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Dog stolen while inside car found safe in another state, family says
NASHVILLE (WSMV/Gray News) -The owners of a dog who was stolen while inside their car said she was found safe in another state.
Casey Miles told WSMV that her white 2007 Lincoln Navigator was stolen out of Mansfield, Illinois, on Feb. 8 with Tess, a goldendoodle, still inside.
Nashville police said they recovered the SUV in Nashville a day later, but without the suspect or Tess. The vehicle had reportedly crashed into a light pole and was found abandoned.
Miles said the car was stolen while her mother was volunteering at their local American Legion. Miles said her mother went back inside to clean up and left Tess in the vehicle, which was running and unlocked. While inside, someone ran inside to report that the car and Tess had been stolen.
Miles said her mother’s phone and purse were also inside the vehicle, but have since been recovered. The suspect had reportedly taken cash out of the purse and threw everything else out of the car’s window.
On Tuesday, Tess was found walking with the man who took her and the vehicle along an interstate near Greenville, Alabama, according to authorities, WSMV reported.
Miles said her father traveled from Illinois to Nashville to search for the dog. Her family is headed to Alabama Tuesday to pick up Tess, and she said she was told a man is in custody in connection to the theft.
Tess is being cared for by animal control until her family is able to pick her up.
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- Demonstration shows video streamed from a drone on an Ericsson 5G radio and core network with available uplink speeds over 100 Megabits per second, and downlink speeds over 450 Megabits per second
- Advances will support remote monitoring and assessment of fields, farms, and livestock
- Collaboration will accelerate the innovation from university labs to industry end users, fostering disruptive new technologies and speeding up time to market
PLANO, Texas, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and the Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW), funded by the National Science Foundation and a consortium of industry partners, have announced a collaboration on advancing the use of 5G for drone operations in support of smart agriculture.
In a demonstration hosted at North Carolina State University, the AERPAW team, part of the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program, equipped a custom drone with a connected camera and local compute capacity in order to monitor a field of cattle for information on grazing patterns. Footage from the remote field was streamed over a 5G connection enabled by an Ericsson base station and Ericsson Cloud Packet Core network. The demonstration took place on the mid-band spectrum (3.4 gigahertz) applying 100 megahertz of spectrum under AERPAW's experimental program license. Network performance was measured at speeds exceeding 100 Megabits per second in the uplink and more than 450 Megabits per second in the downlink.
The advanced connectivity of a 5G network provides the capabilities needed to sustain high-quality video streaming, support remote interaction, and enable analytics at the edge through communication with a local compute-enabled network node. Use cases include agriculture solutions such as animal monitoring and tracking, but also delivery of supplies and objects for commercial use, improved air traffic control under Federal Aviation Administration regulations*, and command and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over cellular links.
"Smart agriculture will likely represent a very large growth segment for UAVs in the next decade," said Mihail L. Sichitiu from AERPAW. "And field testing at sites like AERPAW is critical both for exploring what's possible and for ensuring operational safety. Only a drone under constant monitoring and control is a safe drone."
Ericsson and AERPAW have enhanced research efforts in line with national priorities, speeding up the transfer of innovation from university labs to industry end-users. The collaboration has also built wireless capabilities through creative partnership, leveraging an expanded pool of experts and resources across the public and private sectors.
"It's great to see Ericsson and AERPAW showcasing how collaboration can bring together research and 5G networks to support critical operations supporting public safety and agriculture monitoring," said Per Wahlen, Vice President and Head of Business Development at Ericsson North America. "Wide-area network coverage is needed to safely expand drone operations beyond visual line-of-sight missions, and this research provides the improved capabilities for more diverse and critical applications."
AERPAW, based in Raleigh, NC, is one of four testbeds in the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its mission is to accelerate fundamental research with unmanned aerial vehicles using advanced 5G wireless communications and networking technologies.
*The AERPAW demo was conducted in compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration's Part 107 guidelines. The drone was under visual observation at all times by the operating pilot, or by an observer in continuous communication with the pilot.
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Buyers looking for a 2023 Ford Bronco Sport have some new options that weren’t available in previous model years.
Ford in August announced a Heritage Sport Edition fitted with a number of retro cues for the 2023 model. On Tuesday, the automaker revealed another option package for the 2023 model, the Black Diamond Off-Road Package, which adds some extra off-road capability.
Similar to the package offered on the bigger Bronco, the Black Diamond Off-Road Package for the Bronco Sport adds steel plates under the vehicle to protect key components from impacts. There are four plates covering the fuel tank, fuel vapor canister, engine bay, and part of the four-wheel-drive system. The package takes its name from the designation for difficult ski runs.
The package includes styling upgrades, too. These include 17-inch aluminum wheels with a low-gloss finish and 225/65 all-terrain tires, plus matte black graphics on the hood and sides of the vehicle.
The Black Diamond Off-Road Package is offered for the Bronco Sport’s Big Bend and Outer Banks grades, and is currently available for order. Ford hasn’t said how much it will cost or when deliveries will start.
Every 2023 Ford Bronco Sport will also come with a complimentary Bronco Off-Roadeo pass complete with trail guide instruction. The Bronco Off-Roadeo gives drivers the chance to learn how to handle their vehicles in off-road conditions via a one-day training course that involves driving over miles of curated trails. There are currently four Bronco Off-Roadeo sites, located at Horseshoe Bay, Texas; Mt. Potosi, Nevada; Moab, Utah; and Gilford, New Hampshire.
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BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — A transformer exploded Tuesday at Hoover Dam, one of the nation’s largest hydroelectric facilities, producing a thick cloud of black smoke and flames that were quickly extinguished.
No one was hurt in the explosion near the base of the dam, an engineering marvel on the Colorado River that straddles the border of Arizona and Nevada. Electricity produced at Hoover Dam continued flowing to the 8 million people in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California who rely on it, the Western Area Power Administration said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation and officials were working to determine the extent of damage to the transformer, one of 15 at the complex that control the voltages for power sent to customers.
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“There is no risk to the power grid,” said Jacklynn Gould, a regional director for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The fire ignited around 10 a.m. and was out within a half-hour, Gould said in a statement. It captured the attention of tourists who said they heard an alarm sound and felt the ground rumble beneath them.
William Herro, 13, of San Francisco, was on a viewing bridge with his parents when he saw the explosion and then heard a “big boom.”
“A ton of black smoke just exploded in the air. It looked almost like a mushroom and then a fire followed,” Herro said. “I was really surprised and I started filming.”
The explosion occurred on the apron of a building housing turbines that is slightly downstream from the base of the dam, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Las Vegas. Hoover Dam is one of the tallest concrete dams in the U.S. at 726 feet (221 meters). Each of its 17 generators can supply electricity to 100,000 households.
As many as 20,000 vehicles a day drive across the wide top of the dam, which is a National Historic Landmark and is seen in films including “Transformers” and “Fools Rush In." Most motorists traveling between Arizona and Nevada use a bypass bridge high above the dam that opened in 2010.
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The Bureau of Reclamation owns and operates the dam, powerhouses and turbines. The power produced at the site is transferred to a substation where it's marketed through the Western Area Power Administration.
Hoover Dam is considered a baseload source of power, meaning it can respond quickly to the need for additional power on the grid or dial back supply.
The fire triggered an alert at the Western Area Power Administration's control center in Phoenix. Spokesman Lisa Meiman said while the loss of a transformer or other equipment on hydropower facilities can put pressure on a grid, "no single source is integral to the health of the power grid.”
The administration markets power from 57 federal hydroelectric facilities. Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam upstream on the Arizona-Utah border are among the largest, Meiman said.
Hydropower from those dams has threatened lately by the declining levels of Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two largest human-made reservoirs in the U.S. that hold water from the Colorado River.
Federal officials have taken action in recent years to prop up the lakes to preserve the dams’ ability to generate power and keep water flowing to the Western states and Mexico that rely on it. Drought and climate change have sunk the lakes to their lowest levels in decades.
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WASHINGTON, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) today announced community partnership grants to 28 organizations as part of its ongoing effort to support and build a network of best-in-class military and veterans service organizations. WWP's support of these new and returning partners helps expand the life-changing resources and programs available to America's wounded veterans and their families.
Learn more about WWP's community partnerships.
"Wounded Warrior Project understands the needs of wounded veterans, service members, caregivers, and military families are growing, and that no single organization can meet these challenges alone," said WWP CEO Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Linnington. "By working together with others, we can create a truly integrated and collaborative ecosystem of support, ensuring the military and veteran community is able to thrive long term."
