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Securities Litigation Partner James (Josh) Wilson Encourages Investors Who Suffered Losses Exceeding $100,000 In Compass Minerals To Contact Him Directly To Discuss Their Options
NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against Compass Minerals International, Inc. ("Compass Minerals" or the "Company") (NYSE: CMP) and reminds investors of the December 20, 2022 deadline to seek the role of lead plaintiff in a federal securities class action that has been filed against the Company.
If you suffered losses exceeding $100,000 investing in Compass Minerals stock or options between October 31, 2017 and November 18, 2018 and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Faruqi & Faruqi partner Josh Wilson directly at 877-247-4292 or 212-983-9330 (Ext. 1310). You may also click here for additional information: http://www.faruqilaw.com/CMP.
There is no cost or obligation to you.
Faruqi & Faruqi is a leading minority and Woman-owned national securities law firm with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Georgia.
The Compass Minerals class action lawsuit alleges that defendants throughout the Class Period repeatedly assured investors that the CMCH upgrade at the Goderich mine was on track to materially reduce costs and boost Compass Minerals' operating results starting in 2018. However, defendants' statements were misleading because they failed to tell investors that costs at the Goderich mine were increasing rather than decreasing. The Compass Materials class action lawsuit further alleges that defendants also misrepresented the amount of salt Compass Minerals was able to produce at Goderich using the new CMCH equipment and failed to disclose how the known and ongoing production shortfalls it was experiencing were reasonably expected to reduce its future operating income.
On February 13, 2018, Compass Minerals announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017. On the following day, Compass Minerals held an earnings call for analysts and investors to discuss the fourth quarter results. Following the release of the fourth quarter 2017 results, Compass Minerals' stock price declined by more than 9% over the following two trading days.
Then, on August 7, 2018, Compass Minerals announced its second quarter of fiscal 2018 results, attributing the decrease in Salt operating earnings to various costs overruns, unrelated to the CMCH transition. Following the release of the second quarter 2018 results, the price of Compass Minerals stock declined by 4.3%.
Next, October 23, 2018, Compass Minerals pre-announced third quarter 2018 financial results that were significantly below expectations and lowered its outlook for the remainder of the year. On this news, the price of Compass Minerals stock declined by more than 30% over the following two trading days.
Finally, on November 19, 2018, Compass Energy announced the abrupt termination of its CEO, defendant Francis J. Malecha. On this news, the price of Compass Minerals stock declined by an additional 8% over the following three days, further damaging investors.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Xebra Brands Ltd. ("Xebra") (CSE: XBRA) (OTCQB: XBRAF) (FSE: 9YC), a cannabis company, is pleased to announce that the Mexican Health Regulatory Agency (the Mexican FDA) (the "COFEPRIS"), has been directed by the court authorities to grant Xebra's wholly owned Mexican subsidiary, Desart MX, SA de CV ("Xebra Mexico"), all applicable cannabis authorizations, pursuant to the irrevocable injunction granted by the Supreme Court in December 2021. Under pertinent laws, COFEPRIS officials face criminal prosecution if they do not issue the authorizations within three (3) business days, however Xebra expects the process to take marginally longer, as it coordinates with the COFEPRIS to ensure that the terms and conditions of the authorizations are to Xebra's satisfaction. Notwithstanding the extra time to engage with the COFEPRIS, Xebra fully expects the authorizations to be granted no later than October.
"Xebra is only days away to being the outright first mover in the Mexican CBD market, said Jay Garnett, CEO of Xebra. "Mexico has the potential to be one of the largest CBD consumer markets in the world, and for the foreseeable future, only Xebra will have the legal authorizations to fully commercialize that demand vertically from field to manufacturing and sales."
Xebra Mexico's injunction applies specifically to cannabis with low-levels of THC (under 1%), therefore, in practical terms, to hemp cultivation and processing, and to the manufacture and sale of mainly CBD products, such as tinctures, oils, topicals, edibles, beverages, concentrates, distillates, emulsions, and biomass etc., and certain uses of the cannabis flower. Opportunities in the hemp plastics industries have also been identified.
More information will be provided on Xebra's Mexican plans in due course.
Jay Garnett
CEO
Certain information contained in this press release constitutes forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. Any statements that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements, these include, without limitation, statements regarding Xebra Brands Ltd.'s expectations in respect of its ability to successfully execute its business plan or business model; its ability to provide economic, environmental, social, or any benefits of any type, in the communities it operates in or may operate it in the future; its ability to be a first mover in a country, or to obtain or retain government licenses, permits or authorizations in general, or specifically in Mexico, Canada, or elsewhere, including cannabis authorizations from the Mexican Health Regulatory Agency (COFEPRIS) and the timing of such permits or authorizations; its ability to successfully apply for and obtain trademarks and other intellectual property in any jurisdiction; its ability to be cost competitive; its ability to commercialize, cultivate, grow, or process hemp or cannabis in Mexico, Canada, or elsewhere and related plans and timing; its ability to manufacture, commercialize or sell cannabis-infused beverages, wellness products, or other products in Mexico, Canada, or elsewhere; its ability to launch, commercialize or to sell Vicious Citrus Lemonade or any additional cannabis infused beverage brands or products, at any time, in any jurisdiction, and its related plans and claims, including market interest and availability; its ability to commercialize or to sell Elements wellness products in any jurisdiction at any time; its ability to create wellness products that have a therapeutic effect or benefit; plans for future growth and the direction of the business; financial projections including expected revenues, gross profits, and EBITDA (which is a non-GAAP financial measure); plans to increase product volumes, the capacity of existing facilities, supplies from third party growers and contractors; expected growth of the cannabis industry generally; management's expectations, beliefs and assumptions in general, including manufacturing costs, production activity and market potential in Mexico or any jurisdiction; events or developments that XEBRA expects to take place in the future; general economic conditions; and other risk factors described in the prospectus of the Company dated September 30, 2021. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, are forward-looking information and statements. The words "aim", "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "contemplate", "target", "intends", "continue", "plans", "budget", "estimate", "may", "will", and similar expressions identify forward-looking information and statements. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by XEBRA as of the dates of such statements, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Known and unknown factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the inability of XEBRA to generate sufficient revenues or to raise sufficient funds to carry out its business plan; changes in government legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments in various countries; risks associated with agriculture and cultivation activities generally, including inclement weather, access to supply of seeds, poor crop yields, and spoilage; compliance with import and export laws of various countries; significant fluctuations in cannabis prices and transportation costs; the risk of obtaining necessary licenses and permits; inability to identify, negotiate and complete a potential acquisition for any reason; the ability to retain key employees; dependence on third parties for services and supplies; non-performance by contractual counter-parties; general economic conditions; and the continued growth in global demand for cannabis products and the continued increase in jurisdictions legalizing cannabis; and the timely receipt of regulatory approval for license applications. In addition, there is no assurance Xebra will: be a low-cost producer or exporter; obtain a dominant market position in any jurisdiction; have products that will be unique; launch other Vicious Citrus SKUs; or monetize any asset sales from its Colombian and Dutch subsidiaries. The foregoing list is not exhaustive and XEBRA undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of the foregoing except as required by law. Many of these uncertainties and contingencies could affect XEBRA's actual performance and cause its actual performance to differ materially from what has been expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, XEBRA. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those set out in such statements.
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The Biden administration plans to eliminate fossil fuels as a form of energy generation in the U.S. by 2035. The White House set out a target of 80% renewable energy generation by 2030 and 100% carbon-free electricity five years later.
With 79% of total U.S. energy production still coming from fossil fuel sources as of 2021, achieving this goal will require billions of dollars in investments. Last year, investments in America's energy transition hit a new record of $141 billion, according to BloombergNEF.
This trend is expected to continue as the Inflation Reduction Act, passed in August, provides about $370 billion in funding and subsidies for green technologies.
Morning Edition's A Martinez, Leila Fadel and Steve Inskeep asked four energy experts what it would take to make a zero-carbon power grid a reality as part of a broadcast series on America's energy transition.
The four interviews have been edited for length and clarity.
Here are some interview highlights
Kathryn Huff, assistant secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy within the Department of Energy.
What needs to be done? "We definitely have to retire as many unabated fossil sources as possible in order to reach our emissions goals. Our office recently released a report that almost 80% of the coal plants in the U.S. could be replaced by nuclear power plants across a range of sizes, but largely in the range of sizes accommodated by small modular reactors in the couple-of-hundred-megawatts range."
What about safety concerns?
"Nuclear energy has actually saved way more lives than you would think because it is a carbon-free energy source. And fossil fuels are an incredible contributor to premature death. The World Health Organization identified that 1 in 5 deaths are premature due directly to fossil fuel burning. And by being a huge contributor to reducing carbon emissions, nuclear power has saved a ton of lives. If you normalize by the number of terawatt hours generated, nuclear power is among the safest energy sources available, including wind and solar, which cause more deaths per terawatt hour generated."
Amy Robertson, systems engineer specializing in the modeling of offshore wind system dynamics at the National Renewable Energy Lab.
Why offshore wind in the first place?
"The truth is that in order to solve this climate crisis, in order to decarbonize our energy infrastructure, we're going to need not just one or two renewable energy sources. We're going to need a whole portfolio."
"We're able to actually build much bigger offshore wind turbines than we can on land because the whole ability to transport large components through our highways and trains, it's just not feasible on land, but offshore, we have much more freedom. We don't have those restrictions. So we can actually build more massive wind turbines, which growing the size of the wind turbine can actually really help with the economy of that wind turbine."
Why has it taken so long to invest in offshore wind?
"I guess there's really several reasons it's been taking a while. I think first, historically, offshore wind has been rather costly compared to other renewable energy sources, but we have been seeing the costs coming down. Since about 2015, the price of offshore wind has really been reduced. And so we're starting to see a lot of interest in the U.S., especially at the state level, where they can see that offshore wind can really bring good economic value to their local regions."
Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative and a fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution.
How can the U.S. oil and gas industry adapt to a zero-carbon future?
"The U.S. oil and gas companies understand that a low-carbon future is the direction that we're going. However, we also have the issue that we have to feed the energy system that we have today. So those oil and gas companies are in a bit of a pickle. There's still demand for their product today, although they know the world is changing. And so that makes for a really challenging business environment for them."
"Some of the big European oil and gas companies shifting to being energy companies and focusing on some of the things that they do well that correspond to a fossil fuel-free world - for instance, oil and gas companies focusing on offshore wind because they're good at operating in the offshore. The question is how quickly those companies adapt. If they don't, they may not make it."
On why fossil fuels are hard to quit
Because they're incredibly useful. We started using them, and they really just opened up new avenues to mankind, gave us so much more energy to power our economy than we'd ever had before. And now we're trying to move away from them because we understand the environmental climate impacts that they have. But they're deeply embedded into our economy. Everything we do every day is based on fossil fuels. So the world has never tried to move away from something so embedded in its economy so quickly. But now that we understand the danger that fossil fuels pose, that's what we need to do.
George Crabtree, director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research and a senior scientist and distinguished fellow at Argonne National Laboratory.
More on the the importance of energy storage
The lithium-ion batteries that we have now can discharge at full power for about four hours. And that's great for intraday needs - passing clouds, gusty winds - even for extending, let's say, solar power past sunset by a few hours, and that's when there's a huge demand peak. But it cannot do, let's say, consecutive days that are overcast or that are calm. So you need a different battery for that. That's one of the technological breakthroughs that we're looking for, often called long-duration storage.
But how will it allow the U.S. to get to 100% renewable energy?
"Experts say that we could probably convert the grid 80% to renewable - that's wind and solar - without having to deal with this long-duration storage problem. We'd still use gas peaker plants for that. But that would only be for 20% of the electricity that we need. If you want to do the other 20%, you're going to have to solve that problem of storage, you know, long-term storage for the grid, days in a row. And you could do that with gravity storage. [sic] You could have hydrogen or ammonia or another chemical energy medium which is yet to be discovered. That's the challenge. We can get to 80%, but we can't get to 100%."
The four interviews were produced by Shelby Hawkins, Taylor Haney, Lilly Quiroz, David West and Claire Murashima. The digital version was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. contributed to this story
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday the United States stands with countries fighting Chinese “bullying behavior” as he launched bilateral talks in Australia aimed at countering Beijing’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Australian city of Brisbane late Thursday ahead of annual bilateral meetings on Friday and Saturday that will focus on a deal to provide Australia, a defense treaty partner, with a fleet of submarines powered by U.S. nuclear technology.
Ahead of a meeting with Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, Austin said both countries share concerns about China’s break from international laws and norms that resolve disputes peacefully and without coercion.
“We’ve seen troubling P.R.C. coercion from the East China Sea, to the South China Sea, to right here in the Southwest Pacific,” Austin told reporters, referring to the People’s Republic of China.
“We’ll continue to support our allies and partners as they defend themselves from bullying behavior,” he added.
China has imposed a series of official and unofficial trade barriers in recent years against Australian exports including coal, wine, barley, beef, seafood and wood. The barriers are widely seen as a punitive reaction to Australian government policy that has cost Australian exporters as much as $15 billion a year.
Australia’s icy relationship with Beijing was thawing since a change of Australian government at elections last year. Meanwhile, the sharing of U.S. nuclear secrets with Australia takes that bilateral relationship to a new level.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is planning state visits to both the United States and China before the end of the year.
Under the AUKUS partnership — an acronym for Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States — Australia will buy three Virginia-class submarines from the United States and build five of a new AUKUS-class submarine in cooperation with Britain.
Australian media have focused on a letter signed by more than 20 Republican lawmakers to President Joe Biden that warned the deal would “unacceptably weaken the U.S. fleet” without a plan to boost U.S. submarine production.
Albanese said he remained “very confident” that the United States would deliver the three submarines.
The prime minister said he’d been reassured by discussions he had with Republicans and Democrats earlier in July at a NATO summit in Lithuania.
“What struck me was their unanimous support for AUKUS, their unanimous support for the relationship between the Australia and United States,” Albanese said.
Marles agreed the AUKUS program was on track.
“Congress can be a complicated place as legislation makes its way through it, but actually we’re encouraged by how quickly it is going through it and we are expecting that there will be lots of discussions on the way through,” Marles said.
“Fundamentally, we have reached an agreement with the Biden administration about how Australia acquires the nuclear-powered submarine capability and we’re proceeding along that path with pace,” he added.
Australia understood there was “pressure on the American industrial base” and would contribute to submarine production, Marles said. The AUKUS deal is forecast to cost Australia up to 368 billion Australian dollars ($246 billion) over 30 years.
Albanese publicly welcomed Austin and Blinken at a media event before the three began a meeting with Marles, Foreign Minister Penny Wong, U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy and Australian Ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister.
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Violent protest in downtown Atlanta over killing of activist
ATLANTA (AP) — A protest turned violent in downtown Atlanta on Saturday night in the wake of the death of an environmental activist who was killed by authorities this week after officials said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper.
Masked activists dressed in all black threw rocks and lit fireworks in front of a skyscraper that houses the Atlanta Police Foundation, shattering large glass windows. They then lit a police cruiser on fire, smashed more windows and vandalized walls with anti-police graffiti as stunned tourists scattered.
The violent protesters were a subsection of hundreds of demonstrators who had gathered and marched up Atlanta’s famed Peachtree Street to mourn the death of the protester, a nonbinary person who went by the name Tortuguita and used they/it pronouns.
Tortuguita was killed Wednesday as authorities cleared a small group of protesters from the site of a planned Atlanta-area public safety training center that activists have dubbed “Cop City.”
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has said Tortuguita was killed by officers after shooting and wounding a state trooper, but activists have questioned officials’ version of events, calling it a “murder” and demanding an independent investigation.
According to the GBI, the incident was not recorded on body cameras. The bureau said Friday that it determined the trooper was shot in the abdomen by a bullet from a handgun that was in Tortuguita’s possession.
Word of Saturday’s protest had been widely circulated ahead of time on social media and among leftist activists, with some passing out flyers that read, “Police killed a protester. Stand up. Fight back.”
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said during a news conference that authorities made six arrests Saturday and recovered explosive devices after the protesters damaged property along Peachtree Street, a corridor of hotels and restaurants. He said authorities halted the violence within two blocks and no citizens or law enforcement officers were injured.
“We can tell now, early in this investigation, this was not the focus tonight just to damage the windows of three buildings and set a police car on fire,” Schierbaum said. “The intent was to continue to do harm, and that did not happen.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp decried the violence and thanked responding officers.
“Violence and unlawful destruction of property are not acts of protest,” the Republican governor tweeted. “They are crimes that will not be tolerated in Georgia and will be prosecuted fully.”
The initial hour of the demonstration had been peaceful as a few activists shared their memories of Tortuguita, describing them as an extremely loving, caring member of the “Stop Cop City” community. The speakers said Tortuguita had undergone a 20-hour medic course in order to serve as a medic for fellow “forest defenders” who had found their home in the DeKalb County woods just outside Atlanta city limits.
Opponents of the training center have been protesting for over a year by building platforms in surrounding trees and camping out at the site.
They say the $90 million project, which would be built by the Atlanta Police Foundation, involves cutting down so many trees that it would be environmentally damaging. They also oppose spending so much money on a facility they say will be used to practice “urban warfare.”
The GBI said about 25 campsites were located and removed in Wednesday’s raid, and mortar-style fireworks, edged weapons, pellet rifles, gas masks and a blow torch were recovered.
Seven people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism and criminal trespass, with other charges pending, the GBI said. They range in age from 20 to 34 years, and none are Georgia residents.
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state will be an occasion of regal symbolism, strong emotion — and an extremely long line.
Marshaling the hundreds of thousands of people who want to view the late monarch’s coffin will test Britain’s famous queuing skills to their limit.
Authorities overseeing the mammoth logistical challenge have consulted queue management experts and behavioral scientists to create not so much a line as a temporary community. It features 10 miles (16 kilometers) of “queuing infrastructure,” including moveable barriers and more than 500 portable toilets along a route leading to Parliament’s Westminster Hall, where the coffin will rest.
Hundreds of stewards, police officers and first-aid providers were assigned to look after the waiting crowds. Thirty multi-faith pastors and volunteers from a suicide prevention organization have been tasked with responding to the emotional needs of anyone who might be struggling. A pair of sign language interpreters also were expected to be on hand.
On Wednesday, the queen’s coffin was carried in a solemn procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where it will lie in state from 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) until 6:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) Monday, the day of her funeral.
Two hours before opening time, the line of mourners already stretched for 2 miles (3.2 km) from Parliament across nearby Lambeth Bridge and snaked along the south bank of the River Thames. The designated route stretches for 6.9 miles (11 kilometers) past the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Tate Modern art gallery and Tower Bridge to Southwark Park in south London, which can accommodate another 3 miles (4.8 km) of zigzagging queues.
Officials say they can’t predict how many people will line up to pay their respects at Westminster Hall, but it is likely to be many more than the 200,000 who visited the Queen Mother Elizabeth’s coffin over three days in 2002. Transit operator Transport for London estimates that more than 1 million people will travel to the city center to be part of commemorations through Monday.
Transport for London Commissioner Andy Byford called it “the biggest event and challenge that TfL has faced in its history.”
The government has warned that navigating the line will be a feat of endurance.
“You will need to stand for many hours, possibly overnight, with very little opportunity to sit down as the queue will be continuously moving,” it said in a set of detailed instructions for those wanting to come.
People will be able to check the line’s length and waiting times on the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport’s social media accounts. Those joining will be given numbered wristbands so they take food or toilet breaks without losing their place. A separate accessible line has been set up for people unable to stand for long stretches.
As ever in Britain, jumping the queue is a definite no-no. Officials hope mourners’ sense of fairness will make the line largely self-policing. Given the vagaries of British weather, people are advised to carry both an umbrella and sunscreen.
The government is offering other helpful hints: Bring food and drink, but be sure to consume it before reaching the front. Bring a portable power pack to keep phones charged.
When they reach Parliament, people will pass through airport-style security scans. Prohibited items include large bags, liquids, spray paint, knives, fireworks, flowers, candles, stuffed toys and “advertising or marketing messages.”
Those in the queue on Wednesday were convinced all the hassle would be worth it.
“To give up my day queuing is nothing compared to what she’s done for 70 years,” Gina Carver from Tunbridge Wells in southern England said of the late queen. “And she does feel like our grandmother.”
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While hiring remains robust, workers struggle to make ends meet, says Ludwig Institute
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Even though official government statistics indicate the U.S. economy continues to add jobs and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports the lowest jobless rate in more than two years, the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) reports the "functional unemployment" rate remains high due to the inability of low- and middle-income workers to earn a living wage in the face of rising inflation.
LISEP's May True Rate of Unemployment (TRU) report – a measure of the "functionally unemployed," defined as the jobless, plus those seeking but unable to secure full-time employment paying above the poverty line after adjusting for inflation – remained basically stable, dropping 0.1 percentage points, from 23.1% in April to 23.0%. The BLS reported no change in its May jobs report, remaining unchanged at 3.6% for the third consecutive month while adding 390,000 jobs.
A flat TRU in spite of a growing workforce is a strong sign that inflation is forcing low- and middle-income workers into a position where their jobs no longer provide a living wage that keeps them above the poverty line, according to LISEP chairman Gene Ludwig.
"Inflation is by far outpacing the modest pay increases we've seen for lower wage workers, to the extent that they've been forced into an untenable financial situation," Ludwig said. "It is becoming increasingly difficult for a working family in America to cover even the most basic household needs."
Ludwig noteds that new LISEP research released in March showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has understated the impact of inflation on middle- and low-income households by 40% over the last 20 years, primarily due to an understatement on the rising costs of basic necessities.
While LISEP's TRU overall showed little to no improvement in living-wage job growth, there were some bright spots in the May report. Functional unemployment among Black workers fell, from 26.5% to 25.2%, and the rate for women improved from 28.1% to 27.5%. The rate for White workers improved almost a full percentage point, dropping from 22.0% to 21.1%. But meanwhile, the rate for Hispanic workers took a big jump, from 25.7% to 27.1%, and functional unemployment for men jumped from 18.6% to 19.2%.
Ludwig said that even though the overall TRU report is showing only marginal improvement over the last few months, over the last two years progress is being made: in May 2021, the TRU was 25.5%; in May 2020 the rate was 31.4%. Still, he said, owing largely to an accelerating inflationary trend, nearly one-in-four American workers are seeking, but unable to find, a full-time, living-wage job – something that should be top-of-mind for policymakers.
"Improvement is encouraging, but we know that as a nation, we can do better," Ludwig said. "Our goal should move beyond the old school view of an economic recovery, where an improvement in traditional headline statistics was enough. Every worker deserves the opportunity for an inflation-adjusted, living wage job. Any economic recovery short of that goal is wholly unsustainable."
LISEP issued the white paper "Measuring Better: Development of 'True Rate of Unemployment' Data as the Basis for Social and Economic Policy'' upon announcing the new statistical measure in October 2020. The paper and methodology can be viewed here. LISEP issues TRU one to two weeks following the release of the BLS unemployment report, which occurs on the first Friday of each month. The TRU rate and supporting data are available on the LISEP website at https://www.lisep.org/tru.
The Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) was created in 2019 by Ludwig and his wife, Dr. Carol Ludwig. The mission of LISEP is to give policymakers a more transparent view into the economic well-being of middle- and low-income Americans, and seeks to advance the dialogue around policy solutions.
In addition to his role as LISEP chair, Gene Ludwig is founder of the Promontory family of companies and Canapi LLC, a financial technology venture fund. He is the CEO of Promontory MortgagePath, a technology-based mortgage fulfillment and solutions company. Ludwig is the former vice chairman and senior control officer of Bankers Trust New York Corp., and served as the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency from 1993 to 1998. He is also author of the book The Vanishing American Dream, which investigates the economic challenges facing middle- and low-income Americans. It was released in September 2020 by Disruption Books. On Twitter: @geneludwig.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, today announced the completion of its sale of Frontline Education ("Frontline"), a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, to Roper Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ROP) in an all-cash transaction that values Frontline at approximately $3.725 billion.
Frontline, which offers solutions for human capital management, student and special programs, and business operations with powerful analytics to increase productivity and improve overall performance for K-12 administrators, has been a trusted partner to K-12 leaders across all 50 states for decades.
"We are grateful to Thoma Bravo for their invaluable partnership over the last five years which has allowed us to further expand the use of our critical solutions by educators across the country," said Mark Gruzin, Chief Executive Officer of Frontline Education. "As part of Roper, we are excited to bring enhanced innovation and value to our clients in alignment with our mission to empower K-12 schools with the technology capabilities they need to succeed."
"We are extremely proud of our partnership with Frontline and what we have been able to achieve together," said Holden Spaht, a Managing Partner at Thoma Bravo. "Applying our deep sector expertise, we worked with Mark and the Frontline team to make strategic acquisitions, increase revenue and expand product offerings and headcount in order to drive sustainable long-term growth. We look forward to following Frontline's continued success with Roper as their partner."
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Jefferies LLC and Macquarie Capital served as financial advisors and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal advisor to Thoma Bravo and Frontline Education. Cooley LLP also served as legal advisor to Frontline Education.
About Thoma Bravo
Thoma Bravo is one of the largest private equity firms in the world, with more than $122 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2022. The firm invests in growth-oriented, innovative companies operating in the software and technology sectors. Leveraging the firm's deep sector expertise and proven strategic and operational capabilities, Thoma Bravo collaborates with its portfolio companies to implement operating best practices, drive growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions intended to accelerate revenue and earnings. Over the past 20 years, the firm has acquired or invested in more than 400 companies representing over $220 billion in enterprise value. The firm has offices in Chicago, Miami and San Francisco. For more information, visit www.thomabravo.com.
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Army Slam Radio DJs For Not Playing BTS Because Of ‘Annoying’ Fans
October 5, 2022 5:30PM CDT
iHeartRadio host Brian Grimes apologized after BTS fans, known as the ARMY, called him and his fellow broadcasters ‘BTS Nerds’ and ‘annoying’ for requesting the group’s songs.
“I swear on all that is holy, if the #BTSARMY doesn’t stop with the spam messages to the radio station about playing ‘Left and Right,’ I will go out of my way to NEVER play it, and I really like Charlie Puth.” he tweeted.
The fanbase accused Grimes and iHeartRadio hosts of being discriminatory against BTS fans and pulled receipts to prove it; one fan posted the conversation Grimes had on air about not playing BTS, the host later apologized on social media for his comments.
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BEIJING (AP) — Recent Chinese air and sea drills simulating an encirclement of Taiwan were intended as a “serious warning” to pro-independence politicians on the self-governing island and their foreign supporters, China said Wednesday, as signs emerged that Beijing will take further action.
The three days of large-scale air and sea exercises named Joint Sword that ended Monday were a response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California last week during a transit visit to the U.S. China had warned of serious consequences if that meeting went ahead.
Although China said the exercises are over, it has kept up military pressure against Taiwan in the past few days and signaled it will do more.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation said Wednesday it had received a notice from China’s Civil Aviation Administration that it would set up a control zone to “restrict flights” in parts of northern Taiwan from April 16-18, in effect setting up an area where flights would not be allowed to go.
“On their own, they set up a warning area to control flights within our country’s jurisdiction’s Taipei Aviation Information Region, using the excuse of aerospace activities,” the Taiwan statement said.
Taiwan said it strongly protested the notice and was able to get China to reduce the flight ban time from three days to 27 minutes on the morning of April 16. It is unclear what China plans to do at that time. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said it was looking into the matter but could not provide further details.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory to be brought under its control by force if necessary and regularly sends ships and warplanes into airspace and waters near the island. It defended its recent military actions Wednesday.
“The People’s Liberation Army recently organized and conducted a series of countermeasures in the Taiwan Strait and surrounding waters, which is a serious warning against the collusion and provocation of Taiwan independence separatist forces and external forces,” Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a biweekly news conference.
“It is a necessary action to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” she said.
Such missions have grown more frequent in recent years, accompanied by increasingly bellicose language from the administration of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping. Any conflict between the sides could draw in the U.S., Taiwan’s closest ally, which is required by law to consider all threats to the island as matters of “grave concern.”
On Wednesday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked 35 flights by People’s Liberation Army warplanes within the last 24 hours, and eight navy vessels in the waters surrounding the island.
“There are still some navy ships and airplanes carrying out harassment in the area. We strongly condemn these deliberately threatening and provocative actions that destroy the regional peace and stability,” Sun Li-fang, a spokesperson for Taiwan’s Defense Ministry, said at a press briefing Wednesday.
The vast majority of Taiwanese favor maintaining their current de-facto independent status, while Tsai has said there is no need for a formal declaration since the island democracy is already an independent nation.
Despite that, China, which does not recognize Taiwan’s government institutions and has cut off contact with Tsai’s administration, routinely accuses her of plotting formal independence with outside backing — generally seen as referring to the U.S.
“External forces are intensifying their endeavor of containing China with Taiwan as a tool,” Zhu said.
Zhu also repeated China’s assertion that its military threats are “targeted at Taiwan’s independence separatist activities and interference from external forces, and by no means at our compatriots in Taiwan.”
What that means in practical terms isn’t clear, although Beijing has long exploited political divisions within Taiwanese society, which boasts a robust democracy and strong civil liberties.
“Taiwanese compatriots should clearly recognize the serious harm that the provocation of Taiwan independence forces poses to cross-strait relations and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, recognize the interests, distinguish right from wrong, and stand on the correct side of history,” Zhu said.
The Chinese military issued a threat as it concluded the exercises, saying its troops “can fight at any time to resolutely smash any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ and foreign interference attempts.”
In August, after then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, China conducted missile strikes on targets in the seas around Taiwan and sent warships and warplanes over the median line of the Taiwan Strait. It also fired missiles over the island that landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone in a significant escalation.
The most recent exercises focused more on air strength, with Taiwan reporting more than 200 flights by Chinese warplanes. On Monday alone, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry tracked 91 flights by Chinese warplanes.
They also featured the use of China’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier, Shandong, which launched dozens of J-15 Flying Shark fighter missions during the exercises, according to Japanese officials.
Taiwanese military officials said they noted the Shandong’s appearance in the Pacific Ocean, to Taiwan’s east, and that it was the focus of their discussions and preparedness plans.
“Everyone can see clearly China’s ability to cross the first island chain is gradually improving. The so-called ‘anti-access/area denial’ ability is gradually improving,” said Lt. Gen. Li Tian-long at a press briefing Wednesday, referring to a military concept where forces prevent an adversary from entering a specific area.
