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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
5-4-6
(five, four, six)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
5-4-6
(five, four, six) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17139003.php | 2022-04-30 19:28:05 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Day-game-17139003.php |
(The Hill) — Pfizer on Tuesday announced its maternal vaccine for RSV, administered during pregnancy, was effective at preventing infants from developing severe symptoms from birth through their first six months.
The company said that it plans to file the data on the vaccine with regulators by the end of the year, with the hope of having it available by next winter. If authorized, it would be the first vaccine on the market to help protect young infants from the common but potentially life-threatening respiratory illness.
There are currently no vaccines available for RSV, and the only treatment is monoclonal antibodies, usually reserved for extremely high-risk cases, including infants born prematurely or those with chronic diseases related to the heart and lungs.
According to Pfizer’s news release, the vaccine reduced the rate of severe illness in infants that required medical attention by 81.8 percent through the first 90 days of life. That efficacy dropped to 69 percent over a six-month follow-up period.
Researchers also tested how well the vaccine prevents all RSV-related medical visits, including for non-severe cases. The study found the vaccine reduced medical visits in vaccinated patients by about 50 percent compared to mothers who got placebo, though the results were not considered statistically significant.
The company said the vaccine was well-tolerated with no safety concerns for both the vaccinated individuals and their newborns. However, the data has not yet been submitted to a journal or peer-reviewed.
Like the flu, RSV season usually occurs during colder weather, though it’s been hitting unusually hard and early this year, contributing to a wave of respiratory infections that is overwhelming children’s hospitals nationwide.
In healthy adults and older children, RSV typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms that go away with moderate rest and self-care.
Younger children, especially those less than 6 months old, have the highest risk of developing severe cases that could lead to hospitalization. RSV is the leading cause of hospitalization for infants.
Worldwide, RSV results in the death of hundreds of thousands of children annually, with the vast majority in developing countries.
Unlike some other RSV vaccine candidates, Pfizer’s shot is administered during pregnancy, with the aim of transferring antibodies from mothers to infants. Other maternal vaccines include the flu shot, as well as one for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis.
Pfizer’s study enrolled approximately 7,400 pregnant individuals in 18 countries. The trial began in June 2020, so it spanned multiple RSV seasons in both the northern and southern hemispheres. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/health-news/pfizer-says-rsv-vaccine-is-effective-at-preventing-severe-illness-in-babies/ | 2022-11-01 15:39:13 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/health-news/pfizer-says-rsv-vaccine-is-effective-at-preventing-severe-illness-in-babies/ |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Friday in Tucson is expected to top off at 90 degrees. Sierra Vista a high of 83 degrees.
Dry and warm conditions will continue into the weekend with below average temperatures to end the work week. Temperatures will climb over the weekend with triple digits and gusty winds in the forecast for Sunday and Monday.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
5-0-4-7
(five, zero, four, seven)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
5-0-4-7
(five, zero, four, seven) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17675121.php | 2022-12-24 02:27:57 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17675121.php |
Updated November 12, 2022 at 10:12 PM ET
The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection stepped down from his job late Saturday following a year of record migrant apprehensions at the southern border.
The White House announced that CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus offered his resignation, and that President Biden has accepted.
"President Biden appreciates Commissioner Magnus' nearly forty years of service and the contributions he made to police reform during his tenure as police chief in three U.S. cities," said press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a statement. "The President thanks Mr. Magnus for his service at CBP and wishes him well."
Magnus served in the job for less than a year. His resignation comes one day after he told the Los Angeles Times that he had declined a request to resign from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who oversees CBP.
In an email to the CBP workforce, Mayorkas thanked Magnus for his service and said that Troy Miller, a career CBP official who served in the job before Magnus was confirmed by the Senate in December, will serve as acting commissioner beginning immediately.
The shakeup at CBP comes after migrant apprehensions at the southern border climbed to a record high of more than 2.3 million in the past year, fueling attacks from Republicans that the Biden administration's border policies are too lenient.
Magnus, who is 62, was picked by the White House and confirmed by the Senate in a party-line vote. He was the first openly gay man to lead the CBP, the nation's largest law enforcement agency.
Magnus built a reputation as a law enforcement reformer during his time as police chief in Fargo, N.D., Richmond, Calif., and Tucson, Ariz. And he tried to make changes at CBP as well.
More than a dozen House Republicans sent a letter to President Biden earlier this month urging him to ask for Magnus's resignation after an unflattering story from Politico, which portrayed Magnus as unengaged in meetings with White House staff and unfamiliar with the operations of the sprawling agency of more than 60,000 employees.
Magnus denied those allegations. "I didn't take this job as a resume builder," he told The Washington Post. "I came to Washington, D.C. — moved my family here — because I care about this agency, its mission, and the goals of this Administration."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-11-12/top-u-s-border-official-chris-magnus-resigns-after-less-than-a-year-on-the-job | 2022-11-13 04:48:03 | 1 | https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-11-12/top-u-s-border-official-chris-magnus-resigns-after-less-than-a-year-on-the-job |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:
3-9-5
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BEIJING, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wangcheng District of central China's Changsha City, home place of Lei Feng, the role model for altruism in China, convened a themed conference to recruit urgently needed talents to help tackle difficult tasks in boosting industrial economy on Wednesday.
As the district introduces, it plans to recruit 689 talents that local industrial development desperately demands, 54 ones for local public institutions and 90 ones for the Qingfeng college students social practice plan.
During the conference, around 130 talents with doctoral degrees came to Wangcheng District and held offline recruitment meetings with local businesses including Ausnutria Dairy Co., Ltd., Hunan Junxin Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. and Hunan Viscope Technology.
Among them, 42 percent of the attendees reached initial intentions with the recruitment institutions or companies on Wednesday.
Recent years, Wangcheng District has developed a set of policies to introduce, cultivate and motivate talents and create the "Talent first" environment in a bid to better facilitate local economic growth and contribute more to Changsha's capital economy boosting strategies.
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On Lake Belton’s first play from scrimmage last week against Buda Johnson, quarterback Connor Crews found senior receiver Jaydon Leza for a quick-strike 9-yard gain.
Nine yards is a healthy chunk for any single play and this one kick-started the Broncos’ first scoring drive. But, still, it likely will be quietly forgotten in the grand scheme of a season’s worth of highlights.
Not if you take a peek behind the scenes, however.
“The whole week we were practicing 4-2, 4-1 fronts,” Lake Belton right tackle Dominic Simpson said of his team’s preparation for the Jaguars. “We walk in the game, first drive the fronts change. It’s a 3-2 and there wasn’t a hitch, there was nothing. We walked out there and said, ‘Hey, 3-2 box, 3-2 box, let’s change it up.’ And we just did what we needed to do.”
That real-time processing and breaking down of a defensive scheme is a skill that Simpson and his teammates have spent the last three years honing, and one that constantly remains a work in progress.
Though the intricacies of such on-the-fly changes may not always be noticed by those not performing the act, it is a vital step in the process of success for any football team.
“You have to be able, as an offensive lineman, to step out onto the field and expect anything,” Broncos’ offensive line coach RJ Bacon said. “And Dominic walks out there and they identify the front. First play off the bat, huge gain because there wasn’t a step back. They didn’t have to sit there and it wasn’t a shock moment to where that’s what defenses want you to do.”
Instead, Lake Belton moved ahead unabated, and Simpson and his fellow trenchmen went on to pave the way for six Broncos’ touchdowns and nearly 400 yards of total offense in a 41-34 win over Johnson.
It’s part of the chess match that players and coaches engage in across multiple levels each Friday night and it’s one that Simpson relishes.
“You just have to keep a level head, you know?” the senior said this week as his team prepared for its District 4-5A-I opener at 7 tonight at Red Oak, which will begin the Broncos’ eight-game league slate in their first playoff-eligible season.
“I think our goal as an offense is to set the tone, set the pace,” Simpson continued. “After a play it’s always, ‘Hey, get on the ball, get on the ball.’ I mean, we open up holes and stuff, but what’s really important is, like I said, setting the tone, playing with a fast pace. We keep it moving.”
That hurried pace on game days starts with a deliberate, designed approach leading into each Friday — a process that Simpson embraces, which has led to him becoming a big part of Lake’s offensive front.
“He’s been here since Day 1, all the time in the weight room trying to get bigger and faster and stronger,” head coach Brian Cope said. “He’s bought into our strength coach, Coach (Kade) Cole, along with Coach Bacon. He’s very intelligent and he has really done a great job of taking his role and really getting after it.”
In his third year on Lake’s varsity, Simpson also is used to staying on the move like his offensive unit prefers. He played at right guard as a sophomore, then moved to left guard for his junior campaign before breaking out to right tackle this season.
And though it may not seem like much, a move just one spot over on the line can greatly alter a player’s responsibilities and skill-set needed on any given play.
It’s a task that falls in nicely with Simpson’s versatility and attitude.
“He’s been put into a lot of different situations,” Bacon said. “Asking someone who’s been an interior lineman to turn into an exterior lineman as a tackle, it’s a big ask because you’re wanting them to be able to do some things that they’ve never really had to do on the inside. Dominic brings size, he brings speed and he brings a little bit of nastiness to it as well.”
As Simpson put it, he’ll do whatever it takes to help his team win.
“I just kind of learned all the positions, all the jobs,” the 17-year-old said. “A lot of people when they think about assignments and blocking and double-teams, schemes and stuff like that, they tend to, like, overcomplicate it. It’s like a puzzle that you put together and the more you do it, the easier it gets.”
Whether he knew it or not, Simpson began building that mental puzzle as a sixth-grader, after his best friend, Julius Lechuga, joined the Temple Redskins youth team. Shortly thereafter, Simpson’s mother, Audrey, had a conversation with Lechuga’s mom.
“He was my best friend and our moms talk and his mom was like, ‘My son’s playing football,’ and then my mom was like, ‘Oh, what team?’ And then she put me on the same team as him and that’s kind of how it all started,” Simpson recalled.
It was his first time playing any organized sport and though the first few weeks were a little bumpy, Simpson eventually came around.
“My love for it kind of just grew every year,” he said.
A coach placed Simpson on the line then, where he has stayed along with Lechuga, who has been his teammate each year since, including now as they approach the finish line as Broncos.
It’s the time together with Lechuga and current teammates such as left guard Challen Ma’lleoi and defensive end Keuntaye Williams, among others, that Simpson said he will remember more than anything else.
“Most of my memories are just being with my friends on the practice field,” he said. “This is really where I spend most of my time.”
That time also has included some intense practice battles between himself and Williams, who Simpson credited as helping him grow as a player.
“Keuntaye, he’s a bigger dude,” the 5-11, 280-pound Simpson said. “He’s really strong and he’s good at what he does, so going against him during the fall really helped me get better. We’d be going, like, 50-50. I’d win a rep, then he’d win a rep and we just learned off each other and made each other better.”
Now, as that work has started to pay off and as the weeks in his senior season dwindle down, Simpson just hopes to enjoy the ride, and maybe punctuate it with a playoff game or two, no matter how many adjustments it may take to get there.
“My goal is to come away at the end of the regular season with a district title,” he said. “I’ve never really put much thought into how we’re going to get there. It’s just that I want to win. I’ll do whatever I can to win. That’s my idea about it.” | https://www.tdtnews.com/sports/article_403ad204-2fd6-11ed-8387-775ebc3a0741.html | 2022-09-09 03:41:32 | 0 | https://www.tdtnews.com/sports/article_403ad204-2fd6-11ed-8387-775ebc3a0741.html |
The Two New Dormitories were Named After Kwanza Jones, Princeton '93, Artist And CEO of SUPERCHARGED, and José E. Feliciano, Princeton '94, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearlake Capital.
LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ivy League institution Princeton University names two dormitories after Kwanza Jones (Princeton '93), and José E. Feliciano (Princeton '94). These are the first buildings to be named after a Black and Latino donor in Princeton's 275-year history.
Princeton celebrated the dedication and ribbon cutting of the new dormitories on May 5th, 2023 in New Jersey. Friends and families from across the country gathered together to join in the dedication of the Kwanza Jones Hall and José E. Feliciano Hall.
These dormitories were built after Jones and Feliciano's historic gift of $20 million to Princeton which was donated back in 2019. The donation was made to attract and support high-achieving students from all backgrounds and highlights the promise of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging for the larger community.
"We see this gift as the color of commitment. It also demonstrates that people of color belong and we are at the table to help the university to continue to do the work of anti-racism, diversity, and inclusion," said Jones.
It is worth noting that Jones and Feliciano's time at Princeton was challenging. Before the $20 million donation, Jones had written an "Open Love Letter" about Woodrow Wilson's legacy to Princeton's President, Christopher Eisgruber, and Vice President for Advancement, Kevin Heaney. It addressed the racism faced by Blacks and people of color within Princeton. In the letter, Jones requested the removal of Woodrow Wilson's name from the Residential College and the School of Public and International Affairs. Jones stated:
"One of the reasons José and I committed more than $20 million to Princeton was to demonstrate that underrepresented people of color, whether Black, Brown, or otherwise, that these people, our people… belong. Not that we belong solely as beneficiaries of a Princeton education and experience. But, instead, we belong, as patrons and co-creators of Princeton, and places like Princeton. And, that Princeton, our communities, our nation, and the world is made better because of us."
During the dedication of the Kwanza Jones Hall and José E. Feliciano Hall, Eisgruber said, "Today we celebrate the power of possibilities. We celebrate the generosity and love of two very special members of the Princeton community. And we celebrate what it means to belong."
The two dormitories are built in the same spot where Jones and Feliciano had their first date during their time at Princeton. "There is a bridge that connects the Kwanza Jones Hall to the José E. Feliciano Hall," said Jones. "So, when we are talking about buildings and connections, it's not just metaphorical, it's literal."
"This is the most iconic representation of the genius of American intellectual traditions contributing toward the expansion of a better world," said Dr. Michael Eric Dyson (Princeton '93). "Kwanza and José have done more than talk the talk. They have erected a building that is a lasting monument to the beautiful creativity of equity."
At the event, Eisgruber presented to Jones and Feliciano a replica of the plaque that hangs inside the Kwanza Jones Hall and José E. Feliciano Hall as a gift. "We hope this will remind you always of our deep gratitude for your commitment to Princeton."
The dedication of the Kwanza Jones Hall ended with Jones' latest track playing as the audience moved towards the José E. Feliciano Hall. The song titled, "We Buildin' (Reggaeton Mix)" celebrates the power of collective action and positive change, and pays tribute to the essence of building on your future, brick by brick.
"Thank you for showing what Princeton love can be, so that we can show up inside Princeton," said Rahsaan Harris (Princeton '95).
About Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano
Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano are life and business partners. In 2014, they founded the Kwanza Jones & José E. Feliciano Initiative (Jones+Feliciano), a philanthropic grant-making and investment organization that strategically partners with nonprofits and for-profits to ensure maximum impact. Jones+Feliciano focuses on four pillars - education, entrepreneurship, equity, and empowerment - as providing access to capital in these areas leads to greater and more equitable advances and societal progress. Jones+Feliciano has committed more than $150 million to these efforts.
Kwanza Jones (Princeton '93), is an artist, catalyst, speaker, and philanthropic leader. She is a leader as a board member and an advisor to numerous companies and nonprofits, including Apollo Theater, Susan G. Komen, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, and Bennett College.
José E. Feliciano (Princeton '94), is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearlake Capital. He is also a trustee of Stanford University and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino.
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Doctors should ask adult patients about signs of anxiety, an often-undiagnosed condition that can disrupt lives, U.S. government experts said.
Anxiety afflicts about a quarter of U.S. men and 40% of women at some point in their lives, a panel of experts noted in recommendations that were published Tuesday. The ailment spiked worldwide, along with depression, during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a World Health Organization analysis. Yet primary-care providers often fail to recognize anxiety, and it can go untreated for decades, the experts say.
“Undoubtedly, screening for the mental health topics that we’re releasing now is of extraordinary public health importance,” said Michael Silverstein, a health professor at Brown University and the vice chair of the panel that made the recommendation. “So I think the COVID-19 pandemic just laid bare how important this was.”
The recommendation for primary-care providers from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, published in the JAMA medical journal Tuesday, focuses on adults younger than 65 who come to health providers for reasons other than anxiety. Pregnant and postpartum patients are at especially high risk of anxiety, and should be targeted for screening, according to the recommendations.
Anxiety encompasses a range of conditions from panic disorder to social anxiety. Doctors screen for them by asking patients about symptoms such as nervousness and worrying.
Children ages 8 to 18 should also be screened for anxiety, according to the task force. It recommends screening for depression in adults and adolescents.
Systemic barriers prevent some people from getting care for anxiety, the panel noted. For example, Black people and members of other minority groups may have less access to mental health services due to disparities in wealth.
The panel’s recommendations are a “call to action” to address these inequities, Silverstein said. “Screening is really the first step.”
The task force is made up of volunteer experts in primary care and preventive medicine. It’s authorized by Congress and members are appointed by the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a government body, though the panel works independently.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Bethany Balcer and Jess Fishlock each scored a pair of goals to lead OL Reign to a 5-2 win over the Chicago Red Stars on Saturday.
The win at Lumen Field gave the Reign (3-1-0) their best start since 2014.
Balcer scored the first two goals in the 15th and 20th minutes with Veronica Latsko and Lauren Barnes assisting. No player has scored more goals at home since 2019 than Balcer, who now has 20 in Reign home matches.
Arin Wright got a goal back for Chicago (1-3-0) in the 32nd minute, pouncing on a ball in the box that the Reign couldn’t clear.
In the final minutes of the first half, Fishlock scored her first goal. Emily Sonnett won a ball that was bouncing around after a corner by the Reign and passed it to Fishlock for the assist.
Chicago rookie Ally Schlegel scored her first NWSL goal early in the second half, winning a challenge in the box and sliding her shot into the lower right corner.
Megan Rapinoe scored on a free kick in the 75th minute, splitting her shot between two Red Stars players before it deflected off another Chicago defender and slipped into the near post.
Fishlock scored the Reign’s final goal in the 76th minute, finishing with one touch on an assist by Balcer.
SPIRIT 0, DASH 0
Washington and Houston remained undefeated to start the season after playing to a scoreless draw at Audi Field in Washington.
The Dash improved to 1-0-3, while the Spirit moved to 2-0-2.
It was a tight, defensive battle. The Spirit finished with 11 shots, while Houston had 10.
Ashley Sanchez hit the left post in the 57th minute.
In the 70th minute, Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury made a quick reaction save to push Sophie Schmidt’s header off the crossbar. Kingsbury pushed another shot by Schmidt from distance over the bar in the 94th minute to keep the match scoreless.
THORNS 2, RACING 0
Christie Sinclair and Morgan Weaver both had first-half goals and the Portland Thorns remained undefeated with a victory over Racing Louisville.
Sinclair scored for the Thorns two minutes into the match at Portland’s Providence Park. The Canadian forward, who has been with the Thorns since the league’s first year in 2013, became just the second NWSL player to score 60 regular-season goals.
Weaver added a goal for the Thorns (3-0-1) in first-half stoppage time. Sophia Smith, last season’s league MVP, assisted on both goals.
Louisville was undefeated going into the match with three straight draws to open the season.
U.S. national team coach Vlatko Andonoski was at the match. He is monitoring players across the league before he finalizes the roster for the Women’s World Cup this summer.
GOTHAM 1, COURAGE 0
Lynn Williams scored her 60th regular-season goal and Gotham downed North Carolina in a match that was delayed two hours after halftime by lightning.
Williams joined Sam Kerr and Christine Sinclair as the only players with 60 or more career goals in the NWSL. Sinclair scored her 60th earlier Saturday night.
The match was scoreless at halftime before the delay because of lightning near Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. The second half was played in heavy rain.
Williams has three goals in four matches for Gotham (3-1-0).
The Courage (1-2-0) haven’t won since the season opener.
Abby Smith stopped a pair of shots from North Carolina’s Brittany Ratcliffe in the 58th minute. Smith finished with three saves.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov scored twice and the Minnesota Wild beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-1 on Wednesday night for their ninth victory in 11 games.
Joel Eriksson Ek, Calen Addison and Sam Steel also scored for Minnesota. Filip Gustavsson made 34 saves and improved to 8-1 in his last nine starts.
The Wild have beaten Tampa Bay 10 times in a row at home since Nov. 28, 2011.
Brayden Point scored for the Lightning, who lost for the first time in five games and just the fourth time in 15.
Brian Elliott made 28 saves for Tampa Bay, one night after stopping 25 shots in a 4-1 win at Chicago. Andrei Vasilevskiy sat out with an illness.
Kaprizov and Addison scored 2:18 apart in the second period for a 3-0 lead.
Kaprizov redirected a shot from Matt Boldy into the Tampa Bay net during a power play. Then, with Boldy screening Elliott, a rising slap shot from Addison found the back of the net.
His team-best 21st goal also increased Kaprizov’s home point streak to 14 games, tying the franchise record set by Marian Gaborik during the 2007-08 season. Kaprizov added an empty-net goal.
Addison had two assists to become the first rookie defenseman in Wild history with multiple three-point games. His other one was Oct. 17.
Point converted a pass from Brandon Hagel for his 12th goal in 13 games to get the Lightning within 3-1, but Steel redirected Jared Spurgeon's slap shot for a 4-1 lead after two periods.
Point's 16 goals since Nov. 25 trail only Alex Ovechkin (18), Connor McDavid and Tage Thompson (17 each) during that span.
Eriksson Ek got the lone goal of an evenly played first period, when his centering attempt deflected off the skate of Nick Perbix and trickled across the line.
POWER PLAY RARITY
The power-play goal by Kaprizov marked the second straight game the Lightning have yielded one after allowing just one in 27 chances over their previous 11 games.
Minnesota’s Mats Zuccarello also nearly scored with the man advantage, but his shot hit the post and crossbar.
UP NEXT
Lightning: End a three-game road trip Friday at Winnipeg.
Wild: Play at Buffalo on Saturday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Weathers got his first big league win in two years as his father, former major league pitcher David Weathers, watched from a second-row seat and the San Diego Padres beat the New York Mets 4-2 on Tuesday night.
Manny Machado hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the fifth inning against David Peterson (0-2), and Xander Bogaerts boosted the lead to 4-1 with a two-run homer into the left-field second deck in the ninth off Dennis Santana.
Ryan Weathers (1-0) held the Mets to one run and three hits in five innings. The 23-year-old left-hander escaped a bases-loaded, no-outs jam in the first by striking out Pete Alonso on a changeup and getting Mark Canha to ground into a double play.
Weathers surrendered his only run on Canha’s fourth-inning sacrifice fly, keeping the Mets off balance with 46 fastballs, 24 changeups, 17 slider-like sweepers and two sliders. He prevented further damage in the fourth by picking off Alonso at first, Weathers’ 10th pickoff in 108 1/3 big league innings.
Weathers was the seventh overall pick in the 2018 amateur draft and made his big league debut in October 2020. He went 4-7 in the following year, losing his last five decisions after a July 6 victory at Washington, and made just one major league appearance last year, when he went 7-7 with a 6.73 ERA at Triple-A El Paso. Inserted into the rotation following an injury to Joe Musgrove, he left with a 3-2 lead in a no-decision as San Diego beat Arizona on April 3.
David Weathers, now 53, pitched in the big leagues from 1991-2009, spending 2002-04 with the Mets and winning a World Series with the Yankees in 1996.
Machado had been 0 for 6 in the series before he reached to the outside corner for the third straight slider and drove the ball off the chalk on the left-field line with two outs in the fifth. Luis Campusano, who had his first career three-hit game, singled leading off and Brandon Dixon, in his first appearance this season, singled with one out.
San Diego rebounded from Monday’s series-opening loss as Brent Honeywell, a cousin of former big league pitcher Mike Marshall, combined with Weathers, Luis García, Steven Wilson and Josh Hader on a five-hitter.
Wilson walked a pair of batters in the eighth but got Starling Marte to hit into a forceout and struck out Francisco Lindor. Hader walked two and gave up Tommy Pham's RBI single in the ninth, then got his fourth save when Tomás Nido hit a comebacker and rookie Francisco Álvarez struck out.
STYLE WATCH
San Diego will wear retro Pacific Coast League uniforms in a 1948 design with navy blue script on the chest outlined in red on Monday to honor the 75th anniversary of catcher Johnny Ritchey breaking baseball’s color barrier on the West Coast.
CITI LIVING
This homestand marked the debut of a 17,400-square foot Samsung videoboard in the outfield at Citi Field, more than three times the size of the 5,670-square foot Daktronics board in place since 2015. ... Part of the right field fence is 8 feet, 8 inches shorter from home plate this year because of the new speakeasy that juts out farther than the prior picnic area.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: RHP Musgrove (broken left big toe) played catch and the Padres plan to decide Thursday when his next rehab start will be, possibly Friday. His rehab was slowed when he had a cortisone shot in his pitching shoulder after falling while fielding. ... LHP Drew Pomeranz (left flexor strain) is to make his first rehab appearance Thursday for El Paso. ... OF David Dahl (strained right quadriceps) probably won’t be ready for rehab games until Monday at the earliest.
Mets: RF Marte went 1 for 4 after straining his neck Sunday and missing a game. ... RHP Justin Verlander (strained upper back muscle) will head to the Port St. Lucie training complex when the team leaves Wednesday for a West Coast trip.
UP NEXT
LHP Blake Snell (0-1, 7.88 ERA), the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner, starts the series finale for San Diego and RHP Tylor Megill (2-0, 1.64 ERA) will be on the mound of the Mets.
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A mere 24 hours ago we named the Honda Civic Type R the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2023. Honda’s latest hot hatch charms with its grown-up personality and look teamed with a more refined take on the already stellar driving dynamics of the last model. The vote among our editors was unanimous.
But the Honda Civic Type R isn’t perfect. No vehicle is. It could be better. Here’s how.
No Touring model
The Type R has made great strides to grow up in the design department over the outgoing generation. It no longer looks like a Transformer is trying to escape from within. But the pedestal-mounted rear wing is still large and always grabs attention. Some drivers might not want that attention. Day-to-day life isn’t lived on a racetrack for most consumers, and the downforce the wing provides rarely comes into play. A Touring model with a wing delete would go a long way here. While some might point to the 2024 Acura Integra Type S as the solution, it will certainly be more expensive and it’s a shame to charge more for less.
Softer Comfort mode
Maybe we are getting old or maybe the Civic Type R is just stiff, but further differentiation between the adjustable dampers’ Sport and Comfort modes would be welcome. We chose Comfort mode in the Individual setting for our most ideal setup on twisty backroads, but Comfort mode still felt a touch too firm. If the dampers were a bit softer in Comfort mode, it would make the ride more comfortable on the freeway and over road imperfections for day-to-day driving.
Make black an option inside
Red front seats are a Civic Type R trademark, and the heavily bolstered high-back red front sport seats are covered in cloth. Don’t like red? Too bad. Will it drive you nuts that the back seat is black while the front is red? Too bad. Tradition is important, but a black front seat option might appeal to a wider audience. The carpeting is red, too, which also might not fit with everyone’s taste.
We want heated front seats
The Civic Type R costs $43,990. The front seats aren’t heated, and heated seats aren’t even an option. It seems like a lot of money to spend for an amenity most of us have come to expect and appreciate. Some of us live in cold-weather climates, Honda. Please, won’t you think of the people outside of the sunshine states?
A better Apple CarPlay and Android Auto experience
The year is 2023 and many drivers rely on Apple CarPlay or Android Auto rather than native infotainment systems. It’s unacceptable when these systems don’t work. The Civic Type R’s 9.0-inch touchscreen features the same interface as every other Civic with the addition of the cool Honda LogR data logger app. In our testing of the Type R, and the Civic Si, we’ve experienced glitches with Apple CarPlay and had to reset the system to accept the connection. Less glitchy software would be appreciated, Honda. While we’re at it, how about an upgrade to wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to make short trips around town simpler?
Knock $5,000 off the price
There’s no question the Civic Type R is the most refined and grown up of the current hot hatches, and it features the highest-quality interior, too. But it’s also the most expensive by a considerable margin. It costs $8,495 more than the Hyundai Kona N and $6,995 more than a Toyota GR Corolla, though it only costs an extra $5,815 by the time the GR Corolla gets the optional front and rear limited-slip differentials we want. Still, knocking $5,000 off the price of the Civic Type R would make it the value like the last-generation model was when it debuted. As a reference point, the 2017 Civic Type R cost $34,775. Then again, what can we expect in the days of high inflation and low dealer inventories?
It’s near perfection
If the above improvements sound petty or insignificant it’s because most of them are. Honda solved the issues of the last Civic Type R, which was already a winner, making it feel and look more grown up. None of our proposed changes take away from the fact that the Civic Type R is one of the best, most fun vehicles we’ve driven in the past year. Its ability to carry speed around corners and through esses shocks and delights, and this time around we wouldn’t have to feel like a boy racer driving one every day.
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Famed mountain lion P-22 died of multiple severe injuries and chronic conditions that impaired his ability to function in the wild, final necropsy results released Wednesday showed.
The conditions also would have lowered his quality of life if he had been placed in human care, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and National Park Service.
Late last year, the cougar was captured and humanely euthanized after being struck by a car near Griffith Park, the urban park he once roamed.
Wildlife officials had been searching for the him over concerns for his health and after he was implicated in two dog attacks.
The lion was believed to be 12 years old and had kidney, liver and possible heart disease.
P-22 had recent trauma to his head and right eye, including an orbital fracture with bleeding and early stages of scar tissue development, officials detailed.
“P-22 also had injuries consistent with older, significant trauma, including a diaphragmatic rupture, through which the liver and sections of connective tissue from the abdomen had herniated and were inside his chest cavity,” according to the CDFW.
The exam also confirmed the lion was underweight, arthritic and had progressive and incurable kidney disease.
He had a “severed parasitic skin infection over his entire body” that officials said was caused by mange and ringworm.
P-22 had also been exposed to rodenticide, but had no evidence of poisoning.
Officials believe he may have been exposed to a widely available rodenticide through prey.
In a statement, Tiffany Yap, a senior scientist for the Center for Biological Diversity, said that while P-22’s death was not directly attributed to rodenticide poisoning, it likely contributed to his chronic disease and poor health.
“Many of us don’t realize how much our day-to-day lives affect wildlife until a necropsy report reveals all the ways our beloved puma suffered,” Yap said. “Thoughtless development and reckless use of toxic poisons to control pests have devastating consequences. We know that building more wildlife crossings and removing the deadliest rodenticides from the market will help.”
The organization is sponsoring a state assembly bill that would expand restrictions on toxic rat poisons that are deadly to mountain lions and other wildlife. AB 1322, or the California Ecosystems Protection Act, has passed in the California Assembly and awaits Senate approval.
Since his death, P-22 has been memorialized with a mural in the Fairfax District, a commemorative hike and a limited-edition Los Angeles Public Library card.
He even got his own memorial service at the Greek Theater, nestled in Griffith Park.
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Extreme weather in various forms persists and puts millions of Americans at risk, from sweltering heat in the South and Southwest to torrential rains and flooding in the Northeast.
Threats of a deluge continue as people remain on edge in Vermont. In the town of Ripton, the onslaught of rain earlier in the week and then more rain on Friday brought on a mudslide, destabilizing already saturated soil and forcing authorities to order a dozen people to evacuate. Meanwhile, in Middlesex, wary homeowners continue their clean-up.
"Everybody up from our house was stranded. They couldn't get in or out," said Stephanie Petrarca of Middlesex, Vermont.
Stephanie Petrarca's house took on flooding in her basement, but her neighbors fared far worse.
"We got hit really hard with this whole thing, with the trees coming down, turning our whole place into a river," said Laurie Dodge, who also lives in Middlesex.
Further north, rain turned Maine roads into rivers, and in the South, dangerous thunderstorms halted a Luke Combs concert in North Carolina.
And it's not just record rains putting people at risk; more than a third of Americans remain under heat advisories, with scorching temperatures affecting the South and Southwest.
SEE MORE: 4 dead, 3 missing, including baby, after flash flood in Pennsylvania
The heat wave is spreading into California's Imperial Valley, with one farm halting operations to protect workers.
"We'll cut the working hours off an hour or two because it's too hot working outdoors," said George Tudor, President at Tudor Ranch.
Next door in Riverside, fire fighters battled a quick-moving inferno in punishing hot weather. In Phoenix, authorities opened hundreds of cooling centers at the county emergency management office, demonstrating the risks of staying outside by cooking a pizza inside a parked car.
One place is really sizzling, and that's Death Valley National Park in California. Forecasters predict the area may reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit. That would tie or break the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. Park rangers urge people visiting in this heat to make sure loved ones know where they are at all times.
"This time of year, especially when it's this hot, it's great to have someone back at home who's not on the journey with you who knows where you're going, when you should be at certain places, and when you should be checking in with them so that if you don't check in, they know to let someone know you haven't checked in and where you should have been going," said Nichole Andler, Park Ranger at Death Valley National Park.
Authorities across the U.S. are urging the public to stay safe and be aware of the risks during extreme weather.
In Vermont, with the disaster declaration in place, people are looking to FEMA for help and also hoping the rains ease for relief. The U.S. Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, is scheduled to visit Monday to survey roads heavily damaged by flood erosion.
Furthermore, the extreme weather is also impacting flights, particularly in the Northeast due to the storms.
As of early Sunday evening, more than 7,800 U.S. flights had been delayed, with more than 1,500 cancellations, according toFlightAware.
The airports with the most reported travel issues Sunday was Newark in New Jersey and JFK in New York.
The FAA said there were ground stops today at both those airports, as well as La Guardia and Boston Logan International Airport.
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Individuals with memory problems encouraged to learn more about the study
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hoag's Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute is initiating a clinical trial for a promising new investigational treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD).
The Phase I study will determine the safety and tolerability of a single intravenous (IV) dose and multiple IV doses of ACU193. Hoag is seeking individuals who have memory problems to consider participating in the trial to assist in evaluating this medication for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. There is no cost to participate. Acumen Pharmaceuticals Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel targeted therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease, is sponsoring the clinical trial.
ACU193 targets amyloid-beta oligomers and is a different approach to treating Alzheimer's disease than currently approved medications. ACU193 is designed to locate and bind to amyloid-beta oligomers – proteins that build up in the brain. These proteins are thought to be involved in Alzheimer's disease symptoms and progression.
"We're excited to open this trial at Hoag to study ACU193 for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease," said Gustavo Alva, M.D., DFAPA, a psychiatrist expert in cognition at Hoag and the principal investigator of the study. "More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease. New, safe and effective treatments are needed more than ever. Participating in clinical trials is one-way members of our community can help make a difference. If you or a loved one is experiencing memory problems, contact us to find out more about the study."
Key Eligibility Criteria:
- Age 55 to 90 years old
- Have memory problems that might be a sign of mild cognitive impairment (usually mild memory loss) or mild dementia. The underlying cause of these memory problems may or may not be due to Alzheimer's disease. Tests given within the study will help to determine this.