The investment of more than $5.9 million will complement WWP's programs and services by supporting organizations that focus on:
- brain and mental health
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As part of WWP's commitment to the Hidden Helpers Coalition, a portion of this funding also supports organizations serving children and youth caregivers of wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans. WWP, along with Elizabeth Dole Foundation, is a proud co-chair of the Hidden Helpers Coalition, a groundbreaking and collaborative network of over 60 organizations committed to supporting our nation's youngest military caregivers. WWP announced a new $1.5 million fund dedicated to this initiative during a Hidden Helpers Coalition event at the White House in 2021.
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- National Military Family Association
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Since 2012, WWP has partnered with and supported 212 organizations that assist wounded veterans and families at the local and national level, connecting them with the resources they need to thrive in civilian life.
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Long hallways and lots of stairs. Meet the people who live in RI's artists lofts.
I've long wondered who lives and works in those Rhode Island artist's lofts.
Recently, I met a great example.
I give you Bill Bartholomew.
He’s 38, rocks a man-bun, and pays rent by stitching together four or five gigs, in Bill's case musician, podcaster, independent journalist, radio producer and fill-in WPRO talk show host.
Bill was nice enough to ask me and documentary-maker Dante Bellini onto his podcast to talk about the new film Dante did on my cancer journey. When I arrived at the address of Bill’s studio, it turned out to be his home, too, in a huge old mill off Elmwood Avenue on Providence’s south side.
We marched up three or four flights to his place, and if you’d hired a Hollywood set designer to mock up a cliché artist’s loft, it couldn’t be more perfect. His brick-walled space is charming chaos filled with drums, guitars, a bunch of bikes, his wife’s paintings and two unseen musicians still asleep in the rooms they rent from Bill so they can all afford it here.
I’d known of Bill through his podcast — "Bartholomewtown," at ripodcast.com — and radio work, but was intrigued to find he’s one of those itinerant creative loft folks as well.
He and his painter wife, Gabriela Rassi, have been here since 2018. Before that, they were in a Newport building with 16 other artists. But that got renovated into an Airbnb, a common story there, pushing folks like them to Providence in a loft version of musical chairs.
Of course, many converted mills throughout the state have been gentrified out of reach of artsy types, but this one off Elmwood, with its faded industrial feel and “Hope Brewing” sign from a long-ago tenant, remains an affordable refuge.
Bill’s neighbors include the Dead Cat Gallery, where artists work, and also an apartment of four musicians — or is it five? — who put on frequent shows in their space.
It’s not likely Bill Bartholomew's living area will make the next issue of Home Décor magazine, which got me asking if the chaos cramps his creativity. It’s the opposite.
“The space is an inspiration,” says Bill, “I wake up, make coffee, and within 30 seconds I’m in the studio doing a podcast project or something musical.” It also helps that he doesn’t have a TV.
Bill grew up in Charlestown, his mom a Chariho Middle School nurse, his dad in maintenance at the University of Rhode Island. That’s where Bill went to college, afterward moving to New York to try to make it as a drummer, guitarist, singer and songwriter. He loved it, but he was the classic struggling musician.
“You’re traveling and playing to barely make survival money,” he said.
He shared a Brooklyn loft with artists, poets and — he smiles — someone trying to build a time machine. To cover rent, he also worked as a paralegal, delivery guy and soccer referee — not untypical of musicians piecing together side hustles.
Ten years ago, he was drawn back to Rhode Island, where he found a vibrant music community. Today, he's still at it, and often does gigs, sometimes with three others, sometimes just by himself.
But Bill Bartholomew has developed another side as a public affairs guy.
He’d long been a news junkie, reading The Providence Journal and listening to the WPRO lineup of Gene Valicenti, Tara Granahan, Dan Yorke and Matt Allen. Having been the type to go on rants with his fellow artists — about issues like affordable housing and politics — Bill began doing the same as a call-in listener.
But he added a twist that made him stand out. As a studio guy, he knew the importance of good audio, so he wore a headset that delivered a clear voice with no background noise. That made “William of Newport,” as he then called himself, a popular talk show contributor.
In the loft, when he wasn’t playing music, Bill would practice his radio voice, jokingly commentating on his wife’s baking efforts: “She’s got the ingredients, they’re in the bowl — folks, will this cake be good? We’ll find out in a few minutes.”
That led him to try a podcast. As one of his first efforts, he landed an interview there in his loft studio with then-Lt. Gov. Dan McKee. He interviewed journalists like Jim Hummel, WPRI’s Ted Nesi and Ian Donnis of The Public’s Radio. And a ton of politicians.
Early on, Bill guesses he had maybe 60 listeners for a show. Hundreds of podcasts later, “Bartholomewtown” logs tens of thousands of hits a month, with edited packages airing at 3 p.m. Saturdays on WPRO.
That’s where Bill has begun working as Dan Yorke’s producer, tracking down guests, documents, audio and generally helping make the show happen.
I asked what kind of living he makes from each area.
His podcast, likely the top one in Rhode Island, has enough sponsors to bring in north of $10,000 a year. His music gigs bring in another $10,000 or so. His wife is also a musician and now has paintings in galleries, having just finished a master of fine arts at Yale. And he has his radio producer’s salary.
Bill’s loft space is huge, a deal for its size at $3,000 a month, which he can handle with two of its three bedrooms rented to musicians.
As we talked, one of them emerged — Randy Robbins, 45, well known around the area for his acoustic guitar folk performances. He looked tired, having done 10 gigs in the last 11 days. He's from New Jersey, but years ago, the Newport Folk Festival, and the city’s music scene, drew him to move there. Now he's in the more affordable Hope Brewing mill.
Then Bill’s other loft-mate, Ziggy Coffey, woke up and walked in, wearing a leopard print robe. Ziggy’s a drummer and drum teacher, with 40 private students a week. His dad was a drummer, too.
“He worked at Electric Boat,” Ziggy said, “and gigged out on weekends.”
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Ziggy is also an example of a Newport musician pushed out by rising rents to Providence. He first lived in another mill building up here with 11 folks in one unit — musicians, filmmakers, visual media artists, painters, screen printers, fashion designers and other creatives.
Then a developer gentrified it, and Ziggy feels lucky to have found a room in Bill’s loft here off Elmwood.
“I love it,” said Ziggy. “Providence has been great to me, being around so many creative people. And being able to afford it.”
He likes the way other musicians will come by. As Randy Robbins, Bill's other loft-mate, put it, “There’s a lot of shop talk in this place.”
Both he and Ziggy described Bartholomew as a force of nature, constantly driven in 10 directions.
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“Some days,” Bill himself half-jokes, “I wake up and forget who I really am.” Musician? Podcaster? Journalist? Talk show guy?
But that’s typical, he says — walk down the mill corridors and most folks here are doing more than one thing.
Each morning, after making coffee, he’ll simply sit in his studio and dive into whichever pursuit calls to him, which is how life in an artist's loft often works.
Finally, it was time for me to head out. Bill walked me down three flights of stairs — or was it four? You can lose track in a mill.
At each landing, I looked down the corridors, wondering what his neighbors were doing.
And hoping such affordable lofts survive, because folks like Bill Bartholomew are a big part of what makes Rhode Island what we are.
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One person hit following shooting in Central Lawton
Published: Aug. 10, 2022 at 4:24 AM CDT|Updated: 4 hours ago
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - Lawton Police are currently investigating a shooting in which someone was hit early Wednesday morning.
We spoke with LPD and they told us officers were called to a shots fired call around 1:15 in the area of 2nd and Ferris. When they arrived on scene they found a man who had been shot with non-life threatening injuries.
When KSWO showed up to the scene officers were investigating around the area of 3rd and Dearborn. They tell us that no one has been arrested at this time as the incident is still under investigation.
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DENVER (AP) — Marinate on this for a quick moment: Colorado has 11 goals in the Stanley Cup Final so far, and not one from star forward Nathan MacKinnon.
The always-pushing-the-pace Avalanche are clicking on all cylinders, even with MacKinnon’s scoring held in check and Nazem Kadri sidelined by a thumb injury.
This is a bunch that comes at you from all directions — no matter the name on the back of the jersey. They’re a constant blur of burgundy-and-blue that gets fast break after fast break, scoring chance after scoring chance.
Along with it, they have a 2-0 lead over Tampa Bay in the best-of-seven series, with Game 3 in Tampa on Monday night.
“Certainly the fastest team that we played,” Tampa Bay forward Steven Stamkos said. “We’ve got to find a way to slow them down.”
How, precisely? “Putting pucks in areas where you can neutralize their speed and not turning the puck over — not giving them freebies,” Stamkos said. “It’s no secret they’re a very fast team.”