Defense experts said China would likely use the Shandong to try to prevent foreign militaries from accessing that area based on its exercise movements.
Taiwan will launch an annual large-scale drill on Thursday jointly with its disaster services and Defense Ministry, as well as local governments. Last year, the government revamped the disaster-preparedness drills to include more wartime scenarios. This year, they said, that trend would continue with war-preparedness to comprise 70% of the drills’ contents.
The developments come as the USS Nimitz Carrier group is operating in the South China Sea south of Taiwan and as American and Filipino forces hold their largest combat exercises in decades in Philippine waters across the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Jerry Kelly shot a 5-under 65 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with Alex Cejka in the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship.
The Principal Charity Classic winner last month in Iowa, the 55-year-old Kelly had six birdies and a bogey to match Cejka at 9-under 201 on Firestone Country Club’s South Course.
“No. 1, getting the ball in the fairway, so I can have control of my irons,” Kelly said. “Not trying to do too much with my iron shots, just giving myself good looks. And then the putter was better today.”
Cejka birdied four of the last five holes for a 67. The 51-year-old Czech-born German is chasing his third senior major title after winning the Regions Tradition and Senior PGA last year.
“It’s great to finish strong,” Cejka said. “I played pretty good all day long, but had a terrible start, made two stupid bogeys. Had a lot of good chances, couldn’t make a putt with great shots. It’s frustrating.”
Defending champion Steve Stricker (68) and Steven Alker (69) were tied for third at 7 under. Ernie Els (69) was 6 under.
“Only two shots back and a lot of golf left,” Stricker said. “Eighteen holes around here, you can make up ground in a hurry, so that’s kind of what I need to do tomorrow.”
Stricker, the Regions Tradition in May, grew up playing against Kelly in their hometown of Madison, Wisconsin.
“He plays well here,” Stricker said. “This is just like the course he grew up on, just a little bit longer is all. I expect him to play well here. And yeah, he’ll have a challenge tomorrow. There’s a lot of guys behind him.”
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Landscape designer Paul Robbins had more than water conservation in mind when he removed the muddy turf and bamboo behind his Pasadena rental and created a welcoming, low-water landscape.
“Our garden is very family-friendly,” says Robbins, gesturing toward the Victorian box tree where his 5-year-old daughter Ava likes to swing. Next to it, a butterfly chair is strategically placed underneath the shade of a towering fig tree. “Audrey likes to sit there and listen to the stone trough water fountain,” he says of his 6-month old daughter. “You can still have a green and lush garden with very little water. Drought-tolerant doesn’t have to look desert-like or stark.”
You would expect an Englishman to favor thirsty annuals and perennials, but Robbins says he pivoted to drought-tolerant plants long before the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency and ordered outdoor watering limited to two days a week. Even so, he thinks gardens should reference the wonder of living in a place like Los Angeles.
“When I create a garden, I want it to feel like you’re in Southern California,” he says. “I love citrus trees and bougainvillea. They will give you the feeling that you’re in a wonderful environment.”
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When he and his wife, Charlotte, moved to Pasadena last year, they were excited to find a rental in a family-friendly neighborhood filled with single family homes and majestic live oak trees. They liked the neighborhood’s walkable streets and that Ava’s school is a short bike ride away.
But Robbins had mixed feelings about the 1936 home’s manicured lawn — prevalent on his block — and backyard, which was lined with muddy grass, red bricks and bamboo. “I understand that people put up bamboo as a screen because it grows quickly,” he says, watching hummingbirds and butterflies fly through the garden. “But there is a big downside to bamboo: It doesn’t attract any wildlife.”
After renting an apartment in Koreatown for several years, Robbins was also excited by the prospect of designing a garden for his family to enjoy.
“Even when we were in Koreatown, he filled our apartment with pots and plants,” Charlotte says with a smile.
Adds Robbins: “COVID-19 made people realize the importance of being outdoors. It feels amazing to have a yard again.”
With his landlord’s blessing, Robbins and a crew removed 2,400 square feet of grass and bamboo by hand in the backyard and installed a new garden over the next four months. Although Robbins did not request a turf replacement from the city of Pasadena, which offers a $2-per-square-foot rebate for replacing turf with drought-tolerant and native plants, homeowners can apply for a rebate for a rental property, according to the SoCalWaterSmart website. Robbins estimates he spent around $25,000 to $30,000 in labor, materials and plants but doesn’t regret investing his own money on someone else’s home as his family won’t be moving anytime soon.
Soon after he removed the turf and bamboo, Robbins created a plant plan and mapped it out in the dirt with spray paint. He then added compost-heavy custom soil from Whittier Fertilizer and 3/8-inch Lodi gravel from Bourget Bros. “It’s the closest thing to Cotswold gravel,” he says.
Asked to weigh in on the decomposed granite versus gravel debate, he says he has always been a fan of gravel. “It’s more practical in the winter when it gets wet,” he says. It also has a soothing auditory element. “I appreciate the softness of decomposed granite, but I like the sound of gravel. My kids know when I’m awake in the morning.”
He installed mostly Mediterranean plants in a limited palette, not only because they need little water, but also because he knew they would work well in the home’s sandy loam soil. His garden is a combination of his English roots and Southern California influences: Hardy boxwood ‘Green Beauty’ hedges, Pittosporum tobria ‘Wheeler’s Dwarf’ shrubs and Japanese holly planted en masse are softened by flowering blue hibiscus, grape vines, honeysuckle and jasmine. There are tall, flowering Acanthus mollis, commonly known as bear’s breeches, silvery green olive trees and fragrant coastal rosemary. It’s a magical environment that works as an extension of the house, filled with shade, wildlife and private alcoves, including a pathway to a bunny hutch, that he waters just once a week by hand.
Working with the home’s long-established trees, including Carolina cherry, fig, coastal oak, mulberry and pomegranate, Robbins added young holm oak (Quercus ilex), jacaranda ‘Bonsai Blue’ and multiple olives, some of which are in planters, to add shade and help cool the yard in the years to come. Despite the garden’s neat appearance, Robbins notes that he mulches quite a bit and allows the leaves to decompose to prevent water evaporation and add nutrients to the soil.
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Next to the fire pit where the family likes to hang out, he installed a herb garden in a raised bed with easy access to the kitchen. In another thoughtful move, Robbins added vintage pots throughout the garden, many of which he had been collecting over the years and were leftover from landscaping jobs, to help break up the mass plantings. “I’ve always loved pots,” he says. “It takes me back to Europe.“
The garden is anchored on a deck that serves as an outdoor dining room. Robbins transformed the empty stoop with potted plants that can endure the heat; they are a variety of shapes and sizes, including quick-growing acacia, bougainvillea, citrus, cistus, jacaranda ‘Bonsai Blue,’ Olea europea, Pittosporum crassifolium ‘Compactum’ and santolina. To top it off, he installed a trio of sun sails to provide protection on days when the temperature in Pasadena hits triple digits.
Although the couple are unable to purchase a home right now in L.A.'s competitive housing market, they consider themselves fortunate to be putting down roots in Pasadena. “We love it here and are hoping we can stay for years,” Robbins says. “I have covered 2,400 square feet, and we enjoy it every day. This weekend we are hosting a family birthday party for 40 people. I can take a lot of the plants with me when I leave.”
And the garden?
“I’ll be passing it on to the next family who lives here.”
Did you tear out your lawn and replace it with drought-tolerant plants? We want to hear from you.
Turf removal tips:
Ready to tear out your lawn? Here’s some advice from Robbins before you get started:
- To get rid of Marathon, a popular grass in Southern California because it stays green yearround, rent a sod cotter, turn the grass over and wait two weeks before rototilling the soil. Then, add organic compost and new soil to your yard as needed.
- Install drip irrigation, which is a low-volume watering system.
- Choose plants based on what grows well in your neighborhood and what kind of soil you have. “For example, light, free-draining soils favor plants such as lavenders, salvias, rosemary and westringia. Heavier soils [favor] pittosporums, olive shrubs and agapanthus,” Robbins advises.
- Choose three to five varieties to plant as a group. This will make your yard stand out without complicated maintenance.
Plants used in this garden
EXISTING TREES
- Carolina cherry
- Fig
- Coastal oak
- Mulberry
- Victorian box, Pittosporum undulatum
- Pomegranate
NEW TREES
- Holm oak, Quercus ilex
- Jacaranda ‘Bonsai Blue’
- Olives
BOUNDARY HEDGES
- Japanese Blueberry, Elaeocarpus decipiens
VINES ON BOUNDARY FENCE
- Honeysuckle
- Jasmine
- Tecomaria
WALL/FENCE SHRUB
- Crossberry, Grewia occidentalis
SHRUBS AND FLOWERS
- Bear’s Breeches, Acanthus mollis
- Arbutus “Oktoberfest”
- Blue hibiscus, Alyogyne huegelii
- Boxwood ‘Green Beauty’
- Silverbush, Convolvulus cneorum
- Euphorbia (spurge)
- Gardenia jasminoides
- Grape vine (table grape)
- Japanese holly, Ilex crenata
- Jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides
- Little Ollie, Olea europaea
- “Wheelers Dwarf,” Pittosporum tobria
- Variegated Japanese Mock Orange, Pittosporum variegata
- Rosemary (Tuscan)
- Dwarf coast rosemary, Westringia fruticosa (gray box)
POTTED PLANTS
- Acacia
- Bougainvillia
- Citrus
- Cistus
- Jacaranda ‘Bonsai Blue’
- Olive europea
- Dwarf karo, Pittosporum crassifolium “Compactum”
- Santolina
TABLE PLANTS
- Dorstenia gigas
Helpful resources for waterwise gardening
- The Waterwise Garden: Designed by Nature by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
- Inland Valley Garden Planner
- California Native Plant Society
- Bewaterwise.com
- Socalwatersmart.com
- California Friendly Maintenance Guide
- Virtual classes on tearing out your lawn, irrigation, soil, garden design from Green Gardens Group
- Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants
- California Native Plant Society’s Calscape
- Homegrown National Park
- UC Master Gardener Program
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NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR).
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Will Smith is working to move forward following his high-profile Oscars altercation. A source tells ET that the King Richard star "has been going to therapy after the Oscars incident," in which he stormed onstage and slapped Chris Rock in the face over a joke aimed at Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
ET has reached out to Smith's reps for comment.
The news comes nearly two weeks after Smith -- who went on to win the Oscar for Best Actor shortly after the infamous slap -- was spotted in public for the first time in India.
Smith arrived at a private airfield in Mumbai on April 23, where a horde of paparazzi awaited his arrival. Smith wore a white T-shirt over a muscle shirt, gray shorts over white compression pants and Jordan sneakers.
Smith smiled as he posed for pictures with a few fans, including an airport security official, before waving at the photographers and entering the airport facility.
Rock, meanwhile, made his return to the stage as part of his stand-up tour just days after the incident at the Oscars, but explained how he wasn't yet ready to address the slap.
However, Rock joked about the altercation briefly Tuesday night after comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked onstage at the Hollywood Bowl, as he performed as part of the Netflix Is A Joke Festival. The man, who was armed with a knife, attempted to tackle Chappelle, and then ran off, where he was cornered and apprehended by security.
Rock, who was also performing at the event, took the stage to check on Chappelle and restore calm, and offhandedly quipped, "Was that Will Smith?"
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- Provides customers across the region access to Amcor's expertise to accelerate development of sustainable packaging solutions
- Further positions Amcor as the innovation leader and partner of choice for leading consumer goods brands
JIANGYIN, China, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amcor (NYSE: AMCR) (ASX:AMC), a global leader in responsible packaging solutions, today announced the opening of its latest Innovation Center in Jiangyin, China. The new center brings advanced packaging technologies and more sustainable material science to Asia Pacific, helping to drive growth and innovation across the region.
"We are thrilled to bring the best of Amcor's unmatched innovation capabilities closer to our customers in Asia Pacific," said Mike Cash, President of Amcor's Flexibles business in Asia Pacific. "This world-class facility offers our customers in the region the opportunity to collaborate hand-in-hand with our experts to make innovative packaging ideas a reality. Asia Pacific is a key growth market for Amcor and our new innovation center is just one of many important, customer-focused investments we are making in the region."
William Jackson, Chief Technology Officer for Amcor's Flexibles business said, "As the only packaging company to establish a global innovation network, Amcor is uniquely positioned to help our customers benefit from a global approach to innovation. The new innovation center will enable us to develop the best ideas from across the globe for the regional market, greatly enhancing the customer experience."
At the core of all Amcor innovation centers are three key programs designed to encourage collaboration on how to develop, in real-time, the best solution that meets customer requirements that will help facilitate growth.
- The Catalyst™ program - a flexible, collaborative, and creative approach of co-innovation that allows customers to customize solutions for their markets and customers, leveraging advanced analytical and material science labs.
- The Ideation and Prototyping Innovation Lab – taking consumer insights and ideas to conduct rapid prototyping, helping significantly shorten product development and evaluation cycles.
- The Applications Lab – offering a range of production machinery testing capabilities to identify potential issues quickly and early, helping to make the product development process more efficient, cost-effective and seamless.
The Asia Pacific Innovation Center will also serve as a base for collaboration for the packaging industry. From in-depth research on new technology and materials to the latest packaging and composting know-how, the Innovation Center will allow all parties from across the supply chain and region to share best practices. For more information on Amcor's efforts in innovation, click here.
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Amcor is a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care, and other products. Amcor works with leading companies around the world to protect their products and the people who rely on them, differentiate brands, and improve supply chains through a range of flexible and rigid packaging, specialty cartons, closures, and services. The company is focused on making packaging that is increasingly lighter weight, recyclable and reusable, and made using an increasing amount of recycled content. In fiscal year 2022, 44,000 Amcor people generated $15 billion in annual sales from operations that span 220 locations in 43 countries. NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC
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More than half of U.S. businesses are small businesses – and over half of them fail, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Because of that, many business owners are looking for extra funding and even help from the federal government.
But when Byron messaged us some Facebook posts saying the Small Business Administration is giving small business loans ranging from thousands to millions of dollars, with a no-payback promise, he was skeptical.
“SBA announced $60K, Who needs a List of grants to get their business off the ground … guarantee approval in hours. (NO PAY BACK),” one post said.
Another post said, “Call all Business owners out here !!NEW GRANT OUT FUNDING FOR $50,000. MUST HAVE A LLC OR EIN!! And 25,000 for Individual Application. Don't miss OUT again!!!!”
THE QUESTION
Are these Facebook posts about small business loans or grants legitimate?
THE SOURCES
- U.S. Small Business Administration
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which runs Grants.gov
- RevEye, a reverse image search tool
THE ANSWER
No, these Facebook posts aren’t legitimate.
WHAT WE FOUND
There are legitimate small business loans and grants that are available through government programs, but these Facebook posts are scams.
VERIFY analyzed several factors to find out whether these posts are legitimate offers.
First, we went to the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which runs Grants.gov, a website where small business owners can apply for various grants.
The first red flag is the application fee mentioned in some of the posts. It’s free to apply for government grants, and you can apply directly without going through a third party.
“If you are contacted by someone promising to get approval of an SBA loan, but requiring any payment up front or offering a high-interest bridge loan in the interim, suspect fraud,” the SBA says.
According to the SBA, there are legitimate brokers who help business owners apply for loans, but they are strictly regulated. For example, real brokers charge a fee based on the loan amount, not an upfront fee.
Also, the posts claim applicants will receive approval within hours – that’s also false. The SBA and Grants.gov both say it takes at least a week for the application to be reviewed, and it could take even longer to process.
We then looked at the individual posts themselves.
VERIFY found several Facebook posts advertising these small business loans or grants with varying dollar amounts. Nearly all of them had identical text – which is an indication this is a copypasta meme scam.
Copypasta is internet slang for a block of text that gets copied and pasted repeatedly.
One example allegedly came from someone named Janet Billy, who posted in a group for Houston-based food truck owners. When we used RevEye, a reverse image search tool, we found this person is not named Janet Billy and is not a Houston food truck owner.
The reverse image search actually led us to the profile of Dani Daniels, a Los Angeles-based adult film star whose Instagram profile says, “Don’t fall for scammers pretending to be me.”
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno political rally on Wednesday pushed for 'yes' votes to protect abortion rights, but opponents say the measure is already guaranteed to pass, and the rally had a different goal.
The June Supreme Court decision undoing Roe v. Wade served as a warning shot for abortion rights supporters in California, including Fresno pastor Tim Kutzmark.
"The decision to seek an abortion is a private matter between an individual and their doctor," said Kutzmark, who leads the Unitarian Universalist congregation in northeast Fresno. "And for some, (the decision includes) their clergy person and their God."
Kutzmark may be in the minority on the issue among clergy members.
The Catholic diocese and several evangelical leaders oppose abortion and Prop 1.
Pastor Jim Franklin warns the proposition could open the door to late-term abortions.
"Proposition 1 says it will be full-term for any reason," said Franklin, who leads the congregation at Cornerstone Church in downtown Fresno. "That's not what Californians want."
The proposition doesn't explicitly set restrictions on abortion, but several constitutional experts say it won't expand abortion beyond what's currently allowed in California.
After a fetus reaches viability - usually at about 24 weeks - abortions are only legal to protect the health of the mother.
State Senator Anna Caballero says it's important for voters to understand Prop 1 doesn't change the law. It just enshrines the current rules into the state constitution.
"It's really easy to spread misinformation now, and we want the community to know exactly what this is all about," said Caballero, (D) Merced.
So opponents say a rally like the one in northeast Fresno Wednesday isn't really necessary.
Franklin suspects Democrats are hoping the proposition has coattails carrying candidates in closer races to victory.
"I think the Left has made this the only issue they have that they think they can rally that type of support," the pastor said. "They're losing every other way - from inflation to crime to immigration -- the polls all go against them."
Election Day is this coming Tuesday.
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Britain is bidding farewell to Queen Elizabeth II with a majestic funeral steeped in tradition and a send-off reflective of the broad popularity she managed to retain over her remarkable seven-decade reign.
Royal family members and dignitaries gathered at Westminster Abbey for a somber service on Monday morning. Thousands more flocked to streets along the 25-mile (40-kilometer) procession route from central London to Windsor, hoping to catch a glimpse of the sovereign's flag-draped coffin as it traveled by hearse to her final resting place.
In the third and final procession of the day, the Queen's coffin was taken past crowds of well-wishers lining the Long Walk to Windsor Castle for her committal service and burial at St. George's Chapel.
Though the death of Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, had been anticipated and carefully planned for for years -- funeral arrangements, codenamed "Operation London Bridge," were long the subject of speculation -- the magnitude of this moment of mourning and the public outpouring of emotion has still caught many off guard. Even for those who are not fans of the royal family, her death marks the end of an era, a shift in the national landscape.
At 96, the Queen had become an almost mythical symbol of stability amid constant change. Her 70-year rule was bookended by war and pandemic, punctuated by uncertainty about Britain's role on the world stage. She came to power as the sun had started to set on the British Empire, and her death has renewed a conversation about the country's dark colonial past. It comes at a time of great political and economic upheaval, not only in the United Kingdom, but across the globe.
Presidents, prime ministers, princes and princesses, an emperor and empress, and other public figures sat side-by-side in Westminster Abbey to pay their last respects -- a testament to her far-reaching appeal and deft diplomacy. More than 200 foreign dignitaries were invited, including US President Joe Biden and Commonwealth leaders like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Many traded limos for buses to arrive at the funeral, just one part of a plan that amounts to the single biggest security operation that British authorities have seen since World War II.
From humanitarian groups, to women's rights and animal welfare organizations, the Queen was patron of hundreds of charities. Representatives of those patronages, along with emergency service workers and public servants, were also among the 2,000-strong congregation.
The funeral, which served as both a state and religious service and marks the culmination of 10 days of mourning, honored the Queen with the sort of pageantry that she used to promote the royal family and "brand Britain" throughout her life.
The service took place in the same abbey nave where, 69 years ago, the Queen was crowned and where, 75 years ago, she was married to her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year. A sovereign who knew the soft power of spectacle, her coronation was, at her request, broadcast for the first time on television, bringing the splendor of the monarchy to millions around the world. On Monday, all eyes were on her once again.
Head of state of 15 countries in the Commonwealth realm, including the UK, and Supreme Governor of the Church of England, her appeal as a figurehead lay in her extreme sense of duty, diligent work ethic, and an ability to appear neutral yet personable. Admiration for the Queen has staved off a major reckoning of the crown's brutal legacy in former colonies -- including its historic links with the slave trade -- but that already appears to be changing as some Commonwealth countries look to break away.
Last week, Antigua and Barbuda announced plans to hold a referendum on whether to become a republic, and last November, Barbados became the first realm in nearly 30 years to remove the British monarch as head of state.
Many of the Queen's subjects felt as though they knew her -- the woman whose image is on coins and postage stamps, who surveys say appears most frequently in people's dreams.
"She isn't just a 21st century monarch, she's something more," Chris Rowe, 60, who was camped out on a grassy bank of The Mall to watch the funeral procession with his wife, told CNN. The Queen represents the "continuity of a hundreds-years-old tradition," he said, adding that he came to London to see "the continuity of the nation."
While there were no screens, mourners on The Mall were able to hear a radio broadcast of the funeral. People stood still, their gazes lowered. Later, as the funeral procession passed by, children were hoisted aloft on shoulders to see the military units march past and people snapped pictures on their phones -- capturing the end of an era.
Over the past four days, an almost familial sense of loss was palpable among mourners in a queue that snaked from Westminster Hall, where the monarch's body lay in state, for miles along the south bank of the River Thames. In quintessentially British fashion, thousands lined up to say goodbye to the Queen, waiting up to 20 hours to file past her coffin.
Queen Elizabeth's children, King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward, on Friday entered the cavernous chamber, heads bowed, joining guards to hold silent watch over the velvet catafalque bearing her coffin, adorned with the sovereign's jewel-encrusted crown, orb and sceptre. A day later, Prince William and Prince Harry, dressed in military uniform, held their own sombre vigil, standing alongside the Queen's six other grandchildren.
On Monday morning, the King and other members of the royal family followed the coffin as it was conveyed from Westminster Hall, on her final journey to the abbey. It was carried on the same gun carriage used for the funeral of the Queen's father, King George VI, and Winston Churchill, the first of 15 British prime ministers who served under her.
Westminster Abbey's Tenor Bell tolled once a minute for 96 minutes before the service, marking each year of the Queen's life.
Small details like the wreath of flowers atop her coffin provided a view into the Queen's personal taste. Made from flowers and foliage cut from the gardens of Buckingham Palace and other royal estates, it included pink and gold pelargoniums, garden roses and dahlias, with myrtle cut from a plant grown from a sprig that featured in the Queen's wedding bouquet.
As the coffin moved inside the abbey, the Queen's great-grandchildren Prince George and Princess Charlotte formed part of the procession behind her coffin. The Choir of Westminster Abbey in the Nave sang the Sentences -- lines of scripture set to music which have been used at every state funeral since the early part of the 18th century.
It was the sort of traditional, classical music that the Queen championed in life. Hymns chosen were "The Day Thou Gavest, Lord" and "The Lord is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want," which was sung at her wedding to Prince Philip in 1947, and the anthem "O Taste and see how gracious the Lord is," which was composed for the Queen's coronation in 1953 by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
A choral piece was also especially commissioned for the day, composed by the master of the king's music, Judith Weir, "Like as the Hart." It is said to be inspired by the Queen's "unwavering Christian faith," and is a setting of Psalm 42 to music.
Rev. David Hoyle, the Dean of Westminster, conducted the service. UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, who the Queen appointed just two days before her death, and Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland read lessons and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, delivered a sermon.
"The grief of this day, felt not only by the late Queen's family but all round the nation, the Commonwealth and the world, arises from her abundant life and loving service -- now gone from us," Welby said in his sermon, recalling the monarch's 21st birthday broadcast, in which she famously declared that she would dedicate her whole life to serving the nation and the Commonwealth.
"Service in life, hope in death; all who follow the Queen's example and inspiration of trust and faith in God can with her say: 'we will meet again,'" he concluded, quoting the Queen's speech during Britain's Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, a nod to Vera Lynn's wartime song.
The hour-long service concluded with a two-minute silence, after which the congregation sang the national anthem, "God Save the King." The Queen's piper, whose music roused the Queen every morning, played a fitting lament, "Sleep, Dearie, Sleep," to close the proceedings.
The day's events are a display of centuries-old rituals -- a royal cavalcade flanked by guards in braided uniforms, kilted bagpipers and drummers, streets lined with soldiers saluting as the coffin passes. Minute guns were fired in Hyde Park and Big Ben tolled throughout the procession to Wellington Arch, where the coffin was placed into a hearse to be transported to Windsor.
In a committal service Monday afternoon, attended by members of the royal family and the Queen's household staff past and present, her coffin will be lowered into a royal vault in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Some of the music in the service was composed by Sir William Henry Harris, who was the organist of St. George's Chapel when the Queen was a girl and is believed to have taught her to play piano.
In a poignant moment filled with theater, silence will descend on the chapel and the crown jeweler will remove the Imperial State Crown and the sovereign's orb and scepter -- separating Elizabeth from her crown for the final time. The Lord Chamberlain, the head of the Queen's household, will then break his wand of office and place it on top of the coffin before it is lowered into the vault.
Later in the evening, in a private burial, she will be reunited with her husband of 73 years, "her constant strength and guide," the Duke of Edinburgh. The couple will be interred together in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, an annex of St. George's Chapel that also houses the remains of the Queen's father, her mother the Queen Mother, and her sister Princess Margaret.
"It just means so much to me," said Lorraine Calloway, who came to Windsor with her son Cohen, age 8, to participate in the historic day. "To come and see the Queen have her last resting place here is something that is really fundamentally important to me, and the family."
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Bomb threat prompts temporary evacuation of North West Junior High in Coralville
North West Junior High School in Coralville was briefly evacuated after receiving a bomb threat Thursday, but a search by police turned up no explosives, Coralville police said.
The threat came two days after 30 schools across the state, including in Iowa City and North Liberty, were hit with false reports of active shooters.
Iowa City Community School District Superintendent Matt Degner sent an email to families of North West students at 9:24 a.m. Thursday saying the district was working with Coralville police to investigate the threat and that emergency personnel were at the school.
Police chief: Threat not related to Tuesday 'swatting' calls
Police Chief Shane Kron said officers and an explosives detection K9 from the University of Iowa Police Department conducted the search. He said the threat, made via email, was against both the school and several teachers.
He said he did not believe the threat was related to the so-called "swatting," or hoax calls, on Tuesday.
Although Kron said that based on the email containing the threat, he did not believe it to be credible or from a local person, the district in “an abundance of caution” evacuated the students and staff to expedite the search, which took less than an hour.
School resumes, but students allowed to go home
The students and staff took shelter at the Coralville Recreation Center. Classes resumed after the search, Kron confirmed, though families were allowed to take students out of school for the remainder of the day, if they preferred.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TDI announced today that AnnMarie Killian has been appointed as the organization's next Chief Executive Officer. Killian will be TDI's first woman CEO and officially assumes the CEO position July 1, 2023, succeeding Eric Kaika. To view an American Sign Language interpretation of this press release please visit TDI.
TDI is the nation's leading advocate for deaf and hard of hearing people's equitable access to telephone, radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable networks.
"TDI is very pleased to welcome AnnMarie as our next leader," said Jan Withers, President of TDI. "AnnMarie brings a wealth of leadership experience and expertise in telecommunications and beyond. Importantly, she is a passionate advocate for our deaf and hard of hearing community and for greater diversity and inclusion in our world. I firmly believe that AnnMarie's leadership skills, DEI expertise, and strong relationships with a broad range of diverse stakeholders will elevate and advance TDI for many years to come. The Board and I are grateful for Eric's stewardship and we very much look forward to working with AnnMarie."
"I am deeply honored to have the opportunity to serve as TDI's next CEO," said Killian. "Throughout my entire career I have always recognized TDI as a true pioneer for greater accessibility and inclusion for our deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing communities. I am very excited to work alongside the board, the TDI staff, our members, and our partners in industry, consumer organizations, government, and academia."
Killian previously served as Chief Marketing Officer for ZP Better Together (ZP). She also served as ZP's Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion and was instrumental in ZP's multi-year recognition as a Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion. Killian also served as ZP's Vice President of Interpreting Operations where she was responsible for increasing profitability, growing revenue and maximizing operational efficiencies. During her more than six years with ZP, Killian also contributed to elevating the organization's brand in the mainstream media, advancing strategic partnerships such as those with Disability:IN and CEO Action, and launching innovative and accessible services and products.
Prior to ZP, Killian served in various leadership roles at Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD), including: Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Vice President of Interpreting Operations, and Director of Customer Experience.
Killian, who is deaf, received her B.S. degree in Business and Communications at St. Cloud State University and an Executive MBA from the University of St. Thomas. She also holds a Project Management Certification from Georgetown University.
About TDI
TDI is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that shapes the nation's public policies in information and communication technology advancing the interests of the 48 million Americans who are deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, DeafBlind, and deaf with other disabilities. For more information, please visit www.tdiforaccess.org/membership.
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A new generation of the Maserati Granturismo reaches dealerships next year, in both coupe and convertible body styles.
The coupe made its debut earlier in October and Maserati this week released the first photos of the convertible, wearing a camouflage wrap. Spy photographers have also snapped the same camouflaged Granturismo convertible testing in the wild.
The redesigned Granturismo features similar styling to the outgoing generation, with the convertible, known as a Grancabrio in some markets, featuring an almost identical soft-top roof design. However, the car rides on a new platform and will offer new powertrains, including both gas and electric options.
The car will be offered in Modena, Trofeo, and Folgore grades. The Modena is the most luxurious lifestyle-oriented option, while the Trofeo is aimed at sporty types. The Folgore is an electric option, the name taken from the Italian word for “lightning.”
The Modena and Trofeo grades come with Maserati’s twin-turbo 3.0-liter V-6 shared with the MC20 supercar, albeit with less power and minus the dry-sump lubrication system. The Maserati-designed V-6 delivers 490 hp in the Modena and 550 hp in the Trofeo. In both cases, the car will have an 8-speed automatic and all-wheel drive.
The Folgore comes with a three-motor powertrain (one at the front and two at the rear) generating a combined 760 hp, as well as all-wheel drive. Powering the motors is a 92.5-kwh battery that Maserati said will deliver a competitive range. Expect an EPA-rated figure of between 250 and 300 miles. An 800-volt architecture means high-speed charging will be possible.