- Have a caregiver or study partner; someone who knows the participant very well, who is willing to assist with participation in the study and can attend the study visits with the participant.
- The staff at the study center will explain the complete list of requirements.
This study is the first time ACU193 will be given to people. As all drugs and medical procedures carry a risk of side effects, it is possible that participants may experience some discomfort or other reactions from use of ACU193. The study staff will explain these potential risks before potential participants decide whether to participate in the study. The safety of participants will be closely monitored throughout the study.
Study participants will receive a full diagnostic work-up, including an amyloid PET scan and MRI that can provide a more accurate diagnosis and help guide future treatment options. After finishing this study, participants may consider participating in future studies of ACU193 in which all participants could receive ACU193 at some point in the study.
For more information about the study, please call 949-764-679 or email clinicalresearch@hoag.org.
ABOUT HOAG
Hoag is a nonprofit, regional health care delivery system in Orange County, California. Delivering world-class, comprehensive, personalized care, Hoag consists of 1,800 top physicians, 15 urgent care facilities, 10 health & wellness centers, and two award-winning hospitals. Hoag offers a comprehensive blend of health care services that includes six institutes providing specialized services in the following areas: cancer, digestive health, heart and vascular, neurosciences, women's health, and orthopedics through Hoag's affiliate, Hoag Orthopedic Institute, which consists of an orthopedic hospital and four ambulatory surgical centers. Hoag is the highest ranked hospital in Orange County by U.S. News & World Report and the only OC hospital ranked in the Top 10 in California, as well as a designated Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). For more information, visit hoag.org.
About ACU193
ACU193 is a monoclonal antibody (mAb) discovered and developed based on its selectivity for soluble AβOs, which Acumen believes are the most toxic and pathogenic form of Aβ relative to Aβ monomers and amyloid plaques. Soluble AβOs have been observed to be potent neurotoxins that bind to neurons, inhibit synaptic function and induce neurodegeneration. By selectively targeting toxic soluble AβOs, ACU193 aims to directly address what a growing body of evidence indicates is a primary underlying cause of the neurodegenerative process in AD.
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In recent years, the clean living trend that has its roots in the organic food movement has made “clean” a potent buzzword for an ever-increasing number of things we put in or near our bodies. First, there were clean beauty products, then clean cleaning products, and now clean weed. It’s about to be everywhere in the Golden State and it’s a lot more than a Goop-ification-of-ganja marketing ploy.
So what, exactly, is clean weed? Why should you care about what chemicals may be in your pot products as long as they test below state-mandated levels? And finally, if you decide to board the chemical-free cannabis train, how do you find it on your local dispensary shelf? (Hint: It’s not going to be labeled “clean weed.”)
What is clean weed, anyway?
If the whole notion of clean weed has you scratching your head and muttering, “Dude, it comes from a plant, so how much cleaner can it be,” think of it like fruit and vegetables grown with the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides versus those grown organically. And, just as organically grown and nonorganically grown produce can sit side by side in your local grocery store, cannabis grown with or without the help of chemicals is legally sold across California as long as it tests below state-mandated levels for a range of heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins and the like that might find their way into a living plant. Products with too high a level to be safe never make it to legal dispensary shelves.
Things get a little (OK, a lot) more complicated when you move into the world of cannabis concentrates (most popularly the viscous honey-like oils used in vaporizer cartridges) because the most common and efficient methods of separating the high-producing THC from the plant material use a chemical solvent — often butane, sometimes carbon dioxide or ethanol — that is later removed. When pressure is applied to the result, the gooey end product is called resin. As with cannabis flower, there are state-mandated limits to how much of these residual solvents can be in a product. (The limit for butane is 5,000 parts per million, for example.)
This process also can be accomplished without using any chemicals at all; solventless extraction uses a combination of mechanical agitation and changes in temperature to separate the plant from the party-starter. When pressure is applied, it becomes a gooey concentrate called rosin (as contrasted with resin above — see what I mean by complicated?). Although solventless extraction has been around for a very long time (hash, a precursor to today’s concentrates, has a history that stretches back thousands of years), it has enjoyed a surge of popularity much more recently.
We’ll get to why that is in a minute, but first let’s address the elephant in the room (well, on the page, anyway): Is this so-called clean weed better than my run-of-the-mill (and apparently “dirty”) weed?
Is clean weed safer?
If these cannabis products — in whole flower or concentrate form — pass state-mandated testing regardless of what chemicals have been used along the way, then what’s the big deal? The answer here is best understood by, once again, harking back to the roots of the clean-everything movement — organic food, said Dr. Peter Grinspoon, a Boston-based physician, 25-year medical cannabis specialist and board member of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation.
He used the analogy of choosing organic fruit over nonorganic at the supermarket. “The regular piece of fruit has a little bit of pesticide on it but at a level where if it gets through, the government says, ‘This is not going to harm you,’” Grinspoon said. “I haven’t seen any studies that show you’re less likely to get cancer if you eat organic vegetables, but everybody thinks intuitively they’re healthier. And everybody will pay more for [them], and I think it’s sort of the same situation” with weed.
In his opinion, clean weed — cannabis products made without the use of such chemicals — is “hypothetically safer.” “But is it really safer?” he added. “It’s never been proven that [you’ll] have less cancer, live longer, have fewer lung problems.”
Why is it about to be everywhere?
The seeds of today’s clean-weed boom were sown back in 2019, when, just as California’s recreational cannabis market was entering its second year, a lung-injuring vaporizer crisis made just about anyone who vaped — or manufactured anything that could be vaped — take a good, hard look at what went into vaporizer cartridges.
That included the folks at Oakland-based Jetty Extracts, which had been in the (solvent-based) cannabis extraction business for nine years.
“We’d been experimenting with solventless since 2016,” said Jetty’s co-founder and Chief Executive Ron Gershoni. “Mostly very small-scale stuff. But, around 2019, we made a very concerted effort that this was where the market was going and we wanted to be a big player in solventless.”
Gershoni cited growing “consumer preference for cleaner products” generally and the vape crisis specifically as some of the driving factors, invoking a comparison to opting for organic produce in the supermarket. “Everyone — especially in California — wants things that are cleaner,” he said. “Not just the finished product but the process itself. And there is no question that using solventless extraction is a cleaner process because you are not touching any solvent.”
Nathan Cozzolino, co-founder of Rose Los Angeles, which exclusively uses flower rosin in its THC-infused, Turkish delight-style edibles, noticed a similar shift in consumer awareness in the years following his brand’s 2018 launch.
“When we started, there was nobody — except one other brand — making solventless edibles,” he said. “And at the time people were like, ‘Flower rosin is a ridiculous extract to use. It’s not scalable. You’re wasting smokable flower. It’s really expensive. …’ And I’d say pretty much 18 to 24 months later, almost every company in the space had transitioned at least some of their product line to [include] a solventless offering.”
Before 2020, Cozzolino said, the term “rosin” was mostly a niche cannabis-industry buzzword. “And the consumer definitely didn’t know what it meant,” he said.
A California company that stepped into the space more recently is San Francisco-based Pax. In February, after half a dozen years of putting other brands’ concentrated (and solvent-based) cannabis oil in its plug-and-puff Pax Era vape pods, Pax launched a line of fresh-pressed live rosin pods with natural diamonds that builds on its clean-weed pedigree. (“Live” means that the rosin was extracted from a freshly frozen plant, while “diamonds” are a crystalline form of concentrated THC.) The back of each package reads “100% cannabis, nothing added.”
That move, said Pax Chief Operating Officer Steven Jung, was born out of consumer awareness. “What we found through our research … [is that consumers] may not have the exact concepts down, but when it’s presented to them, they very clearly will state: ‘I want the cleanest, safest, highest-quality product I can get my hands on.’”
Collin Palmer, Pax’s head of formulations (the guy who helped figure out how to get the live rosin into vapable form), added that the clean-weed movement is evolving much the way the clean-food movement did before it.
“Think about how organic happened,” Palmer said. “First it was ‘natural products,’ then ‘organic’ became a buzzword. … People have this need, psychologically, to understand what goes into their bodies and know that it’s good for them. I think rosin and live rosin speaks to and checks all the boxes for those individuals. It brings transparency to the process. We now know that there’s nothing added here, and I think that brings a sense of security that wasn’t really truly there with cannabis before.”
The biggest reason clean weed is about to be everywhere, though, is that consumer demand has turned out to match — if not exceed — expectations. Jetty’s Gershoni said the company launched its first solventless vaporizer cartridge into the market in December 2020. A year and a half later, he considers the move a lifesaver.
“Right now the market is down in California about 25% year-over-year,” he said in a May interview. “And we’re up about 25% year-over-year and that product — solventless — is by far our fastest-growing product. It’s our No. 1 product, and we’re struggling to keep it in stock.”
How do I find clean weed?
As you embark on your exploration of the soon-to-be-everywhere weed trend, here are five ways to get a better understanding of what you’re buying.
1. Buy from a licensed dispensary
This is the single most important step in ensuring you know what’s in your weed. That’s because, to make it to the shelves of a licensed California dispensary, a batch of each product is required to have a certificate of analysis to back it up. Available via a brand’s website or, more frequently, via a QR code on the package itself, the COA will verify that the product has tested below the acceptable level of residual solvents, heavy metals and mycotoxins (usually indicated by the word “pass”). That assurance doesn’t exist when buying from an unlicensed shop.
Alex LeVine, co-founder and chief executive of the 2-year-old, L.A.-based vape brand PodTones and a certifiable weed nerd, said there are clues that can be gleaned by digging into a COA’s list of additional cannabinoids and terpenes.
“Rosin almost always has CBG in it,” he said, referring to the minor cannabinoid cannabigerol. LeVine explained that vape pens containing a chemically extracted distillate will contain THC but not the trace cannabinoid. “Another clue it’s real rosin is that you’ll see a very large number of different terpenes detected in live rosin that you won’t with [solvent-based] concentrates.” (Terpenes are the naturally occurring volatile compounds that give different cannabis plants their distinct smell and taste.)
2. Read the label (carefully)
Just as in the clean-beauty and clean-food space, finding clean weed means doing a lot of research and reading a lot of labels — carefully. In an ideal world, finding chemical-free cannabis flower would be as easy as looking for the word “organic” somewhere on the package. Although that is not an option (because that term falls under the purview of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and marijuana remains illegal at the federal level), thanks to a new state program, California cannabis products certified to be comparable to organic can bear the designation “OCal” on their label. (As of last month, just 11 California cultivators have been OCal-certified.)
When it comes to concentrates and vaporizer cartridges, the words “solventless” or “rosin” are used industrywide to denote no chemicals were used (remember, if it’s called “resin,” that means a solvent was used). However, because noncannabis materials can (and often are) added to give rosin a vaporizable viscosity, you’ll need to dig deeper than that. Read the fine print carefully to find out what else might be in the mix. And look for additional language such as “100% cannabis, nothing added,” which appears on Pax’s new pods, or “100% cannabis rosin,” which appears on PodTones’ packaging.
3. Engage your budtender
No, budtenders are not doctors or chemists, but chances are they’ve already summited the solventless-vape learning curve you’re just starting to scale. Tell them specifically what you’re looking for and what you want — and don’t want — out of a vaporizable cannabis product. Use the word “solventless.” Ask them to parse confusing labels. Ask them hard questions. Part of their job is to help you make sense of it all.
4. Search out these products
Because Jetty Extracts and Pax are bigger brands, you’re likely to find their clean-weed offerings on a lot of dispensary shelves. While they’re both good starting points, there are two smaller locals that have been in the solventless space for a long time and are worth the effort to search for. One is Rose Los Angeles, which makes gourmet-level edibles using flower rosin. If you prefer to consume instead of combust your cannabis, the brand is a worthy option.
The other is PodTones, whose founders early on cracked the code on how to put 100% live rosin concentrate in a single-use pen without using additional chemicals, to the delight of plant-loving weed heads everywhere. With no pods (despite its name) or plugs or other components to worry about, it’s an elegant, entry-level experience for the novice tiptoeing into the world of clean weed.
5. Wait a while
If all that sounds daunting, the other option is to just wait and let the clean-weed movement reveal itself to you by gobbling up market share, which, by all accounts, it’s doing quickly. Right now, it represents just about 1% to 2% of the market. “As technology grows and demand grows for these products, we’ll see more and more shelf space allocated to this type of product,” said Pax’s Palmer.
“And I truly believe as a hash maker that this will be 50% or around that of our products that we see on the shelf,” he said. “I think everyone eventually will have a solventless line. It’s just inevitable.” | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/08/22/clean-weed-is-about-to-be-everywhere-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2-2/ | 2022-08-22 21:31:51 | 0 | https://www.chicoer.com/2022/08/22/clean-weed-is-about-to-be-everywhere-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know-2-2/ |
Maine scored its first Mega Millions jackpot — and someone beat the ill fortune of Friday the 13th — when a ticket purchased in the state matched the winning numbers for the lottery’s estimated $1.35 billion grand prize.
The lucky combination of numbers drawn late Friday night were: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and gold Mega Ball 14. The winning ticket was sold at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon, Maine, according to the Maine State Lottery. The southern Maine town of over 6,500 residents borders New Hampshire.
“There’s quite a buzz at our small-town gas station this morning, I’ll tell you that,” said owner Fred Cotreau. The first thing he did was check to see he had bought the winning ticket, which he hadn’t.
“Hopefully one of the residents and one of the regular customers is the winner,” Cotreau said. “It’s exciting to have sold it but it’s just more exciting for a single winner and I’m just really hoping it’s somebody here in town.”
The winner, whose name is not yet known, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million, which led to three months of drawings without a claim on the jackpot.
“Congratulations to the Maine State Lottery, which has just won its first-ever Mega Millions jackpot,” Pat McDonald, Ohio lottery director and lead director of the Mega Millions Consortium, said in a statement early Saturday.
The jackpot was the second largest in Mega Millions history and the fourth time the game has had a billion-dollar win. The largest Mega Millions jackpot in October 2018 was $1.53 billion claimed by a single ticket holder in South Carolina.
Friday’s prosperous drawing also marked the seventh time there was a grand prize winner on Friday the 13th, a date superstitiously considered unlucky.
To claim the full $1.35 billion, the winner would need to take the money in an annuity with annual payments over 29 years. Most jackpot recipients prefer the reduced but quicker cash option, which for Friday night’s drawing was an estimated $724.6 million.
The next grand prize drawing on Tuesday will drop to an estimated $20 million and a cash option of $10.7 million.
Until Friday night, there had been 25 straight drawings without a jackpot winner.
There were more than 7 million winning tickets across nine prize tiers Friday. Beyond Maine’s jackpot, 14 tickets matched five white balls to claim the second-tier prize of $1 million. Four were sold in New York, two in California and one each in Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas, Mega Millions said.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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AP reporter Lisa Rathke contributed from Marshfield, Vermont. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-mega-millions-drawing-offers-another-chance-at-giant-prize/ | 2023-01-15 00:18:25 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/ap-mega-millions-drawing-offers-another-chance-at-giant-prize/ |
The John Carroll football team came up a few points short Friday night, losing to visiting Bishop O’Connell, 16-13, in a nonleague battle that left both teams with 1-2 records.
“I thought last week was one of those deals where we learned to get over the hump and playing against a pretty good team, but we’re still learning how to compete on a day-to-day basis,” Patriots first year coach Mark Modeste said. “We always say, we win between Monday and Thursday and those are things we are working the hardest on. I”m not worried about the physical mistakes, we’re gonna drop a ball once in a while and that definitely happens and fundamentals need to be improved upon and things like that. But I am proud of the way they battled, for sure.”
After a scoreless first quarter that saw John Carroll with great field position, a touchdown called back and a missed field goal, the visiting Knights went ahead 13-0 with two second-quarter scores.
The first came just 44 seconds into the second quarter as speedy returner Aidan Munroe took a punt back 65 yards for a touchdown. Tyler Fontenot’s kick gave the Knights a 7-0 lead.
Later in the quarter, a bad snap on a Patriots punt led to the Knights taking over at the Patriots’ 28-yard line.
The Knights needed two plays to increase the lead. Munroe ran 13 yards and quarterback Jonathan Nguyen connected with Aidan Joseph for the remaining 15 yards and the score. The extra-point was no good.
The Knights took the 13-0 lead into the half, but the Patriots had no quit. A pair of interceptions brought the Patriots even midway through the third quarter.
John Carroll defensive back Luke Robinson picked off a Nguyen pass and returned the ball inside the Knights 20. A clipping call, though, brought the ball back out to midfield.
Tristan Richardson (17 carries, 116 yards) quickly moved the ball to the 9-yard line, racing 41 yards on first down. The next snap, Trevor Amrein took the quick handoff and raced for the touchdown. Donnie Waitt added the kick and the Patriots were within six, 13-7, midway through the third quarter.
Two minutes later, Harold Davis snagged another Nguyen pass and he raced untouched down the sideline with a 60-yard touchdown return. Waitt’s extra-point kick was no good, leaving the game tied at 13.
Seeming unfazed, Nguyen (7-for-25, 96 yards) and the Knights went right back to the passing game and had success. Four pass plays and one running play moved the ball from the Knights 31 to the Patriots 20. Fontenot came on to make a 37-yard field goal with 52 seconds left in the third quarter, which proved to be the difference.
John Carroll had four possessions over the remaining 12 minutes, all starting inside its own 30, none able to turn into a sustained drive. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/sports/cng-ag-sp-jc-oconnell-football-0916-20220917-6u2y6huhwzekpexdpfk2mlrm24-story.html | 2022-09-17 04:10:39 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/sports/cng-ag-sp-jc-oconnell-football-0916-20220917-6u2y6huhwzekpexdpfk2mlrm24-story.html |
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Soot is a very fine, air-borne particulate matter that causes numerous adverse health effects when inhaled. Once inside our bodies, soot burrows into our lungs, causing inflammation, heart problems, lung disease and asthma attacks. A recent study found that soot causes anywhere between 85,000 to 200,000 deaths each year, with communities of color being hit the hardest.
Luckily, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is aware of the problem. A rule proposed recently by the EPA would lower the legally allowable amount of soot emissions by 16%. This rule is a good start, but it needs to go further to adequately protect people.
As a professor at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis’ School of Sciences, my team and I monitor air quality. We predominantly work in Indianapolis, where the level of soot produced can be dangerous, exceeding the current federal standard. Unfortunately, this is the case across most upper Midwestern cities. Metropolitan areas like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis are disproportionately impacted, and the air quality in the entire Midwest would be improved by a stronger soot rule.
Soot is usually measured in micrograms per cubic meter of air, which is commonly abbreviated to μg/m3. Currently, the EPA recommends that the concentration of soot in the air remain below 12μg/m3, but such a standard is outdated and insufficient to protect our health and environment. Recent research shows that 12μg/m3 is still harmful to human health, and if the EPA’s soot standard was lowered to 8μg/m3, an estimated 20,000 lives could be saved each year.
Many of the main drivers of soot production — highways, coal plants and other types of industrial facilities — were placed near poorer communities and communities of color.
Coal plants are some of the main drivers of soot emissions. While coal smoke directly harms our lungs when inhaled, the soot released when coal is burned can be even more deadly. Coal soot contains mercury, which can seep into our lakes, streams and other waterways, contaminating them and the fish that swim there. If ingested — either by drinking the water or eating the fish — mercury can cause brain damage, heart disease and many other serious heart issues.
Right now, coal plants and other soot polluters are financially benefiting from the harm they’re inflicting on our communities. They get to profit while disadvantaged communities suffer serious health problems. That’s not right, and it’s not financially sensible either.
If the EPA sets strong and robust new standards for soot pollution, it will improve the quality of life for tens of millions across the Midwest, and hundreds of millions across the country. It will also save lives. In the short term, there will be fewer asthma attacks and heart problems, and in the long term, it will minimize the pollutants that cause climate change, mitigating the effects of increasingly severe weather.
Please reach out to the EPA and encourage them to strengthen their current proposed soot standards. Their comment period is currently open until March 28, and the rule is expected to be finalized this August. | https://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/opinion-soot-pollution-rule-could-save-thousands-of-lives/article_b2887d12-abe0-11ed-883c-534d4417894c.html | 2023-02-18 22:43:05 | 1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/opinion-soot-pollution-rule-could-save-thousands-of-lives/article_b2887d12-abe0-11ed-883c-534d4417894c.html |
By CURT ANDERSON (Associated Press)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A white Florida woman charged with shooting and killing her Black neighbor told detectives that she called the victim’s children by racist slurs in the months leading up to the slaying, according to an arrest report released Thursday.
Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, admitted to detectives that she called the children “the n-word.” One child told deputies that the night of the shooting, Lorincz “came out of her house and gave the children the middle finger” and also said this: “Get away from my house, you Black slave,” according to the report.
The report from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office came out shortly before Lorincz made her initial appearance in court Thursday by video. She has been charged with the first-degree felony of manslaughter with a firearm, as well as culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault Sheriff Billy Woods said in a statement.
Lorincz appeared wearing a dark protective vest, answered the judge’s questions about her finances and her attorney, an assistant public defender appointed by the judge, entered a written plea of not guilty. A bond hearing will be scheduled in the coming days.
In a statement to investigators after the shooting of Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old Black mother of four, Lorincz was quoted as saying she had problems for two years with children in the neighborhood not “respecting” her — including the victim’s children, who range in age from 3 to 12 years old.
“Lorincz advised that the children of (Owens) have told her in the past they would kill her,” the report said.
The day of the shooting, Lorincz told investigators she had a headache and that “neighbors were outside screaming and yelling, kids were running around” in a grassy area separating two apartment quadruplex buildings, including hers.
That night, while a few children were playing basketball, Lorincz came outside to throw a pair of roller skates at them, hitting one on the feet, according to the report. When Owens then knocked on her door, Lorinz claims that Owens threatened to kill her.
According to the sheriff’s timeline, Lorincz called the department at 8:54 p.m. on the night of the shooting to say kids were threatening her and trespassing. She had previously placed “No trespassing” signs in the grassy areas, despite those being shared areas and not part of her rental. Lorincz said in court she doesn’t own the property.
Many details about the case remain unclear, such as the owner of a red T-shirt that says, “She Slays This Means War” — which was found at the scene, according to the report.
While deputies were on their way, more calls came in to 911 about shots heard in the same area. At 9:04 p.m., one of Owens’ children called 911 to say his mother had been shot, according to the timeline. Lorincz also called again, saying she had shot a woman through her front door. Deputies arrived about three minutes later to find Owens lying on the ground. She was pronounced dead at a hospital a half hour later.
Lorincz claimed “that Owens banged on the door so hard everything started shaking and she thought the door was going to come off,” and that she panicked and said to herself “’Oh my god, she’s really going to kill me this time.’” That’s when Lorincz fired a single round from her .380-caliber handgun, the report says, noting that Lorincz also had a second handgun in the home.
“Lorincz advised that she purchased the firearm for protection after an altercation with the victim,” it says.
During a news conference Wednesday afternoon, the victim’s family, friends and community leaders joined civil rights attorney Ben Crump — who became well-known representing Trayvon Martin’s family — in thanking the sheriff for making the arrest and calling for justice for Owens.
“This is not a difficult case,” Crump said. He called on the state attorney’s office to “zealously prosecute” the shooter.
Crump, along with Owens’s mother and multiple neighbors noted during the news conference that the “feud” the sheriff spoke of was between Lorincz and neighborhood children. Neighbors said Lorincz frequently called the children vile names when they played in the grassy area outside her home.
Authorities had delayed her arrest for several days while looking into a possible “ stand your ground ” claim. Detectives have since said that Lorincz’s actions are not justifiable under Florida law.
The sheriff has said that since January 2021, deputies responded to at least a half-dozen complaints between Owens and Lorincz.
Owens’ mother, Pamela Dias, has said she will now raise her four young grandchildren. The funeral for Owens is set for Monday in Ocala.
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Associated Press writer Freida Frisaro contributed from Fort Lauderdale. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/08/florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-neighbor-appears-in-court-sheriff-releases-details-of-racist-threats/ | 2023-06-08 20:27:13 | 1 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/08/florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-neighbor-appears-in-court-sheriff-releases-details-of-racist-threats/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor has ordered an investigation in a confrontation in which a homeowner fired shots into a couple’s car when they mistakenly turned onto his property while making a late-night grocery delivery. Police closed the case without consulting the state attorney’s office.
No one was injured by the gunfire in an upscale Fort Lauderdale suburb, but is the latest in a spate of similar shootings across the U.S. where people have mistakenly turned onto the wrong property or gotten in the wrong car. One person has been killed and others seriously wounded. In this case, the shooter told police the car was being driven erratically, struck his leg and made him fear for himself and his son.
Broward County State Attorney Harold Pryor issued a statement saying police investigators never contacted his office about the April 15 shooting in Southwest Ranches that put at least two bullets into the car driven by 19-year-old Waldes Thomas Jr., who was with his 18-year-old girlfriend, Diamond Darville.
Pryor said his staff members were unaware of the shooting until they were contacted Friday by a reporter from WTVJ-TV, who interviewed the couple. The Davie Police Department has a contract with Southwest Ranches to provide service.
“I contacted the Davie Police Department to request a full investigation,” Pryor said Friday, adding that his prosecutors will decide whether charges should be filed.
Davie police declined to comment Sunday, but released the lead detective’s report. He wrote that without any video, he couldn’t determine if either the shooter or couple committed a crime.
“Each party appeared justified in their actions based on the circumstances they perceived,” the report concluded.
The shooting happened on an unlit street in a semi-rural neighborhood at a home sitting on two-acres.
According to the police report, Thomas and Darville got lost while delivering groceries for Instacart shortly before 10 p.m. They were on the phone with their customer when Thomas turned their 2014 Honda Civic into an area where the shooter stores equipment for his excavation business. The address they were looking for is across the street.
The shooter and the couple gave investigators conflicting reports about what happened next.
The homeowner told officers he asked his 12-year-old son to tell the driver to leave, but soon heard the boy yelling for help. The father said he saw the car driving erratically, banging into logs and boulders so he told his son to run.
He said the car then drove toward him and ran over his foot. Saying he feared for his life and his son’s, the man drew his handgun and fired at the car’s tires, but it sped away. He then called police.
An officer found Thomas and Darville parked nearby. When he asked what happened, they replied, “we just got shot at.” He said Darville was crying and Thomas appeared “extremely nervous and scared.” The officer said there were two bullet holes in the car’s bumper and one tire was flat.
The couple told police they thought that they were at the right house, then tried to leave after the boy told them they weren’t. Thomas said he put the car into reverse and hit a boulder, which was when the shooter approached “aggressively.” That’s when Thomas said he heard shots and drove away. Darville said she saw the shooter pull his gun and fire.
“I said, ‘We got to go, we got to go,’” Darville told WTVJ. “I was scared, I’m not going to lie.” She didn’t respond to a phone call or emails from The Associated Press.
The AP isn’t naming the property resident because he hasn’t been charged with a crime. His phone rang unanswered and he did not return a text message Sunday seeking comment.
Police say they returned the shooter’s gun after closing the case. __
An earlier version incorrectly said the statement was issued Sunday, not Friday. | https://www.koin.com/news/national/probe-ordered-after-florida-shooter-fires-at-delivery-driver/ | 2023-04-24 00:47:44 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/national/probe-ordered-after-florida-shooter-fires-at-delivery-driver/ |
TX San Angelo TX Zone Forecast for Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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National Weather Service San Angelo TX
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
TXZ127-102015-
Taylor-
Including the city of Abilene
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming west after midnight. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ072-102015-
Tom Green-
Including the cities of Carlsbad, San Angelo, and Wall
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly clear
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast
after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
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TXZ140-102015-
Brown-
Including the cities of Brownwood and Indian Creek
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
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TXZ054-102015-
Nolan-
Including the city of Sweetwater
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
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TXZ169-102015-
Kimble-
Including the cities of Cleo, Junction, London, Roosevelt,
Segovia, and Telegraph
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ154-102015-
McCulloch-
Including the cities of Brady, Fife, Lohn, Rochelle, and Voca
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows
in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ098-102015-
Haskell-
Including the cities of Irby and Haskell
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 90s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ099-102015-
Throckmorton-
Including the cities of Throckmorton and Woodson
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. North winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning. Highs in the upper 90s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ049-102015-
Fisher-
Including the cities of Rotan and Roby
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest around
5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ113-102015-
Jones-
Including the cities of Stamford, Stith, Anson, Funston, Truby,
Tuxedo, and Hamlin
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming northwest around
5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ114-102015-
Shackelford-
Including the city of Albany
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. West winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ128-102015-
Callahan-
Including the cities of Clyde, Eula, Dudley, Baird,
and Cross Plains
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after
midnight. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 90s. North winds around 5 mph, becoming
northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ064-102015-
Sterling-
Including the cities of Broome and Sterling City
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower
70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northeast winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly clear
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 70s. East winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ065-102015-
Coke-
Including the cities of Robert Lee, Sanco, Silver, Bronte,
and Tennyson
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast this afternoon. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ066-102015-
Runnels-
Including the cities of Ballinger, Benoit, Hatchel, Rowena,
Crews, Winters, and Pumphrey
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ139-102015-
Coleman-
Including the cities of Coleman, Echo, Fisk, Valera, Voss,
and Trickham
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ071-102015-
Irion-
Including the cities of Barnhart, Arden, Mertzon, and Sherwood
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds around
5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ073-102015-
Concho-
Including the cities of Eden, Live Oak, and Lowake
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ155-102015-
San Saba-
Including the cities of Chappel, Cherokee, Harkeyville,
and San Saba
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northeast this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming northeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ076-102015-
Crockett-
Including the city of Ozona
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ077-102015-
Schleicher-
Including the city of Eldorado
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. North winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. South
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ168-102015-
Menard-
Including the cities of Erna, Fort Mckavett, Hext, and Menard
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph, becoming east in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the lower 70s.
$$
TXZ170-102015-
Mason-
Including the cities of Fredonia, Katemcy, Koockville,
Loyal Valley, Mason, Pontotoc, and Streeter
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ078-102015-
Sutton-
Including the city of Sonora
310 AM CDT Wed Aug 10 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming east 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph this
afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms
likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows
in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
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Judge reduces award for flight attendant who sued Southwest
DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Southwest Airlines to rehire a flight attendant who said she was fired for expressing opposition to abortion. But the judge is reducing a jury award to the woman from more than $5 million to $800,000. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr said in a ruling issued Monday that she reduced Charlene Carter’s award to comply with federal limits on punitive damages that companies can be required to pay. Carter charges she was fired after sending strongly worded messages to her union president, complaining about the president’s participation in the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C. In several sharp messages, she called the union official “despicable” and other terms. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/12/06/judge-reduces-award-for-flight-attendant-who-sued-southwest/ | 2022-12-07 09:21:48 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/12/06/judge-reduces-award-for-flight-attendant-who-sued-southwest/ |
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas-area man was sentenced to 60 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to filming himself raping a 7-year-old girl, authorities said Friday.
Mark Allen Miller, of Rowlett, was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge in Dallas after pleading guilty to two counts of producing child pornography, the U.S. attorney’s office for the northern district of Texas said in a statement.
Miller, 35, was arrested on Jan. 12 after the girl’s father, with whom Miller was staying, said he walked in on Miller raping the girl, who was 9 years old at the time. Miller admitted to police that he had been molesting the girl for years, the prosecution statement said.
The father told investigators that he and Miller had been friends for more than a decade and that Miller was staying overnight at their home. The father heard a noise and went to check on it. When he saw that Miller wasn’t in the living room where he’d been sleeping, the father rushed to his daughter’s room and found Miller raping her. The father held Miller at gunpoint until police arrived.
A forensic analysis of Miller’s electronic devices revealed that he had produced at least five videos and 132 images of child pornography involving the victim dating back two years, to when she was 7.
During the sentencing hearing, a Rockwall Police Department forensic analyst testified that Miller’s electronic devices contained more than 8,000 sexually explicit images of other children. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/texas-man-gets-60-years-for-filming-himself-raping-child/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-09-09 20:21:55 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/texas-man-gets-60-years-for-filming-himself-raping-child/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Lamborghini’s factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy, has been building supercars for 60 years, and the automaker has decided to celebrate this by publishing a look back at the factory’s history.
Company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini already had a successful tractor business prior to starting Lamborghini, but branching out into cars required a new manufacturing facility. Sant’Agata Bolognese is close to Ferruccio Lamborghini’s hometown of Cento. Once the site was chosen, construction was completed in just eight months in late 1963. Lamborghini unveiled a prototype of its first production model, the 350 GTV, on Oct. 20 of that year.
Lamborghini steadily expanded the factory, adding in-house assembly of transmissions and differentials in 1966, and the first facilities for working with carbon fiber in 1983. Production expanded from 67 cars in 1965 to 425 in 1971, fell to 55 cars in 1979 due to an economic downturn, and rebounded to 470 cars in 1987. Lamborghini was also building marine engines at the time, completing 300 that year.
In line with changes in technology and government regulations, Lamborghini added research and development departments for electronics, composite materials, and emissions controls in 1990. The automaker came under the control of Audi in 1998, and the German automaker commissioned a major renovation of the Sant’Agata Bolognese facility that was completed in 2001.
More recent additions have emphasized sustainability. In 2011, the automaker opened Lamborghini Park, with bee colonies to protect the honey-producing insects, as well as carbon-capture experiments conducted in partnership with the Municipality of Sant’Agata Bolognese and the Universities of Bologna, Bolzano, and Munich. A dedicated assembly line for the Urus SUV, which began building vehicles in 2018, earned the highest LEED Platinum certification for environmental impact, as did the factory’s finishing department and an office building.
The factory currently has over 2,000 employees and built 9,233 cars in 2022, according to Lamborghini. The latest model to roll out of the venerable factory is the Lamborghini Revuelto, the Aventador successor featuring a 1,000-hp plug-in hybrid powertrain including a V-12 engine and three electric motors. This is in addition to a newly developed carbon-fiber chassis, and 13 drive modes, encompassing electric all-wheel drive and a Recharge mode to keep a charge in the 3.8-kwh battery pack.
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Lincoln dinner with Historic Bishop Home
The Historic Bishop Home invites you to dinner in honor of the 16th President of the United States and his wife, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, who will be visiting our fair city on Aug. 19. The period dinner begins with a reception from 5:00 to 6:15 p.m.. at the Historic Bishop Home 818 East Second Street Casper Wyoming. At 6:15 p.m., guests will progress to the Casper Country Club for dinner and entertainment by President Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln portrayed by John and Pamela Voehl .
Mr. Voehl is a life member of Lincoln Presenters and has performed over 1600 times throughout the United States. President and Mrs. Lincoln will mingle with guests and be available for photographs during cocktails. After dinner, the former president and first lady will entertain guests with memoirs and take questions and comments. The cost of the dinner is $90.00 per person. ($30 is a tax-deductible donation to the Cadoma Foundation). Funds will help support the preservation of the Historic Bishop Home. Please call 307 235-5277 or email Info@cadomafoundation.org for reservations on or before Aug. 10. Period Dress is encouraged but not required.