Colorado has scored at least seven goals four times in this playoff run, the latest a 7-0 rout in Game 2. They’re one of only seven NHL teams who have recorded that many seven-or-more goal games in one postseason.
On top of that, the Avalanche became the first NHL team to tally 11 or more goals through two games of the final since they themselves accomplished the feat in 1996.
Coach Jared Bednar chalks the offensive fireworks up to one big reason — rest. While the Lightning had to grind through a tough six-game series with the New York Rangers, the Avalanche got an extended breather after a sweep of Edmonton.
“We’ve been trying all year to balance the work/rest ratio,” Bednar explained. “It’s important. … Our team just seems to be really focused, dialed in and they’re hungry and they want to win.”
A different player rises to the occasion each game, too. Like Andre Burakovsky scoring the OT winner in Game 1. Or Valeri Nichushkin and Cale Makar each recording two goals in Game 2. They’ve found a way to score early and often on Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy, who’s one of the best goaltenders on the planet.
Speed really can make a difference.
“We think that’s how we have to beat them,” Avalanche defenseman Josh Manson said of pushing the tempo. “For us, we can’t think that we’re under their skin. We can’t think anything like that. We’ve just got to keep going and just have that mentality that doesn’t stop.”
Colorado’s performing all the gritty tasks as well. Take Darren Helm, for example: He leads the playoffs with 84 hits, including 22 in the finals. He also had a goal in Game 2, his second of the postseason.
“A beast,” Makar said of the veteran center. “He’s so driven.”
There’s also Darcy Kuemper and his 16-save shutout Saturday night. He joined Patrick Roy as the Avalanche goaltenders who’ve recorded a shutout in the Stanley Cup Final (Roy accomplished the feat in 1996 and twice in 2001 as Colorado captured its two Stanley Cup trophies).
“They’re playing at an elite level right now,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “We are not. … We have to elevate our play.”
MacKinnon has two assists so far in the series. He’s realized that he can’t always be in the starring role. He can, though, star in the role he’s in. In this case, it’s winning faceoffs, dishing out hard hits and being such an offensive force it requires Tampa Bay to keep constant track of him.
“Goals, it doesn’t matter for him,” Manson said. “Whether Mac is scoring or not, he’s driving the play, he’s wearing guys down, he’s forechecking, he’s above pucks. He’s playing unbelievable.”
Same goes for Mikko Rantanen, who had three assists in Game 2 for the Avs. It was his fourth straight home game in which he recorded two or more points. That matches the Quebec/Colorado franchise record in a playoff year, which was set by Nordiques great Peter Stastny in 1982 and equaled by MacKinnon in 2020, according to NHL Stats.
“We know as a team that we get rewarded offensively when we play our best game defensively,” said Makar, whose team is 7-0 on the road so far in these playoffs. “It’s just coming to that kind of realization every single night. They’re obviously a great team.
“They’re going to throw everything they have at us the next game. We just have to be ready — and ready to bring it back on them as well.”
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Taking vitamin D could help prevent dementia, study suggests
Taking vitamin D supplements could help prevent dementia, and perhaps even moreso in females, according to a new large study.
Vitamin D, which comes from sunlight and foods like salmon, red meat, and egg yolks, is a nutrient the body needs for building and maintaining healthy bones.
Vitamin D is involved in the clearance of amyloid in the brain, the accumulation of which is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease, and previous research has found that low levels of vitamin D are linked to higher risk of dementia.
Studies have also found that the nutrient may provide help to protect the brain against build-up of tau, another protein involved in the development of dementia.
In a new study, published Wednesday in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Canada and the University of Exeter in the U.K. found that taking vitamin D was associated with living dementia-free for longer. They also found 40% fewer dementia diagnoses in the group who took vitamin D supplements.
The study involved more than 12,388 participants of the U.S. National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center, who had an average age of 71 and were dementia-free when they signed up, according to the researchers. Of the participants, 37% (4,637) took vitamin D supplements.
The researchers noted that a total of 2,696 participants progressed to dementia over 10 years. Among this group, 2,017 (75%) had no exposure to vitamin D throughout all visits prior to the dementia diagnosis, and 679 (25%) had a "baseline exposure."
While vitamin D was found to be effective in all groups, the team noted how the effects were significantly greater in females, compared to males.
Furthermore, the effects of vitamin D supplementation were greater in people with normal cognition, compared to those who reported signs of "mild cognitive impairment," or changes to one’s cognition which have been linked to a higher risk of dementia.
"Our findings give key insights into groups who might be specifically targeted for vitamin D supplementation," Professor Zahinoor Ismail, of the University of Calgary and University of Exeter, who led the research, said in a statement. "Overall, we found evidence to suggest that earlier supplementation might be particularly beneficial, before the onset of cognitive decline."
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The effects of vitamin D were also found to be significantly greater in people who did not carry the APOEe4 gene, which is known to present a higher risk for Alzheimer’s dementia, compared to non-carriers.
About 25% of people carry one copy of APOE4, and 2% to 3% carry two copies, according to the National Institutes of Health. While APOE4 is the strongest risk factor gene for Alzheimer’s, inheriting it does not mean a person will definitely develop the disease.
The study authors suggested that people who carry the APOEe4 gene may absorb vitamin D better from their intestine, which might reduce the need and effect of supplementing with vitamin D. However, the team did not draw the participants’ blood levels to test this hypothesis.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. Current estimates indicate that about 5.8 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, including 5.6 million aged 65 and older, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states.
The study authors also noted several limitations, including how medication sheets used by the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center did not record information about exposure history, and therefore differences in exposure duration were also not accounted for. Additionally, because dosing and baseline vitamin D levels were not available – it was unknown whether the rates of dementia differed based on doses or vitamin D deficiency, the researchers added.
"Preventing dementia or even delaying its onset is vitally important given the growing numbers of people affected," study co-author Dr Byron Creese from the University of Exeter said in a statement. "The link with vitamin D in this study suggests that taking vitamin D supplements may be beneficial in preventing or delaying dementia, but we now need clinical trials to confirm whether this is really the case."
Creese noted the ongoing VitaMIND study at the University of Exeter, which is exploring this issue further by randomly assigning participants to either take vitamin D or a placebo – and examine changes in memory and thinking tests over time. That research is run by PROTECT, an online study open to people 40 and older.
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George Mason Patriots (9-5, 1-0 A-10) at Saint Bonaventure Bonnies (7-7, 1-0 A-10)
The Patriots are 1-0 against A-10 opponents. George Mason has a 0-1 record in games decided by less than 4 points.
The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting of the season for the two teams in conference play.
TOP PERFORMERS: Kyrell Luc is averaging 13.4 points, 4.3 assists and 1.9 steals for the Bonnies. Banks is averaging 16.7 points over the past 10 games for Saint Bonaventure.
Josh Oduro is averaging 12.7 points and seven rebounds for the Patriots. Victor Bailey Jr. is averaging 12.6 points over the last 10 games for George Mason.
LAST 10 GAMES: Bonnies: 5-5, averaging 66.1 points, 30.1 rebounds, 11.4 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 43.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 65.1 points per game.
Patriots: 7-3, averaging 72.8 points, 35.2 rebounds, 15.3 assists, 3.7 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 66.2 points.
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MOORESVILLE, N.C., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) announces that Marvin R. Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer, and Brandon J. Sink, chief financial officer, will participate in a virtual fireside chat hosted by Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Six men sit alongside Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, handling major portfolios from propaganda to corruption fighting.
All are party veterans with close personal and professional ties to Xi, China’s most powerful figure in decades.
Their roles are expected to come more into focus during the ongoing session of the National People’s Congress, China’s ceremonial legislature.
The backgrounds of the six show the continued “prominence of politics in Xi Jinping’s vision for China’s governance,” said Neil Thomas, a fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis.
The standing committee has only male representatives and the 24-member Politburo, which has had only four female members since the 1990s, also has no female officials after the departure of Vice Premier Sun Chunlan.
Some details about the standing committee members in order of their party rank:
LI QIANG
Perhaps the official closest to Xi, Li Qiang is widely expected to take over as premier, nominally in charge of the Cabinet and caretaker of the economy. Li is best known for ruthlessly enforcing a brutal “zero-COVID” lockdown on Shanghai last spring as party boss of the Chinese financial hub, proving his loyalty to Xi in the face of complaints from residents over their lack of access to food, medical care and basic services.
Li, 63, came to know Xi during the future president’s term as head of Li’s native Zhejiang, a relatively wealthy southeastern province now known as a technology and manufacturing powerhouse.
