with our viewers at home and also with the thousands of parade-goers who line the parade route is truly magical", said Bernie Prazenica, president and general manager of 6abc/WPVI. "And this is all made possible by the support we receive from Dunkin' and our corporate partners. We can't thank them enough".
"Dunkin' and our greater Philadelphia-area franchisees are thrilled to return to the Parkway to kick off the holiday season with Philadelphia's favorite Thanksgiving Day tradition," said Jackie Keown, field marketing director for Dunkin'. "We are so grateful to join the celebration once again as the title sponsor of 'The 6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade' and look forward to seeing you on Thanksgiving Day!"
Joining title sponsor Dunkin' (dunkindonuts.com) as major corporate sponsors are ACME (acmemarkets.com), RAM Trucks (ramtrucks.com), NRG (picknrg.com), and Commonwealth Charter Academy ( https://ccaeducate.me/).
Additionally, viewers will have the opportunity to win numerous prizes, including free Dunkin' coffee for a year and a vacation for four to Walt Disney World Resorts®! The sweepstakes and rules pertaining to the prizes can be found at 6abc's "Watch & Win."
The parade also offers spectators a chance to support the 6abc Dunkin' Holiday Food Drive. Parade-goers are invited to bring a few canned goods to pass to Scouts, who will collect donations along the parade route. This is a chance to give back and help fight hunger around the region.
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The 57 best dance clubs in L.A.
Look past the cold glamour of Hollywood, and L.A.’s true spirit lies in its diverse archipelago of dance halls, lounges, bars and pop-up community hubs that cater to clubbers from most every subculture and demographic. Being a well-rounded Angeleno means kicking off Friday night with a KCRW-core soul set at the Lodge Room in Highland Park, then meeting friends at La Cita for a goth cumbia bonanza and finally, by 2 a.m., inexplicably cheering on your kooky DJ cousin at Catch One in Mid-City.
Although the COVID-19 crisis shuttered a number of establishments in 2020, the dogged support of L.A.’s nightlife communities kept many clubs standing strong. Here’s a list of essential places to jump-start your weekend — but only you can decide where the night will take you.
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Avalon Hollywood
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Bar Lubitsch
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Break Room 86
Catch One
Club Bahia
Club Tee Gee
Club Tempo
Desert 5 Spot
Don Quixote
Echoplex
El Cid
Exchange
Executive Suite
Factory 93
Footsie’s
The Friend
General Lee
Gold-Diggers
Good Times at Davey Wayne’s
La Cita
Leonardo’s
Lock and Key
Lodge Room
Los Globos
The Mayan
Melody Lounge
Monty
Moroccan Lounge
The New Jalisco Bar
Nightingale
Oracle Tavern
Paramount
Peppermint Club
Precinct
Que Sera
The Queensberry
Redline
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Resident
The Room
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Mets vs. Giants Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 2
The New York Mets (37-46) and San Francisco Giants (46-37) square off on Sunday at 7:10 PM ET at Citi Field, attempting to break a 1-1 series tie.
The probable pitchers are David Peterson (2-6) for the Mets and Ross Stripling (0-2) for the Giants.
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Mets vs. Giants Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 2, 2023
- Time: 7:10 PM ET
- TV: ESPN
- Location: Queens, New York
- Venue: Citi Field
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- Probable Pitchers: Peterson - NYM (2-6, 7.00 ERA) vs Stripling - SF (0-2, 6.88 ERA)
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Mets Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: David Peterson
- The Mets will send Peterson (2-6) to the mound for his 10th start this season.
- The left-hander allowed five hits in six scoreless innings pitched against the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday.
- The 27-year-old has pitched in nine games this season with an ERA of 7.00, a 2.94 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.689.
- He has one quality starts in nine chances this season.
- Peterson has pitched five or more innings in two straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has finished one appearance without allowing an earned run in nine chances this season.
David Peterson vs. Giants
- The Giants have scored 397 runs this season, which ranks ninth in MLB. They are batting .249 for the campaign with 99 home runs, 10th in the league.
- The left-hander has allowed the Giants to go 7-for-23 with a double, two home runs and seven RBI in five innings this season.
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Giants Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Ross Stripling
- Stripling (0-2) gets the starting nod for the Giants in his sixth start of the season. He has a 6.88 ERA in 35 1/3 innings pitched, with 29 strikeouts.
- His last time out was out of the bullpen on Wednesday when the right-hander tossed three innings against the Toronto Blue Jays, surrendering one earned run while allowing four hits.
- During 10 games this season, the 33-year-old has amassed a 6.88 ERA and 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings, while giving up a batting average of .306 to opposing hitters.
- Stripling has yet to record a quality start this season.
- Stripling will look to secure his fourth outing of five or more innings pitched this season. He's averaging 3.5 innings per appearance.
- In one of his appearances this season he has not surrender an earned run.
Ross Stripling vs. Mets
- The opposing Mets offense has the 20th-ranked slugging percentage (.398) and ranks ninth in home runs hit (103) in all of MLB. They have a collective .238 batting average, and are 21st in the league with 655 total hits and 18th in MLB action scoring 368 runs.
- Stripling has a 5.4 ERA and a 2.1 WHIP against the Mets this season in 3 1/3 innings pitched, allowing a .375 batting average over one appearance.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In his U.S. Capitol office, Rep. Jason Crow keeps several war mementos. Sitting on a shelf are his military identification tags, the tailfins of a spent mortar and a piece of shrapnel stopped by his body armor.
Two decades ago, Crow was a 24-year-old platoon leader in the American invasion of Iraq. Platoon members carried gas masks and gear to wear over their uniforms to protect them from the chemical weapons the U.S. believed — wrongly — that Iraqi forces might use against them.
Today, Crow sits on committees that oversee the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The mistakes of Iraq are still fresh in his mind.
“It’s not hyperbole to say that it was a life-changing experience and a life frame through which I view a lot of my work,” the Colorado Democrat said.
The failures of the Iraq War deeply shaped American spy agencies and a generation of intelligence officers and lawmakers. They helped drive a major reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, with the CIA losing its oversight role over other spy agencies, and reforms intended to allow analysts to better evaluate sources and challenge conclusions for possible bias.
But the ultimately incorrect assertions about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, repeatedly cited to build support for the war in America and abroad, did lasting damage to the credibility of U.S. intelligence.
As many as 300,000 civilians died in two decades of conflict in Iraq, according to Brown University estimates. The U.S. lost 4,500 troops and spent an estimated $2 trillion on the Iraq War and the ensuing campaign in both Iraq and Syria against the extremist Islamic State group, which took hold in both countries after the U.S. initially withdrew in 2011.
Those assertions also made “weapons of mass destruction” a catchphrase that’s still used by rivals and allies alike, including before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which U.S. intelligence correctly forecast.
Avril Haines, the current U.S. director of national intelligence, noted in a statement that the intelligence community had adopted new standards for analysis and oversight.
“We learned critical lessons in the wake of our flawed assessment of an active WMD program in Iraq in 2002,” Haines said. “As in every part of our work, we strive to learn the lessons that allow us to preserve and advance our thinking to greater effect in service of our national security.”
Only 18% of U.S. adults say they have a great deal of confidence in the government’s intelligence agencies, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Forty-nine percent say they have “some” confidence and 31% have hardly any confidence.
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush ordered an invasion of Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban sheltered al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and allowed the group to run training camps.
Bush’s administration soon began to warn about Iraq, which was long seen as threatening American interests in the Middle East.
Iraq was known to have sought a nuclear weapon in the 1980s and had chemical and biological weapons programs by the end of the Gulf War in 1991. It had been accused of concealing details about those programs from international inspectors, before they were kicked out in 1998.
The Bush administration argued Saddam Hussein’s government was still hiding programs from inspectors after they reentered the country in 2002 and found no signs of resumed production.
A U.S. intelligence estimate published in October 2002 alleges that Iraq had considered buying uranium from Niger and aluminum tubes for centrifuges, that it was building mobile weapons labs, that it was considering using drones to spread deadly toxins, and that it had chemical weapons stockpiles of up to 500 tons.
Some U.S. officials also suggested Iraqi officials had ties to al-Qaida leaders despite evidence of deep antipathy between the two sides.
Those claims would largely be debunked within months of the invasion. No stockpiles were found. Subsequent reviews have blamed those claims on outdated information, mistaken assumptions, and a mix of uninformed sources and outright fabricators.
Bush repeated wrong U.S. intelligence findings before the war, as did Secretary of State Colin Powell in a landmark February 2002 speech before the United Nations.
“He said he’d go to his grave with the manacles of Iraq,” said retired Col. Larry Wilkerson, who was then Powell’s chief of staff and later became a high-profile critic of the Bush administration. Powell died in 2021.
It’s still sharply debated whether the Bush administration would have ordered the invasion without the WMD intelligence.
A White House spokesperson told The Washington Post in 2006 — as Iraq had fallen into a violent insurgency — that Bush “made his decision to go to war in Iraq based on the intelligence given to him by the intelligence community.”
Some former intelligence officials argue the Bush administration stretched available information to make the case for war, particularly on allegations of ties between Iraq and al-Qaida.
Congress was already debating wholesale change to the U.S. intelligence community after the Sept. 11 attacks, an intelligence failure blamed in part on a lack of information sharing between the CIA and FBI.
Lawmakers in 2004 created the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence to oversee the other agencies, taking that leadership function away from the CIA. ODNI took control of the daily intelligence briefing given to the president and of the National Intelligence Council, comprised of the spy community’s top analysts.
Supporters say ODNI can arbitrate among the other agencies, which often have sharply different skillsets and cultures. Others criticize ODNI as an unnecessary bureaucratic layer.
The CIA revamped its training program for analysts to emphasize the study of alternatives and use of “red teams” that challenge conclusions. It also forced more information sharing so analysts could better evaluate the sources of specific reports.
Michael Allen, who served in the Bush White House and wrote the book “Blinking Red” about the 2004 intelligence overhaul, said U.S. officials in the wake of Iraq are more likely to accept differences of opinion within intelligence.
Allen noted as an example the Energy Department’s recent assessment that the COVID-19 virus likely leaked from a Chinese lab. The FBI also supports the lab leak hypothesis, but other agencies say the virus likely was transmitted from animals to humans or have declined to take a position.
The U.S. learned to “not take intelligence at face value, but to really examine the basis upon which the conclusions were made and to listen to differing views among different agencies in the intelligence community,” said Allen, now managing director of Washington-based Beacon Global Strategies.
Ukraine has been a bright spot for U.S. intelligence. The Biden administration has supplied information to Kyiv for Ukraine to bolster its defenses and declassified intelligence findings on Russian intentions to try to influence Moscow and build allied support.
And while they correctly predicted Russia’s intention to invade, the spy agencies wrongly believed Ukraine’s forces would fall within weeks.
While in Congress, Crow has pressed the agencies to review how they assess a foreign government’s ability to fight. U.S. intelligence two years ago wrongly projected the Washington-backed government in Kabul would survive months after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“We’ve lived with the ghosts of Iraq for two decades and it’s impacted our credibility,” Crow said. “Now we’re starting to find it again. It’s a great opportunity for us to learn lessons of the past and do it better going forward.”
But those ghosts remain. Sitting in his office for a recent interview, Crow said he understands the limits of what a military can do and the importance of using armed forces properly. He said he thinks about his enrolling in the Wisconsin National Guard after high school as a private and moving to active duty after Sept. 11.
He pointed to a photo on a wall opposite the shelf with his Iraq War mementos, a picture of his company at Fort Bragg, an Army base in North Carolina, before they went to the Middle East.
“There’s men in that picture who died, who aren’t here anymore,” he said. “I think about those guys, too.”
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HONG KONG, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining" or the "Company"), a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 15,566,665 of the Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs"), Series A Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 15,566,665 ADSs and Series B Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 15,566,665 ADSs, at a combined purchase price of US$0.60 per ADS and associated warrants, in a registered direct offering. Each ADS represents ten (10) Class A ordinary shares, par value US$0.00005 per share, of BIT Mining. The offering is expected to close on or about August 18, 2022, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Revere Securities LLC is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The gross proceeds from the offering (without taking into account any proceeds from any future exercises of warrants issued), before deducting the placement agent's fees and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, are expected to be approximately US$9.3 million. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to invest in mining machines, expand infrastructure, improve working capital position and invest in new business opportunities.
The securities described above are being offered by BIT Mining pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-258329) originally filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 30, 2021 and declared effective by the SEC on May 17, 2022. The offering of such securities is being made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the securities being offered will be filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus may be obtained, when available, on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov or by contacting Revere Securities LLC at 650 Fifth Avenue, 35th Floor, New York, NY 10022, by phone at 212-688-2350 or e-mail at placement@reveresecurities.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About BIT Mining
BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) is a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, with a long-term strategy to create value across the cryptocurrency industry. Its business covers cryptocurrency mining, mining pool, data center operation and miner manufacturing. The Company owns the world's top blockchain browser BTC.com and the comprehensive mining pool business operated under BTC.com, providing multi-currency mining services including BTC, ETH and LTC. The Company also owns a 7-nanometer cryptocurrency mining machine manufacturer, Bee Computing, furnishing its self-efficiency with vertical integration with its supply chain.
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Asian Americans are fighting back against what they see as discriminatory efforts to ban Chinese citizens from buying property in certain states.
While supporters of these bills cast their policies as targeting malign influence from the Chinese Communist Party, Asian Americans and their advocates worry the bills are only fueling xenophobia and unfairly blocking access to the American dream.
The battle is raging in Florida, where a new law targets Chinese citizens, and in other states, like Texas, where similar bills have been proposed.
“These are Chinese Americans who have come here to build a better life,” said Nabila Mansoor, executive director of Texas progressive group Rise AAPI, which has helped to organize against the Texas bill. “And what you’re telling them is that’s not good enough; we welcome you here with open arms, but we’re not going to give you the same rights and privileges that everyone else has.”
The state fights also come amid a broader fight over Chinese ownership of U.S. land, with former President Trump promising to push to ban Chinese purchases of farmland and other critical infrastructure if he retakes the White House, and various proposals on Capitol Hill to impose such restrictions.
Last month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), another leading GOP presidential contender, signed a law making it a felony for people “domiciled” in China to buy property in Florida unless they’re a U.S. citizen or a legal permanent resident. The Texas Senate passed a bill in April that would ban citizens of China and other foreign adversaries from buying property, with certain exceptions, though it died in the House when the Texas legislative session ended Monday.
The Alabama House passed a similar bill in May, which was scaled back to focus on hostile governments before passing the Senate. Many other states have passed or considered narrower bills that only focus on agricultural land or banning purchases by entities affiliated with the Chinese government. But the broader bills in states like Texas and Florida have drawn particularly fierce pushback.
Four Florida residents who are Chinese citizens, along with a Florida real estate firm that primarily serves clients of Chinese descent, have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the new law, which is set to take effect July 1.
The law allows people with a non-tourist visa or who have been granted asylum to purchase a single residential property of up to two acres, provided it’s not within 5 miles of a military installation. However, the lawsuit points out that there are numerous military sites in Florida, many of which are within 5 miles of major city centers like Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Pensacola, Panama City and Key West.
“Florida’s discriminatory property law is unfair, unjustified and unconstitutional,” said Ashley Gorski, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is helping to represent the plaintiffs, in a statement. “Everyone in the United States is entitled to equal protection under our laws, including citizens of other countries.”
In response to the new Florida law, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chairwoman Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and CAPAC Housing Task Force Chairman Al Green (D-Texas) introduced legislation in Congress to preempt state laws that restrict individuals from purchasing property based on country of citizenship.
“Buying real property — whether that’s a new house to call home or a commercial property to run a business in — is a critical step for immigrant families, students, and refugees to pursue the American Dream,” Chu said in a news release.
Proponents of bills to restrict Chinese property purchases say they are necessary to protect national security.
“If you look at the Chinese Communist Party, they’ve been very active throughout the Western Hemisphere in gobbling up land and investing in different things,” DeSantis said at a news conference in January. “That is not in the best interests of Florida to have the Chinese Communist Party owning farmland, owning land close to military bases.”
In response to criticism, the Texas bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst (R) softened the bill, which would have prohibited any citizen of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea from buying property in Texas. She added exemptions for U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents and people purchasing a home as their primary residence.
The new version “makes important clarifications, so the law targets agents of these adversarial regimes while not harming innocent Texans in pursuit of the American dream,” Kolkhorst said in a news release.
However, critics say such exceptions aren’t enough.
“What if you have an entrepreneurial immigrant who’s on their way to becoming a U.S. citizen?” Mansoor asked. “Can they buy property to start a business? No, they can’t. So that is actually hindering everything that people say is important about the American dream.”
State Rep. Gene Wu (D) a Texas state legislator who opposed SB 147, said it can take years for people to get a green card, and even longer to become a U.S. citizen.
“These are people who are lawful immigrants,” Wu said. “These are people who are here at the behest of the United States.”
“Sometimes, if they’re business visa holders, we have asked them to be here, we have begged and cajoled and pleaded with them to be here, to come to the U.S. to invest money, to do business, create jobs,” Wu added.
Wu added that Asian Americans not covered by the legislation could still be impacted if sellers aren’t sure whether they’re allowed to buy property.
“This is an open invitation for discrimination against Asian Americans,” he said.
Wu said SB 147 failing to pass — despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signaling his support early on — is evidence that the pushback against such bills is working.
“I think it would be safe to say that it didn’t get through because of the overwhelming backlash from the Asian community,” he said.
Haipei Shue, president of United Chinese Americans, said Abbott helped mobilize that pushback with a tweet in January saying he would sign the bill.
“Had Gov. Abbott not tweeted in his Twitter account, many of us wouldn’t know [about SB 147], or at least not as quickly,” he said.