Maserati targets a starting price of around $200,000 for the new Granturismo. The convertible will almost certainly sell at a premium to the coupe.
Before the arrival of the new Granturismo, Maserati will launch the Grecale. The Porsche Macan rival starts sales later in 2022. After the arrival of the Granturismo, Maserati will launch successors to the Quattroporte and Levante. They are expected to arrive by 2025. The Ghibli, at least in its current form, will be phased out after the current model reaches the end of its life cycle.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integral Ad Science Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: IAS), a global leader in digital media quality, announced today that Lisa Utzschneider, CEO, will participate in a fireside chat at the Oppenheimer 25th Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference on Wednesday, August 10th at 11:35 a.m. ET. The fireside chat will be available via live webcast and archived replay on the IAS investor relations website: https://investors.integralads.com/
About Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. IAS makes every impression count, ensuring that ads are viewable by real people, in safe and suitable environments, activating contextual targeting, and driving supply path optimization. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world's leading brands, publishers, and platforms. We do this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, IAS works with thousands of top advertisers and premium publishers worldwide. For more information, visit integralads.com .
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Neogen® Advances Food Safety Data Analytics Strategy
Published: Feb. 24, 2023 at 8:45 AM EST|Updated: 2 hours ago
LANSING, Mich., Feb. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) has continued to report successes with the advancement of its Neogen® Analytics software program.
The comprehensive Environmental Monitoring Program (EMP) cloud-based software, powered by Corvium, Inc., connects to both the AccuPoint® Advanced NG and ANSR® systems, and helps users implement food safety systems that reduce risk and elevate compliance. Customers that digitalize their food safety programs by using Neogen Analytics benefit from real-time visibility into all environmental-monitoring tests, as well as automated reporting and alerts for corrective actions. Additionally, Neogen Analytics is an open platform that aggregates food safety data and provides testing recommendations to customers based on industry best practices.
The service continues to be well-received by customers within the industry, as companies are able to standardize their environmental monitoring programs, improve efficiencies through audits, and utilize existing food safety data. This gives them the ability to quickly respond to adverse events in food production facilities, saving time and money, while also aligning with the Food and Drug Administration's "Smarter Era of Food Safety" blueprint for the utilization of digital technologies to improve food safety. To further accelerate its food safety data analytics strategy, Neogen acquired the technology platform and assets of Corvium, Inc., the Virginia-based provider of the software supporting Neogen Analytics, on February 10, 2023.
"We have seen the success of the Neogen Analytics platform and have enjoyed working with the team at Corvium throughout the development and launch of this software," said John Adent, Neogen's President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are pleased to bring their expertise in-house as we continue to drive the growth of this invaluable platform and enhance food safety practices around the world."
Corvium, Inc., launched in 2018 with the mission to use data to make the world a safer place to eat. The company's food risk intelligence platform continuously aggregates and analyzes risk and quality data generated during food production and distribution. Their solutions help food producers and processors prevent pathogenic contamination, comply with federal regulations and internal safety and quality programs, reduce food safety risks and costs, and regulate food waste.
About Neogen
Neogen Corporation develops and markets comprehensive solutions dedicated to food and animal safety, operating with the intention to "Every day, protect the people and animals we care about." The Company's Food Safety segment markets dehydrated culture media and diagnostic test kits to detect foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, food allergens, drug residues, plant diseases, and sanitation concerns. Neogen's Animal Safety segment is a leader in the development of genomic solutions along with the manufacturing and distribution of a variety of animal healthcare products, including diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, veterinary instruments, wound care, and disinfectants, as well as rodent and insect control solutions.
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517.372.9200, BWaelke@Neogen.com
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Kazuki Takahashi, creator of the popular Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise, was found dead on Wednesday, according to Japan public broadcaster NHK and other media sources. He was 60 years old.
Takahashi's body was reportedly found floating off the coast of Nago in Okinawa, wearing snorkeling gear.
Takahashi, a comic book artist, started his career in the 80s. But his big success came in 1996, when he first published the Yu-Gi-Oh! in the popular comic magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. The series focused on a spiky haired precocious boy named Yugi who, after solving an ancient puzzle, gets possessed by an ancient spirit that helps Yugi challenge various bullies and bad guys to mystic games.
The comic ran for 8 years and became a worldwide sensation, inspiring a trading card game that's sold billions of cards, a popular anime series that ran in the U.S. for 6 years, and various other spin-off series, movies, and video games.
Takahashi stayed working in comics, recently publishing the limited series The Comiq about a comic artist who finds out his backgrounds are being drawn by someone in prison, as well as collaborating with Marvel for a book starring Iron Man and Spider-Man.
The Coast Guard is currently investigating Takahashi's death.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service said Monday it blocked a Muslim mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey, from attending a White House celebration with President Joe Biden to belatedly mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Shortly before Mayor Mohamed Khairullah was set to arrive at the White House for the Eid-al-Fitr celebration, he received a call from the White House stating that he had not been cleared for entry by the Secret Service and could not attend the celebration where Biden delivered remarks to hundreds of guests, according to the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
U.S. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed that Khairullah was not allowed into the White House complex, but declined to detail why. Khairullah was elected to a fifth term as the borough's mayor in January.
“While we regret any inconvenience this may have caused, the mayor was not allowed to enter the White House complex this evening,” Guglielmi said in a statement. “Unfortunately we are not able to comment further on the specific protective means and methods used to conduct our security operations at the White House.”
Selaedin Maksut, CAIR-NJ executive director, called the move “wholly unacceptable and insulting.”
"If these such incidents are happening to high-profile and well-respected American-Muslim figures like Mayor Khairullah, this then begs the question: what is happening to Muslims who do not have the access and visibility that the mayor has?” Maksut said.
Khairullah, who has previously done humanitarian work in Syria and Bangladesh, was previously stopped by authorities and interrogated at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York for three hours and questioned about whether he knew any terrorists, according to Dina Sayedahmed, a spokesman for CAIR-NJ.
The group said Khairullah helped the New Jersey Democratic Party compile names of local Muslim leadership to invite to the White House Eid celebration and over the weekend was a guest at event at the New Jersey governor's mansion.
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ADOT announces lane restrictions on I-10 at Riggs Road
Aidan Wohl
Arizona Republic
The Interstate 10 lanes will have restrictions at Riggs Road for paving operations from Sunday, July 9, through Friday, July 14, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation's Twitter account.
The eastbound lanes will be restricted with the right lanes being closed from 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 9, to 5 a.m. on Friday, July 14.
The eastbound lanes will also have alternating lane closures from 9 p.m. on Monday, July 10, to 5 a.m. on Tuesday, July 11. The on- and off-ramps for the eastbound lanes will be closed at the same times as the right lane restrictions, ADOT said.
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Annotating the Influential ‘Rushmore’ Soundtrack
Rushmore is now enshrined as one of the great movies of the ’90s, as it introduced audiences to Jason Schwartzman, solidified Wes Anderson’s status as an artful filmmaker and started the second act of Bill Murray’s incredible career.
In truth, however, it was only a modest hit when released in December 1998 – so modest that the film’s soundtrack didn’t come out until nearly two months after Rushmore hit theaters, on Feb. 2, 1999.
The movie’s greatness became more and more evident with the passing years, but Rushmore’s thrilling and thoughtful use of music was obvious immediately. As with Anderson’s first feature, 1996’s Bottle Rocket, Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh contributed a score inspired by jazz, Vivaldi and the sort of “school music” that the director associated with his prep school days. But the rest of the soundtrack consisted of licensed tunes, many of which Anderson picked – with the assistance of music supervisor Randall Poster – as he and co-writer Owen Wilson wrote the film’s script.
“He had the score all planned out before the movie began, he had the whole soundtrack done,” Schwartzman said on the commentary track for Rushmore’s Criterion Collection DVD release. Anderson “gave me a tape of the entire soundtrack [before shooting] and he had every scene that it was for. It put it together in such a clear way for me.”
The selected songs, artists and eras of music had a pronounced impact not just within the finished film, but on the making of Rushmore. The choices of the Rolling Stones’ “I Am Waiting” and the Faces' “Ooh La La” altered how Anderson and Wilson conceived their corresponding scenes. The look and attitude of Max Fischer (Schwartzman) and his father Bert (Seymour Cassel) were inspired by musicians (the brash, but jacket-and-tie-constrained, Kinks for Max; ’50s “cool jazz” pianist Dave Brubeck for Bert). And the pacing and timing of the Who’s “A Quick One, While He’s Away” dictated how Anderson shot and edited the feud montage between Max and Mr. Blume (Murray).
There are more than a few montages in Rushmore in which the dialog drops out and the music comes to the fore. The songs – often tied to the British Invasion era – lead the way, joining Anderson’s picture-book conceptions and Robert Yeoman’s sharp cinematography to get inside the moods, thoughts or schemes of the movie’s characters. It’s no surprise that, because Anderson already had the soundtrack sketched out, he would often play the music for the actors and crew when they filmed those scenes.
The commitment and care that Anderson and Poster put into Rushmore’s music is evident in the final product. The movie’s soundtrack is so crucial that a 2017 video replacing the film’s original music with schlocky ’90s hits was both amusing and cringe-inducing. Rushmore simply can’t exist without its songs. The film even turned some lesser-known tracks – say “Making Time” by the Creation or the Cat Stevens version of “Here Comes My Baby” – into tunes that are now more deeply woven into the pop culture tapestry. (Even UCR admitted that, without Rushmore, “I Am Waiting” might not have landed on the site’s list of the Top 100 Rolling Stones Songs.)
“When kids come up to you and they’re like, ‘Rushmore really opened me up to a whole world of music,’ that’s the absolute greatest,” Poster told Pitchfork in 2012. “Both of us have shared the experience of being the kid in the dark, watching the movie and just saying, ‘Oh my God, this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.’ And when you feel like you’ve affected another kid sitting in the dark, that’s a great reward.”
So don your monogrammed jacket, put on your pin for punctuality and prepare to explore all of the songs heard in Rushmore. Also, you’ll find a pair of safety glasses and some earplugs under your seats. Please feel free to use them.
‘Making Time,’ the Creation
The first song heard in Rushmore is the Creation’s 1966 debut single – which, with its bursts of jagged guitar, stands in stark contrast to Mark Mothersbaugh’s sprightly score. “Making Time,” a song written about working in a clock factory, blares over a montage of Max Fischer’s extracurricular activities. The yearbook-esque on-screen type is juxtaposed with the driving clatter of the music (including Creation guitarist Eddie Phillips’ pioneering use of a violin bow on a guitar). The sequence would both turn “Making Time” into a more familiar song and epitomize Anderson’s mannered filmmaking. “Going into making Rushmore, we had a pretty strong idea about what we wanted to use in the film,” music supervisor Randall Poster told Vulture in 2014. “Wes had drawn the comparison to the British explosion, where there were bands that were all dressed neatly in suits and ties, and yet the music was wildly spirited. The Creation was a real musical centerpiece, and characterized this angry young man spirit that we wanted to bring to Max Fischer’s sensibility.” As with many songs used in the film, “Making Time” was selected for this montage long before Anderson began filming Rushmore. On the Criterion DVD’s commentary track, the director said that he played the song on location, while the crew shot the segments depicting Max’s various hobbies.
‘Take Ten,’ Paul Desmond
On the DVD commentary Anderson said that, in the Rushmore script, Max’s father Bert is described as having glasses like jazz pianist/bandleader Dave Brubeck and listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet (famous for “Take Five”). But instead of employing something as popular – and over-used – as “Take Five” in his movie, Anderson has Paul Desmond’s “Take Ten” playing on a record in Bert’s barbershop. Desmond penned “Take Five” and played the saxophone in Brubeck’s band. But he wrote and recorded “Take Ten” (its title acknowledging the track’s similarities to “Take Five”) with his own quartet in 1963. “We got [pause] close to the script,” Anderson sighed.
‘Concrete and Clay,’ Unit 4+2
When Anderson was planning Rushmore and writing the film (with Owen Wilson), he would listen to different collections of British pop and rock from the ’60s. “I would just listen to songs and I’d know what should go in there,” Anderson told the A.V. Club in 1999. “Like the song by Unit 4 + 2 called ‘Concrete and Clay.’” The pop hit, which went to No. 1 in the U.K. for a week in 1965, was the work of a vocal quartet with a couple of musicians (hence the group’s name, Unit 4 + 2). The lyrics speak of unrelenting devotion, which dovetails with Max’s campaign to save Rushmore Academy’s Latin language program – a grand gesture to win the affections of Miss Cross (Olivia Williams). As opposed to some of Max’s later, more aggressive attempts to woo the elementary school teacher, this first scheme is quirky and sweet, just like the underlying frothy single – which carries a Latin (music) influence, no less.
‘Nothin’ in the World Can Stop Me Worryin’ ’Bout that Girl,’ the Kinks
A well-known bit of trivia about the Rushmore soundtrack is that Anderson had originally conceived the film as only featuring music by the Kinks. “I thought this made sense because the Kinks played loud, angry teenage rock and they wore blazers and ties,” Anderson wrote in the soundtrack’s liner notes. “And our movie is about a teenager who is loud and angry and is almost never seen without a blazer and tie.” The filmmaker would later use Kinks songs more prominently in The Darjeeling Limited, but came to expand Rushmore’s musical scope to other British Invasion bands (and some acts that came a little later). This movie ended up containing one Kinks tune, although it wasn’t one of the band’s “loud, angry” – or famous – songs. “Nothin’ in the World” is a dark ballad about a cheating woman from 1965’s Kinda Kinks, written and sung by Ray Davies. Although it’s not clear if Mrs. Blume has been unfaithful – or is just bored with her out-of-sync husband – the song’s mood helps place Bill Murray’s melancholy Herman Blume underwater (both figuratively and literally). It’s the perfect song for a joyless cannonball.
‘A Summer Song,’ Chad & Jeremy
This gentle, folksy ballad helped move Anderson beyond his idea of a Kinks-only soundtrack. “It’s another song that I found on this British Invasion collection,” Anderson said in the DVD commentary. “It was one of the things that kinda made me decide to make the whole soundtrack British Invasion.” Chad & Jeremy’s willowy song plays as Max surreptitiously plans to build an aquarium on school grounds in order to impress Miss Cross (but gets expelled from Rushmore instead). In some ways, “A Summer Song” represents the calm before the storm. The lyrics, which initially describe an idyllic romance, eventually wallow in wistfulness and heartbreak. But the single wasn’t heartbreaking for Chad & Jeremy (also known for “Yesterday’s Gone”); it became the duo’s only Top 10 hit in the U.S. in the fall of 1964.
‘Blinuet,’ Zoot Sims
The twinkling piano intro of Zoot Sims’s “Blinuet” matches Max’s slow-motion curtain call, following the Max Fischer Players’ production of Serpico. The saxophone-led track then shifts to the background, becoming mood music for the post-show meet-and-greet. What kind of ’90s high-schooler puts on ’50s jazz for the after-party? Well, the type of teenager that wants so desperately to separate from the pack (and has a jazz-appreciating father to boot). Max also might have had a unique appreciation for Sims’ work. Just as Max often writes, directs and acts in his plays, Sims played alto, tenor and baritone saxophone by overdubbing his work on “Blinuet.” Anderson had already used a Sims track in the short film version Bottle Rocket. An extra bit of trivia: Zoot, whose birth name was John, also inspired the moniker of the saxophone-honking Muppet named Zoot.
‘Here Comes My Baby,’ Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens got his start in the mid-’60s London scene, writing songs that mixed folk and rock. “Here Comes My Baby” was among the songs recorded for his debut LP, 1967’s Matthew and Son (although the Tremeloes’ version was the one that became a hit single in the U.K. and U.S., just before Stevens’s record was released). Decades later, when Anderson sought to use the song in Rushmore, it was uncertain if he and music supervisor Randall Poster would get permission. Stevens – who had become a Muslim in the late ’70s, ceased recording and changed his name to Yusuf Islam – wasn’t keen on his old music being used in just any movie.
But Poster was able to convince the former pop star otherwise. “At the time, he wasn’t licensing music for media projects but we learned he’d founded schools overseas,” Poster said during a 2016 appearance at the Sundance Film Festival. “So since Rushmore was set in a school, that’s what we emphasized, it appealed to him, and he agreed to license us the track.”
Indeed, “Here Comes My Baby” is tied to a montage about school, when Max (with the help of some tutoring from Miss Cross) decides “to make a go of it” at Grover Cleveland High School. Although everything seems sunny, with Max doing flips in time to the chiming of the bouncy track, the lyrics forecast what will soon occur between Max’s supporters, Blume and Cross. “Here comes my baby,” Stevens sings, “And it comes as no surprise to me, with another guy.”
‘Jersey Thursday,’ Donovan
The Scottish folkie’s dark and somewhat inscrutable “Jersey Thursday” underscores the fallout from Max’s discovery that the woman for whom he pines and his best friend are having a relationship without his knowledge. With Donovan intoning his poetry in the background, Max tells off Miss Cross in front of her class full of first-graders. “Jersey Thursday,” from Donovan’s 1965 album Fairytale, predates the musician’s more psychedelic work (such as “Sunshine Superman”), but the words seem already in the vein. The line about “red and golds and yellows,” matches up nicely with Max unveiling his scorched-earth policy on the Rushmore Academy grounds.
‘A Quick One, While He’s Away,’ the Who
If the “Making Time” montage is archetypical Wes Anderson, the segment of Rushmore soundtracked to the finale of the Who’s mini-opera is an example of the director at his bravura best. While Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle are all shouting and howling about forgiveness, Max and Mr. Blume are in the thick of their feud, which involves bees, bicycles and brake fluid.
“What’s great about that song in particular is that it’s sort of a dialogue, so we have the twin sides of Blume and Fischer,” Poster told Vulture. “It also has this incredible operatic element to it, where it rises emotionally as the grudge match becomes meaner and meaner.” As with other songs on the soundtrack, “A Quick One, While He’s Away” was penciled in for this moment long before the cameras rolled on Rushmore.
“I was listening to that Who song in my car and kind of planned the scene out, editing it all in my head,” Anderson told Entertainment Weekly in 2004. “I was like, ‘OK, you have 12 seconds to come down the steps, get your shoelaces, and walk through here.’ It was all choreographed to the music. That one was hard.” Townshend wrote the six-part epic (later perceived as a bridge between the Who’s power pop era and their rock opera Tommy) for his band’s second album, 1966’s A Quick One. But instead of that studio version, Anderson chose a more muscular live take, recorded during The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. However, because that rendition was tied to the Stones’ catalog and, thus, too expensive to put on the soundtrack CD, the Live at Leeds version of “A Quick One” ended up on the Rushmore album.
‘I Am Waiting,’ the Rolling Stones
It is the winter – actually, the November – of Max’s discontent. The Stones’ austere, dulcimer-sprinkled “I Am Waiting” soundtracks the entirety of a month that finds Max quitting school, working at the family business, avoiding Margaret Yang, eating a TV dinner on Thanksgiving and sinking deep into a gray funk. Mick Jagger’s lyrics offer a vague type of restlessness, but they matter less to the movie than the song’s wintry aesthetic.
When writing the movie with Owen Wilson, Anderson used to listen to the song “when I was driving around, and suddenly I realized a certain part of the story,” he told The A.V. Club. “That whole part of the story evolved out of the feeling that that song has. It's like it was right for a certain part of the story.” It wasn’t the first Stones song used in one of Anderson’s movies – he and Poster were able to get “2000 Man” into Bottle Rocket. And it wouldn’t be the last – The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr. Fox all feature Stones tunes.
Yet even the band’s lesser-known material (“I Am Waiting” was but a quiet album track on 1966’s Aftermath) didn’t come cheap and often was too pricey to be licensed for soundtrack albums (the Rushmore album was released sans-Stones). “We were saying the other day that [the Rolling Stones have] kind of become members of the troupe, and they’ve become very supportive of us,” Poster told The Guardian in 2007. “As for the expense, these are arguments that I have with film producers all the time: Sometimes the cost of a song, I don’t mind it, because if something is expensive it just means that everybody else hasn’t been using it.”
‘Rue St. Vincent,’ Yves Montand
Upon learning that Blume hasn’t seen Cross in six weeks, Max makes one last attempt to try to win the teacher’s affections. He fakes a bicycle accident to gain sympathy – and entry into her bedroom on a rainy night – then lays down on the bed and pops in a cassette with French chanson. “This music that he puts in is Yves Montand,” Anderson said on the DVD commentary track, “which seemed like something Max might use to set the mood.” Although the teenager thinks that a French ballad might tip the romantic scales in his favor, he likely doesn’t know that “Rue St. Vincent” (written in 1911, but recorded by Montand in 1960) is about a woman who is murdered by her lover in Paris’s Montmartre neighborhood. Unlike Max, Anderson knew exactly what song he was using by the Italian-French singer. But the cinephile might have first become acquainted with Montand from his other career as an actor (Montand starred in Grand Prix, Le Cercle Rouge and Jean de Florette, along with a host of other films).
‘The Wind,’ Cat Stevens
Exhausted by his failures and made to face his bad behavior (if ever-so-politely) by Margaret Yang, Max flies a kite and – to paraphrase Cat Stevens’ lyrics – begins to listen to the wind of his soul. “The Wind,” from 1971’s Teaser and the Firecat, comes in softly and slowly, reflecting the maturity gradually taking hold within Max. With his eyes to the skies, Max plans a new club, then extends an olive branch to the equally busted-up Mr. Blume. As with “Here Comes My Baby,” Anderson and Poster had the tricky task of securing permission from Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam to place “The Wind” in Rushmore. “I was really pleased we were able to make that work out and make him comfortable,” Poster told Terry Gross in 2012 on Fresh Air. “That was the first time he allowed his music to be used in a film in many years.” Cameron Crowe should have sent Anderson and Poster a thank-you note. The Almost Famous writer-director did equally great work with “The Wind” a couple years later.
‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,’ the Vince Guaraldi Trio
On more than one occasion, Anderson has deployed a song from Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) in his films. He used “Skating” in the Bottle Rocket short (that predated the feature-length version) and “Christmas Time is Here” in The Royal Tenenbaums. In Rushmore, he tapped “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” which featured Guaraldi’s Trio along with a children’s choir from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael, Calif. By playing the song in Bert’s barbershop, Anderson wasn’t merely signifying the season. For so many viewers, the Peanuts Christmas special brings back memories of childhood; it signifies a simpler, more innocent time. And so here, it plays underneath a moment in which Max gets right (and honest) with his friend Blume and helps bring him back to life with a shave and a haircut courtesy of Bert. On the DVD commentary, co-writer Owen Wilson winks at the similarities between melancholy Max and Charlie Brown, pointing out that both of their fathers are barbers.
‘Oh Yoko!,’ John Lennon
Like “The Wind,” “Oh Yoko!” might not be strictly British Invasion, but it is British Invasion-adjacent, given that it’s a solo track by former Beatle John Lennon. Regardless, the joyful, shuffle of this 1971 piano-forward track coalesces beautifully with Max and Blume’s comeback montage. As John sings about devotion (with maybe a tinge of obsession), the recently repaired friends work out in Herman’s factory, do tandem (if modest) jumps on their bikes and try to win back Miss Cross (this time for Blume’s sake) with the Herman J. Blume Marine Observatory. Yoko Ono must have liked the way Anderson used her namesake song. In 2018, she provided the voice for Assistant Scientist Yoko Ono in the director’s stop-motion feature Isle of Dogs.
‘Manoir des Mes Reves,’ Django Reinhardt
Again showcasing Bert’s jazz influence and Max’s penchant for French culture, the young playwright celebrates at “The Heaven and Hell Cotillion” with Django Reinhardt’s ambling “Manoir des Mes Reves” – or “Castle of My Dreams.” Unlike his choice of “Rue St. Vincent,” this 1943 recording by the legendary jazz guitarist is the right song for the moment: Max’s latest production has been a success, he has a new girlfriend and he’s made amends to just about everyone he’s wronged in the film. In some ways, he’s living in the castle of his dreams. But when Miss Cross asks him to dance, he has a different song in mind, “something with a little more…”
‘Ooh La La,’ Faces
Just as “Ooh La La” was the only song on the Faces’ studio albums that featured solo lead vocals from guitarist Ronnie Wood, “Ooh La La” was the only one of Rushmore’s soundtrack selections that Anderson didn’t come up with on his own. “The first time I heard this song … it was played to me over the phone one day by my friend Randy Poster, our music supervisor,” Anderson said on the DVD commentary. “And right when he played it to me on the phone, I knew that that’s the song at the end [of the movie]. I don’t even really know why because I think Max would never know the song, but it has the right sadness and wistfulness.”
The writer-director told Entertainment Weekly that he “hung up the phone and wrote the last scene with the song still playing in my head.” “Reuben!” Max calls out to the post-show party DJ, signaling him to put on the jangly Faces track, which was co-written by Wood and Ronnie Lane for the band’s 1973 album, also titled Ooh La La. The song is about a grandfather and his grandson, with the elder yearning to help the youngster avoid the pitfalls of young lust and love, but acknowledging that everyone has to learn from experience. As the song plays, Anderson takes the final scene into slow-motion and we see all of Rushmore’s important characters dancing around Miss Cross and Max. In the course of the film, Max grows a bit wiser for his experience, but there’s no mistaking that he’s still smitten with this woman. The curtain closes on Max and the Rushmore gang, just as it did on the Faces. It was the last song on their fourth, and final, LP. Not a bad way to go out, in both cases.
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Which EVs qualify for new US tax credit? Websites offer help
WASHINGTON - As part of the rollout of a huge new climate, tax and healthcare law, the U.S. government is moving forward with its plan to award new tax credits to electric vehicle purchasers.
Several new websites launched Tuesday to help people identify which vehicles qualify for the credits. Based on data submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, at least 31 new 2022 and 2023 models qualify for the tax credit. For starters, they must be made in North America to be eligible.
President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday. It includes a tax credit of up to $7,500 that could be used to defray the cost of purchasing an electric vehicle.
Models included are the 2022 Ford F Series electric pickup, BMW X5, Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Bolt, Jeep Wrangler plug-in hybrid, and all four Tesla models.
But some models may exceed sticker-price limits in the complex law, and it remains to be seen whether automakers will be able to find minerals or manufacture batteries that can qualify for the credits.
Consumers can go to https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/decoder/ and key in the 17-digit vehicle identification number of the EV they want to buy to make sure it’s made in the U.S., Canada or Mexico. The Treasury Department also released a frequently asked questions page on the new law’s provisions.
As of Tuesday, tax credits will no longer be available for vehicles assembled outside of the U.S., Canada or Mexico. But people who signed purchase contracts for EVs before Tuesday could still get the credits. The remaining electric vehicle provisions of the law are effective Jan. 1.
A Treasury official told reporters on a call Tuesday that the plan puts the U.S. 2030 climate goals within reach and will help ensure Americans can afford to buy an electric car.
Passage of the measure set off a scramble by automakers to speed up efforts to find North American-made batteries and battery minerals from the U.S., Canada or Mexico to make sure EVs are eligible for the credit.
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While automakers have been announcing U.S. battery factories and trying to secure domestic mineral supplies, a large industry trade association has warned that the vast majority of EVs now on sale in the U.S. wouldn’t qualify for the full credit under the Inflation Reduction Act.
"We are working overtime to localize our supply chains and ramp up production," Chris Smith, chief government affairs officer at Ford, said in a statement.
The credits are important because no automaker wants to be in a position of seeing a competitor sell vehicles at a $7,500 price advantage, especially since the credits largely target middle-class buyers.
"The No. 1 obstacle to EV adoption is cost," said Michelle Krebs, executive analyst with Cox Automotive. "So a $7,500 difference is significant on one vehicle compared to another for the part of the market that this is aimed at."
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Under the law, an electric vehicle must contain a battery built in North America with minerals mined or recycled on the continent to be eligible for the credit.
And those rules become more stringent over time — to the point where, in a few years, it’s possible that no EVs would qualify for the tax credit, said the Alliance of Automotive Innovation, a key industry trade group. As of now, the alliance estimates that about 50 of the 72 electric, hydrogen or plug-in hybrid models that are sold in the United States wouldn’t meet the requirements.
Under the $740 billion economic package that Biden signed into law, the tax credits would take effect next year. For an EV buyer to qualify for the full credit, 40% of the metals used in a vehicle’s battery must come from North America. By 2027, that required threshold would reach 80%.
If the metals requirement isn’t met, the automaker and its buyers would be eligible for half the tax credit, $3,750.
A separate rule would require that half the batteries’ value must be manufactured or assembled in the North America. If not, the rest of the tax credit would be lost. Those requirements also grow stricter each year, eventually reaching 100% in 2029. Still another rule would require that the EV itself be manufactured in North America, thereby excluding from the tax credit any vehicles made overseas.
The idea behind the requirement is to incentivize domestic manufacturing and mining, build a robust battery supply chain in North America and lessen the industry’s dependence on overseas supply chains that could be subject to disruptions.
But production of lithium and other minerals that are used to produce EV batteries is now dominated by China. And the world’s leading producer of cobalt, another component of the EV batteries, is the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The tax credit would be available only to couples with incomes of $300,000 or less or single people with income of $150,000 or less. And any trucks or SUVs with sticker prices above $80,000 or cars above $55,000 wouldn’t be eligible, knocking many EVs out of the credits.
There’s also a new $4,000 credit for buyers of used EVs, a provision that could help modest-income households go electric.
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Police: Mom charged in 3-year-old’s drowning, asks neighbor to lie to officers on her behalf
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – A 22-year-old mother in Florida is facing charges in connection to the drowning of her 3-year-old son.
According to the Ormond Beach Police Department, 3-year-old Azriyh left his mom’s apartment without her knowledge early Sunday morning.
The toddler’s body was found in a nearby retention pond after having been gone for about eight hours.
Emergency personnel from the Ormond Beach Fire Department initiated life-saving measures, but the boy was unable to be resuscitated.
Surveillance video from a neighbor showed the 3-year-old run past his door Sunday around 6:45 a.m. and then in the area behind his apartment a minute later.
“The video shows Azriyh walking around with what appears to be a tablet with a blue case,” the police report states. “He was seen looking around and then ran directly toward the pond when the video ends.”
According to police, Myra Santiago told officers her son typically comes into her room around 6 a.m. to ask for his tablet and then goes back into his bedroom until he’s ready for breakfast.
Santiago told police she woke up around 1:45 p.m. and noticed Azriyh was not in the apartment and started to look for him when she saw crime scene tape.