ZHAO LEJI
A holdover from the previous Politburo Standing Committee, Zhao Leji won Xi’s trust as head of the party’s anti-corruption watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, pursuing an anti-graft campaign that has frozen all potential opposition to the leader.
Zhao, 65, is expected to serve as the head of the National People’s Congress and its standing committee which handles most actual legislative work.
WANG HUNING
Another returnee from the previous standing committee, Wang Huning is from an academic background, having been a professor of international politics at Shanghai’s Fudan University and a senior adviser to two of Xi’s predecessors. Unusual for a top official, Wang, 67, has never held office at either the local or central government level.
Wang is known for authoring books critiquing Western politics and society, and is expected to be named head of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the NPC’s advisory body that, in coordination with the party’s United Front Department, works to build the Xi’s influence and image abroad.
CAI QI
As leader of the capital since 2017, Cai Qi oversaw the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been celebrated by the party as a victory. Cai, 67, also oversaw the forcible eviction of thousands of migrant workers from rundown urban neighborhoods and kept COVID cases relatively low in Beijing without enacting the harsh measures seen in Shanghai and elsewhere.
Cai, who holds a doctorate in economics, also entered into Xi’s political orbit in the Zhejiang political scene. An early adopter of Chinese social media, Cai is also among the very few top officials to have visited Taiwan, praising the island’s ubiquitous convenience stores in a 2012 posting for Caixin magazine’s website. He’s expected to be put in charge of propaganda and messaging.
DING XUEXIANG
As director of the party’s General Office since 2017, Ding Xuexiang has effectively served as Xi’s chief of staff, notably present on state visits and meetings with foreign leaders. Like Wang, Ding has never held government office but sits at the center of party affairs just below the Politburo.
Still just 60, Ding’s career took off after he was appointed secretary to Xi during his brief term as Shanghai party head. He is expected to be appointed first vice premier overseeing administrative matters.
LI XI
Prior to his appointment to the standing committee, Li Xi, 66, headed Guangdong province, one of China’s wealthiest regions and the base of its vast manufacturing sector. He earlier served as party secretary of Mao Zedong’ s famed revolutionary base of Yan’an and had became an early pioneer in what is known as “red tourism,” promoting sites hallowed to the party’s history prior to its seizure of power in 1949.
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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today that it has completed the previously announced divestiture of Magellan Specialty Health to Evolent Health, Inc. (Evolent).
"We are pleased to reach another significant milestone in our ongoing portfolio review and value creation plan," said Sarah London, Chief Executive Officer of Centene. "With the close of this transaction, we look forward to launching our national strategic partnership with Evolent and expanding our relationship with Magellan Specialty Health to ensure our members and providers have access to a broad and integrated portfolio of value-based specialty solutions."
Centene acquired Magellan Specialty Health, also known as NIA, in January 2022 as part of its acquisition of Magellan Health, Inc.
Centene received approximately $660 million in proceeds at closing, subject to adjustment in accordance with the purchase agreement, with approximately $400 million paid in cash and the remainder paid in Evolent common stock. In addition, Centene will receive up to $150 million in cash and Evolent common stock in 2024 if certain performance metrics are achieved.
About Centene Corporation
Centene Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading healthcare enterprise that is committed to helping people live healthier lives. The Company takes a local approach – with local brands and local teams – to provide fully integrated, high-quality, and cost-effective services to government-sponsored and commercial healthcare programs, focusing on under-insured and uninsured individuals. Centene offers affordable and high-quality products to nearly 1 in 15 individuals across the nation, including Medicaid and Medicare members (including Medicare Prescription Drug Plans) as well as individuals and families served by the Health Insurance Marketplace, the TRICARE program, and individuals in correctional facilities. The Company also contracts with other healthcare and commercial organizations to provide a variety of specialty services focused on treating the whole person. Centene focuses on long-term growth and value creation as well as the development of its people, systems, and capabilities so that it can better serve its members, providers, local communities, and government partners.
Centene uses its investor relations website to publish important information about the Company, including information that may be deemed material to investors. Financial and other information about Centene is routinely posted and is accessible on Centene's investor relations website, https://investors.centene.com/.
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In particular, these statements include, without limitation, statements about our future operating or financial performance, market opportunity, value creation strategy, competition, expected activities in connection with completed and future acquisitions and dispositions, our investments and the adequacy of our available cash resources. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on numerous assumptions and assessments made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, business strategies, operating environments, future developments and other factors we believe appropriate. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are subject to change because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future, including economic, regulatory, competitive and other factors that may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based on information available to us on the date hereof. Except as may be otherwise required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements included in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date hereof. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, as actual results may differ materially from projections, estimates, or other forward-looking statements due to a variety of important factors, variables and events including, but not limited to: our ability to accurately predict and effectively manage health benefits and other operating expenses and reserves, including fluctuations in medical utilization rates due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19; our ability to maintain or achieve improvement in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Star ratings and maintain or achieve improvement in other quality scores in each case that can impact revenue and future growth; the risk that the election of new directors, changes in senior management, and any inability to retain key personnel may create uncertainty or negatively impact our ability to execute quickly and effectively; uncertainty as to the expected financial performance of the combined company following the recent completion of the acquisition of Magellan Health, Inc. (the Magellan Acquisition); the possibility that the expected synergies and value creation from the Magellan Acquisition or the acquisition of WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (the WellCare Acquisition) (or other acquired businesses) will not be realized, or will not be realized within the respective expected time periods; disruption from the integration of the Magellan Acquisition or from the integration of the WellCare Acquisition; unexpected costs, or similar risks, from other acquisitions or dispositions we may announce or complete from time to time, including potential adverse reactions or changes to business relationships with customers, employees, suppliers or regulators, making it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships; impairments to real estate, investments, goodwill and intangible assets; a downgrade of the credit rating of our indebtedness; competition; membership and revenue declines or unexpected trends; changes in healthcare practices, new technologies, and advances in medicine; increased healthcare costs; changes in economic, political or market conditions; changes in federal or state laws or regulations, including changes with respect to income tax reform or government healthcare programs as well as changes with respect to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act (collectively referred to as the ACA) and any regulations enacted thereunder that may result from changing political conditions, the current administration or judicial actions; rate cuts or other payment reductions or delays by governmental payors and other risks and uncertainties affecting our government businesses; our ability to adequately price products; tax matters; disasters or major epidemics; changes in expected contract start dates; provider, state, federal, foreign and other contract changes and timing of regulatory approval of contracts; the expiration, suspension, or termination of our contracts with federal or state governments (including, but not limited to, Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE or other customers); the difficulty of predicting the timing or outcome of legal or regulatory proceedings or matters, including, but not limited to, our ability to resolve claims and/or allegations made by states with regard to past practices, including at Envolve Pharmacy Solutions, Inc. (Envolve), as our pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) subsidiary, within the reserve estimate we previously recorded and on other acceptable terms, or at all, or whether additional claims, reviews or investigations relating to our PBM business will be brought by states, the federal government or shareholder litigants, or government investigations; the timing and extent of benefits from our value creation strategy, including the possibility that the benefits received may be lower than expected, may not occur, or will not be realized within the expected time periods; challenges to our contract awards; cyber-attacks or other privacy or data security incidents; the exertion of management's time and our resources, and other expenses incurred and business changes required in connection with complying with the undertakings in connection with any regulatory, governmental or third party consents or approvals for acquisitions or dispositions; any changes in expected closing dates, estimated purchase price and accretion for acquisitions or dispositions; restrictions and limitations in connection with our indebtedness; the availability of debt and equity financing on terms that are favorable to us; inflation; foreign currency fluctuations; and risks and uncertainties discussed in the reports that Centene has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This list of important factors is not intended to be exhaustive. We discuss certain of these matters more fully, as well as certain other factors that may affect our business operations, financial condition and results of operations, in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Due to these important factors and risks, we cannot give assurances with respect to our future performance, including without limitation our ability to maintain adequate premium levels or our ability to control our future medical and selling, general and administrative costs.
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(The Hill) – Since the first photos debuted from NASA’s new James Webb in July, a steady stream of breathtaking images have been released by the groundbreaking telescope.
The $10 billion James Webb telescope, which replaced the aging Hubble telescope and launched into space in December 2021, has captured distant galaxies, blazing stars light years away and a new image of Jupiter.
Here are five of the most stunning photos taken by James Webb to date.
Southern Ring Nebula
One of the most widely circulated across the web is of the Southern Ring Nebula, which was among the first Webb photos released on July 12.
Webb captured the remains of a white dwarf — the remnant of a star that has burned up all its nuclear fuel and expelled its outer shell into a planetary nebula.