Shue said such bills unfairly equate Chinese immigrants with the Chinese government.
“You say you hate CCP, but you love Chinese people, then you turn around and you make these laws, at least on the state levels, you’re targeting a whole class of Chinese Americans or Chinese nationals who have nothing to do with the Chinese government,” he said.
For some Asian Americans, these bills harken back to America’s history of anti-Asian laws, like the Chinese Exclusion Act and alien land laws, which denied Asian immigrants the ability to purchase land in certain states.
“We perceive this sort of wave of attacks as another iteration of the same type of prejudice against Asian Americans that we’ve experienced in the past,” Wu said.
“The only difference is now that our community is no longer willing to just quietly tolerate this type of active discrimination against our community.” | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/chinese-americans-fight-back-against-bans-on-buying-property/ | 2023-06-02 14:11:30 | 0 | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/chinese-americans-fight-back-against-bans-on-buying-property/ |
DENVER (AP) — A year after the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history scorched nearly 1,100 homes, Colorado lawmakers are considering joining other Western states by adopting artificial intelligence in the hopes of detecting blazes before they burn out of control.
A Colorado Senate committee on Thursday unanimously voted to move forward a bill to create a $2 million pilot program that would station cameras on mountaintops, and use artificial intelligence to monitor the footage and help detect early signs of a wildfire. The bill will move to the state Senate Appropriations Committee next.
“It can detect just a wisp of smoke and it’s that type of situation in remote areas that could save forests and homes and properties and lives,” Democratic state Sen. Joann Ginal, one of the bill’s sponsors, said in the hearing.
The deployment of AI is part of an ongoing effort by firefighters to use new technology to become smarter about how they prepare and better position their resources. Fire lookout towers once staffed by humans have largely been replaced by cameras in remote areas, many of them in high-definition and armed with artificial intelligence to discern a smoke plume from morning fog.
There are hundreds of such cameras scattered across California, Nevada, Oregon and a handful already in Colorado that allow even casual viewers to remotely watch.
Vaughn Jones, who heads wildland fire management for Colorado’s fire prevention agency, said the technology “allows us to take very aggressive early action and keep the impact down… not waiting until the end of the day to start playing catch-up.”
A historic drought and recent heat waves tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West and scientists say warming weather will continue to make fires more frequent and destructive.
Record-breaking storms that drenched California with more than 11 inches (27.94 centimeters) of rain in recent weeks and big snow dumps in other states have improved conditions in the short-term, but the drought persists across many western states, according to a Tuesday report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Colorado program would support 40 fixed camera stations and six more mobile stations that can be moved to monitor ongoing fires, Ben Miller, the director at the Center of Excellence, which researches technology for firefighting, said at Thursday’s hearing.
The AI algorithm behind the camera would try to detect a plume of smoke and alert first responders early, said Miller, who pointed to a structure fire caught by AI technology near the city of Boulder in December as an example.
Boulder County had partnered with an AI wildfire detection company called Pano AI, and the software had alerted authorities of the fire around the time the first 911 call arrived, Miller said. One home was destroyed and another damaged before the fire was contained — a far better outcome than a year before when the Marshal Fire, also near Boulder, burned over 1,000 structures.
“The more you train the model, the better and better it gets,” said Miller, who added that his agency is very interested in the technology but that it’s still burgeoning and that a pilot program is a good place to start.
Pano AI began working with cities, including the ski resort town of Aspen, Colorado, and has expanded to cities, counties and even Pacific Gas & Electric in six states. Kathryn Williams, Pano AI’s director of government development who testified at the hearing, said “AI machine learning is new, it’s exciting, it’s glamorous but it isn’t perfect,” adding that the company uses employees to vet alerts from the AI.
Their stations include two cameras mounted on a high vantage point, rotating at 360 degrees with 10-mile (about 16-kilometer) radiuses and connected to the company’s AI software. Each station costs roughly $50,000 every year. It’s unknown whether the company would be hired for the pilot if the bill passes.
Arvind Satyam, the chief commercial officer at Pano AI, said in an interview that the artificial intelligence uses a data set of over 300 million images that teaches it what is smoke billowing up from a fire and what isn’t.
Once a camera signals that there could be a fire, the photos and information are run through the company’s intelligence center for human vetting — the algorithm could’ve mistaken a tractor’s dust cloud for smoke — before it’s sent along to fire agencies, he said. Satyam added that the benefits go beyond detection, allowing fire agencies to pinpoint a blaze’s location and monitor a live feed of the burn.
AI has gained notoriety for breaking into a number of fields — from creating propaganda and disinformation to writing essays or cover letters about whatever the user requests.
David Blankinship, senior technology advisor for the Western Fire Chiefs Association, said in an interview that fire agencies have come to rely on this type of detection technology, especially in California where the programs have been put to wider use.
Still, Blankinship noted that “these cameras, even with AI, are only one component of the actual solution that is working.”
When a vote was called to send the bill forward, committee member Republican state Sen. Rod Pelton was enthusiastic.
“I do not want to be the bucket of water on this bill so I will be a fiery, ‘Yes’,” he said.
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MISHAWAKA, Ind. — A suspect in a hit-and-run crash that killed two teenagers during a police pursuit in 2020 has been taken into custody after evading authorities for two years, authorities said.
Warrant officers with the St. Joseph County Police Department arrested Jesse Lottie Jr., 24, on Thursday at a Mishawaka apartment complex on outstanding criminal charges, including four felony counts stemming from the fatal crash, the South Bend Tribune reported.
No court dates have been set as of Friday for Lottie.
On Dec. 2, 2020, he allegedly broke into an apartment but then drove away from the scene when police arrived. Authorities allege that minutes later Lottie's vehicle hit a car at a Mishawaka intersection, killing Clayton McClish, 19, and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Johnson-Neher, 18.
Lottie was charged in August with resisting law enforcement and leaving the scene of a fatal crash. Court documents say another man in Lottie's car that night eventually identified Lottie as the driver.
Johnson-Neher's parents filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the city of Mishawaka, which is located just east of South Bend. Their suit alleges that the December 2020 police pursuit was dangerous from the onset and that Mishawaka police officers were not properly trained in reasonable procedures governing such pursuits. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/suspect-arrested-double-fatal-hit-and-run-crash-police-pursuit-indiana/531-f5c53655-6e37-49f6-8553-5e652bcfca73 | 2022-12-11 03:29:57 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indiana/suspect-arrested-double-fatal-hit-and-run-crash-police-pursuit-indiana/531-f5c53655-6e37-49f6-8553-5e652bcfca73 |
TX Amarillo TX Zone Forecast for Friday, June 10, 2022
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320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
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.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph, becoming southwest
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 107. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 103. South winds
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.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in
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320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
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with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to
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.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 108. Southwest winds 15 to
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.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
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.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs
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320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
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.TONIGHT...Decreasing clouds. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Highs around 103. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Highs around 101. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 60.
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.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 105. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Decreasing clouds. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 105. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows around 70. Southwest
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 102. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in
the lower 60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ002-120000-
Sherman-
Including the city of Stratford
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 105. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Decreasing clouds. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 106. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 103. Southwest winds
20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around
100. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in
the lower 60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ007-120000-
Moore-
Including the cities of Dumas, Four Way, and Masterson
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming
south 10 to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 107. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
South winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 103. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around
100. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in
the mid 60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ003-120000-
Hansford-
Including the cities of Spearman and Gruver
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 105. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 70. East winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming south
15 to 20 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 108. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Windy. Highs around 104. Southwest winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around
100. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the
mid 90s. Lows in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ008-120000-
Hutchinson-
Including the city of Borger
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 109. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 104. South winds
15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around
100. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the
mid 90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ004-120000-
Ochiltree-
Including the cities of Farnsworth, Perryton, Wolf Creek Park,
and Waka
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 107. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Windy. Highs around 103. South winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Windy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ009-120000-
Roberts-
Including the cities of Codman, Lora, and Miami
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 107. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to
25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Windy. Highs around 102. South winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Windy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around
100. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ005-120000-
Lipscomb-
Including the cities of Booker, Higgins, and Follett
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 105. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 106. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Windy. Highs around 101. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph, becoming south 25 to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Windy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Windy. Highs in the
mid 90s. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ010-120000-
Hemphill-
Including the cities of Canadian, Glazier, and Lake Marvin
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 105. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 106. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 15 to
25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Windy. Highs around 101. South winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the
mid 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ011-120000-
Oldham-
Including the cities of Vega, Wildorado, and Boys Ranch
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph
after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 107. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest
winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 103. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs around
100. Lows in the mid 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
60s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ016-120000-
Deaf Smith-
Including the cities of Dawn, Hereford, and Bootleg
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. South winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 105. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 101. South winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the mid
90s. Lows in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ013-120000-
Carson-
Including the cities of Panhandle, Pantex, White Deer,
and Skellytown
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southwest 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 107. Southwest winds
15 to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 20 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 102. South winds
20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ018-120000-
Armstrong-
Including the cities of Claude, Washburn, Wayside, and Goodnight
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 107. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 102. South winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ014-120000-
Gray-
Including the cities of Kingsmill and Pampa
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 106. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 15 to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 101. South winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Highs in the
mid 90s. Lows around 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ019-120000-
Donley-
Including the city of Clarendon
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 106. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 102. South winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ015-120000-
Wheeler-
Including the cities of Briscoe, Wheeler, Lela, Shamrock,
and Twitty
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 105. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south 10 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 106. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph, becoming 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 102. South winds
15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in
the lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ020-120000-
Collingsworth-
Including the cities of Lutie, Wellington, Dozier, and Samnorwood
320 AM CDT Sat Jun 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM CDT
THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly clear. Highs 105-110. East winds around 5 mph,
becoming southwest 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 107. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs around 102. South winds
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 90s.
Lows in the upper 60s.
$$
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Which Disney Christmas stockings are best?
Hanging a stocking by the fireplace is even more special when every time you look at it, you see a Disney character that makes you smile. If you or your loved ones are fans of the world of Walt Disney, a Disney Christmas stocking is a special way to add a little magic to the holiday season. If you’re looking for an affordable yet high-quality Disney Christmas stocking, the Kurt Adler Personalized Disney Mickey/Minnie Mouse Christmas Stocking With Ears is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a Disney Christmas stocking
Disney Christmas stockings are a fun alternative to regular holiday stockings. These themed stockings come in a variety of sizes, materials and designs.
Size
Standard Christmas stockings measure 18 inches tall, and the same goes for Disney Christmas stockings. Larger Christmas stockings can measure up to 20 inches tall, allowing even more room to stuff goodies. Smaller Disney Christmas stockings can be 15 inches or less. Miniature stockings are better suited for decoration rather than filling with presents.
Materials
Disney Christmas stockings can use all kinds of fabric, including wool, cotton, acrylic, silk, felt, faux fur and blends to create a cozy piece of Disney memorabilia. Some stockings include extra detailing, such as glitter embellishments, embroidery or character-inspired accessories.
Design
Styles and designs of Disney Christmas stockings generally vary between Disney graphics and character-inspired stockings. Stockings with Disney graphics can include images of characters, logos or other prints on the stocking itself. Character-inspired stockings tend to mimic classic character outfits, so the stocking looks like the character. Consider what you and your loved ones enjoy about Disney and try to find a stocking that highlights those elements.
What to look for in a quality Disney Christmas stocking
Personalization
One of the most fun elements of a Disney Christmas stocking is the chance to personalize it. Many Christmas stockings let you add a custom name across the top. For Disney stockings, you can even get the name written in the official Disney font. Beyond names, you may be able to choose custom design elements of the stocking, like the Disney character or the design you want to be printed on the front.
Hanging style
Most stockings come with a ribbon or string attached to hang off a stocking holder. If you plan to hang yours this way, you should be all set. If you don’t have a stocking holder, you can use a wall hook or a nail if your stocking is lightweight. If you want to stuff it full of gifts but can’t hang it from something sturdy, you can place it under the Christmas tree with your other gifts.
Construction
Some stockings are stuffed or padded, meaning there is a layer of stuffing between the outer and liner fabric. This provides a more plush texture and offers more stability. There may not be extra stuffing if the stocking is made of thick fabrics already, such as velvet or faux fur. However, if the stocking uses thinner fabrics and does not include a liner and padding, it may feel a bit thinner than a standard Christmas stocking. Consider how full you plan to stuff the stocking and whether or not it can withstand the weight.
How much you can expect to spend on a Disney Christmas stocking
You can find most Disney Christmas stockings for $12-$25. More-expensive options range from $25 to $40 for additional customization or other extra features.
Disney Christmas stocking FAQ
How do you hang your Disney Christmas stocking?
A. Most stockings come with a ribbon or string at the top to hang from a stocking holder. You can set your stocking holder on the fireplace mantel, on a shelf or on another sturdy piece of furniture where you can display your stockings easily and safely. If you don’t have a stocking holder, you can use a wall hook or a nail if your stocking is lightweight and won’t be filled, or purchase a freestanding stocking holder.
Should you get a Disney Christmas stocking that’s officially licensed through Disney?
A. Some Disney Christmas stockings do have official licensing and some don’t. Those that don’t are Disney-inspired and can be handmade or produced by other companies. The licensing allows the manufacturer to use a particular likeness or design choice. That said, unofficial Disney stockings can be just as elaborate and elegant, if not more so. Handmade goods come with an extra touch of care, while mass-produced items can come with additional quality assurance. Ultimately, it’s better to choose the Disney stocking that you and your loved ones will enjoy the most.
What are the best Disney Christmas stockings to buy?
Top Disney Christmas stocking
Kurt Adler Personalized Disney Mickey/Minnie Mouse 19-Inch Christmas Stocking With Ears
What you need to know: This stocking comes in Mickey and Minnie versions for fans to enjoy both classic looks with a personalized touch.
What you’ll love: This Disney Christmas stocking features designs that mimic Mickey and Minnie’s classic looks, along with the characteristic Disney mouse ears, a Santa hat and a matching bow for Minnie. You can have the stocking personalized with a name across the top in the official Disney font.
What you should consider: Some customers noted the stocking was a bit thinner than expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Disney Christmas stocking for the money
Santa Mickey/Minnie Mouse 18-Inch Stocking
What you need to know: This personalized Disney Christmas stocking features three designs to choose from at a reasonable price.
What you’ll love: You can customize the stocking with your name in either classic Disney font or regular font. Designs include a Mickey Santa, Minnie Santa and Mickey holding presents, all on a colorful background.
What you should consider: Customized elements are not eligible for returns, so double-check all spelling when placing your order.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
ThePolkaDotLollipop Custom Disney Character-Inspired 18-Inch Stocking
What you need to know: These festive stockings are inspired by more than 30 Disney characters, providing a lot of custom combinations.
What you’ll love: You and your family can pick out your favorite Disney characters to create your own character-themed stocking. Get your name embroidered in the classic Disney font. Each stocking is lined and padded and comes with a color-coordinated ribbon loop.
What you should consider: With a lot of customization options and handmade detailing, these stockings are on the pricier side.
Where to buy: Sold by Etsy
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Retired players lend their voices to statewide vaccine awareness and education campaign, urging Tennesseans to protect themselves from COVID-19, talk to their health care providers about getting vaccinated
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The NFL Alumni Association (NFL Alumni) and Tennessee Department of Health today kicked off the "GEAR UP, Tennessee!" statewide COVID-19 vaccine awareness and education campaign urging residents to protect themselves and their families and to talk to their health care providers to get the facts about vaccination.
The GEAR UP! campaign will feature former NFL stars and Tennessee Titans legends, including Hall of Famer and All-Pro quarterback and Titans Ring of Honor member Warren Moon, former Titans All-Pro defensive end Jevon Kearse, and NFL Alumni Tennessee Chapter President and former Houston Oilers All-Pro linebacker Al Smith.
NFL Alumni is teaming up with Nashville and Davidson County Mayor's Office—who joined the kick-off announcement today—as well as other public and private sector leaders and community organizations across the state, to hold public events, townhalls, listening sessions, and mobile vaccine clinics to remind people that COVID-19 is still here and is something we all need to protect against. The campaign will also include media interviews, public service announcements and social media to raise awareness.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT
"On the field, I always wore a helmet and pads to make sure I was protected; life is no different. That is why I chose to get vaccinated against COVID-19," said Moon. "I would encourage anyone with questions about getting vaccinated or boosted to speak to their health care providers so they can make an informed decision to protect themselves and their families."
Nearly 100 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the U.S. and more than one million Americans have died, including over 28,000 Tennesseans since the start of the pandemic, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Tennessee Department of Health.
"We have come a long way since the height of the pandemic, but unfortunately, much like other viruses, COVID-19 is likely here to stay," said Smith. "Through the GEAR UP! campaign, the NFL Alumni hopes to educate underserved communities in Nashville and surrounding areas on the importance of the vaccine and encourage anyone with concerns to make an informed decision about getting vaccinated."
Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is a personal choice and a way to take charge of your health by protecting yourself and your family from the most serious impacts of the disease and is a step toward bringing our communities back to life.
"We all want to stay in the game, but protection from COVID-19 is what keeps us in the game," said Kearse. "It allows us to live our normal lives, see the people we love, visit the places we love, and do the work we love with fewer disruptions. Talk to your health care provider and make an informed decision."
Former NFL players lending their voices to the "GEAR UP, Tennessee!" campaign also include:
- Blaine Bishop, former Tennessee Titans, four-time Pro Bowl safety
- Brad Hopkins, former Tennessee Titans, two-time Pro Bowl tackle
- Chris Johnson, former Tennessee Titans, three-time Pro Bowl running back
- Neil O'Donnell, former Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers Pro Bowl quarterback
- Chris Sanders, former Tennessee Titans wide receiver
- Delanie Walker, former Tennessee Titans, three-time Pro Bowl tight end.