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Continuum of Care looking for members, input
The Wyoming Homeless Continuum of Care held their statewide annual meeting at the Fort Caspar Museum on June 29.
The group had a packed agenda including guest speakers from the Institute of Community Alliances looking at racial disparity in the Wyoming Homeless population, LGBTQ and diversity from Casper PRIDE, the Wyoming Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Unaccompanied Students Initiative, and the Statewide Coordinated Entry System, for accessing and prioritization of high vulnerability, literally homeless clients. The group also held an interactive activity to determine gaps in services and barriers to housing statewide. Attendees were encouraged and invited to sign up for numerous committees (Data Quality, Membership and Outreach, Coordinated Entry, Rank and Review, and Point in Time) and to apply to become a board member.
The WY CoC is looking for additional members and input from communities statewide to partner to address the issues surrounding homelessness in Wyoming. For more information and to register to be a member or join the mailing list please visit: wyomingwhc.org
About Wyoming Continuum of Care
The WY CoC is a membership driven, planning, and oversight body for Wyoming. The purpose of the CoC is to develop and implement strategies to ensure that homelessness in Wyoming is rare, brief, and non-recurring. The CoC coordinates each community’s policies, strategies, and activities, and is tasked with gathering and analyzing data to determine the local needs of people experiencing homelessness, identifying, and bridging gaps in housing and services, implementing systemic responses to homelessness, educating the community on issues related to homelessness, providing support and technical assistance on the operations of homeless services, and measuring CoC system performance.
Writers’ conference at River of Life
Join Kingdom Creatives Literary Arts Affinity Group for the first annual, two-day event: Fall Into Books Writers’ Conference is at River of Life Church from 5:30 to 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 29, and from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 30. The event features six guest speakers presenting on Keeping the Muse, Improving Craft, Editing, Business/Taxes, and Marketing; time for networking; local author book signing; and children’s book authors Q&A panel. $75 entry fee includes lunch. $65 Early Bird Registration by Aug. 22!
The Science Zone – AmeriCorps
Do you have a heart for service? Do you want to kick-start your career? Do you want to build your employment skills? Are you retired and have a desire to serve?
You could help provide educational programming in classrooms in before and after school programs, community outreach activities, and summer camps. We have many ideas of how you could help us do outreach.
Members will have flexible scheduling options, flexible commitment levels and will be provided with training. Service commitments range from 300 hours to 1200 hours that can be served over the course of a few months to a full year. In addition to stipends and education awards, becoming part of the AmeriCorps community brings lifelong connections and benefits. Join us as an AmeriCorp member by going to thesciencezone.org or call us at (307) 473-9663 for more information.
Central Wyoming Hospice joins nonprofit collaboration
Central Wyoming Hospice and Transitions is excited to announce our new membership to the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). NPHI is made up of more than 95 not-for-profit, community-integrated hospice and palliative care providers and is dedicated to ensuring patients and their families have access to high quality care at the last stages of life. Central Wyoming Hospice is the is the first NPHI member in Wyoming.
NPHI believes the end-of-life care patients and their families receive should reflect their individual goals, values, and preferences. Together, members across the country define the standards of hospice care and guide patients and families through that journey.
“We joined NHPI because we believe that non-profit, community-based hospice providers historically have been and continue to be the leaders and the innovators in end-of-life care,” said CWHT Executive Director Kilty Brown. ”Ultimately, NHPI’s mission and values align closely with the type of care we provide daily.”
NPHI members are committed to person-centered advanced illness care that ensures individuals can focus on quality and comfort at the last stage of life. Driven by patient and family needs – not profit – members work to fundamentally change how people and institutions view end-of-life care, and instead, help people live as well as possible until they die.
Saturday study at Bethel Baptist
The First Saturday study at Bethel Baptist Church, 3030 S. Poplar, on Aug. 5 will be on the age old question of can a Christian believer lose their salvation or revert from being a Christian to what they believed before? The study starts at 9 am and refreshments are served. This is an interactive study open to all. Phone the church office at 234-8812 for further information
Women in the Word
Women in the Word Bible Study is a non-denominational bible study for any woman., regardless of age, background or faith, who wants to grow in God’s Word and learn and share with others. We resumed the Bible Study year Sept. 14 at Highland Park with the regular time of 9:15 am to 11:00 am. Please call Angela with any questions 207-267-8061. Free childcare is provided for children ages 0-5 years of age.
American Radio NCHS ’73 50th class reunion
The reunion will be held Friday, July 28 and Saturday, July 29.
Information about Class Reunion is posted on:
- Facebook at “NCHS Class of 1973 (Casper, Wy)”
- Classmates.com at Natrona County High School, Class of 1973
- Natrona County High School website, “Alumni News”, Class of 1973
- Classreport.org, State: Wyoming, City: Casper, School: Natrona County High School, Year: 1973
Reunion Committee Contacts:
- Mary Ann T: maryannthompson459@gmail.com
- NCHS Class of 1973 Reunion Committee: 1234 South Durbin, Casper, WY 82601
Class Reunion Committee is Looking for Classmates: Please provide: Current name, high school name, current mailing address, email address, phone no. to one of the two contact above.
We will post the registration form on the Facebook page next spring. We will email registration to those who provide an email address. Please reach out to classmates and encourage them to join FB AND provide email contact info.
SEE YOU IN JULY 2023
Women in Business Scholarship
The Zonta Club of Cheyenne is seeking applicants for its Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship. The selected applicant – who should demonstrate outstanding potential in her field of study—will receive a $1,000 scholarship. The Cheyenne Club scholarship recipient will then compete (without any additional paperwork required) with other Zonta Club scholarship recipients for an additional $6,000.
This scholarship is open to women of any age who are pursuing a business degree (including accounting, economics, finance, business management, business technology, information technology, marketing, operations management, human resources management, international business, or entrepreneurship) at an accredited university, college, or institute. Students must be enrolled in at least the second year of an undergraduate program through the final year of a master’s program at the time the application is submitted. Applicants must not graduate before April 2024.
To receive the local Zonta Club of Cheyenne scholarship, the applicant must have graduated rom a Laramie County high school or have obtained a GED in Laramie County or currently be a student living in Laramie County. Those students interested in applying but without the tie to Laramie County may submit their application and it will be passed on to Zonta officials who will assure that it is considered for the appropriate regional/international scholarship.
Applications must be submitted no later than Aug. 1. It is preferred that the complete application be submitted at zonta.cheyenne@sgmail.com but they may also be sent to Zonta, P.O. Box 2135, Cheyenne, WY 82003. The application and additional details may be found at https://www.cheyennezonta.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/JMKApplication2023.pdf
Questions or additional inquiries may be sent to parrishzonta@gmail.com.
River of Life events
Calling all visual artists! The Center for Kingdom Creatives is hosting our Affinity Group meetings for visual arts. Join us on the 4th Tuesday each month from 5 PM to 7 PM at Cascade Coffeeshop (2955 East 2nd Street). Our next meeting is 2/28. We’ll have activities, demonstrations, time for creating, and be planning upcoming events and art shows!
Calling all writers! The Center for Kingdom Creatives presents the Literary Art Affinity Group at Cascade Coffee Shop. Bring your work to share, work on, constructively critique, bring resources to share, and invite fellow writers to join the fun! We’ll also be planning future events, conferences, workshops, and more!
We meet every month on the third Thursday at 7 p.m. at 2955 East 2nd Street, Casper, WY 82609. Our next meeting is 2/16. Call (307) 369-5433 or contact riveroflife307@gmail.com, or go to www.riveroflife.family for more details. | https://trib.com/announcements/other/town-crier-grownup-stuff/article_a4164b5e-2cd9-11ee-8001-e36440de902d.html | 2023-07-29 17:52:41 | 0 | https://trib.com/announcements/other/town-crier-grownup-stuff/article_a4164b5e-2cd9-11ee-8001-e36440de902d.html |
(The Hill) – Student loan borrowers could face housing hurdles in an already tight and expensive market once payments kick in later this year after a three-year pause.
The money saved not paying on loans during this period helped some borrowers build savings or handle the rising costs of household goods and other necessities, including rent.
Some analysts predict that the added costs of loan repayments could slash savings and force borrowers into difficult housing situations.
“While the income needed for monthly rent payments remains the same with the resumption of loan payments, renters especially from the lower- and middle-income group will be forced to make difficult housing decisions and sacrifice some aspects to the quality of life,” Moody’s Analytics senior economist Lu Chen and economist Mary Le told The Hill.
Borrowers who immediately resume payments in October will owe roughly $275 per month, Moody’s projected in a recent report. That could lead those in debt, especially low income borrowers, to look for alternatives, such as moving in with friends or family or finding a less expensive home.
Payments could also take a toll on younger borrowers, whose student loans make up a larger share of their individual debt compared to older generations. Student loans make up about 30 percent of the total debt for borrowers between the ages of 18 and 29, Moody’s found.
Separately, polling conducted by The College Investor found that most debt holders are concerned about payments resuming, while more than half do not feel financially ready.
About 57 percent of 1,200 borrowers polled reported using the money saved by not making student loan payments to supplement essential costs, such as food and housing.
Homeowning dreams delayed by payments
The extra monthly costs — along with rising mortgage rates — may also put the dream of homeownership out of reach.
“The pause along with other pandemic incentives have driven up the savings for many, but higher cost of living caused by inflation and elevated interest rates made saving for future mortgage payments more financially challenging,” Moody’s Chen and Le said.
“For first time buyers, this resumption of student loan payments serves as a disadvantage as it can make home ownership less accessible or even delay their ability to purchase a home,” they added.
‘A pipe dream at best’
Jeffrey Eden, a graduate student who originally graduated into a recession with a bachelor’s degree in 2011, told The Hill that student loans over the years have limited his options and even served as an incentive to pursue more education.
Now in the second year of his second master’s program, Eden, originally from Rhode Island, will enter the initial phase of repayment in forbearance. But he knows once he graduates again, the burden of debt will drastically impact where he lives.
“The cost of living in my home state is simply too much. Of course, like so many others, homeownership would be great, but I’m a pragmatist and have made my peace with the fact that such a thing is a pipe dream at best,” Eden said.
“We were saving for many years to move to NYC, but one car repair, two clinic visits, and of course, student loans, depleted those savings years ago. We’re essentially stuck and trying to survive; that is my generation’s way, after all,” he added.
How housing costs spiked
Housing costs have risen substantially throughout the pandemic for both renters and homebuyers. A lack of supply on the rental side met significant demand and was compounded by the reentry of potential homebuyers, who were driven back toward rentals by high mortgage rates.
Although rent prices are cooling in parts of the country, they remain stubbornly high while evictions are rising in several cities. Full-time workers across the country need to earn $23 per hour to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment at a fair market price, according to a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC).
Workers earning minimum wage must work 104 hours per week to afford the same rental, according to the report.
Andrew Aurand, vice president of research at NLIHC told The Hill that low-income renters are already making sacrifices to make ends meet and spending far less on other necessities to pay for housing.
“If they are forced to move because of an eviction or even if they decide on their own that they have to move, it can be very difficult for them to find a home they can afford and, instead, sometimes move-in with family or friends, which is often not sustainable, or into housing that is inadequate for them either in size or quality.”
What borrowers can do as payments resume
As borrowers brace for impact, student loan experts are offering advice on how to prepare. Borrowers could consider signing up for automatic payments — which could save them about 0.25 percentage points on interest — make a budget and update information with their loan servicers, student loan expert Mark Kantrowitz told The Hill.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is implementing new programs that could cover some interest and lower monthly payments.
The administration said eligible borrowers can enroll in the REPAYE plan, which will be converted to the SAVE plan this fall.
The new plan will cut monthly payments from 10 percent of discretionary income to 5 percent and ensure unpaid monthly interest won’t cause a borrower’s debt to grow if they’ve been making their monthly payments.
Still, student loan repayment notices are going out, setting in motion what Eden called an existential dread.
“I started tallying up the monthly cost on top of all our other expenses and sure, it’s doable, especially if I skip a meal here and there and just ignore when I’m sick or something. It’s why I’m eager to either land a professorship or look into PhD study,” he said. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/student-loans-how-payments-pinch-renters-dash-dreams-of-homeownership/ | 2023-07-12 14:33:20 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/student-loans-how-payments-pinch-renters-dash-dreams-of-homeownership/ |
2 officers, suspect shot in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - The Memphis Police Department has confirmed that two unidentified officers were shot during an altercation with a suspect in Whitehaven on Thursday night.
The suspect was also shot, according to police.
Police said officers responded to an armed party call at a convenience store on East Raines Road at 7:31 p.m.
When officers arrived, they encountered an armed man outside the business who matched the description officers were given, police say.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, a brief foot chase took place within a one-block radius. What happened next has not been disclosed.
According to Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis, one officer was shot twice, the other once. The suspect was shot three times.
All three were taken to Regional One Health. At last check, all three are in critical but stable condition, Davis said.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and ATF have been called to investigate
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office is also assisting.
“I was deeply troubled upon hearing the news that two Memphis police officers suffered serious injuries during a shooting incident tonight in Whitehaven,” said Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner. “I am praying for these officers and their families. I urge all to offer their prayers and support.”
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Kim Kardashian says she’s reevaluating relationship with Balenciaga after photo shoot uproar
Toyin Owoseje, CNN
Kim Kardashian says she is “re-evaluating” her working relationship with Balenciaga after the luxury fashion house featured children cuddling teddy bears dressed in bondage gear in its latest advertising campaign.
The Skims founder and reality TV star, who has been an ambassador for the fashion label, broke her silence Sunday after receiving a barrage of messages from fans and commentators urging her to denounce the brand.
In comments posted to her social media, Kardashian said she had waited to speak out “not because I haven’t been disgusted and outraged by the recent Balenciaga campaigns, but because I wanted an opportunity to speak to their team to understand for myself how this could have happened.”
She went on to say that, as a mother, she was left “shaken by the disturbing images.”
“The safety of children must be held with the highest regard and any attempts to normalize child abuse of any kind should have no place in our society — period,” she told her 74.2 million Twitter followers on Sunday.
“I appreciate Balenciaga’s removal of the campaigns and apology. In speaking with them, I believe they understand the seriousness of the issue and will take the necessary measures for this to never happen again.”
Kardashian, who famously wore an identity-obscuring Balenciaga ensemble to the Met Gala 2021, was among the many celebrities cast in the Balenciaga couture show during Paris Fashion Week in July. Thursday’s season finale of “The Kardashians” focused on her walking in the Balenciaga show.
On Sunday, she addressed her future with Balenciaga in a follow-up post, writing: “I am currently re-evaluating my relationship with the brand, basing it off their willingness to accept accountability for something that should have never happened to begin with — & the actions I am expecting to see them take to protect children.”
Kardashian’s statement comes days after the company pulled the controversial campaign, shot by photographer Gabriele Galimberti and part of a project called “Toy Stories,” and posted an apology on its Instagram page.
“We sincerely apologize for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused,” the statement said.
“Our plush bear bags should not have been featured with children in this campaign. We have immediately removed the campaign from all platforms.”
Galimberti told CNN in a statement Wednesday that the direction and shooting of the “Toy Stories” campaign was out of his hands, claiming he was “not entitled in whatsoever manner to neither chose (sic) the products, nor the models, nor the combination of the same.”
Balenciaga issued a further statement on Instagram apologizing for displaying “unsettling documents,” after a separate campaign featuring documents from a United States Supreme Court case relating to child pornography laws went viral. The company added that it planned to take “legal action against the parties responsible for creating the set and including unapproved items.”
Galimberti said he had “no connection with the photo where a Supreme Court document appears.”
Last month, Balenciaga severed ties with Kardashian’s former husband, rapper Kanye West, amid the ongoing fallout from his anti-Semitic and controversial remarks.
CNN has contacted Kering, Balenciaga’s parent company, and Kardashian’s representatives for further comment.
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Matt Polster scored in the first half, Wilfrid Kaptoum and defender Henry Kessler added second-half scores and the New England Revolution breezed to a 3-0 victory over disheartened host Orlando City on Saturday.
Polster’s netter in the 20th minute was all goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic needed for New England (7-7-9, 30 points). Petrovic finished with three saves to notch a clean sheet. Kaptoum scored in the 51st minute and Kessler capped the scoring in the 75th.
[ Contending but dismayed, Orlando City faces key home match vs. New England ]
Kaptoum and Kessler both scored for the first time this season. Polster’s goal was his second.
Orlando City outshot New England 18-11, but the Revolution had a 5-3 advantage in shots on goal.
[ Orlando City gives up lead, then loses in stoppage time at D.C. United ]
Pedro Gallese had two saves for Orlando (8-10-6, 30 points), which fell to the eighth slot in the MLS East. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-city-soccer/os-sp-orlando-city-new-england-recap-0807-20220807-7pfs6fh3hjbhtimmlv3go7zfsi-story.html | 2022-08-07 04:27:49 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-city-soccer/os-sp-orlando-city-new-england-recap-0807-20220807-7pfs6fh3hjbhtimmlv3go7zfsi-story.html |
WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Portland OR
539 AM PST Wed Dec 28 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations of one to three
inches and ice accumulations of a light glaze. Winds gusting as
high as 35 mph.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Northern Oregon Cascades and Cascades in
Lane County. In Washington, South Washington Cascades.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM PST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
For the latest road conditions call 5 1 1, or visit
for Oregon: https://www.tripcheck.com
and for Washington: https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/map
MORNING ABOVE 2500 FEET...
* WHAT...Snow above 2500 feet. Additional snow accumulations of up
to 2 inches. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph will cause blowing
and drifting of snow.
* WHERE...East Slopes of the Washington Cascades.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. Patchy blowing snow
could significantly reduce visibility.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1, or
by visiting online at https://tripcheck.com for Oregon or
https://wsdot.com/travel for Washington.
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Commentary: A stolen, horribly damaged De Kooning painting gets the Getty conservation treatment
The ripping sound must have been horrific.
When thieves pulled out a sharp blade to slice Willem de Kooning’s painting “Woman-Ochre” from its frame at Tucson’s University of Arizona Museum of Art in a daring, daylight robbery on the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, they likely expected the canvas to fall out into their waiting arms like a silk scarf slipping off bare shoulders.
But it didn’t.
The wildly satirical painting of a ferocious, naked, imperiously enthroned woman pretty much stayed in place. Unbeknownst to the crooks, the fine linen on which De Kooning painted in 1954 and 1955 had been attached to a second backing during a 1974 conservation treatment at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. There were two canvas layers, not one.
MOMA conservators, using a procedure then not uncommon, had affixed a new lining infused with warm wax to the back of De Kooning’s canvas, about 40 inches high and 30 inches wide, bonding the lining with the painting on top. To cut through the second layer, the thieves’ blade needed to go deeper. It didn’t, and the painting stuck. So, while one thief kept a lone museum guard distracted, the other took hold of the painting at the top left corner and, yanking it down toward the right and then pulling it sharply to the left, violently ripped it off the intractable backing.
Rrrrr-ip!
As the two canvas layers pulled apart, hundreds of fine, jagged, horizontal cracks piled up, one atop the other across the paint surface. The hairline cracks especially damaged the fearsome woman’s shoulder, arm and full breast along the right side of the canvas, while more thinly painted areas of the spatial background shattered. The intensity of the ripping action also likely caused the nasty, ragged tear, several inches wide, that turned up just below the woman’s left arm, as well as a few smaller ones further down — one just below De Kooning’s signature.
When I first saw the terribly damaged painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s conservation studio nearly three years ago, my eyes bugged out. Lying flat on a table, sort of like a corpse, it was a mess. The canvas was as rumpled as last night’s sheets — a lumpy terrain whose painted image was lost in a visual muck of disheveled paint marks, yellowed varnish and all that awful, crackled damage.
Senior paintings conservator Ulrich Birkmaier lifted the canvas up and held it before a studio window, where backlighting streamed through all the surface tears, large and small. They looked like the long, horizontally traveling flashes of spider lightning in the night sky during a summertime electrical storm on the prairie.
“That painting is dead,” I moaned to a friend I had telephoned as I drove down from the Getty’s hill. “It’s such a ruin, they’ll never be able to fix it.”
I was wrong. After a couple painstaking years of conservation work, interrupted but undeterred by the COVID-19 pandemic, she’s back.
“Woman-Ochre” is not perfect — how could it be, given the shocking assault? — but conservators have returned the painting to a state of remarkable cohesion. Some scars from its traumatic biography remain quietly visible, but you need to look closely to see them. At a normal viewing distance, they’re hardly visible.
The second time I saw “Woman-Ochre,” earlier this year, the surface plane was flat, the brushstrokes clear, the toothy, glowering figure with pendulous breasts and thick, sturdy limbs had emerged from the gloom. Last week, on my third visit, as Birkmaier, fellow conservator Laura Rivers and Getty Conservation Institute scientist Tom Learner were making final preparations for the June 7 unveiling of a new show about the ambitious, multiyear recovery process, I was nearly as surprised as I was the first time — albeit in a very different way.
Now De Kooning’s woman is an energetic body, a commanding figure with visual weight and fleshy mass seated in three-dimensional optical space. (“Flesh is the reason why oil painting was invented,” the artist famously said not long before launching the contentious “Woman” series in 1950.) Pigmented areas of brushy red, yellow, blue and secondary colors blossom within a grayish, atmospheric field dominated by rapid strokes of black line. It’s as if she’s been carved like an archetypal totem, but with matte and glossy house paint, charcoal and oil paint on canvas rather than with a chisel or an adze from stone or wood. “Woman-Ochre” approaches what De Kooning originally made.
What drove the thieves to do their gruesome deed might have been an authentic urge to be close to that marvelous painterly phenomenon — a product of one of the greatest artistic talents of the Modern era and part of a controversial series that secured De Kooning’s reputation. Fencing it for cash was not the thieves’ plan.
Instead, when the contents of a house in remote Cliff, N.M., — a three-hour drive east of Tucson into the northern reaches of the Chihuahuan Desert, population about 175 — were sold to a used furniture and antiques dealer in 2017, the painting was found hanging out of public view, hidden behind the main bedroom’s door. Furniture dealer David Van Auker didn’t know what it was, and there was no one to ask. Homeowner Rita Alter had just died, her late husband Jerry had been gone for five years, and neither of the two retired public school teachers — both New York City ex-pats — left any explanation. Van Auker loaded the picture into his truck with the Alters’ other stuff, having agreed to pay $2,000 for the lot of it, and drove off.
Thirty miles down U.S. 180 in his Silver City shop, he propped the disheveled painting up against a chest. Not long after, a local artist happened in, took a long look, and exclaimed that it seemed like an actual De Kooning. Van Auker later Googled, and up popped news stories of the 1985 theft of a painting in the state next door with an insurance value of $400,000. (Last year, a “Woman” painting on paper from the same moment and just 1/3 the size sold for $8.5 million.) The photo reproduced in the stories matched the painting in his store. He called the University of Arizona Art Museum with his discovery, and within 36 hours a curator was at his doorstep.
The FBI opened an investigation and, although nothing definitive has yet been decided, it seems pretty certain the Alters were the thieves. (“The Thief Collector,” a new documentary film by Allison Otto on the heist, suggests the couple may also have lifted a Frederic Remington bronze and a million-dollar Native American chief’s blanket, the latter from the Amerind Museum an hour outside Tucson.) The tale of the treacherous theft of a masterpiece and its almost accidental recovery is wild, but so is the extraordinary conservation outcome.
The late-November morning of the theft was chilly, in the low 50s with a light breeze, when a bundled-up man and woman entered the two-story Arizona museum shortly after it opened. It was quiet, unsurprising for a long weekend with students on holiday and professional staff largely absent. When the pair fled 15 minutes later with the painting rolled, crumpled and stuffed under a coat, that was the last time its whereabouts were known for the next 32 years.
Reasonable assumptions were that the rolling and stuffing had caused the bulk of the damage, but conservators soon learned otherwise. The fused double-canvas had in some ways been a bigger culprit. The thieves had also made crude attempts at restoration, touching up their prized De Kooning with mismatched paint. They folded and stapled the sliced canvas edges over a cheap new wooden stretcher, shrinking the size of the picture by several inches all the way around and changing the figure-ground relationship. The GCI’s Learner used sophisticated X-ray imaging techniques to determine paint chemistry and survey damage less visible to the naked eye.
Rivers, the paintings conservator, began reattaching hundreds of loosened paint fragments, each no larger than a peppercorn, using a microscope and the type of tools you expect at a dentist’s office. Ironically, the 1974 varnishing and warm wax relining had helped keep the surface paint in place when the violent ripping happened. They produced a seal — a kind of sandwich with the paint held in between.
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Other tiny flakes of paint stuck in the varnish were saved in an ordinary plastic storage box, the kind a hobbyist uses for fishing lures, beads or screws. Each small compartment was numbered to correspond to a gridded map showing where it came from on the painting’s surface. Some flakes were analyzed to determine their composition, enhancing extensive GCI research published in Susan F. Lake’s 2010 handbook, “Willem de Kooning: The Artist’s Materials.” The meticulous book, a systematic study of his painting process, was one reason the Getty volunteered its services free of charge to the Tucson museum when the discovery story broke. It helped guide the current conservation.
Next Rivers began the laborious, centimeter-by-centimeter process of removing yellowed varnish — not once, but twice. One varnish layer was professionally applied during the MOMA conservation, undertaken after the painting was punctured near the fiendishly glaring face during a visit to MAMBO — the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá, Colombia — in June 1974. (The exhibition, “Four Contemporary Masters: Bacon, Dubuffet, Giacometti, De Kooning,” was part of the New York museum’s extensive program of traveling shows sponsored by its International Council, originally subsidized by the CIA as Cold War advocacy.) Another, clumsier layer of cheap varnish was no doubt applied by the thieves.
After the heist, the museum had kept the original stretcher, the wax-infused lining and the ribbons of canvas that had been cut off. At the Getty, those canvas strips were slowly, gently flattened on a warming table, just as the full canvas had been, and the painting then fitted inside. On the back, the pieces were rejoined with a narrow strip-lining around all four edges, and a new stretcher was built for the restored canvas plane. Birkmaier began the arduous process of inpainting the tiny cracks, the joined places around the perimeter, the repaired tears and the rough puncture marks from the stapling. De Kooning’s complex palette was matched with Gamblin Conservation Colors, a stable, easily reversible paint.
The painting had been donated to the University of Arizona Museum in 1958 by wealthy Baltimore businessman Edward J. Gallagher Jr., a Sunday painter who vacationed in the area. (His other notable gifts included New York School paintings by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline.) When it returns to Tucson in the fall, after the Getty exhibition, “Woman-Ochre” will return to being its troublesome self — a picture loaded with sexual anxiety.
Like the others in the “Woman” series, the painting might represent a female idol at once sensual and ghastly, which some have caricatured as misogynist. Others recognize the confrontational complexity of art embodied as a multifaceted relationship, with furious calligraphy and caressing brushstrokes used to announce the singular, conflicted presence of the artist — and, by extension, the actively engaged viewer. Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swann, De Kooning’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers, observantly described the “Woman” series as “no better suggestion in art of a tantrum, no truer rendering of the child who knows only that he wants — and is desolate — as he hurls himself back and forth against an unyielding strength.” Now out from private hibernation behind a bedroom closet door in the desert and back from a public state of ruin, the vivifying struggle recommences for “Woman-Ochre.”
'Conserving de Kooning: Theft and Recovery'
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People who have a healthy lifestyle before Covid-19 infection may have a lower risk of long Covid than their peers, a new study says.
The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, looked at almost 2,000 women who reported a positive Covid-19 test between April 2020 and November 2021. The participants were enrolled in the Nurses' Health Study II, which has been surveying more than 100,000 US nurses since 1989.
The researchers looked at six modifiable lifestyle factors that they defined as healthy: a body-mass index between 18.5 and 24.7, never smoking, moderate alcohol consumption, a high-quality diet, seven to nine hours of sleep per night and at least 150 minutes per week of moderate to vigorous physical activity.
They found that a healthy pre-infection lifestyle was associated with a lower risk of Covid-19 symptoms that lasted four weeks or longer. Women who met five or six of the criteria for a healthy lifestyle had almost half the risk of long Covid as women who met none of the criteria.
"These associations were mainly driven by healthy body weight and adequate sleep," the researchers wrote in the study.
The women who had a healthier lifestyle and got long Covid had about 30% lower risk of symptoms that interfered with daily life.
The researchers speculated that the findings might be partly explained by the link between these lifestyle factors and chronic inflammation, immunity or blood clotting problems.
However, they also noted that the study's generalizability is limited because it looked only at middle-aged female nurses who were predominantly White. Other limitations include the use of self-reported data and a lack of understanding about the risk of long Covid with different strains of the coronavirus.
Previous research has linked lifestyle factors with the risk of severe Covid-19 infection, hospitalization or death, they noted, as well as overall disease and mortality.
"In the past decades, scientists have accumulated evidence that healthy lifestyle is good for overall health. However, in the U.S. for example, 70% of the population do not have a healthy body weight and 30% do not sleep enough. Findings from this study suggest that simple lifestyle changes, such as having adequate sleep, may be beneficial for the prevention of long COVID," lead study author Siwen Wang, a research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said in a statement.
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One woman was killed and another injured in a Saturday night shooting, the Worcester Police Department said in a Sunday morning release.
“On July 16th 2022 at about 7:05 PM, Worcester Police officers were dispatched to the area of Cambridge (Street) for a report of a ShotSpotter activation,” the department said in the release.
Police say they were responding to the activation when they were informed by dispatchers there was a shooting victim at the scene. They say they found a 41-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound upon arrival.
“This victim was transported by ambulance to the hospital, where she was pronounced deceased,” they said.
Police also found a second victim at the same location, they said, with less severe gunshot wounds.
“She was transported to the hospital for treatment. Detectives arrived and began the follow-up investigation,” police said.
Worcester Police Detectives are involved in the investigation and it is ongoing, police said. They did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.
They ask anyone with information about the shooting to contact them.
“If you have information about this incident, please send an anonymous text to 274637 TIPWPD + your message or send an anonymous web based message at worcesterma.gov/police. Calls can also be made to the Worcester Police Detective Bureau at (508) 799-8651,” they said. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/17/bhr-l-worcester-0718/ | 2022-07-18 01:39:21 | 1 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/17/bhr-l-worcester-0718/ |
SPARTANBURG, S.C., March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) is proud to partner with Complexly to make its highly acclaimed STEM series Crash Course and SciShow accessible for people who are blind and low vision. DCMP is creating audio description, a secondary audio track that describes important visual information, for hundreds of episodes of Complexly content.
"The work of DCMP is in line with Complexly's mission to lower barriers to knowledge-building," said Julie Walsh Smith, COO of Complexly. "We're thrilled that, through this partnership, our engaging content will be available in a new way to this group of curious learners."
"We are proud to be partnering with Complexly on their high-quality educational content," said DCMP CEO Jason Stark. "This landmark partnership will make important educational programming accessible for people who need audio description to fully experience linear video." Added project CTO Kyle Sisk, "DCMP is trusted in thousands of classrooms across the United States, and Complexly is among the most respected brands in educational media. Teachers and families of students with sensory disabilities will benefit greatly from this partnership. DCMP's targeted distribution to educational settings ensures availability to those who need it most."
A total of 489 episodes of Crash Course, Crash Course Kids, SciShow, and SciShow Kids will be made freely available to learners with disabilities through DCMP's website, Roku and Apple TV apps, and iOS app. STEM topics include Biology, Chemistry, U.S. and World History, Earth, Life, Physical, and Space Sciences, Engineering, and Media Literacy.
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DCMP has been a leader in media accessibility in education for thirty years and provides accessible, educational media to students with disabilities through a grant from the United States Department of Education.
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Complexly was founded in 2012 by celebrated authors and Internet creators John Green and Hank Green. With its mission to create trustworthy stuff that inspires curiosity and lowers barriers to knowledge building, Complexly has been a pioneer in using online video to engage students, teachers, and lifelong learners on a global scale. With over 30 million YouTube subscribers and over 4.8 billion views, Complexly is one of the world's largest educational producers.
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Martin Baughman founders recognized for protecting individuals from dangerous products, earning justice in catastrophic personal injury lawsuits
DALLAS, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The founding partners of Dallas-based Martin Baughman – veteran trial lawyers Ben Martin and Laura Baughman – have again earned recognition from Texas Super Lawyers for their skill at representing people harmed by dangerous products and catastrophic accidents.
Over the course of their careers, the pair have earned reputations based on the verdicts and settlements they have won. They handle high-stakes personal injury litigation, mass torts and multidistrict litigation, including cases involving defective medical products, catastrophic vehicle accidents, oil field explosions, and a range of other causes. This is the sixth year for Ms. Baughman and the 18th year for Mr. Martin to earn Super Lawyers honors.
Under their leadership, Martin Baughman was recognized by VerdictSearch and Texas Lawyer magazine for securing one of the largest verdicts in Texas in 2021. They represented a woman who suffered serious medical complications from a defective IVC, or blood clot, filter, one of several significant verdicts and settlements involving medical devices and malpractice claims. Based on those courtroom successes, the firm was named a National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers finalist. In addition, Mr. Martin and Ms. Baughman were honored by D Magazine in its 2022 edition of the Best Lawyers in Dallas, while Mr. Martin was also named to the 2023 Best Lawyers in America list.
Mr. Martin serves as co-lead counsel in national litigation involving the Cook and Argon IVC filters. In addition, he serves on the plaintiffs' steering committees in the national Cook, Bard, and Cordis MDLs and the Argon Judicial Council Coordinated Proceedings. Ms. Baughman's litigation practice is national in scope and currently focuses on transvaginal mesh, IVC filters, CPAP machines, Elmiron and Paraquat.
Thomson Reuters compiles the Super Lawyers list using a rigorous selection process involving peer nominations, independent research and vetting by a blue-ribbon panel. Only 5 percent of attorneys in Texas are selected. The full listing appears in the October issue of Texas Monthly and the Texas edition of Super Lawyers magazine.
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Town Hall Ventures Joins Union Square Ventures and City Light Capital as Company Expands Into Value-Based Care
MIAMI, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brave Health, the largest virtual mental health provider and engagement platform focused on serving Medicaid populations, today announced a $40M Series C funding round led by Town Hall Ventures, with existing investors Union Square Ventures, City Light Capital and others joining as well. Brave Health is the first investment from Town Hall Venture's newly-announced $350M fund. The company has raised a total of $60M to date, and this most recent funding will support their continued expansion into value-based care arrangements and into new and existing markets.