The telescope collected the images in infrared light. Compared to Hubble, the James Webb telescope can capture space in the infrared with much more power, “providing never-before-seen vistas of the universe,” NASA officials wrote on the agency’s website.
NASA released an image of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light (NIRcam) and mid-infrared (MIRcam), with the former closer to a visible wavelength the normal human eye can see, making its images more colorful and high-resolution.
The MIRcam, however, can pick up objects in more detail. For example, the mid-infrared image of Southern Ring Nebula shows a clearer image of a bright star, gleaming in the background just beyond the white dwarf.
Cosmic Cliffs
Another popular image is the Cosmic Cliffs, the edge of a forming star region that NASA compared to “craggy mountains on a moonlit evening.”
The young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 is more than 7,000 light years away in the Carina Nebula. NASA’s photos of this spot in the universe reveal a massive, gaseous cavity on the edge of NGC 3324 in a collage of orange and blue.
“The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble,” officials wrote on the website.
In NIRcam, viewers can see hundreds of stars hidden from the normal human eye, as well as numerous galaxies shimmering in the background.
NGC 3324 was first recorded by astronomer James Dunlop in 1826.
Cartwheel Galaxy
This Aug. 2 photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy bears similarity to a bright red, galactic ferris wheel in space.
The Cartwheel Galaxy formed about 400 million years ago, the result of high-speed collisions. Webb captured it forming in a “transitory phase,” because images of the universe light-years away are peering into the past, due to the time it takes to reach and record them.
This spiral galaxy is composed of two rings, a brighter inner ring and a colorful outer ring, according to NASA. Inside the cartwheel are spokes, or bright red streaks created by glowing, hydrocarbon-rich dust.
Jupiter
Webb’s newest image released this week is a gorgeous image of Earth’s neighbor in the solar system.
A composite of three filters, the image of Jupiter reveals “hazes swirling around the northern and southern poles” of the gaseous planetary giant.
It also highlights the Great Red Spot, a storm so large that it that would swallow Earth, in a large white band around the gas giant.
Imke de Pater, a professor emerita of the University of California, Berkeley, who co-led the observations of Jupiter, said the team was surprised by the details of the planet.
“We hadn’t expected it to be this good,” Pater said in a statement on NASA’s blog. “It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image.”
Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
While appearing a bit cluttered, this image is stunning because it shows thousands of galaxies in a distant cluster known as SMACS 0723.
This image, among the first photos released by Webb on July 12, is the first deep-field image from the telescope.
In the center of the image is a bright, white elliptical galaxy that outshines the rest, stretching its pointed arms in five directions. Surrounding it are galaxies of all shapes and sizes, flooding the image and demonstrating just how massive the universe is.
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NEARLY $3 MILLION IN GRANTS WILL SUPPORT PROGRAMS COMBINING IN-PERSON, VIRTUAL AND HYBRID PARK EXPERIENCES FOR STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Park Foundation (NPF) is excited to announce funding for 84 new Open OutDoors for Kids grants focused on leveraging technology to engage and connect more children and classrooms to meaningful learning experiences provided by parks. Funding will support innovative educational programs at national parks across the country that integrate virtual and in-park ranger-led experiences.
"National parks are America's largest classrooms, offering new and expanded learning opportunities for students," said National Park Foundation President and CEO Will Shafroth. "Open OutDoors for Kids grantees are pioneering the ways kids and classrooms connect with national parks and experience -- both in-person and virtually -- the wonder and complexities of nature and history."
Open OutDoors for Kids grants will help to meet the increasing demand for popular virtual and hybrid programs, providing unique educational activities that connect kids to parks across the country.
"Each national park is related to a part of our national identity and park educational programs bring history, civics, science and the arts to life for students," said National Park Service Director Chuck Sams. "The increase in virtual options for field trips provided by these grants will enable teachers and students anywhere in the country to travel to national parks, regardless of location, for engaging and inspiring curriculum-based programs."
This school year, NPF is partnering with the National Park Service and other community partners to expand opportunities for students to explore park landscapes and historical sites, connecting kids to the many diverse stories our national parks preserve and share. A sampling of programs supported by NPF grants includes:
- Jimmy Carter National Historical Park (Georgia) – Thanks to this grant students will learn about Rosalynn Carter's role in mental health advocacy during her tenure as First Lady of Georgia and First Lady of the United States. Students will receive in-person or virtual classroom instruction from park personnel followed by a visit to the gardens at Jimmy Carter's Boyhood Farm to learn about the physical and mental health benefits of gardening and being outdoors.
- Golden Gate National Recreational Area (California) – The Rock! Pattern! Systems! education program offers a hybrid learning and optional distance learning experience for students. The hybrid learning experience will include three pre-recorded videos as part of a pre-lesson plan to prepare learners for a live, interactive experience with park rangers. A new introductory trilingual video in English, Spanish and Cantonese will spark students' curiosity by offering a glimpse of the natural world, including dramatic cliffs, spectacular ocean views, native habitat, wildlife, and geology.
- Homestead National Historical Park (Nebraska) – In collaboration with Tribal partners, the Spirit Lake Dakota and Pawnee Nation Tribes, park staff will develop on-site and distance learning lessons about the history and ongoing impacts of the Dawes Act of 1887, and a more complete historical account of the Homestead Act. These educational programs encourage wider historical interpretation and a deeper understanding the reality of Native American dispossession during America's westward expansion.
- Voyageurs National Park (Minnesota) – The park and its official local nonprofit partner Voyageurs Conservancy will expand the Dark Sky Classroom program. New funding will Increase staff capacity for the Dark Sky Classroom and park field trip experiences, increasing student engagement. The project will encourage students to recognize the national park an outdoor classroom, and an inviting space for families to deepen connections with one another.
Thanks to partners and donors, NPF is investing nearly $3 million in its Open OutDoors for Kids program in fiscal year 2023, including support from Youth Engagement and Education premier partner Union Pacific Railroad.
"Union Pacific is proud to help connect young people to the historical and cultural treasures found in our national parks," said Scott Moore, Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations, and Chief Administrative Officer for Union Pacific. "Open OutDoors for Kids gives children a hands-on learning experience in the great outdoors and instills in them a deeper understanding of our country's rich history and natural beauty that encourages exploration and appreciation for nature."
Additional funding is provided by Alicia and Peter Pond, Columbia Sportswear, Sierra, Parks Project, Humana, The Batchelor Foundation, Inc., and many other donors.
Open OutDoors for Kids, part of NPF's Youth Engagement and Education Initiative, is making park educational experiences more accessible for all people with a specific focus on children who live in communities that are striving to overcome a lack of resources to offer innovative learning opportunities for students.i
Since 2011, NPF has engaged more than one million students in educational programs connecting them with national parks across the country with the goal to connect another one million students to parks by the end of the 2024-25 school year.
View the full list of NPF Open OutDoors for Kids grantee projects for the 2022/2023 school year.
Individuals, foundations, and companies can support NPF's Open OutDoors for Kids program by visiting the National Park Foundation website.
The National Park Foundation works to protect wildlife and park lands, preserve history and culture, educate, and engage youth, and connect people everywhere to the wonder of parks. We do it in collaboration with the National Park Service, the park partner community, and with the generous support of donors, without whom our work would not be possible. Learn more at nationalparks.org.
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i The majority of funding for this program supports fourth grade students at Title I schools. These schools receive financial assistance through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to help ensure students have the resources to meet academic standards. Nationally, school districts in high-poverty communities have the highest total Title I allocations per eligible student. Schools in these communities are less likely to have the resources to engage national parks and outdoor education into student curriculum.
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The new location provides dog waste removal services to residents and communities of all sizes
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DoodyCalls, a nationwide leader in pet waste removal services, is growing its footprint in the pooper scooper industry with the opening of an office in Knoxville, Tennessee. DoodyCalls currently cleans up in over 80 territories across 25 states and has been named the number-one pet waste removal franchise in the United States by Entrepreneur Magazine's annual Franchise 500 list.
A longtime Tennessee resident and a lifelong lover of canines, Tony DaSilveira was looking for an opportunity to create his own niche business and expand upon his customer service skills. After years in the restaurant industry and decades in minor league baseball operations, DaSilveira decided to embark on a franchising journey with DoodyCalls.
"Franchising with DoodyCalls allows me to lean into my passion for people and their pets while creating a business of my own with scalable growth and a true chance to expand," said Tony DaSilveira owner and operator of DoodyCalls of East Tennessee. "I'm looking forward to creating even deeper ties in my community and offering my neighbors a service they will appreciate."