Authorities said Santiago neglected to make an effort to buy child-safe locks, knowing her son has escaped her apartment without supervision several times before.
She claimed she did not have the funds available to pay for the lock, but officers noted there was over $100 in cash seen lying on her dresser next to several smoking pipes and marijuana, in addition to multiple bottles of alcohol in the freezer.
The police report also states Santiago left her son alone in her apartment for about four hours the night before while she went to the Daytona Beach boardwalk with a friend.
According to authorities, Santiago had sent her neighbor a message on Facebook saying, “Can you tell the police you watched Aziryh last night… I came and got him from your place at 2 or 3.”
Detectives contacted the neighbor who said she has never watched the toddler and provided screenshots of the Facebook messages.
Santiago was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and neglect of a child.
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(CNN) — Eli Lilly’s experimental pill for weight loss helped people lose an average of 15% of their body weight after 36 weeks on the highest dose in a midstage trial, rivaling what’s seen with currently approved injectable therapies like Wegovy over longer durations.
The drug, orforglipron, had similar side effects as others in the class, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists: primarily gastrointestinal events like nausea, constipation and vomiting, researchers reported in a study published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Results from the Lilly-funded trial were also presented at the American Diabetes Association conference in San Diego.
Currently approved medicines for weight loss like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy are given as once-weekly injections. Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic, which contains the same key ingredient as Wegovy, called semaglutide, and Lilly’s Mounjaro are both approved for Type 2 diabetes but used off-label for weight loss. Orforglipron is part of a new group of experimental medicines that goes after the same target, GLP-1, but in a daily pill form.
“The optionality for patients is really important,” said Dr. Nadia Ahmad, Lilly’s associate vice president overseeing development of drugs for chronic weight management.
She noted that weight loss with orforglipron didn’t appear to plateau at the 36-week mark in the trial and said later-stage studies are underway to test the drug for longer to assess its full efficacy.
The 15% weight loss seen with the highest of four doses tested in the study, though, is important because that range is where “you’re really starting to potentially impact some of the other complications that beset these patients with obesity,” she said.
The medicine was tested in 272 people with an average starting body weight of 108.7 kilograms, or about 240 pounds. The trial enrolled patients with obesity, gauged by a body mass index of 30 or more, or overweight, with a BMI of at least 27, and a weight-related health condition. It tested four doses ranging from 12 to 45 milligrams, compared with placebo. The participants also got counseling on diet and exercise.
Weight loss at 36 weeks ranged from 9.4% to 14.7%, compared with 2.3% on placebo, the results showed. Participants on the medicine also had positive effects on levels of triglycerides and cholesterol, as well as systolic blood pressure, or the measure of pressure when the heart beats. There was no meaningful change in diastolic blood pressure, measuring pressure when the heart rests between beats.
Side effects including nausea, constipation, vomiting and diarrhea were most common, the study showed. Although most were “mild to moderate” in severity and happened as the participants gradually increased their dose of the medicine, between 10% and 17% stopped taking the drug because of them, the study found.
The researchers, led by Dr. Sean Wharton of Wharton Medical Clinic, noted in the NEJM paper that the study was designed to help figure out the best dose and method of increasing dose over time for larger, later-stage studies.
One limitation, the researchers noted, is that 91% of participants in the trial were White. Ahmad said it’s a goal for Lilly and the drug industry more broadly to achieve better diversity in clinical trials, and she noted that phase 3 studies of another Lilly medicine have better representation from more groups.
Lilly’s is just one of a crop of experimental weight loss drugs seeking to join blockbusters like Wegovy on the market. Novo Nordisk reported results last month showing that a pill version of semaglutide yielded 15% weight loss over 68 weeks, similar to Wegovy’s results. It provided a fuller look at those results, from a phase 3 trial, over the weekend.
But that drug, which is approved as Rybelsus for Type 2 diabetes, can be complicated to take, doctors say, with strict requirements about not eating or drinking within 30 minutes of taking it.
Pfizer said Monday it had chosen one of two oral GLP-1 drugs to continue developing, while discontinuing the other because of potential interactions with other medications and elevated liver enzymes. It published data last month on the one it’s taking forward in people with type 2 diabetes, called danuglipron; it also led to weight loss over 16 weeks that researchers said was comparable to other drugs in the class. It hasn’t shown a risk for elevated liver enzymes. The experimental medicines from Pfizer and Lilly are designed to be able to be taken with or without food.
The medicines still need to complete larger-scale testing in phase 3 trials, which means they are months to years from reaching the market.
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Days after FBI search at Trump's estate, Attorney General Merrick Garland to speak
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to speak publicly from Washington this afternoon and while the topic is not yet known, the news comes three days after agents searched former president Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
There’s been no high-level comment from the Justice Department since federal agents spent most of the day Monday at Trump’s winter home, the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, reportedly retrieving documents and even opening a safe.
The FBI search was part of an investigation into whether the former president took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence. While Republicans have rallied behind Trump, very few facts about the case have been released publicly.
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Trump's attorneys have so far declined to release details from the search warrant, and the former president – who was in New York at the time of the search – has suggested on social media that agents could have been planting evidence at his home.
Mar-a-Lago, seen from the air.
A spokesperson for the vacationing President Biden later told reporters that the president was not informed ahead of the search.
RELATED: FBI search at Trump Mar-a-Lago estate: One of several probes into ex-president
Prosecutors in Washington and Georgia are also investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election he falsely claimed was stolen. The Jan. 6 congressional commission has exposed damning details about Trump's behavior from Republican witnesses in recent hearings, which have prompted new concerns, at least privately, among the GOP establishment and donor class.
And on Wednesday, Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as he testified under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his business dealings.
U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of Justice August 2, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Garland’s comments are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET. You can watch live in the player above.
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Vigil for animal rescuers who lost home in fire
Published: Jan. 19, 2023 at 11:21 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
MARKED TREE, Ark. (KAIT) - A show of community support Thursday after a home was destroyed by a fire, killing several animals.
A vigil was held in Marked Tree to help two volunteers for the city’s animal rescue who lost their home on Monday, Jan. 16.
The event on Jan. 19 also honored the beloved dogs and cats who had been taken too soon.
While the animals are getting help at the vet the issue of replacing supplies, like food, is far from over.
“Our rescue needs a lot of different things for support for the animals when they come back from the vet,” volunteer Rhonda Davis said.
If you’d like to donate to help support the recovery of the animals, you can donate on the animal rescue’s GoFundMe page.
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The Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act would improve the welfare of farmed animals and place liability for disasters on the corporations and industrial operators who profit the most from factory farming rather than American taxpayers
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) and Mercy For Animals, along with a coalition of more than 50 animal welfare, public health, labor, environmental, faith-based and sustainable agriculture organizations, commend U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) for introducing the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act. This federal legislation aims to better protect animals and the American people by holding the industrial operators of high-risk Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) accountable for the damage they cause when their systems fail. These industrial agribusiness facilities, also known as "factory farms," raise large numbers of farm animals such as pigs and chickens in intensive confinement where their movements and natural behaviors are extremely inhibited.
Over the past few years, numerous crises have highlighted the threat that corporate meat producers and their web of high-risk factory farms represent to the food system, animals, workers, public health, the environment, farmers and rural communities. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) aided industrial livestock and poultry producers in the depopulation of millions of animals under incredibly cruel conditions. Many were killed using a process called "ventilation shutdown," during which a barn's ventilation is shut off and animals are sometimes left to suffer for hours before they eventually die of hyperthermia. While corporate meatpackers insisted that jeopardizing workers and killing millions of "excess" animals was the only option, agribusiness executives experienced a 300 percent growth in profits, propped up by funding from the federal government, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
"We've seen multiple recent crises that have shined a light on the threat that corporate meat producers and their web of factory farms represent to workers, animals, the environment and rural communities. Built by agribusinesses, the industrial livestock and poultry system is designed to maximize production—while externalizing risk and liability—to ensure corporate profits even when the system fails," said Sen. Booker. "The Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act would place the liability for disasters where it belongs—on the corporations and industrial operators who profit the most from factory farming and ensure farmed animals are not subjugated to cruel and inhumane practices."
"Most Americans would be shocked to learn that taxpayers are often footing the bill when animals on factory farms are killed in cruel ways, and that billions of chickens and turkeys are not legally protected from suffering at slaughter," said Matt Bershadker, ASPCA President and CEO. "We applaud Senator Booker for introducing the landmark Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act, which would provide new protections for farmed animals and hold corporations accountable for the true costs of factory farming."
"When natural disasters like bird flu and extreme weather strike, industrial livestock operations incur huge losses. These losses are too often shouldered by contract farmers, rural communities and government," said Craig Watts, former contract poultry grower and field team operations director, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project. "It's time we stop allowing multibillion-dollar corporations to externalize the cost of their high-risk operations. The Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act shifts the burden to where it belongs: the backs of Big Agribusiness."
"Since its inception almost 100 years ago, our country's Farm Bill has become a tool that the industrial animal agriculture industry uses to do little else than maximize its profit—to the detriment of consumers, the environment, food system workers, farmers, and farmed animals," said Leah Garcés, President and CEO, Mercy For Animals. "As a result, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment in U.S. food system reform: The meat industry has created deep-seated problems that exploit and harm the most vulnerable. It must be the industry's responsibility to solve these problems. The IAA recognizes this responsibility and affords the industry an opportunity to begin to right these wrongs."
According to a nationwide online survey, the vast majority (89 percent) of Americans are concerned about the impacts of the factory farming industry—citing animal welfare, worker safety or public health risks. This has led to strong, bipartisan support for government intervention to reform industrial animal agriculture. The Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act offers solutions to address the animal cruelty and devastation caused by the factory farming system, including:
- Requiring industrial operators to register high-risk CAFOs, submit disaster preparedness plans and pay to cover the costs of preparing for and responding to disaster events;
- Ensuring that industrial operators aren't using the worst depopulation and slaughter practices, including dangerous line-speed increases and meatpacker self-inspection programs;
- Protecting billions of farmed animals by passing new requirements for more humane transport and slaughter, including phasing out cruel live shackling of chickens and turkeys; and
- Investing significant new resources for higher-welfare slaughter technology in meat and poultry processing facilities and establishing a pilot program to train and employ more part-time inspectors for small processing plants.
The COVID-19 pandemic and recent avian influenza outbreaks have demonstrated how fragile the industrial factory farming system is, causing the animal welfare protections Americans expect to break at the seams. By ensuring that animals are protected while prioritizing farmers and ranchers who use more humane and regenerative methods, this bill will prevent the industrial operators of high-risk CAFOs from shifting the failure of their systems onto taxpayers.
The ASPCA and Mercy For Animals encourage the public to contact their U.S. senators to urge them to cosponsor the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act to better protect animals and avoid further taxpayer-supported harms from factory farms.
Founded in 1866, the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) was the first animal welfare organization to be established in North America and today serves as the nation's leading voice for vulnerable and victimized animals. As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation with more than two million supporters nationwide, the ASPCA is committed to preventing cruelty to dogs, cats, equines, and farm animals throughout the United States. The ASPCA assists animals in need through on-the-ground disaster and cruelty interventions, behavioral rehabilitation, animal placement, legal and legislative advocacy, and the advancement of the sheltering and veterinary community through research, training, and resources. For more information, visit www.ASPCA.org, and follow the ASPCA on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Mercy For Animals is a leading international nonprofit working to end industrial animal agriculture by constructing a just and sustainable food system. Active in Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, and the United States, the organization has conducted more than 100 investigations of factory farms and slaughterhouses, moved more than 300 food companies to adopt animal welfare policies, and helped pass historic legislation to ban cages for farmed animals. Join us at MercyForAnimals.org, and follow Mercy For Animals on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Sparks have signed guard Yang Liwei, who will become the second China-born player to suit up for the team.
Zheng Haixia was drafted by the Sparks in 1997 and played one season for them, leading the league in field-goal percentage.
Yang recently led China to a silver medal in the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup. She averaged 9.3 points, 3.9 assists and 1.6 rebounds in eight games.
In her most recent season with Inner Mongolia, Yang averaged 13.5 points, 5.2 assists, 2.4 rebounds and 1.9 steals in 19 games. She also shot a career-best 61% from the field.
Yang previously played 10 seasons in Guangdong, including two with current Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike in 2014 and 2019.
“She will bring us tremendous energy and enthusiasm on the court,” Sparks coach Curt Miller said. "She is a terrific leader on the Chinese National Team and we look forward to that leadership impacting our locker room.”
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan officials have reported 11 more cases of Ebola in the capital since Friday, a worrisome increase in infections just over a month after an outbreak was declared in a remote part of the East African country.
Nine more people in the Kampala metropolitan area tested positive for Ebola on Sunday, in addition to two others on Friday, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said Monday.
A top World Health Organization official in Africa said last week that Uganda’s Ebola outbreak was “rapidly evolving,” describing a challenging situation for health workers.
Ugandan health authorities have confirmed 75 cases of Ebola since Sept. 20, including 28 deaths. There are 19 active cases.
The official numbers don’t include those who probably died of Ebola before the outbreak was confirmed in a farming community about 150 kilometers (93 miles) west of Kampala.
Fears that Ebola could spread far from the outbreak’s epicenter compelled authorities to impose an ongoing lockdown, including nighttime curfews, on two of the five districts reporting Ebola cases. The measures were put in place after a man infected with Ebola sought treatment in Kampala and died in a hospital there.
The nine new cases reported Monday follow a similar pattern as they all are contacts of an Ebola-infected patient who traveled from an Ebola hotspot and sought treatment at Kampala’s top public hospital, known as Mulago.
There is no proven vaccine for the Sudan strain of Ebola that’s circulating in Uganda.
Ugandan officials by Thursday had documented more than 1,800 Ebola contacts, 747 of whom had completed 21 days of monitoring for possible signs of the disease that manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tracing contacts is key to stemming the spread of contagious diseases like Ebola.
Ebola is spread by contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and, at times, internal and external bleeding.
Scientists don’t know the natural reservoir of Ebola, but they suspect the first person infected in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected animal or eating its raw meat. Ugandan officials are still investigating the source of the current outbreak.
Uganda has had multiple Ebola outbreaks, including one in 2000 that killed more than 200 people. The 2014-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,000 people, the disease’s largest death toll.
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Grants will support 31 food banks across the company's 22-state network
ATLANTA, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) today announced a commitment of $400,000 in grants to 31 food banks located across the states served by the company. The funds and continued partnership with these food banks will directly support local efforts to combat food insecurity, as well as other assistance initiatives supporting children, families, and senior citizens. This latest set of grants builds on Norfolk Southern's longstanding commitment of supporting these critical community organizations.
"Every community is home to families impacted by food insecurity. Norfolk Southern is furthering its partnership with more than 30 food banks to feed and assist those in need," said Kristin Wong, director of corporate giving at Norfolk Southern.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), more than 34 million people in the country, including 9 million children, are food insecure. Many households that experience food insecurity do not qualify for federal nutrition programs and visit their local food banks and other food programs for extra support.
Food banks receiving a grant from Norfolk Southern include:
- America's Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia
- Atlanta Community Food Bank
- Central Illinois Foodbank
- Central Pennsylvania Foodbank
- Chattanooga Area Food Bank
- Community Food Bank of Central Alabama
- Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana
- Facing Hunger Foodbank (WV)
- Feeding Southwest Virginia
- Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri
- Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina
- Food Bank of Delaware
- Food Bank of Northeast Georgia
- Food Bank of Northern Indiana
- Food Finders Food Bank (IN)
- Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia
- Freestore Foodbank (OH)
- Gleaners (IN)
- God's Pantry Food Bank (KY)
- Greater Chicago Food Depository
- Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
- Harvesters (MO)
- Lowcountry Food Bank (SC)
- Mid-Ohio Food Bank
- Montgomery Area Food Bank
- Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina
- Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee
- Toledo Northwest Ohio Food Bank
- Tri-State Food Bank (IN)
About Norfolk Southern
Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as well as the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.
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GREENWICH, Conn. and SAU PAOLO, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- L Catterton, the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm, today announced that its Latin America fund has entered into an agreement to make a significant investment in CantuStore, the leading omnichannel aftermarket tire retailer and distributor in Brazil. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2006 by Beto Cantu, who serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer, CantuStore is a technology and logistics platform that enables complete tire solutions, providing an industry-leading consumer experience and supporting business partners across the country. The company strategically sources a broad product portfolio of premium and value tires from both domestic and international manufacturers and sells them directly to consumers through CantuStore's own e-commerce (www.PneuStore.com.br) as well as Brazil's leading marketplaces. CantuStore also partners with and distributes tires to fleet management companies and independent auto shops across Brazil. Known for being a disruptor in the industry, CantuStore was the first importer to distribute domestically produced tires in the country and one of the first players to launch private label brands in the category and has continued its track record of market transformation since inception.
"At CantuStore, we are relentlessly focused on revolutionizing the Brazilian tire aftermarket in order to provide our customers with a superior experience," said Mr. Cantu. "This transaction will give us the resources and knowledge necessary to accelerate customer acquisition, expand to new tire segments, and execute compelling M&A opportunities. We are excited to partner with L Catterton and leverage the firm's deep consumer insights, digital capabilities, and experience in managing high-growth businesses."
"With its distinctive brand positioning, impressive portfolio, long-standing supplier relationships, and pioneering omnichannel capabilities, CantuStore represents a unique opportunity to invest in the undisputed leader in the attractive and resilient tire aftermarket category in Brazil," said Julio Babecki, a Managing Partner in the Latin America Fund of L Catterton. "We see numerous organic and inorganic value-creation levers for CantuStore and look forward to supporting the company's efforts to unlock its full potential."
"We believe there is a clear opportunity to advance CantuStore's legacy of innovation and market leadership, establishing the company as the top-of-mind one-stop shop for both consumers and business partners across Brazil," said Farah Khan, a Partner in the Latin America Fund of L Catterton. "In our time with Beto and the entire management team, it has become abundantly clear they are a high-performing team with a history of proven execution. We look forward to working with Beto and the rest of the management team in CantuStore's exciting next chapter of growth."
L Catterton has significant experience investing in automotive-related consumer categories. Current and past investments in the space include, RealTruck, West Marine, AirX Climate Solutions (formerly Airxcel), and Vroom. L Catterton has also made several investments in Brazil, including Espaçolaser, Petlove, St. Marche, FEMME, and OdontoCompany.
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
About L Catterton
With more than $33 billion of equity capital across its fund strategies and 17 offices around the world, L Catterton is the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm. Leveraging deep category insight, operational excellence, and a broad strategic network of relationships, L Catterton's team of nearly 200 investment and operating professionals support management teams around the world in building strong, category-leading brands. Since 1989, the firm has made approximately 250 investments in consumer businesses. For more information about L Catterton, please visit lcatterton.com.
About CantuStore
CantuStore is a technology and logistics platform that enables complete tire solutions, guiding buyers and sellers to offer products and services for a 360° experience, in order to open paths for people and businesses to evolve. CantuStore is the holding company that controls CantuPneus, the largest Brazilian tire importer and distributor, and PneuStore, the largest tire e-commerce in Brazil. Located in Itajaí, Santa Catarina, CantuStore has five Distribution Centers and 39 branches in all regions of Brazil to offer complete tire solutions. For more information, visit: www.cantustore.com.br
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Peoria Christian collected a solid win over Elmwood in a 54-38 verdict during this Illinois boys high school basketball game.
In recent action on January 10, Elmwood faced off against Delavan and Peoria Christian took on Glasford Illini Bluffs on January 20 at Peoria Christian School. For a full recap, click here.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. — (AP) — A federal appeals court’s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling Thursday banning affirmative action in college admissions.
The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, outside the nation's capital, routinely ranks as one of the best public schools in America; admission is highly competitive.
A coalition of parents, backed by a conservative legal foundation, filed a lawsuit in 2021 challenging the admissions policy at TJ, and the foundation is asking the Supreme Court to take up the case. The suit raises similar but not identical issues to those addressed by the high court's ruling rejecting admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina as unconstitutional.
The colleges' admissions rules took an applicant's race into account as one of many factors to be considered. In the TJ case, though, all sides agree the admissions polices are race-neutral on their face.
But the coalition that filed the lawsuit says the admissions criteria amount to “race-based proxies” implemented to achieve racial balancing. They say the policy discriminates against Asian Americans, who had constituted 70% of the student body.
The coalition also cites the debate among Fairfax County School Board members when they implemented their new policy in 2020. Board members and administrators expressed frustration that Black and Hispanic students had been woefully underrepresented at TJ for decades. The coalition argues the new policies are intended to boost Black and Hispanic representation at the expense of Asians.
The first freshman class admitted under the new rules saw a significantly different racial makeup. Black students increased from 1% to 7%; Hispanic representation increased from 3% to 11%. Asian American representation decreased from 73% to 54%.
The new policies replaced a standardized test with a process that allocates a percentage of seats on a geographic basis and takes a student's “experience factors” into account, like whether they come from a low-income household or speak English as a second language.
Last year, a federal judge found the admissions policy unconstitutional, saying "the discussion of admissions changes was infected with talk of racial balancing from its inception."
But in May, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond reversed that ruling. In a 2-1 decision, the judges said the school board had a legitimate interest in increasing diversity and that labeling those efforts as discrimination against Asian Americans "simply runs counter to common sense."
The Pacific Legal Foundation, which represents the parents claiming anti-Asian discrimination, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.
“We think it presents a really strong vehicle and the time is right. And we’re certainly hopeful the court will take it up,” said Joshua Thompson, a senior attorney at the foundation.
Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor at George Mason University, said there will be years of follow-up cases to Thursday's ruling, as is typical with major Supreme Court cases, as colleges drag their feet and look for ways to salvage policies to which they are ideologically committed.
He was less certain, though, that the TJ case will be significant. He said the debate over the constitutionality of TJ's policies will be fact-intensive and center on what can be proved about the school board's motivations in implementing the policy.
More likely, he said, is debate over how colleges use essay questions on topics like diversity to achieve the same results as the now-banned affirmative action programs.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion left a little bit of wiggle room on that front when he wrote that colleges can consider an individual's application essay and “how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise.”
But Roberts also noted that colleges “may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.”
Kontorovich said colleges will ask essay questions about topics like diversity “that will give them the latitude to quietly take race into consideration in ways that will be more subtle.” Ultimately, though, he thinks the court, at least as it's currently constituted, will reject those sorts of end-around attempts.
Fairfax County Public Schools said Friday it is reviewing the Supreme Court ruling.
Thompson said Pacific Legal expects to formally submit its petition to the Supreme Court in August and will likely know by the end of the year whether the case will be heard.
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Looking for a good audiobook? Traci Thomas, host and creator of the podcast “The Stacks,” has fiction, non-fiction and celebrity memoirs to whittle away the hours.
Traci Thomas’ audiobook picks:
Fiction:
- “There There” by Tommy Orange, read by cast of voice actors
- “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel, read by Kirsten Potter
- “Black Buck” by Mateo Askaripour, read by Zeno Robinson
- “Look Both Ways” by Jason Reynolds, read by cast of voice actors
- “Heads of the Colored People: Stories” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires read by Adenrele Ojo
- “Sula” by Toni Morrison (or any of her audiobooks because she reads them)
Nonfiction:
- “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar” by Cheryl Strayed, read by the author
- “Heavy: An American Memoir” by Kiese Laymon, read by the author
- “Fight of the Century” edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, read by a cast of readers both contributors and voice actors
- “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters” by Priya Parker, read by Bernadette Dunne
- “Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language” by Amanda Montell, read by the author
- “Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir” by Ashley C. Ford, read by the author
- “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” by Suleika Jaouad, read by the author
- “Here For It: Or How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays” by R. Eric Thomas, read by the author
- “Wow, No Thank You.: Essays” by Samantha Irby, read by the author
Celebrity audiobooks Thomas loves:
- “The Sixth Man” by Andre Iguodala, read by author and Sullivan Jones
- “The Last Black Unicorn” by Tiffany Haddish, read by the author
- “Taste: My Life Through Food” by Stanley Tucci, read by the author
- “Finding Me: A Memoir” by Viola Davis, read by the author
- “Will” by Will Smith, read by the author
- “Inside Out: A Memoir” by Demi Moore, read by the author
- “Eat a Peach: A Memoir” by David Chang and Gabe Ulla, read by Chang
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Hale County hosts tornado disaster drill Thursday evening
HALE COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - Hale County has been hit by two tornadoes and dealt with some damaging straight-line wind events in 2022. That’s why the County EMA Director wants to be more effective when it comes to responding to weather related emergencies.
Hale County EMA will host a disaster drill September 8 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. More than 500 people will be involved in the drill in some capacity. First responders and EMA personnel from seven surrounding counties will also take part in it.
The scenario involves a tornado touching down in a neighborhood in Greensboro. Hale County EMA Director Russell Weeden says they will test some new triage techniques and do things differently when it comes to setting up an incident command and communicating during a weather emergency when help from outside the county arrives.
“We’ve done everything I can think of as far as active shooter, place crashes, and all that kind of stuff so. Tornadoes are the number one disaster inside Hale County. So, I figured that we start training on something that we see almost every year,” Weeden explained.
They also want to test the surge capacity of Hale County Hospital with this drill. More than 50 patients will be rushed to that hospital in Greensboro to see how well it could handle more than 50 patients being brought there at one time. Weeden adds this will be the 15th county wide disaster drill in Hale County since he’s been in that position.
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The northbound Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is closed Sunday evening after an accident.
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College football Week 2: Win $25,000 in FOX Bet Super 6 contest
College football Week 2 is here! And what better way to get in on the football fun than to play FOX Bet Super 6?
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If you're asking what FOX Bet Super 6 is, we've got you covered. FOX Bet Super 6 is a free-to-play contest where you pick the winners of all six marquee games with their margins of victory for a chance to win $25,000. All you have to do is download the FOX Super 6 app on your phone or mobile device. Seriously, that's all it takes.
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No. 1 Alabama @ Texas (12 p.m. ET Saturday, FOX)
If there's anything we can rely on in this life, it's death, taxes and Alabama steamrolling opponents early in the year. The Tide trampled all over Utah State in their season opener, which squashed the hopes of bettors who had backed the Aggies to win it all. Sure, it's fun to fantasize about how betting $1000 on the Aggies +100000 could've turned into $1 million dollars, but let's be real. Utah State never really stood a chance against Bama or the field.
And in Week 2, Texas doesn't stand a chance against Alabama. So picking Alabama to win was the easy part. What becomes a little more challenging is picking by how many points. Alabama could certainly post another shut-out. However, it's more likely that Longhorn coach Steve Sarkisian — a Saban disciple — will have his team positioned to put up some points in this contest.
Prediction
Alabama by 28 to 35 points
Duke @ Northwestern (12 p.m. ET Saturday, FS1)
Northwestern not only covered the spread in its season opener against Nebraska, but the Wildcats got the 31-28 straight-up win over the Cornhuskers in the duel that went down in Dublin.
In Week 2, the Wildcats host the Blue Devils, and we're calling Cats to come out on top. Yes, Duke's defense held Temple to only 179 yards in Week 1 as they trounced the Owls 30-0. But Northwestern will be a more formidable offensive foe. Against Nebraska, Northwestern quarterback Ryan Hilinski threw for 314 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. In Week 2, look for Hilinski to lead this Wildcat offense with even more impressive numbers and a bigger win.
Prediction
Northwestern by 22-27 points
Washington State @ No. 19 Wisconsin (3:30 p.m. ET Saturday, FOX)
The Cougars travel to the Midwest to take on the Badgers Saturday afternoon. And to be frank, both these squads in Week 1 faced weak competition, so Week 2 will show us what Washington State and Wisconsin are made of.
On the Badgers side are quarterback Graham Mertz and running back Braelon Allen. Mertz didn't have the most impressive season last year, averaging about 151 passing yards per game with 10 TDs and 11 interceptions. But running back Braelon helped carry the Badgers' load. He rushed for 1,268 yards on 12 touchdowns, which helped pave the way for Wisconsin's 9-4 season in 2021. The Cougars, on the other hand, finished 2021 7-6, including their 24-21 Sun Bowl loss to Central Michigan. They opened 2022 by eking out a 24-17 win over the Big Sky's Idaho Vandals.
But we'll judge these two teams' Week 1 performances to predict what we think we'll see in Week 2. And based on last week, Wisconsin gets the leg up in this competition.
Prediction
Wisconsin by 14 to 17 points
No. 25 Houston at Texas Tech (4 p.m. ET Saturday, FS1)
If you want to talk about a rout, let's talk about Texas Tech's 63-10 stomping of Murray State in Week 1. The Red Raiders put the Racers on skates and probably had them running to the buses, ready to erase the night from memory. But Week 2 won't be so seamless for Texas Tech as they play host to Houston.
Or will it be?
Tech QB Donovan Smith threw four touchdowns, and running back Tahj Brooks ran for three. Joey McGuire has his guys clicking on all cylinders early in his first year as the Red Raiders head coach. So Houston needs to heed Tech's warning from last week — especially since it took the Cougars three overtimes to beat UTSA 37-35. Barely beating a Conference USA team on your opening weekend. Now that's not very befitting of a Top 25 team, is it?
We'll take Texas Tech in this one.
Prediction
Texas Tech by 10-13 points
No. 10 USC @ Stanford (7:30 p.m. ET Saturday, ABC)
It probably takes longer for the Trojans to drive from USC's campus to LAX than it will take them to fly from Los Angeles to Stanford. But at any rate, this matchup is giving Big Rivalry Energy. And we're here for it.
Lincoln Riley has a lot to prove in Year 1 at SC. He needs to prove that he wasn't running scared from the SEC. And he has got to make believers out of critical fans and impatient boosters that he's the guy who can bring SoCal back to its glory days. Quarterback Caleb Williams threw for 249 yards and two TDs in the squad's 66-14 Week 1 stomping of Rice. So maybe Riley & Co. are onto something.
But Stanford's veteran head coach David Shaw is also onto something. Shaw sees your Caleb Williams and raises you his E.J. Smith — Dallas Cowboys' legend Emmitt Smith's son. E.J. rushed for 118 yards and had five catches in the Cardinal's 41-10 win over Colgate. This will be a showdown between two prestigious football programs trying to rebound.
But we're giving the slight edge to SC.
Prediction
USC by 10 to 13 points
Mississippi State @ Arizona (11 p.m. ET Saturday, FS1)
The SEC went 13-1 in Week 1. The Pac-12 went 9-3. So on the strength of representing the better conference alone, we're going Mississippi State.