Since launching with health plans in Florida in 2019, Brave Health has rapidly grown. The organization now serves over 65M covered lives across more than 200 health plan contracts through their unique approach to patient engagement, treatment, and integration with plans and other providers. Earlier this year, the company announced its first value-based contract with Molina Healthcare of Texas. Brave Health also recently signed a value-based contract with Sunshine Health, bringing the total number of potential Medicaid members under Brave Health's care in a value-based arrangement to more than one million.
"The team at Brave Health has demonstrated a commitment to doing the hard work of engaging the most vulnerable populations at their most vulnerable moments and getting them into ongoing care. And they're taking on the accountability to improve patient outcomes and ultimately reduce the total cost of care," said Andy Slavitt, general partner, Town Hall Ventures. "We are thrilled to support Brave Health's expansion as they work to revamp the way mental health services are delivered and paid for on behalf of Medicaid populations across the country."
Brave Health will use these funds to continue to build the technology and data infrastructure that powers their industry-leading patient engagement and outcomes engine, as well as to further expand into new states and accelerate the closing and activation of new value-based contracts in the 18 states in which they operate.
"Innovation in Medicaid care delivery and reimbursement models is critical for our healthcare system," said Anna Lindow, co-founder and CEO of Brave Health. "Today, we're energized by the enthusiasm from our forward-looking investors and health plan partners around this aim."
Today, access to mental health services for the nation's most vulnerable populations is a public health crisis. The percentage of psychiatrists that accept Medicaid has fallen to 35 percent, according to previous research reported by JAMA Psychiatry. With nearly one in four Americans now receiving healthcare benefits through Medicaid, this gap leaves many without the ability to get ongoing, critical care. Access, though, is not the only component needed to change health outcomes. Engagement is a crucial, and often elusive, first step.
Brave Health plays a critical role in driving engagement among Medicaid beneficiaries through a number of data-driven, tech-enabled approaches and interventions that leverage the company's integrated model and generate a more than 80 percent contact success rate. In practice, this approach allows Brave Health to drive results around closing care gaps and reducing wait times for first-time appointments to as soon as the same day, which represents a radical improvement over the national average of 48 days. Once individuals are engaged, Brave Health care teams composed of therapists, psychiatric providers, and peer support specialists work in close partnership with patients as well as other stakeholders like health plan case managers and other providers. By working within the system and sharing data and insights, Brave Health is able to drive better short- and long-term outcomes and reduce costs associated with events like potentially-preventable hospitalizations, driving as high as a 66 percent reduction in readmission-related costs.
Partnership with the broader system drives tangible results: year to date in 2022, over 23,000 individuals have been referred to Brave Health for care, representing exponential growth since beginning work with health plans in 2019.
Brave Health (www.bebravehealth.com) is the largest virtual mental health provider and engagement platform focused on serving Medicaid populations. The company offers outpatient services (therapy, psychiatry, peer support) for mental health conditions through its platform. Brave Health's 200+ health plan contracts cover over 65M lives across 18 states, including Florida, New York and Texas.
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Brian Cashman is leaving no stone unturned.
The New York Yankees general manager is shopping for an outfielder after watching Andrew Benintendi sign a five-year, $75 million contract with the Chicago White Sox.
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The New York Post’s Jon Heyman reports the Yankees have “talked to free agents Jurickson Profar and David Peralta, and about Pirates center fielder Bryan Reynolds (the price is said enormous) and Twins trade candidate Max Kepler (“nothing serious there right now”).”
The issue appears to be the Yankees’ desire to avoid the luxury tax. Heyman reported last week “the Yankees are adamant (at least for now) about staying under the “Steve Cohen tax” threshold of $293 million. They are at about $290M.”
MLB Trade Rumors reported last week “The club’s luxury tax number is right up against the $293MM line that marks the highest tier of CBT penalization. Roster Resource projects the organization at $292.3MM at present. ... Considering where their payroll stands, rigidly sticking to that goal would rule out any other notable addition unless the club finds a way to shed some money.”
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Peralta is a new name in the mix. The 35-year-old won a Silver Slugger in 2018 with the Arizona Diamondbacks when he clubbed a career-high 30 home runs. He also won a Gold Glove Award with the Diamondbacks in 2019.
Arizona traded Peralta to the Tampa Bay Rays ahead of the 2022 deadline. Overall, Peralta hit .251 last season with 12 home runs.
Yankees’ in-house candidates for left field include Aaron Hicks and Oswaldo Cabrera. Cashman also recently signed Billy McKinney, Willie Calhoun and Rafael Ortega as outfield depth.
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Three NFL players were suspended indefinitely Friday for betting on NFL games in the 2022 season, while two other players, including the 12th overall draft pick a year ago, received six-game suspensions for betting on non-NFL games at a league facility.
Detroit Lions wide receiver Quintez Cephus, Lions safety C.J. Moore and Washington Commanders defensive end Shaka Toney are sidelined for the entire 2023 season and may petition for reinstatement afterward.
Lions wide receivers Stanley Berryhill and Jameson Williams each received a six-game suspension, though they will be able to participate in offseason and preseason activities, including preseason games. Their suspensions will start at the final roster cutdown.
The NFL said that a “league review uncovered no evidence indicating any inside information was used or that any game was compromised in any way.”
Gambling incidents have been relatively rare for the NFL. Most recently, wide receiver Calvin Ridley was suspended for the entire 2022 season for gambling on NFL games; he was later traded from Atlanta to Jacksonville and was reinstated. In November 2019, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh Shaw was suspended for gambling on an NFL game; he has not played in the league since.
“I don’t think it’s a trend yet,” said Chris Altruda, a senior analyst for Sports Handle. “I do think the league has to do a better job messaging, and I think the teams have to do a better job of relaying that message as well.”
The Lions immediately released Cephus, who caught 37 passes in three seasons, and Moore, who started one game in four years.
Detroit executive vice president and general manager Brad Holmes said the two “exhibited decision-making that is not consistent with our organizational values and violates league rules.”
Williams was the 12th overall pick in last year’s draft but he played in just six games after returning from knee surgery. Alliance Sports, which represents Williams, said in a statement the player is “apologetic to the NFL, his teammates and the fans and city of Detroit.” It also noted Williams’ suspension was for a “technical rule regarding the actual location in which the online bet was placed — and which would otherwise be allowed by the NFL outside of the club’s facility.”
Berryhill played in four games without a catch in his only season. Holmes said the Lions will work with both Berryhill and Williams “to ensure they understand the severity of these violations and have clarity on the league rules moving forward.”
Toney started one game in two seasons with the Commanders, who said they have “cooperated fully with the NFL’s investigation since receiving notice and support the league’s findings and actions.”
With the rise of sports betting across the U.S., some pro teams have a sportsbook in their stadiums — like the Washington Nationals (MLB) and the Phoenix Suns (NBA) as well as the NHL’s Washington Capitals. Others, like the Arizona Cardinals, have a sportsbook on the grounds of the stadium and many fans bet on their phones while attending games. Sports betting ads also permeate breaks during NFL games.
The NFL, along with other pro leagues, this week formed the Coalition for Responsible Sports Betting Advertising, a group described as a voluntary alliance to control how consumers see advertising and to rein in “excessive” advertising.
Until recently, gambling incidents had not surfaced often for the NFL. In 1963, the NFL handed out perhaps its most famous discipline: Then-commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended star running back Paul Hornung of Green Bay and defensive tackle of Alex Karras of Detroit — both of whom became Hall of Famers. Each was sidelined for that season, with Rozelle citing bets on league games and associating with gamblers or “known hoodlums.”
Twenty years later, Rozelle suspended Colts quarterback Art Schlichter, who was in just his second pro season. Schlichter was reinstated and played in 1984 and ’85. But he couldn’t kick the gambling habit and eventually wound up in prison for a multimillion-dollar ticketing scam.
In the 1940s, Frank Filchock and Merle Hapes of the New York Giants were suspended by then-commissioner Bert Bell for not reporting attempted bribes, particularly for the 1946 championship game. Filchock played in that game, which the Giants lost 24-14 to the Bears, but Hapes was not allowed to take the field.
Both were eventually suspended; Filchock didn’t return to the NFL until 1950 with Baltimore, though he played parts of four seasons in Canada. Hapes never played another NFL game.
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AP Sports Writers Larry Lage in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Steve Megargee in Milwaukee and Stephen Whyno in Washington contributed to this report.
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Combining Wix's deep knowledge of site creation with OpenAI's GPT-3, the AI Text Creator provides Wix users with the ability to generate high-quality and uniquely-tailored content for their websites
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), a leading global SaaS platform to create, manage and grow an online presence, today announced the launch of its AI Text Creator within the Wix Editor. This new feature equips Wix users with technology that significantly improves the quality of their site content and streamlines the website-building process. Users can create anything from creative titles to personalized text that is precisely formulated for their website.
Creating content often poses a challenge for users when building their websites, however with Wix's AI-generated content, users are provided text that is near-ready for use to streamline this process. Utilizing Wix's expertise in website creation, users are prompted with questions that are engineered to garner the best results for website content. By entering several inputs about the desired text, within seconds, the feature creates a selection of tailored titles, taglines and paragraphs to choose from, combating the time-consuming efforts needed to complete a professional-looking website.
"Our deep understanding of website content like the right text length, important information to highlight and the proper tone, paired with GPT-3, provides users with unmatched text quality, which is key to having a professional website," said Oded Nachshon, Head of Wix Editor & Chairman of Wix Editor Platform and Wix Media. "We look forward to continuing to utilize the latest AI technologies to optimize the website creation process for our users."
The AI Text Creator is gradually rolling out to Wix users in English with plans to roll out more widely.
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Syphilis and many other STDs are on the rise: Here's what you should know
NEW YORK (AP) - Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases — including a 26% rise in new syphilis infections reported last year — are prompting U.S. health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts.
"It is imperative that we ... work to rebuild, innovate, and expand (STD) prevention in the U.S.," said Dr. Leandro Mena of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a speech Monday at a medical conference on sexually transmitted diseases.
Infections rates for some STDs, including gonorrhea and syphilis, have been rising for years. Last year the rate of syphilis cases reached its highest since 1991 and the total number of cases hit its highest since 1948. HIV cases are also on the rise, up 16% last year.
And an international outbreak of monkeypox, which is being spread mainly between men who have sex with other men, has further highlighted the nation’s worsening problem with diseases spread mostly through sex.
David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, called the situation "out of control."
Officials are working on new approaches to the problem, such as home-test kits for some STDs that will make it easier for people to learn they are infected and to take steps to prevent spreading it to others, Mena said.
Another expert said a core part of any effort must work to increase the use of condoms.
"It’s pretty simple. More sexually transmitted infections occur when people are having more unprotected sex," said Dr. Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Syphilis is a bacterial disease that surfaces as genital sores but can ultimately lead to severe symptoms and death if left untreated.
New syphilis infections plummeted in the U.S. starting in the 1940s when antibiotics became widely available. They fell to their lowest ever by 1998, when fewer than 7,000 new cases were reported nationwide. The CDC was so encouraged by the progress it launched a plan to eliminate syphilis in the U.S.
But by 2002 cases began rising again, largely among gay and bisexual men, and they kept going. In late 2013, CDC ended its elimination campaign in the face of limited funding and escalating cases, which that year surpassed 17,000.
A pedestrian walks along Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California on May 29, 2018 beneath a billoard from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) warning of a drug resistant Gonorrhea. - A billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood screams out a stark
By 2020 cases had reached nearly 41,700 and they spiked even further last year, to more than 52,000.
The rate of cases has been rising, too, hitting about 16 per 100,000 people last year. That’s the highest in three decades.
Rates are highest in men who have sex with men, and among Black and Hispanic Americans and Native Americans. While the rate for women is lower than it is for men, officials noted that it’s has been rising more dramatically — up about 50% last year.
That ties to another problem — the rise in congenital syphilis, in which infected moms pass the disease on to their babies, potentially leading to death of the child or health problems like deafness and blindness. Annual congenital syphilis cases numbered only about 300 a decade ago; they surged to nearly 2,700 last year. Of last year’s tally, 211 were stillbirths or infant deaths, Mena said.
The increases in syphilis and other STDs may have several causes, experts say. Testing and prevention efforts have been hobbled by years of inadequate funding, and spread may have gotten worse — especially during the pandemic — as a result of delayed diagnosis and treatment. Drug and alcohol use may have contributed to risky sexual behavior. Condom use has been declining.
And there may have been a surge in sexual activity as people emerged from COVID-19 lockdowns. "People are feeling liberated," Saag said.
The arrival of monkeypox added a large additional burden. CDC recently sent a letter to state and local health departments saying that their HIV and STD resources could be used to fight the monkeypox outbreak. But some experts say the government needs to provide more funding for STD work, not divert it.
Harvey’s group and some other public health organizations are pushing a proposal for more federal funding, including at least $500 million for STD clinics.
Mena, who last year became director of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, called for reducing stigma, broadening screening and treatment services, and supporting the development and accessibility of at-home testing. "I envision one day where getting tested (for STDs) can be as simple and as affordable as doing a home pregnancy test," he said.
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The timing was brutally swift, but UBS Group AG’s decision to replace its chief executive shouldn’t be a great shock.
Sergio Ermotti, the former master returning to the top job, has important qualities lacked by Hamers and critical to shepherding the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse Group AG: First, the experience of radically restructuring UBS’s own investment bank after the global financial crisis; second, the statesman-like presence needed to keep national authorities and the bank’s staff onside while also trying to win over a skeptical Swiss public.
This takeover was unpopular. There is taxpayer money at risk in government guarantees that UBS required to do the deal; and it creates a dominant lender domestically and a globally systemic bank whose balance sheet is more than twice the size of the Swiss economy. Credit Suisse was railroaded into this rescue. The reputations and careers of the politicians and regulators who led it depend on a successful outcome.
Hamers doesn’t have the heft for the role. Since his surprise appointment in 2020, there were doubts he had the experience to run an investment bank, which is a tricky task of managing large financial risks and outsized egos – both of which can suddenly turn volatile. Taking over the people and trading positions of UBS’s great local rival adds to the complexities and pitfalls.
Hamers was focused on operational efficiency and developing the bank’s digital offerings to seduce new and existing clients. He agreed to a $1.4 billion deal for a small US digital wealth business, WealthFront, focused on younger people who were not yet super rich. That was ditched in short order once Colm Kelleher arrived as chairman last year: It was no longer judged the best use of shareholder money or management time. Kelleher also told Hamers to tone down the geek-speak of agile ecosystems and holistic curation.
Now UBS has to cope with fixing Credit Suisse. It needs sharp minds, quick decisions and a coherent strategy — things that its failed rival lacked for years. UBS will cut risk from Credit Suisse’s investment bank and trading desks, while cherry-picking its best bankers. Headhunters and rivals are already trying to lure away many of the same people. Several have leapt.
Ermotti talks the language of top investment bankers after a career that took him through Merrill Lynch in Zurich, London and New York, on to UniCredit SpA and then to run UBS from 2011 to 2020. He helped to lead the radical post-crisis closure of most of UBS’s bond-trading desks and dealt with the fallout of the rogue trader scandal that cost the bank $2.3 billion.
Kelleher is worried about infecting UBS with the bad culture from parts of Credit Suisse’s investment bank and control functions, he told journalists on Wednesday. That makes sense after scandals such as the Mozambique tuna-boat bond sales and the $5 billion-plus losses it suffered in the collapse of Archegos Capital Management. Ermotti has a chance of keeping the Credit Suisse people he wants and ensuring they fall in line with a new way of doing things.
It helps too that Ermotti is Swiss. The Irish Kelleher said replacing the Dutch CEO was a global solution not a Swiss one, but Ermotti himself joked he got the job because he’s from Lugano. He restores an unwritten rule that at least one of the two top roles at UBS be held by a local.
Swissness may be more important than normal given all that is at stake. To support the takeover, the government promised to share in the costs of ditching unwanted assets: UBS will eat the first 5 billion francs ($5.5 billion) of losses and then the government is on the hook for up to 9 billion francs of subsequent hits. The government also indemnified the Swiss National Bank against losses on a special emergency 100 billion-franc liquidity facility created to stabilize Credit Suisse during the takeover.
The Swiss finance minister, Karin Keller-Sutter, and the president of the financial regulator, Marlene Amstad, both launched publicity drives last weekend to justify their actions. Opinion polls showed public concern about their handling of the deal and its effect on competition. Four in five Swiss think that UBS should spin off Credit Suisse’s domestic bank.
Ermotti’s challenges are myriad: slash the investment bank swiftly without taxpayers footing a large bill; instill confidence in Swiss leaders that their own actions won’t come back to bite them; convince the country that a dominant domestic bank won’t exploit its pricing power and shirk on its customer care; win back private clients who have taken their deposits and run, many of whom might have suffered big losses on owning Credit Suisse’s wiped out CoCo bonds or its shares. And of course, keep all of UBS’s existing staff and shareholders happy that their own investments of time and money are still good.
Ermotti isn’t guaranteed to pull this off, but he has a much better chance than Hamers.
More From Bloomberg Opinion:
• It’s Time for UBS to Take an Axe to Credit Suisse: Paul J. Davies
• The Incredible Shrinking Swiss Financial Sector: Lionel Laurent
• Fine Print Is Never Clear. Just Ask Credit Suisse Bondholders: Chris Hughes
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An off-duty New York City correction officer accused of fatally shooting a teenager in the face was indicted on murder and manslaughter charges Monday, prosecutors said.
The indictment alleges Dion Middleton shot and killed 18-year-old Raymond Chaluisant in the Bronx on July 21.
Middleton, 45, was charged with one count of second-degree murder, one count of first-degree manslaughter and one count of second-degree manslaughter, according to the indictment.
CNN has reached out to Middleton's attorney for comment.
Middleton allegedly shot at a car in which Chaluisant was a passenger shortly after 1 a.m. on July 21, according to a statement from Attorney General Letitia James.
After that, Middleton allegedly left the scene and reported to work later that morning before the NYPD arrested him, the statement said. The city's correction officers maintain security at jails and other detention centers.
At the time of the incident, police said officers responded to a 911 call reporting a shooting at the corner of East Tremont Avenue and The Grand Concourse about 1:30 a.m. on July 21, according to a news release. The officers who responded found Chaluisant in the vehicle with a gunshot wound to the face.
Middleton didn't know if he'd hit anything or anybody, lawyer says
When the officers opened the door to aid the teenager, they found the toy water gun, which fires gel water beads, according to a law enforcement official.
Middleton's attorney, Joey Jackson, told CNN previously that Middleton was walking when he felt something strike his back and heard objects pelting all around him.
Jackson, who is also a CNN legal analyst, said Middleton thought he was being struck by the fragments of a bullet that whizzed by him and believed there were multiple shots. That's when he pulled his gun and fired a single shot, Jackson said.
"You're walking, it's 1:30 at night, you get something hit in the back, there's mayhem all over because apparently the person was firing shots everywhere, and it was just kind of mayhem from my client's perspective," Jackson said last month. "He turns around, he sees the guy (Middleton) they engage and, boom, he fires a round, which happened to hit him."
Jackson previously noted that the car then sped off, leaving Middleton to wonder whether anyone was struck by the shot he fired.
"He shot, he discharged his firearm in the direction of a car, not knowing whether he hit anything or anyone," Jackson said.
Middleton was arraigned Monday in New York State Supreme Court, prosecutors said in the statement.
Bail remained at $1 million bond or partially secured bond with $500,000 cash or credit card alternatives, with a required ankle monitor if Middleton makes bail.
Middleton's next court appearance is scheduled for November 16, according to court records.
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LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill and Amy Gross are pleased to announce the final approval by the City of Laguna Beach of their Dale Chihuly glass sculpture following almost two years of protracted and unnecessary litigation and conflict. The approval followed the withdrawal of an appeal by Mark Towfiq and Carol Nakahara of the Laguna Beach Design Review Board's original decision allowing the permanent installation of the artwork with certain conditions.
"Amy and I are relieved we can finally enjoy our art in peace and in full compliance with the City of Laguna Beach," said Bill Gross, a legendary bond and fixed income investor, and co-founder of Newport Beach-based Pimco. "While we are pleased at the final outcome, it is disappointing that it took so long, cost too much, and diverted valuable city, state and court resources for what was essentially a dispute among neighbors. Our offer to take our joint trial expenses totaling over $1 million and apply them to local Laguna Beach charities was rejected by the Towfiqs in a continuing attempt to sully my reputation. The approval by the Laguna Beach Design Review Board and City of Laguna Beach exposes their true intent in this rather ludicrous situation."
The City of Laguna Beach granted final approval of the Gross's artwork following the withdrawal of an appeal filed by Towfiq and Nakahara to the California Coastal Commission. In a staff report, the Coastal Commission found "no substantial issue" that would have merited a reversal of the original Laguna Beach Design Review Board approval of the artwork. In approving the Gross's artwork, the Design Review Board completely rejected a 12-page objection letter from Towfiq's and Nakahara's attorney that argued the artwork violated "neighborhood compatibility" and "view equity", among other complaints.
The Laguna Beach Design Review Board approved the Gross's artwork at its January 13 meeting, on the condition it be slightly moved to comply with setbacks, and that a protective cover be removed and light fixtures be operated manually and restricted to 30 minutes after sunset to 10 pm. Prior to the unanimous vote approving the artwork, Board Member Jessica Gannon said, "Not to be subjective, I think this is a beautiful piece of art and I wish I could look at this outside of my window. Unfortunately I cannot."
That decision was appealed by Towfiq and Nakahara to the California Coastal Commission, which issued an April 21 staff report rejecting the neighbors' arguments that the artwork violated local zoning laws. Towfiq and Nakahara withdrew their appeal following the staff report, and the Coastal Commission took the appeal off their May 2022 meeting agenda, bringing a formal end to the neighbors' multi-year campaign that accused the Grosses of several unproven zoning violations and other infractions.
The Gross's land use attorney, Laurence P. Nokes of Nokes & Quinn, said the city and state officials carefully considered the application and made the right decisions in approving the Gross's artwork. "While the process was protracted, it was worth it in the end to finally establish that the Gross's application to install a beautiful work of art in their private back yard fully complies with City and Coastal Commission requirements. The Grosses may finally enjoy their art in their back yard unburdened by neighbor complaints to the City. We will now look forward to having the building permit finally inspected and approved."
Bill Gross has been a pioneer in fixed income investing for more than 50 years. He co-founded PIMCO in 1971 and served as managing director and chief investment officer until joining Janus Henderson Investors in 2014. He retired in 2019 to focus on managing his personal assets and private charitable foundation. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards, including Morningstar Fixed Income Manager of the Decade for 2000 to 2009 and Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 1998, 2000 and 2007. Mr. Gross became the first portfolio manager inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society's Hall of Fame in 1996 and received the Bond Market Association's Distinguished Service Award in 2000. In 2011, Institutional Investor magazine awarded him the Money Management Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Gross oversees the $390 million-asset William, Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation, which annually donates up to $21 million to non-profits involved in humanitarian causes, health care, and education. For more information or to view Investment Outlook archives, please visit https://williamhgross.com. For information about Mr. Gross's philanthropic activities through the William, Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation, please visit https://grossfamilyfoundation.com/. Order his new book "I'm Still Standing: Bond King Bill Gross and the PIMCO Express" on Amazon.com.
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By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
Austin Butler, you may have heard, has taken a bit of flack for sounding too much like Elvis now that he’s no longer, um, Elvis.
The 31-year-old breakout star of Baz Luhrmann’s flamboyant biopic even had to be defended by fellow Oscar nominee Angela Bassett, who’s explained that she, too, had a hard time shaking the Tina Turner vibe after playing her back in 1993.
In any case, Butler says there’s something far more significant that’s remained with him since making “Elvis”: a new relationship with fear.
The challenge of playing an icon who’s been imitated as often as Presley was so great, he says, that he suffered from “impostor syndrome” and could have been felled by the fear — fear that kept him from sleeping well for two years, he adds — had he not learned to use it as a “compass,” in his words. Now, he says, he asks himself: “What am I terrified of today?” And then he tries to step toward it, rather than away.
Butler, whose Golden Globe from January now has to share shelf space with the BAFTA from February, looks like one of the key favorites to add an Oscar to that shelf, come March. He spoke to The Associated Press shortly after winning his Oscar nod, musing about how he tried to approach the role so it felt human and not like “going to a wax museum,” about what he learned personally from the process, and also about the shocking death of Lisa Marie Presley. T he interview has been edited for clarity.
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AP: It’s been an emotional time for you: Winning a Golden Globe, then the tragic death of Lisa Marie Presley, then the Oscar nomination, all within days. Can you describe that journey?
BUTLER: I mean, the peaks are so high and the valleys have been so low. For each of these moments I’m just trying to stay as present as I can … I just wish Lisa Marie were here with us to celebrate. At times, in the midst of intense grief and just a shattering loss, it feels sort of bizarre to celebrate. But I also know how much this film meant to Lisa Marie, how much her father’s legacy meant to her. So I feel so proud and humble to be a part of that story. But it puts things in perspective for sure, when you have such intense loss like that.
AP: Let’s talk about the challenges of the role itself. You had to find a way to avoid mimicking a much-mimicked icon, and to bring humanity and authenticity to it. Can you put into words how you managed that?
BUTLER: It’s so hard to quantify it, and it’s such a tricky thing to talk about without sounding incredibly pretentious and self-important. There are certain aspects that even I don’t fully understand. Thankfully I had a long time. I had a year and a half before we started filming, and a large chunk of that time was alone in my apartment in Australia during the six months that the film shut down during the pandemic. So it was a lot of just focusing on it every day and trying to get into the life of this man, rather than all the external things.
Even the way that he moved, it all had to come from his spirit, rather than it ever feeling like choreography. Because there are moments where you want to be meticulous, you know, very specific to how he actually moved in a certain way or how he spoke or whatever that is, but it can’t feel like it’s a recreation — otherwise then you just feel like you’re going to a wax museum or something! So I was very fortunate to be surrounded by amazing people, my amazing movement coach Polly Bennett and dialect coaches and singing coaches and karate instructors. I had so many people around me that that aided me in that process. But it was just a long process of trying to figure it out every day, to feel like a detective.
AP: After all that, would you say the character has changed you in any permanent way?
BUTLER: Yeah and in probably more ways than I can even describe or figure out myself. But one of the main things is that it’s altered my relationship with fear, because this was such a daunting undertaking. And there were many moments where I where I felt, you know, where maybe I didn’t believe in myself, I felt impostor syndrome — just a terror that didn’t allow me to sleep for two years. And so now my experience is that when I feel fear like that, I kind of know that it’s not the thing that has to stop you. That you just keep doing the work and you use the fear almost as a compass, to go, “What am I terrified of today?” — and step into that rather than running away from it. I think that that’s probably the biggest thing that’s really stuck with me.
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(NerdWallet) – Women often don’t score as well as men in surveys of financial literacy. One area where we seem to do better is “longevity literacy,” or understanding how long we’re likely to live.
Longevity literacy is essential to smart retirement planning. Overestimate your longevity, and you could retire too late or scrimp too much. Underestimate it and you could run short of money.
In a recent TIAA Institute study, 43% of women correctly estimated the life expectancy of 60-year-old women in the U.S. (The right answer was 85.) Only 32% of men chose the correct answer for the life expectancy for 60-year-old men, which was 82. Men also were far more likely than women to underestimate life expectancy — and that’s a huge potential problem for both sexes.
A man who expects to die in his 70s might draw too much from retirement funds or start Social Security too early. That could leave him — and the spouse who may outlive him — with too little income later on.
“A lot of people do OK in their first 10 years or 15 years of retirement,” says actuary Steve Vernon, a former research scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity. “It’s often in their late 70s and 80s that they started to struggle.”
What you need to know about life expectancy
The life expectancy statistics that often make headlines aren’t the ones that matter for retirement planning, Vernon says.
For example, in December the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row. But the number the CDC cited — 76.4 years — is life expectancy from birth. That figure includes infant mortality as well as the accidents, diseases, overdoses, homicides and suicides that end lives too early.
The thing about longevity is that it’s persistent. The longer you live, the longer you are likely to live. One out of three men and 1 in 2 women in their mid-50s will live to 90, according to the Society of Actuaries. There’s a 50% chance that at least one member of a heterosexual married couple age 65 will be alive at 92.
With longer lives comes “longevity risk”: the chance that people will outlive their savings. Understanding and addressing that risk is an important element of retirement planning, but most Americans are falling short, says Surya Kolluri, head of the TIAA Institute, which conducts research on financial security.
Most people are longevity illiterate
More than half of Americans don’t understand how long people tend to live in retirement, according to a 2022 survey of more than 3,500 adults nationwide by the TIAA Institute and the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington University School of Business.
The annual survey, known as the Personal Finance Index, has traditionally measured financial literacy. Last year, the researchers added a longevity question with a multiple choice answer. Men were asked “What is life expectancy among 60-year-old men in the U.S.?” while women were asked “What is life expectancy among 60-year-old women in the U.S.?” (The correct answers were determined by Social Security actuarial data from 2019.)
Men and women were about equally likely to say they didn’t know the correct answer or choose the answer that overestimated life expectancy by six years. But 31% of men selected the answer that underestimated life expectancy by six years, compared to 19% of women.
Researchers aren’t sure why more women than men demonstrated longevity literacy, Kolluri says. One hypothesis is that women are traditionally more involved in caregiving for older relatives and thus better acquainted with the realities of aging, he says. Another is that women are aware they live longer than men and that wives often outlive their husbands.
“I think most women are just more in tune with longevity than men are and maybe are concerned about it,” Vernon says.
Retirees who answered the longevity question correctly were much more likely to report that making ends meet was “very easy” and to be “very confident” they had enough money to last their lifetimes compared to those who lacked longevity literacy, the researchers found.
What you can do to protect against longevity risk
The single most powerful way to mitigate longevity risk is to delay claiming Social Security, Vernon says.
Social Security retirement benefits can start as early as age 62, but applying before your full retirement age — which is currently between 66 and 67 — means your check is permanently reduced. Delaying your application beyond full retirement age can add 8% each year you wait, until your benefit maxes out at age 70.
Delaying is particularly important for the higher earner in a married couple, since it’s the higher earner’s benefit that determines what the survivor gets after the first spouse dies.
A 2022 paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research found that virtually all American workers ages 45 to 62 should delay their applications beyond age 65 to maximize their benefits, and that more than 90% should wait until age 70. But currently, only about 10% of applicants wait that long, the researchers found.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Whenever you’re looking to move to a new city, safety is always top of mind especially if you have a family.
A report from GoodHire looked into the safest places in every state across the U.S. and a city in North Texas was rated the top spot in the Lone Star State.
“To conduct the analysis, GoodHire reviewed FBI Crime Data – property, violent, and society crime – and ranked each place by its rate of offenses per 1,000 people for each of the three offense types. GoodHire then assigned a total rank that weighted crimes against persons and crimes against property at 40% and crimes against society at 20% to showcase the safest places in each state and help business owners see the importance of criminal background checks,” the report said.
So, if you’re looking for the safest place in Texas and one of the safest cities in the country you’ll find it in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex’s Flower Mound. Not only is Flower Mound the safest place in Texas but nearby, Little Elm was recognized for having the third-lowest amount of property crime in the entire country.
GoodHire wrote, “In terms of property crime, the data reveals that Dothan, AL, Franklin, MA and Little Elm, TX are the three places in America with the lowest property crime rates. The data also reveals a specific trend as Massachusetts and Michigan are each home to three of the top ten places with the lowest property crime rates in America.” | https://cw33.com/news/local/north-texas-city-named-safest-place-in-texas-one-of-safest-cities-in-the-us/ | 2022-11-17 22:23:45 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/north-texas-city-named-safest-place-in-texas-one-of-safest-cities-in-the-us/ |
(iSeeCars) — The concept of an online, or digital, car auction site is not new.
Fleet managers and wholesalers have been using the auction marketplace to locate and purchase inventory for dealership lots since the early-2000s. And even retail bidders have had access to auto auction sites like eBay Motors for over 20 years, though back then the thought of buying a vehicle through an online car auction, without seeing it in person or performing a pre-purchase inspection, was considered risky at best.
The automotive world has evolved over the past two decades, and in that time eBay Motors has sold millions of cars, most of them to first time online car buyers willing to take a chance on the digital marketplace. But we now live in a world where online car buying isn’t just common, it’s dominant, helped along in recent years by everything from a global pandemic to confidence-bolstering technology like high-resolution photos and vehicle history reports.
But the biggest shift in the last year or two has been the explosive growth of car enthusiasts turning to car auction websites like Bring a Trailer (or BaT) and Cars and Bids when seeking their next exotic or classic car. Everything from a vintage Chevrolet Corvette or Ford Mustang GT to the latest Mercedes-Benz AMG or Porsche 911 regularly change hands on these sites.
For these buyers this isn’t like going to an Autotrader or Craigslist classified ad, where the used car pricing on a high-volume Dodge, Nissan, or Toyota might range from $5,000 to $25,000. These enthusiast auction sites often trade in rare collector cars or high-end coupes from brands like BMW, Ferrari and McLaren, with the highest bidders regularly committing to 6 – or even 7 – figure price tags.
Is spending that kind of money on a car you haven’t seen in person a good idea? Do sites like Bring a Trailer and Cars and Bids have policies in place to ensure high-quality live auctions that protect buyers and sellers? Let’s take a closer look at the origins of Bring a Trailer and Cars and Bids and then consider their policies that protect users.
Bring a Trailer (bringatrailer.com)
Bring a trailer started in 2007 as a pet project for founder Randy Nonnenberg. As someone who obsessively hunted online classified ads, Randy realized his efforts to identify the most interesting cars for sale online were going to waste – only he was seeing them. So he started Bring a Trailer to showcase his findings, and over the next 7 years BaT built quite a following of like-minded car enthusiasts.
Randy credits Bring a Trailer’s well-established community, long before it switched from a classified ads aggregator to full-scale auction site, as BaT’s greatest asset. “The community, which is central and first and foremost, and everybody that looks at a BaT listing and the type of discussion, the way we interact with the community, the level of expertise in the existing BaT community, is a huge differentiator,” says Randy.
This expertise shows up in the comments section of each BaT auction, which could almost be described as watching real-time forums, dedicated to specific special interest vehicles or sports cars, materialize out of thin air over the course of a 7-day auction. These comments come from the hundreds of thousands of registered BaT members, who organically find their way to the same vehicle auctions where they have the most interest and knowledge.
Additional Bring a Trailer factors Randy Nonnenberg calls out include the site’s listing descriptions, which he says avoid the hyperbole that pervades most car sales situations. Randy told us the car has to stand on its own and the virtues of the vehicle, and the community will help vet the car beyond that. Randy also called out BaT’s commitment to customer service. For example, the site doesn’t get a fee if a car doesn’t meet reserve, even if the seller finds a BaT buyer after the auction, and a deal is made below reserve.
Cars and Bids (carsandbids.com)
Cars and bids was co-founded by popular automotive YouTuber Doug DeMuro and launched in 2020. Doug’s reputation for describing not only interesting cars but interesting details about interesting cars plays well in the online auction world, where half the fun and enthusiasm for a special interest vehicle derives from the “quirks and features” Doug is known for identifying.