According to the CDC, more than 650 million vaccine doses have been administered across the U.S and have proven to be safe and effective at preventing hospitalization and death from COVID-19. Approximately 70 percent of Americans and 48 percent of Tennesseans are fully vaccinated. However, less than 14 percent nationwide have received the latest bivalent booster and about five percent of Tennesseans have received the new bivalent booster shot that includes added protection for the most recent COVID-19 variants.
"Tennessee has come a long way since the start of the pandemic and we celebrate how life has returned to normal for Tennesseans," said Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner, Dr. Morgan McDonald, MD, FACP, FAAP. "Much of that return to normal has been because of the vaccine, and protecting yourself and your loved ones by getting a vaccine is still the best, and most safe, way to prevent the worst impacts of the virus. We are thrilled to partner with the NFL Alumni Association as we urge Tennesseans to get a COVID vaccine and booster so we can continue to do the things we love and be with the ones we love for many years to come."
"As a former educator and public-school principal, I know firsthand how important knowledge can be to our neighborhoods and communities," said Nashville Deputy Mayor for Community Engagement Brenda Haywood. "Education campaigns like 'Gear Up' and our Communities of Color Initiative are how we spread knowledge about the COVID vaccine to everyone, especially our black and brown communities in Nashville. I'm so grateful to the NFL Alumni Association and our partners at the Tennessee Department of Health for adding yet another way we can educate residents about how to stay healthy and protect themselves against the COVID virus."
Despite widespread availability of vaccines and the emergence of new variants, millions of Americans have not yet opted to get vaccinated. The NFL Alumni effort encourages individuals who may be "on the fence" to talk with trusted health care providers and make an informed decision about getting vaccinated.
The NFL Alumni has supported similar initiatives in states across the country. Those initiative have included dozens of events held in more than 20 markets to promote vaccine confidence, which were held in collaboration with NFL Alumni local chapters, state and local health departments, local health care providers, and other community-based organizations.
More than 120 current and former NFL players, including 35 world champions, 46 Pro Bowlers, and 18 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, have participated in NFL Alumni's work related to vaccination. The initiative has included more than 40 events held in more than 20 markets across the country to promote vaccine confidence which were held in collaboration with NFL Alumni local chapters, state and local health departments, local health care providers, and other community-based organizations.
Founded in 1967 by a small group of successful retired NFL players, NFL Alumni is one of the oldest and most well-respected retired player organizations in professional sports. NFL Alumni's triple mission focuses on "caring for our own," "caring for kids," and "caring for the community." NFL Alumni Tennessee is one of more than 40 local NFL Alumni chapters nationwide. For more information, visit www.NFLAGearUp.org/Tennessee.
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was nationally ranked in nine of 14 specialties and top 10 in two. MossRehab (Einstein Healthcare Network) was nationally ranked in the top 10 in the nation for Rehabilitation.
PHILADELPHIA, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jefferson Health hospitals and specialties are ranked among the best in the United States in the annual U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 Best Hospitals rankings. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was recognized as second in the nation for Ophthalmology (Wills Eye Hospital) and seventh in Orthopedics (Rothman Orthopaedics and Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center at Jefferson Health.) MossRehab, now a part of Jefferson Health, was ranked ninth in the nation for Rehabilitation.
Locally, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc. remains 2nd in the Philadelphia metro area and 3rd in Pennsylvania. Abington Hospital ranked 10th in the Philadelphia region and 17th in Pennsylvania. Jefferson Northeast ranked 17th in the Philadelphia metro area, while Jefferson New Jersey ranked 13th in New Jersey and 15th in the Philadelphia region.
"I am very proud that Jefferson Health hospitals have again earned impressive rankings in numerous U.S. News & World Report categories. This is the result of the hard work of our exceptional doctors, nurses, and all the staff who are improving our patients' lives," said Bruce Meyer, MD, MBA, President of Jefferson Health and SEVP, Thomas Jefferson University.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the following Thomas Jefferson University Hospital specialties among the nation's best:
- Ophthalmology (2nd) – Wills Eye Hospital
- Orthopedics (7th) – Rothman Orthopaedics at Jefferson Health and The Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center at Jefferson Health
- Gastroenterology and GI Surgery (25th)
- Urology (36th)
- Cancer (41st) – Jefferson Health - Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
- Ear, Nose & Throat (42nd)
- Neurology & Neurosurgery (43rd)
- Diabetes & Endocrinology (44th)
- Pulmonology (47th)
Cardiology & Heart Surgery and Geriatrics were also mentioned as high performers in the specialties rankings. In addition to specialty rankings, U.S. News & World Report rates hospitals for procedures and conditions. Below are some highlights of the 2022-2023 ranking:
- Nationally ranked in the top 10, ninth in the nation for Rehabilitation.
- High performing in Diabetes & Endocrinology
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Colon Cancer Surgery, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Hip Fracture and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
- High performing in the following procedures/conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia
- High performing in Urology
- High performing in the following Procedures/Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Kidney Failure and Stroke
Einstein Medical Center Montgomery
- High performing in the following Procedures/Conditions: Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Hip Fracture, Kidney Failure and Stroke.
About Jefferson Health
Jefferson Health, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, is reimagining health care in the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. Jefferson's dedicated team of doctors, nurses, health professionals and staff provides a range of primary to highly-specialized care through 18 hospitals (ten are Magnet®-designated by the ANCC for nursing excellence), more than 50 outpatient and urgent care locations, the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, MossRehab, Magee Rehabilitation and the JeffConnect® telemedicine program. Jefferson Health is also home to Health Partners Plan, a not-for-profit managed healthcare organization serving more than 290,000 members in Southeastern Pennsylvania with a broad range of health coverage options through Health Partners Medicare, Health Partners (Medicaid) and KidzPartners (Children's Health Insurance Program). Jefferson Health's mission is to improve the lives of patients in the communities it is privileged to serve through safe, effective, equitable and compassionate care.
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The Mets and MTA teamed up to unveil the Postseason rally cry and excite fans amidst a historic 101-win season and cultural moment for New York City
NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of their 101-win season, ranking second all-time to their 108-win 1986 World Series title team, the New York Mets this week launched a new brand campaign, "These Mets," which will surround New York City during the MLB Postseason.
The integrated campaign, running over the next few weeks, celebrates the 2022 New York Mets as a talented, spirited, and different breed of New York baseball.
"These Mets have captured the spirit of New York through this historic 101-win regular season, and we're so grateful to our loyal fans who have been with us on this journey since day one," said New York Mets Owner, Chairman and CEO Steve Cohen. "I am proud of this team. Heading into the Postseason, we are seizing this moment to turn up the volume and energy to rally around These Mets."
"Nothing says New York City in the fall quite like October baseball," said New York City Transit President Richard Davey. "With the Mets back in the playoffs and sell-out crowds expected at Citi Field, mass transit is the home run option to root for the Mets as they chase a World Series Championship. There's no better way than taking the subway to watch the playoffs – it's Amazin'!"
These Mets advertisements will surround popular spots around New York City and within MTA subway tunnels and trains, including the Shuttle and 7 Line. Additionally, the campaign features vignettes from current and former Mets players, Postseason game watches at neighborhood bars, special events at Citi Field, and opportunities to meet Mr. and Mrs. Met at NYC landmarks.
Every activation and opportunity to meet Mets notables will be powered by social media and shared with media partners ahead of time.
"These Mets, led into the Postseason by Manager Buck Showalter, achieved a 101-win season capped off with Jeff McNeil winning the NL batting title as well as Pete Alonso tied for the lead in all of baseball with 131 RBI's; displaying grit and overcoming obstacles all year long," added New York Mets Chief Marketing Officer Andy Goldberg. "The line 'These Mets' is meant to capture how we feel about them and how the team represents us as a fan base and a city."
Together with the Mets' in-house creative and content teams, creative agency FCB New York developed the "These Mets" concept, and full-service agency Giant Spoon secured the media placements for the campaign.
The details of the branded wrap include:
- 7 Line train wrap (5 cars exterior, plus interior units)
- Hudson Yards Station Domination
- Grand Central Station Dominations (lower level 7 Line)
- Times Square-Grand Central S Shuttle wrap (6 cars interior & exterior)
- Digital brand trains (interior media)
- Mets Super Express 7 Line train
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico next week, searching for feral cows to kill.
U.S. Forest Service managers approved the plan Thursday to protect sensitive spots in the nation’s first designated wilderness area. The move sets the stage for legal challenges over how to handle unbranded livestock and other stray cows as drought deepens in the West.
The Gila National Forest issued the decision amid pressure from environmental groups who raised concerns about nearly 150 cattle whose hooves and mouths are damaging streams and rivers. Ranchers, meanwhile, have criticized the plan to shoot cows from a helicopter as animal cruelty. They said the action violates federal regulations and will be problematic when carcasses are left to rot.
A section of the Gila Wilderness will be closed to the public starting Monday. A helicopter will launch Thursday, with shooters spending four days looking for feral cattle in rugged areas that include the Gila River.
Forest Supervisor Camille Howes said the decision was difficult but necessary.
“The feral cattle in the Gila Wilderness have been aggressive towards wilderness visitors, graze year-round, and trample stream banks and springs, causing erosion and sedimentation,” she said in a statement.
Ranching industry groups and other rural advocates are concerned that the action taken in New Mexico could set a precedent as more grazing parcels become vacant across the West.
Ranchers say fewer people are maintaining fences and gone are the rural neighbors who used to help corral wayward cows. Some have left the business because of worsening drought, making water scarce for cattle, and skyrocketing costs for feed and other supplies.
The New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association estimates roughly 90 grazing parcels are vacant in New Mexico and Arizona. Increased use of public lands — including hunting and hiking — also has resulted in knocked-down fences, the association said. Elk, too, are to blame for damaging fences meant to keep cows in check.
Tom Paterson, chair of the association’s wildlife committee, said the group has tried to find a solution that wouldn’t involve shooting feral cattle. He pointed to a recent directive issued by the New Mexico Livestock Board that allows neighboring permittees to gather and herd the cattle out.
With snow on the ground, access is limited. Paterson said federal official are not giving enough time to see if the directive will work. His organization also has accused the U.S. Forest Service of skirting its own regulations that call for a roundup first, and shooting as the last resort.
“Easy is not an exception to their own rules. Frustration is not an exception to the rules,” he said. “Our society should be better than this. We can be more creative and do it a better way where you’re not wasting an economic resource.”
Environmentalists in dozens of lawsuits filed in courts around the West over the years have argued that cattle ruin the land and water by trampling stream banks. They applauded the Forest Service’s decision.
“We can expect immediate results — clean water, a healthy river and restored wildlife habitat,” said Todd Schulke, co-founder of the Center for Biological Diversity.
The position marks a shift from the environmental community’s stance on shooting other wildlife — from a fight over protecting bison at the Grand Canyon to annual complaints about the actions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services, an agency often vilified for killing birds, coyotes, wolves, mountain lions and other animals.
Just last month, environmentalists sued in Montana over a program aimed at managing grizzly bears. In 2021, conservation groups settled another lawsuit over Wildlife Services’ practices in Idaho. Environmental groups there and elsewhere have long claimed that the agency’s predator-control activities violate environmental laws.
But in New Mexico, the Center for Biological Diversity contends that water quality issues will only worsen if feral cattle aren’t removed. The group estimates that 50 to 150 cows graze, unauthorized, in the Gila Wilderness, a remote stretch that spans more than 870 square miles (2,253 square kilometers) and is home to endangered Mexican gray wolves, elk, deer and other wildlife.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association had asked the Forest Service to hold off on lethal action for a year after the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association had reached an agreement with federal officials following last year’s operation. The New Mexico group is expected to challenge the latest decision.
According to the Forest Service, the feral cattle problem dates back a half-century, when a cattle operation went out of business and subsequent grazing permits were suspended. Hundreds of unauthorized cattle have been removed over the years.
In 2022, a Forest Service contractor killed 65 cows in an aerial gunning operation similar to the one planned for next week.
Photos shared by ranchers of the 2022 operation showed dead cattle upside down in the Gila River. Federal officials said those carcasses were pulled out of the water. A survey done 90 days later found that no carcasses remained. Scavenging birds and other animals consumed them, officials said.
The upcoming operation will cover about 160 square miles (414 square kilometers).
No carcasses are to be left in or adjacent to waterways or springs — or near designated hiking trails or known, culturally sensitive areas.
The work, namely noise from the helicopter, also can’t interrupt the breeding season for the Mexican spotted owl, the southwestern willow flycatcher and other endangered species. The aerial gunning operation is expected to be complete before April, when the season begins for Mexican gray wolves to have pups.
Environmentalists used to point to the removal of livestock carcasses as a preventative measure to limit conflict between wolves and ranchers. However, federal officials stated in documents that were released this week that there’s no scientific research or observational data to suggest that once wolves scavenge on a livestock carcass, they become habituated to cattle. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-us-forest-issues-kill-order-for-feral-cows-in-new-mexico/ | 2023-02-18 01:35:27 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-us-forest-issues-kill-order-for-feral-cows-in-new-mexico/ |
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This week, customers of Pawms pet resort received emails alerting them to an outbreak of Bordetella – or “kennel cough” – in the businesses’ Birmingham and Avondale locations.
This is an example of what Dr. Caleb Thomas of the Avondale Animal Hospital said is a typical outbreak due to an increase in pet boarding around holidays.
Pawms advised owners not to bring dogs to the shelter if they displayed symptoms such as a cough or watery eyes and assured customers that they were disinfecting and reducing capacity to slow the spread of the disease.
The Lede reached out to Pawms for comment and they said they preferred to leave it to a veterinarian.
Thomas began seeing cases roughly two weeks ago and has treated more than 25 patients for the disease this week alone.
He said that much like human colds, the variety of viruses categorized under the term “kennel cough” are not a fatal danger to most healthy dogs but could take a dangerous turn if complications like pneumonia occurred.
Symptoms of kennel cough can include cough, lethargy, food aversion or a mild fever, but with the recommended antibiotics, Thomas said most pets will be over the illness in a week or so.
He explained that although kennel cough is species-specific to dogs, environments where the disease can flourish and spread quickly among multiple animals in close quarters can also produce respiratory illnesses that affect cats.
”The breeding grounds for these respiratory illnesses is similar to the breeding ground we talked about for COVID,” said Thomas. “We’re talking about close quarters, multiple animals with exposure from different environments all culminating in the same area. Even a boarding facility that is pristinely clean can have an outbreak because of how compact everything is.”
While kennel cough is a mostly airborne disease, Thomas said some bacterial strains of the disease can survive on hard surfaces, so he has advised boarding facilities suffering from the outbreak in both Avondale and downtown Birmingham to heavily disinfect, as well as quarantine dogs showing any symptoms.
Avondale Animal Hospital is currently studying this specific strain of kennel cough, which it says could be a strain of canine flu, in the hopes of creating a vaccine. In the meantime, they advised dog owners to keep pets at home if they display symptoms, and to get the preventative kennel cough vaccine that has a 60-70% success rate of prevention and reduces risk of pneumonia and other fatal complications in dogs that contract the disease. | https://www.al.com/life/2022/07/kennel-cough-outbreak-plaguing-pups-linked-to-birmingham-pet-resort.html | 2022-07-08 17:56:06 | 0 | https://www.al.com/life/2022/07/kennel-cough-outbreak-plaguing-pups-linked-to-birmingham-pet-resort.html |
Massage guns are great percussive tools that can reduce muscle soreness and speed up rehabilitation so that you can get back to your routine. While some massage guns are quite large, Therabody has a pocket-sized Mini massage gun model that's perfect for when you're on the go.
Best Buy has cut the price by $40, meaning you'll pay just $160 for the Theragun Mini handheld percussive massager. But keep in mind that this deal will expire tonight at 9:59 p.m. PT (12:59 a.m. ET), so be sure to get your order in before then if you're hoping to take advantage of this discount.
Unlike larger Therabody guns, this massager is built to take on the go, whether that's to the gym, on vacation or anywhere else. The Mini is lightweight, compact and ultra-portable, coming in at less than 1.5 pounds. And it comes with a soft case to keep it safe and clean.
But don't let the size fool you -- the Mini still packs a punch. It comes equipped with three speeds (1,750, 2,100 or 2,400 percussions per minute) and delivers 20 pounds of force. This particular massager has a fixed arm and a standard ball attachment, which is good for both large and small muscle groups. It also features a quiet, brushless motor.
Like a massage therapist, massage guns treat deep tissue, which is great for workout recovery, but they can also be used to treat pain, soothe tension and even treat muscle knots. And because the lithium-ion battery delivers up to 150 minutes of therapy per charge, you can use it again and again as needed.
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The house seems to grow out of the rocks and trees it’s set against, with a gargantuan boulder lodged into its center, anchoring the staircase to the second level. Kitchen counters and nooks are layered with hanging pots, pottery and various bottled legumes, spices and vinegars made from banana, pineapple, red wine and pulque.
Outside, fruit trees, pines and fronds of every sort seem to engulf the available sunlight. I spot stables down a ramble. Rounded, built-in stone ovens preside over the patio, as well as a modern solar oven, like a blinding silver flower, where a pot of beans sits bubbling.
This is how I remember the home of Diana Kennedy, who died there Sunday of respiratory failure at age 99. Nestled into the hilly countryside of Michoacán state, in the town of Coatepec de Morelos on the edge of the central highlands of Mexico, the house known as Quinta Diana was home base for the British-born cook for five decades as she diligently pursued a full-spectrum documentation of traditional recipes across every region of Mexico.
The woman moved through life in such a way that you could trick your brain into assuming she would live forever. I’d like to think her entrance to the afterlife occurred just as she damn well pleased it would.