DaSilveira is looking forward to presenting a much needed and helpful service to his community and has his eye on expansion in the coming years. He plans to give back to his community in the future and give every neighbor with a pooch what they want most: more precious time with their pet.
"We at DoodyCalls are excited to expand our franchise locations into Tennessee and welcome a new team into our family," said Larry Amos, Vice President of Operations with DoodyCalls. "We are looking forward to seeing their business flourish in their community and support their team as they grow over the years."
The East Tennessee DoodyCalls franchise will service the following areas: Bybee, Cosby, Dandridge, Del Rio, Gatlinburg, Hartford, Knoxville, Kodak, Maryville, Newport, Parrottsville, Pigeon Forge, Rockford, Sevierville, Seymour, Strawberry Plains, and White Pine, with additional areas looking to be added in the near future.
The scoop on what DoodyCalls offers:
- For residential dog owners, DoodyCalls provides dog waste pickup, brown spot treatment and deodorizing services.
- For communities and parks, DoodyCalls designs, sells, installs, services and maintains common areas, pet waste stations, equipment and supplies.
To learn more about the new franchise location, please visit https://www.doodycalls.com/east-tennessee. DoodyCalls is currently seeking poop scoop franchise operators who align with the brand's values of humility, ethical leadership, integrity, respect, and providing the best service experience possible. To learn more about franchise opportunities or to find a local service technician, visit https://www.doodycalls.com/locations/.
About Doody Calls
DoodyCalls was founded in 2000 by Jacob and Susan D'Aniello in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. In 2004, the company began franchising its pet waste removal business nationwide and established corporate headquarters in Charlottesville, VA. DoodyCalls provides service to 25 states and the District of Columbia with dog waste pickup with consumer and industrial services. For more information about Doody Calls, visit www.doodycalls.com.
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MIAMI — Bam Adebayo would be the perfect face of the Miami Heat as they open their season Wednesday night. He’s a good veteran, a pro’s pro. He comes with a heartwarming backstory of his mother taking him from the hard streets of New Jersey to the back country of North Carolina to keep him out of trouble.
Adebayo also grew up — and grew good — in the Heat organization, where he’s friendly enough to remember people’s names.
“I’m excited for this season, just like the start of every season,’’ Adebayo said after practice Tuesday afternoon. “Let’s get going.”
Yes, Adebayo would be the perfect face of this team. It’s just that Jimmy Butler is that face, and it comes with the kind of competitive sneer or mocking smile that people will stare at when he takes the court again Wednesday. No one will stare harder than fans of the opening opponent, the Chicago Bulls.
They’ll have to think: How’d we let him go? They remember the stories of Butler’ edginess, probably can still recite chapter and verse of how disliked he was inside the team.
“A jerk,’’ Butler once described the way he was viewed at times by his former teams, Chicago, Minnesota and Philadelphia.
He didn’t say that view was wrong, by the way. Nor has Butler seemed to change the way he goes about work. He still doesn’t just come with an edge. He wields it. He’s the guy who caused a scrum inside team during a time-out last year and left the locker room after dispatching his former team Philadelphia in the playoffs shouting, “They chose Tobias Harris over me?”
Here’s what has changed around Butler: The narrative. He took the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals his first season here in 2019-20. He carried a hobbled team to within his rim-rattling 3-point shot of doing so again last year in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
The league pariah is now a leader in voice, spirit and deed. Was it the “Heat Culture?” Has he found his place? Is it simply a perfect marriage of a player’s talent and organizational temperament as Dwyane Wade said? He told Butler, “You’ve got to get to the Heat.”
“Every team in the league should want a guy like Jimmy Butler,’’ Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “That’s why we sought him so aggressively. That’s why I wanted to coach him for so long, for so many years. Earlier in his career, I had coaching envy. I wanted him on our side because he approaches it the same way we do, very seriously about competition.
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“His intensity level is always at a peak level. You practice and you compete — he’s competing to win, even in these kind of [practice] scrimmages. It means a lot to him. That sets the tone for everybody walking in the building, and you can develop great habits, because he has a very unique and great attention to detail.”
There he’s been after practice, schooling a young player like Jamal Cain in one-on-one sessions. It’s become a rite of passage inside the Heat. Max Strus once did it, too.
“We go as Jimmy goes,’’ Strus said. “Everybody knows that. He’s one of the best in the league, so he’s going to set the tone, and we’re always going to try to follow behind.”
“A different cat,’’ Adebayo said of Butler. “He’s one of those guys who sees things differently, the whole spectrum. He sees the whole game. The one thing he does have is a brain. He’s always thinking.”
It all starts again Wednesday for the Heat after a quiet offseason. There was talk of Kevin Durant or Donovan Mitchell that never went beyond talk. Forward P.J. Tucker went to Philadelphia. Tyler Herro said he wanted to start and now will.
The Heat aren’t seen as a top team in the East, typically predicted to finish behind Milwaukee, Boston and Philadelphia. No surprise there. They weren’t expected to do anything when they went to the NBA Finals or anything in coming with in a shot of it last year.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Five suspected members of transnational criminal organizations preying on migrants along the Mexico-Arizona border now find themselves in the crosshairs of law enforcement officials in two countries.
Their photos of the five will be featured in posters as part of the “Se Busca Informacion” (Seeking Information) initiative between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the government of Mexico.
No names were disclosed, but the program usually goes after members of transnational criminal organizations engaged in either human or drug smuggling on both sides of the border. Two of the fugitives are known to operate in the Yuma, Arizona-Los Algodones, Mexico area, while the other three are wanted by Tucson Sector agents. The Tucson Sector includes most of Eastern Arizona, which borders Nogales and Agua Prieta, Sonora.
“Each day in the field, our Border Patrol agents encounter vulnerable families and children that have been lied to by human smugglers working for opportunistic criminal organizations,” U.S Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said. “This is a call to continue battling illicit networks who plague known regions of transit in our communities and are responsible for far too many deaths, including innocent children.”
The fugitives’ photos are placed on posters, flyers, and billboards in heavily traveled locations throughout the region. In Mexico, they are displayed on bulletins, billboards, and posters along city streets, CBP said. Posters also will be displayed at U.S. Border Patrol stations, immigration checkpoints, and international ports of entry in the Tucson and Yuma border region.
CBP started the binational “Most Wanted” program in South Texas in 2016 and has been expanding it westward every other year since.
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NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Tiptree Financial Inc. (TIPT) on Wednesday reported profit of $871,000 in its fourth quarter.
The New York-based company said it had net income of 2 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and amortization costs, were 39 cents per share.
The insurance and specialty finance company posted revenue of $369.5 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $8.3 million, or 23 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $1.4 billion.
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Pelosi's daughter blames Republican political ads for attack on her father: 'This was so inevitable'
Pelosi claimed conservatives' reactions to the assault on her father were 'unforgivable'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, claimed that the Republican Party's alleged demonization of her mother led to the "inevitable" attack on her father, Paul Pelosi, in late October.
Talking to CNN for an interview aired on Tuesday, Pelosi pointed to the "hundreds of millions of dollars in ads" spent by Republicans over the years to slander the powerful Democratic lawmaker that she claimed put "a target" on the Pelosi family’s back.
The daughter also claimed that conservatives supposedly mocking her father after the attack was "unforgivable" and part of the reason why her "faith in humanity" has been "destroyed."
HBO BLASTED FOR NANCY PELOSI DOCUMENTARY FILMED BY HER OWN DAUGHTER: ‘OBVIOUS PROPAGANDA’
"CNN This Morning" anchor Don Lemon aired a portion of his pre-taped interview with Pelosi on Tuesday, where they discussed her new HBO documentary centered on her mother’s political career, titled "Pelosi In The House."
Though the more notable portions of their discussions revolved around the elephant in the room, the attack on her father Paul Pelosi in his San Francisco home that left him with severe injuries.
Fox News Digital reported in October that "The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul, was assaulted with a hammer early Friday inside his San Francisco home by an attacker identified by police as David DePape."
According to a law enforcement source, DePape was looking for the House Speaker, allegedly shouting, "Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?" during the incident. Pelosi suffered blunt force injuries to his head and body, including a skull fracture.
During their interview, Pelosi told Lemon her family is traumatized over the incident, saying, "We’re still living with this every day." She mentioned how she has "not slept through the night" since the attack.
HBO BLASTED FOR NANCY PELOSI DOCUMENTARY FILMED BY HER OWN DAUGHTER: ‘OBVIOUS PROPAGANDA’
She added, "You have to make sense of the fact there’s an 82-year-old man asleep in his own bed and gets attacked in his own home. And I don’t care how you vote. I don’t care what your political affiliations are, that’s just not right in any – so making peace with that in your head – it’s hard to make peace with."