Cars and Bids has grown quickly, with over 220,000 registered users. Doug says he’s got data to show Cars and Bids delivers a higher sale price than its competitors on a wide range of models, which he credits to the site’s engaged bidders, dedicated focus on modern enthusiast cars from 1981 and up, and ability to get a seller’s auction live quickly, usually less than a week after receiving all the vehicle information and photos.
Doug admits to not having the same ultra-high-end buyers as some others sites. At least, not yet. But he’s also confident about the strong prices he’s getting in the sub-$100,000 market. “I’m comfortable owning the $20,000 to $90,000 market. There are more of those cars, and we have the data to show we’re getting higher prices in that range.”
Other advantages Doug claims for Cars and Bids include its low buyer’s fee (4.5 percent), zero seller’s fee, and a chat support system to help users before, during, and after the auction. Doug also has a huge social media following within the automotive enthusiast community. In his words, “Simply put, we’re able to drive more attention to each auction, and the result is more views, more bidding, and more money.”
How does Bring a Trailer and Cars and Bids Work?
The buying and selling process for both Bring a Trailer and Cars and Bids is remarkably similar. Both sites require users to register with a credit card to cover the listing fees, both offer reserve price and no reserve auctions, and both have a support team in place to assist sellers when listing a vehicle and both buyers and sellers after the auction ends.
Both sites require sellers to provide proof of ownership, and both encourage sellers to provide in-depth, high-quality photography that accurately represents the vehicle. Video showing the vehicle starting and driving is also encouraged. Both sites also offer free CarFax vehicle history reports for every vehicle listed, and both allow for real-time questions and answers between prospective buyers and sellers during the 7-day auction. You also don’t have to worry about last-minute sniping because any bids that come in during the final minutes of a live auction extend the auction to allow other bidders to respond.
What are the key differences between Bring a Trailer and Cars and Bids? Beyond the items each site’s founder mentioned above, the differences come down to fees and a few policies.
Bring a Trailer auctions cost either $99 for sellers who take their owner photos, or $250 for sellers who want a professional photographer to take the pictures. You can also get a “White Glove” service from Bring a Trailer, designed for sellers who have high-end vehicles and want high-end service. The White Glove price is variable and based on the level of service a seller receives. The buyer’s fee for BaT is 5 percent, with a $250 minimum and $5,000 maximum.
Cars and Bids allows sellers to list vehicles for free, but the site will connect you with a photographic service offering a 1-hour, 50-image shoot for $149 or a 2-hour, 100-image shoot for $249. The buyer’s fee for Cars and Bids is 4.5 percent, with a $225 minimum and a $4,500 maximum.
How Am I Protected if There’s a Problem with an Auction?
This is the most important question related to any online auction or purchase process. Even with hundreds of photos, a video, a CarFax history report and a community of enthusiasts involved, a buyer in New York is still placing a lot of faith when buying from a seller 3,000 miles away in San Francisco. What provisions do Bring a Trailer and Cars and Bids have in place to protect someone spending tens – or hundreds – of thousands dollars on a used car they’ve never physically inspected?
As mentioned, both sites require a credit card to register to bid and a phone number to sell, and both charge the winning bidder’s card as soon as the auction ends. That discourages buyers from not following through on the purchase…but it still happens. Randy Nonnenberg told us Bring a Trailer has a 97.7 percent success rate on completed auctions, which means only 2.3 percent have something go amiss after a winning bid is declared. If it’s a buyer that refuses to follow through they are still charged the buyer’s fee (up to $5,000) and they are banned from the site.
Cars and Bids has similar policies in place and a similarly low “failure” rate on completed auctions, but they go a step further by not only charging the buyer’s fee but giving half that fee to the seller if a buyer flakes and doesn’t complete the purchase. Of course, Doug also confided that buyers can, and often do, request a “chargeback” in these situations, – meaning they dispute the charge with their credit card company and are refunded the buyer’s fee.
Conversely, what if the buyer follows through in good conscience only to receive a vehicle that’s nothing like what was described in the auction? Again, this is a relatively rare occurrence because of the in-depth photography and vehicle history report presented for most cars. But it does happen and, like the chargeback situation above, there’s not much a buyer can do after the purchase has been finalized and the money has changed hands.
This is why, despite the explosive growth of Bring a Trailer and Cars and Bids recent years, buyers and sellers should perform their own due diligence before using an online auction site. Remember, at the end of the day these sites are essentially elaborate systems meant to introduce a seller and a buyer to each other. These sites don’t personally vet the cars, or the individuals, involved in the transaction.
Examples of due diligence include contacting the buyer or seller directly, before the auction ends, to get a sense of who you’re dealing with. Better still, as a buyer it’s always in your best interest to only bid on cars you can physically inspect, and hopefully even test drive, before an auction ends. That might mean limiting your bids to local auctions, or it might mean booking a last-minute flight.
Neither of those are preferred methods of buying or selling a vehicle, but they are prudent measures when spending the kind of money these auctions typically generate. Even with all the technology we have at our disposal in 2022 the classic mantra is still the best policy:
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WASHINGTON — Everyday Americans will be able to help refugees adjust to life in the U.S. in a program being launched by the State Department as a way to give private citizens a role in resettling the thousands of refugees who arrive every year.
The State Department plans to announce the program, dubbed the Welcome Corps, on Thursday. The agency aims to line up 10,000 Americans who can help 5,000 refugees during the first year of the program.
"By tapping into the goodwill of American communities, the Welcome Corps will expand our country's capacity to provide a warm welcome to higher numbers of refugees," according to the announcement.
The State Department has traditionally worked with nonprofit groups that specialize in refugee issues to help people from around the world when they first arrive in the country and face a dramatically different way of life. Under the program being announced Thursday, five or more Americans would be able to form a group and fill this role as well.
They would apply to privately sponsor refugees to resettle in America, and would be responsible for raising their own money to help the refugees during their first 90 days in the country. Assistance would include everything from finding a place to live to getting kids enrolled in school.
A consortium of nonprofits with expertise in refugee resettlement will help oversee the vetting and certification of people and groups who want to be private sponsors. They'll also offer training so private sponsors understand what's needed to help refugees adjusting to life in America. The consortium will be responsible for monitoring the program.
The new initiative will roll out in two phases, according to the State Department. Under the first phase, private sponsors will be matched with refugees already approved for resettlement under the U.S. Refugee Assistance Program. That will start during the first half of 2023.
In the second phase of the program, private sponsors would be able to identify refugees abroad that they would like to help and then refer those people to the Refugee Assistance Program and assist them once they arrive in the U.S.
The Welcome Corps program comes on the heels of a similar, smaller scale endeavor under which Americans were able to sponsor Afghans or Ukrainians fleeing their country. That program launched in October 2021 and has helped just over 800 people coming to America through a network of 230 certified sponsors.
President Joe Biden vowed in a 2021 executive order to restore the U.S. as the world's haven and called for private sponsorship of refugees. The previous administration, under President Donald Trump, had largely rolled back the refugee program.
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Saudi Arabia freed a 72-year-old U.S. citizen who had been imprisoned for the past 16 months over critical tweets about the country’s government and crown prince, his son said early Tuesday.
The charges against Saad, which were all dropped as part of his release, related to tweets he posted while in the United States that were critical of the Saudi government, some dating back to 2015, Ibrahim said.
“Saudi officials just digged, and they found some tweets against MBS, and they just used that against him as evidence of terrorism,” Ibrahim said, referring to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is often called by his initials.
In one of the tweets, Saad saluted the life of slain Saudi journalist and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi and suggested that a street should be named his honor, Ibrahim said. In another, he suggested that all power in Saudi Arabia was concentrated in Mohammed’s hands, Ibrahim said.
Neither the State Department nor Saudi officials have commented publicly on Almadi’s release. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Tuesday.
Almadi is staying with family in Saudi Arabia and is unable to fly to the United States because of a travel ban that prohibits him from leaving Saudi Arabia, his son said.
Ibrahim, who said he spoke to his father on the phone briefly after his release, said Saad had lost 80 pounds after 16 months in prison, where he said his father did not receive adequate medical attention.
“It’s quite disgusting,” said Ibrahim, who welcomed his father’s release but said he was disappointed that he was being prevented from returning home to the United States.
“We’re not political dissidents. We’re proud Americans,” he said. “We have nothing to do with politics. We only want to live freely and happily in the United States.”
“I went to Knoxville Catholic High School,” he said. “What kind of terrorist sends their kid to a Catholic school?”
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — In and out of the huddle during his five seasons on his hometown University at Buffalo roster, quarterback Matt Myers is searching for “new beginnings” elsewhere in the college football landscape.
Myers, who won the Connolly Cup as the top high school football player for state champion West Seneca West in 2017, announced Monday on Twitter that he is entering the NCAA transfer portal. He has one season of eligibility remaining, due the coronavirus pandemic pausing his clock in 2020, and a redshirt year as a freshman.
“To my current and former teammates, coaches, support staff, trainers, equipment managers and practice managers, thank you,” Myers posted. “I am truly grateful for the memories and for everything I’ve learned here at UB. However, it is now time for new beginnings. I have decided to enter my name into the transfer portal for my final year of eligibility. I’m ready for a new opportunity and excited to get to work!”
Another UB quarterback, sophomore Casey Case, also declared his intention to transfer on Monday.
UB (6-6) is preparing to play in the Camellia Bowl on Dec. 27 in Montgomery, Alabama against former quarterback Kyle Vantrease, who transferred to Georgia State as a graduate student.
Myers did not dress for UB’s victory against Akron in the regular season finale after he set career highs rushing for 110 yards and three touchdowns in the previous week’s overtime loss against Kent State.
Cole Snyder, a Southwestern graduate who transferred to UB from Rutgers, won the starting job in a competition with Myers and Case during preseason. Snyder completed 59% of his passes for 2,765 yards, with 17 touchdowns and interceptions in starting all 12 games. He rushed for 140 yards and touchdowns.
Myers completed 51% of his passes for 1,316 yards, with 10 touchdowns and nine interceptions, in his UB career. The dual-threat quarterback ran for 386 yards and scoring 10 TDs. He played in 18 games, starting seven.
Following a redshirt season, Myers became the first freshman quarterback to start a UB opener in 2019. He had 607 yards passing, six touchdowns and four interceptions, along with 94 yards rushing and two more scores before injuring his neck in the fifth game of his freshman season.
Myers was utilized as a runner through the 2021 season before starting the final two games after Vantrease got hurt. He finished the season with 703 yards passing, four touchdowns and five interceptions, while running for 179 yards and four TDs.
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- Total Sales Increased 9%; Best February Sales Ever
- Retail Sales Up 1%; Seven Consecutive Months of Retail Sales Records
- All-Time Best-Ever Records for Elantra N and Santa Fe HEV
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor America reported total February sales of 57,044 units, a 9% increase compared with February 2022 and the best February in Hyundai history. This was the fourth consecutive month with a total monthly sales record, led by Elantra (+53%), Kona EV (+753%), Kona N (+42%), Santa Cruz (+9%), Tucson (+13%), and Venue (+17%). February was an all-time best-ever retail and total sales month for the Elantra N (+72%) and Santa Fe HEV (+121%). Hyundai fleet sales were 7% of total volume for the month.
"For the past seven months, Hyundai and our retail partners have delivered record retail sales," said Randy Parker, CEO, Hyundai Motor America. "It's the result of our diverse product lineup, strong marketing efforts that drive showroom traffic and our dealers' attention to elevating the customer experience. We remain optimistic about continuing the success and increasing market share."
February Retail Highlights
Hyundai sold 52,932 retail units in February, a 1% year-over-year increase from February 2022, setting a retail sales record for the seventh consecutive month. February retail sales were led by Elantra HEV, Elantra N, the line-up of Kona models (ICE, EV and N), Santa Cruz, Santa Fe HEV, and Venue. Hyundai eco-friendly vehicle sales of 9,415 represented 18% of retail and a 7% year-over-year increase.
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- Hyundai Introduces Free Anti-Theft Software Upgrade: In response to increasing thefts targeting its vehicles without push-button ignitions and immobilizing anti-theft devices in the United States, Hyundai has introduced a free anti-theft software upgrade to prevent the vehicles from starting during a method of theft popularized on TikTok and other social media channels.
- Hyundai Launches Bluelink+: Hyundai Motor America launched an industry-leading connected car services program called Bluelink+. All services included in the previous Bluelink Connected Care, Remote and Guidance subscription packages are now offered complimentary on a non-trial basis for new buyers with Bluelink+ which is launching with the new 2023 IONIQ 6. Bluelink+ will come on all future Bluelink-equipped Hyundai models starting with the 2024 model line-up.
- Hyundai IONIQ 5 Named 2023 Best Electric Vehicle by Cars.com: Hyundai's award-winning IONIQ 5 has been named the Best Electric Vehicle by Cars.com in its Best of 2023 Awards surpassing all 2023 EVs in the market that were tested by the company's editorial team of expert car reviewers.
- Hyundai Wins Eight 2023 Car and Driver Editor's Choice Awards: Hyundai received eight 2023 Car and Driver Editor's Choice awards for its Kona, Tucson, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Palisade, Elantra N, Sonata, and IONIQ 5 models.
- Hyundai Motor America Announces Pricing for 2023 IONIQ 6 EV: Hyundai Motor America revealed pricing, packaging and a 53-kWh battery pack option for its highly anticipated IONIQ 6 electric vehicle.
- Hyundai Announces Evolve+ EV Subscription Program: Hyundai Motor America in partnership with Hyundai Capital America announced its new Evolve+ electric vehicle subscription service at the 2023 Chicago Auto Show.
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The 15-minute run-in with at least three of the giant mammals forced the crew competing in The Ocean Race on Thursday to drop its sails and raise a clatter in an attempt to scare the approaching orcas off. No one was injured, but Team JAJO skipper Jelmer van Beek said in a video posted on The Ocean Race website that it was “a scary moment.”
“Twenty minutes ago, we got hit by some orcas,” he said in the video. “Three orcas came straight at us and started hitting the rudders. Impressive to see the orcas, beautiful animals, but also a dangerous moment for us as a team.”
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Team JAJO was approaching the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea on a leg from the Netherlands to Italy when at least three orcas approached the VO65 class sloop. Video taken by the crew showed one of the killer whales appeared to be nuzzling the rudder; another video showed one of them running its nose into the hull.
Scientists have noted increasing reports of orcas, which average from 16-21 feet and weigh more than 8,000 pounds, bumping or damaging boats off the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula in the past four years.
The behavior defies easy explanation. A team of marine life researchers who study killer whales off Spain and Portugal has identified 15 individual orcas involved in the encounters — 13 of them young, supporting the hypothesis that they are playing. The fact that two are adults could support the competing and more sensational theory that they are responding to some traumatic event with a boat.
The sailors were warned of the hazard.
“We knew that there was a possibility of an orca attack this leg,” Team JAJO on-board reporter Brend Schuil said. “So we had already spoken about what to do if the situation would occur.”
Schuil said there was a call for all hands on deck and the sails were dropped to slow the boat from a racing speed of 12 knots. The crew made noises to to scare the orcas off, but not before it had fallen from second to fourth on the leg from The Hague to Genoa, where it is expected to arrive this weekend.
“They seemed more aggressive/playful when we were sailing at speed. Once we slowed down they also started to be less aggressive in their attacks,” he said. “Everyone is OK on board and the animals are also OK.”
The Ocean Race involves two classes of sailboats at sea for weeks at a time, with the IMOCA 60 boats competing in a six-month, 37,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe. Boats have already contended with a giant seaweed flotilla, catastrophic equipment failure, and a collision that knocked the leader out of the decisive seventh leg.
Although the race course navigates around exclusion zones to protect known marine habitats, there have been previous encounters with whales in The Ocean Race and other high-speed regattas.
However, they usually involve the boats crashing into the animals, and not the other way around.
One of the boats in the around-the-world portion of this year's Ocean Race triggered its hazard alarm after hitting what they suspected was a whale off the coast of Newfoundland in May; two crew members were injured in the collision. At the beginning of the 2013 America’s Cup on San Francisco Bay, a whale was reported in the bay and organizers were prepared to delay a race if it wandered onto the course. In 2022, the start of SailGP’s $1 million, winner-take-all Season 2 championship race on the same area of San Francisco Bay was delayed when a whale was spotted on the course.
In 2005, the first South African yacht to challenge for the America’s Cup hit a whale with its 12-foot keel during training near Cape Town, stopping the 75-foot sloop dead in the water, injuring two crewmembers and snapping off both steering wheels.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into workplaces across various industries, and it is having a significant impact on most jobs. While AI can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance accuracy, it also poses a significant threat to many jobs, raising questions about the future of work.
That introduction — we call them ledes in journalism — was written by ChatGPT, a language model created by OpenAI. Not too bad, but not quite what this reporter would have written. While I think, for now, my job is safe, it will likely look different in a generative AI-driven future.
Researchers are eager to study this future and how AI tools, such as ChatGPT, DALL-E and Bard — Google’s latest foray into the AI space — are likely to affect most jobs in some way.
Here’s a look at the research out there, including two studies released Sunday and Monday, respectively.
How AI will likely affect jobs
Roughly two-thirds of current jobs are likely to be affected by some degree of AI automation, according to a report released Sunday by Goldman Sachs, a global financial institution. The report estimates that about one-fourth of current work tasks could be automated by AI in the U.S.
A study released Monday by OpenAI — in conjunction with OpenResearch, a nonprofit research lab, and the University of Pennsylvania — found that up to 80% of all jobs in the U.S. could have at least 10% of their work affected by AI learning language models. And roughly 1 in 5 jobs could see half of their work tasks affected.
Jobs most likely to be affected by AI
The industries with the most exposure to AI language modelers include legal services and securities, commodities and investments, according to a March 18 study from Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and New York University.
As for specific jobs, this study found telemarketers and post-secondary teachers in subjects such as English language and literature, foreign language and literature as well as history are likely to be affected by AI language modelers.
AI affecting jobs versus replacing them
These studies find that human workers will still be required to do most jobs, but AI will likely be integrated into the workplace.
That’s the case for most jobs but not all. The study from Goldman Sachs asserts that jobs with 50% or more exposure to AI — as in, a robot could do 50% or more of tasks — are likely to be replaced.
How workers feel about AI
Workers are uneasy about their prospects in a world where AI could likely affect their workplace. In the first quarter of 2023, a ZipRecruiter survey of job seekers found 62% are concerned that ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence could replace their jobs. This anxiety was most salient among Generation Z (76%) and those without high school diplomas (72%).
The potential upside of AI
Where there is loss, there could also be gain. The Goldman Sachs report notes: “The good news is that worker displacement from automation has historically been offset by creation of new jobs, and the emergence of new occupations following technological innovations accounts for the vast majority of long-run employment growth.”
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Michael Cohen, ex-personal attorney to Donald Trump, said his testimony was not needed on Monday as a rebuttal witness after the Manhattan grand jury investigating the former president over the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels heard testimony from a pro-Trump lawyer.
“I did not,” Cohen said when asked by MSNBC host Ari Melber whether he testified in front of the grand jury on Monday. “I was asked to be a potential rebuttal witness. The prosecutors determined that my rebuttal was not necessary, and so I was released.”
Robert Costello, a former legal adviser of Cohen’s, had appeared before the grand jury at the request of Trump’s lawyers in an attempt to stave off a possible indictment in the probe over the payment made to Daniels, an adult film performer, ahead of the 2016 election.
Costello, who had a falling out with Cohen years ago, appeared as an exculpatory witness for Trump, according to a letter to prosecutors obtained by ABC News. He was expected to testify that Cohen, who is the key witness in the case, repeatedly told Costello that he was unaware of any criminal behavior by Trump.
Trump made headlines when he announced over the weekend that he expected to be indicted and arrested as soon as Tuesday in connection with the case, which would be the first time a sitting or former president faced criminal charges.
Cohen also pushed back against a claim Costello made to reporters that Cohen was set to testify in front of the grand jury again on Wednesday.
“Very much like most of everything that came out of his mouth, he lacks for any sense of veracity here,” Cohen said. “There’s no accuracy to his statement. I have not been asked to come back on Wednesday.” | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/cohen-rips-pro-trump-witness-says-his-testimony-was-not-needed-monday/ | 2023-03-21 00:21:54 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/hill-politics/cohen-rips-pro-trump-witness-says-his-testimony-was-not-needed-monday/ |
BOSTON (AP) — Well before she launched her campaign for the top law enforcement post in Massachusetts, Andrea Campbell carried with her the weight of a life haunted by the specter of crime and the criminal justice system.
When she was just a child, Campbell’s father was sent to prison for eight years. Her mother died in a car accident on the way to visit him, forcing Campbell and her brothers to live with relatives and in foster care.
Much later, her twin brother would die in police custody, and her older brother would face charges in a string of alleged rapes.
Despite the trauma and dislocation, the Democratic candidate for attorney general — who grew up in the Roxbury and South End neighborhoods of Boston, the city’s traditional center of Black life — was able to find a very different path, fueled by success at school, the help of family members and teachers, and her skill at jumping rope.
“One thing I do frequently is share my story because I think there are so many who carry their story with a sense of shame and don’t want to talk about it, including the criminal aspects of my family,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press. “But there is no shame in one sharing their story. There is power in it.”
Campbell’s Republican opponent, Jay McMahon, said a tragedy in his own life — the death of his son, Joel, from an opioid overdose in 2008 — was a motivating factor in his decision to run.
McMahon said his son served in the Army during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, making it all the way to Baghdad before being injured and prescribed oxycontin, to which he eventually became addicted.
Campbell, 40, attended the city’s prestigious public exam school, Boston Latin School, which led her to Princeton University, UCLA Law School and a post in the administration of former Gov. Deval Patrick. She became the first Black woman president of the Boston City Council and launched a failed bid for mayor last year.
It was through the intervention of family members, employers and teachers that Campbell was able to navigate that path. She recalled one teacher and her husband who bought her clothes so that as she traveled to participate in Double Dutch competitions she could also visit colleges.
Campbell said she’s learned to turn personal pain into a larger purpose, even after her brother, Alvin Campbell Jr., was arrested for allegedly posing as a ride-hailing driver and kidnapping and raping a woman looking for a ride home after leaving a Boston nightclub. Other similar charges would follow.
Campbell said she had her young son in her arms when she learned of the arrest.
“I was holding him, literally getting ready to nurse him, when I got the call about my older brother and his arrest, and it was heart-wrenching,” Campbell said.
“And then immediately like I’ve done throughout my life, I had to say, ‘OK, now what are you going to do with this?’” she added. “Yes I have to deal with my own trauma and pain, which I encourage everyone to do, but it’s an opportunity to go deeper … to make sure we are breaking cycles of violence, of criminalization and so much more.”
She said she hasn’t spoken to her brother since his arrest.
“I view my older brother’s charges and what is happening there as just another brother lost, which is sad and tragic for me,” she said. “So now I have two brothers who are lost.”
Campbell, married with two young boys, said she applauds the courage of any woman who comes forward to share serious allegations of sexual assault, adding: “We need to probably start from a place of believing them. I’ve made that crystal clear.”
Although she didn’t run to be the state’s first Black woman AG, if she wins, the distinction matters, said Campbell, who has vowed to view her job through what she calls an “equity lens.”
“On the campaign trail, when people would say what are the top three issues you would address, I would never list racial disparities because living in this gender and this skin, it should be the norm of the office to always be closing racial gaps, to always be taking on sexism or gender or sexual discrimination,” she said.
Campbell, who said her faith is another source of strength, also has pledged to use the office to tackle issues that may have been overlooked by other AGs. Those include prison reform, juvenile justice, health disparities and economics in the state’s rural communities.
When she got into trouble at school, she said, she was treated differently than her twin brother, Andre. She was typically sent to talk to someone, while Andre often faced a suspension and expulsion hearing.
Many who live in communities of color are frustrated with what Campbell describes as a lack of accountability about how crimes are prosecuted, feeling over-policed and over-incarcerated. She said it’s too easy to cast those areas as overrun by mobs or gangs.
“I push back on that narrative because I live in one of those communities,” she said. “You have folks working two or three jobs, working hard every single day to make sure they are delivering for their families, for their children and for their community.”
On the campaign trail, McMahon has tried to portray Campbell as soft on crime.
“We have a crime wave right now and Andrea Campbell wants to take away qualified immunity and defund the police,” he said. “I’ll never defund the cops.”
Campbell said what she wants is to make sure no one is above the law, including public employees, elected officials and the police.
She also said she hopes her story can serve as inspiration.
“If you look at my life, it is a model and an example of what opportunity can do to move someone out of a very tragic upbringing of trauma, pain, suffering, loss to assist them in reaching their dreams and potential,” she said.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators and shippers are questioning Union Pacific’s decision to temporarily limit some businesses’ shipments as part of its effort to clear up congestion across the railroad.
The head of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, Martin Oberman, said Wednesday he’s concerned about Union Pacific’s increasing use of the embargoes because they disrupt operations of the businesses that rely on the railroad, and they haven’t seemed to help its performance significantly.
Union Pacific has ordered companies to remove some of their railcars from the network more than 1,000 times this year, up from 140 times in 2018, according to the transportation board.
An embargo can force a business to consider cutting production or resorting to more expensive shipping options, like trucking, if that’s even an option. And they can make it harder for other businesses to get the key products, such as shipments of chlorine used to treat water, or grain for feeding animals.
“The customer is bearing the brunt of the pain. You guys are still making money,” Surface Transportation Board member Robert Primus said, addressing Union Pacific executives during two days of board hearings this week.
For much of this year, Union Pacific and the other major freight railroads have struggled to deliver products on time and handle all the shipments companies want to move because they were short on crews coming out of the pandemic. The railroads have been improving throughout the year as they hired more workers, but regulators say they’re still lagging behind where they should be. Union Pacific is using significantly more embargoes than any other railroad.
At the hearings, Union Pacific executives defended their practices, arguing that their embargoes are needed to help get the railroad running better. CEO Lance Fritz said the embargoes are targeted and temporary measures that shouldn’t place an undue burden on individual businesses.
“We only use embargoes when necessary and when no longer necessary, we end them,” Fritz said.
But several shippers and trade groups testified that the embargoes are hurting their businesses.
Cargill executive Brock Lautenschlager said Union Pacific’s actions make it hard to plan. Last month, the railroad told Cargill it needed to pull 130 railcars it owns from the network within a week or face shipment limits at five of its plants. The agribusiness giant complied because it worried that an embargo could force it to shut down a plant.
“We believe embargoes should be the exception not the norm,” Lautenschlager said.
It’s accepted practice for railroads to temporarily place limits on shipments in extreme conditions when something outside their control, like a flood or bridge fire, hurts their ability to haul freight. Business groups, however, say they believe deep cuts in UP’s workforce are a major reason the Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad is having so much trouble meeting customer expectations.
Oberman said there seems to be a direct correlation between the sharp drop in Union Pacific employees since 2018, as it overhauled its operations, and the increased use of embargoes. The number of train crews the railroad employed went from roughly 18,000 in 2018 to about 13,000 today and that includes all the hiring the railroad has done since the economy started to rebound from the pandemic.
Greg Twist with grain processor Ag Processing Inc. compared the situation to going shopping at a grocery store and finding that the store refuses to hire more than one clerk, and then the store’s manager tells him he must come back at a certain time of day if he wants service. And unlike with groceries, his company generally can’t shop around to ship its goods because Union Pacific is the only railroad that serves several of its plants.
Twist said Ag Processing should have “the freedom to decide how we operate our facilities” without having the railroad dictate how much they can produce with its shipping limits. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-union-pacific-railroad-shipping-limits-generate-complaints/ | 2022-12-15 05:08:51 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-union-pacific-railroad-shipping-limits-generate-complaints/ |
EL DORADO, Ark. (KTVE/KARD)–Officials say it’s important for people to be prepared in the event of a natural disaster before those warning sirens sound off.
Tornadoes recently touched down in Central Arkansas and North Mississippi leaving devastating destruction in their path, it’s important to prepare now because waiting for those warning sirens would be too late.
Officials recommend creating their own natural disaster supply kit out of a waterproof container or bag.
A disaster supply kit is a collection of essential items, including; non-perishable food items, a flashlight, important family documents, medicine, and portable chargers to help you and your family in the event of an evacuation emergency.
Veterinarians at Pitard Animal Clinic say it’s just as important to make sure your furry friends are prepared by having a way to locate them if they happen to run away. Microchipping your pets is the most promising way for owners to get their animal back if it becomes lost during a natural disaster.
“Being prepared for your pet, to increase their chance of coming home can give you a lot more peace of mind,” explains owner Brennan Pitard.
Pitard Animal Clinic offers animal microchipping services to families as they get prepared for more severe weather.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Travis Konecny and Morgan Frost scored 23 seconds apart in the second period to help Philadelphia beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 and make coach John Tortorella a winner in his Flyers’ debut Thursday night.
Tortorella, who won a Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay in 2004, was the big offseason splash for a team coming off a last-place finish in the Metropolitan Division. Tortorella promised no quick fixes for a franchise that has bottomed out and a team widely projected as among the worst in the NHL this season.
On opening night, Tortorella turned the Flyers into winners.
“I just go about my business,” Tortorella said before the game. “It’s not about me. It’s about the players.
Attendance has sagged in recent seasons, but the Flyers played to a near full-house and famed ring announcer Michael Buffer dropped his “Let’s get ready to rumble!” catchphrase to energize the crowd. Phillies manager Rob Thomson struck the game-opening drum and even Hall of Famer Eric Lindros was back in the house. For a team without bona fide playoff prospects, the Flyers tried to create a Game 1 feel in the season opener.
Konecny and Frost also scored in the third period. Wade Allison had a first-period goal and Carter Hart stopped 34 shots.
Tortorella, who got a rousing ovation during pregame festivities, said the immediate goal was to make sure the Flyers are hard to play against and would earn respect from the rest of the NHL. With rookies or veterans, Tortorella said he won’t play favorites within his own team to get them to that point.
“I’m not going to hold hands and I won’t,” Tortorella said.
This game wasn’t exactly a marquee matchup on the schedule. The Devils posted a 27-46-9 record last season and finished with 63 points, the third-worst record in the Eastern Conference. They haven’t made the playoff since 2018.
Alexander Holtz gave the Devils a 1-0 lead 8:01 into the game with his first career NHL goal and Allison tied it 23 seconds later -- the same span of time between Konecny and Frost’s goals that put the Flyers ahead 3-1.
Damon Severson scored in the third for the Devils to make it 4-2. Frost's second goal was an empty-netter.
THE COMMISH
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was in the house for the opener and said the league would not follow other professional sports leagues and move away from the vague — and often misleading — upper or lower body designations for injuries.
“Our players sometimes play a little hurt,” he said. “That is something that they take great pride in. I don’t want to subject them to any additional injury."
Bettman also said the league wasn’t necessarily concerned that interest in the Flyers has waned as the team is projected as one of the worst ones in the league.
“I know that ownership is committed and passionate,” he said. “They always spend to the cap. And I assure you they want to be a competitive team as much as the most passionate fans of the Flyers.”
SANHEIM SIGNS
The Flyers signed D Travis Sanheim to an eight-year, $50 million contract extension. The 26-year-old Sanheim had seven goals and 31 points last season. The 6-foot-4, 208-pounder from Elkhorn, Manitoba, led the Flyers with a plus-9 rating, ranked second in average time on ice (22:58) and blocked shots. Philadelphia’s first-round pick in the 2014 draft, Sanheim has 116 points in 335 career games over five seasons.
“To be drafted not only by Philly, but in Philly, and now to sign a long-term deal here, it means a lot,” Sanheim said. “I love this city, love the fan base and I’m excited to turn this around and get things going. There’s no better place to win than Philly.”
UP NEXT
The Devils return to New Jersey for their home opener Saturday against Detroit.
The Flyers play at home Saturday — at about the same time the Phillies host Game 4 of the NLDS across the street — against Vancouver.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Just the size of his hand, the radio set hung in the busy marketplace stall is essential to Mark Nyabanda.
“I can’t do without it,” said the 25-year old, taking a break from selling fertilizer in Mbare market in the capital, Harare, to listen to a radio weather report warning of possible floods.
Radio bulletins also provide him with information on disease outbreaks, political news and entertainment, he said.
“I don’t trust these new technologies,” he said, referring to social media. “They are full of falsehoods. We saw it during the coronavirus outbreak.”
In many Western countries, conventional radio has been overtaken by streaming, podcasts and on-demand content accessed via smartphones and computers.
But in many of Africa’s 54 countries, with a combined population of 1.3 billion people, traditional radio sets are widely used, highlighting the digital divide between rich countries and those still struggling to have reliable internet.
Radio sets are all over the place in Zimbabwe. Rural livestock herders dangle them from their necks while tending animals while those in the cities listen to their radio sets for news.
When schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic, sub-Saharan African had the highest proportion of schoolchildren who lacked internet connectivity to participate in remote learning online lessons, according to the United Nations children’s agency. Many students relied on lessons beamed via tiny solar-powered radio sets at home.
More than 80% of people in Africa own a mobile phone with access to a mobile phone network, according to Afrobarometer, a leading research institute. But “fewer than half” have mobile phones with internet access. The number of those who have access to computers at home is even lower at 28% of people polled in 34 African countries in a survey on the digital divide published in December last year.
“Closing the digital divide remains a critical issue for most African countries, and for the continent as a whole,” said Afrobarometer.
The lack of internet connectivity means traditional radio “remains king,” said Afrobarometer in another survey last year.
Radio is “overwhelmingly” the most common source of news in Africa, according to the survey. About 68% of respondents said they tuned in at least a few times a week, compared to about 40% who use social media and the internet.
Traditional radio sets are easy and inexpensive to use versus the higher cost and logistical problems of getting access to the internet.
Many small radio sets now come with inbuilt solar panels that allow people to listen to broadcasts even when they don’t have electricity. Especially in vogue are radios that also now come with a cell phone charger and a flashlight — all huge conveniences in a continent where electricity outages are rampant and internet connection spots are often distant.
“People don’t have to worry about network or data expenses. And one can’t be switched off for not paying license fees,” said Stanley Tsarwe, coordinator of journalism studies at the University of Zimbabwe. “The radio set has become very powerful and multi-functional and that becomes critical in Africa where access to power and access to the internet are very limited” he said.
Many people trust information from their radio sets over other sources, said John Masuku, a veteran radio broadcaster of five decades.
“There is a lot of disinformation and misinformation so people still want to check … if it is not said on radio then it is not fact. That is why radio is popular and celebrated in Africa,” he said.
Broadcasts in local languages are also attract radio listeners. Zimbabwe’s state radio and a host of community stations offer broadcasts in Shona, Ndebele and 12 other local languages, he said.