Testy and uncompromising, she drove her truck across Mexico for decades, collecting and preserving regional ingredients and recipes.
I had one afternoon with Kennedy at Quinta Diana in spring 2014, and I had so many questions. I also sort of expected, comically, some kind of bountiful feast prepared for her journalist guest from Vice magazine. However, Kennedy, 91 at the time, was done with being a “good” host; she announced early on that we’d be eating nothing more than maybe a tamal veracruzano or some candied duraznos (peaches) she’d just finished.
That day I learned that, more than anything else, Diana Kennedy was angry.
She hated all the plastic. She told me she reused, over and over, every plastic bag or container she’d ever been given.
She was mad at all the wasted water in Mexico’s industries.
She hated pesticides.
She scorned industrialized tortillas.
And she truly hated, despised, the fact that Mexico was importing corn from the United States. Imported corn! In Mexico! Where corn, one of the planet’s greatest gifts to mankind, was born!
This fact, to Kennedy, seemed to encapsulate everything that was wrong with everything. And because of it, she expressed anger at the world of food itself — the corporatizing, the genetic modifications and unfettered, market-driven globalization that had pushed the world at large, she argued, to literally lose its taste. “Especially in the U.S.,” she told me. “And then it passes to Mexico.”
“Why is it that we have allowed people who are totally incompetent in food to design our food?” she said that day in her unapologetic British accent. “Our food doesn’t have the flavor it used to have. I remember the chile poblanos, full of flavor, thin-fleshed, very dark green, and that big. Now ¡olvidalo!”
Forget it.
“I was in Oaxaca in 1964, when it was just … lost,” Kennedy whistled, dipping into memories of a place not saturated with tourists from the United States, Canada and Europe, as it is now. “It was gorgeous, oh, not all that awful noise of traffic. It was just beautiful.”
Kennedy arrived in Mexico in the 1950s as spouse to a correspondent for the New York Times and fell in love with the country and the depth of its cultures. A totally Indigenous culinary geography in every state, despite colonization, seemed to bloom before her; markets teemed with countless varieties of corn and chiles; and recipes, she’d quickly learn, for staple dishes like tamales or moles varied wildly not only from state to state, but village to village. After her husband, Paul Kennedy, died in New York in 1967, Diana Kennedy decided to resettle in Mexico permanently.
She got in her truck and started driving. Little by little, she traversed the country on her own, defying norms about foreigners — and foreign women — traveling to non-touristy destinations in a country with weak standards of rule-of-law and ongoing violence between criminal cartels and the armed forces.
Despite the risks, she’d visit every market possible in every town she could. She’d return multiple times after befriending locals, and in her publications, she’d meticulously credit the women originators of the recipes she’d perfect alongside them.
Her first cookbook in 1972, “The Cuisines of Mexico,” became a sensation. English readers were becoming acquainted with the reality that Mexico was more than combination plates and tacos — there was richness as deep as any to be found in China, India or Italy. Fifty years ago, this was new information for most Anglo and even many U.S.-born Mexican American cooks.
In the kitchen with a feisty Diana Kennedy as she argues with Mexican cooks over tamale prep and teaches health-obsessed white cooks to relax about chiles.
In the late 1970s, Quinta Diana was born. It was her dream to become one with the landscape, in how she lived, and especially in how she cooked. The house in its entirety was her lifelong project, distilled.
With nine books in English, induction into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame, and the highest of civilian decorations from the governments of both Mexico and the United Kingdom, Kennedy had been referred to as an “ambassador” or a “dame” throughout her life.
But she’d wave her hand at all that, approving of no such title other than simply “cook.” Not even chef, she’d say. Open a restaurant? Ridiculous.
The author was notorious for bad-mouthing, in public, any chef of Mexican food north of the border who’d claim to be “authentic” in the context of U.S. restaurants. The commercialization, or let’s say the Frida Kahlo-izing of Mexican food made her furious.
Questions about her own nationality, as a native of the U.K., would be quickly silenced by the sheer years and miles she’d already put into the work. If any young star challenged her, she’d tell Mexican chefs that she was cooking “with your grandmother” long before their birth — so, please don’t come at her with any essentialist notions about her identity.
Kennedy clearly had acquired her Mexican-ness by choice, a process that even the most hardcore nationalists will begrudgingly admit is real, if rare — like Chavela Vargas, the Costa Rican-born singer of Mexican songs who, incidentally, also didn’t give a whole damn about what anyone thought of her.
I’ve always loved any old person who doesn’t stop short for decorum to say what she thinks is right.
In “Nothing Fancy,” which premieres virtually Friday, the queen of Mexican regional cooking confronts mortality and the director of her documentary.
“Nobody’s saying ‘No.’ They just sit down to eat,” Kennedy said to me at Quinta Diana. “I say, you’ve got to have classes for eaters. And you prepare a thing in a bad way, mediocre, and good. And you point out the difference, and build a palate.”
Her knowledge base seemed unmatched.
“Don’t forget epazote — it’s an all-purpose herb. It goes in black beans; it makes a good tea, as a remedy for internal troubles — and it gets rid of ants,” Kennedy told The Times’ Laurie Ochoa in 1992. “And don’t let anyone tell you epazote came over from Europe. It’s a North American weed — and it loves parking lots.”
“Remember, I married a newspaperman,” she also told Ochoa, cuttingly. “And he told me to never believe anything you see in print.”
“If you haven’t got an opinion,” Diana Kennedy says, “you aren’t a very good cook anyway.”
Kennedy also loved to dine out, and be seen. Consequently, chefs in Mexico City were terrified of Kennedy’s assessment if she ever stopped in. So when the cook walked into the seafood restaurant Contramar, and loved it, chef Gabriela Cámara recalled a sense of relief. They became friends over a kinship. Cámara said she grew up practicing what Kennedy preached: composting and collecting rainwater with her parents in Tepoztlán.
Late in Kennedy’s final years, Cámara was part of a cohort of confidantes who took care of the cook and established the Diana Kennedy Center in hopes that Quinta Diana could live on after her departure.
“She really thought she could have an influence on me, and she really did,” Cámara said on Sunday. “I think also she in a way lived vicariously through me, and being younger and identified with this energy to do things differently.”
Kennedy left no survivors. “She had no kids, deliberately,” her friend said.
It is not clear what will happen to Kennedy’s house now that she has died. Although she was a successful cookbook author, there was not enough money in her later years, Cámara said, to fully realize Kennedy’s vision for Quinta Diana as an educational center or museum.
The governments of Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States should do everything possible to match Kennedy’s wishes and her unwavering standards. In the 21st century, love for Mexican food is evident on every inhabited continent. The world simply loves anything Mexican to eat.
There’s no blaming it.
As Mexican regional cuisines have climbed to the highest echelons of global fine dining and Mexican food in general has redrawn the map of day-to-day home cooking in the often politically unfriendly location of the United States, Kennedy’s dedication to its original ingredients and original techniques must be celebrated and carried on.
It’s been a long journey, though unfinished, from the days when her neighbors in 1960s Manhattan would put air fresheners in her hallway to combat the scents of all “these gorgeous things going on in my apartment.”
Kennedy laughed. What idiots.
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Supreme Court’s abortion ruling sets off new court fights
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country Monday, as abortion foes looked to quickly enact statewide bans and the other side sought to buy more time.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to end constitutional protections for abortion opened the gates for a wave of litigation from all sides.
Many of the court cases will focus on “trigger laws,” adopted in 13 states in anticipation of the ruling and designed to take effect quickly. Lawsuits could also target old anti-abortion laws that went unenforced under Roe, and cases over abortion restrictions that were put on hold awaiting the Supreme Court ruling have also started to come back into play.
“We’ll be back in court tomorrow and the next day and the next day,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which argued the case that resulted in Supreme Court ruling, told reporters in a video call Friday.
On Monday, abortion rights advocates asked a judge in Florida to block a new state law, which bans abortions after 15 weeks with some exceptions and is set to take effect July 1. The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah has already challenged a trigger law with narrow exceptions. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and an abortion-rights group filed an emergency motion Saturday seeking to block a 2021 law that they worry can be used to halt all abortions.
Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project, said the organization would look at “all options” to protect access to abortion. As of Saturday, abortion services had stopped in at least 11 states — either because of state laws or confusion over them.
In some cases, the lawsuits may only be a play for time. Even if courts block some abortion bans or restrictions from taking hold, lawmakers in many conservative state could move quickly to address any flaws cited.
Challenges to trigger laws could be made on the grounds that the conditions to impose the bans have not been met, or that it was improper for a past legislature to bind the current one to a new law. Laura Herner, a professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, said trigger bans or restrictions could also be challenged using equal protection arguments.
She said other challenges might call into question whether laws sufficiently and clearly allow for exceptions to protect the life or health of a pregnant woman.
Still other cases could be filed as states try to sort out whether abortion bans in place before Roe was decided — sometimes referred to as “zombie laws” — apply now that there is no federal protection for abortion.
For instance, Wisconsin passed a law in 1849 banning abortions except to save the life of the mother. Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, said he does not believe it’s enforceable. Pro-Life Wisconsin and other abortion opponents have called on lawmakers to impose a new ban.
In the meantime, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin said it immediately suspended all abortions, though the district attorneys in the counties that include Madison and Milwaukee have both suggested that they would not enforce the ban.
In Michigan, Planned Parenthood was proactive, challenging a 1931 abortion ban ahead of the Supreme Court ruling. In May, a judge said the ban could not be enforced because it violates the state’s constitution. Abortion rights supporters are now trying to get a proposed state constitutional amendment on the ballot in November to spell out that people can make their own decisions about abortion and birth control.
Advocates and experts also expect to see court fights over state efforts to pursue legal action against people who cross state lines to seek abortions — or to protect people from such action.
Idaho, Oklahoma and Texas have adopted laws that allow people to seek bounties against those who help others get abortions. There’s a question over whether that means people can be pursued across state lines — and some states acted to prevent that.
For instance, the California Legislature, controlled by Democrats, passed a bill Thursday to shield abortion providers and volunteers in the state from civil judgments imposed by other states. In liberal Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, signed an executive order on Friday that prohibits state agencies from assisting other states’ investigations into anyone who receives or delivers reproductive health services that are legal in Massachusetts.
“It’s going to be very confusing and have a lot of moving parts and the patients are really going to be the ones who bear the brunt of this. There’s going to be a lot of confusion about where people can access abortion,” said Amiri, of the ACLU.
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Forliti reported from Minneapolis and Mulvihill from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin; Kate Brumback in Atlanta; Steve LeBlanc in Boston and Don Thompson in Sacramento, California, contributed to this report.
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Five people were killed in a string of recent homicides in Stockton, California, this summer that the police chief confirmed on Friday are interconnected.A person of interest is sought in connection with the killings. However, police have not been able to determine whether the deaths are the work of one person or multiple people."These incidents are occurring in the hours of darkness, these incidents are occurring where folks are alone by themselves, not in lit areas," Stockton's police Chief Stanley McFadden said.An $85,000 cash reward has been offered to anyone who can bring information that leads to an arrest in any of the investigations, police said. As the Stockton Police Department searches for the person or people responsible for the serial killings, sister station KCRA is learning more about the five lives lost.Family has identified three of the five victims.35-year-old Paul Alexander Yaw43-year-old Salvador William Dubedy Jr.21-year-old Hispanic man52-year-old Hispanic man52-year-old Lorenzo Lopez While most of the victims are Hispanic, Stockton police don't believe that there is any indication that these are hate crimes. At the moment it's unclear if a person of interest being sought by police is a suspect or a witness. Paul Alexander Yaw, 35Paul Alexander Yaw was killed on July 8, family confirmed to KCRA. "This is my son Paul, he was a great man with a big heart," his mother Greta Bogrow, who lives in Texas, said in a statement. "He was my son, a father, a grandson, nephew, cousin and brother and was loved by many. He has left a huge hole in our hearts and I hope they catch the person(s) responsible before this happens again."Yaw was shot just after midnight — around 12:30 a.m. — at a park in the 5600 block of Kermit Lane, police said. He was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries. One neighbor told KCRA 3 that she heard the gunshots.Bogrow said her son was unhoused at the time of his death. Salvador William Dubedy Jr., 43 Salvador William Dubedy Jr. was killed on Aug. 11, family confirmed to KCRA.Dubedy was a Stockton native. He was shot around 9:49 p.m. in a parking lot on the 4900 block of West Lane, police said. Officers found him with a gunshot wound and started life-saving measures. He died at the scene of the shooting, which was about five minutes away from the first homicide. Dubeday's wife, Analydia Lopez, says that she found out about the possible connection between all homicides through social media and is upset that Stockton police haven't reached out to give her family information.Lorenzo Lopez, 54Lorenzo Lopez was killed on Sept. 27, family confirmed to KCRA.He was shot just before 2 a.m. on the 900 block of Porter Avenue, police said. When officers arrived, they found the man on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A shrine has since been set up at the scene by grieving family members. “My mother and father were just heartbroken from this,” said Jerry Lopez, brother of Lorenzo. "That’s their first baby boy. And I know they have so many memories of him.”Jerry Lopez is hopeful that the Stockton Police Department's announcement that it's offering reward money and looking for a person of interest in connection to his brother's killing, and others believed to be part of that serial murder spree, will make a difference.“He was there for me. He was watching out for me. I wish I could’ve watched out for him,” Jerry Lopez said about his big brother. Learn more about Lopez here.
Five people were killed in a string of recent homicides in Stockton, California, this summer that the police chief confirmed on Friday are interconnected.
A person of interest is sought in connection with the killings. However, police have not been able to determine whether the deaths are the work of one person or multiple people.
"These incidents are occurring in the hours of darkness, these incidents are occurring where folks are alone by themselves, not in lit areas," Stockton's police Chief Stanley McFadden said.
An $85,000 cash reward has been offered to anyone who can bring information that leads to an arrest in any of the investigations, police said.
As the Stockton Police Department searches for the person or people responsible for the serial killings, sister station KCRA is learning more about the five lives lost.
Family has identified three of the five victims.
- 35-year-old Paul Alexander Yaw
- 43-year-old Salvador William Dubedy Jr.
- 21-year-old Hispanic man
- 52-year-old Hispanic man
- 52-year-old Lorenzo Lopez
While most of the victims are Hispanic, Stockton police don't believe that there is any indication that these are hate crimes. At the moment it's unclear if a person of interest being sought by police is a suspect or a witness.
Paul Alexander Yaw, 35
Greta Bogrow
Paul Alexander Yaw was the first victim of Stockton serial killings.
Paul Alexander Yaw was killed on July 8, family confirmed to KCRA.
"This is my son Paul, he was a great man with a big heart," his mother Greta Bogrow, who lives in Texas, said in a statement. "He was my son, a father, a grandson, nephew, cousin and brother and was loved by many. He has left a huge hole in our hearts and I hope they catch the person(s) responsible before this happens again."
Yaw was shot just after midnight — around 12:30 a.m. — at a park in the 5600 block of Kermit Lane, police said. He was taken to the hospital, where he died from his injuries. One neighbor told KCRA 3 that she heard the gunshots.
Bogrow said her son was unhoused at the time of his death.
Salvador William Dubedy Jr., 43
Analydia Lopez
Second victim of serial killings in Stockton, Salvador William Dubedy, Jr., 43
Salvador William Dubedy Jr. was killed on Aug. 11, family confirmed to KCRA.
Dubedy was a Stockton native.
He was shot around 9:49 p.m. in a parking lot on the 4900 block of West Lane, police said. Officers found him with a gunshot wound and started life-saving measures. He died at the scene of the shooting, which was about five minutes away from the first homicide.
Dubeday's wife, Analydia Lopez, says that she found out about the possible connection between all homicides through social media and is upset that Stockton police haven't reached out to give her family information.
Lorenzo Lopez, 54
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Lorenzo Lopez was the fifth victim of Stockton serial killings.
Lorenzo Lopez was killed on Sept. 27, family confirmed to KCRA.
He was shot just before 2 a.m. on the 900 block of Porter Avenue, police said. When officers arrived, they found the man on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A shrine has since been set up at the scene by grieving family members.
“My mother and father were just heartbroken from this,” said Jerry Lopez, brother of Lorenzo. "That’s their first baby boy. And I know they have so many memories of him.”
Jerry Lopez is hopeful that the Stockton Police Department's announcement that it's offering reward money and looking for a person of interest in connection to his brother's killing, and others believed to be part of that serial murder spree, will make a difference.
“He was there for me. He was watching out for me. I wish I could’ve watched out for him,” Jerry Lopez said about his big brother.
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NETTLETON – During its Jan. 5 meeting, the board of aldermen approved the purchase of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) water meters, which will provide an automated reading system.
According to city clerk Dana Burcham, the city is not purchasing the full amount of AMI water meters at one time but rather several at a time. The first set of meters will be placed sporadically throughout the city.
Consolidated Pipe, which submitted the low bid of $49,310, was approved for the purchase. It’s unknown when the AMI meters be installed and go live.
Aldermen also approved an amendment to the city’s job description for police officers, removing the requirement they have to have three years experience before being hired.
In a related matter, aldermen tabled the hire of a part-time patrolman for the Nettleton Police Department.
The board approved a request for cash for a drawdown of $10,000 from the city’s small municipalities grant through the Mississippi Development Authority for a payment to Sanderson Construction for work to renovate the former barber shop building at 237 Main St.
Aldermen also approved a travel request for Burcham to attend a statewide Main Street directors retreat in Cleveland.
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First Lady Jill Biden will be cheering on her hometown Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday in the NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers, according to the White House.
Biden grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia suburb, and the president often references her allegiance to teams from the city.