Both squads had pretty convincing Week 1 one wins. State toppled Memphis 49-23, and Arizona beat San Diego State 38-20. Wildcat QB Jayden de Laura threw for 299 yards and four touchdown passes in Week 1. Bulldog quarterback Will Rogers threw for 450 yards and five TDs in his season opener. Our prediction? This SEC-Pac-12 matchup will end up being a tale of dueling QBs.
And since this game kicks off at 11 p.m. ET, this will also be a certifiable Pac-12 After Dark flick.
Prediction
Mississippi State by 4 to 6 points
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The family of a Black fifth grader in Utah who died by suicide last year plans to file a $14 million lawsuit against her school, arguing that an inadequate response to reports of her being bullied over her race and disabilities led to her death.
Attorneys representing Brittany Tichenor-Cox on Wednesday said they would seek damages for the 2021 death of her daughter, Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor. In a notice of claim, they said the school had violated state and federal laws, including those that require schools ensure equal treatment, provide educational opportunity and protect students experiencing homelessness.
Notices of claim are required before people can sue government entities and the family’s claim said that the lawsuit will seek $14 million in damages. The notice of claim from Tichenor-Cox names Foxboro Elementary School in North Salt Lake City as a defendant, as well as its director and principal. It also names as defendants the Davis School District, school board and superintendent. They have 60 days to respond before the family can file a lawsuit based on the claim.
“We appreciate the interest on the case, but until we carefully review it and confer with legal counsel, our district will not be able to comment further,” Chris Williams, spokesperson for the Davis School District, said in a statement after the notice of claim was filed.
Tichenor’s death in November 2021 sparked massive outcry and a groundswell of anger over youth suicide, bullying and the treatment of children with autism. In Utah, a predominantly white state where incidents of racism in schools frequently make headlines, it prompted state legislators to pass a new law requiring districts to track reported bullying and racism in schools.
The notice of claim recounts how Tichenor, who was autistic and the only Black student in her class, was bullied by students who said she smelled, made fun of her skin color, eyebrows and used racist slurs against her. It provides a timeline of Tichenor’s parents repeatedly alerting the school of bullying in the months leading up to their daughter’s death and alleges administrators did not take action to stop it.
“As a result of this unchecked bullying and the school’s overall ‘deliberate indifference’ to minority students, Izzy failed nearly all her classes. At the time of her death, she could barely read or do math on a first-grade level,” it says.
The Davis School District teaches roughly 73,000 students in Salt Lake City’s north suburbs. Only about 1% are Black. It was reprimanded last year by the U.S. Department of Justice for failing to address widespread racial discrimination and forced to as part of a settlement agreement change its policies, offer more training and establish a new department to handle complaints.
The district defended its actions last year after Tichenor’s death, arguing it had responded to Tichenor’s family appropriately and “worked extensively” with them over their complaints.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric vehicle sharing software and technology provider EVmatch, and Wallbox (NYSE:WBX), a leading provider of EV charging and energy management solutions, announced a partnership focused on increasing charging accessibility and choice for EV drivers by allowing customers on the EVmatch platform to search for and charge at Wallbox chargers throughout the U.S. through an OCPP integration.
The U.S. saw a nearly 69% increase in the purchase of plug-in vehicles from the beginning of 2021 to the first part of 2022. These new drivers, as well as existing EV drivers, will need access to reliable charging options that fit their budget and lifestyle.
"We started EVmatch to address a major barrier to EV adoption, the lack of reliable and convenient charging options for renters and apartment dwellers," said Heather Hochrein, Founder and CEO of EVmatch. "Our Wallbox partnership will further amplify our efforts to make charging reliable and accessible to all by combining our flexible sharing software with open-source technologies that will serve our industry at this critical moment."
"At Wallbox, we're focused on leading innovation within the EV charging and energy management space. Our EVmatch partnership will allow more charging hosts and drivers to have access to our Pulsar Plus Level 2 charger across homes, apartments, offices, and more," said Douglas Alfaro, General Manager at Wallbox North America.
The companies are confident that their partnership will help pave the way for further innovation in the industry and will allow charging to become fully accessible to drivers, home or apartment owners, and business owners, which will help democratize EV adoption.
EVmatch operates a nationwide peer-to-peer EV charging network, enabling individuals, business owners, and commercial properties to rent out private charging stations, earning money and supporting their communities. Learn more at www.evmatch.com.
Wallbox is a global technology company, dedicated to changing the way the world uses energy. Wallbox creates advanced electric vehicle charging and energy management systems that redefine users' relationship to the grid. Wallbox goes beyond electric vehicle charging to give users the power to control their consumption, save money, and live more sustainably. Wallbox offers a portfolio of charging and energy management solutions in more than 100 countries. For additional information, please visit www.wallbox.com.
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Guns, 2,000 rounds of ammo found in I-85 shootings suspect’s vehicle
LEE COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA/Gray News) - The Auburn Police Department released a video statement Thursday revealing it recovered numerous guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from a triple-shooting suspect’s vehicle.
Auburn Assistant Police Chief Michael Harris said investigators recovered multiple firearms and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition from Jerel Raphael Brown’s 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood sedan.
Harris said investigators believe they also recovered the firearm used in all three shootings.
“Because of the alarming amount of weaponry recovered, and combined with the actions of the suspect, there can be little doubt that the immediate, collaborative efforts of all the agencies involved ended an active danger to the public that spanned from multiple communities and into multiple states,” Harris stated.
The first shooting happened early Wednesday morning in Montgomery where police responded to a woman’s report that her vehicle had been damaged along Atlanta Highway. She was not injured.
The second shooting happened around 6:15 a.m. in Auburn, about 50 miles away along a stretch of Interstate 85 northbound. Harris revealed that the victim in that shooting had been shot in the head and remained in critical condition as of Thursday.
The third shooting happened less than an hour later further up I-85 in Troup County, Georgia, where sheriff’s deputies responded to another report of a commuter saying they’d been fired upon by someone driving an older Cadillac. That driver was also uninjured.
After obtaining a photo of the suspect vehicle, law enforcement put out an urgent notice across the Southeast to be on the look out for the vehicle.
Brown’s sedan was pulled over around 12:15 p.m. in nearby Chambers County where he was taken into custody and transferred back to Lee County.
Brown faces multiple charges, including attempted murder, in several jurisdictions.
He remains in the Lee County Jail without bond. A motive remains unclear.
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GALLIPOLIS, Ohio (AP) _ Ohio Valley Banc Corp. (OVBC) on Thursday reported net income of $4.1 million in its first quarter.
The bank, based in Gallipolis, Ohio, said it had earnings of 87 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $14.4 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $13.7 million, surpassing Street forecasts.
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NEW YORK -- A Brooklyn drug dealer pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing "The Wire" actor Michael K. Williams with fentanyl-laced heroin, causing his death.
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Irvin Cartagena's plea to a charge of conspiring to distribute drugs was entered in Manhattan federal court. Sentencing was set by U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams for Aug. 18, when Cartagena will face a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and the possibility of as many as 40 years.
The famed actor, who also starred in films and other TV series including "Boardwalk Empire," overdosed in his Brooklyn penthouse apartment in September 2021. Authorities said he died hours after buying the heroin from Cartagena on a Brooklyn sidewalk in a deal that was recorded by a security camera.
MORE: 'The Wire' actor Michael K. Williams found dead in Brooklyn apartment, police say
Cartagena, 39, signed a plea agreement with prosecutors stipulating that the mix of heroin and fentanyl he sold Williams resulted in his death. His lawyer, Sean Maher, declined comment.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, who is not related to the actor, said in a statement that the sale occurred in "broad daylight in New York City, feeding addiction and causing tragedy."
"In doing so, he dealt the fatal dose that killed Michael K. Williams," Williams said.
Prosecutors said Cartagena and his alleged co-conspirators continued to sell fentanyl-laced heroin around residential apartment buildings in Brooklyn and Manhattan even after they learned of the actor's death. Another defendant in the case pleaded guilty Tuesday.
Williams' death came despite an investigation by the New York Police Department that placed a paid informant making controlled heroin buys on the same block where Williams bought drugs.
The day after, the informant went back to buy more drugs from the same group and recorded a conversation in which some of them talked about Williams' overdose. One denied selling any drugs containing fentanyl.
Williams' "stick-up boy" character Omar Little on "The Wire" - a fictionalized look at the underpinnings of Baltimore that ended in 2008 but remains popular in streaming - was based on a real-life figure.
He created another classic character as Chalky White in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" and also appeared in "12 Years a Slave," "Assassin's Creed" and other films.
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FRESNO, Calif., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliant International University announced today that the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) Clinical Psychology PsyD program in Fresno, led by program director Dr. Ya-Shu Liang, has been awarded a federal Graduate Psychology Education (GPE) grant by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA).
This award presents the Fresno Clinical Psychology PsyD program with a three-year, $578,000 grant to train students and faculty to provide integrated behavioral health services for substance abuse prevention and treatment in partnership with community agencies in the Fresno area. With a focus on addiction treatment, the overarching goal of the program is to prepare and build capacity of the doctoral health psychology workforce and to provide mental and behavioral health care, including Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and other Substance Use Disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services in high need and high demand areas.
"We are grateful to be recognized by HRSA and awarded with the funding needed to advance our mission and give students hands-on training in integrated behavioral health, which will help them better serve our communities," said Dr. Ya-Shu Liang, program director of the Fresno Clinical Psychology PsyD program. "Most Central Valley communities are HRSA-designated Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas, so this GPE grant - the first of its kind given to the Valley - is a real game changer in helping grow the psychologist workforce in our rural communities."
GPE trains doctoral health psychology students, interns, and post-doctoral residents to provide integrated, interdisciplinary behavioral health and OUD and other SUD prevention and treatment services in high need, high demand areas. The program also supports faculty development of health service psychology.
Valley Health Team, a federally qualified health center serving many rural areas of the Central Valley is a major community partner for this grant. Dr. Nichole Flores, director of behavioral health at Valley Health Team, commented, "We are excited about this new partnership between Alliant and Valley Health Team, allowing nine doctoral-level psychology students to train with us on interdisciplinary teams in Fresno and Tulare Counties as they prepare for careers serving our diverse communities."
"We are very proud of Dr. Liang and her program for this incredible achievement," said Dr. David Stewart, dean of the California School of Professional Psychology. "This achievement is yet another national recognition for the Fresno PsyD program and a critical influx of funding to one of the hardest hit areas in the United States by the triple crises of mental health access, opioid addiction, and COVID impacts."
For more information on the Clinical Psychology PsyD program on the Fresno campus, visit www.alliant.edu/psychology/clinical-psychology/psyd/fresno or reach out to admissions@alliant.edu.
About Dr. Ya-Shu Liang
Dr. Ya-Shu Liang, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Program Director of the Clinical Psychology PsyD Program at California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, Fresno. She is a licensed psychologist who specializes in working with young adults on issues related to identity, family, trauma, and weight, eating and body image concerns.
About Alliant International University
Alliant is a private university accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) which offers programs in psychology, education, business management, forensic studies, and law. Alliant's mission is to prepare students for professional careers of service and leadership, and to promote the discovery and application of knowledge to improve the lives of people in diverse cultures and communities around the world. More information is available at www.alliant.edu.
Contact: Cielo Villasenor, cielo.villasenor@alliant.edu
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Saprea and Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) have partnered up in the battle against child sexual abuse. Saprea and SWAN are working together to provide healing services to all service women and women veterans who have been impacted by child sexual abuse. This cooperative effort is also working to supply information and tools to parents and caretakers so they can protect the children of these heroes.
"We need to protect the children of our heroes by educating our communities on the prevalence of child sexual abuse."
"We are excited to announce our partnership with SWAN, which will help us spread awareness of the global issue of child sexual abuse and reach more individuals with our healing and prevention resources," said Saprea Managing Director, Chris Yadon. "We share the goal of empowering more survivors, including service women and women veterans, who are burdened with the lasting impacts of abuse."
Saprea's free online healing and prevention resources are now available through the SWAN resource portal. SWAN is working every day to ensure that their members and service women have access to the critical information and assistance they need.
The online resources provide education on the effects of abuse and ways in which those effects commonly manifest in the lives of adult survivors. The resources also offer practical tools and strategies for parents and caregivers to reduce the risk of abuse for their children.
"We need to protect the children of our heroes by educating our communities on the prevalence of child sexual abuse - in every racial, economic, and geographic divide," said Yadon.
Saprea and SWAN are committed to ensuring all service women and women veterans have access to the information and support they need to reach their personal and professional goals. Nearly 39 percent of our military personnel are parents and six percent of that number raise their children as single parents. The partnership will help provide our military parents with the tools to reduce the risk of child sexual abuse.
"SWAN is honored to partner with Saprea and bring awareness and support to military families who may be impacted by child sexual abuse. SWAN's work is dedicated to support, connect, and advocate for women past, present, and future; providing children and our future women veterans this information is essential," said the CEO of SWAN, Jennifer Ross. "We're stronger together and we hope the Saprea and SWAN partnership will provide the tools needed to help children and their families thrive."
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JACKSON, Mississippi -- The city of Jackson, Mississippi, is struggling to return pressure to its water system, after issuing a citywide boil water notice, the city said in a Monday morning update.
The troubled system lost pressure due to line breaks likely caused by the weather, according to an earlier statement from the city.
"We continue to struggle to return pressure to the water system," the city said. "We are producing significant amounts of water and pushing that into the system, but the pressure is not increasing -- despite those efforts at the plants."
The city asked residents to, "refrain from reporting pressure loss," as it said it's, "well aware of the system pressure issues."
The notice follows widespread problems in the fall with water pressure and brown water spewing from faucets and in toilets. Residents have been warning of the problems for years.
Last year, in February, a ferocious winter storm swept through parts of Mississippi, including the capital, and ruptured pipes and left tens of thousands of residents without water for weeks.
City officials said crews are working to find and repair the line breaks from this Christmas weekend, and are working with the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the update added.
Even if pressure is restored, the city said to still boil water until further notice. The city also listed several locations for water distribution on Monday, in a separate update.
The city asked citizens to turn off running faucets on Sunday afternoon while temperatures are above freezing. The city also asked residents to check their businesses and churches for leaks and broken pipes.
"We thank you in advance for your help and understanding. We understand the timing is terrible. Please know that we hate to issue the notice during the Christmas holiday," according to the statement.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves issued an emergency order in August after major operational failures at Jackson's O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant caused widespread problems with the city's water system.
Jackson has long faced issues with its water system. Residents and activists point to years of systemic neglect as one of the main drivers. Some city leaders have blamed the state for not answering their calls for assistance with upgrading the decrepit water system.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has picked a veteran foreign service officer with years of experience in Russian affairs as its nominee to be the next ambassador to Russia.
Administration officials familiar with the matter say the nomination of Lynne Tracy, the current U.S. ambassador to Armenia, will be submitted to the Senate as soon as the Russian government signs off on the choice. Ambassadorial nominations must be approved by the host government under the rules of diplomatic protocol.
Such approval is generally routine, but Russia’s acceptance of President Joe Biden’s pick for ambassador cannot be taken for granted at a time of particularly fraught U.S.-Russian relations over Ukraine, the detention of Americans in Russia, allegations of Russian meddling in U.S. and other elections, and an escalating spat over the staffing of embassies in Washington and Moscow.
The ambassador opening comes as many Russia experts in the United States who might have been candidates for the Moscow post have been banned from Russia. Russia was informed of the administration’s decision to choose Tracy’s several weeks ago but has not yet given its formal approval, known as “agrément” in diplomatic parlance, the officials said.
Tracy, who speaks Russian, previously served as a senior adviser for Russian affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. She also held several posts in Central and South Asia.
The previous U.S. ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, left earlier this month, in an departure that had been expected this fall but was accelerated by the failing health of his wife, who died a day after his return.
Tracy is well-regarded within diplomatic circles. She received a State Department heroism award from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009.
While leading the U.S. consulate in Peshawar in Pakistan’s insurgency-ridden border regions, Tracy survived an attack on her by a gunman that left her vehicle riddled with bullets, but insisted on going to work that day and staying on post, even as security concerns compelled the consulate to trim its staff.
Tracy also received the State Department’s distinguished honor award for her work as the embassy deputy in Moscow.
Sullivan ended his tenure as America’s top diplomat in Moscow this month after nearly three years. He had been expected to leave this fall, but his departure was sped up due to his wife’s deteriorating medical condition. His wife, lawyer Grace Rodriguez, had not accompanied him to Moscow.
While the position remains vacant, Elizabeth Rood, the deputy chief of mission to Russia, is serving as the top U.S. diplomat in Moscow.
The ambassador post became vacant at a time when the United States is leading a campaign by NATO member nations to arm and fund Ukraine as that country fights to expel a brutal Russian invasion. The Biden administration also is playing the lead role in rallying international sanctions aimed at crushing Russia’s economy to force it to end the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who sees NATO expansion and other Western partnerships with former Soviet states as the U.S. encroaching on Russia’s security, launched the invasion in February, targeting Ukraine’s Western-oriented government.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday because she is pregnant, announcing the news via social media by joking that “two against one just isn’t a fair competition” and posting a string of emojis that included a baby bottle.
The 34-year-old German won the title at Flushing Meadows in 2016 to rise to No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She also won the Australian Open that year and added a Wimbledon championship in 2018.
She hasn’t competed on tour since a third-round loss at Wimbledon on July 1. She is currently ranked 52nd.
“For the next months, I will take a break from traveling the globe as a tennis player but then again, I believe it’s for the best possible reason,” Kerber wrote Wednesday. “I will miss all of you.”
She also said: “Being a professional athlete means everything to me but I’m grateful for the new path I’m heading to. To be honest, I’m nervous and excited at the same time.”
Play in the main draw of the U.S. Open begins Monday.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set, prosecutors announced Thursday, citing a “criminal disregard for safety.”
Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies issued a statement announcing the charges against Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who supervised weapons on the set of the Western “Rust.”
Halyna Hutchins died shortly after being wounded during rehearsals at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021. Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.
Assistant director David Halls, who handed Baldwin the gun, has signed an agreement to plead guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon, the district attorney’s office said.
Involuntary manslaughter can involve a killing that happens while a defendant is doing something that is lawful but dangerous and is acting negligently or without caution.
The charge is a fourth-degree felony, punishable by up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine under New Mexico law. The charges also include a provision that could result in a mandatory five years in prison because the offense was committed with a gun.
Carmack-Altwies said charges will be filed by the end of January, and that Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed will be issued a summons to appear in court. She said prosecutors will forgo a grand jury and rely on a judge to determine if there is probable cause to move toward trial.
Andrea Reeb, a special prosecutor on the case, cited a “pattern of criminal disregard for safety” on the set.
“If any one of these three people — Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed or David Halls — had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today. It’s that simple,” said Reeb, also a newly sworn Republican state legislator.
Baldwin’s attorney said the charges represented “a terrible miscarriage of justice.”
The actor “had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun — or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win,” Luke Nikas said in a statement.
An attorney for Gutierrez-Reed said the charges were “the result of a very flawed investigation and an inaccurate understanding of the full facts.”
“We intend to bring the full truth to light and believe Hannah will be exonerated of wrongdoing by a jury,” Jason Bowles said.
It was unclear when Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed might be required to appear in state court in Santa Fe once charges are filed. Defendants can participate remotely in some initial court proceedings or ask to have their first appearance waived.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza, who led the initial investigation into Hutchins’ death, has described “a degree of neglect” on the film set. But he left decisions about potential criminal charges to prosecutors after delivering the results of a yearlong investigation in October. That report did not specify how live ammunition wound up on the film set.
Baldwin — known for his roles in “30 Rock” and “The Hunt for Red October” and his impression of former President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” — has described the killing as a “tragic accident.”
He sought to clear his name by suing people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun. Baldwin, also a co-producer on “Rust,” said he was told the gun was safe.
In his lawsuit, Baldwin said that while working on camera angles with Hutchins, he pointed the gun in her direction and pulled back and released the hammer of the weapon, which discharged.
New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator determined the shooting was an accident following the completion of an autopsy and a review of law enforcement reports.
New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau levied the maximum fine against Rust Movie Productions, based on a scathing narrative of safety failures, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires of blank ammunition on the set prior to the fatal shooting.
Rust Movie Productions continues to challenge the basis of a $137,000 fine by regulators who say production managers on the set failed to follow standard industry protocols for gun safety.
The armorer who oversaw firearms on the set, Gutierrez-Reed, has been the subject of much of the scrutiny in the case, along with an independent ammunition supplier. An attorney for Gutierrez-Reed has said she did not put a live round in the gun that killed Hutchins, and she believes she was the victim of sabotage. Authorities said they found no evidence of that.
Investigators initially found 500 rounds of ammunition at the movie set on the outskirts of Santa Fe — a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what appeared to be live rounds. Industry experts have said live rounds should never be on set.
The family of Hutchins — widower Matthew Hutchins and son Andros — settled a lawsuit against producers under an agreement that aims to restart filming with Matthew Hutchin’s involvement as executive producer.
“Rust” was beset by disputes from the start in early October 2021. Seven crew members walked off the set just hours before the shooting amid discord over working conditions.
Criminal charges have rarely been filed in connection with deaths on film sets.
A district attorney in North Carolina cited negligence as a factor but decided against charges in the 1993 death of Brandon Lee while filming a scene in the movie “The Crow.” The son of martial-arts legend Bruce Lee was hit by a .44-caliber slug from a gun that was supposed to have fired a blank.
More recently, film director Randall Miller pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing in the death of assistant camera operator Sarah Jones, who was hit by a train in the 2014 filming of “Midnight Rider” in rural Georgia. The production did not have permission to be on the train tracks, and Miller served half of a two-year sentence.
Hutchins’ death already has influenced negotiations over safety provisions in union film crew contracts with Hollywood producers. The shooting also spurred other filmmakers to minimize risks by using computer-generated imagery of gunfire rather than real weapons with blank ammunition.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Louis Tallarini, the chairman of the World Baseball Network, will be honored at the 2022 Bond Street Awards, held at the House of Commons in London on December 14.
Tallarini has enjoyed a successful career in the real estate industry in the United States. He is President and CEO of Real Property Investors, Inc., a real estate asset management and advisory firm with offices in Westchester County, N.Y., Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Uncasville, Conn, and a co-founder of Valuexpress, a nationwide commercial mortgage originator where he serves as Managing Director. His latest project, the World Baseball Network, was conceived by his son Matthew, and aims to provide English-language coverage of international baseball.
"It's a great honor to be here in London at the Bond Street Awards for 2022," Tallarini said. "My congratulations to all the other awardees."
Tallarini has also served as the co-founder and chairman of the Italian Language Foundation, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation where he raised funds and coordinated contributions from national organizations and the Republic of Italy that led to the 2011 reinstatement of the Advanced Placement program in Italian Language and Culture in American schools, which had been suspended in 2009. The Italian Government made Tallarini a Commander of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, which recognizes Italian expatriates and foreigners who have made outstanding contributions to the reconstruction of Italy after World War II, in recognition of his efforts.
Having served as President of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, sponsor of the annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City, from 2006-09 and as Chairman of the Board from 2010-14, Tallarini also served as the General Chairman of the Columbus Weekend Celebration, including the Columbus Day Parade.
The Bond Street Awards are international awards that are presented to companies, entrepreneurs and managers whose business culture corresponds to the highest ethical and professional standards, who have distinguished themselves for their intuitions and skills, management, development, innovation and research. Awardees have significantly contributed to the development of an ethical business by demonstrating resourcefulness, creativity and commitment at the highest levels.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of IronNet, Inc. (""IronNet" or the "Company") (NYSE: IRNT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether IronNet and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On September 14, 2022, IronNet disclosed the impending departures of co-Chief Executive Officer William Welch and Chief Financial Officer James Gerber and stated that the Company would cut a total of 35% of its workforce, or about 110 jobs.
On this news, IronNet's stock price fell $0.99 per share, or 44.77%, to close at $1.22 per share on September 15, 2022.
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Affirmative action for white people? Legacy college admissions come under renewed scrutiny
WASHINGTON (AP) — The next big fight over college admissions already has taken hold, and it centers on a different kind of minority group that gets a boost: children of alumni.
In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that strikes down affirmative action in admissions, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences — the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni. Long seen as a perk for the white and wealthy, opponents say it’s no longer defensible in a world with no counterbalance in affirmative action.
President Joe Biden suggested colleges should rethink the practice after the court’s ruling, saying legacy preferences “expand privilege instead of opportunity.” Several Democrats in Congress demanded an end to the policy in light of the court’s decision to remove race from the admissions process. So did Republicans including Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who is vying for the GOP presidential nomination.
“Let’s be clear: affirmative action still exists for white people. It’s called legacy admissions,” Rep. Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, said on Twitter.
For critics of legacy admissions, the renewed debate over fairness in admissions has offered a chance to swing public sentiment behind their cause.
As colleges across the U.S. pledge their commitment to diversity following the court’s ruling, activists have a simple response: prove it. If schools want to enroll more Black, Hispanic and Indigenous students, activists say, removing legacy preferences would be an easy first step.
“Now more than ever, there’s no justification for allowing this process to continue,” said Viet Nguyen, a graduate of Brown and Harvard who leads Ed Mobilizer, a nonprofit that has fought legacy preferences since 2018. “No other country in the world does legacy preferences. Now is a chance to catch up with the rest of the world.”
Using the Supreme Court decision as a catalyst, Nguyen’s group is rallying the alumni of top colleges to press their alma maters to end the practice. The goal is to get graduates of the 30 schools to withhold donations until the policy ends. The schools include Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which were at the center of the court case, along with the rest of the Ivy League and the University of Southern California.
It builds on other efforts taking aim at the practice. Colorado banned it at public universities in 2021, and lawmakers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York have introduced similar bills. In Congress, Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, both Democrats, are reviving legislation that would forbid it at all universities that accept federal money.
Legacy preferences have become an easy target in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that hinged on questions of merit in the college application process, said Julie Park, who studies college admissions and racial equity at the University of Maryland. Instead of getting in on their own merit, she said, legacy students are just “standing on their parents’ shoulders.”
“It’s just low-hanging fruit,” she said. “People want something to do, and there’s a strong rationale to get rid of it.”
Secretary Miguel Cardona urged colleges to “ask themselves the tough questions,” adding that legacy admissions and other types of special treatment “have long denied well-qualified students of all backgrounds a level playing field.”
“In the wake of this ruling, they could further tip the scales against students who already have the cards stacked against them,” Cardona said in a statement to The Associated Press.
In the hazy world of college admissions, it’s unclear exactly which schools provide a legacy boost and how much it helps. In California, where state law requires schools to disclose the practice, USC reported that 14% of last year’s admitted students had family ties to alumni or donors. Stanford reported a similar rate.
At Harvard, which released years of records as part of the lawsuit that ended up before the Supreme Court, legacy students were eight times more likely to be admitted, and nearly 70% were white, researchers found.
An Associated Press survey of the nation’s most selective colleges last year found that legacy students in the freshman class ranged from 4% to 23%. At four schools — Notre Dame, USC, Cornell and Dartmouth — legacy students outnumbered Black students.
Supporters of the policy say it builds an alumni community and encourages donations. A 2022 study of an undisclosed college in the Northeast found that legacy students were more likely to make donations, but at a cost to diversity — the vast majority were white.
Some prestigious colleges have abandoned the policy in recent years, including Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University. In the first year after dropping it, Amherst saw its share of legacy students in the freshman class fall by about half, while 19% of first-year students were the first in their families to attend college, the most in the school’s history.
Some colleges argue that, as their student bodies become more racially diverse, the benefits of legacy status will extend to more students of color. Opponents argue that white families still have an advantage, with generations of relatives who had access to any college.
Ivory Toldson went to college at Louisiana State University, but it wasn’t an option for his parents in the Jim Crow South.
“My parents couldn’t legally go to LSU. Discrimination is a lot more recent in our history than a lot of people seem to understand,” said Toldson, a Howard University professor and the director of education, innovation and research for the NAACP.
Toldson said there’s growing awareness of the irony that preferences for athletes and legacy students are still allowed, while race must be ignored.
In May, an AP-NORC poll found that few Americans think legacy admissions or donations should play much of a role in college admissions. Just 9% say it should be very important that a family member attended and 18% say it should be somewhat important. Likewise, only 10% say donations to the school should be very important and 17% say that should be somewhat important.
That same poll found that most Americans support affirmative action in higher education but think race should play a small role. Sixty-three percent said the Supreme Court should not block colleges from considering race in admissions, but 68% said it should not be a big factor.
Several colleges declined to say whether they will continue providing a boost for legacy students next year, including Cornell and the University of Notre Dame.
Meanwhile, Nguyen said he’s more optimistic than ever. In the past, colleges have been reluctant to be among the first to make the change, he said. Now he thinks that’s changing.
“In the next few months, I think the hesitancy will actually be who will be the last,” he said. “No university wants to be the last.”
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After a year-long investigation, a Congressional subcommittee says four corporate landlords were quick to push out renters during the pandemic, and filed nearly three times as many eviction actions as previously reported — almost 15,000 in all. The findings add data and detail to a growing body of reporting — and mounting complaints — about investor landlords, including concerns that they are fueling skyrocketing rents amid a historic shortage of affordable housing.
"As countless Americans acted admirably to support their communities during the coronavirus crisis, the four landlord companies...evicted aggressively to pad their profits," said House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) in a statement.
He chairs the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, which began its investigation after reports that the companies had high eviction filing rates despite a federal eviction moratorium, and often refused to accept emergency rental aid. The companies own properties across 28 states, and the report looked at their actions during the first 16 months of the pandemic.
In a statement, Pretium Partners said, "We have always complied with the CDC moratorium," and that the company voluntarily extended that moratorium beyond its expiration in some cases. Invitation Homes noted that "we have provided help to more than 33,000 residents who were in need of extra time or financial assistance," and helped 10,000 more obtain rental aid. The Siegel Group said it "has at all times been committed to abiding by the letter and the spirit of the law applicable to our operations." Ventron Management did not reply to a request for comment.
A list of strategies to "bluff" people out of their apartments
One company, The Siegel Group, is accused of using deceptive practices to "bluff" people out of their apartments. The report says employees took actions to make tenants think the CDC eviction moratorium was no longer in force, even though it had been kept in place on appeal.
"It looks as if they were using information and even misinformation in order to set people up for evictions," Rep. Clyburn told NPR.