However, the way many in Africa listen to the radio is changing as internet penetration improves. The number of people getting news at least “a few times a week” from either social media or the internet or both has almost doubled from 24% to 43% over the past decade, according to Afrobarometer.
The falling prices of mobile phones that can access FM radio stations is also shifting how people listen to radio in Africa, said Tsarwe of the University of Zimbabwe.
“There is an ongoing convergence between radio and digital mobile technologies, especially the mobile phone,” he said. “Radio is integrating more rapidly with the mobile phone because it is much more accessible in Africa. The mobile phone is the future of radio in Africa.” | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/many-rely-on-radio-broadcasts-in-zimbabwe-and-across-africa/ | 2023-03-27 11:35:58 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/many-rely-on-radio-broadcasts-in-zimbabwe-and-across-africa/ |
(The Hill) – Users on Twitter and other social media platforms were urging their followers to #BoycottWalgreens after multiple would-be Walgreens customers claimed they were denied birth control or condoms by pharmacists who morally objected to their use.
Abigail Martin, a TikTok creator with almost 900,000 followers, said in a video uploaded on her page earlier this month that a pharmacist told her they would not refill her birth control prescription, telling her she needed to call her medical provider.
She said her doctor’s office told her that she had four refills left, and did not know why the pharmacy would not refill the prescription.
Martin said she then received two texts from Walgreens about her prescription — the first saying that it was delayed and another saying that it was out of stock.
But by this point, Martin had run out of pills, she said.
Martin again called Walgreens, and this time another pharmacist told her she could refill her prescription. This pharmacist added that this particular location had been having issues with women being refused birth control in the past two weeks.
“First they want us to stop getting pregnant and having abortions, and then they don’t want to help us prevent that pregnancy,” Martin said.
Her video has more than 3.8 million views as of Thursday.
Walgreens had previously said in a 2018 tweet that the company allows pharmacists to “step away” from filing a prescription if they morally object to it, but that those same pharmacists are required to refer the prescription to another pharmacist or manager to meet a patient’s needs in a “timely manner.”
Fraser Engerman, the senior director of external relations for Walgreens, also shared a statement with The Hill, claiming that that these types of incidents are uncommon and the company works to meet the needs of its customers while respecting staff members’ beliefs.
“Instances like this are very rare and our policies are designed to ensure we meet the needs of our patients and customers while respecting the religious and moral beliefs of our team members,” Engerman said. “We require the employee to refer the transaction to another employee or manager on duty who will complete the customer’s transaction.”
Still, other Twitter users came forward with similar claims. One said on Sunday that her coworker relies on birth control pills for health issues, but Walgreens declined her refill. (In addition to preventing unwanted pregnancy, the pill can also have positive effects for health conditions like iron deficiency, infections and some endometrial and ovarian cancers, according to Planned Parenthood.)
Another Twitter user named Nate Pentz said a cashier at Walgreens told his wife, Jess, that he would not sell her condoms because of his faith. The cashier offered to bring a manager over.
Jess filed a complaint with Walgreens, saying the cashier embarrassed her in front of other customers for her personal choice.
The backlash against Walgreens, meanwhile, comes in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion. More than a dozen states have moved to ban or severely restrict abortion access following the high court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Some activists and lawmakers have also expressed concerns that the overturning of Roe could open the floodgates for other landmark cases to be overturned, like Griswold v. Connecticut, which protects access to birth control. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/customers-claim-walgreens-pharmacists-are-denying-them-birth-control-pills-condoms/ | 2022-07-22 15:49:04 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/customers-claim-walgreens-pharmacists-are-denying-them-birth-control-pills-condoms/ |
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DALLAS, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RecNation Storage ("RecNation" or the "Company"), a leading owner, operator and developer of specialized recreational vehicles and marine storage facilities, today announced the launch of RecNation Rental, a white-glove, peer-to-peer RV rental startup that will allow RecNation customers to rent their vehicles and earn additional income without lifting a finger.
This launch represents an important milestone for RecNation as the Company builds on its commitment to be not only the storage provider of choice, but a full-service recreational hub for its community of customers. In conjunction with the launch, RecNation Rental today announced partnerships with leading rental platforms Outdoorsy and RVshare to host and promote RecNation Rental listings, allowing RecNation customers to reach a broad audience of adventure seekers.
RecNation Rental is designed to serve a rapidly growing demographic of RV users in an increasingly dynamic market. In 2021 alone, there were over 9 million new first-time campers, while RV usage increased significantly – with almost 15 million households traveling in an RV, and 23% of them using either a rented or borrowed vehicle.1 More individuals and families than ever are looking for new, exciting ways to get out of the house, travel and capitalize on the 'work from anywhere' lifestyle.
"In my own RV travels across the country, I saw firsthand the magnitude of the RV and camping industry. With RecNation Rental, our vision is to introduce a white-glove service to customers that allows them to capitalize on the value of their toys when they're not using them," said Gary Wojtaszek, Founder and Chief Camper of RecNation. "By leveraging our existing storage business and personnel to manage the rentals, we can provide our customers with a unique and valuable opportunity to earn additional income on an asset they already own – while also expanding the accessibility of recreational vehicles and allowing more outdoor enthusiasts and families to take a trip and create new memories. It's a win, win, and we are excited to bring this service to our locations across the U.S. over the next year and beyond."
RecNation currently has over 10,000 customers using its storage facilities, with plans to grow this number to 140,000 over the next five years, and the RecNation Rental platform will be accessible for all customers that store RVs with RecNation and meet the registration requirements. For owners interested in renting their RVs and turning their asset into an investment, the RecNation Rental team will support the owner with everything from taking care of marketing, RV inspections, cleaning and customer inquiries to pre-rental walkthroughs, payment and insurance claim processing to limit the time commitment typically required for peer-to-peer rentals.
"As we're seeing more Americans searching for new ways to spend time outdoors, work from anywhere, or supplement existing income, the RecNation Rental program supports renters and owners alike, while ensuring everyone has more time to dedicate to their passions and pursuits," continued Gary Wojtaszek, CEO & Founder at RecNation. "What's so unique about our platform and strategy is that we are managing the rental process from start to finish on our customers' behalf in a safe, secure and, most importantly, convenient way for our community. Everything that we do and offer is designed to make it easier for our growing customer base of outdoor enthusiasts to do what they love, and this new platform is a natural evolution for us. We look forward to scaling quickly as we continue to grow the RecNation business and help more individuals and families across the U.S. share in our joy of roadtripping."
The RecNation Rental program will officially launch in January 2023 at RecNation's headquarters facility in Dallas, with plans to rapidly scale the program to include the approximately 340 facilities the Company plans to own and operate across the country in the next few years.
To learn more about the platform, registration requirements and services offered by RecNation Rental, visit: www.recnationstorage.com.
About RecNation
RecNation acquires, builds and manages specialized RV and Boat storage facilities across the United States. The company was founded to meet the burgeoning storage requirements of the owners of recreational and marine vehicles. As the first institutional grade, specialized storage company created to serve the growing storage needs for both recreational and marine vehicles, RecNation has solidified its position as the leading recreational storage operator in the nation. Since its inception in 2021, the Company has significantly expanded its footprint across Texas, Florida, Arizona and Kansas to serve a growing community of outdoor and recreational enthusiasts seeking a secure facility to secure their vehicles.
To learn more and find a storage location near you, visit: https://www.recnationstorage.com/.
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RVshare is the largest online community for RV renters and owners with a diverse selection of vehicles for rent across the US, ranging from luxury motorhomes to cozy camper vans. On RVshare you'll find vehicles that can accommodate any outdoor adventure, whether it's a weekend of camping or a cross-country tour of national parks. Hit the road yourself or plan for a campsite delivery to experience the unbridled freedom of RV travel. With more than 3 million nights of sleeping under the stars booked, families and groups can experience a one-of-a-kind trip and create memories that will last a lifetime. For more information, visit rvshare.com, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram @rvshare.
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Outdoorsy transformed access to the outdoors with the launch of its RV rental marketplace in 2015. Today, Outdoorsy's partnership with its hosts has resulted in over 5 million days of booked travel through RV rentals that are available in 4,800 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Outdoorsy's hospitality ecosystem provides life-changing financial benefits for RV owners and offers guests the trust and guidance they crave to create memorable travel experiences. Outdoorsy's team is inspired by a mission to restore our relationship with the outdoors and each other by helping guests 'Bring The Outside In'.
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BOSTON — A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of highly classified military documents appeared in court Friday as prosecutors unsealed charges and revealed how billing records and interviews with social media comrades helped pinpoint the suspect.
Among the revelations: That the platform Discord provided information that helped lead the FBI to guardsman Jack Teixeira, and that Teixeira used his government computer to search for the word “leak” on the day last week when news media reports revealed that classified documents had been improperly disclosed.
President Joe Biden said the government was working to determine “the validity” of the leaked documents. In the meantime, he said in a White House statement, “I have directed our military and intelligence community to take steps to further secure and limit distribution of sensitive information, and our national security team is closely coordinating with our partners and allies.”
Friday's new details about the highest-profile intelligence leak in years shed light on how investigators came to zero in on Teixeira, 21, even though a motive for the disclosures remains publicly unexplained. The Justice Department has said its investigation is continuing, and the Pentagon, which earlier in the week called it a serious national security breach, said it would conduct its own review of access to sensitive intelligence to prevent a similar leak in the future.
Teixeira appeared in federal court in Boston to face charges, under the Espionage Act, of unauthorized retention and transmission of classified national defense information. He did not enter a plea, but a federal magistrate judge ordered him jailed until a detention hearing next week.
The court appearance came less than 24 hours after Teixeira was arrested by heavily armed tactical agents on Thursday following a weeklong criminal investigation into the disclosure of the government records, a breach that exposed to the world unvarnished secret assessments on the war in Ukraine, the capabilities and geopolitical interests of other nations and other national security issues.
"This is not just about taking home documents. That is of course itself illegal. But this is about the transmission, both the unlawful retention and the transmission of the documents. Everyone knows here that the documents in the end were transmitted,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday at the Justice Department.
Investigators believe Teixeira was the leader of an online private chat group on Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games and where Teixeira is believed to have posted for years about guns, games and his favorite memes.
The eight-page court affidavit details several steps in the FBI investigation, including an interview Monday with a Discord user familiar with Teixeira's online posts. The document does not identify the person or say how he or she was located. But the source told the FBI that a username linked to Teixeira began posting what appeared to be classified information roughly in December in an online chat that the user said was meant for the discussion of geopolitical affairs and past and current wars.
The person provided the FBI with basic identifying information about Teixeira, including that he called himself “Jack,” claimed to be part of the Air National Guard and appeared to live in Massachusetts, according to the affidavit.
Billing records the FBI subsequently obtained from Discord, which has said it was cooperating with the bureau, helped lead investigators to Teixeira, according to the FBI affidavit.
The person also told the FBI that Teixeira switched from typing out documents in his possession to taking them home and photographing them because he “had become concerned that he may be discovered making the transcriptions of text in the workplace.”
That’s different from what posters have told The Associated Press and other media outlets, saying the user they would call “the O.G.” started posting images of documents because he was annoyed other users weren’t taking him seriously.
Known as Thug Shaker Central, the group drew roughly two dozen enthusiasts who talked about their favorite types of guns and also shared memes and jokes. The group also held a running discussion on wars that included talk of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The affidavit also alleges Teixeira was detected on April 6 – the day The New York Times first published a story about the breach of documents – searching for the word “leak” in a classified system. The FBI says that was reason to believe Teixeira was trying to find information about the investigation into who was responsible for the leaks.
The Justice Department has not alleged a particular motive. Accounts of those in the online private chat group where the documents were disclosed have depicted Teixeira as motivated more by bravado than ideology.
His court appearance Friday was brief. He entered the room in tan jail clothes and sat at the defense table next to his lawyer. At the end, a man who appeared to be a family member in the front row told Teixeira he loved him and the defendant responded “I love you, too." His lawyer did not return a message seeking comment.
The Biden administration has scrambled to contain the potential diplomatic and military fallout from the leaks since they were first reported, moving to reassure allies and assess the scope of damage.
The classified documents — which have not been individually authenticated in public by U.S. officials — range from briefing slides mapping out Ukrainian military positions to assessments of international support for Ukraine and other sensitive topics, including under what circumstances Russian President Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons.
Classified documents have strict guidelines on how they must be handled, secured and destroyed. They are required to be kept in secure facilities, protocols Teixeira would have violated if copies were taken to his house.
It’s still not known how Teixeira, an information technology specialist, allegedly obtained the documents, or what safeguards had been in place. The FBI said that he has held a top secret security clearance since 2021 with access to highly classified programs.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in a statement issued after the arrest, said the Pentagon would conduct a review of its “intelligence access, accountability and control procedures” to prevent such a leak from happening again.
At the Justice Department, Garland noted government officials and others who have clearance to review classified documents sign agreements that “acknowledge the importance to national security of not disclosing those documents.”
“We intend to send that message: how important it is to our national security,” he said.
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AP writers Tucker and Merchant reported from Washington. AP writers Lindsay Whitehurst and Tara Copp contributed to this report. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/leak-suspect-appears-in-court/507-1ce8576b-dd4a-4120-8390-1680b01bb53b | 2023-04-14 21:21:50 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/nation-world/leak-suspect-appears-in-court/507-1ce8576b-dd4a-4120-8390-1680b01bb53b |
BAY LAKE, Fla. – Disney has debuted a new website that celebrates some of the new food and beverage offerings heading to its theme parks.
The site is being called Disney Eats. The company said the site will explore new foods, flavorful updates at the parks and resorts, stories, recipes, and more.
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“Disney Eats is our chance to bring to you the beauty and artistry that goes into making all the culinary delights across the Disney Parks and beyond,” Disney explained on its blog. “We’ll take you behind the food, show you the chefs who pour their hearts and souls into taking you on a flavorful journey with every bite, and keep you in the know on anything and everything you can snack on, from the in-park classics, like churros and Mickey pretzels, to the fine dining experiences, like Victoria & Albert’s at Walt Disney World Resort and Napa Rose at Disneyland Resort.”
Readers of Disney Parks Blog will be able to find the page under the topics tab.
Disney is also encouraging guests to share their food journeys by using the hashtag #DisneyEats on social media.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined the foreign ministers of Russia and China at a meeting Friday with top diplomats from Southeast Asia that comes at a time of increased tensions between Washington, Moscow and Beijing.
The East Asia Summit of the ongoing Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings in Cambodia's capital was the first time the three men were scheduled to take part in the same forum.
It came a day after WNBA star Brittney Griner was convicted of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison by Russia in a politically charged case amid ongoing friction over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
China, meantime, is furious at the U.S. following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit this week to Taiwan — a self-governing island Beijing claims as its own — and is in the middle of show-of-force military exercises in response.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi patted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the shoulder as he entered the room and gave the already-seated Lavrov a quick wave before taking his own seat. Lavrov waved back in response.
Blinken, who entered the room last, did not even look over to Lavrov as he took his own seat about a half-dozen chairs away, or to Wang who was seated farther down the same table as Lavrov.
Ahead of the Phnom Penh talks, the U.S. State Department indicated Blinken had no plans to meet one-on-one with either man during the course of the meetings.
The East Asia Summit's chair, Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, opened the 2 1/2 hour talks saying he hoped that all delegates would use the forum as a “means of engagement and communication” with one another.
“Every year we have our set of challenges to address but I have to say that never before, not like this year, have we been confronted with so many perils at the same time,” he said before ushering the media out to begin the closed-door talks. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/US-Russia-China-take-part-in-talks-with-SE-17353374.php | 2022-08-05 04:49:11 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/US-Russia-China-take-part-in-talks-with-SE-17353374.php |
HONG KONG and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newchic, an online fashion platform composed of brands that celebrate diversity, inclusion, and creativity, announced the Top 4 winners in its 2022 #ArtYourPossibility Fashion Contest on Saturday, August 27th PST. Each of the four winners will receive a grand prize of 1,500 USD to support these rising designers as they continue to refine their craft.
This year's winners are listed below, in alphabetical order:
Scarlet Lacasse
Hyoni Woo
Arron Lam
Ana Lloshi
According to contest rules, the four winners submitted original designs - as well as written descriptions of the inspiration behind those designs - centered on up to two of the four contest themes, which were crafted around the unique missions of Newchic's CSR-conscious co-hosts and partner brands: Selfsow, Koyye, Mensclo, and Charmkpr.
During the first round of judging, which took place on the weekend of August 22, 2022 (PST), Newchic's panel of celebrity judges (Paula Franco, Danielle Sarkissian, and Marcos Gonzalez) evaluated all submissions based on the following eight categories: creativity, design, resourcefulness, adherence to the theme, productionability, originality, relevance, and popularity. The final category - popularity - allowed the public to participate in the decision-making process by voting for their favorite design. Once the Top 8 designs were selected, Newchic hosted a round of one-on-one private video interviews with each of the seven finalists to learn more about their journey as a designer. The public was once again invited to vote for their favorite design among the Top 8.
On Saturday, August 27, 2022 (PST), Newchic hosted an Instagram Live during which the judges spoke with each of the finalists in real-time and scored their designs according to the same eight categories as above, including the updated public tally. According to Newchic, this year's winners and finalists reflect a multicultural and multi-creative talent pool that understands the rising importance of leisurewear and "options that can be worn in the workplace as well as happy hour," including "anime-inspired patterns to gender-neutral pieces."
Newchic is beyond honored and thrilled to support this group of emerging creatives. According to Newchic President Zou, "We were blown away by the level of craft, self-expression, and imagination displayed in all the submissions we received, including the Top 4 winners. We cannot wait to see what these talented designers continue to create in the years to come."
To know more about the contest, head to the following link: www.newchic.com/designers2022
About Newchic
Newchic is an online fashion platform composed of brands that celebrate diversity, inclusion, and creativity. Founded in 2014, Newchic has achieved rapid development on a global scale, ranking among the top online shopping websites. Newchic offers a wide range of clothing, shoes, bags, and accessories to help conscious customers pursue their styles. Newchic has won recognition and trust from customers in Europe, America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
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Off-road fans in the U.S. will soon have an alternative to rugged SUVs such as the Ford Bronco, Jeep Wrangler, Land Rover Defender, and Mercedes-Benz G-Class in the form of the Ineos Grenadier, the first product from the newly minted automotive arm of British chemical giant Ineos.
Ineos Automotive last week announced U.S. pricing for the Grenadier and confirmed a May 31 start date for the reservation process via the company’s website. The first customer deliveries here are scheduled for late 2023, meaning the Grenadier should arrive as a 2024 model. Orders will be finalized with dealerships that Ineos will announce around August.
The Grenadier will be offered in the U.S. in three grades, with prices set at $71,500 for a base grade and $79,190 for Trialmaster and Fieldmaster grades. Ineos said the more expensive grades are pre-configured to suit professional off-roaders in the case of the Trialmaster and more occasional off-roaders in the case of the Fieldmaster.
The Trialmaster and Fieldmaster names come from the fashion brand Belstaff, which is also owned by the Ineos chemical company, and is known for its rugged clothing line, including water-resistant waxed cotton jackets. In the case of the Trialmaster, Ineos includes features like electronically activated front and rear differential locks, a raised air intake, an auxiliary battery, and BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO2 tires. The Fieldmaster has similar upgrades in combination with comfort features such as leather trim, carpeted floor mats, and heated front seats.
There’s only the one body style at present, a five-door SUV, though Ineos is currently testing prototypes for a Grenadier pickup truck and has confirmed plans to start production of an electric 4×4 smaller than the Grenadier in 2026.
The single powertrain for the Grenadier is a 3.0-liter turbo-6. The engine is sourced from BMW and in the Grenadier is hooked to an 8-speed automatic and a four-wheel-drive system with a 2-speed transfer case. Final specifications for the U.S. market will be announced at a later date, but in other markets the engine is rated at 281 hp in the Grenadier.
The Grenadier is based on a body-on-frame platform with solid beam axles, Panhard rods front and rear, and progressive coil springs. To help reduce weight, the body is made from a mix of aluminum, high-strength steels, and even some composites. To help with the development, Ineos teamed up with Austria’s Magna Steyr, the same company that helped Mercedes-Benz develop the G-Class and still builds the iconic SUV to this day.
Production of the Grenadier, which started in mid-2022 for other markets, is handled at a former Mercedes plant in Hambach, France.
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Updated January 8, 2023 at 3:04 PM ET
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress in the capital of Brasília on Sunday.
Videos and photos of the scenes posted to social media also showed crowds invading and ransacking the presidential palace and Supreme Court. Swarms of the Bolsonaro supporters, known as "Bolsonaristas," were seen charging past security barriers and clashing with police who appeared to be using pepper spray against them.
The scenes mirror that of the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol and come one week after leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in to office.
Since da Silva's defeat of the far-right Bolsonaro in October, Bolsonaro supporters have been protesting the win by camping out in front of army barracks around the country, blocking roads, and calling for armed forces to intervene and overturn the election.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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No. 7 USC and No. 20 Utah play on Saturday, Oct. 15. The game will be live streamed on fuboTV (free trial).
USC is off to a 6-0 start for the first time since 2006. The seventh-ranked Trojans face a big test this weekend at No. 20 Utah. The Utes are 81-25 at home under coach Kyle Whittingham.
Utah was picked to win the Pac-12 by the media in a preseason poll but has two losses already. The Utes are slight favorites.
The Trojans are off to a 6-0 start for the first time since 2006. That version of USC, led by coach Pete Carroll, lost game No. 7 at Oregon State, 33-31. It won’t be easy for Caleb Williams and Co. at Rice-Eccles Stadium, where the Utes are 81-25 under coach Kyle Whittingham. Utah increased the capacity of the stadium to 51,444 with an expansion in 2021. The Utes were picked to win the Pac-12 by the media in a preseason poll. They had their seven-game Pac-12 conference winning streak halted by UCLA last weekend.
When is USC-Utah?
USC plays Utah at 7 p.m. (8 p.m. ET) Saturday, Oct. 15.
Live stream
FuboTV
The game will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. The most basic of plans is the “fubo standard” package, which comprises 121-plus channels for $69.99 per month. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports. It comes with more than 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR, and up to 10 screens at once.
Will it be televised?
USC and Utah will be televised on Fox.
Preview
KEY MATCHUP: Utah needs to find a way to contain Southern California defensive lineman Tuli Tuipulotu, who is coming off a monster performance against Washington State. He recorded four tackles for loss and three sacks, including two within three plays in the first quarter. The Utes are allowing less than a sack a game behind an offensive line led by Braeden Daniels, Keaton Bills, Paul Maile, Michael Mokofisi and Sataoa Laumea.
PLAYERS TO WATCH: Southern California: WR Jordan Addison, who leads the team with 32 catches and 479 yards. He also had six touchdown catches. The transfer from Pittsburgh is tied for the team lead in TDs with running back Travis Dye.
Utah: RB Tavion Thomas. He was nominated for offensive player of the week honors after rushing for 91 yards and a score at UCLA. Thomas has rushed for more than 2,000 yards in his career with Cincinnati and Utah.
FACTS & FIGURES: This marks the first time the Trojans will play a ranked opponent this season. ... Trojans linebacker Carson Tabaracci transferred this fall from Utah after he spent the spring with the Utes. ... Utah is 4-3 against USC in Salt Lake City. ... The Utes lead the conference in yards passing allowed (179.3), time of possession (33:01) and total defense (315.8). ... Under Whittingham, Utah has a 66-23 mark when ranked in the AP Top 25. ... The Utah defense has 10 interceptions, including five by Clark Phillips III. ... The sister of USC linebacker Tayler Katoa, Eliza, was an outside hitter for the Utes’ volleyball team.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.al.com/sports/2022/10/what-tv-channel-is-usc-utah-today-live-stream-time-how-to-watch-online.html | 2022-10-15 21:45:43 | 1 | https://www.al.com/sports/2022/10/what-tv-channel-is-usc-utah-today-live-stream-time-how-to-watch-online.html |
Residents of Nashville may get a new police substation downtown, and the construction won’t cost taxpayers a dime, thanks to Garth Brooks. The country music star is working with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) to develop the substation, which is intended to increase safety and decrease traffic congestion in the city’s busy entertainment district.
The substation, as well as a Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) traffic control room, will be in the same building as Brooks’ Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk, which isn’t open yet. He purchased the three-story, 40,000-square-foot property located at 411 Broadway in December 2021.
Brooks announced the bar’s opening in April, posting a time-lapse video of the site where the bar and MNPD substation will go.
Have any of my Friends in Low Places hanging out on Broadway seen this yet?! Nashville, I CAN’T WAIT for this weekend! love, g#FILPonBROADWAY pic.twitter.com/LZkVc5bL3H
— Garth Brooks (@garthbrooks) April 14, 2022
“Lower Broadway is an iconic destination for fans of world-class music, sports and a good time, but as Nashvillians know well, it can also create safety and traffic challenges that my office is working hard to tackle across multiple fronts,” Mayor John Cooper said in a statement. “I commend Garth Brooks for stepping up to help make Lower Broadway safer and more enjoyable for everyone. These additional resources will add new tools to reduce traffic and improve community safety downtown while continuing to prioritize other initiatives for neighborhoods and families throughout Davidson County.”
Metro Nashville chief John Drake said the new space will be a mini-hub for the police department’s downtown operations in the busy Broadway entertainment district, where both residents and tourists mingle. The street has been getting busier than ever and experiencing more crime. The city has been closing the road on weekend evenings to reduce congestion on sidewalks as well as streets.
As part of the agreement, Metro will authorize a commonplace condemnation of an alley adjacent to the location. However, Nashville’s Metro Council’s approval is still required.
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Bocaina de Minas, BRAZIL (AP) — Down a dirt road in the mountains of Minas Gerais, Pelé’s home state, Jorge Tavares received the news of the star’s death from a 4 a.m. newscast.
As a boy, Tavares and his cousins listened to Pelé’s World Cup games on the radio. His dazzling performance inspired them to play a game they had never seen, at first using a ball of socks and string.
“He leaves a legacy, a person of color who was crowned king of soccer, and he also brought a lot of peace outside Brazil,” Tavares, a 67-year-old school-van driver, said at the barbed-wire fence outside his home. “He represented Brazil to everyone abroad.”
With Pelé’s death, Brazilians have lost a piece of their hearts.
On Rio de Janeiro’s Ipanema beach, the news broke when Paulo Vinicius was playing soccer with his 9-year-old nephew.
“Pelé represents the best of Brazil: its people, its working class,” said Vinicius, 38, a physical-education instructor. “Pelé gives a sense of identity to the Brazilian people.”
Roseli Augusto, 55, was at her little bar in the mountains of Minas Gerais when she heard the news.
“Pelé is an idol, the best player in the world,” said Augusto. She recalls her father taking a bus to the coastal city of Santos to watch Pelé play. “Many kids, many players, were inspired by him. He is our biggest sports idol.”
As a girl, Lucia Cunha listened to Pelé’s World Cup exploits while huddled around a radio with her siblings. She read about him in newspapers used to wrap bread.
“He was a symbol of soccer, a great player, a simple, humble person, a person of God, a good person, who did everything that he could,” Cunha said.
In Santos, Nicolas Oliveira, 18, was outside the stadium along with about 200 other people. Oliveira said that even replays of Pelé’s sensational playing make him swell with emotion.
“Pelé is a Black man from the interior of Minas Gerais state,” Oliveira said. “I’m here because of what he did, for the soccer he played, for the soccer he improved and for the future players he helped mold and inspire.”
Everton Luz, a 41-year-old lawyer, was crying outside the hospital with a Santos club flag wrapped around him. He had come directly from work to pay tribute to the player whose performances had electrified his own dad, and prompted decades of stories.
Luz recounts those stories to his own two children, and shows them videos of the idol. He recalled seeing Pelé in person once, watching a game at a stadium.
“We managed to get close to his box, and he waved goodbye,” Luz said. “He was an example of the Brazilian, of what we could become.”
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Biller reported from Minas Gerais state. AP writer Carla Bridi contributed from Sao Paulo. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-brazil-mourns-pel%C3%A9-who-made-every-part-of-the-country-proud/ | 2022-12-31 17:02:10 | 0 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-brazil-mourns-pel%C3%A9-who-made-every-part-of-the-country-proud/ |
Soda City Live: Winnsboro Summer Nights Concert Series
Published: Jun. 22, 2023 at 4:06 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Summer is officially here and our friends at the Fairfield County Chamber of Commerce are gearing up for the free Winnsboro Summer Nights Concert Series kicking off this Saturday.
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Twice a year, one of San Francisco’s most iconic beaches hosts a slew of guests.
There are races, costume contests, and countless photo opportunities. But humans aren’t the star of the show here. It’s the four-legged furry variety that makes Corgi Con such a favorite event among locals in the Bay Area.
The biannual event will look a little different this year as, for the first time since its launch in 2014, the location won’t be Ocean Beach.
Instead, the corgis and their owners will be heading to the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton on September 16, according to a post made Wednesday on the group’s Facebook page.
The change was made because of unspecified regulation changes at Ocean Beach, which would “alter the way Corgi Con was held in the past,” the post stated.
This isn’t the first time a regulation change has been referenced as an issue with the event.
Although in the past Corgi Con has taken place twice a year, in early summer and early fall, last year’s October event was canceled, due to “unforeseen regulation changes,” according to another Facebook post.
This came after the event was held in June 2022, returning from a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
While some participants were disappointed about the location change in the comments on Facebook, some viewed it as a positive, particularly as the terrain is more forgiving for seniors and older dogs than sand is.
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For others, the change is less than ideal.
“I liked how close Ocean Beach was to me,” said Sydney, an East Bay corgi owner. “Ocean Beach was such a good spot for corgis to run around.”
While she’d only been to her first one last summer after she’d just adopted her pup, she became a huge fan of the event for its opportunity to better connected with the corgi community.
“I wanted her to socialize with other corgis in the Bay Area,” she said.
Meeting other dog owners was also helpful to learn more about how to better take care of the quirky breed.
While she didn’t have time to dress up her dog last year, she enjoyed seeing the other creative costumes – corgis dressed as bread loaves, lions, tigers, princesses, and many others.
The move isn’t great, but it hasn’t deterred Sydney entirely. This year, she’s planning on leaning into the trend and dressing her corgi up as Wonder Bread.
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and San Francisco Corgi Con founder Cynthia Lee did not respond to the San Francisco Examiner’s request for comment at the time of publication. | https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/ocean-beach-will-no-longer-host-iconic-dog-fest-this-year/article_68523014-f035-11ed-b8ee-5321b98ed2eb.html | 2023-05-12 00:33:39 | 1 | https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/ocean-beach-will-no-longer-host-iconic-dog-fest-this-year/article_68523014-f035-11ed-b8ee-5321b98ed2eb.html |
SHENYANG, China, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the morning of March 4, a freight train with 55 containers fully loaded departed from Shenyang Puhe Logistics Base, marking the inauguration of the China Railway Express (Shenyang) Hub.
Relying on the construction of Shenyang Puhe Logistics Base, one of the 18 railway container centers in China and a national first-class railway freight hub, China Railway Express (Shenyang) Hub can handle over 1,000 trains every year. Currently, the China Railway Express (Shenyang) has realized the full coverage of "three routes and five ports", and the cargo delivered has reached out to ocver 50 overseas cities in more than 20 countries across the world. The number of trains in operation ranks the first in Northeast China and among the top in China, according to the Information Office of Shenyang Municipality.
At the ceremony, Wang Xinwei, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Liaoning Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Municipal Committee, and Jin Guowei, Vice Governor of Liaoning Province listened to the introduction to the operation of this line and the development plan for the Hub. Wang Xinwei pointed out that the construction of the China Railway Express (Shenyang) Hub should seize the opportunity of this inaugural departure to accelerate the expansion and upgrading of infrastructures, strengthen land-sea linkage and multimodal transport, improve functions of the port, to build a land hub of import and export commodity in Northeast China with continuously growing capacity.
"We need to promote reform and innovation, improve sustainable operation, strengthen digital and technological empowerment, and develop new models and business forms such as 'freight trains + cold chain products' and 'freight trains + customized services', to improve the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of our services. We need to pay greater attention to industrial cultivation, actively attract such industries as manufacturing, modern logistics and commodity trade for concentrated development, thus to create an industrial ecosystem. Moreover, we need to make full use of the hub to build a first-class international land port as well as an important terminal of the land-sea passage in Northeast China."
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas lawyer accused of orchestrating a $460 million “slip-and-fall” Ponzi scheme across the U.S. West was granted release Friday after spending more than a year in federal custody.
U.S. District Judge Cam Ferenbach said he was persuaded by Matthew Beasley's "strong family support" to give the personal injury lawyer a chance at leading a “productive life” as he awaits trial on charges of money laundering and wire fraud.
While out of custody, Ferenbach said, Beasley is required to maintain employment and barred from contacting any of the alleged victims in the case or possessing a weapon.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Schiess told the judge the federal government would appeal the decision and ask for a court order keeping Beasley in custody pending the outcome of the appeal.
Beasley was indicted last week in connection with the alleged scheme but has been in custody since March 2022, when he was shot and wounded by FBI agents who arrived at his $1.1 million home in Las Vegas to question him.
Prosecutors have said Beasley answered the door that day with a gun aimed at his own head. A four-hour standoff ensued that ended after SWAT officers entered the home.
He was charged with assault on a federal officer, leading to his yearlong detainment, but that charge was dismissed last week following his indictment in connection with the alleged Ponzi scheme.
Friday’s hearing was at times contentious as Schiess argued for Beasley’s continued detainment, citing the standoff as evidence he poses a danger to the community and to himself.
Jackie Tirinnanzi, a lawyer for Beasley, told the judge her client has a renewed outlook on life as he awaits the birth of his grandchild. She said Beasley also wants to reconnect with his children and help take care of his mother, a breast cancer survivor who has trouble walking.
In a statement afterward, Beasley's attorneys applauded the ruling.
“Mr. Beasley has languished in Nevada Southern Detention Center for 13 months after he was shot by two FBI agents, without a warrant, in his own home," they said.
According to the indictment, the defendant enlisted hundreds of investors starting in 2017 for a company that claimed to offer short-term loans with high interest rates to clients awaiting payment after settling personal injury “slip-and-fall” cases. Investors were allegedly promised a return of up to 13% within 90 days.
But there were no clients, according to prosecutors. Instead, Beasley is alleged to have used the incoming money to pay earlier investors.
Schiess said the scheme funded Beasley's “luxurious” lifestyle, including luxury homes and cars, a private jet and recreational vehicles.
Beasley has pleaded not guilty, but prosecutors say that during last year’s standoff, he confessed “over and over and over again” to his involvement in the investment scheme while on the phone with a negotiator.
His trial is set to begin in June.