Jill Biden made an appearance at an Eagles game against rival Dallas Cowboys earlier this season to raise cancer awareness along with the NFL’s and the American Cancer Society’s “Crucial Catch” initiative, aimed to promote early detection and risk reduction of cancer.
“It’s a special night for this Philly girl — I get to cheer on my @Eagles alongside these brave cancer survivors and their families,” Biden said in a tweet at the time.
The Philadelphia Eagles, led by MVP favorite quarterback Jalen Hurts and second-year head coach Nick Sirianni, are favored against the 49ers, who have been on a seven-game winning streak.
The Eagles, who had the league’s best record at 14-3 this season, hope to make their first Super Bowl appearance since 2018, when the team defeated the then Tom Brady-led New England Patriots 41-33 to win their first ever Super Bowl.
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Born from the realization that active skincare ingredients degrade rapidly, Exponent unveils its newest Powder addition to the self-activated, clinical-grade skincare lineup: Time Rewind Retinol Powder
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Exponent Beauty, officially launched this past April 2022 as the first self-activated, fresh clinical skincare line, introduces its newest Active Powder to join its skincare lineup this June– Time Rewind Retinol Powder.
Exponent's patented self-activated skincare line quickly dispenses a precise dose of both Active Powder and Quadruple Hyaluronic Acid Hydrator, creating a freshly-whipped Superior Serum with a light gel-cream texture. By mixing an Active Powder complex with the Hydrator, there are no jars, tubes, or bottles of formulas past their prime, just a convenient, single-dose application in under eight seconds.
Unlike traditional water-based skincare formulas that start degrading the moment they're manufactured, Exponent's Superior Serums are protected until they're activated – keeping the efficacy in – and the elements out. Exponent defies skincare "over-innovation," cutting through the clutter to give consumers the highest-functioning formulas that yield impressive clinical results with self-activated skincare made in an instant to keep clinically proven ingredients at their peak potency.
Upon first launching, Exponent unveiled a Superior Serum lineup including four different Active Powder formulas including Vitamin C, CoQ10, Green Tea + Resveratrol, and Probiotic + Enzyme blends – each of which offered targeted solutions for multiple skincare concerns when mixed with the Quadruple Hyaluronic Acid Hydrator.
For its next launch, on July 14, 2022, Exponent will reveal its fifth Serum: Time Rewind Retinol, with age-defying powers ideal for achieving tighter, clearer, and more youthful looking skin. Time Rewind has been clinically proven to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, even skin tone and texture, and firm and smooth skin without irritation, resulting in 100% of test subjects showing clinically significant decreases in global facial fine lines and wrinkles, and 76% showing clinically significant increases in skin elasticity after four weeks.
As noted by Exponent Founder, Liz Whitman, "Retinol is the most fragile of the antioxidants, disappearing rapidly once exposed to light and air. It also has a reputation as irritating if too concentrated. We wanted our serums to not only deliver peak potency in every dose, but at an optimal concentration for clinically-proven decreases in fine lines and wrinkles without irritating the skin.
Liz began Exponent from an "AHA moment" while President & CMO of The Red Door by Elizabeth Arden, where top estheticians optimize precious active ingredients by mixing skincare fresh, in the moment for best results. This led her to question: how effective can pre-mixed retail skincare products be? After two years of researching hundreds of skincare products, including third-party testing on best-sellers, the conclusion became that skincare products, ironically, have an aging problem. She discovered that pre-bottled skincare can degrade up to 40% in just 8 weeks, ultimately rendering your skincare ineffective.
Exponent is backed by Founders Fund (Ritual, 8Sleep), Unilever Ventures (The Inkey List, Kopari Beauty, Saie), SugarCap (Starface, Snif), Flybridge Capital (Chief, Parachute) and Bullish (Harry's, Care/of); as well as strategic beauty industry execs and entrepreneurs. Such supporters include Sara and Erin Foster, who are advisors and investors in Exponent, both with track records of working with disruptive consumer brands (Bumble, Mirror).
Exponent prides itself on its commitment to sustainability – holding its packaging to as high a standard as its ingredients, a practice that has earned the brand Certified B Corporation status prior to official launch, ideating and designing the innovative Exponent Self-Activator to be reusable and eliminating plastic waste with refills of both the Hydrator and Active Powders made out of infinitely recyclable glass and aluminum.
Exponent exists to not only provide the best-in-class, highest-performing skincare products, but to educate consumers on the science behind skincare and offer effective and practical solutions for all. The introductory Retinol Starter Kit (Self-Activator Globe + Dispenser, Self-Activator Base, Quadruple Hyaluronic Acid Hydrator Refill and Retinol Active Powder Refill) retails for $166. The brand also offers sustainable product refills for the Retinol Active Powder + Hydrator components: a separate Quadruple Hyaluronic Acid Hydrator Refill (90 doses) sells for $68, and a separate Retinol Active Powder Refill (45 doses) for $78.
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Biden to welcome NBA champion Warriors to White House
Published: Jan. 17, 2023 at 12:56 PM EST|Updated: 53 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Gray News) – President Joe Biden is set to host the 2022 NBA Finals champions at the White House on Tuesday.
The Golden State Warriors won their fourth title since 2015 when they beat the Boston Celtics 4-2 in the best-of-seven series in June. Finals MVP Stephen Curry is among the players expected to be in attendance.
Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff also are scheduled to be there to welcome their home-state team to the White House.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — "Goodfellas" actor Ray Liotta, who once lent his voice to a Palm Beach County tourism video, has died at the age of 67.
Deadline reported Thursday that Liotta died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was making a movie.
Liotta was plenty familiar with Florida and South Florida, in particular.
The New Jersey-born actor, perhaps best known for his role as Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's 1990 mob drama "Goodfellas," graduated from the University of Miami and went on to appear in several movies filmed in the Sunshine State.
His sophomore movie, "Something Wild," for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination, was filmed in the Tallahassee area.
Liotta came to Palm Beach County in 2000 to film "Heartbreakers," which was set in Palm Beach. Filming locations included the Breakers, Worth Avenue and neighboring West Palm Beach.
In 2014, Liotta voiced a tourism video touting Palm Beach County as a "place where luxury never goes out of style, where there's always something for everyone."
Liotta's father, Alfred, died in Palm Beach Gardens in 2015 at the age of 98. According to his obituary, Ray Liotta son was at his side.
A graduate of the University of Miami, Liotta studied acting at the Coral Gables school, performing in musicals like "Cabaret," "Oklahoma" and "The Sound of Music" during his time there.
Some of Liotta's other film roles include 1989's "Field of Dreams," in which he portrayed the ghost of baseball star "Shoeless" Joe Jackson; 1992's "Unlawful Entry," starring opposite Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe as a psychopathic police officer fixated on another man's wife; 1997's "Cop Land," an ensemble crime drama about a New Jersey town whose residents are mostly comprised of corrupt cops; "Hannibal," director Ridley Scott's 2001 sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs;" and 2001's "Blow," about American cocaine smuggler George Jung. | https://www.wptv.com/entertainment/goodfellas-actor-ray-liotta-voice-of-palm-beach-county-tourism-video-dies | 2022-05-26 17:23:55 | 0 | https://www.wptv.com/entertainment/goodfellas-actor-ray-liotta-voice-of-palm-beach-county-tourism-video-dies |
Camden High must install a compliance officer funded by the city school district and approved by the NJSIAA as part of a settlement reached Tuesday morning prior to a controversies committee hearing regarding the Panthers’ recruitment of five star players from outside the city’s limits.
The deal was agreed to Tuesday morning and must be approved by the respective institutions’ governing bodies. The Camden City School District has been under the state department of education’s control since 2013.
If the agreement is finalized, it would end a yearlong probe by the NJSIAA following revelations from a New Jersey Advance Media investigation of Camden’s efforts to enroll star players like guard D.J. Wagner and Aaron Bradshaw despite neither residing in Camden.
Both played in the McDonald’s All American game in March and will attend the University of Kentucky next year. Wagner, whose father, Dajuan, and grandfather, Milt, both starred for Camden in their youths, commuted in from Mount Royal, and Bradshaw, who lived 70 miles north of Camden in Rahway, stayed with Wagner’s father in West Deptford. Two other starters, Dasear Haskins and Cornelius Robinson, drove in from Willingboro.
“The state department of education basically acknowledged the veracity of the findings that they had in fact violated the recruitment rules and agreed to a settlement,” said Jose Delgado, a Camden resident who served on the school district’s board for 24 years.
The NJSIAA will not strip Camden of their 2022 sectional title. The Panthers’ most recent season ended with an on-court melee during a postseason game against cross-city rival Eastside High. The district withheld both teams from participating in the state tournament.
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Missouri health officials have issued a warning following the death of a man who ate raw oysters.
The man, who reportedly got the oysters from The Fruit Stand & Seafood in Manchester, was infected with the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, which can be found in uncooked seafood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health officials seized the remaining oysters at the establishment.
"There is no evidence that the business did anything to contaminate the oysters, which likely were already contaminated when the establishment received them," St. Louis health officials said in a statement.
Investigators are trying to determine the source of the oysters.
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In the meantime, anyone who ate raw oysters from The Fruit Stand & Seafood in Manchester is asked to monitor for symptoms of a Vibrio infection. Health officials say symptoms can develop as early as 12 hours after consuming raw or undercooked seafood. Symptoms of infection typically include fever, chills, and a drop in blood pressure. Notably, this type of infection, health officials say, does not typically cause diarrhea.
"Illness caused by Vibrio vulnificus can be very serious," St. Louis health officials said. "In the United States, the mortality rate associated with Vibrio vulnificus infection is approximately 33%."
Health officials say people with chronic liver disease or those who are immunocompromised are at an increased risk of developing severe illness.
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HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese diplomat met with the U.S. consul general in Hong Kong and warned him not to cross “red lines” to protest what China called his “inappropriate” interference in the territory's affairs, the foreign ministry's Hong Kong office said Friday.
Consul General Gregory May gave a video address last month in which he exprssed concern over diminished freedoms in Hong Kong and said its reputation as a business center depended on adherence to international standards and the rule of law.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office in Hong Kong said its commissioner Liu Guangyuan met with May recently to express objections to his words and deeds.
“Liu also drew three red lines for US consul general and US consulate general in Hong Kong, which is not to endanger China’s national security, not to engage in political infiltration in Hong Kong, and not to slander or damage Hong Kong’s development prospect,” his office said in reply to inquiries from The Associated Press.
Liu also urged May to abide by diplomatic ethics, the office added.
The U.S. consulate in Hong Kong did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
May, in his address to the U.S. Center for Strategic & International Studies, also cited a decision by China’s legislature that lets Hong Kong's executive branch decide whether foreign lawyers can be involved in national security cases in the city.
The decision was made after the city's top court allowed pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai to hire a British lawyer to represent him as he fights collusion charges that could bring a life prison sentence if he is convicted.
Liu's office accused May of slandering the rule of law and freedom in Hong Kong when he questioned the legal decision made in Beijing and other changes in Hong Kong's governance.
The U.S. and other democracies have been critical of China’s crackdown on political freedoms in the former British colony, which was handed back to China in 1997 with a promise by Beijing to keep Western-style liberties under a “one country, two systems” framework.
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New PRG340 Models Offer Advanced Sustainable Features for Climbers and Beyond
DOVER, N.J., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Casio America, Inc., is pleased to expand its PRO TREK collection of outdoor timepieces with the PRG340 series. Built for the great outdoors with sustainability in mind, the PRG340 series consists of three models – the PRG340-1 (Black), PGR340-3 (Green) and PRG340T-7 (Titanium band) – and features Casio's Triple Sensor technology, Tough Solar, and more for adventures near and far.
The new watches are designed for ease of use in mountain climbing, trekking and other outdoor activities, providing high readability with a dual-layer LCD. Casio demonstrates its commitment to environmentally friendly product development by making the case, case back, band, and rotating bezel with biomass plastics* using raw materials from castor seeds and corn. Produced from renewable resources, biomass plastics are expected to help promote the shift to circular economies and curb CO2 emissions. The bezel, which is more prone to impact than other parts, is made of a newly developed, even stronger biomass plastic.
The PRG340 models feature a large, rotating bio-based plastic bezel, lug case back and a soft, comfortable band that allows the watch to lay flat for maximum compass readability when using a map. The dual-layer LCD separates the graphic indicators of the compass on the upper layer from time & measurements on the lower layer for easier readings. The PRG340 models are also powered by a Tough Solar system that even keeps functions operating for up to 7 months with exposure to only small amounts of light.
"At Casio we pride ourselves on developing gear built for explorers, outdoor enthusiasts, and environmentalists alike," said Tadashi Shibuya, Vice President of Casio's Timepiece Division. "We couldn't be more excited to introduce the latest PRG340 series which contributes to our sustainability efforts and passion for connecting adventurers to their environment."
Equipped with Casio's V3 Triple Sensor technology, the new watches provide easy measurements of compass bearing, barometric pressure, temperature, and altitude with the push of a button, all necessary for outdoor exploration. Each measurement is accessible directly from its own non-slip button, making for effortless readouts even when wearing gloves. The band boasts a fine knurled texture, giving the look and feel of a piece of serious outdoor gear. These rugged watches will feel perfectly at home in rough usage scenarios. Additional features include a duplex LCD with full auto LED Super-Illuminator and bolder font for improved readability, water resistance up to 100 meters, five independent daily alarms, a 1/100-second stopwatch, countdown timer and more.
As part of the release, Casio Pro Trek has unveiled an exclusive collection page taking consumers through the features, which can be viewed HERE.
The PRO TREK PRG340-1 (Black, $280), PRG340-3 (Green, $280) and PRG340T-7 (Titanium band, $340) will be available this August at select retailers nationwide and casio.com/us/. For additional information on Casio's PRO TREK collection of timepieces, please visit www.casio.com/us/watches/protrek/.
*Biomass plastics are not used in the metal band of the PGR-340T.
About PRO TREK
PRO TREK is a line of men's watches designed and engineered to make them essential pieces of outdoor gear including Tough Solar Power, Triple Sensor Technology (i.e., altimeter/barometer, digital compass, and thermometer), low temperature and water resistance, daily alarms, a stopwatch, and more. Whether individuals enjoy hiking, camping, mountain biking or hunting, Casio's PRO TREK collection offers rugged, stylish, and versatile timepieces for men with features that enhance any outdoor experience. For additional information on Casio's PRO TREK line of timepieces, please visit www.casio.com/us/protrek/.
About Casio America, Inc.
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casio.com/us/.
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The event and learning technology provider reveals innovative content delivery methods at Cadmium Spark
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of learning and event professionals convened yesterday for the first day of Cadmium's annual conference, Cadmium Spark. The conference, a two-day hybrid event consisting of informational sessions, workshops, panel discussions, and more, revealed innovative ways for content-driven organizations to generate customer engagement, retain membership, and drive revenue.
Conceived as a crucial event for event, association, and continuing education professionals from around the country, Cadmium Spark marks the company's first annual conference to be attended by a broader audience than users of its technology. Cadmium is the leading software provider offering continuing education, professional development, events, learning, and content management solutions.
"The first day of Cadmium Spark has been a resounding success," said Jessie Reyes, Director of Marketing at Cadmium. "It's been incredible to see so many association professionals connect, learn, and inspire one another. We look forward to what the rest of the conference will bring for virtual and in-person attendees."
The conference opened with an address by John Pierson, CEO of Cadmium. During the session, Pierson revealed the company's advancements in its mission to build a suite of event and learning technology products that capture the chemistry of people, ideas, and knowledge. Pierson also reviewed the company's legacy and reiterated its commitment to excellence in the industry.
Artesha Moore, FASAE, CAE, President and CEO of Association Forum, concluded the program with a keynote address entitled "Looking Ahead at the Future of Associations." Leveraging more than 20 years of association management experience, Moore urged conference attendees to embrace the insights of younger generations, to create systems of extreme ownership, and to leverage virtual and hybrid communities.
"Together, I think we are going to do something monumental," Moore said. "We're going to change the game. And that makes me very excited."
Other noteworthy sessions included:
- "Driving Revenue with Elevate" by Molly S. Mazuk, Director of Professional Development at the American Society of Addiction Medicine
- "Think Before You Build: A Lesson on More Effective Scorecards" by Shaina Dorow, Conference Program Manager, and Brittney Peters, Event Technology Manager at NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- "The Do's and Don'ts of Virtual and Hybrid Events" by Monte Evans, MS, Senior Vice President of Video Technology at Cadmium
Cadmium Spark will continue through July 26, 2022, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.
Cadmium simplifies the production of live, hybrid and virtual events and maximizes the value of online learning with a single, flexible platform designed to capture the chemistry of people, ideas and knowledge. The company's software products are trusted by more than 1000 content-driven organizations worldwide to generate revenue, drive customer retention, and lower operational costs for their events and education initiatives. For more information, visit gocadmium.com.
Contact:
Jessie Reyes, Director of Marketing | Cadmium
jessie.reyes@gocadmium.com
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Top Player Prop Bets for Cavaliers vs. Knicks NBA Playoffs Game 1 on April 15, 2023
Donovan Mitchell and Julius Randle are among the players with prop bets on the table when the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New York Knicks square off at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on Saturday (opening tip at 6:00 PM ET).
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Cavaliers vs. Knicks Game Info
- Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023
- Time: 6:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
- Venue: Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse
NBA Props Today: Cleveland Cavaliers
Donovan Mitchell Props
- The 28.3 points Mitchell has scored per game this season is 1.2 fewer than his prop total set for Saturday (29.5).
- Mitchell's per-game rebound average -- 4.3 -- is 0.2 less than his prop bet over/under in Saturday's game (4.5).
- Mitchell has averaged 4.4 assists per game, 0.1 less than Saturday's assist over/under (4.5).