Pelosi then claimed the attack was "inevitable" following years of GOP political attacks on her mother. She said, "It was so coming. This was so inevitable. When you think about the hundreds of millions of dollars in ads that the Republicans spent demonizing my mother. I used to joke with my father, ‘She turned our last name into a curse word.’ That was twenty years ago we made those jokes."
Pelosi added, "Our whole family has had a target on our back for a while," and mentioned how the incident has been "traumatizing" for her mother.
The conversation then turned to conservatives’ reaction to the attack. Pelosi mentioned how her "faith in humanity has been destroyed by all this."
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She continued, "What I do know is how Republicans responded to this attack was so unforgivable. The jokes. You saw the jokes! The governor of Virginia, the wannabe governor of Arizona, congressman were making jokes about an 82-year-old man getting attacked in his own home."
"I don’t understand how that’s forgivable," Pelosi said, adding, "I don’t know how to talk about this without going so dark." Sympathizing with her, Lemon said, "No, no, no, we wanna be real." | https://www.foxnews.com/media/pelosis-daughter-blames-gop-attacks-ads-attack-her-father-this-was-so-inevitable | 2022-12-14 11:12:01 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/media/pelosis-daughter-blames-gop-attacks-ads-attack-her-father-this-was-so-inevitable |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case involving Roman Polanski, who fled the United States after he forced himself on a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot, has spanned 45 years, sparking court battles on both sides of the Atlantic. On Sunday, The Associated Press obtained an unsealed court transcript of the former prosecutor in the case testifying that the judge privately told lawyers he would renege on a promise and imprison the renowned director.
Here are some key dates in the long-running case, which has kept Polanski living in exile in Europe:
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March 10, 1977 — Roman Polanski conducts a photo shoot with a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s house. As she later testifies, Polanski gives the girl champagne and part of a sedative during the shoot, then forced her to have sex. She says she repeatedly told Polanski no during intercourse, but says she did not fight him because she was afraid of him. The girl’s mother calls police after finding out what happened.
March 24, 1977 — A grand jury indicts Polanski on six felony charges, including rape, furnishing a controlled substance to a minor and sodomy. He later pleads not guilty at arraignment.
August 1977 — Polanski pleads guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and a judge orders the director to undergo further proceedings.
September 1977 — A judge orders the director to undergo a 90-day diagnostic screening at a California state prison to help determine sentencing.
January 1978 — The diagnostic screening — completed after 42 days — recommends Polanski be placed on probation.
Feb. 1, 1978 — Polanski flees the United States on eve of sentencing after learning that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Laurence Rittenband intended to send Polanski back to prison. An arrest warrant is issued, confining Polanski’s movements to France, Poland and Switzerland. Polanski alleges Rittenband met with a prosecutor who was not assigned to the case — without Polanski’s lawyer present — to discuss sentencing.
September 1997 — A new judge meets with prosecutors and Polanski’s attorney to discuss the case in chambers. The meeting is not reported, and elements of the discussion remain in dispute. Polanski’s attorney contends the judge wanted Polanski’s sentencing hearing televised, which the judge denies. Prosecutors contend Polanski sought to be sentenced without reporters present, which the director denies.
November 2002 — Lawyers for Conde Nast Publications successfully unseal grand jury testimony presented in Polanski’s case.
March 2003 — Polanski wins the best director Academy Award for “The Pianist,” but is unable to collect his Oscar in person due to an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
December 2008 — Polanski’s lawyers seek a dismissal of the charges against him. His motion is supported by his victim.
February 2009 — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge rejects Polanski’s dismissal motion, stating that Polanski must appear in court to resolve his case. The order goes into effect in May 2009.
July 2009 — Polanski appeals the February ruling in his case.
September 2009 — Polanski is arrested in Switzerland pursuant to a warrant. Extradition proceedings begin.
December 2009 — A California court panel rejects Polanski’s appeal, ruling that the director must appear in court to resolve his case.
January 2010 — Polanski’s lawyers request the director be sentenced without being present in Los Angeles.
February and March 2010 — A Los Angeles court takes sealed testimony from Roger Gunson, the original prosecutor who handled Polanski’s case, about his recollections of the judge’s 1977 promises to the director.
May 2010 — A judge rejects a motion by Polanski’s lawyers to unseal Gunson’s testimony.
July 2010 — Switzerland rejects U.S. request to extradite Polanski, citing its inability to obtain the Gunson testimony.
December 2014 — Polanski’s lawyers seek an evidentiary hearing to explore the director’s allegations of judicial misconduct in Los Angeles. A judge rejects the motion without conducting a hearing.
February 2015 — Polanski appears in a Polish court for hours of questioning on whether a U.S. request to extradite the director is valid.
October 2015 — A Polish court rejects an effort to extradite Polanski.
May 2016 — Poland’s new justice minister revives extradition proceedings against Polanski.
December 2016 — The Polish Supreme Court rules Polanski will not be extradited to the United States.
February 2017 — Polanski’s attorney seeks an order in Los Angeles to unseal Gunson’s testimony. Later motions by Polanski seek an order confirming the director should not serve any additional time behind bars if he returns to Los Angeles. Polanski’s lawyer relies on information included in a lengthy Polish court decision.
April 2017 — A Los Angeles judge rejects Polanski’s requests to be sentenced without returning to court or for a determination he has served his sentence.
June 2017 — Polanski’s victim, Samantha Geimer, appears in a Los Angeles court to ask a judge to end the case, calling it a “40-year-sentence” imposed on both her and the director.
August 2017 — A Los Angeles judge rejects Geimer’s request to end Polanski’s case.
May 3, 2018 — The film academy announces it has expelled Polanski and Bill Cosby, who was convicted of a sex offense a week earlier, from its membership.
July 13, 2022 — A California appeals court orders the unsealing of Gunson’s testimony after Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón dropped longstanding objections his predecessors made to its release.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia — A highly anticipated meeting between China's leader Xi Jinping and President Biden finished Monday with both leaders expressing an openness to restoring channels of communication and repairing a relationship that has been compared to a second Cold War.
The leaders of two superpowers met face-to-face and unmasked on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Monday evening. In a substantial meeting, they touched on the war in Ukraine, military tension in the Taiwan Strait and North Korean missile tests.
Biden said he and Xi were "very blunt with one another." Xi, according to his spokesperson, viewed the meeting as "in-depth, candid and constructive."
Here's what you need to know about their three-hour discussion.
A "baby step" — but a step in the right direction
Biden and Xi both said in their opening remarks that they were looking for ways to coexist despite their disagreements. The two spent lots of time together when they were both vice presidents more than a decade ago — and both men referenced their lengthy relationship in warm greetings before the talks began.
"Do I believe he's willing to compromise on certain issues? Yes," Biden told reporters afterward about his meeting with Xi. "We were very blunt with one another about places where we disagreed."
Today's meeting was the first face-to-face exchange between the two since Biden became president. It took place after both leaders had just strengthened their respective political positions at home, analysts say.
Yu Jie, a senior research fellow on China at the London-based think tank Chatham House, says that given Biden's "reasonable success" in the midterms, he is in a stronger position to steer Washington's relationship with Beijing.
And for Xi, Yu says his further consolidation of power in the Chinese system may leave him more space for conducting diplomacy. "Xi is keen to resume a routinized mechanism and dialogue to steady the bilateral ties with Biden," she says.
U.S. officials share this relative optimism. "The fact of a leaders' meeting coming together has created space in the Chinese system, for reopening what we believe to just be simply ongoing work between our side to get things done," a senior administration official told reporters before the meeting.
In what analysts called a "breakthrough," Beijing and Washington said they would resume climate talks that had been frozen following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial visit to Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own. The White House said the leaders "agreed to empower key senior officials to maintain communication and deepen constructive efforts."
However, Yu warns that Monday's meeting is just "a baby step" towards improving relations: "It will not resolve any substantial grievances both sides have had against each other, but only slowing down the deterioration of their relations."
The State Department said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will also visit China in person sometime early next year to follow up on the Xi-Biden meeting.
Taiwan, technology and human rights remain areas of intense disagreement
During their meeting, Biden and Xi did not resolve the key issues that have driven competition and disagreement between the U.S. and China.
Last month, the U.S. imposed dramatic export bans on certain advanced semiconductor technology — trade sanctions explicitly designed to hobble critical technology sectors like military modernization and artificial intelligence that are important to China.
Meanwhile, according to the U.S. readout, Biden "raised concerns about PRC practices in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and human rights more broadly." China has long insisted these issues are of "internal affairs" and has warned against "external interference."