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Medipath becomes a global AI-powerhouse with the deployment of Ibex solutions across 30 laboratories in France
TEL AVIV, Israel, and FREJUS, France, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ibex Medical Analytics, the leader in AI-powered cancer diagnostics, and Medipath, the largest network of private pathology labs in France, today announced a new agreement to expand the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to additional labs in the Medipath network. The deployment includes new AI-powered tools for diagnosing multiple tissue types and will support Medipath pathologists with improved diagnostic accuracy and efficiency.
Medipath, which provides pathology services to more than 250 hospitals and clinics across France, is a network of 115 pathologists and more than 580 employees, spread across 30 sites.
France, as with most European countries, is challenged by an increasing prevalence of cancer and a decline in the number of pathologists. Coupled with rapid advances in personalized medicine over the last several years that have resulted in a growing complexity of cancer diagnosis, these trends have led to increased demand for diagnostic testing and growing workloads imposed on pathology departments. Pathologists play a crucial role in the detection and diagnosis of cancer, with their assessments being vital for reaching correct treatment decisions by oncologists and improving patient survival rates. Clearly, there is a growing need for automated solutions and decision-support tools that help pathologists detect cancer to the utmost accuracy more rapidly.
The Galen™ suite of solutions from Ibex supports pathologists in a variety of tasks during the diagnosis of breast, prostate, and gastric biopsies and helps improve the accuracy of cancer diagnosis, reduce turnaround time, boost productivity and improve user experience for pathologists. It is the most widely deployed AI technology in pathology and used as part of everyday clinical practice at laboratories, hospitals and health systems worldwide. Galen demonstrated outstanding outcomes across multiple clinical studies performed on various tissue types and diagnostic workflows1,2,3,4,5.
Since 2020, pathologists at Medipath have been using Ibex's solutions in routine clinical practice, paving the way to an overall digitization of their pathology services using Philips' IntelliSite Pathology Solution which included deployment of a network of high-throughput digital pathology scanners across 15 sites, connected via the Philips Image Management Solution.
Under the new expansion agreement, Medipath will rollout Ibex's solutions to all sites in France. Pathologists at Medipath will use the Galen platform for decision support during primary diagnosis of breast, prostate and gastric biopsies, enabling them to improve diagnostic accuracy and streamline workflows via automated case prioritization, AI-powered cancer detection, reporting, pre-ordering of immunohistochemistry (IHC) and other ancillary tests and other productivity-enhancing tools. This unprecedented scale of AI implementation at the network level has the potential to provide Medipath with economies of scale and efficiency gains, reduced operational costs and improved service levels.
"We are writing a new chapter on our digital transformation journey, and excited to work with our partners at Ibex on this expansion project, making their AI portfolio available to more labs and pathologists in our network," said Dr. Olivier Vire, Chairman of the Medipath group. "Integrating Ibex as a foundation of primary diagnosis helps our pathologists improve the accuracy of reporting and optimize processes in our labs that ultimately deliver better patient care. We look forward to introducing additional AI tools from Ibex across our network as Medipath remains committed to being the leading AI-enabled healthcare provider in France".
"Medipath are trailblazers! We're working closely with their team to roll out an expansive AI-powered digital pathology network," said Stuart Shand, Chief Commercial Officer at Ibex Medical Analytics. "Ibex is committed to providing every patient with a precise, timely and personalized cancer diagnosis, made possible with our AI technology that supports real-world needs from physicians."
Ibex Medical Analytics presents at the European Congress of Pathology which takes place in Basel, Switzerland, between September 3-7 (booth no. 1).
About Ibex Medical Analytics
Ibex pioneers AI-powered cancer diagnostics in pathology. We empower physicians to provide every patient with an accurate, timely and personalized cancer diagnosis by developing clinical-grade AI algorithms and digital workflows that help detect and grade cancer in biopsies. Our Galen™ platform is the first-ever AI-powered integrated diagnostics solution in pathology and used in routine clinical practice worldwide, supporting pathologists and providers in improving the quality and accuracy of diagnosis, implementing comprehensive quality control, reducing turnaround times and boosting productivity with more efficient workflows. Ibex's Artificial Intelligence technology is built on Deep Learning algorithms trained by a team of pathologists, data scientists and software engineers. For more information, go to www.ibex-ai.com.
About Medipath
For more than 20 years, Medipath brings together independent pathologists, active in screening and medical diagnosis in anatomical pathology and cytology. The company has more than 115 associate physicians (including 10 referring pathologists in the national networks of expertise for rare pathologies of the National Cancer Institute and 10 molecular pathologists) and more than 580 employees, spread over 30 geographical sites, which today gives it a prominent position in the pathology market. Led by physicians, the company pursues a public health mission in the screening and diagnosis of cancer, collaborates with more than 250 healthcare establishments and processes more than 1.5 million cases each year, including 140,000 diagnoses of cancer. Medipath is a pioneer in its quality approach in the accreditation of its technical platforms and medical-administrative sites. Its "general" and molecular pathology platforms are accredited to perform the molecular tests necessary for targeted therapies (PCR and Next generation sequencing). The excellence of its technical platforms and its geographical coverage allow Medipath to successfully pursue its primary objective: "a pooling for access to excellence, a local expertise in patient care".
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[1] Pantanowitz et al., An artificial intelligence algorithm for prostate cancer diagnosis in whole slide images of core needle biopsies: a blinded clinical validation and deployment study, THE LANCET Digital Health Aug 2020
[2] Vincent-Salomon et al., A Multi-Feature AI-Based Solution for Cancer Diagnosis in Breast Biopsies: A Prospective Blinded Multi-Site Clinical Study, European Congress of Pathology 2021
[3] Comperat et al., Clinical Level AI-Based Solution for Primary Diagnosis and Reporting of Prostate Biopsies in Routine Use: A Prospective Reader Study, European Congress of Pathology 2021
[4] Raoux et al., Novel AI-Based Solution for Supporting Primary Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer Increases the Accuracy and Efficiency of Reporting in Clinical Routine, USCAP 2021
[5] Sandbank et al., Validation and Clinical Deployment of an AI-Based Solution for Detection of Gastric Adenocarcinoma and Helicobacter pylori in Gastric Biopsies, USCAP 2022
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Last June, Jay Comfort flew to the United States from his home in Switzerland to attend his only daughter's wedding. But the week before the ceremony — on a Friday evening — Comfort said he found himself in "excruciating pain."
"I tried to gut it out for three hours because of the insurance situation," said Comfort, a retired teacher and American citizen who has Swiss insurance.
When the pain became unbearable, Comfort called his brother, who drove him and his wife, Nazuna, a few miles to the nearest emergency department, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's hospital in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Every bump of the drive was "like someone taking something and just jabbing it into my abdomen," he said.
At the hospital, Nazuna Konishi Comfort handed over her husband's Swiss insurance card, which confirmed coverage by Groupe Mutuel. Jay recalled the staff making copies of his insurance card and then treating his acute appendicitis. Doctors performed emergency surgery to remove the inflamed appendix.
Diagnostic tests confirmed he had a rare cancer, which doctors in Switzerland later removed with another surgery after he returned home. "It was a miracle," Comfort said, adding that the cancer was completely removed.
After his appendectomy, Comfort recalled vomiting and then waiting in a recovery room. In all, he spent about 14 hours at UPMC Williamsport before being released. He attended his daughter's wedding and, eventually, traveled back to Switzerland.
Then the bill came.
The patient: Leslie "Jay" Comfort, 66, a retired educator who worked in Japan and Switzerland. Comfort pays a monthly fee and deductible for Switzerland's mandatory basic health insurance, which he has with the Swiss-based Groupe Mutuel. His benefits — and the prices for procedures — are defined by the Swiss government.
Medical service: Emergency laparoscopic appendectomy and diagnostic tests, which showed Comfort had a rare subtype of cancer called goblet cell adenocarcinoma.
Service provider: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Williamsport, which is about 3½ hours northeast of Pittsburgh. The UPMC health system is one of the state's largest employers, with 40 hospitals.
Total bill: $42,156.50, covering emergency surgery, scans, laboratory testing, and three hours in a recovery room. His insurer has said it will pay him about $8,184 (7,260.40 in Swiss francs), which is double the procedure's price in Switzerland. This left him to cover the remaining roughly $34,000.
What gives: Although Comfort has health coverage, his Swiss insurance had no contract with the U.S. hospital where he underwent emergency surgery — or with any other provider outside Switzerland.
With what is considered an excellent health system, Switzerland has the highest prices for medical care in Europe. As in the U.S., the country relies on private insurers and hospitals. But the cost of care in Switzerland is substantially lower than what is charged in the U.S., so the reimbursement his insurer offered is a fraction of what Comfort owes the U.S. hospital.
"I'm trying to do the right thing and say I'm willing to pay my responsibility," he said.
Groupe Mutuel does not have agreements with foreign providers, such as UPMC, and does not deal with them directly, said Lisa Flückiger, a spokesperson for Groupe Mutuel. The insurer originally agreed to reimburse Comfort what would have been paid in Switzerland for the same treatment in a public hospital and then double that because it was an emergency in a foreign country — a total of 4,838 in Swiss francs, or about $5,460.
While helpful, Comfort said, that amount wouldn't pay off the $42,156.50 he owes UPMC.
UPMC has expanded its reach throughout Pennsylvania and is now the largest provider of care in many parts of the state. In 2016, it purchased a smaller health system and now runs two majors hospitals, UPMC Williamsport and UPMC Williamsport Divine Providence Campus.
Studies show that in areas where hospital consolidation is high, prices go up. Because there is less competition, hospitals have more power to charge what they want when patients have private insurance or are paying out-of-pocket.
In the U.S. the amounts charged for medical care are "all over the map," said Johnathan Clarke, vice president of strategy and business development at Penfield Care, a medical cost-containment company in Canada. The company negotiates medical bills on behalf of individuals, including international visitors to the U.S., but is not involved in Comfort's case.
Clarke said he would expect an appendectomy to be priced between $6,500 to $18,800, based on his analysis of Medicare payments in the Pittsburgh area. Healthcare Bluebook — which evaluates insurers' claims data to provide cost estimates based on what insurers have paid, rather than what providers charge — says a fair price for a laparoscopic appendectomy in Williamsport is about $14,554.
Comfort said a "reasonable price estimate" based on his own internet research would be between $7,500 and $12,000.
Comfort's care included an X-ray and an EKG, or electrocardiogram for his heart, because "there was no information relating to past medical/surgical history for this patient," wrote Susan Manko, vice president of public relations at UPMC. The staff also conducted pathology work that identified cancer.
But those additional services did not fully explain the gap between cost estimates and what the hospital charged. For instance, UPMC charged $8,357 for Comfort's three-hour stay in the recovery room.
Manko said Comfort's total bill aligns with UPMC's standard charges.
The cost disparities highlight the stark difference in international pricing. Cost estimates last year showed the average amount paid for an appendectomy in the U.S. was "nearly exactly double" that paid in Switzerland, said Christopher Watney, chief executive of the International Federation of Health Plans, an industry association whose members include health insurers on six continents.
Health care in Switzerland, though, is often expensive compared with other European countries, Watney said. The Swiss pay double for an appendectomy compared with Germans, and more than three times that of those in Spain, he said. Across the globe, Watney said, many countries include an overnight stay in the cost of an uncomplicated appendectomy in contrast to Comfort's experience, which was billed as outpatient care.
Comfort, who has dual residency in Switzerland and Japan after nearly three decades working abroad, said he worked in the U.S. long enough to qualify for Social Security benefits and Medicare. He said he had previously tried to gain Medicare coverage at one point but still is not enrolled, after being transferred to a couple of offices and "playing phone tag."
Still, unlike many patients dealing with a five-figure medical bill, Comfort said he is not concerned about UPMC harming his financial reputation. The health system doesn't "seem to put bad marks against people's credit record — and I don't have credit in the United States. I've been out for 30 years."
Manko confirmed that, saying UPMC reviewed and updated its collection policy last year; it states the health system will not engage in "extraordinary collection actions" such as lawsuits, liens on homes, arrests, or reporting to credit agencies.
She said the health system — which, as a nonprofit system, is tax-exempt — maintains a "robust financial assistance program" for patients unable to pay. But "to our knowledge" Comfort has not applied for financial assistance, Manko told KFF Health News.
The resolution: Comfort said he spent months waiting for a bill and finally reached out to UPMC because, if the bill had arrived this year, he would have had to pay his insurance deductible again on top of the charges.
Comfort received a full UPMC bill six months after his surgery. Manko said there was "confusion" at the time of Comfort's ER registration. Comfort's wife provided the insurance information, she said, "but there was no documentation in the patients record for address, policy number or policy holder information."
Once Comfort received his bill, he realized it was much higher than his Swiss insurance reimbursement and, frustrated, contacted KFF Health News.
Flückiger said the original payment amount Comfort's insurer calculated was specifically for the appendectomy and did not include the scan or laboratory costs. After receiving questions from a KFF Health News reporter, Groupe Mutuel "realized that we have not included the laboratory analysis and the CT scan," which are not routinely part of an appendectomy, Flückiger wrote.
After KFF Health News provided a detailed summary of the UPMC bill, the insurer increased the amount it would pay Comfort. In all, the insurer said, Comfort should receive 7,260.40 in Swiss francs, or about $8,184.
Comfort still hopes to negotiate directly with UPMC to reduce what he owes.
"I don't want to try to walk away, saying I don't owe you anything," Comfort said. "That's not right. We're moral people, you know. But if you're going to try to gouge me and play the power trip and think you're going to try to get everything you can out of me, I won't play that game."
The takeaway: Though the Affordable Care Act was meant to provide insurance to more Americans and bring down the cost of care, hospital bills remain extraordinarily high and highly variable.
For a nonemergency, Comfort could have tried to compare prices at other hospitals. But most hospitals in the area where he fell ill are owned by UPMC. And an inflamed appendix can't wait for comparison shopping.
Clarke, the cost-containment expert, said the "only thing" Comfort could have done differently was to purchase a travel health insurance policy before leaving Switzerland. While prices for health care in continental Europe are comparable to Switzerland, the high cost of care in the U.S. means Groupe Mutuel insurance is "insufficient."
That is especially important for visitors to the U.S. since, as Robin Ingle, CEO of travel insurance company Ingle International, said: U.S. prices are "kind of crazy numbers."
KFF Health News, formerly known as Kaiser Health News (KHN), is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism.
Emmarie Huetteman of KFF Health News edited the digital story, and Taunya English of KFF Health News edited the audio story. NPR's Will Stone edited the audio and digital story.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday after being freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange following nearly 10 months in detention in Russia.
The deal, which saw her swapped for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, secured the release of the most prominent American detained abroad and achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden. But the U.S. failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan, who has been jailed for nearly four years.
Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, Baylor University All-American and Phoenix Mercury pro basketball star. Her status as an openly gay Black woman, locked up in a country where authorities have been hostile to the LBGTQ community, injected racial, gender and social dynamics into her legal saga and brought unprecedented attention to the population of wrongful detainees.
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Biden’s authorization to release Bout, the Russian felon once nicknamed “the Merchant of Death,” underscored the heightened urgency that his administration faced to get Griner home, particularly after the recent resolution of her criminal case on drug charges and her subsequent transfer to a penal colony.
Griner was seen getting off a plane that landed Friday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.
The athlete, who also played pro basketball in Russia, was arrested at an airport there in February after Russian authorities said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil. Before her conviction, the U.S. State Department declared Griner to be “wrongfully detained” — a charge that Russia has sharply rejected.
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday's swap, saying in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that the exchange took place in Abu Dhabi and Bout had been flown home.
Biden spoke by phone with Griner. U.S. officials said she would be offered specialized medical services and counseling.
In releasing Bout, the U.S. freed a former Soviet Army lieutenant colonel whom the Justice Department once described as one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers. He was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and extradited to the U.S. in 2010.
Bout was serving a 25-year sentence on charges that he conspired to sell tens of millions of dollars in weapons that U.S officials said were to be used against Americans.
Following Griner’s arrest at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February, she pleaded guilty in July but still faced trial because admitting guilt in Russia’s judicial system does not automatically end a case.
She acknowledged in court that she possessed canisters with cannabis oil but said she had no criminal intent and she accidentally packed them. Her defense team presented written statements that she had been prescribed cannabis to treat pain.
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Near the edge of the coastal shelf, off the shore of Grays Harbor, Washington, a 10-foot-long net the shape of two bongo drums is slowly lowered into the inky black sea.
Down 10 meters.
Down 20 meters.
Waves knocked against the ship, which held the nets. For a few moments, the scientists aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, research vessel Bell M. Shimada wondered what sea life these nets might catch.
One scientist aboard the NOAA ship, Kris Bauer, hoped to find tiny crustaceans known as copepods. These “copes,” as Bauer affectionately called them, play an integral part in the ocean’s food web, filling the bellies of juvenile salmon, sardines and tuna.
“Different species of salmon and tuna and rockfish, they all target these larger copepods because they give fish so many more calories for the effort that they’re expending to hunt,” said Bauer, a second-year Ph.D. student in Oregon State University’s department of integrated biology.
However, climate change could cause big swings in ocean conditions, leaving these tiny copepods to face an inhospitable environment, including warmer, more acidic and increasingly hypoxic waters, which don’t carry all the oxygen that sea life needs to thrive.
It’s unclear exactly what that will mean for hungry, growing fish that feed on copepods. But, some scientists worry a future shifting food web, which could reduce the number of copepods, could further diminish the number of salmon returning to spawning grounds.
These types of changing ocean conditions have other scientists on land wondering whether efforts to save salmon could be for naught. Moreover, some scientists said ocean conditions must be taken into consideration when evaluating how to save salmon.
Effects on salmon
When young salmon first enter the ocean, it’s one of the most important times in their lives, when they bulk up on copepods and grow stronger.
“I think it’s important that we all think about the ocean, especially for salmon. That really is where they get big. It’s clearly an important part of their lifecycle, but we just kind of take it for granted. It’s out of sight, out of mind,” said Laurie Weitkamp, a research fisheries biologist with NOAA.
However, the time salmon spend in the ocean leaves many unanswered questions for scientists, Weitkamp said.
“Right now we don’t understand very much, and we feel like, maybe there really are some critical things that we can be doing that would benefit salmon. But we don’t know what those are at this moment because the ocean is just a big black box,” Weitkamp said.
Salmon spend much of their lives in the ocean, and most of them don’t make it back inland to spawn.
Take the endangered spring/summer chinook on the Snake River. Only about 1% of those salmon that make it to the ocean survive, said Brian Burke, a supervisory research fish biologist with NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center.
“If we could change ocean survival from 1% to 2% on average, that would dramatically change the entire situation,” Burke said.
Moreover, studies suggesting any single measure to save salmon in freshwater, like increased spill over dams or dam removal, must incorporate data from the years salmon spend at sea, Burke said.
“All of these things we’re doing in freshwater, it would not be a good strategy to interpret the results of these management actions without understanding the impacts of the ocean,” he said.
To that end, the scientists need to better understand predation in the ocean, Burke said. What animals eat juvenile salmon, how much salmon they eat, as well as when and where.
“If we have some of that information, we can start to manage hatchery release timing or fish size,” he said.
Right now, scientists rely more on a variety of ocean indicators such as surface temperature, which can affect the amount of food available for young salmon to eat. Those indicators, like copepod productivity, provide invaluable information, Burke said, but it all tends to correlate to salmon survival not drive it.
To help answer some of those questions, NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center is drafting a strategy document that could guide future salmon predation studies, Burke said.
Unraveling the ocean’s mysteries
Out at sea, many tiny zooplankton, which include copepods, come alive at night, when they’re less likely to end up in the jaws of larger sea creatures. Under the cover of darkness, the zooplankton can more safely migrate to the upper water columns to catch some dinner of their own.
Now close to the surface, Bauer hoped to catch copepods in the ship’s bongo nets. For one experiment, he planned to catch live copepods to study in a lab on-shore.
“It’s cool to see them preserved, but when they’re alive, and you see them moving around, and feeding and swimming. No matter how tired I am, it’s always the coolest part,” Bauer said.
The scientists are part of an expedition along California, Oregon and Washington waters, ultimately traveling 1,718 nautical miles. One nautical mile is slightly longer than one mile on land.
On this survey expedition, which lasted from May 6-17, the scientists collected samples of zooplankton, phytoplankton, environmental-DNA, and tested water salinity. The boat cut through water swells up to 13-feet and 40-knot winds deemed dangerous enough to stop sampling efforts. Scientists laughed as a pod of roughly 60 dolphins played in the Shimada’s wake and jumped in excitement at the sight of a sei whale, less frequently identified in these waters.
They hoped all their efforts will help unravel a few threads of the scientific mysteries and secrets the ocean and its creatures hold tight.
For example, Bauer has more questions than answers surrounding the copepods he’s studying. His adviser, Felipe Barreto, who studies a completely different intertidal copepod species, jokes that the 5-millimeter crustaceans Bauer studies are “real copepods” because of their size.
In particular, Bauer is studying Calanus marshallae, a fatty copepod that many fish like to snack on. Calanus marshallae thrive in waters along the Gulf of Alaska to waters off British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
Bauer took to calling them “my copes” nearly every time he mentioned the cartoon-like creatures.
“They sort of have this torpedo-like body. Then they have these two giant antennules that stick out on either side of their head, essentially the length of their body. If you’ve ever seen Plankton from ‘SpongeBob,’ that’s exactly what I’m studying,” Bauer said.
But first on the Shimada, Bauer had to catch the Plankton-like copepods.
At 30 meters below the surface, the bongo net stoped.
After a few moments drifting at a 45-degree angle, a winch operator pulled the net to the surface. Bauer hoped it had some of his copepods in tow.
Bauer uses copepods to study evolution in the ocean, particularly in response to climate change and oxygen changes on the coastal shelf. Unlike sea life such as fish and whales that are more mobile, he said, plankton can’t just pick up and go somewhere else.
“That’s the thing about plankton. They don’t really have the ability to move when conditions are stressful, unlike fish that are highly mobile and can escape these stressful conditions. Plankton have to endure them,” Bauer said.
But sometimes, ocean conditions bode well for these tiny creatures and the fish that eat them.
Winter conditions stick around
In 2021, an early, nutrient rich-upwelling brought cold waters from deep in the ocean to the coastline. Last year’s upwelling created some of the best ocean conditions in the last 20 years, supplying a bounty of fish food, including copepods.
However, on this leg of the Shimada’s expedition, the upwelling hadn’t yet arrived. Upwellings usually arrive around tax day, April 15, said Jennifer Fisher, a zooplankton ecologist with NOAA.
As the Shimada maneuvered along the Oregon and Washington coasts, sample after sample showed fewer thriving sea creatures than the previous spring, likely because the 2022 upwelling took its time arriving, Fisher said.
“We saw it all the way up the food chain. From the phytoplankton, to the zooplankton, to the krill, and even the marine mammal folks saw very few whales,” Fisher said.
Prior to the survey, forecasting showed ocean spring conditions would start at the beginning of May.
“Then when we got out here, there were winds from the south and storms,” Fisher said. “The upwelling delay can have cascading consequences for juvenile salmon that are migrating out to have something to feed on. They’re migrating out now.”
The ocean in early May still resembled winter conditions, she said.
“The question still remains: when will the winds turn around? And what’s that going to do to the ecosystem?” she said.
Seeing what, exactly, is happening on the ocean is one reason long-term surveys like these are incredibly important, Fisher said.
By June, Fisher said the delayed upwelling had finally come in, although was weaker than normal.
Decades of work
With the help of these surveys, scientists keep trying to unlock the mysteries of the tiny copepods, even after decades of previous work.
More than 42 years ago, the Calanus marshallae copepods Bauer now studies drew the interest of young scientist Bill Peterson, whose internationally renowned work would later set standards for long-term oceanographic monitoring. Peterson's goal was to inform policymakers about climate change and how it affects the ocean ecosystem, Fisher said.
“Bill’s work talking about climate and the effect of climate was pioneering,” Fisher said.
Throughout his career, Peterson continued to love studying zooplankton and the marine ecosystem almost as much as he loved mentoring young minds, including Fisher’s.
“He was the premier zooplankton climate person,” Fisher said. “He was a big thinker, and he really had an amazing understanding of these broad topics. It really broadened my outlook.”
Peterson pushed multidisciplinary scientists to survey the Northern California Current ecosystem. The U.S. Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics program, known as GLOBEC, measured how climate change and variability affected abundances of fish, including salmon, and zooplankton in the coastal ocean ecosystem.
Peterson led the start of the Northern California Current survey expeditions that would turn into the Bell M. Shimada sampling surveys. He also restarted a long-term monitoring program off the coast of Newport in 1996.
Fisher now leads these surveys after Peterson died in 2017. Loved ones scattered Peterson’s ashes 25 miles off the coast of Newport, along the stretch of water he studied for so many years, according to an obituary by OPB.
A 2002 report on the GLOBEC North California Current system program noted climate variability over time significantly affects “the abundance, distribution, growth and survival of living marine resources.”
Moreover, according to the report, coastal ocean conditions and the abundance of food, such as copepods, strongly affect juvenile salmon during their first summer at sea.
During those early GLOBEC years, scientists discussed what seems like a prevailing question today: whether dams and habitat management or natural ocean condition changes pose a greater threat to salmon.
“We’re still talking about the same things,” Fisher said, after recently finding articles from the 1980s and 1990s about fisheries management and climate change in Peterson’s desk.
The GLOBEC ocean surveys aimed to lessen uncertainty for fishery managers, said Jack Barth, executive director of the Marine Studies Initiative at OSU.
Decades ago, Barth helped pioneer the surveying program with Peterson.
“We worked our butts off for two-, three-week periods for two years and put together that whole story relating where the animals were relative to the oceanographic features,” Barth said.
The early team really nailed down the relationship between salmon, zooplankton, marine mammals, and upwelling conditions in the ocean, Barth said. The better the upwelling, the more marine life scientists saw.
‘Coming home’ to Newport
That’s one reason scientists say it’s important to take survey measurements over a long time period. In fact, Fisher estimated the study area outside Newport, Oregon, where she’s based, is one of the most sampled spots of the ocean in the world.
In addition to the Shimada surveys, the team samples the first 25 miles of what’s known as the Newport Hydrographic Line twice a month on the Elakha, the Chinook trading term for sea otter. The Elakha is a 54-foot, $500,000 ship based at OSU’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Scientists have sampled this line for the last 26 years.
At least twice a year, scientists sample the deep ocean 200 miles offshore from Newport on the Shimada, aiming to dip nets at least 2,000 meters below the ocean's surface.
“When we sample the Newport Line, it’s like home. I feel like the copepods know us. It’s like, ‘Hey! We’re here! We’re back!’” Fisher said, of the last night on the 2022 spring Shimada survey.
This spring, an important piece of equipment broke on the deepest 2,000-meter sampling effort, which meant the deepest samples only reached around 1,700 meters below the surface. Vince Welton, the ship’s electronic technician, quickly repaired a damaged cable to get the equipment that measures conductivity, temperature, and depth – or CTD instrument – up and running for the rest of the trip.
The CTD instruments, which weigh around 670 pounds without water, collect independent samples at varying water depths, which Fisher said is extremely important to help better understand how ocean conditions, such as marine heatwaves, will continue to affect sea life.
“The farther down the heatwave goes, the longer the temperature is going to take to get back to normal,” she said.
The survey on the Shimada allows scientists to sample more of the Northern California Current ecosystem, from Trinidad Head in California to La Push in Washington.
The California Current is one of the most productive regions in the ocean because of wind-driven upwelling that delivers nutrient rich water to the Continental Shelf, Fisher said.
‘A bathtub off the coast of Washington’
South of La Push, the ship pushed inland on the Grays Harbor line. Bauer said he believed that his copepods would show up as the ship moved toward the shore – Calanus marshallae aren’t generally found very far off the coastal shelf. And, Washington has a large, almost flat coastal shelf, Bauer said.
“It essentially becomes this bathtub off the coast of Washington, where water is just sitting,” he said.
Those conditions are ripe for hypoxia, which Bauer is studying to better understand how copepods react to stressors. Hypoxia can lead to vast dead zones in the ocean, where marine life isn’t sustainable. As the climate changes, coastal ecosystems could become more vulnerable to hypoxia, according to research from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science.
“In Washington and Oregon, we’re experiencing really dramatic, intense hypoxic episodes each summer,” Bauer said.
Later in the summer, Bauer will sample live copepods in Oregon and California. Off the California coast, copepods face different conditions than in Washington and Oregon waters.
He spent the last 18 months learning to keep the copepods alive in a lab. To do that, he had to answer lots of questions: When’s the best time to change the water? How often should he turn a light on in the incubator? How much food should be in the water?
After trial and error, Bauer found what he said believed to be the least stressful conditions for copepods in the lab. He placed a single copepod in a 250-milliliter beaker, where it lives for up to two months.
“It’s a daunting task to try to cultivate an organism that has only been cultivated by one or two people a few decades ago,” Bauer said.
Happy copepods are active copepods – swimming around and eating, which Bauer called hilarious to watch.
“They have these feeding appendages that are just moving the water around, and they’re creating this vortex that draws algae into their mouth,” Bauer said.
Catching copepods
In the night’s bewitching hours, the bongo nets broke the water’s surface. A science crew member unclipped the end of the net and collected any number of organisms caught there.
Bauer poured the water inside the cod end through two progressively smaller filters. The filters dumped into a white bucket that collected the seawater.
The first filter removed all the krill and larger organisms. The second collected a boatload of copepods.
“My copes, my copes,” he said.
Bauer poured the copepods into a makeshift setup – a clear pyrex dish attached to a light panel.
In this first find, he spotted a large number of male Calanus marshallae, an unusual finding. Bauer said he hoped for more female copepods.
“Females often dive deeper than any other males or earlier life stages, so they’re probably the most vulnerable to low oxygen,” Bauer said.
He drew each copepod into a pipette and dripped the crustacean onto a petri dish for further examination under a microscope.
Bauer kept these copepods alive in a refrigerator to simulate ocean conditions. He cared for them each day the ship remained at sea.
“It’s really this base of the food chain that is so important,” Fisher said.
So, the scientists continue sampling as often as possible, she said.
“We think we know a lot. We sample as often as we can, and we try to understand the system. But, it’s complicated and it’s complex,” Fisher said. “You’re dipping a tiny, little net in this massive ocean, and you’re hoping you’re going to understand something from that.”
Always something surprising
That hope to better understand the ocean drives the scientists onboard the Shimada.
“You never know what you’re going to find. We always find something interesting. There’s always something different. There’s always something that surprises us,” Fisher said.
Over the expedition, the nets brought up many surprises, including a deep sea bristlemouth, a bunch of pyrosomes, and bioluminescent copepods.
Each net dip felt like Christmas morning, Bauer said, the anticipation building as the net closed in on the surface. That Christmas-morning adrenaline kept him from sleeping more than a few hours each day on his first Shimada survey in 2020. “There was too much to see,” Bauer said.
“Everybody’s eyes light up when we bring up the nets,” Bauer said. “It’s like, let’s go out 200 miles and drop a net in the water and see what we get.”
What they get could one day help answer the mysteries of the deep, Bauer said.
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Read more in this series:
Part two: Watching for whales – and their food
Part three: Growing phytoplankton to learn more about the ocean's food web
Part four: This single-celled sea critter could help scientists learn about climate change
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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) – Vietnam and Korean War veterans were welcomed home at Towering Oaks Baptist Church after an Honor Flight trip to Washington D.C.
Honor Flight of the Appalachian Highlands is a nonprofit organization that transports veterans to visit war memorials in Washington at no expense.
“We take them there to see the memorials that are built in their honor,” said Heather Osburn, Honor Flight of the Appalachian Highlands Board Member. “A lot of the guys have lost best friends in the war, right there beside them. And that’s one of the things that helped them to somehow cope and recover from some of this trauma that they’ve experienced for years.”
Larry Trent, a Vietnam Marine veteran, says the Iwo Jima Marine Corps War Memorial was his favorite.
“It was pretty powerful you know, seeing the monument being a Marine myself,” said Trent.
Trent says he lost many friends during the Vietnam War. One memorial that was hard for him to see was the Vietnam Wall. He struggled to see a Vietnam Wall replica when it came to Johnson City, TN.
“I lost a lot of friends, one particularly real close friend and it really kind of messed me up for a couple of weeks,” said Trent. “I’ve suffered from PTSD through the years.”
At first, Trent said he wasn’t going to visit the Vietnam Wall in Washington. Then, the next day he felt more at peace.
“I used to say it’s not the healing wall, it’s the wall that opens wounds,” said Trent.
Trent says being on the trip with other Veterans put him at ease.
“It’s like a brotherhood,” said Trent. “You immediately just hit it off. It’s like you already knew them for years. So as we come upon each other, we just start laughing and talking it’s just like I’ve always known them.”
Trent says they share a bond that only Vietnam veterans share.
“Nobody can understand what we went through, unless you are a Vietnam veteran,” said Trent.
Honor Flight makes sure that veterans are welcomed home from their trip. Which is something they might’ve not had when returning from war.
“They weren’t treated the best at that time and this is something that they truly deserve,” said Osburn. “They deserve a great welcome home. They deserve so much more than what we can actually give them.”
Trent reflects on seeing the welcome faces on the trip’s send-off and return.
“That was exciting,” said Trent. “That was touching and the little kids lined up their flags as we went off. I thought, ‘I hope these little boys and girls, I hope they never had to face what we faced.'”
Organizers say the honor flight trip is an experience of a lifetime for many veterans.
“I think this trip has been healing for me and I would recommend it for anybody,” said Trent.
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Quality, Innovation, Efficiency, Win-Win
MUNICH, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zhejiang Hyxi Technology Co., Ltd. ("HYXiPOWER"), a high-tech renewable energy company specializing in smart photovoltaic (PV) solutions, energy storage systems (ESS) and charging stations, is demonstrating its expertise and capabilities at Intersolar Europe 2023, being held in Munich from June 14-16, 2023. Themed "The Green Future Is Now", the Company is showcasing its environmental efforts by utilizing an exhibition vehicle with 100% recycled and environmentally-friendly materials to present its innovative PV solutions for residential, commercial, and utility scale.
In support of its commitment to sustainability, HYXiPOWER's eco-friendly exhibition vehicle can be recycled at the end of its life cycle, emphasizing the company's dedication towards a carbon-zero future.
Empowering Europe's renewable energy roadmap with innovative solutions
In 2022, the European Union rolled out the REPowerEU plan, which aims to raise the overall EU renewable energy target from 40% to 45% and achieve a cumulative installed PV capacity of 600GW by 2030. During the exhibition, HYXiPOWER is presenting a full range of solutions for residential, commercial, and utility-scale scenarios, including for micro, hybrid and string inverters, energy storage systems, portable power stations and AI-Powered energy management platforms.
The diverse range of products stands as a testament to the company's long-term proactive engagement in Europe's zero-carbon initiative and its unwavering dedication to advancing solar power as the predominant energy source.