- Mitchell's 3.6 made three-pointers per game is 0.1 more than his over/under in Saturday's game (3.5).
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Evan Mobley Props
- The 14.5-point total set for Evan Mobley on Saturday is 1.7 less than his season scoring average.
- He averages 0.5 more rebounds than his prop bet Saturday of 8.5.
- Mobley's assists average -- 2.8 -- is 0.3 higher than Saturday's over/under (2.5).
- He has connected on 0.3 three-pointers per game, 0.2 fewer than his over/under on Saturday.
Darius Garland Props
- The 21.6 points Darius Garland scores per game are 0.1 more than his over/under on Saturday.
- Garland averages 0.2 more rebounds than his over/under on Saturday (which is 2.5).
- Garland averages 7.8 assists, 0.3 more than Saturday's over/under.
- Garland averages 2.4 made three-pointers, which is less than his over/under on Saturday (2.5).
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Julius Randle Props
- The 24.5-point over/under set for Randle on Saturday is 0.6 lower than his scoring average of 25.1.
- Randle has grabbed 10 boards per game, 2.5 more than his over/under for Saturday's game.
- Randle's assist average -- 4.1 -- is higher than Saturday's assist prop bet (3.5).
- Randle has hit 2.8 three-pointers per game, which is more than his over/under on Saturday (2.5).
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Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members filed a lawsuit against the company Monday, saying it failed to take appropriate precautions at its meat-packing plants during the early days of the COVID pandemic.
A message seeking comment was left for Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson.
Meat-packing facilities were early epicenters of the COVID epidemic in the U.S., with employees working closely together on the production line. At least 59,000 meat-packing workers contracted COVID-19 and 269 workers died in 2020, according to a U.S. House report issued in 2021.
The lawsuit claims Tyson knew about COVID as early as January 2020, when the virus was spreading through its facilities in China. On March 13 of that year, the lawsuit said, Tyson suspended all business travel and mandated that all non-critical employees at its corporate office work remotely.
But at the five Arkansas plants where the plaintiffs or their family members worked, Tyson didn’t provide masks or allow work modifications to allow for social distancing until late April 2020, the lawsuit said. The company also didn’t perform contact tracing or quarantine infected workers, the lawsuit said.
The plaintiffs are seeking monetary damages.
The lawsuit isn’t the first to target Tyson over its COVID protocols.
In late February, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition by Tyson to move a case in Iowa to federal court. Tyson argued that federal officials wanted it to keep the company’s plants running, citing an executive order signed by former President Donald Trump designating meat processing as essential infrastructure.
But a federal appeals court judge ruled last year that Tyson can’t claim it was operating under the direction of the federal government. The case filed by family members of Tyson employees who died of COVID __ has been sent back to Iowa state court. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/06/tyson-covid-meat-packing-lawsuit-arkansas/7562df86-bc7a-11ed-9350-7c5fccd598ad_story.html | 2023-03-07 01:03:18 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/06/tyson-covid-meat-packing-lawsuit-arkansas/7562df86-bc7a-11ed-9350-7c5fccd598ad_story.html |
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The largest budget in the history of the City of Fresno has been unanimously adopted by the Fresno City Council Thursday, allocating $1.78 billion for fiscal year 2024.
Council President Tyler Maxwell, who serves as the Chair of the Budget Subcommittee, played a critical role during budget negotiations in securing $30 million to fulfill the needs of the entire Fresno City Council.
“As Council President, my goal was to include as many of my Council colleagues’ priorities into this year’s budget as possible,” said Council President Tyler Maxwell.
In a collaborative effort with Mayor Dyer’s administration and council leadership, Maxwell believes he has successfully presented a balanced budget that supports key investments in every single district.
Council President Maxwell says the budget will strengthen Fresno’s public safety, rebuild neighborhood infrastructure, and improve the quality of life of every Fresnan regardless of their zip code.
While not every priority ended up in this year’s budget, this is a budget that every single councilmember can and should be proud of. I am confident that this budget delivers on the promises my council colleagues and I have made to make Fresno a safer, cleaner, and more prosperous city for all. This is a budget that serves the people of Fresno.
Fresno City Council President Tyler Maxwell
Listed below are some of the various investments that made it into the budget:
Council Adopted Priorities:
- $18.6 Million added to fund additional green spaces, park and community center improvements, road improvements, and beautification
- $2.8 Million in added infrastructure improvements for each council district
- $2 Million to continue Fresno’s Eviction Protection Program (EPP) protecting tenants from unlawful evictions
- $1 Million for a commercial Facade Improvement Program
- $500,000 to continue providing free public transit (zero fare) to children ages 0-12, seniors 65+,
- Medicare users, and persons with disabilities. College students, active military personnel, and veterans will continue to ride our fixed-route transit at no cost.
- $450,000 for the renovation of our historic water tower in Downtown Fresno
- $150,000 to fund upgrades at the Armenian Cultural Center
- • $128,000 to fund critical protective equipment needs for our firefighters
- $100,000 to fund Project Spotlight, which will provide and direct video surveillance to our Fresno Police Department to help combat retail theft
- $100,000 to continue the Fresno Neighborhood Watch Program
- $50,000 for tenant relocation benefits to tenants having to move out of their homes due to dangerous living conditions
- Funding for an LGBTQ+ liaison within the Office of Community Affairs
Public Safety:
- 12 new police officers to reach our goal of 900 sworn officers
- $131,8000 to fund equipment for new sworn officers
- 8 new vehicles for officers dedicated to the enforcement of illegal street racing
- 6 new emergency dispatchers and 2 supervisors to reduce 911 response times
- 4 new firefighters to reach our goal of 375 firefighters
- $600,000 for an alternate mental health crisis response program
- $500,000 to prepare a Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Action Plan
- Construction for a new 911 call center facility
- Capital improvements for Fire Station 12 and the Regional Fire Training Center
- A dedicated bicycle patrol unit in District 4
Community Investments:
- $264.1 Million for city-wide infrastructure improvements including traffic signals, street improvements, trails, beautification, cyclist and pedestrian safety enhancements, sidewalk repairs, and the planting of 1,000 new trees
- $82 Million for city-wide park and community center upgrades, as well as new park acquisitions
- $28.8 Million to convert buildings into permanent/interim affordable housing
- $4.6 Million to support the Youth Job Corps Program
- $3.6 Million for the demolition and design of a new city-wide senior activity center and affordable senior housing
- $2.8 Million for continued city-wide tree trimming, reducing a 20-year trimming cycle to a 9-year tree-trimming cycle
- $1.7 Million for dedicated crews to fill potholes city-wide
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
03-27-33-35-45, Lucky Ball: 2
(three, twenty-seven, thirty-three, thirty-five, forty-five; Lucky Ball: two)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the "Lucky For Life" game were:
03-27-33-35-45, Lucky Ball: 2
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Join Dr. Lee Spitzer for a discussion about his new book, “Sympathy, Solidarity and Silence,” at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 13, at Second Baptist Church, 525 N. 25th St.
Spitzer will discuss the Baptist response to the Holocaust as the Fascist movement spread across Europe. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. | https://journalstar.com/niche/neighborhood-extra/spitzer-to-discuss-book-may-13-at-second-baptist-church/article_a8c1026c-ea93-11ed-bd3c-e3f837d6726d.html | 2023-05-06 05:34:00 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/niche/neighborhood-extra/spitzer-to-discuss-book-may-13-at-second-baptist-church/article_a8c1026c-ea93-11ed-bd3c-e3f837d6726d.html |
Series A financing co-led by Westlake Village BioPartners and Versant Ventures
Company advancing systemically delivered, skeletal and cardiac muscle targeted, liver de-targeted capsid and cargo technology platforms
Initial pipeline addressing myotonic dystrophy type 1 and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
Company grants Astellas Pharma Inc. exclusive license to KT430 to treat X-linked myotubular myopathy
SAN DIEGO, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kate Therapeutics Inc. ("KateTx"), a next-generation gene therapy company, today emerged from stealth mode with a $51 million Series A financing co-led by founding investor Westlake Village BioPartners and Versant Ventures, with participation from Osage University Partners and UF Innovate | Ventures. In addition, the company has granted Astellas Pharma Inc. an exclusive, worldwide license to develop, manufacture and commercialize KT430 to treat X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM), the details of which are described in a separate press release issued today.
There are a large number of genetically defined and complex muscle and heart diseases that cannot currently be addressed due to a lack of specific and effective delivery to these tissues. Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based capsids have shown promise to deliver therapeutic cargoes in other organs, but have been hampered for use in muscle and heart by limited potency, lack of tissue selectivity and minimal regulation of cargoes.
"We are excited to announce KateTx's launch and what this means for patients suffering from muscle and heart diseases," said Kevin Forrest, Ph.D., president, CEO and a director of KateTx. "KateTx is applying novel capsid and cargo technology platforms to enable skeletal and cardiac muscle targeting and liver de-targeting. We believe our technologies can provide safer and more effective medicines for patients."
Proceeds from the financing and license agreement will support the advancement of KateTx's initial internal portfolio of muscle and heart disease programs, including myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), which are two of the leading causes of adult-onset muscular dystrophy.
A differentiated approach to delivery
For capsids, KateTx's DELIVER platform leverages directed evolution, stringent RNA-based selection of functional capsid variants and machine learning in various in vivo models. The platform already has yielded the MyoAAV class of capsids, which were developed by KateTx scientific co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Sharif Tabebordbar, Ph.D., and colleagues at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard while he was a supervisor, research scientist in the lab of Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D. Results were first published in Cell in 2021.
Technologies related to Dr. Tabebordbar's work are licensed to KateTx. Internally, the company is also developing next-generation MyoAAV capsids with further targeting enhancements.
MyoAAV capsids target skeletal and cardiac muscle with dramatically higher efficiency across species compared with naturally occurring adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids including AAV8, AAV9 and AAVrh74. These breakthroughs have the potential to improve efficacy and safety of gene therapy and enable the pursuit of a broader set of targets that are otherwise difficult to treat with current technologies.
"My father lives with FSHD, so I saw firsthand the consequences of this devastating disease on patients and families. It is the reason I entered this field in the first place," said Dr. Tabebordbar. "I am beyond excited that KateTx's unique technologies are being used to develop first- and best-in-class gene therapies for patients living with serious muscle and heart diseases."
KateTx's cargo platform includes both internally generated proprietary capabilities and technologies licensed from the University of Florida that were developed in the laboratory of KateTx scientific co-founder Eric Wang, Ph.D. The overarching goal of the cargo platform is to ensure the company's therapies are produced only in tissues of interest and not elsewhere in the body.
Near-term focus on progressing to the clinic
Beyond capsid and cargo platform efforts, KateTx has built a team with gene therapy discovery, development, manufacturing and disease area expertise. KateTx's current focus is identifying and advancing clinical candidates for DM1 and FSHD, as well as for other genetic muscle and heart diseases.
"KateTx is leading the way to develop capsid and cargo combinations to address muscle and heart diseases in ways that have not been previously possible," said Beth Seidenberg, M.D., co-founding managing director at Westlake and chair of KateTx's board. "With Kevin at the helm and a world-class team, we look forward to the exciting future for the company and the medicines it will advance for patients."
"KateTx's platform has the potential to bring life-changing new therapies to patients suffering from muscle and heart disease who have limited or no treatment options," said Clare Ozawa, Ph.D., managing director at Versant and a KateTx board member. "With this Series A financing and licensing agreement, KateTx will be able to progress its deep pipeline of internal programs."
About Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1)
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a progressive multisystem disorder affecting approximately 40,000 individuals in the United States. Common symptoms include weakness and myotonia (inability to relax muscles) of the lower legs, hands, neck and face, causing upper extremity disability and difficulty walking, and extramuscular symptoms including cognitive problems, daytime sleepiness and sleep disturbance, and arrhythmias. Adult-onset forms are the most common; child-onset and congenital forms are more severe and sometimes life-threatening. There are no approved medicines for DM1.
About Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD)
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a heritable muscle disorder affecting approximately 40,000 people in the United States. FSHD onset is typically 15-30 years of age. Weakness usually progresses in a descending pattern, affecting the face, shoulders and upper arms, lower legs and hips. Upper extremity weakness is often most pronounced, but many patients will have significant difficulty walking, and about 20% eventually require a wheelchair. There are no approved medicines for FSHD.
About Kate Therapeutics
Kate Therapeutics (KateTx) is a patient-focused biotechnology company developing adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies to treat genetically defined muscle and heart diseases. The company is applying novel technology platforms that directly address the key limitations of current gene therapies, including tissue-specific delivery and gene regulation. These breakthroughs have the potential to improve the efficacy and safety of gene therapies and enable the pursuit of a broader set of targets that are otherwise difficult to drug with current technologies. For more information, please visit KateTx's website at https://www.katetherapeutics.com/.
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COLUMBUS, OH (WLIO) - The former Ohio Speaker of the House is appealing his conviction in a $60 million bribery scandal.
Larry Householder was sentenced to 20 years in prison for racketeering by a federal judge in June. Householder and former State Republican Party Chair Matt Borges were both accused of taking bribes from Akron-based First Energy to pass an over-billion-dollar bailout bill for the power company's nuclear plants in Ohio. Matt Borges, who was a lobbyist when the scandal happened, is also appealing his conviction and was sentenced to five years in prison. According to the Columbus Dispatch, both are in jail awaiting transfer to a federal prison. | https://www.hometownstations.com/townnews/criminal_law/larry-householder-is-appealing-his-federal-conviction/article_5e7ec646-21a5-11ee-954a-970d81f366c9.html | 2023-07-13 18:54:01 | 0 | https://www.hometownstations.com/townnews/criminal_law/larry-householder-is-appealing-his-federal-conviction/article_5e7ec646-21a5-11ee-954a-970d81f366c9.html |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform.
The site is now requiring people to log on to view tweets and profiles — a change in its longtime practice to allow everyone to peruse the chatter on what Musk has frequently touted as the world’s digital town square since buying it for $44 billion last year.
The restrictions could result in users being locked out of Twitter for the day after scrolling through several hundred tweets. Thousands of users complained Saturday of not being able to access the site.
In a Friday tweet, Musk described the new restrictions as a temporary measure that was taken because “we were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”
Musk has pushed back on what he calls misuse of Twitter data to train popular artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT. They scour reams of information online to generate human-like text, photos, video and other content.
Musk elaborated on the limits Saturday, saying unverified accounts will temporarily be restricted to reading 600 posts per day, while verified accounts will be able to scroll through up to 6,000.
After facing backlash, he tweeted that the thresholds would be raised to 800 posts for unverified accounts and 8,000 for verified accounts before later settling on 1,000 and 10,000 tweets, respectively.
The crackdown began to have ripple effects, causing more than 7,500 people at one point Saturday to report problems using the social media service, based on complaints registered on Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages.
Although that’s a relatively small number of Twitter’s more than 200 million worldwide users, the trouble was widespread enough to cause the #TwitterDown hashtag to trend in some parts of the world.
The higher threshold allowed on verified accounts is part of an $8-per-month subscription service that Musk rolled out earlier this year in an effort to boost Twitter revenue. It has fallen sharply since the billionaire Tesla CEO took over the company and laid off roughly three-fourths of the workforce to cut costs and stave off bankruptcy.
Advertisers have since curbed their spending on Twitter, partly because of changes that have allowed more sometimes-hateful and prickly content that offends a wider part of the service’s audience.
Musk recently hired longtime NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s CEO to try to win back advertisers.
An Associated Press inquiry about Saturday’s access problems triggered a crude automated reply that Twitter sends to most media queries without addressing the question. | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/ap-twitter-users-run-into-service-issues-after-elon-musk-imposes-daily-limits-on-reading-tweets/ | 2023-07-03 02:42:28 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/business/ap-business/ap-twitter-users-run-into-service-issues-after-elon-musk-imposes-daily-limits-on-reading-tweets/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man will spend the rest of his life in prison after hiring a hitman to kill his father, a reputed Mafia associate gunned down at a McDonald’s drive-thru in what prosecutors called a scheme to control a real estate empire built from mob money.
Anthony Zottola Sr. blotted away tears at sentencing Friday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. Audible sobs filled the courtroom as his sister and brother addressed him, the culmination of a wrenching family drama that the judge said was difficult to fathom.
Welling with emotion, his sister Deborah Ann Zottola, spoke lovingly of her brother even as she talked of the pain of losing their father.
“I won’t dig you a deeper grave. I will continue praying for you … but please pray for me,” she said, lamenting that Friday would be the last time she would be in the same room with both brothers.
A jury last fall found Zottola and an accomplice, Himen Ross, guilty in a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said went wrong several times before it finally led to the death of the victim, Sylvester Zottola, 71.
The first attack occurred in September of 2017, when a stranger floored the then-70-year-old with a punch to the face outside his Bronx home. Two months later a gunman shot at Sylvester Zottola as he drove on an expressway. In late December of that same year, three men broke into his home and struck him on the head with a gun, repeatedly stabbed him and slashed his throat. He survived.
The following October, he was shot to death by Ross at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx while waiting for a cup of coffee.
Prosecutors said Anthony Zottola Sr. also tried unsuccessfully to have his brother, Salvatore, killed.
In July of 2018, a gunman shot Salvatore Zottola in the head, chest and hand outside of his home. He survived.
In court, Salvatore Zottola fought back tears.
“Why?” he asked his brother from across the room. “Dad gave you everything. You had everything in life.”
The judge also tried to fathom the motive, concluding that it was all about greed and financial gain.
“There was a lot to go around … The defendant wanted more than that,” said U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez, adding that Zottola showed little remorse for “the unimaginable horror he caused his family.”
Zottola spoke briefly before the judge handed down his sentence, telling the court how he missed his wife and three children.