It also describes a list of "harassment" strategies a Siegel executive said could be used to get a tenant in Texas to leave without a formal eviction order. They included having security knock on her door "at least twice a night," replacing her air conditioning unit with one that didn't work, and calling Child Protective Services to visit her. Lawmakers suggest some of these tactics may be unlawful and they've referred the findings to federal and state agencies for further investigation.
The congressional report finds the companies often filed to evict tenants who were only one month behind in rent, and sometimes while they were waiting on emergency rental aid. It says Invitation Homes downplayed the impact of its practices, reporting in March 2021 that just 6% of tenants it filed against actually lost their housing. In fact, lawmakers say that included only those formally evicted by court order, and many more left without waiting for that, bringing the total share to 27%.
"Too often we tend to place the blame on the resident," says Jim Baker, executive director of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit advocacy group that's also tracked evictions. "But what we saw, and the subcommittee showed, was really a pattern of actions. These large companies were taking multiple steps to sort of force those folks out of their homes."
Last year, Baker's group found that one of the companies in today's report — Pretium — had been filing for eviction much more often in predominantly Black neighborhoods during the pandemic. At the time Pretium called the allegations "baseless" and said its property managers "work with residents and seek to avoid eviction."
Baker says today's report suggests these companies "made an economic calculation that they could raise rents for new residents, rather than enabling current residents to be able to stay in their homes."
These companies may be the "tip of the iceberg"
The report covers the worst part of the pandemic, a period when a federal eviction moratorium was in effect, as well as many local ones. Peter Hepburn, a research fellow with the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, says it's significant that Congress is calling attention to corporate landlord practices during that time, and naming names.
"Those protections were in place in order to safeguard our public health, and they were willfully undermining that effort," he says. "I think that is reprehensible."
He also believes these four companies are only the "tip of the iceberg," and says the report shows the need for more transparency as corporate landlords expand their reach. Last year their share of single-family home purchases jumped to a record quarter of the market.
"These firms are buying up a lot of housing, and they're particularly buying up housing in places that have relatively weak tenant protections, places where eviction is easier, faster and cheaper," Hepburn says. "And I don't think that that is coincidental."
Katie Goldstein directs the housing program at the Center for Popular Democracy, and says evictions are just one of many problems she encounters with corporate landlords. Tenants also complain about a decline in services and repairs, an increase in monthly fees, and a dramatic rise in rents.
Some cities and states have expanded protections for tenants, such as requiring they be provided legal counsel in eviction court. Goldstein's group and others also want federal limits on rent hikes, and the circumstance in which people can be evicted.
"What we really need is for tenants to be able to experience stability, and not have situations where corporate landlords can double or triple the rent, depending on what the market looks like in that area," Goldstein says.
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Jan. 6 committee setting sights on Mike Pence, Ginni Thomas
WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Sunday they may subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence and are waiting to hear from Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, about her role in the illegal plot to overturn the 2020 election.
Lawmakers indicated they will release more evidence about Donald Trump's alleged effort to defraud supporters by fundraising off false claims of a stolen presidential election. They also pledged to provide pertinent material to the Justice Department by the end of the month for its criminal investigation. The department complained in a letter last week that the committee was complicating its investigation by not sharing transcripts from its 1,000 interviews.
"We’re not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified," said Rep. Adam Schiff, who described a Pence subpoena as "certainly a possibility."
"We would still, I think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee," said Schiff, D-Calif.
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For example, the committee has been able to document most of Trump’s end of his call to Pence on the morning of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, when the then-president made his final plea for Pence to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory when Pence presided over the Electoral College count in Congress. Members have not yet documented directly what Pence said in response.
The committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., recently said the committee was still "engaging" with Pence’s lawyers, while also suggesting it may not be necessary for him to appear because of testimony from many of Pence's closest aides.
Committee members also hope to learn more about Ginni Thomas' own effort to keep Trump in office and the potential conflicts of interest posed on her husband as a result on Jan. 6 cases that come before the Supreme Court.
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Republican state Rep. Rusty Bowers, the Arizona House speaker, is scheduled to testify at the committee's hearing Tuesday focusing on state officials who were contacted by Trump and the White House as Trump tried to overturn the results. Bowers is likely to be asked about emails he received from Thomas urging him and other state officials to set aside Biden's 2020 win and choose their own set of electors.
"We have questions for her and we may have questions for him as well," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.
Thomas has publicly indicated that she "can't wait" to appear before the committee after receiving their request by letter last week.
Along with emailing Arizona officials, Thomas, who attended a rally Trump held just before the Capitol riot, also had written to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the weeks after the election encouraging him to work to overturn Biden’s victory. Emails recently obtained by the committee also show Thomas had email communications with John Eastman, the lawyer who played a key role on behalf of Trump in efforts to pressure Pence to overturn the election.
"I think the committee will be interested, in among other things, whether this was discussed with Justice Thomas, given that he was ruling on cases impacting whether we would get some of this information," Schiff said.
This past January, Thomas was the lone member of the court who supported a bid by Trump to withhold documents from the Jan 6. committee.
Lofgren said the committee would release additional evidence it has gathered on the "big rip off," in which the committee alleges Trump may have committed fraud by fundraising by making a false claim the election was stolen.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said that in the end, the public will have a clear picture of a "failure of the oath" by Trump.
"I think what we’re presenting before the American people certainly would rise to a level of criminal involvement by a president," he said.
Kinzinger also said that he and his family have received threats because of his role on the committee. He spoke of his concern that "there's violence in the future. ... And until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we can’t expect any differently."
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Federal Government of Somalia approves Coastline's Production Sharing Agreements
- President of Somalia supports Coastline's Production Sharing Agreements with the Federal Government and declares the country open for business with international companies;
- Coastline received full Government support for its agreements at high-level meetings in Mogadishu with the President, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Energy & Minerals, Chairman of the Somali Petroleum Authority and Attorney General of Somalia;
- Coastline pays US$7 million signature bonus to the Somali Central Bank for its 7 Production Sharing Agreements; and
- Coastline will now move forward with its exploration programme.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia, said: "This agreement highlights that Somalia is open for business and international investment after the conflict that has blighted the country for so many years. I would like to thank Coastline for its commitment to Somalia, as it has fulfilled its promise of investing here, unlike so many other companies. Coastline clearly sees significant opportunity in Somalia and we share its vision. The Federal Government will do all it can to support this project and we want the first exploration well to start as soon as possible. Today marks a major step forward for Somalia as we look to develop our energy industry which should deliver material benefits for all Somalis. Energy independence, new tax revenues and further foreign investment in Somalia now beckons."
HOUSTON, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Coastline Exploration Limited ("Coastline"), an upstream oil and gas company focused on East Africa, announces that further to its statement on February 19th regarding the signing of seven Production Sharing Agreements ("PSAs") covering offshore, deep-water blocks of the Federal Republic of Somalia, it confirms it has received final authorisation for it to proceed with its exploration programme from the competent authorities within the Federal Government of Somalia ("FGS"). As a result, in line with the terms of the PSAs, Coastline has paid the agreed US$7 million signature bonus to the Somali Central Bank.
Authorisation was granted following conclusion of an in-depth review conducted by the FGS into the process followed by Coastline and by the relevant Somali Ministries and related advisory groups with respect to the signing of the seven PSAs in February of this year.
Coastline estimates that approximately 100,000 barrels of oil a day will flow from each discovered field, and in the success case Coastline hopes to discover multiple offshore oil fields.
Yesterday Coastline held meetings with the following Somali government officials:
- H.E Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (President of Somalia)
- H.E Salah Ahmed Jama (Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia)
- H.E. Abdirizak Mohamed (Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources)
- H.E. Mohamoud Ahmed Mohamoud (State Minister of Petroleum)
- H.E. Abshir Omar Jama (Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation)
- Mr. Abdulkadir Aden Mohamud (CEO and Chairman of the Somali Petroleum Authority)
- Mr. Osman Elmi Guled (Attorney General)
- Mr. Khadar Abdirahman Mohamed (Special Envoy for International Trade and Investment)
- Mr. Sackag Omar Mohamed (Member of Parliament)
Coastline has invested over US$50 million in Somalia and is committed for the long-term and has been engaged with multiple stakeholders in Somalia since 2018 in respect of its PSAs and plans for the development of the country's offshore energy industry. Coastline's PSAs will enable the Company to proceed with plans to explore for oil and gas on the many prospects and leads identified in the waters offshore Somalia.
Coastline is proud of the work it has done in Somalia to help develop the energy industry and to enhance the future prosperity of the Somali people. Likewise, it is proud of the strong relationships it has built with the Federal Government during the long period of time it has been active in the country.
His Excellency Abdirizak Mohamed, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, said: "Having seen how transformational new domestic energy sources have been for other countries in Africa, we are very excited by the potential of these offshore oil fields. Today's announcement really kick starts the energy industry in Somalia and is a turning point for the development of what is a critical revenue-generating area for the country."
W. Richard Anderson, Chief Executive of Coastline, commented: "Receiving the clearance authorisation means that we are now able to start our exploration programme. Revenues from the discovery of commercial quantities of oil will be transformative for Somalia from which the government could finance investments in education, infrastructure, healthcare and other vital services, which will benefit all of the people of Somalia, delivering continued economic growth and improving the standard of living."
Jacob Ulrich, non-Executive Chairman of Coastline, said: "We are delighted to have been given the go-ahead with the PSAs and we feel confident that we will discover major energy reserves which will have a materially positive impact on all Somalis. With the right partners in place and a supportive government, Somalia's nascent energy industry can look to the future with confidence now that there is a clear road map to potentially securing a sustained domestic oil and gas supply."
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Program Expands to Research Institutions in addition to Universities
TOKYO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Group Corporation (Sony) announced today that it is now accepting submissions for its Sony Research Award Program, currently in its seventh year. The program provides funding for projects researching emerging and innovative technologies in collaboration with Sony's own research groups, and is open to universities and, starting this year, to other research institutions such as government research institutes and nonprofit organizations. The program is offered in the U.S., Canada, 17 European countries*1 and India.
"Through the Sony Research Award Program, we have been working with universities around the world to promote research and development that will lead to new innovations and cutting-edge technologies," said Hisashi Tamai, President, R&D Center and Senior Vice President, Sony Group Corporation. "Since the establishment of the program in 2016, we have expanded the regions covered by the program from North America to Europe and India. We expect that this year's addition of research institutions other than universities provides opportunities for us to collaborate with a broader pool of talented researchers in the coming year."
The Sony Research Award Program is comprised of two awards – the Faculty Innovation Award and the Focused Research Award. The awards create new opportunities for academics to engage in cutting-edge research, leading to the introduction of breakthrough technologies.
The Faculty Innovation Award grants up to $100,000 USD to principal investigators for one year*2, for research projects that may fall within three broad subject categories (Information Technology, Devices & Materials, and Biomedical & Life Sciences) relevant to Sony's current research interests.
The Focused Research Award provides support for up to $150,000 USD for one year*2, to conduct research more focused in the areas of Sony's immediate interest.
"Working with Sony has been incredibly valuable for us," said Professor Virginia de Sa, University of California San Diego. "Brainstorming about the utility of various candidate biologically motivated architectural additions, such as lateral and feedback connections, has helped us to identify and focus on specific inductive priors that entail strong functional advantages for computer vision tasks, particularly in semantic segmentation. Our work with Sony has also helped focus our algorithm tests on specific application areas that are most relevant to real-world applications."
"It has been an honor to be funded and do research in collaboration with Sony for the past three years," said Assistant Professor Dimitris Papailiopoulos, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The support and feedback from Sony have been very fruitful for my research group. Our collaboration has propelled our projects forward to tackle the many challenges of machine learning when deployed at a large scale. Our Sony colleagues helped us calibrate our research towards important and practical problems and steered us towards exciting new avenues."
"Collaborating with Sony for the past several years has been an amazing experience," said Associate Professor Daniel Sanchez of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Sony researchers have been eager to work on transformative computer architectures, sharing their challenges in accelerating important applications and adopting our ideas and prototypes to address these challenges. This collaboration has provided us with invaluable insights about real-world problems, and enabled technology transfer and impact that would not have been possible otherwise."
For more information about the awards, as well as a list of previous award recipients, please visit https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/research-award-program/ .
*1European countries included in the Program are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
*2 With the possibility of an extension
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A man was killed Wednesday night when a truck crashed into a tree in Auburn.
A 24-year-old man was speeding in a 2012 Ford pickup truck west on Merrow Road about 8:15 p.m. when he began to brake and lost control of the truck, according to the Auburn Police Department.
The Ford then left the road and crashed into a tree, Auburn police said Thursday morning.
One of the passengers, a 29-year-old man, was ejected from the truck and died at the scene.
The driver and his other passenger, a 17-year-old boy, were taken to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, where they were treated for injuries not considered life-threatening.
Police aren’t identifying the truck’s occupants, pending family notification.
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Last year, it might have been Mitch Haninger, then the Mariners’ longest tenured player. Or later in the season, maybe Carlos Santana, who only spent a few months in Seattle after coming over at the deadline but who arrived with postseason experience and the personality to command a clubhouse while serving as a conduit from the coaches.
Both those guys are gone now, leaving behind a young team in Seattle with plenty of dynamic potential and players who could get there eventually, but no current clear leader in the locker room. So when the Mariners lost a lackluster game to a short-handed Yankees club to fall to 35-37 and 10 back in the division, it wasn’t a player who finally decided enough was enough.
It was Mariners manager Scott Servais.
They eked out just three runs across the first two games of a series this week in the Bronx, indicative of an offense that was 29th out of 30 teams in batting average, 20th in runs scored, and seemingly never got a big hit at the right time.
So Servais called a team meeting to express his frustration with what he considered non competitive performances. The tone was stern. Some four-letter words were used.
“I think you've only got two or three bullets to fire throughout the course of the year,” Servais said the next afternoon about taking that kind of step to explicitly chastise his players. “I thought it was time to fire a bullet. I don't know. I don't know if it's going to resonate. You never know. We could go out tonight and do nothing again. But shame on me for not trying.”
That night, the Mariners scored 10 runs. A rookie starter, the team’s consistent strength last year and this one, no-hit the Yankees into the sixth inning. They won easily.
Seattle had magical 2022 behind Rodríguez
There’s a tendency in baseball to view the outcome of one-run games as kind of fluky. Sure, it’s the results that ultimately matter, but run differential is believed to be more reflective of true talent. Winning a bunch of games by just one run can seem like your team is a bad bounce or an untimely gust of wind away from having lost a bunch of games.
But winning close games is a hell of a lot more fun than losing them. And even if there isn’t science or stats to support this, having fun is helpful when it comes to surviving the six-month slog of slumps and streaks, bumps and bruises, mistakes and missed opportunities that constitutes even the best baseball seasons.
On June 20th last year, the Mariners were 29-39. Ten games under .500, 13 back of the division-leading Houston Astros, eight back of the newly-added third wild card spot. And playing in their 21st season since the team had last made the postseason. Then they won five in a row. A few weeks later, 14 in a row. There was a brawl in Anaheim that bonded the young club. The Mariners went 61-33 the rest of the season to end the drought and bring playoff baseball back to Seattle.
Ten of those wins were walk-offs (one, in particular, was even more memorable than most). Over the course of the whole season, the 2022 Mariners had nearly twice as many comeback wins as they did blown leads. They won 13 walk-offs and lost only three. They were .607 in one-run games. Instead of fluky, it felt charmed. They weren't the best team in Major League Baseball, but they had something special brewing.
“Some things came together for us at the right time and that's what you need to get hot. Confidence grows with young players when you start winning games maybe you shouldn't win,” Servais said. “You win those close games, everybody feels like they had a hand in it. It helps.”
And every time they needed a big hit in a clutch situation, budding superstar Julio Rodríguez seemed to come through. He slugged .556 with runners on base, .518 in situations that Baseball Reference considers "late and close". The 14-game win streak took the team right up to the All-Star break, which proved to be JRod's ascension to the national stage. A month later, the team committed potentially record-setting money to Rodríguez and he committed to spend most if not all of his career in Seattle. In the span of less than a season, he had gone from slow start to the dynamic face of a franchise whose future looked bright in the glow of his megawatt smile. When the Mariners lost the Division Series to the eventual champion Astros in perhaps the hardest fought sweep of all time, the postgame clubhouse was bittersweet and full of optimism. A month after that, Rodríguez was named the American League Rookie of the Year. They were young and this was just the beginning.
Where did Seattle's close wins go?
On June 20, 2023, the Mariners opened a three-game series against the Yankees. They arrived in New York 35-35, nine games back of the division-leading Texas Rangers, three out of a wild card spot. The standings compared to last year should have given them hope that the deficit was surmountable. And yet, it was hard to shake the sense that, around the clubhouse, the season was already slipping into disappointment.
“I feel like we’re getting the hits, we’re getting the good pitching. But we're not, you know, getting the big ones,” said catcher Cal Raleigh, who had become a hero in his sophomore season.
It feels like they’re not getting clutch hits or winning those close games because they’re not. The Mariners’ winning percentage in one-run games this year is just .364, .400 in extra-inning games. They’ve already had as many walk-off losses as they did all last season, and have just two walk-off wins. And when they’ve needed him most, Rodríguez has come up short, slugging under .400 with runners on base and just .262 when the game is “late and close.”
On a macro level, Rodríguez has been a bit better than league average. But if you’re looking for statistical evidence of pressing at the plate, it might look like this: The league average for swinging at the first pitch of an at bat is 29.5%, Rodríguez has always been more aggressive than that, but this year he’s offering at 42.2% of first pitches.
“You don’t ever want to take players’ aggression away from them. That’s what makes him good,” Servais said. “Certainly, it’s what makes Julio special. But there are times seeing another pitch or two might be beneficial.”
He turned 22 in the offseason, and by the time he returned to Seattle a giant JRod mural had sprung up just outside the ballpark.
“It's hard, you know, the second year coming in and being the guy with so much hype,” Raleigh said of his superstar teammate. “So it's not easy for sure. Everybody knows who you are now.”
What Thursday night win in New York meant
I asked Servais if maybe what happened is this: Even the Mariners players who are only about as old as the drought itself felt like last year was the culmination of a long, slow climb. It ended just as things were getting good but with a clear sense that they would be back. They believed themselves to be better than a division series sweep and 2023 would be their chance to prove that. But, as is true for all teams, they showed up on Opening Day only to find themselves back at the bottom of the mountain — months away from where they feel like they left off — and without the sense that simply making the playoffs would be a heady accomplishment.
"It's so true," Servais said. "Everybody wants to just jump in; just get us back to that point. Whoa, you gotta earn it. You have to really earn it."
Like Julio himself, the Mariners are finding that even the best rookie campaigns and magical seasons give way to a league that has adjusted around you — whether it’s in how you’re pitched at the plate or the expectations on a team.
“And you think okay, we went through those growing pains and maybe we don't have to go through again, and then quickly realize you do have to go through again, which isn't isn't fun,” Servais said. “But yeah, the expectations are just a little bit different. And you know, we haven't handled them that well.”
“Everything’s so magnified in the big leagues,” Raleigh said, “especially when there’s expectations and there does need to be a sense of urgency.”
The Mariners' big win on Thursday night was offset in the standings by having dropped the first two in New York. And as clubhouse attendants packed bags with teal Ms on them for the flight to Baltimore, a new set of luggage was already waiting to be unloaded. On Friday, the Yankees welcome the Texas Rangers. A non-factor the last few seasons, suddenly it's the ascendant Rangers leading an American League West division that has gotten a lot more crowded at the top.
Rodríguez was 1-for-5 in the victory, fine if not really a full breakout. But that doesn’t matter when you’re facing down a happy flight and leaving with a coveted souvenir. A clubbie brings Rodríguez an Aaron Judge jersey signed by the 2022 AL MVP himself with a note commending Julio on the start of his career and about how much is still to come. Rodríguez is giddy about it, he seems genuinely gobsmacked even though just last month he did the same, sending Judge one of his jerseys when the Yankees came to Seattle. Such is the paradox of JRod: He is already one of the most famous players in the game, this would be his first disappointing season if it goes that way.
But maybe it won’t. He considers whether Servais’ invective the night before was what motivated the team to double-digit runs and struggles to land on an answer.
“In a way, yes. But at the same time, I feel like this is a really good team,” Rodríguez says. “Literally, we know the team that we are, things are just not happening.”
I tell him the bit about being back at the bottom of the mountain, and wonder whether the momentum is gone. But he says he understands that nothing is guaranteed, they came back ready to put the work in again.
“Last year was last year. This year brings new challenges and things we will need to overcome as a team,” Rodríguez says. “And I feel like we still got time. I feel like we showed a really good sign today. And I know I know the team that we have, we can carry that on.” | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/mariners-julio/5LQETY5CSK3QW5K3DMX262T54U/ | 2023-06-23 17:12:15 | 1 | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/mariners-julio/5LQETY5CSK3QW5K3DMX262T54U/ |
MILAN, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Davinci Motor, the new Chinese manufacturer of high-performance robotic electric motorcycles, is making its European debut at EICMA, the world's leading exhibition of motorcycles, taking place this year between November 8 and 13 in Milan, Italy.
At the exhibition, Davinci Motor will be launching the futuristic DC100, the first electric motorcycle designed to rival the performance of 1000 cc conventional motorcycles.
"We see EICMA as the perfect stage to officially introduce our brand and product to the European market. Davinci Motor is a start-up that has been working on developing a new technology and product design for over 7 years, and we're very much looking forward to showing the world what our products are capable of", said Rosanna Libia, Davinci Motor International Business Manager.
A Two-Wheeled Robot, Born To Be Different
This is evident when looking at its technical specifications. Designed to strike the perfect balance between acceleration, speed, and range, the DC100 has an acceleration of 0-100 km/h (0-60 mph) in about 3 seconds, can reach a top speed of 200 km/h (124 mph) and has a range of over 400 km (249 mi). It can be conveniently charged at level 3 DC fast-charging stations, with a full charge taking just about 30 minutes.
Additionally, with its intelligent robotic control system, the DC100 gives the riders complete control over the 100 kW (135 hp) power that is delivered by Davinci's self-developed synchronous AC motor mounted directly on the rear wheel, as well as a safer ride experience thanks to advanced features including traction control, CBS, ABS, to name a few.
Lastly, the DC100 features the novel cell-to-chassis EV battery technology that allows to reduce the number of components, therefore increase interior space and reduce vehicle weight. A technical solution to directly increase the power while the existing battery technology remains unchanged.
To announce the launch of the brand and DC100 at EICMA, Davinci Motor will be hosting a press conference hosted by Rosanna Libia on the opening day of the show at 13:20 local time at Hall 13, Booth Q70 at Fiera Milano.
"We all know of the big motorcycle culture in Europe and we're very excited to embrace this culture", said Qi Wang, COO of Davinci Motor. "EICMA 2022 marks DC100's first appearance outside of China and we'd love to invite all attendees to visit our booth at EICMA."
About Davinci Motor
Founded in 2013, Davinci Motor is a technology innovative company committed to exploring the research and development of robotic vehicles, with a perfect combination of performance and ease of use. Davinci Motor's mission is to create an exceptional effortless joyful riding experience for all users and the DC100 is the right product to achieve that. For more information, please visit https://www.davincimotor.com or follow us via:
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Taryn Owen and Kristy Willis recognized for their contributions to their company and the staffing industry
TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueBlue is pleased to announce that two of its leaders have been named to the Staffing Industry Analysts' (SIA) Global Power 150 Women in Staffing List for 2022. In its eighth year, the list recognizes women who have made significant contributions both to their companies and the staffing industry.
"Taryn and Kristy are both dynamic, innovative leaders that embody our mission to connect people and work and act as a force for good in the communities we serve," said Steve Cooper, CEO of TrueBlue. "We are proud of their many contributions to TrueBlue and our brands, including prioritizing a culture of inclusion in all aspects of our business."
The TrueBlue executives featured this year include:
Taryn Owen
President & COO, TrueBlue
Taryn Owen was recently named President and COO of TrueBlue, overseeing all operating segments and key corporate support functions. Owen is responsible for furthering the company's strategies for long-term growth and extending its track record of exceptional execution and engagement. She has an unwavering commitment to TrueBlue's employees, customers, and mission of connecting people and work, and is passionate about building a vibrant and inclusive workplace. Prior to being named President and COO of TrueBlue, Owen served as President and COO of TrueBlue operating segments, PeopleReady and PeopleScout. Over her tenure, Owen has led the company through periods of significant growth, was instrumental in its pandemic response, and has spearheaded its digital transformation strategies.
Kristy Willis
Chief Sales and Field Operations Officer, PeopleReady
Kristy Willis leads PeopleReady's national sales organization and field operations, which combined generate more than $1B in revenue annually. Willis has been instrumental in the company's ongoing work to pioneer progressive technology and delivery models to enhance customer, associate and colleague experience. Willis' leadership style focuses on cultivating morale and teamwork to enhance productivity and enable fulfillment of PeopleReady's mission to connect people and work, and commitment to acting as a force for good in the communities it serves.
View the full Global Power 150 – Women in Staffing 2022 list here.
TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions that help clients achieve business growth and improve productivity. In 2021, TrueBlue connected approximately 615,000 people with work. Its PeopleReady segment offers on-demand, industrial staffing, PeopleManagement offers contingent, on-site industrial staffing and commercial driver services, and PeopleScout offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and managed service provider (MSP) solutions to a wide variety of industries. Learn more at www.trueblue.com.
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The Jan. 6 House Select Committee spent 18 months looking at the events –- and actors -– that helped fuel the violence that day. That includes a number of extremist groups.
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The Jan. 6 House Select Committee spent 18 months looking at the events –- and actors -– that helped fuel the violence that day. That includes a number of extremist groups.
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SAN RAMON, Calif., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumin Digital announced today that North Jersey Federal Credit Union (NJFCU) has signed a multi-year agreement for Lumin Digital's cloud-native platform for online and mobile digital banking solutions. Starting in July, Lumin Digital will support the credit union's more than 24,000 members and more than $262 million in assets.
Lumin Digital, a cloud-native digital banking platform, will provide NJFCU credit union members with a tightly integrated and customized experience that matches larger financial institutions' offerings. Focusing on service, user experience, safety, and security through sophisticated automation, Lumin Digital helps credit unions and financial institutions drive better engagement with their users through personalized recommendations. Recommendations include everything from spending insights and financial advice to fraud alerts and help with savings goals. Lumin also enables credit unions to provide users with real-time updates and new features that add value and simplify everyday banking.
Headquartered in Totowa, New Jersey, NJFCU strives to improve the life of every member through building positive relationships and providing safe and secure financial transactions.
"North Jersey Federal Credit Union was built by and for its members, which is why we are unwaveringly committed to finding the best and most innovative digital tools and technologies for those who trust us with their financial wellbeing," said Anna Lo, CEO of North Jersey Federal Credit Union. "This partnership with Lumin Digital does exactly that."
"We admire NJFCU's remarkable commitment to providing their members with an exceptional digital banking experience," said Jeff Chambers, founder and CEO of Lumin Digital. "This collaboration will help NJFCU bring innovative banking capabilities to their members using next-generation technologies."
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Lumin Digital is a PSCU-majority-owned fintech company specializing in digital banking solutions. Through a fundamentally different approach to technology, service, and people, we're creating the next generation of financial solutions each and every day. Lumin helps credit unions and financial institutions build and deploy next-gen digital experiences that help to continually serve, engage, and grow their membership base. While other platforms are partially adapted or retrofitted for the cloud, Lumin is 100% cloud-native. It was built specifically for the cloud environment, allowing us to more fully realize the advantages it offers. It's a difference that financial institutions and their users will see and feel almost immediately. For more information, visit lumindigital.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will buy 100,000 rounds of howitzer artillery from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday, in a deal the two governments have been working on for some time.
The agreement comes as Ukrainian leaders press for more weapons and aid to take advantage of a counteroffensive that is pushing Russian forces out of some areas they had taken over earlier in the war. And it relieves concerns within the U.S. military — particularly the Army and the Marine Corps — who are worried that persistent transfers of the Pentagon’s howitzer ammunition to Ukraine are eating into their stockpiles.
Other defense officials confirmed the broad outlines of the contract and said it would help with stockpile pressures, specifically involving the howitzer ammunition, which Ukrainian forces have been using at a high rate. Last week a defense official briefing reporters said Ukraine was burning through as many as 7,000 rounds of ammunition a day, while Russia was firing as much as 20,000 rounds daily.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the deal had not been made public.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry in a statement acknowledged ongoing talks over exporting an unspecified number of 155-millimeter artillery shells to shore up diminishing U.S. inventories. However, the ministry said the negotiations were proceeding under the presumption that the U.S. would be the “end user” of those rounds and that Seoul maintains its principle of providing only non-lethal support to Ukraine.
The South Korea agreement provides a sharp counterpoint to U.S. accusations earlier this month that North Korea was covertly shipping artillery to Russia. It’s not immediately clear whether the deal opens the possibility of South and North Korean artillery being fired against each other in Ukraine.
North Korea has aligned with Russia over the war in Ukraine while also blaming the United States for the crisis, insisting that the West’s “hegemonic policy” has forced Russia to take military action to protect its security interests. However, Pyongyang has repeatedly denied U.S. claims that it has been sending large supplies of artillery shells and other ammunition to Russia, accusing the Biden administration of a smear campaign.
Experts say North Korea has the potential to become a major source of munitions for Russia, considering the interoperability of their weapons systems based on Soviet roots. They say that the North, which has used the distraction created by the war to ramp up missile tests to a record pace, could seek to receive in return Russian fuel and technology transfers to further advance its military capabilities as it pursues more powerful missiles and nuclear warheads.
Until now, South Korea had previously limited its support for Ukraine to non-lethal equipment and supplies. In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed South Korea to provide lethal arms after Russia’s attack on Mariupol. Seoul’s Defense Ministry confirmed at the time that it had rejected the Ukrainian request for anti-aircraft weapons, citing the South Korean government’s principle of sending only non-lethal aid.
International security experts have said both North Korea and South Korea maintain vast stockpiles of ammunition due to the decades-long tensions along their heavily fortified and militarized shared border.
In a statement, Army Lt. Col. Marty Meiners, a Pentagon spokesman, said the U.S. government has been in discussions to buy ammunition from South Korea’s non-government defense industrial base. The ammunition would not come from South Korean military stocks. He declined to provide details.