Pursuing excellence with superior products
Germany, a global leader in PV developments, has the highest standard when it comes to product certification. Recently, their micro inverters have just obtained approval for the VDE4105 Certificate by German Standard, along with some of the other core products in the certification process. HYXiPOWER has earned the trust and confidence of its partners and allies through its superior product quality and extensive range.
About HYXiPower
At HYXiPower, we are guided by our core values of Quality, Innovation, Efficiency, and Win-Win. Quality is at the forefront of our operations, as we strive to exceed expectations and deliver products and services that stand the test of time.
Innovation drives our progress, as we continuously push boundaries and develop cutting-edge solutions that address the evolving needs of our customers. Efficiency is deeply rooted in our approach, as we optimize processes and maximize resource utilization to deliver exceptional results.
We believe in fostering a win-win mentality, emphasizing collaborative partnerships and mutually beneficial relationships with our clients, suppliers, and stakeholders. These core values form the foundation of our company culture, guiding our decisions and actions as we navigate the dynamic landscape of the renewable energy industry.
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Alaska primary 2022: Lisa Murkowski advances in Senate race, Sarah Palin in House
JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski advanced from her primary along with Kelly Tshibaka, her GOP rival endorsed by former President Donald Trump, while another Trump-backed candidate, Republican Sarah Palin, was among the candidates bound for the November general election in the race for Alaska's only House seat.
Murkowski had expressed confidence that she would advance and earlier in the day told reporters that "what matters is winning in November." Tshibaka called the results "the first step in breaking the Murkowski monarchy’s grip on Alaska." Tshibaka also said she was thankful "for the strong and unwavering support President Trump has shown Alaska."
A Murkowski has held the Senate seat since 1981. Before Lisa Murkowski, who has been in the Senate since late 2002, it was her father, Frank Murkowski.
Under a voter-approved elections process being used for the first time in Alaska elections this year, party primaries have been scrapped and ranked choice voting is being used in general elections. The top four vote-getters in a primary race, regardless of party affiliation, are to advance to the general election.
The other two places in the Senate race were too early to call.
FILE - (L) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) walks to the Senate Republican Luncheon in the U.S. Capitol Building on Aug. 2, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (R) Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska, during the Conservativ
Murkowski voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Trump was acquitted. But he has had strong words for Murkowski, calling her "the worst" during a rally last month in Anchorage.
Murkowski said that if Tshibaka derives her sole strength from Trump’s endorsement, "what does that really say about her as a candidate with what she has to offer Alaska? Is it just that she will be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump? I don’t think that all Alaskans are really seeking that. Not the ones that I’m talking to."
Kevin Durling, a co-chair of Tshibaka’s campaign, said Trump’s endorsement of Tshibaka was an added bonus for him. He said Tshibaka’s commitment to business and family and her values were important to him. He expressed frustration with Murkowski for the impeachment vote and for her support of the nomination of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
In the House primary, Democrat Mary Peltola, Palin and Republican Nick Begich advanced to the November election. It was too early to call the fourth spot. The winner of the November race will be elected to a two-year term.
Peltola, Begich and Palin were also competing in a special election to serve the remainder of the late-Rep. Don Young 's term, which ends early next year. Young died in March.
The special election was voters' first shot at ranked voting in a statewide race. The winner of the special election may not be known until at least Aug. 31. If successful, Peltola would be the first Alaska Native woman elected to the House.
There also were several write-in candidates in the special election, including Republican Tara Sweeney, who was also competing in the House primary. Sweeney was an assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Interior Department during the Trump administration.
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The special election was on one side of the ballot; the other side contained primary races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor and lieutenant governor and legislative seats.
Palin, in a statement Tuesday evening, called this "the first test case of the crazy, convoluted, undesirable ranked-choice voting system."
Supporters of ranked voting have said it encourages positive campaigning but the House race has at times taken on harsh tones.
Begich, a businessman from a family of prominent Democrats, has come out hard against Palin, seeking to cast her as someone chasing fame and as a quitter; Palin resigned during her term as governor in 2009.
In one Begich ad, the narrator says Alaska has faced "years of disasters," including fires and COVID-19. "Sarah Palin is one disaster we can actually avoid," the narrator says.
A narrator in one of Palin’s ads refers to Begich as "negative Nick" and says Palin wants to serve in Congress "to carry Don Young’s torch."
Peltola, a former lawmaker who most recently worked at a commission whose goal is to rebuild salmon resources on the Kuskokwim River, has cast herself as a consensus builder.
She said one thing that would help her be a good representative is that she is "not a millionaire. I am just like every other regular Alaskan, and I understand the economic struggles that Alaskans face first-hand. My priorities are the priorities of everyday Alaskans."
In a statement early Wednesday, she said while the results of the special election won't be known for some time, "we are moving forward into the general election. We are going to build on this momentum and build a coalition of Alaskans that can win in November."
In the race for Alaska governor, Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy advanced, as did former Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, and Democrat Les Gara. It was too early to call the fourth spot.
Dunleavy and his running mate, Nancy Dahlstrom, in a statement said this "is only the start of the race. We’ll dig into all the numbers as they come in over the next few days to find out where we need to shore up our campaign, and we’re looking forward to reaching every Alaskan and earning their vote between now and November."
Walker is running with Heidi Drygas and Gara with Jessica Cook.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — US economy grew at a tepid 1.1% rate last quarter in sign that Fed’s continuing rate hikes are causing a slowdown.
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Welcome to Bryant-Denny Stadium for what was once the biggest college football games of the season. Top-ranked Alabama faces Texas A&M at 7 p.m. CT on CBS after a summer of controversy. The question on everyone’s mind concerns the injury to Bryce Young. Nick Saban called him a “game-time decision” after spraining his shoulder last week at Arkansas.
The Aggies enter with a 3-2 record after losing to Appalachian State on Sept. 10 and at Mississippi State last week. Texas A&M starting quarterback Max Johnson is expected to miss the game after hurting his hand last week in Starkville.
Refresh the page for the latest from Tuscaloosa throughout the night.
Pregame
-- Saban said the medical staff will determine whether Young can play before they come out tonight, Saban told CBS.
-- Jalen Milroe is taking all the snaps with the first-team offense. Don’t think there’s much mystery left about the QB situation ... unless it’s a trap.
-- Safety Brian Branch is warming up after leaving the Arkansas game with an injury.
-- Recievers Tyler Harrell and Aaron Anderson are warming up again. Both went through the drills in the pregame two weeks ago but weren’t on the travel roster for the Arkansas game. Neither have played to this point in this season.
-- Seth McLaughlin is getting the first-team center snaps again. | https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2022/10/alabama-vs-texas-am-live-updates-analysis.html | 2022-10-09 00:05:45 | 0 | https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2022/10/alabama-vs-texas-am-live-updates-analysis.html |
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least nine people died and eight others were missing in South Africa after a flash flood swept away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in Johannesburg, rescue officials said Sunday.
The dead and missing were all part of the congregation, which was conducting religious rituals along the river on Saturday, officials said. Rescue workers reported finding the bodies of two victims that day and another seven bodies when the search and recovery mission resumed Sunday morning.
The teams were interviewing people from the congregation to establish how many others were unaccounted for.
Religious groups frequently gather along the Jukskei River, which runs past townships such as Alexandra in the east of Johannesburg, for baptisms and ritual cleansing.
Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said Sunday that officials had warned residents about the dangers of conducting the rituals along the river.
“We have been receiving a lot of rain on the city of Johannesburg in the last three months, and most of the river streams are now full. Our residents, especially congregants who normally practice these kinds of rituals, will be tempted to go to these river streams,” Mulaudzi said during a news briefing.
“Our message for them is to exercise caution as and when they conduct these rituals,” he added. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-flash-flood-kills-nine-at-church-gathering-in-south-africa/ | 2022-12-05 06:00:20 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-flash-flood-kills-nine-at-church-gathering-in-south-africa/ |
Founded in 1958 by AARP founder Ethel Andrus
BOSTON, Feb. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Circle Travel, which launched in 1958 to serve American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) members, is celebrating its 65th anniversary of changing people's lives through travel.
"We would not be here without our community of travelers, whose passion and curiosity about our world have grown with us throughout the years," said Brian FitzGerald, CEO of Grand Circle.
Ethel Andrus, who founded the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) in 1958, founded Grand Circle Travel. A former educator and activist, Ethel was retired herself, and, in the spirit of lifelong learning, dreamed of a way to help her peers lead more vital, active lives.
Alan and Harriet Lewis purchased Grand Circle in 1985 and stayed true to Ethel's founding principles. When the Lewises added Overseas Adventure Travel (O.A.T.) to their travel family in 1993, it became the first U.S. travel company to create, operate, and sell adventure trips to Americans aged 50 and over. The Lewises evolved Grand Circle into the family of companies it is today, which includes O.A.T., Grand Circle Cruise Line, Grand Circle Travel, and the philanthropic Grand Circle Foundation.
Alan Lewis passed away unexpectedly in November 2022 at age 74.
"We got into this business to change people's lives by opening their hearts and minds—and I am proud to continue this legacy along with my son, Edward, and daughter, Charlotte," said Harriet Lewis, Chair of Grand Circle Corporation.
Between 2022 and 2024, more than 124,000 travelers have departed on or reserved a Grand Circle trip. With the help of 1,000 associates in 29 worldwide offices, the company continues to craft experiences that are authentic, thought-provoking, and truly representative of the local culture and its people.
As the industry leader in solo-friendly travel, the company offers free single supplements on all O.A.T. adventures and Grand Circle vacations on land. O.A.T. Small Ship Adventures and Grand Circle Cruise Line River Cruises have the lowest single supplements in the industry. This, combined with immersive itineraries, earned O.A.T. Solo Traveler's "Best Tours" award in their annual Solo Travel Awards for two years in a row.
Grand Circle invites travelers to join in the 65th anniversary celebration by offering a $1,000 per person travel credit to use toward any new 2023 reservation with O.A.T., Grand Circle Cruise Line, or Grand Circle Travel when reserved by 5/1/23. Mention code ARCQ 101. Solo travelers are also eligible for this offer.
About Grand Circle
A global enterprise committed to changing people's lives, Grand Circle specializes in trips of international discovery for Americans age 50 and older. The Grand Circle family of companies includes Overseas Adventure Travel (O.A.T.), Grand Circle Cruise Line and Grand Circle Travel. The nonprofit Grand Circle Foundation supports communities in which Grand Circle works and travels, including some 300 humanitarian, cultural, and educational endeavors worldwide—among them, 100 schools, in 50 countries. The Foundation is an entity of the Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation, which has pledged or donated more than $250 million since 1981.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Violent attacks targeting Nigeria’s election commission offices are raising concerns about the security of the West African country's upcoming elections in February.
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In the latest attack, assailants in southeastern Imo state set fire on Sunday to an office of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission. Nearly 50 of the commission's offices already have been destroyed since Nigeria's last election in 2019, according to local reports compiled by The Associated Press.
Nigeria — Africa's most populous nation with more than 210 million people — is confronted by several security problems including an Islamic extremist insurgency linked to the Islamic State group in the northeast, rebels in the northwest, and secessionists in the southeast. The security threats are expected to be obstacles to peaceful elections on Feb. 25, say analysts.
“It is going to be the election that is most challenged when it comes to security in Nigeria’s recent history,” Bulama Bukarti, a senior fellow with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, told The Associated Press. “It is a high-stakes election: a make-or-mar election for Nigeria and its neighbors.”
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Electoral violence including protests challenging official results has often hit Nigeria's elections. At least 800 people died in post-election violence after the 2011 polls.
In the southeast, where most of the attacks on election infrastructure have occurred, violent separatists want to create an independent state of Biafra, more than 50 years after a rebellion failed to achieve a separate state.
Authorities have accused members of the leading pro-Biafra group known as the Indigenous People of Biafra of killing security forces and sometimes their own people from the Igbo ethnic group, Nigeria's third-largest.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks on the election commission offices. The violence appears to be planned “to scare away prospective voters, cause significant shortages of electoral officials, compromise logistics, endanger the supply of electoral materials, and undermine the electoral process,” said Oluwole Ojewale of the Institute for Security Studies.
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More attacks on the electoral commission and its facilities and staffers are expected, Ojewale said, raising doubts about the capabilities of the Nigerian security forces to curb the violence.
And across the northwest and central regions, armed groups of former herdsmen fighting communities over access to water and land have killed dozens and abducted hundreds this year, taking advantage of Nigeria’s overstretched security apparatus.
Another threat to the elections may come from the Islamic extremist rebels in Nigeria's northeast region, Boko Haram and its breakaway faction Islamic State West Africa Province. Disrupting Nigeria’s elections next year would be “the biggest success they can ever achieve,” said Bukarti with the Tony Blair Institute.
With little government administration and nearly no security presence in the northern areas, many remote communities are trapped in the violence. Analysts have warned the armed groups are now seeking to consolidate their presence in these areas.
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The conflicts across Nigeria have resulted in at least 4 million internally displaced persons in Nigeria, more than the margin of victory between the winner and first runner-up in the country's 2019 presidential election.
“This insecurity could possibly be the scariest and most expansive in all of the country’s four republics. There has been no time where the accessibility to polls has been this difficult as what we are experiencing,” said Idayat Hassan, who leads the West Africa-focused Center for Democracy and Development.
Hassan said that beyond the authorities’ commitment to a credible election, the credibility of next year’s polls “hinges on the accessibility of the polls and how people are able to vote.”
The attacks on the electoral commission’s infrastructure also pose both a financial and planning challenge, she said.
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Authorities must increase efforts to establish security in the rural areas of the north, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change recommended in a report published last week.
“It is essential for policymakers in Nigeria, and the country’s international partners, to understand these threats and move to mitigate them to ensure a peaceful transition of power and support any incoming administration on the ground,” said Bukarti, who authored the report.
Nigeria’s security forces have repeatedly said they have the country's security situation under control though experts have questioned their ability to restore peace in many troubled communities.
“Elections will take place in an atmosphere bereft of intimidation and violence,” national security adviser Babagana Monguno said last week, without providing details. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Violent-attacks-threaten-Nigeria-s-upcoming-2023-17642249.php | 2022-12-09 10:48:02 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Violent-attacks-threaten-Nigeria-s-upcoming-2023-17642249.php |
Anthony Moore and Nimesh Patel, Mon. October 31
Actor, comedian and podcaster Kevin Hart – like every great rapper – has his own posse. Only in Hart’s world, that means a phalanx of some of the best comic minds, writers, roasters and toasters in the business. Anthony Moore, but one of Kevin’s foils in Hart of the City, is a fascinating familial comedian – not so much because his material is family-friendly, but rather because it feels hilarious homespun. On the same Comedy Cellar bill – you know, the place where Chris Redd sadly got brass knuckle beat down the other night – is Redd’s one-time SNL and Oscars ceremony writer Nimesh Patel who has also been named one of the Comedy Central Network’s “COMICS TO WATCH.” Not bad.
Comedy Cellar, 117 Macdougal Street, New York City, NY
Judd Apatow and Friends, Tuesday, November 1 with Melissa Villaseñor and Marc Maron
Remember that long before writing and directing The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up or producing hit comedy series such as Girls and Crashing (see below), Judd Apatow was a stand-up comedian and Adam Sandler’s one-time roommate. With that legend behind him, sure, Apatow will do some stand-up, probably about being close to his family and being woke (which he famous is, especially considering that Maude Apatow is a big part of the teen drama Euphoria). But this LA comedy club night, in benefit for the National MS Society features special guest such as the always absurd, recent SNL-ex, Melissa Villaseñor and wiry, wily podcaster Marc Maron among other very special guests. WTF?!
Largo at The Coronet Theater, 66 N La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Bridge Gadd aka DBG, Wednesday, November 2
One-time Northern Arizona University Division 1 quarterback turned stand-up comedian Daniel Bridge-Gadd – there’s a phrase you don’t hear often – has as much of a knack for stand-up comedy with an eye toward family themes and sharp observational humor as it does passing down the field.
Rick Bronson’s House of Comedy, 5350 E High St #105 Phoenix, AZ
Pete Holmes, Thursday, November 3
Sorry to head back to Los Angeles and Largo at The Coronet Theater, but this is Pete Holmes we’re talking about: the holy rolling, laid back, post slacker comedian and one-time star and co-writer of HBO’s comedy club series, Crashing…. with Judd Apatow. And his low voiced, slow talking stand up affair – this time in benefit for Homeboy Industries – has its own murderers row of special guest, big name performers such as Everybody Loves Ray Romano, one-time SNL Bush impersonator and Church Lady Dana Carvey with live accompanied background music from Matt Berninger of The National. Double WTF?!
Largo at The Coronet Theater, 66 N La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Adam Conover, Friday, November 5
The sartorially correct and tonsorial-ly towering (he’s got really good, really high hair) host of HBO Max’s Adam Ruins Everything and Netflix’s The G Word with Adam Conover – to say something of the US version of The Crystal Maze on Nickelodeon – is something of a smart ass when it comes to stand-up comedy. Blame his time in at Baird College with that BA in Philosophy (who majors in Philosophy, anymore) for that smart comic edge and that overall smug, sarcastic manner.
Helium Philadelphia Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom Street, Philadelphia PA
Mitch Stinson, Saturday, November 6
How can you feel bad when you have a one-time Navy man, an aircraft-carrier aviator with some 200+ flights (and landings) to his name who also happens to work clean? This is like watching Top Gun: Maverick without all the dizzy special effects and Tom Cruise’s grinning.
Nick’s Comedy Shop, 100 Warrenton Street, Boston, MA
Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider, Sunday Nov 6.
The Sandman doesn’t tour often what with going the film star route in stark serious fare (Uncut Gems), goofball slap stick flicks (Hubie Halloween) and dramedy in-between those two poles (Hustle). Yet, not unlike what he did on the recent Netflix special, 100% Fresh, Sandler – with a pianist and an arsenal of electric guitars – takes to the stage of casinos, arenas and large-scale comedy clubs and does a mix of short, absurd jokes that end abruptly, hypnotic long form stories that last forever and silly songs – mostly about hating his kids, trying to have digital and oral sex with his wife, and staving off the aging process while wearing sweatshirts. Schneider though is the evening’s wild card – an independent party politico and equal sides offender who can break out the Elvis Presley songs in a genuinely strong, clarion clear voice. A very entertaining show, I promise, and a handsome reunion of old friends and one-time Saturday Night Live alumni.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of International Game Technology PLC.
Shareholders who purchased shares of IGT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 16, 2018 to August 29, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) IGT overstated its compliance with gaming and lottery laws and applicable regulations; (ii) IGT and/or one or more of its current and/or former subsidiaries engaged in illegal gambling operations; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected the Company and/or its current and/or former subsidiaries to a heightened risk of litigation and significant related costs; (iv) the Company downplayed the full scope and severity of its financial exposure to, and/or liabilities in connection with, the lawsuit filed against IGT's subsidiary in April of 2018; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: December 13, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/international-game-technology-plc-loss-submission-form/?id=33457&from=4
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The November midterm elections are fast approaching, and with them the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential election cycle.
Prospective candidates may begin announcing their plans to run for the White House at any time now, or mere days or weeks after Election Day.
Questions have lingered about if President Biden plans to run for reelection given his age and that his approval rating — though improving recently — has remained below 50 percent for the past year. Biden, who is the oldest president the United States has had, would be 82 on Inauguration Day 2025 if he runs for a second term.
Biden has maintained that, like most first-term commanders in chief, he plans to run for reelection, but historical precedent exists for those who have declined to do so.
Three presidents have completed one full term and declined to run for a second. Three others completed the remainder of their predecessor’s term and then were elected to one in their own right before deciding against running in a second election.
Here are the presidents who have chosen not to stand for a second term in office, from most recent to the earliest case:
Lyndon B. Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson was the most recent president to choose not to run for reelection in 1968. Johnson’s presidency, which he had sought to focus on Civil Rights and expanding the social safety net under the “Great Society,” had become consumed by the Vietnam War, fiercely dividing the country.
Johnson ascended to the presidency in 1963 following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution limits presidents to serve no more than two full terms or a total of 10 years, so Johnson was eligible for reelection in 1968 to a second four-year term because he served less than two years in finishing Kennedy’s term.
Johnson was widely expected to run and easily win the Democratic nomination in 1968 despite declining approval ratings below 50 percent. Johnson did receive a primary challenge from Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.), who ran in opposition to the war.
LBJ narrowly won the New Hampshire primary in March of that year, but McCarthy nearly upset the president with winning more than 40 percent of the vote. Johnson’s competition increased a few days later when Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-Mass.) announced his candidacy.
Johnson gave a televised address to the country on March 31, 1968, in which he announced he would not seek or accept his party’s nomination for another term, pledging to spend the rest of his administration on efforts to reach an end to the war.
Harry Truman
Harry Truman was the last president who was not term-limited under the 22nd Amendment, with the amendment having been ratified during his administration. Truman completed most of President Franklin Roosevelt’s fourth term after he died in office in 1945 and won a close, upset victory in the 1948 election for his own term.
Truman is considered among the best presidents in recent presidential ranking polls. But as the Korean War lingered in a virtual stalemate and inflation rose, he had poor approval ratings, receiving the lowest recorded approval rating in a Gallup poll in February 1952 at 22 percent.
The president’s name was entered into the New Hampshire primary but finished in second place to Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.). Primaries did not play the role in selecting the eventual nominee that they do today, but the loss was not a positive sign.
Truman announced three weeks later that he would not seek reelection.
Calvin Coolidge
President Coolidge was only the second person to ascend to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor and then be elected to a full term, after Theodore Roosevelt. He was serving as vice president and became president when Warren Harding died in 1923 and won the 1924 election in a landslide victory over his Democratic opponent.
Coolidge’s presidency was defined by the Roaring Twenties, during which business boomed as the country came out of World War I. He was wildly popular among the American people at the time, leading to a great deal of surprise when he announced he did not plan to seek reelection in 1928.
Coolidge handed out handwritten strips of paper to reporters that said “I do not choose to run” during his summer vacation in 1927, according to the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.
Coolidge never fully explained his reasoning behind deciding against running again, but he wrote in his autobiography that he was ready to be “relieved of the pretensions and delusions of public life,” according to the Miller Center.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Hayes was elected president in the contentious election 1876, becoming the second president to win the presidency through the Electoral College while losing the popular vote.
Hayes had promised during the 1876 campaign to only serve one term while running for office, stating his intention in his letter accepting the Republican nomination, according to the Miller Center.
He was a leader of a faction of the Republican Party that supported reforming the civil service, to have it based on merit instead of political patronage.
Hayes said in his letter that he believed reform could most likely be accomplished by a president who is “under no temptation to use the patronage of his office, to promote his own re-election,” according to his presidential library and museum’s website.
James Buchanan
James Buchanan’s presidency began as the country was hurdling toward the Civil War. He was elected president in 1856 with a comfortable plurality of the popular vote but failed to receive a majority.
He hoped the issue of slavery on the national level would fade away, saying in his inaugural address that the issue of allowing slavery in new territories was a “matter of but little practical importance,” according to the National Constitution Center.
The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, which declared a few days after Buchanan’s inauguration that enslaved Black people were not citizens and therefore did not have the rights of citizens, further divided the country.
Buchanan did little to hold the country together or solve the slavery issue nationally, supporting the popular sovereignty of states to decide whether to allow slavery. It was clear that Buchanan would not be a candidate for reelection by 1860, according to the Constitution Center.
Upon meeting with his successor, Abraham Lincoln, Buchanan allegedly said to him, “My dear sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed,” according to the Library of Congress. Wheatland was the name of his home.
James K. Polk
President James Polk is considered to arguably be one of the most successful one-term presidents at accomplishing their goals. He won a close election in 1844, running on four key platform points and accomplished all four while in office.
Polk oversaw the reduction of tariffs, the reestablishment of an independent U.S. Treasury, the acquisition of California and other southwestern territories from Mexico and a deal to secure control of the Oregon Territory.
He promised to only run for one term during the 1844 campaign and kept his promise four years later. He wrote in his diary that he felt “exceedingly relieved” to be free from public duty, according to the Miller Center. | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/most-presidents-seek-re-election-here-are-the-ones-who-called-it-quits-after-one-election/ | 2022-09-16 22:22:20 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/most-presidents-seek-re-election-here-are-the-ones-who-called-it-quits-after-one-election/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. wants to raise customer bills 12% over the next three years to pay for system improvements and higher costs and allow higher profits, the company said Friday in a rate filing with state regulators.
The filing kicks off a rate case before the Georgia Public Service Commission, with the five commissioners likely to vote on the plan in December and new rates taking effect in January. Changes are likely before any vote.
A residential customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per month pays Georgia Power an average of $128 a month now, Chief Financial Officer Aaron Abramovitz said Friday. Under the plan, that would rise by $14.32 in 2023, reaching a total of $16.29 over the three-year period.
But those aren't the only price increases Georgia Power's 2.3 million customers could face next year. The Public Service Commission has already approved plans for the company to increase rates by $3.78 a month as soon as the first of two new nuclear units being built at Plant Vogtle come on line.
The company also will file next year to recover the cost of the coal and natural gas it uses to fuel its power plants, and Georgia Power President and CEO Chris Womack acknowledged Friday that the company is likely to file in February 2023 to raise bills to pay more for fuel, but pledged to work with commissioners to “mitigate and minimize the impact to our customers.”
All that could lead to bills rising more than 15% for customers in 2023 alone.
“Too many Georgians already struggle to pay their power bills,” said Liz Coyle, executive director of consumer advocacy group Georgia Watch. “This new rate increase would add a significant burden to household budgets.”
As has been traditional with regulated monopoly utilities, Georgia Power's shareholders at the Atlanta-based Southern Co. would be protected from risk and guaranteed a profit. Georgia Power would collect an additional $2.8 billion over three years, compared to a $1.77 billion cumulative increase in the current three-year rate plan.
The company says it needs more money to keep making improvements to the transmission and distribution grid, retire old coal plants, acquire electricity from new sources and upgrade customer-facing computer systems. It wants nearly $100 million more each year just to cover inflation for what it has to buy and spend.
“It’s that balance recognizing for us to continue to make investments in our system, to the reliability and resiliency that we need to operate the system and for a state that is growing in customers that have some growing expectations,” Womack said.
About $750 million over three years would go to retire coal-fueled power plants and buy power from natural gas plants, solar and other sources. Of that amount, about half would go to pay down the book value of the closed plants. Those moves are key parts of the company's long-term generating plan which commissioners are likely to approve next month. Some parts of the rate case are aimed at paying for that integrated resource plan.
The company would collect $400 million over three years to cap or excavate ash ponds at coal-fueled power plants. Environmentalists want all the ash excavated and reburied in lined landfills, which could cost even more.
The company also says it needs more money because it has used up tax benefits from a previous federal tax cut that held down rates by $220 million a year. Georgia Power is also seeking to raise its target return on equity, a number that helps drive company profits, from 10.5% to 11%. The utility argues that it should get a higher rate of return because of what other utilities make and the current state of financial markets. That would cost customers an additional $94 million a year.
Some costs would go down. Georgia Power says it needs to collect less to pay for storm damage because it has now paid for the costs of recovering from prior storms and less to pay for operations and maintenance as it closes older power plants.
The proposal is heavily frontloaded, with only small increases sought in 2024 and 2025. Company officials said that would actually mean lower rate increases overall, because if they deferred some of the total request until later years, rates would have to climb even higher to collect the same amount of money in a shorter time.
“What we’re trying to present here, what we’re requesting, is the lowest-cost option for customers, understanding that this is just the start of this process,” Abramovitz said.
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PARIS, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ipsos is pleased to announce the acquisition of Xperiti, a start-up specializing in Business-to-Business (B2B) research, with operations across the US, Israel and the Philippines.
Xperiti's online platform leverages AI technology to recruit professionals across 130 countries and over 90 industries in real-time allowing users to quickly and efficiently surface industry expertise. This acquisition will directly improve Ipsos' efficiency, speed for experts' recruitment, scale and optimize its B2B research capabilities globally, and grow into adjacent offerings by building a large-scale, global B2B Expert Insights Platform.
Yadin Soffer, Xperiti CEO and Founder says, "Our platform's capability to recruit experts in real-time, powered by scraping and natural language processing (NLP) technology, combined with Ipsos global scale and research capabilities, will allow us to redefine how B2B research is collected and analyzed."
Ben Page, Ipsos CEO, stated, "B2B is one of the largest and fastest-growing sub-sectors in market research due to ongoing investments in the digital transformation. With Xperiti's technology and expertise, we will meet the growing demand for large-scale, scientifically rigorous and fast B2B research."
ABOUT IPSOS
Ipsos is one of the largest market research and polling companies globally, operating in 90 markets and employing over 18,000 people.
Our passionately curious research professionals, analysts and scientists have built unique multi-specialist capabilities that provide true understanding and powerful insights into the actions, opinions and motivations of citizens, consumers, patients, customers or employees. Our 75 solutions are based on primary data from our surveys, social media monitoring, and qualitative or observational techniques.
Our tagline "Game Changers" sums up our ambition to help our 5,000 customers move confidently through a rapidly changing world.
Founded in France in 1975, Ipsos has been listed on the Euronext Paris since July 1, 1999. The company is part of the SBF 120 and Mid-60 indices and is eligible for the Deferred Settlement Service (SRD).ISIN code FR0000073298, Reuters ISOS.PA, Bloomberg IPS:FP www.ipsos.com
ABOUT XPERITI
Xperiti was founded in 2019 and previously raised capital from renowned venture capital investors, including Dan Aks from IBI Tech Fund and Rafi Gidron.
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CANNES, France, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WeWay , the unique entertainment ecosystem powered by NFTs and blockchain technology, is delighted to announce that WeWay Brand Ambassador Ellen Sheidlin received "Best NFT Artist" award at the WIBA ceremony in Cannes.
This ceremony is a part of the fourth edition of the World Influencers and Bloggers Awards (WIBA) 2022. It took place on 18th May during the Cannes Film Festival at the famous Hotel Martinez.
At WIBA 2022, Ellen Sheidlin won an award in the nomination "Best NFT Artist". As a well-known fashion model and artist, Ellen works with both physical and digital art directions, using the unique style of survirtualism. Her artwork is in high demand in exhibitions in London, Florence, Palermo and also in Japan.
Following her outstanding achievements and the fact that she was among the first artists to join the non-fungible token market, the WeWay team decided to form a partnership with Ellen. As the project's official Brand Ambassador, she promotes WeWay's NFT-powered ecosystem as well as educates and raises the awareness of her audience about digital collectibles and the metaverse.
"I am really happy that this year I was honored to become the winner in the nomination 'Best NFT Artist'. This is especially important for me because, for many years, I have been creating works in which I try to convey my vision of the world and show life from a new angle. Recently, I discovered the field of NFTs, which fascinated me with its capabilities. And WeWay helped me to delve into the sphere of NFTs and metaverses, showed me what advantages these sectors can give with influencers," said Ellen Sheidlin.
"We are glad that such outstanding representatives of creative professions as Ellen realize the importance of new technologies and try to bring them into their work. In turn, we are always happy to help them master these technologies and explain the value of the products produced by celebrities to their audience in the metaverse. Ellen is an excellent example of how a creative person working in the field of art familiar to us can reach a new level of creativity using the metaverse and NFTs," Fuad Fatullaev, WeWay's Founder and CEO, stated.
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I am excited to announce our summer season, which like summer months, is entirely too short.
We kicked it off with Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks on June 13, whose book “Horse” is my favorite of all time. No exaggeration. Suspense writer Ruth Ware follows on June 25 with “Zero Days,” the perfect beach read about an IT security expert discovering her husband’s brutal murder — and then realizing she’s the top suspect. On July 21, we’re hosting Nedra Glover Tawwab, a licensed therapist you might know from her appearances on Oprah! Her book, “Drama Free,” is a guide to coping with family members you take pains to avoid (or wish you could). Glover’s book explains how to at least manage your relationship. Consider this event a hugely instructive therapy session for a mere $20 ticket.
Finally, in August, we’re hosting beloved author Ann Patchett. Her new book, “Tom Lake,” is set in a northern Michigan cherry orchard during the pandemic. We’ll wrap the season with Jack Driscoll, who launched the creative writing program at Interlochen Academy for the Arts in the mid-1970s. What a difference he made in the writing culture of northern Michigan. He’ll be at the Alluvion on Aug. 27, a beautiful new venue, to talk about his book of short stories with Brittany Cavallaro, the interim creative writing director. A nice historical symmetry.
NWS events are always a lot of fun. We’re a place people come to laugh and learn. But we also create positive change. Here’s one story. Back in January, authors Keith Gave and Tim Rappleye talked about their book, “A Miracle of Their Own” — an account of the first USA women’s hockey team to win an Olympic gold. Joining them on stage was Lisa Brown-Miller, one of the gold medal winners. During the evening, she revealed that Michigan high schools and colleges still have NO school teams for girls and women. It doesn’t make sense, she said, in a state with a professional hockey team and urged the audience to take action.
So, fast forward to a warm late May evening at Sleder’s Family Tavern. My husband, Doug, and I had just sat down at a table near the kissable moose and a woman approached us, bursting with good news. She said that there’s long been talk about getting hockey into the state’s high schools, and this event inspired a solid plan to amp up their efforts. Woohoo! Watch out stick-in-the-ice schools; there are some determined hockey parents with a goal in mind!
On the Raising Writers side, our programming is reaching students who might otherwise be overlooked or marginalized. At a winter author event, a Manistee student read a poem about how the label of autism both hurt and helped her — it helped her understand herself better, but her peers have begun to consider her as a label, not a person.
At a recent book launch party for Front Street Writers, an 11th grader, who moved here from Afghanistan, read her winning scholarship essay in front of a standing-room only audience about the intellectual freedom she discovered at her new high school.
And children’s author Jasmine Warga, a Newbery Honor award winner, spoke to a gym totally packed with about 1,000 kids and family members about her novel, “Other Words for Home” — that of a teenage refugee who immigrated from Syria to Cleveland and grew to love acting and her new school.
NWS offers writing classes year-round, including a free college essay writing class this fall. Please tell your favorite young person to check out our website for all of our upcoming courses.
Please know that when you support the National Writers Series, you are making our community stronger, too.
Thanks to all of you, whether it’s volunteering, giving a gift, serving on the board, sponsoring an event, encouraging a child to sign up for a writing class, or coming to an event and buying the author’s book. Thank you! | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/anne-stanton-the-national-writers-series-looks-to-season-ahead-community-impact/article_477a9b28-061b-11ee-8e57-b7a49a67ec14.html | 2023-06-16 15:03:08 | 1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/anne-stanton-the-national-writers-series-looks-to-season-ahead-community-impact/article_477a9b28-061b-11ee-8e57-b7a49a67ec14.html |
NBC5 has teamed up with Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center to bring you Better Health, a weekly report on staying healthy. In this report, Asante Health Expert Beth Coker and Megan Frost, MD Asante General and colorectal surgery tell us what might be behind your abdominal pain.
Your Health Matters – find out more here: health.Asante.org
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