Authorities said Anthony Zottola Sr. managed properties for his father’s real estate business, which consisted of multifamily rental properties valued in the tens of millions of dollars. Prosecutors alleged the business was built on illegal gambling proceeds connected to the mob.
“Over the course of more than a year, the elderly victim, Sylvester Zottola, was stalked, beaten, and stabbed, never knowing who orchestrated the attacks. It was his own son, who was so determined to control the family’s lucrative real estate business, that he hired a gang of hit men to murder his father,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said after the sentencing.
In addition to the mandatory life sentences, Zottola and Ross were each sentenced to additional 112 years — which represents the combined ages of his father, 71, and brother, 41, when they were shot.
Six other men have pleaded guilty for their parts in the murder-for-hire scheme. Four of the men were sentenced to prison time ranging from 16 years to 20 years. Two others are awaiting sentencing. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/son-gets-life-for-drive-thru-hit-that-kill-mob-linked-father/ | 2023-04-15 11:30:07 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/son-gets-life-for-drive-thru-hit-that-kill-mob-linked-father/ |
Armed robber shot, killed by customer at convenience store, police say
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) - Police in Missouri are investigating a violent crime spree in St. Charles that ended with an armed robber being shot and killed.
The St. Charles Police Department reports the crime spree started during the early morning hours on Saturday at a convenience store where a 26-year-old went into the business with a knife and told the clerk he was robbing her.
Police said the man held the knife to the clerk’s throat while she opened the register. He then pushed the clerk to the floor and stole money from the register. He dragged her toward the back of the store, asking the location of the safe.
According to authorities, the clerk did not have access to the safe, so the thief forced the worker to open a second register before stealing that cash and leaving the scene.
Officials said first responders took the clerk to a hospital for lacerations on her left wrist, right hand and neck.
Police said they were on their way to that scene when reports of another armed robbery came in at a Phillips 66 gas station. Officers said they found broken glass that looked like a burglary had occurred.
St. Charles police said a third burglary call then came in regarding an armed robbery at a QuikTrip convenience store where shots had been fired.
According to police, arriving officers found the 26-year-old suspect shot by a customer during that attempted robbery. First responders took the suspected thief to the hospital, where he later died.
Authorities said they interviewed the customer, a 26-year-old man, who told police he stopped at the gas station to use the restroom and buy something. However, he was walking back to his car from the store when he saw a black SUV drive quickly into the parking lot.
The customer said he saw a man carrying a backpack while running into the store and threatening the clerk with a knife, according to police.
Officials said the 26-year-old customer grabbed his gun and went back into the store. He then confronted the thief, who grabbed for his backpack.
According to authorities, the suspect reportedly told the customer, “I have something for you,” and came around the counter when he was shot and killed by the customer.
Investigators said the customer and the clerk were both uninjured in the incident and the suspect’s car came back as stolen in an armed robbery on Friday, with stolen items also found in the vehicle.
St. Charles police did not immediately release the suspect’s identity but urged anyone with further information on the incidents to contact them at 636-949-3300.
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HALL COUNTY, Ga. — Update: The girl has been reunited with her family, according to the sheriff's office.
The Hall County Sheriff's Office is looking for help in identifying a young girl who was found wandering in the road just before midnight.
On Facebook, the sheriff's office said she was found in the area of Poplar Springs Road and Guiness Way and appears to be about 12-years-old.
Because she is nonverbal, the sheriff's office said she is unable to tell investigators where she lives.
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Welcome to the NPR series where we spotlight the people and things making headlines — and the stories behind them.
Local newsrooms haven't survived the cuts in the modern shift to digital media. Now, the country's largest newspaper company is feeling the squeeze again.
Who is it? Gannett publishes newspapers like USA Today, as well as many local weekly papers. Despite managing many local outlets, it has been cutting down for years.
What's the big deal? You might not need us to tell you this, but any reduction in a free press is cause for concern.
Want to learn more about news and the media? Listen to the Consider This episode: TikTok vs. Everybody
What are people saying? Here's some more insight from Benton, who spoke with NPR about the future of Gannett and print media.
On why Gannett continues to slash staff and paper numbers:
The Gannett that we have now is the result of the merger of two very large companies. The idea was [that] an individual newspaper might struggle on its own, but if you buy enough of them, you can extract as much of the cost of producing the newspaper from the local community as possible. You cut down on print days. You have the page layout and editing done elsewhere. The thought was you could achieve these economies of scale and make a profitable business. The problem is, as part of the merger, Gannett took on a lot of debt, and they have to pay off that debt. So they need revenue. And the way that they have been doing that is by cutting costs to the bone. That means cutting staff and cutting the quality of their newspapers.
On how smaller communities are getting left behind:
Gannett CEO Mike Reed has said that he sees in the future, the company will be focusing on its larger newspapers in communities like Phoenix and Indianapolis. But Gannett owns a lot of very small newspapers, a lot of weekly newspapers, a lot of very small daily newspapers. Those larger weeklies and smaller dailies are in a really tough position economically. It's very difficult to manage the cost while emphasizing digital subscriptions and getting enough of them to make things work out. There are also communities where there often isn't as much of an alternative in terms of a local television station or a local digital news outlet that's covering the area.
On what less local press might look like:
I see a lot more uncovered city council meetings. I see a lot more corruption that doesn't get noticed. I see a lot more uninformed voters, more people who take their cues for how they view their government from national media and the politicized world there as opposed to their local government. There certainly are bright spots. There are green shoots going up, but the challenge is just very difficult.
Gannett's chief communications officer, Lark-Marie Antón, in a statement published in Axios:
Our local markets are critical to Gannett's strategy. We plan to invest in better serving our readers with content initiatives that expand our audience and drive growth to ensure the sustainability of local news.
So, what now?
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WASHINGTON — ABC’s “This Week” — Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.; Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md.; former Vice President Al Gore; White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha.
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CNN’s “State of the Union” — Hogan; Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fewer than 100 employees out of the thousands who work at Nissan’s auto assembly plant in Tennessee can hold a vote on whether to form a small union, the federal labor board has decided.
The ruling Thursday by the National Labor Relations Board overturns a June 2021 decision by one of its regional officials that has long blocked the vote. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers sought to limit the push to about 86 tool and die technicians at Nissan’s Smyrna plant, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) outside Nashville.
The union said it is discussing the ruling with the employees at the Nissan facility “to determine the best path forward.”
The board’s 3-1 decision comes after a change to a Democratic majority on the board under President Joe Biden, with the last remaining GOP member voting in dissent.
The ruling offers a dash of hope for unions in their struggle to get a foothold in foreign-owned auto assembly plants in the traditionally anti-union South.
Previously, the regional official ruled against the smaller bloc vote after finding the few dozen workers share an “overwhelming community of interest” with the rest of the facility’s production and maintenance workers. She found that the only appropriate unionized group would be one representing about 4,300 plantwide production and maintenance workers. The union did not want the larger vote and didn’t pursue it.
The board, under a newly installed Democratic majority, announced in December 2021 that it would review that decision.
The board reasoned this week that the group of workers qualifies for the carved-out vote as a “craft unit,” saying those workers are “highly trained, highly paid employees working in a trade that the Board has frequently recognized as a craft.”
Nissan had contended that the employees are not sufficiently distinct from other plant workers to be eligible for their own small unionized subgroup. The company has about 7,000 employees at the Smyrna facility.
“While we do not agree with the Board’s position, our history reflects that we respect the right of employees to determine who should represent their interests in the workplace,” Nissan spokesperson Lloryn Love-Carter said in a statement.
The union, meanwhile, said the decision “sets a strong precedent going forward that appropriately classifies standalone craft units.”
“It is unfortunate that a broken and painstakingly long NLRB process has again allowed a company to put the brakes on workers obtaining a voice on the job without delay,” Machinists union spokesperson DeLane Adams said in a statement.
Nissan does work with organized labor in the rest of the world, but votes to unionize broadly at the U.S. two plants have not been close. Workers in Smyrna rejected a plantwide union under the United Auto Workers in 2001 and 1989. The Japan-based automaker’s other U.S. assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi, rejected facility-wide representation by the UAW during a 2017 vote.
The margin was much closer in 2014 and 2019 votes at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where workers twice rejected a factory-wide union under the UAW.
The year after the 2014 vote failed, a group of 160 Chattanooga maintenance workers won a vote to form a smaller union, but Volkswagen refused to bargain. The German automaker had argued the bargaining unit needed to include production workers as well. The dust-up led to the 2019 factory-wide vote.
Unions also have run into opposition from Republican politicians when they attempt to organize at foreign automakers in the South, including in Tennessee.
Tennessee does have a big union presence at an American automaker: the General Motors plant in Spring Hill has thousands of production and skilled trades workers represented by UAW.
There’s also an open question about whether workers will unionize at four sprawling new factories planned by Ford in Kentucky and Tennessee by 2025, with an aim of hiring nearly 11,000 workers. Three of the plants — two in Kentucky, one in Tennessee — will be built with Ford’s South Korean corporate partner, SK Innovation, to produce electric vehicle batteries. A fourth, in Tennessee, will make electric F-Series pickup trucks. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/us-board-clears-path-for-mini-union-vote-at-big-nissan-plant/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-02-03 23:03:31 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/us-board-clears-path-for-mini-union-vote-at-big-nissan-plant/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
NEW YORK, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marcum LLP today released its fifth annual benchmarking analysis of nursing home operations, covering the period 2019-2021.
The 2023 Marcum 3-Year Nursing Home Statistical Review examines an unprecedented and deeply challenging time for the nursing home industry shaped by the COVID pandemic – before, during and after. It is intended to provide a strategic planning road map for the nation's skilled nursing facilities.
"We believe COVID-19 has changed the delivery of healthcare permanently, and that these changes are just starting to manifest. The 'great resignation' has shown not only the operators but also the regulators that there is continued need for qualified people. This year's analysis illustrates how COVID-19 has dramatically impacted overall spending," said Matthew Bavolack, a Marcum advisory principal and national leader of the Firm's Healthcare Services practice.
Key Findings
This year's report confirms that the skilled nursing facility (SNF) census has slowly begun to rebound, and while COVID-19 caused facility closures throughout the country, demand continues to rise. Persistent nursing staff shortages, however, continue to drive operating costs per patient day (PPD) higher. In combination with historically low occupancy and the expiration of COVID relief funding, gross revenue has not been able to cover total PPD costs, producing net losses for SNFs across the nation and in every region.
Highlights of the report's key findings include the following:
- Hourly nursing wages trended upward in all three years of the study, increasing by 7.63% from 2019 to 2020, and 9.87% from 2020 to 2021. In 2021, contract nursing costs doubled PPD as compared to pre-pandemic 2019 levels.
- Total operating costs increased 9.27% nationally from 2020 to 2021, almost double the PPD revenue increase of 4.73%.
- Average occupancy declined both nationally and regionally. The Midwest (-5.19%) and Rocky Mountains (-2.43%) registered the highest and lowest changes between 2020 and 2021, while occupancy declined by 4.08% on a national basis.
- The Medicare payor mix percentage increased each year covered by the study and was 1.27% between 2020 and 2021. The new Medicare PDPM (Patient Driven Payment Model) that took effect on October 1, 2019, produced significant increases in average Medicare gross reimbursement per patient day (PPD).
The full report may be downloaded here.
About the Study
The annual Marcum 3-Year Nursing Home Statistical Analysis of long-term care industry trends is a yardstick to help skilled nursing facilities improve both operational and financial performance and to guide strategic planning. The study is based on a meticulous review of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) database of Medicare cost reports (Form 2540-10) filed annually by the nation's nursing homes.
More than 38,000 Medicare cost reports were reviewed for the 2019-2021 analysis. To illustrate trends and identify any local deviations from the norm, data are presented both nationally and regionally. Regions include the Midwest, Northeast, Pacific, Southeast, Rocky Mountains, and Southwest.
Data are analyzed in 15 financial and operational categories. These include:
- Occupancy and payor mix
- Occupancy percentage by state
- Average of total cost PPD by state
- Average length of stay
- Nursing
- Dietary
- Laundry
- Housekeeping
- General service cost per patient day
- Therapy
- Average hourly wage
- Employee benefits to total salary
- Revenue analytics
- Medicare gross revenue per patient day
- Balance sheet analytics
Data reference tables are also provided for each of the three years covered by the study.
For more information, visit www.marcumllp.com.
About Marcum
Marcum LLP is a top-ranked national accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurial, middle-market companies and high net worth individuals achieve their goals. Marcum's industry-focused practices offer deep insight and specialized services to privately held and publicly registered companies, and nonprofit and social sector organizations. The Firm also provides a full complement of technology, wealth management, and executive search and staffing services. Headquartered in New York City, Marcum has offices in major business markets across the U.S. and select international locations. #AskMarcum. Visit www.marcumllp.com for more information about how Marcum can help.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The next time you message your doctor to ask about a pesky cough or an itchy rash, you may want to check your bank account first — you could get a bill for the question.
Hospital systems around the country are rolling out fees for some messages that patients send to physicians, who they say are spending an increasing amount of time poring over online queries, some so complex that they require the level of medical expertise normally dispensed during an office visit.
Patient advocates, however, worry these new fees may deter people from reaching out to their doctor and that they add another layer of complexity to the U.S. health care system’s already opaque billing process.
“This is a barrier that denies access and will result in hesitancy or fear to communicate and potentially harm patients with lower quality of care and outcomes at a much higher cost,” said Cynthia Fisher, the founder of Patient Rights Advocate, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that pushes for hospital price transparency.
The explosion of telehealth over the last three years — driven by the COVID-19 outbreak and relaxed federal regulations for online care — prompted many doctors to adopt more robust telecommunication with their patients. Consultations that once happened in an office were converted to computer or smart phone visits. And health care systems invited patients to use new online portals to message their doctors with a question at any time, American Medical Association president Jack Resneck Jr. told The Associated Press.
“When people figured out this is cool and could improve care, you saw hospitals and practice groups saying to patients, welcome to your portal … you can ping your physician with questions if you want,” Resneck said. “We found ourselves as physicians getting dozens and dozens of these a day and not having time built in to do that work.”
The charges vary for each patient and hospital system, with messages costing as little as $3 for Medicare patients to as much $160 for the uninsured. In some cases, the final bill depends on how much time the doctor spends responding.
Health systems that have introduced these new policies, many in recent months, say they automatically alert patients that they may be charged when they message their doctor through online portals, such as MyChart, an online system that many organizations now use for scheduling appointments or releasing test results to patients.
Under new billing rules, doctors are permitted to bill Medicare for as little as 5 minutes of time spent on an online message in a seven-day period, according to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare.
Doctors need to be paid for the time they spend doling out expert medical advice — even over messages, said University of Chicago health economist Katherine Baicker. But it’s also important that hospital systems are transparent about what patients can expect to pay as they roll out these new charges, she added.
“Co-pays do not accomplish anything when they are not clear for patients ahead of time,” Baicker said.
Physicians at University of California San Francisco Health field roughly 900,000 email threads — 3 million total messages — in a year, according to Jess Berthold, a spokesperson for the system.
The hospital announced in November 2021 it would start charging for some of those messages, after noting a spike during the pandemic. During a year’s time, 1.4% of email threads, or about 13,000, have resulted in a bill.
Only certain messages trigger a charge. Patients won’t be charged, for example, for prescription refills, scheduling an appointment, asking a follow-up question about an office visit within the last seven days, or if their doctor advises they should schedule a visit in response.
What types of messages will prompt a bill? Sending your doctor a picture of a new rash, asking for a form to be filled out or requesting a change in medication.
Navigating how much you might end up owing can be trickier.
At UCSF, patients on Medicaid who message their doctor won’t have any out-of-pocket costs, and those on traditional Medicare may have to pay $3 to $6. Patients on private insurance will be billed a co-pay — typically about $20 — as will patients on Medicare Advantage, the private insurance plans for Medicare.
Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, the latest major hospital system to announce charges for online messages, rolled out similar guidelines late last month, with messages costing as much as $50 for those on private insurance. And at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, which charges $35 for some messages, fewer than 1% of those correspondences resulted in a bill, spokesman Christopher King said.
All of those systems use the online portal MyChart. Epic, the privately owned software company that runs MyChart, does not track which health systems charge patients for messages, spokeswoman Barb Herandez said in an email. The company did not answer questions about whether it receives a share of the fees from those charges.
Giving patients advice online can save a patient time or money in the long run, hospital systems argue. If the doctor can answer a patient’s question over email, the patient can cut out wait times for an appointment and avoid taking time off work to go to the doctor’s office.
Plus, some patients simply prefer the convenience of getting a quick answer from the doctor on an app, Berthold of UCSF added.
“If patients can have access to a doctor right when questions or concerns arise, they can seek care more quickly and be treated more quickly,” Berthold said.
But Fisher argues it could have the opposite effect with patients thinking twice before they message a doctor. Instead, some people may turn to free, unreliable advice online.
“It becomes a slippery slope, and that slippery slope is not in favor of the patient,” she said. | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/ap-want-to-email-your-doctor-you-may-be-charged-for-that/ | 2022-12-17 03:24:39 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/ap-want-to-email-your-doctor-you-may-be-charged-for-that/ |
U.S. Foreclosure Starts Increase 167 Percent From a Year Ago; Average Time to Foreclose Nationwide Decreases 4 Percent From a Year Ago
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, released its Q3 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 92,634 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — up 3 percent from the previous quarter and 104 percent from a year ago.
The report also shows there were a total of 31,836 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in September 2022, down 8 percent from the previous month but up 62 percent from September 2021.
Foreclosure starts close to pre-pandemic levels nationwide
Lenders started the foreclosure process on 67,249 U.S. properties in Q3 2022, up 1 percent from the previous quarter and up 167 percent from a year ago — nearly reaching pre-pandemic levels.