Meiners said any potential sales always take into account the South Korean military’s readiness and requirements and “will not detract from our defensive posture or readiness to respond against regional threats.” He added that South Korea’s defense industry regularly sells military equipment and weapons systems to allies and partners, including the U.S.
South Korea has also inked several recent arms deals with European countries eager to bolster their defenses in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including almost $9 billion in multiple contracts with Poland to provide F-16 fighter jets, training aircraft, tanks and howitzers.
The ammunition deal was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Meiners said he could not provide information on how quickly the ammunition could get to Ukraine. He said the Pentagon has regular conversations with South Korea and other allies around the world about how best to support Ukraine in the war.
The revelation of the agreement came as Russia said it was beginning to withdraw its forces from the key city of Kherson. Ukrainian officials acknowledged Moscow’s troops had no choice but to flee Kherson, yet they remained cautious, fearing an ambush.
Kherson was the only provincial capital Moscow captured after invading Ukraine in February. A Russian withdrawal would mark a serious setback for Moscow, while giving Ukraine a critical launching pad for supplies and troops to aid its effort to win back other lost territory in the south, including Crimea, which Moscow seized in 2014.
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Toddler chasing deadly snake leads to nest discovery with 110 eggs
SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian toddler chasing a deadly snake led to the discovery of a snake's nest with 110 eggs.
The WILD Conservation in Sydney posted the story on its Facebook page.
The organization said a resident called saying they had problems with eastern brown snakes, and at one point, had 10 hatching snakes in their front garden.
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A few weeks later, the resident's toddler was found chasing another hatching snake.
WILD officials responded and started to dig in the resident's yard where the found more than 100 hatched Eastern Brown Snake eggs. They believe the eggs came from multiple females over the past several years.
They also believed the females formed a communal or picked an annual nesting site.
"The first baby brown showed itself after Kane dug around a little," WILD said on its workers in a Facebook post. "Then as we lifted the slab, a 3ft Red Bellied Black Snake shot out and was quickly captured, and after a bit more poking around, Rachael spotted a 2ft Eastern Brown Snake slithering at full speed from under the slab."
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WILD workers also found two larger snakes in the area. They were found with opaque eyes and rough skin possibly due to the abundance of food in the area such as frogs, skinks and young snakes.
"We'll be back there soon to oversee the removal of the path and safe relocation of any more snakes," WILD added.
According to the Australian Museum, the Eastern Brown Snake is one of the most venomous snakes in the country.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a fun and educational toy for children that can also double as a functional piece of furniture," said an inventor, from Midlothian, Texas, "so I invented the ROCK- A- PUZZLE. My design enables a child to sit while drawing or watching television and it offers a unique and engaging puzzle to promote various skills."
The invention provides a unique rocking chair for young children. It also offers a fun and educational puzzle-style toy. As a result, it could help a child develop hand-eye coordination and motor skills. It could also help a child identify colors, numbers and spell their name. The invention features a child-friendly design that is easy to assemble and use so it is ideal for children ages 3 through 5. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-DAL-279, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Listen to the opening minutes of Shook, the 2023 album by the Atlanta-born, transatlantically based, globally minded quartet Algiers, and you might wonder what's become of the drummer. For a song and a half, the only pulse is machine-made: first, a shopworn sample from "Subway Theme," the click-clack beat that raised the curtain on cult hip-hop film Wild Style in 1983; then, a spray of hi-hat artillery mined from Zambian rock but forged in the digital furnace of Ableton Live. It's only in the final 60 seconds of "Irreversible Damage" that sticks meet skins in real space: Following a verse from rap-rock warhorse Zack de la Rocha, the song's industrial rattle pivots to the loose double time of Mediterranean folk, and a cloud of bashed cymbals and swung toms rolls in, nudging those rigid intervals off the grid.
Matt Tong's fashionably late arrival to this party hits twice as hard for those who remember him from his old job. The British-born New York drummer introduced himself to the world in far splashier fashion with "Like Eating Glass" — the cannonballing opener from the 2005 debut by his previous band, Bloc Party — on which he builds from a faint murmur to an insistent garagelike loop that withstands dozens of hard swerves, dead stops and unsettled fills while only gaining in momentum, until it appears to lap itself. On his four albums with the band, he cut a narrow lane through post-punk's great millennial revival: detailed but never cluttered, with a martial focus that never excluded the listener. He'd clearly grown up with the same blacklit '80s records as his peers, but onstage, he often seemed to be having the most fun.
Those instincts were not lost on the members of Algiers, who recruited Tong in 2015 after he'd left Bloc Party, first as a touring anchor for their fractured arrangements and soon as a true bandmate. Shook finds him as embedded as ever in the egalitarian vision conceived by singer Franklin James Fisher, bassist Ryan Mahan and guitarist Lee Tesche, which extends beyond their progressive politics: In the studio, any member might pick up any instrument they can get a sound out of, and songs emerge as city-sized quilts of ideas, rarely spotlighting individual chops. The new album features guest appearances by a dozen outside contributors, from Dungeon Family soothsayer Big Rube to Future Islands growler Sam Herring, whose names fill a block of text on the album's front cover. (In a few spots, it's not even Tong you hear behind the kit — the drummer entrusted producer Matt Ricchini to perform the parts he couldn't be in the room for, after Shook's production schedule collided with the birth of his first son.)
For such a distinctive, exuberant player, raised in the era of college-radio darlings gone Hollywood, Algiers' collectivist vibe would seem an unlikely fit. Tong, now 44, says it's exactly where he needs to be. From a tour stop in Austria, Tong joined me on Zoom to discuss the fluid role of the rock drummer and the value of treating the music industry like a community, even when it's hard.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Daoud Tyler-Ameen: When you perform with Algiers, you're often playing along with pre-recorded samples. To do that, you kind of have to surrender the drummer's canonical role as timekeeper: The playback has final say over how fast or slow you go, and if you drift away from it you'll be in trouble. Is that a restrictive feeling, or is it freeing in some ways?
Matt Tong: It's restrictive insofar as there are plenty of heart-in-the-mouth moments. We're a very ambitious band, and quite often we try and do more onstage, and bring more equipment, than a bunch of people in a van really should be carrying around on tour. It doesn't take much for a misplaced limb to disconnect something: The other night, Ryan accidentally ejected the SD card with all the tracks on it midway through a song, so we had to fudge our way through it. But something that's liberating for me is, that part of my brain that has to think about timekeeping just switches off. And I do naturally start playing a little ahead or behind the beat given whatever mood I'm feeling; you can still subtly influence the way a song comes across live doing that.
You know, I'm notoriously sloppy at timekeeping. You don't have to wade through too many live Bloc Party reviews to find someone going, "Matt Tong sucks! He's playing the songs too fast! It's all over the place!" But I was always much more of a mood drummer, I guess. For me, it's perfectly natural to speed up a bit during the chorus, or if the audience are really into it. I'm like that, and I'm entirely happy to suck up any flack that comes my way because of it. The drummers I always looked up to were like that.
Do you think of what you do as serving a song — as in, there's a composition that already fully exists, and you're adding on top of it? Or do you view it more as co-creation, where your drumming is as much a part of a song's essence as anything else? Because Algiers is one of those groups where the lines between songwriting and arrangement, between composition and instrumentation, seem extremely blurred.
Yeah, absolutely. I think specifically in this band, I'm serving the music, and that was always my intention going into it. Everyone's aware of what I can do: I do write music, and I feel somewhat creative. I'd like to think by now that the other members and collaborators of this band understand that I'm open to performing any number of roles. But I'm not going to force the issue unless someone really needs me to. ... Sometimes the job of a musician isn't necessarily to actually play something. Sometimes it's just to validate someone else's idea, or to make a suggestion that nudges them into a different direction. It's not always about playing together.
It was very different back in Bloc Party, because at the time I joined the band, I don't think they'd really worked with a drummer who felt like a peer. And whilst I wasn't as technically gifted as some of their previous drummers, I seemed to be a bit more relatable to the rest of the band, and we could actually talk about ideas. There was more space for me to try to incorporate my own vision into the songwriting.
That makes sense — the albums you made with Bloc Party are arranged in a way that really gives each member their own pedestal to play on. I'm thinking of a song like "Banquet," which starts with four bars of just drums. Then the two guitars come in, and they're panned hard left and hard right. Then it's another 30 seconds or so before the bass comes in, so it really announces itself.
That approach means that at any time, you can clearly discern who is doing what, and even the drums get a lot of spotlight moments. The song "Like Eating Glass" has this stuttery, really distinctive drum part; even though there's singing and melodic elements happening, the drums are effectively the hook.
It's funny thinking about that song now, because I probably wouldn't approach it in the same way. You know, you're in your early or mid-20s and you're just full of these ideas. You think, well, you're only going to get one chance to get them all out — I'm going to do as much as I can. But I've got to be perfectly honest: A lot of that playing was informed by the fact that I'm not particularly athletic. I always struggled with sports at school. And that drumming, I was always being asked to play faster than I was ever comfortable with.
I heard you were a heavy smoker at the time.
Yeah, I used to smoke a pack a day back then. In fact, the very first rehearsal I did with that band, I had to stop between every song, roll a cigarette and just sit there smoking. And so a lot of that playing was informed by the fact that I'd get really tired — so I'd try and change the parts a bit, and write something that felt different and less intense. That's why the drum parts kind of evolve, or are so scattershot, throughout that record. It's funny thinking how one's way of being informs one's sense of creativity.
One thing that sets you apart from your current bandmates is, you have the weird privilege of having come through a totally different era of indie rock — a world I would argue was a little more intense in the 2000s, at least in how it tended to create cliques and cults of personality. Listening to Shook, I imagine something more like a community barbecue, where the individual is less prioritized. Your drumming will sneak into a song partway through, then drop out for a while and let other kinds of percussion take over. Even Franklin, the ostensible frontman, doesn't read as the "star" of this album, since he's constantly handing the mic off to the guest vocalists you brought in. Every choice seems to serve a collective ideal. Is that a comfort to you, having witnessed some of the different ways a band can be?
Yeah, I think it was really important to not really foreground any of us. One thing that's been odd for me in this band is being amongst a group of people who, for the very first time in their lives, were beginning to learn what becoming enmeshed in a touring cycle was like. The longer we ground out dates, the more I could see how hard it was for the rest of the band to confront that there are conditions within the music industry that make it almost impossible for community-forming to exist in a real, tangible form. And something I really loved from the beginning was this intent to reach out and try and find a community, to be open to meeting all manner of different kinds of people on tour. ... You see how it runs through pop and hip-hop: Collaboration is useful and fertile and interesting, but a lot of the time it's a strategy. Here, there was this real intent to show that we are actually part of a wider community.
This is a weird question, but do you think of Algiers as a rock band? I know that labels are limiting and the genre thing can feel like kind of a trap, but I'm curious if self-identifying that way does anything for you.
I mean, there's no simple answer. We've never lived in the same city, or even the same country, so we don't necessarily carry that aura of a crew of people who hang out and eat and drink and live in each other's pockets. Going into this album cycle is about as prepared as we've ever been: We've done like a month and a half of solid rehearsals, which we've never done before. There are times that I've really struggled with that, and it's been quite hard to figure out where I fit. But I think there's always been this hope that maybe we could operate in opposition to some of the more traditional ways of thinking about a band, and I think ultimately the music reflects that.
Has it changed how you write your parts? Do you leave more negative space around yourself now?
I tend to be a lot more restrained. It's no good me coming in there like I'm 24, recording my first record, and just doing every single thing I can think of — it's not gonna work, you know? So I save all that energy for the live performance. And although I'm starting to feel older in my body, I would like to think that I'm still capable of working out something I can't otherwise communicate in day-to-day life once I'm up there onstage.
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New Jersey mom gets life term for murder of toddler son, false kidnapping report
BRIDGETON, N.J. - A woman convicted of killing her toddler son four years ago and telling police he had been kidnapped before his remains were found buried in the yard of her New Jersey home has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Jurors in Cumberland County last month convicted 28-year-old Nakira Griner of Bridgeton of charges of first-degree murder, desecration of remains, evidence-tampering and false public alarm in the February 2019 death of 23-month-old Daniel Griner Jr.
Family members tearfully expressed their grief in last week’s sentencing hearing and a judge delivered a blistering assessment of her actions before imposing the life-without-parole term and concurrent terms for desecration and false public alarm, NJ.com reported.
Authorities said Griner initially told police in February 2019 that she had been attacked on the street and 23-month-old Daniel Griner Jr. had been abducted. An intensive search began but the child’s burnt remains were found the next day in the yard of her home, and an autopsy concluded that he had been beaten to death, authorities said.
Prosecutors said that Griner later told police that the child accidentally fell down a flight of stairs in the family home, but she said in phone calls from jail that she "did what she did to him" to cover up bruising on his body.
Defense attorney Jill Cohen acknowledged that her client dismembered and burned the child’s body but argued that prosecutors couldn’t prove she was directly responsible for his death and therefore could be convicted of nothing more than manslaughter. Cohen has said she intends to appeal the verdict.
Family members attending the sentencing hearing wore buttons bearing a picture of the happy little boy, and several addressed the court, calling the defendant selfish and uncaring. Griner didn't look up and declined to speak when given the chance to address the court.
"He was my precious grandson … such a sweet child and you stole him away from me," said Patricia Uhland, Daniel’s paternal grandmother. "You had no thought of how your actions would destroy our entire world. You’re a monster."
"Our family has lost so much that we will never get back," Daniel’s cousin, Gabrielle Nutt, said tearfully. "Strangers have wept for our Daniel, but not his own mother. Not one tear."
Superior Court Judge George Gangloff Jr. called her crimes "beyond comprehension."
"You shattered his skull into dozens of pieces, you fractured his ribs, then after his death you put his remains in an oven and cooked, baked or incinerated him," Gangloff said. "Whatever verb you choose, they’re all equally horrible."
He told the aspiring YouTube personality who posted about fashion and other topics that she knew one day she would get the attention that she wanted "but you didn’t think it was going to be like this." | https://www.fox29.com/news/new-jersey-mom-gets-life-term-in-murder-of-toddler-son-false-kidnapping-report | 2023-02-26 16:52:58 | 1 | https://www.fox29.com/news/new-jersey-mom-gets-life-term-in-murder-of-toddler-son-false-kidnapping-report |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-2-6
(two, two, six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-2-6
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Acclaimed 70s and 80s actress Shelley Duvall is making her first film appearance in two decades with a cameo appearance in the movie "The Forrest Hills."
"It was a lot of fun and I'm excited to be back," Duvall told The Hollywood Reporter.
The film, written and directed by Scott Goldberg, stars Chico Mendez who plays a character full of issues who viewers are left guessing if he is a werewolf.
Duvall, who is 73, lives in Texas where she says she began in the industry in the early 1970s.
She says she left Los Angeles and Hollywood in the 1990s.
Shelley Duvall returns to acting in her first film in 20 years, indie horror-thriller ‘The Forest Hills.’
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) October 28, 2022
It follows a disturbed man who is tormented by nightmarish visions, after enduring head trauma while camping in the Catskill Mountains. Duvall will play his mother. pic.twitter.com/vX5CXIOMzP
She spoke of the show "Dr. Phil" in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter talking about an appearance she made on the show in 2016.
"I found out the kind of person he is the hard way," Duvall said of host Phil McGraw.
She felt exploited she said.
"My mother didn’t like him, either. A lot of people ... said, 'You shouldn’t have done that, Shelley.'" | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/shelley-duvall-makes-first-film-appearance-in-20-years-with-the-forest-hills | 2022-11-05 00:13:23 | 0 | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/shelley-duvall-makes-first-film-appearance-in-20-years-with-the-forest-hills |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Mountain View High School (MVHS) went into lockdown and later explained the situation following one arrest.
At about 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 10, a student told the school administration about another student who possibly had a weapon in the parking lot.
Law enforcement was called and found the student with a simulated weapon in a vehicle.
The student was arrested and will be disciplined, says MVHS.
The school encourages parents to talk their students about the potential consequences of bringing a weapon to school.
"We thank the student who reported the information right away, and we appreciate Pima COunty Sheriff's Department for their prompt response," said MVHS administration in a press release.
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GREENWOOD, Miss. — A Catholic elementary school that primarily serves Black and Hispanic families in the Mississippi Delta is closing after more than 70 years, following a sex abuse scandal, declining enrollment and a steep decrease in donations.
It joins more than 200 other Catholic schools in the U.S. that have closed permanently during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Catholic Educational Association.
The school in Greenwood was founded in 1951 and is run by the Franciscan Friars of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Province, a Wisconsin-based religious community that opened a mission in an impoverished part of Mississippi.
In recent years, the school in Greenwood has been tarnished by a clergy sex abuse scandal dating back to the 1990s. Paul West, a former friar who was a teacher and principal, was convicted in April of abusing a former student at the school. The Mississippi attorney general’s office later dropped a second set of charges against West in the abuse of another student as the 62-year-old former friar began a 45-year prison sentence.
Franciscan officials have come under criticism for how they responded at the time the sexual abuse occurred and more recently how they handled settlements with the Black victims, who received much less than Catholic sex abuse survivors have typically received since the church’s abuse scandal erupted in the U.S. in 2002.
The Rev. James Gannon, the provincial minister of the Assumption Province, told The Associated Press in 2019 that settlements with two Black victims abused by West were less than generous but that the amounts had nothing to do with the victims’ race or poverty.
Gannon said in a news release about the closure of St. Francis of Assisi School that “no one is at fault” for the shutdown: “This decision is the result of conditions beyond everyone’s control.”
The Franciscans said the affiliated St. Francis of Assisi Church in Greenwood will remain open.
This year, the school had 50 students, a drop of almost 60% since 2015. Only 41 had registered for next year. The school has about 22 employees.
The province said the school ended 2016-17 with a $35,000 shortfall. This year’s deficit is approaching $100,000, and next year’s was projected at nearly $175,000. Donations for tuition assistance, building operations and other costs have fallen from $168,000 in 2016-17 to $30,000 this year.
“We friars are saddened and disappointed to close down an institution that has been vital to the education and faith development of thousands of students in our Greenwood community,” Gannon said in the news release. “But steadily declining enrollment and diminishing resources — coupled with growing budget deficits and deteriorating conditions of an aging physical plant — have made it abundantly clear that the long-term operational viability of St. Francis of Assisi School is no longer a sustainable reality.”
Former St. Francis students said the school played a key role in shaping their lives.
“I think it taught me the compassion and love I have for people,” said Glara Martin, a 66-year-old Greenwood resident who worked at a nursing home 43 years before retiring. “It taught me how to appreciate people.”
Martin attended St. Francis School from second through eighth grade in the 1960s and 1970s, when the school included those higher grades. Her four siblings, two sons and two grandsons also went there, she said.
Martin’s brother, Mederick Hollie, a retired federal law enforcement officer who lives in Texas, attended St. Francis from first grade through eighth grade in the 1960s and 1970s. He described the teachers as strong role models who “gave me a great moral foundation to go through life.”
The 58-year-old said they taught him: “The biggest room in the world is room for improvement so you can do better.”
Martin and Hollie both praised the Rev. Nathaniel Machesky, the white Franciscan friar from Detroit who helped found the school and church as a mission to reach the Black community.
“No matter the color of your skin, he wanted everyone to be treated fairly,” Martin said.
Machesky persevered despite facing animosity and violence, and many Black Mississippians in the Delta converted to Catholicism because of his work, Hollie said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/catholic-school-in-mississippi-delta-closing-after-70-years/2022/05/17/7b25974e-d614-11ec-be17-286164974c54_story.html | 2022-05-17 19:18:51 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/catholic-school-in-mississippi-delta-closing-after-70-years/2022/05/17/7b25974e-d614-11ec-be17-286164974c54_story.html |
Steve Drucker Has Been Tapped for the Role, as the Company Proceeds with a Dual Focus on Technological and Business Model Innovation
ATLANTA, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Volato, the most efficient way to experience a luxury private jet, today announced that Steve Drucker has joined the team as Chief Technology Officer. Since its inception, Volato has focused on delivering business model innovation through its successful fractional ownership and Stretch Jet Card programs and can now accelerate its tech innovation and product development for the industry with this new CTO hire.
Steve Drucker brings to the company nearly three decades of experience building development teams as well as enterprise and consumer facing products. He was previously the Chief Information Officer and EVP of Software Engineering at a publicly listed company, project lead for www.wmata.com, and has authored over a dozen books about software development for Salesforce.com, Adobe, Intel, and others. Effective immediately, Steve will manage Volato's existing team of in-house developers.
"There currently exists a tremendous gap in the requirements for aviation operational and customer focused software services," explained Josh Newsteder, Director of Operations at Volato. "From the very beginning, Volato has been aware of this opportunity and knows how tech can be a disruptor in the industry. We have been carefully working towards closing the gap and Steve will be a critical part in the implementation of future plans. We are very excited to have him join our team to lead our technology efforts"
"I am delighted to join the team at Volato and to once again work with past colleagues that I have long respected," commented Drucker. He continued, "I am impressed with the company's vision for the industry, their culture of innovation and the building of aviation solutions that put their fractional owners and passengers first."
Volato operates one of the largest and most modern fleets of HondaJets in the world with 11 aircraft and 18 on order, and now offers fractional shares in a fleet of Gulfstream G280's. Other products include charter services, the Stretch Jet Card: the only in-fleet jet card that rewards flexibility, and Volato Aircraft Management Services with a focus on HondaJets and large cabin aircraft. With IS-BAO Stage 2 and ARGUS Platinum safety ratings and an accident-free history, Volato operates with the highest safety standards of any HondaJet operator. In addition, Volato offsets the CO2 on every gallon of fuel used by its fleet through its program with 4AIR and provides pilots with robust training and a balanced lifestyle. Volato is positioned to be an industry leader as it continues to develop the most innovative solutions in private aviation.
For more information visit www.flyvolato.com
Volato is a full-service aviation company providing modern ways to enjoy luxury private jets through innovative, friendly, and sustainable solutions. Volato provides a fresh approach to fractional ownership, aircraft management, jet card and charter programs. Volato's fractional program uniquely offers flexible hours and a revenue share on every live mission for owners in a fleet of bespoke HondaJet Elites which are optimized for missions of up to four passengers, and Gulfstream G280's which are optimized for missions of up to ten passengers.
All Volato flights are operated by its DOT/FAA-authorized air carrier subsidiaries (G C Aviation, Inc., FlyDreams, LLC d/b/a Volato) or by an approved vendor air carrier.
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Revolutionary Apyx Medical Device Used by Top Physicians in the US Now Available to Patients for Nonsurgical Facial Renewal
CLEARWATER, Fla., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Apyx Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: APYX), the manufacturer of Renuvion®, a proprietary helium plasma and radiofrequency technology, previously announced the receipt of 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for the use of the Renuvion Dermal handpiece for specific dermatological procedures for the treatment of moderate to severe wrinkles and rhytides, limited to patients with Fitzpatrick skin types I, II or III.
Branded as Facial Renewal, this treatment for wrinkle-reduction provides patients with an effective and nonsurgical option for smoothing and contracting the skin in one procedure. Facial Renewal enables dermatologists, plastic surgeons and cosmetic physicians to achieve transformative results, without the patient needing invasive surgery or risking looking unnatural. Facial Renewal with Renuvion is the first major advancement in decades of skin treatments for the face, providing patients with dramatic and natural-looking results.
"Renuvion for facial procedures is groundbreaking. It's a treatment that fulfills a big unmet need in cosmetic procedures," said New York oculoplastic surgeon Tabasum Mir, MD. "I have been using the Renuvion technology on patients in my practice and I've seen the transformative results firsthand. With the new clearance for Facial Renewal, this opens a whole new treatment option for patients to achieve the youthful appearance they're seeking."
"We are very pleased to receive FDA clearance with a specific clinical indication that enables Apyx Medical to market and sell our Renuvion Technology to physicians and patients for use in dermal resurfacing procedures," said Charlie Goodwin, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Facial Renewal with Renuvion offers patients a refreshed and more youthful look without having the unnatural 'pulled' appearance often associated with a facelift."
For more information visit Renuvion.com.
Apyx Medical Corporation is an advanced energy technology company with a passion for elevating people's lives through innovative products in the cosmetic and surgical markets. Known for its innovative Helium Plasma Technology, Apyx is solely focused on bringing transformative solutions to the physicians and patients it serves. The company's Helium Plasma Technology is marketed and sold as Renuvion® in the cosmetic surgery market and J-Plasma® in the hospital surgical market. Renuvion® offers surgeons and physicians a unique ability to provide controlled heat to the tissue to achieve their desired results. The J-Plasma® system allows surgeons to operate with a high level of precision while minimizing unintended tissue trauma. The Company also leverages its deep expertise and decades of experience in unique waveforms through original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreements with other medical device manufacturers. For further information about the company and its products, please refer to the Apyx Medical Corporation website at www.ApyxMedical.com.
Certain matters discussed in this release and oral statements made from time to time by representatives of the Company may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the Federal securities laws. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved.
All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, any statements regarding the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions by governments, businesses and individuals in response to the situation; projections of net revenue, margins, expenses, net earnings, net earnings per share, or other financial items; projections or assumptions concerning the possible receipt by the Company of any regulatory approvals from any government agency or instrumentality including but not limited to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, supply chain disruptions, component shortages, manufacturing disruptions or logistics challenges; or macroeconomic or geopolitical matters and the impact of those matters on the Company's financial performance.
Forward-looking statements and information are subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Many of these factors are beyond the Company's ability to control or predict. Important factors that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially and that could impact the Company and the statements contained in this release include but are not limited to risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to the regulatory environment in which the Company is subject to, including the Company's ability to gain requisite approvals for its products from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other governmental and regulatory bodies, both domestically and internationally; the impact of the recent FDA Safety Communication on our business and operations; factors relating to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; sudden or extreme volatility in commodity prices and availability, including supply chain disruptions; changes in general economic, business or demographic conditions or trends; changes in and effects of the geopolitical environment; liabilities and costs which the Company may incur from pending or threatened litigations, claims, disputes or investigations; and other risks that are described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For forward-looking statements in this release, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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ICR Westwicke on behalf of Apyx Medical Corporation
Mike Piccinino, CFA
investor.relations@apyxmedical.com
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TOKYO, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Japan Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 2023 Japan Prize on January 24, 2023. Prof. Masataka Nakazawa and Mr. Kazuo Hagimoto, both of Japan, are co-winners of the Japan Prize in the fields of Electronics, Information, and Communication, and Prof. Gero Miesenboeck of Austria and Prof. Karl Deisseroth of the United States are co-winners of the Japan Prize in the field of Life Science.
- Fields of Electronics, Information, and Communication
Prof. Masataka Nakazawa
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Mr. Kazuo Hagimoto
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- Field of Life Science
Prof. Gero Miesenboeck
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Prof. Karl Deisseroth
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For this year's Japan Prize, Prof. Nakazawa and Mr. Hagimoto are being recognized for their distinguished contributions to global long-distance, high-capacity optical fiber network through the development of semiconductor laser pumped optical amplifier, while Prof. Miesenboeck and Prof. Deisseroth are being recognized for their development of methods that use genetically addressable light-sensitive membrane proteins to unravel neural circuit functions.
For the 2023 Japan Prize, the Foundation asked approximately 15,500 prominent scientists and engineers from around the world to nominate researchers working in this year's fields. It received 123 nominations in the fields of Electronics, Information, and Communication, and 204 nominations for the field of Life Science. This year's winners were selected from that total of 327 candidates.
About the Japan Prize
The establishment of the Japan Prize in 1981 was motivated by the Japanese government's desire to create an internationally recognized award that would contribute to scientific and technological development around the world. With the support of numerous donations, the Japan Prize Foundation received endorsement from the Cabinet Office in 1983.
The Japan Prize is awarded to scientists and engineers from around the world, who have made creative and dramatic achievements that help progress their fields and contribute significantly to realizing peace and prosperity for all humanity. Researchers in all fields of science and technology are eligible for the award, with two fields selected each year in consideration of current trends in scientific and technological development. In principle, one individual in each field is recognized with the award, and receives a certificate, a medal, and a monetary prize. Each Award Ceremony is attended by the current Emperor and Empress, heads of the three branches of government and other related officials, and representatives from various other elements of society.
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TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keys Inc. is beyond grateful to Nasdaq for approving our choice ticker symbol "KYS"; our acronym for Keep You Safe™. Keys® Provides Peace of Mind to consumers in otherwise stressful situations. Knowing a Certified On Demand Service Provider is just a click away.
Keys® is an innovative online and mobile application; where users can easily facilitate, negotiate, track and chat with any registered service providers on our network, in case of any lost key, lock out or roadside emergencies
Keys Inc. successfully launched the Keys App to Certified Locksmith and Security Professionals at the ALOA Locksmith & Security Expo 22 and is proud to have won the 2022 Best New Product Award.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas would like to see the court revisit decisions that legalized same-sex marriage, contraception and sex acts between consenting adults.
In a concurring opinion in the court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Thomas said, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”
The Griswold ruling gave married couples the right to access contraceptives. It's been on the books since 1965.
In 2003, the court ruled in favor of Lawrence, saying states could not outlaw sex acts by consenting adults.
Thomas was on the bench when the Obergefell case came before the court in 2015. In a 5-4 decision, the court granted same-sex couples the right to get married. Thomas was among the justices who dissented.
Many Democrats fear the decision to overturn Roe is a precursor to overturning other rulings. However, Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion to overturn Roe, said the decision does not impact other due process rulings.
"The dissent suggests that our decision calls into question Griswold, Eisenstadt, Lawrence, and Obergefell," Alito wrote. "But we have stated unequivocally that nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/justice-clarence-thomas-calls-for-supreme-court-to-reconsider-same-sex-marriage-contraception-decisions | 2022-06-24 16:35:48 | 0 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/justice-clarence-thomas-calls-for-supreme-court-to-reconsider-same-sex-marriage-contraception-decisions |
The Bank of England reassured the public on Thursday that banknotes with images of Queen Elizabeth II would remain legal tender after her death.
Condolences were sent from the UK's central bank, saying, "The Bank of England’s staff wish to express their heartfelt condolences to the Royal Family, following news of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II."
Andrew Bailey, governor of the central bank, wrote, “It was with profound sadness that I learned of the death of Her Majesty The Queen. On behalf of everyone at the Bank, I would like to pass on my deepest condolences to the Royal Family. For most of us, she is the only head of state we have ever known and will be remembered as an inspirational figure for our country and the Commonwealth.”
The Queen ascended to the throne in 1952 but didn't appear on banknotes for about the first eight years of her time as Queen. It was in 1960 when her portrait first appeared on the £1 banknote.