"Foreclosure starts, while rising since the end of the government's foreclosure moratorium, still lag behind pre-pandemic levels," said Rick Sharga, executive vice president of market intelligence for ATTOM. "Foreclosure activity is reflecting other aspects of the economy, as unemployment rates continue to be historically low, and mortgage delinquency rates are lower than they were before the COVID-19 outbreak."
States that posted the greatest number of foreclosure starts in Q3 2022, included California (7,368 foreclosure starts); Florida (6,671 foreclosure starts); Texas (6,217 foreclosure starts); Illinois (4,702 foreclosure starts); and New York (3,997 foreclosure starts).
Among the 223 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report those that posted the greatest number of foreclosure starts in Q3 2022, included New York, New York (4,621 foreclosure starts); Chicago, Illinois (3,950 foreclosure starts); Los Angeles, California (2,275 foreclosure starts); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1,991 foreclosure starts); and Miami, Florida (1,990 foreclosure starts);
Counter to the national trend of quarterly increases, among those metropolitan areas with a population greater than one million that saw a decline in foreclosure starts in Q3 2022 were Tulsa, Oklahoma (down 60 percent); Kansas City, Missouri (down 26 percent); Birmingham, Alabama (down 25 percent); Minneapolis, Minnesota (down 23 percent); and Cincinnati, Ohio (down 22 percent).
Highest foreclosure rates in Illinois, Delaware, and New Jersey
Nationwide one in every 1,517 properties had a foreclosure filing in Q3 2022. States with the highest foreclosure rates in Q3 2022 were Illinois (one in every 694 housing units with a foreclosure filing); Delaware (one in every 825); New Jersey (one in every 855); South Carolina (one in every 971); and Ohio (one in every 1,027).
Among 223 metropolitan statistical areas analyzed in the report, those with the highest foreclosure rates in Q3 2022 were Peoria, Illinois (one in every 472 housing units with a foreclosure filing); Cleveland, Ohio (one in every 589); Jacksonville, North Carolina (one in every 593); Columbia, South Carolina (one in every 599); and Rockford, Illinois (one in every 602).
Bank repossessions increase nationwide
Lenders repossessed 10,515 U.S. properties through foreclosure (REO) in Q3 2022, up 18 percent from the previous quarter and up 39 percent from a year ago.
"Very few of the properties entering the foreclosure process have reverted to the lender at the end of the foreclosure," Sharga noted. "In fact, nearly three times more homes were repossessed by lenders in the second quarter of 2019 than in the second quarter of 2022. We believe that this may be an indication that borrowers are leveraging their equity and selling their homes rather than risking the loss of their equity in a foreclosure auction."
States that posted the largest number of completed foreclosures in Q3 2022, included Illinois (1,331 REOs); Michigan (729 REOs); New York (695 REOs); Pennsylvania (643 REOs); and Ohio (557 REOs).
Average time to foreclose decreases 4 percent from last year
Properties foreclosed in Q3 2022 had been in the foreclosure process an average of 885 days, down from 948 days in the previous quarter and down 4 percent from 924 days in Q3 2021.
States with the longest average foreclosure timelines for homes foreclosed in Q3 2022 were Hawaii (2,121 days); New Jersey (2,002 days); Louisiana (1,963 days); Kansas (1,848 days); and New York (1,808 days).
States with the shortest average foreclosure timelines for homes foreclosed in Q3 2022 were Minnesota (113 days); Mississippi (167 days); Texas (168 days); Nebraska (168 days); and Missouri (172 days).
September 2022 Foreclosure Activity High-Level Takeaways
- Nationwide in September 2022 one in every 4,413 properties had a foreclosure filing.
- States with the highest foreclosure rates in September 2022 were Illinois (one in every 1,959 housing units with a foreclosure filing); Nevada (one in every 2,473 housing units); New Jersey (one in every 2,649 housing units); Maryland (one in every 2,825 housing units); and Ohio (one in every 2,885 housing units).
- 21,869 U.S. properties started the foreclosure process in September 2022, down 9 percent from the previous month but up 113 percent from a year ago.
- Lenders completed the foreclosure process on 3,509 U.S. properties in September 2022, down 11 percent from the previous month but up 31 percent from a year ago.
U.S. Foreclosure Market Data by State – Q3 2022
Report methodology
The ATTOM U.S. Foreclosure Market Report provides a count of the total number of properties with at least one foreclosure filing entered into the ATTOM Data Warehouse during the month and quarter. Some foreclosure filings entered into the database during the quarter may have been recorded in the previous quarter. Data is collected from more than 3,000 counties nationwide, and those counties account for more than 99 percent of the U.S. population. ATTOM's report incorporates documents filed in all three phases of foreclosure: Default — Notice of Default (NOD) and Lis Pendens (LIS); Auction — Notice of Trustee Sale and Notice of Foreclosure Sale (NTS and NFS); and Real Estate Owned, or REO properties (that have been foreclosed on and repurchased by a bank). For the annual, midyear and quarterly reports, if more than one type of foreclosure document is received for a property during the timeframe, only the most recent filing is counted in the report. The annual, midyear, quarterly and monthly reports all check if the same type of document was filed against a property previously. If so, and if that previous filing occurred within the estimated foreclosure timeframe for the state where the property is located, the report does not count the property in the current year, quarter or month.
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Child welfare algorithm faces Justice Department scrutiny
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that it could result in discrimination against families with disabilities, The Associated Press has learned.
The interest from federal civil rights attorneys comes after an AP investigation revealed potential bias and transparency issues about the opaque algorithm that is designed to assess a family’s risk level when they are reported for child welfare concerns in Allegheny County.
Several civil rights complaints were filed in the fall about the Allegheny Family Screening Tool, which is used to help social workers decide which families to investigate, AP has learned.
Two sources said that attorneys in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division cited the AP investigation when urging them to submit formal complaints detailing their concerns about how the algorithm could harden bias against people with disabilities, including families with mental health issues.
A third person told AP that the same group of federal civil rights attorneys also spoke with them in November as part of a broad conversation about how algorithmic tools could potentially exacerbate disparities, including for people with disabilities. That conversation explored the design and construction of Allegheny’s influential algorithm, though the full scope of the Justice Department’s interest is unknown.
All three sources spoke to AP on the condition of anonymity, saying the Justice Department asked them not to discuss the confidential conversations, and two said they also feared professional retaliation.
Wyn Hornbuckle, a Justice Department spokesman, declined to comment.
Algorithms use pools of information to turn data points into predictions, whether that’s for online shopping, identifying crime hot spots or hiring workers. Many child welfare agencies in the U.S. are considering adopting such tools as part of their work with children and families.
Though there’s been widespread debate over the moral consequences of using artificial intelligence in child protective services, the Justice Department’s interest in the pioneering Allegheny algorithm marks a significant turn toward possible legal implications.
Supporters see algorithms as a promising way to make a strained child protective services system both more thorough and efficient, saying child welfare officials should use all tools at their disposal to make sure children aren’t maltreated. But critics worry that including data points collected largely from people who are poor can automate discrimination against families based on race, income, disabilities or other external characteristics.
Robin Frank, a veteran family law attorney in Pittsburgh and vocal critic of the Allegheny algorithm, said she also filed a complaint with the Justice Department in October on behalf of a client with an intellectual disability who is fighting to get his daughter back from foster care. The AP obtained a copy of the complaint, which raised concerns about how the Allegheny Family Screening Tool assesses a family’s risk.
“I think it’s important for people to be aware of what their rights are and to the extent that we don’t have a lot of information when there seemingly are valid questions about the algorithm, it’s important to have some oversight,” Frank said.
Mark Bertolet, spokesman for the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, said by email that the agency had not heard from the Justice Department and declined interview requests.
“We are not aware of any concerns about the inclusion of these variables from research groups’ past evaluation or community feedback on the (Allegheny Family Screening Tool),” the county said, describing previous studies and outreach regarding the tool.
Allegheny County said its algorithm has used data points tied to disabilities in children, parents and other members of local households because they can help predict the risk that a child will be removed from their home after a maltreatment report. The county added that it has updated its algorithm several times and has sometimes removed disabilities-related data points.
The Allegheny Family Screening Tool was specifically designed to predict the risk that a child will be placed in foster care in the two years after the family is investigated. It has used a trove of detailed personal data collected from child welfare history, as well as birth, Medicaid, substance abuse, mental health, jail and probation records, among other government data sets. When the algorithm calculates a risk score of 1 to 20, the higher the number, the greater the risk. The risk score alone doesn’t determine what happens in the case.
The AP first revealed racial bias and transparency concerns in a story last April that focused on the Allegheny tool and how its statistical calculations help social workers decide which families should be investigated for neglect – a nuanced term that can include everything from inadequate housing to poor hygiene, but is a different category from physical or sexual abuse, which is investigated separately in Pennsylvania and is not subject to the algorithm.
A child welfare investigation can result in vulnerable families receiving more support and services, but it can also lead to the removal of children for foster care and ultimately, the termination of parental rights.
The county has said that hotline workers determine what happens with a family’s case and can always override the tool’s recommendations. It has also underscored that the tool is only applied to the beginning of a family’s potential involvement with the child welfare process. A different social worker who later conducts the investigations, as well as families and their attorneys, aren’t allowed to know the scores.
Allegheny’s algorithm, in use since 2016, has at times drawn from data related to Supplemental Security Income, a Social Security Administration program that provides monthly payments to adults and children with a disability; as well as diagnoses for mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders, including schizophrenia or mood disorders, AP found.
The county said that when the disabilities data is included, it “is predictive of the outcomes” and “it should come as no surprise that parents with disabilities … may also have a need for additional supports and services.” The county added that there are other risk assessment programs that use data about mental health and other conditions that may affect a parent’s ability to care for a child.
The AP obtained records showing hundreds of specific variables that are used to calculate the risk scores for families who are reported to child protective services, including the public data that powers the Allegheny algorithm and similar tools deployed in child welfare systems elsewhere in the U.S.
The AP’s analysis of Allegheny’s algorithm and those inspired by it in Los Angeles County, California, Douglas County, Colorado, and in Oregon reveals a range of controversial data points that have measured people with low incomes and other disadvantaged demographics, at times measuring families on race, zip code, disabilities and their use of public welfare benefits.
Since the AP’s investigation published, Oregon dropped its algorithm due to racial equity concerns, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy emphasized that parents and social workers needed more transparency about how government agencies were deploying algorithms as part of the nation’s first “AI Bill of Rights.”
The Justice Department has shown a broad interest in investigating algorithms in recent years, said Christy Lopez, a Georgetown University law professor who previously led some of the Justice Department’s civil rights division litigation and investigations.
In a keynote about a year ago, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke warned that AI technologies had “serious implications for the rights of people with disabilities,” and her division more recently issued guidance to employers saying using AI tools in hiring could violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“They are doing their jobs as civil rights investigators to get to the bottom of what’s going on,” Lopez said of the Justice Department scrutiny of Allegheny’s tool. “It appears to me that this is a priority for the division, investigating the extent to which algorithms are perpetuating discriminatory practices.”
Traci LaLiberte, a University of Minnesota expert on child welfare and disabilities, said the Justice Department’s inquiry stood out to her, as federal authorities have largely deferred to local child welfare agencies.
“The Department of Justice is pretty far afield from child welfare,” LaLiberte said. “It really has to rise to the level of pretty significant concern to dedicate time and get involved.”
Emily Putnam-Hornstein and Rhema Vaithianathan, the two developers of Allegheny’s algorithm and other tools like it, deferred to Allegheny County’s answers about the algorithm’s inner workings. They said in an email that they were unaware of any Justice Department scrutiny relating to the algorithm.
Researchers and community members have long raised concerns that some of the data powering child welfare algorithms may heighten historical biases against marginalized people within children protective services. That includes parents with disabilities, a community that is a protected class under federal civil rights law.
The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability, which can include a wide spectrum of conditions, from diabetes, cancer and hearing loss to intellectual disabilities and mental and behavioral health diagnosis like ADHD, depression and schizophrenia.
LaLiberte has published research detailing how parents with disabilities are disproportionately affected by the child welfare system. She challenged the idea of using data points related to disabilities in any algorithm because, she said, that assesses characteristics people can’t change, rather than their behavior.
“If it isn’t part of the behavior, then having it in the (algorithm) biases it,” LaLiberte said.
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Burke reported from San Francisco.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The wait is over! We now know the names of all three tiger cubs born at the Indianapolis Zoo.
The trio are named Roman, Helina and Nicolas. The announcement came on International Tiger Day.
NOTE: The above video is from a previous report on the naming contest for the Amur tiger cubs.
The zoo said first-time mom Zoya, a 7-year-old Amur tiger, is doing great and has healed after delivering the first cub naturally but then delivering the next two by caesarean section. The father is 14-year-old Pavel.
The zoo decided to name one of the male cubs Nicolas after the veterinary surgeon who assisted in the tiger cubs' birth.
There were more than 7,000 votes in the naming contest. Voters have a chance to win a family fun prize pack, which includes free tickets to the zoo.
According to the zoo, all three cubs weighed around 2 pounds each at birth.
Unfortunately, the cubs will likely never be introduced to or in the same space as their mother because tigers are solitary by nature, and Zoya is not raising them.
According to the zoo, the Amur tiger cubs' birth is extremely important, as there are fewer than 100 Amur tigers in zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The zoo said Amur tigers in the wild have lost almost 95% of their territories. | https://www.wthr.com/article/life/animals/meet-roman-helina-and-nicolas-theyre-the-newly-named-tiger-cubs-at-the-indy-zoo-indianapolis-amur/531-7c64cdfb-bbc9-4419-8943-6ad7cb7a6279 | 2022-07-29 22:43:36 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/life/animals/meet-roman-helina-and-nicolas-theyre-the-newly-named-tiger-cubs-at-the-indy-zoo-indianapolis-amur/531-7c64cdfb-bbc9-4419-8943-6ad7cb7a6279 |
NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dr. Erik Goluboff Scholarship is a scholarship given to students in the United States who have aspirations to become medical doctors. The scholarship is worth $1,000 dollars and is meant for students in the United States who wish to become medical doctors in the future. The scholarship is available now, with an application deadline of June 15, 2023. Dr. Erik Goluboff is a urologist and the founder, who created this scholarship to encourage young students to pursue their dreams in medicine and help them get through school with ease. The scholarship is open to all students who are currently enrolled in an accredited college or university in the United States.
Scholarships are essential for medical students. The cost of a medical degree is exceptionally high and many students cannot afford the tuition fees or other related expenses without some form of financial aid. Scholarships can be used to help cover these costs, allowing students to focus on their studies instead of worrying about how they will pay for them. Additionally, scholarships provide recognition and reward for hard work and dedication in the field of medicine, which can motivate students to strive even further in their studies. Ultimately, scholarships play an invaluable role in helping medical students achieve their goals by providing both financial support and recognition for their efforts.
This scholarship fund will provide a great benefit to the winning medical student. Not only will it help cover tuition and other associated costs, but it can also open up new opportunities such as internships or research projects that may not have been available otherwise. Ultimately, this scholarship fund is invaluable in supporting the dreams of aspiring medical students by providing both financial support and recognition for their efforts.
Dr. Erik Goluboff graduated from Columbia in 1986 before proceeding to John Hopkins University where he attained his medical degree successfully. Dr. Erik Goluboff is currently the Principal Medical Lead at Genentech/Roche. Philanthropy is among his passions including his scholarship opportunity. It is his way of giving back to the community and inspiring young students to work towards their dreams despite the financial limitations. For more information about the scholarship, students are encouraged to visit the official Dr. Erik Goluboff Scholarship website for complete details.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in Warsaw said Monday they have detained a 31-year-old man who placed an explosive device in a downtown street where over 300 people were gathering.
The police said on Twitter they have evacuated the area in 200-meter (yard) radius and experts have come with specialized equipment to remove the explosive device. Warsaw police spokesman Sylwester Marczak said it's a powerful device and described the situation as “serious.”
There were no reports of any explosions or anyone being hurt in the incident, which took place a few blocks from the country's presidential palace. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Police-detain-man-with-explosives-in-Warsaw-17297730.php | 2022-07-11 20:43:59 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Police-detain-man-with-explosives-in-Warsaw-17297730.php |
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (WDVM) – A woman and her daughter have been accused of murdering, dismembering and grilling the woman’s mother, according to police.
The investigation began when officers were dispatched to a welfare check on 71-year-old Margaret Craig in Landover, Maryland, Prince George County Police said.
When officers visited Margaret’s home, they said her daughter, 44-year-old Candace Craig, answered the door. She allowed officers to search the home for Margaret.
After they “smelled the odor of decomposition” in the basement, officers notified the department’s Homicide and Evidence Units.
Detectives determined, after reviewing the home and “multiple interviews,” that Craig allegedly murdered her mother on May 23. The next day, it is believed Craig’s 19-year-old daughter, Salia Hardy, helped her “attempt to dispose of the remains,” according to police.
According to court documents obtained by WTOP, Margaret had accused her daughter of credit card fraud, which sparked an argument between them. It is believed the argument led to Margaret’s death.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner was not able to determine the cause of death due to the state the remains were in, and weren’t able to positively identify the remains. However, they believe DNA testing will confirm the remains are Margaret’s, WTOP reports.
Authorities say Craig and Hardy later dismembered Margaret and tried to get rid of the body parts “using fire on a grill and in a bonfire.”
Candace Craig is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder while Hardy is charged with accessory after the fact. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/woman-dismembered-and-grilled-court-documents-say-daughter-grandchild-charged/ | 2023-06-07 14:42:49 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/woman-dismembered-and-grilled-court-documents-say-daughter-grandchild-charged/ |
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