Her image would later appear on other banknotes, according to the Bank of England Museum.
The UK's central bank was formed in 1694 and became the English government's bank, and it still acts as one of the bankers for the UK government. The model for the Bank of England is still a model on which most central banks around the world are based. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/bank-of-england-says-currency-with-queens-portrait-to-remain-legal-tender | 2022-09-08 22:49:32 | 0 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/bank-of-england-says-currency-with-queens-portrait-to-remain-legal-tender |
Lawmaker holds discussion on challenges facing youth
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - A local Oklahoma Lawmaker led a business forum at Cameron University on Thursday night. It focused on ways to better help younger generations. Representative Daniel Pae led the forum discussion on “Challenges facing our youth.”
After addressing the forum, he and school staff and faculty members from area high schools held a panel discussion on the matter. The panel focused on the challenges current students face and how schools can help each new generation meet those challenges.
“Education has to adapt,” said Charles Kirchen, the principal at Lawton High School. “I mean, there are some tried and true methods. I don’t think Socrates was a complete idiot. There’s some of the things that he can do, but we have to adapt to a changing situation and changing demographic and the workforce and the skills that students are going to need. So (we) don’t want to abandon all the tried and true methods, but some of the new methods need to be incorporated.”
Panelists said its vital to find out about students’ interests and the skills they need - and ensuring that schools can help them gain those life tools.
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CULPEPER, Va. — Master planning is now underway to establish exact parameters of the future Battlefields State Park in Culpeper County. It will encompass over 1,700 acres owned by American Battlefield Trust at the relatively still untouched sites of the Civil War Battles of Brandy Station and Cedar Mountain.
Local coalition leaders are working with officials from Virginia Dept. of Conservation & Recreation to finalize details of lands to be included in the history-themed state park for which the General Assembly included funding in the fiscal year budget.
The idea to commemorate and formalize the historic grounds dates back years, Laudner told the board of supervisors.
“My very first visit to Culpeper was in 1987,” said Laudner, a strategic consultant with American Battlefield Trust. “I was living in D.C. at the time, a history buff, came down to Brandy Station. There was just the one marker there…all those years ago to be where we are now, a lot has been invested.”
Brandy Station Foundation, Friends of Cedar Mountain, Germanna Foundation, Museum of Culpeper History, Journey Through Hallowed Ground, Piedmont Environmental Council and others have all been partners to the $17 million investment thus far in the land preservation by ABT, Laudner said.
That doesn’t include maintenance, education, interpretation, tours and communications already expended in making the historic places destinations.
“None of this would have been possible without you the board,” he added, noting early county government support of a state park resolution.
A change in the administration in Richmond reinvigorated the future Battlefield State Park initiative a year and a half ago, Laudner said. He stated the previous administration informed them a state park would not be possible without strong local support, that they wouldn’t even consider it.
Friends of Culpeper Battlefields, formed several years ago, has endeavored to be that group DCR can rely on, Laudner added. Since the state park was approved by the legislature earlier this year, state officials have made several site visits to Culpeper County and have been in no rush to leave, he said.
The lands that will encompass the park are certainly scenically located and still mostly untouched from the battles that raged there more than 150 years ago. Historians, tour guides and land scape architects with the Friends group are all working with the state to draw out the park boundaries.
It’s land ABT will continue to maintain through 2027 at no cost to the state, and well beyond, Laudner said.
Sites like St. James Church and Fleetwood Hill in Brandy Station will be points of interest in the future state park along with primitive camping sites, equestrian and walking trail and access to the Rappahannock River, including where refugees fleeing slavery once crossed.
The future Battlefields State Park is expected to attract 75,000 visitors in its first year, generating over $1 million in fresh money from tourists, Laudner told the board.
It will take five years to complete the land transfer from ABT to DCR for the state park and the facility will grow with preserved lands even beyond that, he said. The state is talking about hiring staff over the next 18 months as well as finalizing locations for visitors’ centers.
While Civil War Battlefields will be the “big ticket” for the state park, the area has other history as well—African-American and Native American, Laudner said. The Board of Supervisors can help the project by being aware of the proposed property lines that will encompass the state park, he said.
Listing those lands as protected in the comprehensive plan is appropriate as well as facilitating a surrounding view-shed compatible with the state park, Laudner suggested.
“That is our big ask,” he said.
Brandy Station faces a myriad of development pressures with a variety of data centers and big solar facilities already approved or in the works. Neighbors and the friends groups have been showing up at public meetings for several years now asking county government to keep rural areas rural.
The future Battlefields State Park will be centrally geographically located to D.C., Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley so as to draw a maximum number of visitors, Laudner said.
“There are a lot more stories to tell that will bring people here from outside of the county,” he said, noting the process toward the state park would happen fast.
Salem Supervisor Tom Underwood said he looked forward to the state park opening. He noted the board of supervisors is in the process of updating its comprehensive plan. The planning commission, in fact, recently completed its multi-month review of the plan with extensive public input and hearings—all with a slant toward keeping rural areas rural and green areas green.
Underwood said some areas of the county would remain relatively undisturbed, but not necessarily near major roads, utility lines or other large infrastructure already in place or in a county-designated technology zone.
Chairman Gary Deal asked Laudner to expand upon his statements about “telling the full stories” at the state park, including Black history.
Laudner responded the lands date to colonial times. In fact, some in the Stevensburg District are prehistoric.
He mentioned the iconic Timothy O’Sullivan Library of Congress photo taken on a late summer day in 1862. It shows fugitive African-Americans fleeing Culpeper County across the Rappahannock River at Remington as the Union army withdraws to Fauquier County after being beaten in the Battle of Cedar Mountain on Aug. 9, 1862.
It’s one of the sites the Friends group and the Trust is most proud of, Laudner said. There were other battles and skirmishes, those stories will be told, including the charge down the street in the Battle of Culpeper Courthouse. That 1863 skirmish happened in the center of town between Union cavalry and Confederate soldiers, during the long war that occupied Culpeper.
The June 9, 1863 Battle at Brandy Station covered the farm fields in northern Culpeper and it’s still the largest-ever cavalry battle fought in North America.
The future state park lands also encompass undisturbed Native American sites, Laudner said, noting no dearth of fascinating stories.
“So yes, it will be Culpeper Battlefields, but we know there is so much more,” he said. “There is no limit to the stories we can tell.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/master-planning-underway-for-battlefields-state-park/2022/11/06/9496eaee-5ddb-11ed-a131-e900e4a6336b_story.html | 2022-11-06 16:49:21 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/master-planning-underway-for-battlefields-state-park/2022/11/06/9496eaee-5ddb-11ed-a131-e900e4a6336b_story.html |
Summer is in full swing – and we’re about to kick off the 4th of July with cookouts – and fireworks.
With new data showing fireworks-related injuries on a significant upward trend the past 15 years – it’s important to know risks to prevent these tragedies.
New data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) shows that consumers are vulnerable, as fireworks-related injuries have been on a significant upward trend over the past 15 years. It’s critical that consumers be aware of the risks involved in using fireworks, so injuries and tragedies can be prevented.
CPSC Chair Alex Hoehn-Saric joins the nationally syndicated health and wellness show Bloom, to share a few steps that consumers can take to use fireworks safely this summer:
• Light fireworks one at a time, then move quickly away from the fireworks device.
• Never try to relight or handle malfunctioning fireworks. Soak them with water and throw them away.
• After fireworks complete their burning, to prevent a trash fire, douse the spent device with plenty of water from a bucket or hose before discarding the device.
• Make sure fireworks are legal in your area, and only purchase and set off fireworks that are labeled for consumer (not professional) use. | https://www.wfla.com/bloom/fireworks-the-dos-and-donts/ | 2022-06-30 16:40:50 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/bloom/fireworks-the-dos-and-donts/ |
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Migrant border crossings rise at Poland-Belarus border
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The Polish border service has reported an uptick in Middle Eastern migrants trying to illegally cross into the European Union at the border of Belarus and Poland. In the past 24 hours, 117 illegal migrants were detained, along with 65 others the previous day. According to the Polish border agency, Belarusian border guards aid migrants in crossing the border to Poland, with most migrants now traveling first to Russia and then taking organized transport to Belarusian cities. Last year, thousands of migrants became stranded at the Belarus-EU border, with Western leaders accusing Belarusian authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko of using migrants as pawns to destabilize the bloc. Poland has since built a $330 million wall along its border with Belarus | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/11/04/migrant-border-crossings-rise-at-poland-belarus-border/ | 2022-11-04 23:49:17 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/11/04/migrant-border-crossings-rise-at-poland-belarus-border/ |
Pregnant woman says Apple Watch warning saved her life
COSTA MESA, Calif. (KCAL) - A pregnant woman rushed to the hospital after her smart watch kept warning that something was wrong.
“I literally thought I was going to die,” Jess Kelly said. “There were so many doctors and stuff in there.”
Kelly is sounding the alarm about how her Apple Watch may have saved her life and the life of her new baby girl.
“I had been laying in bed ... not feeling well. I didn’t know if it was my morning sickness coming back my third trimester or if it was because I was getting my son’s stomach flu,” Kelly said. “And so, I wasn’t doing any sort of activity, so I thought it was really odd that it was telling me my heart rate was going over 120 beats per minute.”
The mom still had a few weeks until her due date. She said her Apple Watch kept chirping at her that her heart rate was high and each warning that appeared on the screen added to her worries.
“It went off the first time and I thought it was strange. Then the second time maybe ten minutes later or so and then the third time, I think, was maybe a half hour or so later,” Kelly said. “And when it went off the third time, I thought OK something is going on.”
Kelly went straight to the hospital, which is exactly what Dr. Brian Kolski would recommend. The cardiologist at the Providence St. Joseph Hospital doesn’t treat Kelly but he has patients who are prescribed Apple Watches to detect certain heart conditions.
“Sounds like it was accurate and one of the first signs when people are in trouble, whether it’s low blood pressure, bleeding, is an elevated heart rate,” Kolski said.
Kelly arrived in full-blown labor, her blood pressure was dropping, and she was losing blood due to a pregnancy complication known as placenta abruption. Yet a healthy baby, Shelby Marie, was born three hours later.
Kelly said she is so grateful to the doctors, nurses and for her Apple Watch.
“Listen to it. It’s not just a text message, help you find your phone alert,” Kelly said. “It’s to pay attention to it and listen to your body.”
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Finland set to join NATO, dealing major blow to Russia
BRUSSELS (AP) — Finland is poised to join NATO on Tuesday, a historic realignment triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the head of the military alliance said no more troops would be sent to the Nordic country unless it asked for help.
Russia warned that it would be forced to take “retaliatory measures” to address what it called security threats created by Finland’s membership. It had already warned that it would bolster defenses along its border with NATO if the alliance deploys any additional troops or equipment to its new member.
“There will be no NATO troops in Finland without the consent of Finland,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels a few hours before the country joins.
But he refused to rule out the possibility of holding more military exercises there and said that NATO would not allow Russia’s demands to dictate the organization’s decisions.
“We are constantly assessing our posture, our presence. We have more exercises, we have more presence, also in the Nordic area,” he said.
Later Tuesday, Finland is set to officially become the 31st member of NATO and take its place among the ranks of the world’s biggest security alliance.
Alarmed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Finland applied to join in May, setting aside years of military non-alignment to seek protection under the organization’s security umbrella. Neighboring Sweden also applied, but its accession process may take a few months longer.
Finland shares a 1,340 kilometer (832 mile) border with Russia, so its entry will more than double the size of NATO’s border with Russia. The move is a strategic and political blow to President Vladimir Putin, who has long complained about NATO’s expansion toward Russia — though the alliance says it poses no threat to Moscow.
“The Russian Federation will be forced to take military-technical and other retaliatory measures to counter the threats to our national security arising from Finland’s accession to NATO,” the Foreign Ministry warned in a statement.
It said Finland’s move marks “a fundamental change in the situation in Northern Europe, which had previously been one of the most stable regions in the world.”
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Finland’s membership reflects the alliance’s anti-Russian course and warned that Moscow will respond depending on what weapons NATO allies place there.
But Peskov also sought to play down the impact, noting that Russia has no territorial disputes with Finland.
It’s not clear what additional military resources Russia could send to the Finnish border. Moscow has deployed the bulk of its most capable military units to Ukraine.
Stoltenberg said that once it joins, Finland will benefit from NATO’s “iron-clad security guarantee,” under which all member countries vow to come to the defense of any ally that comes under attack.
“By (Finland) become a full-fledged member, we are removing the room for miscalculation in Moscow about NATO’s readiness to protect Finland, and that makes Finland safer and stronger, and all of us safer,” Stoltenberg said.
Finland’s entry, to be marked with a flag-raising ceremony at NATO headquarters, falls on the organization’s very own birthday, the 74th anniversary of the signing of its founding Washington Treaty on April 4, 1949. It also coincides with a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers.
Finland’s president, foreign and defense ministers will take part in the ceremony.
Turkey became the last NATO member country to ratify Finland’s membership protocol on Thursday. It will hand over the document officially enshrining that decision to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken before the ceremony.
Finland’s membership becomes official when its own foreign minister hands over documents completing its accession process to Blinken. The U.S. State Department is the repository of NATO texts concerning membership.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is seeking to again question an associate of Donald Trump who was seen on security camera footage moving boxes of classified records at the former president’s Florida estate, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Walt Nauta has already been interviewed by investigators examining the potential mishandling of classified government records at Mar-a-Lago and prosecutors want to speak with him again as they try to understand how boxes came to be relocated from a storage room at the property, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing probe.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
The department is investigating potential violations of multiple criminal statutes, including unlawful retention of national defense information and obstruction. It is not clear whether anyone will be charged.
The obstruction aspect of the probe burst into public view in August when prosecutors in a court filing described how classified documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a Mar-a-Lago storage room in a potential effort to obstruct the investigation and impede Justice Department efforts to recover the records.
The Justice Department in May issued a subpoena seeking the return of classified records taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s term had ended.
Law enforcement officials visited on June 3 to collect the records, and were given an envelope containing 38 documents with classification markings. They also instructed the Trump legal team to preserve the boxes of classified records in the storage room until further notice.
But FBI agents came to believe that more documents remained at the home, and that there had been efforts to obstruct their probe. They returned on Aug. 8 with a court-authorized search warrant and collected more than 100 documents marked as classified, including at the top-secret level.
The person who spoke to the AP declined to characterize Nauta’s precise account to the authorities. The Washington Post reported earlier this month that a Trump associate, since identified as Nauta, told the FBI that he had moved boxes at Trump’s explicit direction.
The New York Times, which reported earlier Monday that prosecutors were seeking another interview with Nauta, also cited one person briefed on the matter as saying that Nauta said he had acted at Trump’s direction. But the newspaper cited another person who described Nauta as less specific about what he had been told.
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Valpo falls to Illinois State: Valparaiso got behind early against Illinois State on Friday and couldn't make up the ground. The Beacons' loss dropped them to 1-8 in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Redbirds, on the other hand, built on their conference lead, improving to 8-1 in the MVC. Valparaiso fell behind early, trailing 23-6 after the first quarter of play. Things didn't get any better as Illinois State won by 32 points, 78-46. Jayda Johnston led the way for the Beacons off the bench, scoring 14 points on a perfect 5-of-5 performance from the field. Ali Saunders finished just behind with 13 points of her own. Paige Robinson paced the Redbirds with 23 points, six rebounds and five assists.
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Braves extend Snitker: Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker, coming off the team's fifth consecutive NL East title, signed a contract extension on Friday that runs through the 2025 season.Snitker, 67, guided the Braves to the 2021 World Series championship before the team won 101 games last season.
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Aguilar, A's reach deal: The Oakland Athletics and slugger Jesús Aguilar agreed to a $3 million, one-year contract Friday. The 32-year-old Aguilar batted .235 with 16 homers, 51 RBIs and a .661 OPS in 129 games for the Marlins and Orioles last season. He was leading the Marlins with 15 homers and 49 RBIs but was hitting only .236 when they released him in late August after falling out of NL wild-card contention.
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Mauer to enter Twins' HOF: Joe Mauer will be the next addition to the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame. Mauer will become the 38th member of the group when he's inducted on Aug. 5 before the Twins host Arizona, the team announced Friday. Mauer was the 2009 AL MVP. He won three batting titles — the only AL catcher to do so — and also received three Gold Glove awards.
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Beacons announce slate: Valparaiso announced its spring track and field schedule on Friday. The Beacons get their outdoor slate underway with the Florida State Relays on March 23-24. They're also scheduled to head to Western Michigan, Louisville, Illinois and Drake this spring. Valparaiso will compete in the MVC Outdoor Championships from May 12-15 at Illinois State. | https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/sports-digest-valparaiso-drops-contest-to-illinois-state/article_7995e998-c868-5ac9-b991-6cb7a78c113b.html | 2023-01-28 04:22:39 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/sports/sports-digest-valparaiso-drops-contest-to-illinois-state/article_7995e998-c868-5ac9-b991-6cb7a78c113b.html |
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LONDON (AP) — The British government on Wednesday unveiled plans for a Bill of Rights it says will strengthen free speech and the power of Parliament — but that critics argue will rip up human rights protections for ordinary people.
The government published the bill days after courts in the U.K. and Europe, on human rights grounds, stopped Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative administration deporting people seeking asylum in Britain to Rwanda.
If approved by Parliament — where it faces a battle — the legislation will raise the bar for bringing human rights legal claims. It will reduce the ability of foreign nationals convicted of a crime in Britain to challenge deportation on the basis of their human rights.
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Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said the bill, which would replace the U.K.’s Human Rights Act, would “curb abuses of the system and inject a bit more common sense” into human rights law.
He told lawmakers that the law was designed to rein in “elastic interpretations” of human rights that have developed through court rulings without “meaningful democratic oversight” by the House of Commons.
Raab said Britain would retain its “fundamental commitment” to the European Convention on Human Rights, but its move could set it on a collision course with the Council of Europe, which oversees the Strasbourg-based rights court.
The government depicted the Bill of Rights as an assertion of British sovereignty in the wake of the country’s departure from the European Union. However, the European Court of Human Rights is unconnected to the EU; it is an international tribunal supported by 46 countries.
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Stephanie Boyce, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, said the Bill of Rights was “a lurch backwards for British justice.”
“Authorities may begin to consider some rights violations as acceptable, because these could no longer be challenged under the bill of rights despite being against the law,” she said. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/uk-plans-to-rewrite-human-rights-law-critics-cry-foul/ | 2022-06-23 00:04:19 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/uk-plans-to-rewrite-human-rights-law-critics-cry-foul/ |
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Biden, 80, has repeatedly said he intends to run for a second term but advisers say he has felt little need to jump into campaigning because he faces no significant opposition to his party's nomination.
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Biden in recent months has been focused on implementing the massive infrastructure, technology investment and climate laws passed during his first two years in office and drawing a sharp contrast with Republicans as Washington gears up for a fight over raising the nation’s borrowing limit. Aides believe those priorities will burnish his image ahead of his reelection campaign.
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The Washington Post first reported on the expected timing of the announcement. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-2024-campaign-announcement/507-c0f0376d-38fa-47fa-bf64-f38e5c58517f | 2023-04-20 23:08:37 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-2024-campaign-announcement/507-c0f0376d-38fa-47fa-bf64-f38e5c58517f |
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 13. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Light and
variable winds, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and cold. Near steady temperature
in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Snow showers. Light snow
accumulation. Not as cold with lows around 30. Temperature rising
into the upper 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers, breezy and not as cool with highs around 50.
Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers with a chance of snow
showers in the evening, then a chance of rain showers after
midnight. Blustery and much colder with lows around 10 above. Chance
of precipitation 90 percent. Wind chill values as low as 10 below
after midnight.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy and brisk, cold. Highs
15 to 20. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as
10 below.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 20s.
Wind chill values as low as 10 below in the morning.
$$
NYZ065-191715-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 40. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 14. North winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds
around 5 mph in the morning, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of snow showers. Rain showers, mainly in the
evening. Much colder with lows 10 to 15. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Much colder with highs in the mid 20s.
Wind chill values as low as zero.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the upper 20s. Wind chill values as low as zero.
$$
NYZ041-191715-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers, mainly this
morning. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds around 10 mph. Chance of
snow 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. North
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 12. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cold with lows in the upper 20s. Temperature rising into the
upper 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Colder with lows
around 15. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the
mid 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as 5 below.
$$
NYZ038-191715-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Snow showers likely. Total snow accumulation of 2 to
4 inches. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds around 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the evening.
Cold with lows around 19. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
snow 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 15. West winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cool with lows in the lower 30s. Temperature rising into the
upper 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with snow showers likely. Much colder
with lows 10 to 15. Chance of precipitation 90 percent. Wind chill
values as low as zero after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A 40 percent chance of snow showers. Much colder with highs
in the lower 20s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
evening. Cold with lows around 10 above. Chance of snow 30 percent.
Wind chill values as low as 5 below after midnight.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Cold with highs in the mid 20s. Wind chill values as low as
5 below in the morning.
$$
NYZ032-191715-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
...LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY...
.TODAY...Cloudy. Snow showers likely, mainly this morning. Total
snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches. Cold with highs in the upper
20s. West winds around 10 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the evening. Cold
with lows around 14. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow
30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Cold with highs in the mid 20s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 11. West winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light and variable winds,
becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain and snow showers. Light snow
accumulation. Lows in the upper 20s. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance
of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with snow showers likely. Much colder
with lows around 10 above. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Wind chill values as low as 10 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
Much colder with highs 15 to 20. Wind chill values as low as
10 below.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Cold with lows 5 to 10 above. Wind chill values as low as
10 below.
.CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold with highs around 20. Wind
chill values as low as 10 below in the morning.
$$
NYZ042-191715-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of snow showers this morning.
Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 17. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Colder with lows around 7 above. Light and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 15.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely in the evening, then snow and
rain showers after midnight. Moderate snow accumulation. Cold with
lows in the mid 20s. Temperature rising into the lower 30s after
midnight. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers in the morning. Rain showers. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Not as cool with highs in the upper
40s. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Colder with lows
around 10 above. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent. Wind
chill values as low as zero after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly cloudy in the afternoon. Much colder with highs
in the lower 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent. Wind chill values as
low as 5 below.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Lows 5 to
10 above. Highs in the lower 20s. Wind chill values as low as
5 below.
$$
NYZ083-191715-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs around 30. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder with lows around 7 above.
Light and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cold with lows in the upper 20s. Temperature rising into the
mid 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers in the morning. Showers. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Not as cool with highs in the lower
50s. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Colder with lows
10 to 15. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the
mid 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as 5 below.
$$
NYZ043-191715-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy. A
20 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs around 30. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Colder with lows around 8 above.
Light and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cold with lows in the upper 20s. Temperature rising into the
mid 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers in the morning. Showers. Little or no
additional snow accumulation. Not as cool with highs in the lower
50s. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Colder with lows
10 to 15. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the
lower 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as
5 below.
$$
NYZ084-191715-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers this morning,
then mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow showers this
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
snow 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder with lows around 10 above.
Light and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Light snow
accumulation. Not as cold with lows in the lower 30s. Temperature
rising into the upper 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Much colder with
lows 15 to 20. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the
mid 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
$$
NYZ082-191715-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow showers likely, mainly this morning.
Total snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Cold with highs in the
upper 20s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 15. Northwest winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the mid 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 10 above.
Northwest winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. Light
and variable winds, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Chance of snow
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain and snow showers. Light snow
accumulation. Lows in the upper 20s. Highs in the mid 40s. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with snow showers likely. Much colder
with lows around 10 above. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Wind chill values as low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers.
Much colder with highs around 15. Wind chill values as low as
10 below.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Lows 5 to
10 above. Highs around 20. Wind chill values as low as 10 below.
$$
NYZ039-191715-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow showers likely, mainly this morning.
Total snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Cold with highs in the
lower 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 16. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs around 30. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 10 above. West
winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain and snow showers. Light snow
accumulation. Lows in the upper 20s. Highs in the upper 40s. Chance
of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with snow showers likely. Much colder
with lows around 10 above. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Wind chill values as low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly cloudy in the afternoon. Much colder with highs
around 20. Chance of snow 30 percent. Wind chill values as low as
5 below in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the lower 20s. Wind chill values as low as
5 below.
$$
NYZ040-191715-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Snow showers likely, mainly this morning.
Total snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Highs in the lower 30s.
West winds around 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow
60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 17. West winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 11. West winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cold with lows in the upper 20s. Temperature rising into the
mid 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs around 50. Chance of rain
near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with snow showers likely. Much colder
with lows around 10 above. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Wind chill values as low as zero after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of snow showers in the
morning, then mostly cloudy in the afternoon. Much colder with highs
in the lower 20s. Chance of snow 30 percent. Wind chill values as
low as 5 below.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the lower 20s. Wind chill values as low as
5 below.
$$
NYZ047-191715-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers.
Cold with highs in the lower 30s. West winds around 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the evening.
Cold with lows around 19. Northwest winds around 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of snow 30 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs around 30. Northwest winds
around 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 12. West winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Light and
variable winds, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cold with lows in the lower 30s. Temperature rising into the
upper 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with snow showers likely. Much colder
with lows around 10 above. Chance of precipitation 90 percent. Wind
chill values as low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the morning.
Much colder with highs around 20. Chance of snow 30 percent. Wind
chill values as low as 5 below in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the lower 20s. Wind chill values as low as
5 below.
$$
NYZ048-191715-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Cold
with highs in the lower 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up
to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 20. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 12. West winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs around 30. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Snow showers. Light snow
accumulation. Not as cold with lows in the upper 20s. Temperature
rising into the upper 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation
near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the upper 40s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with snow showers likely. Much colder
with lows 10 to 15. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent. Wind
chill values as low as zero after midnight.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the
lower 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as
5 below.
$$
NYZ049-191715-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to
25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 13. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cold with lows around 30. Temperature rising into the upper
30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Much colder with
lows around 15. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the
mid 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
$$
NYZ050-191715-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 13. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cold with lows around 30. Temperature rising into the upper
30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Much colder with
lows around 15. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the
mid 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
$$
NYZ051-191715-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow showers. Cold
with highs in the lower 30s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 18. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts up to 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 10 above.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Snow showers. Light snow
accumulation. Not as cold with lows in the upper 20s. Temperature
rising into the mid 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers, breezy and not as cool with highs in the upper
40s. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Rain showers with snow showers likely. Brisk and
much colder with lows around 10 above. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent. Wind chill values as low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs around
20. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as low as 10 below.
$$
NYZ053-191715-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 14. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Light
and variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow and rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cool with lows in the lower 30s. Temperature rising into the
lower 40s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Much colder with
lows 15 to 20. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy. Cold. Highs in the
mid 20s. Lows 10 to 15. Wind chill values as low as zero.
$$
NYZ054-191715-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow showers.
Cold with highs in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 18. Northwest winds
around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 10 above.
North winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Cold with highs in the upper 20s. East
winds around 5 mph in the morning, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows 15 to 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of snow 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Breezy and not as cold with lows around 30. Temperature rising into
the upper 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers, windy and not as cool with highs in the lower
50s. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Rain showers. Windy and much
colder with lows 10 to 15. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Wind chill values as low as zero after midnight.
.SATURDAY THROUGH CHRISTMAS DAY...Mostly cloudy and brisk, cold.
Highs in the lower 20s. Lows around 10 above. Wind chill values as
low as 5 below.
$$
NYZ060-191715-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 14. North winds around 5 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Light and variable
winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 40. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Little or no snow
accumulation. Not as cool with lows in the lower 30s. Temperature
rising into the lower 40s after midnight. Chance of precipitation
90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...A chance of snow showers. Rain showers, mainly in
the evening. Much colder with lows around 15. Chance of
precipitation near 100 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Much colder with highs in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the mid 20s. Wind chill values as low as zero.
$$
NYZ061-191715-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow showers.
Cold with highs in the lower 30s. West winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder with lows around 11. North
winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Light and
variable winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 40. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Little or no snow
accumulation. Not as cool with lows in the lower 30s. Temperature
rising into the lower 40s after midnight. Chance of precipitation
near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Rain
showers, mainly in the evening. Much colder with lows around 15.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Much colder with highs in the lower 20s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the mid 20s. Wind chill values as low as zero.
$$
NYZ059-191715-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 14. North winds around 5 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Light and variable
winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 40. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Light snow accumulation.
Not as cool with lows in the lower 30s. Temperature rising into the
lower 40s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Rain
showers, mainly in the evening. Much colder with lows 15 to 20.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Much colder with highs in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the mid 20s.
$$
NYZ063-191715-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 18. Northwest winds
around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, cold with highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 12. North winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Light and variable
winds, becoming southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow showers likely in the
afternoon. Light snow accumulation possible. Highs in the upper 30s.
Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers. Additional light snow
accumulation. Not as cold with lows around 30. Temperature rising
into the upper 30s after midnight. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the lower 50s. Chance
of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Rain
showers, mainly in the evening. Much colder with lows around
10 above. Chance of precipitation 90 percent. Wind chill values as
low as 5 below after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Much colder with highs in the lower 20s.
Wind chill values as low as 5 below in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows 5 to
10 above. Highs in the lower 20s. Wind chill values as low as
10 below.
$$
NYZ064-191715-
Eastern Ulster-
Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Cold with lows around 14. North winds around 5 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. North winds around
5 mph in the morning, becoming light and variable.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 40. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Rain showers. Lows in the lower 30s.
Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Rain
showers, mainly in the evening. Much colder with lows around 15.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Much colder with highs in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the mid 20s. Wind chill values as low as zero.
$$
NYZ066-191715-
Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
423 AM EST Mon Dec 19 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 20. Northwest winds
around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cold with lows around 12. North winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s. Light and variable
winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Cold with lows in the lower 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs around 40. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain showers. Not as cool with lows in the lower
30s. Temperature rising into the lower 40s after midnight. Chance of
rain 90 percent.
.FRIDAY...Showers. Not as cool with highs in the mid 50s. Chance of
rain near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Rain
showers, mainly in the evening. Much colder with lows 10 to 15.
Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Much colder with highs in the lower 20s.
Wind chill values as low as 5 below.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND CHRISTMAS DAY...Partly cloudy. Cold. Lows around
10 above. Highs in the mid 20s. Wind chill values as low as 5 below.
$$
NAS
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