"The world is big enough for the two countries to develop themselves and prosper together," tweeted Hua Chunying, a foreign ministry spokesperson who accompanied Xi in his meeting with Biden.
On Taiwan, despite intense media speculation over Beijing's intention, Biden said he did "not think there's any imminent attempt on the part of China to invade Taiwan."
But the president objected to Beijing's "coercive and increasingly aggressive" Chinese actions in the waters around Taiwan, according to the White House readout, saying such behaviors "undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the broader region, and jeopardize global prosperity."
China regards the "Taiwan question" an internal matter. It is "at the very core of China's core interests, the bedrock of the political foundation of China-U.S. relations, and the first red line that must not be crossed in China-U.S. relations," wrote Hua, the spokesperson, on Twitter after the meeting ended.
Both Chinese and American militaries have recently been beefing up their capabilities in case of a conflict over Taiwan. For Washington, this is also a part of the broader paradigm shift in its strategy in the Indo-Pacific region. After decades of concentrating its fighting power in the Middle East, the U.S. is now shifting its focus to Asia.
China is watching closely, too. Xi recently appointed a new slate of top military leaders from China's Eastern Theater Command, which encompasses Taiwan, indicating that going forward, the island is a priority for China's fighting forces. Last week, he urged his military to "focus all its energy on fighting."
Ukraine and North Korea were elephants in the room
The U.S. has pushed China to take a clearer stand against Russia's war in Ukraine, which China has tried to remain neutral on despite signing a partnership with Moscow in February.
Some analysts say China appeared to be blindsided when Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Beijing has called repeatedly for a peaceful, negotiated end to the war.
During their meeting, Xi and Biden agreed "that a nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine," according to the White House statement. The Chinese readout included no mention of nuclear weapons.
The two leaders also spoke about North Korea — a longstanding regional security issue. Biden warned if Beijing is unable to rein in Pyongyang's weapons ambitions, the U.S. would beef up its presence in the region — a move that will be read by Beijing as a threat to its own security.
U.S. domestic politics also plays a role
Last year, China's foreign minister Wang Yi put out three core demands — "bottom lines" — that China wanted the U.S. to agree to in order for relations to improve: to not get in the way in the country's development, to respect China's claims over places like Taiwan and to respect Beijing's Communist Party rule.
From Beijing's perspective, the U.S. has since done the opposite on all counts. It has imposed the semiconductor export bans and sanctioned some of China's leading technology firms — moves Beijing decried.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has upped ties with Taiwan, with lawmakers including Pelosi visiting the island since August. Congress is considering drawing on the U.S. weapons stockpile to arm the island at American expense. Biden stressed in the press conference after meeting Xi that U.S. policy on Taiwan remains unchanged.
And while Biden came in to the G20 with a stronger position due to the narrow Democratic victory in the battle to control the Senate, he is up for reelection in two years himself.
Many in China now worry that should Republicans win the presidency in 2024, the U.S. will take an even more starkly hostile position against it.
Aowen Cao contributed research from Beijing.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Obsidian Insurance Group ("Obsidian"), which is focused on facilitating and supporting growth in specialty insurance programs, announced today the appointment of insurance industry veteran Scott Palladino as Chief Business Development Officer.
William Jewett, Chief Executive Officer of Obsidian, commented, "Scott Palladino is a tremendous addition to our Leadership Team. His extensive underwriting and business development experience within the program space, as well as his broad network within the industry, are among the many things that make Scott a terrific addition for Obsidian, which has established a solid and highly regarded footprint since its formation less than two and a half years ago."
Jewett continued, "There exists a great demand for proven, top talent within the industry and particularly within the program sector. Scott's experience, and strong and varied skill sets and relationships, fit exceptionally well with our business strategy, which is based on a commitment to underwriting and operational excellence. He is a great complement to an already formidable team."
"I am honored and excited to be joining Obsidian," stated Scott Palladino. "I am extremely impressed with what Obsidian has accomplished – they have built a hybrid fronting carrier with top tier underwriting and operational capabilities in a relatively short period of time. I look forward to meaningfully contributing to our continued growth and success."
Most recently, Mr. Palladino served in a similar role with Clear Blue, where he was one of the original members of the management team. He started his career at Liberty Mutual, where he held various property and casualty underwriting and management positions over a 22-year period. Subsequently, Scott held leadership positions at Sompo Japan Nipponkoa, including CUO and VP of Specialty Operations. He was also a member of the board of Sompo Marine and Fire Company and a member of the U.S. mergers and acquisition team.
Obsidian Insurance Group carries an "A-" financial strength rating from A.M. Best and is significantly invested in building its infrastructure and a team to expand its hybrid fronting business partnerships, leveraging the Obsidian team's strong technical expertise to work closely with its insurance and reinsurance partners regarding the development and implementation of programs.
About Obsidian
Obsidian Insurance Holdings, Inc. is an insurance holding company with admitted and non-admitted insurance carrier subsidiaries that issue policies underwritten by managing general agents, managing general underwriters, and program managers. Obsidian sources, underwrites, and manages a diverse portfolio of property, casualty, and specialty insurance programs, and reinsures the majority of the business to select reinsurers. Obsidian was formed in 2020 in partnership with leading insurance industry executives and Genstar Capital. For more information, visit www.obsidianspecialty.com.
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Conference organizers are seeking presentation submissions focused on innovation and programs that advance resilience policy, practice, science, and engineering.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the nonprofit Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) invites experts to submit presentations for consideration by the National Disaster Resilience Conference (NDRC23) committee. NDRC23 will take place in Clearwater Beach, Florida, from November 6 to 9, 2023, and will mark the 25th anniversary of the Disaster Safety and Resilience Movement.
NDRC23 features keynote presentations, discussion panels, spotlight topics, and stories of resilience that will help create more resilient buildings and disaster-resilient communities in the face of earthquakes, floods, hail, hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, wildfires, and other natural hazards.
Submissions should bring new insights and vision to one of these principal focus areas:
- Innovation in Science and Engineering – to support preparedness, response, recovery, or mitigation.
- Policy – to advance resilience through strong, modern building codes, smart finance, marketplace incentive programs, tax benefits, or innovation.
- Practice – to bring together advocates, building and fire code officials, communicators, emergency managers, insurance professionals, journalists, leaders, merchants, meteorologists, product manufacturers, public officials, researchers, scientists, and more.
- Stories of Resilience – to showcase the cause of disaster safety through stories of human resilience and recovery in real-life case studies.
Presentation submissions will be accepted online through Friday, March 31, 2023.
Previous NDRC conferences included multi-peril keynote speeches, panels, and presentations from resilience-minded businesses and organizations such as ABC News, Applied Technology Council, Auburn University, Disaster-Smart Consulting, Inc., FEMA, FLASH, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Floodproofing.com, FOX Weather, Global Protection Products, LLC, Huber Engineered Woods, IEM, Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management, Insurance Information Institute, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, International Code Council, ISO-Verisk Analytics, Lowe's, Maryland Emergency Management Agency, Mennonite Disaster Service, MIT, MyRadar, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, National Electrical Manufactures Association, National Fire Protection Agency, National Hurricane Center, National Institute of Building Sciences, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Wildlife Federation, Renew Financial, SBP New Orleans, Simpson Strong-Tie, Southern California Earthquake Center, State Farm, The Weather Channel, Texas General Land Office, Travelers Foundation, University of Florida, USAA, U.S. Resiliency Council, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Renewable Energy, U.S. Small Business Administration, White House Council on Environmental Quality, Wildfire Defense Systems, Inc., and more.
For more information or to submit an abstract, visit the National Disaster Resilience Conference website or email info@flash.org.
The nonprofit Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH) is the country's leading consumer advocate for strengthening homes and safeguarding families from disasters. The FLASH partnership includes more than 100 innovative and diverse organizations that share a vision of making America a more disaster-resilient nation, including FEMA, Florida Division of Emergency Management, Huber Engineered Woods, International Code Council, ISO - Verisk Analytics, MyRadar, National Weather Service, Renew Financial, Simpson Strong-Tie, State Farm, and USAA. In 2008, FLASH and Disney opened the interactive weather experience StormStruck: A Tale of Two Homes in Lake Buena Vista, FL. FLASH's signature program No Code. No Confidence. - Inspect2Protect.org provides consumers with a one-of-a-kind building code transparency tool to easily identify their community's building code. Learn more about FLASH and access free consumer resources by visiting www.flash.org and www.Inspect2Protect.org, calling toll-free (877) 221- SAFE (7233), following @federalalliance on Twitter, and Facebook.com/federalalliance.
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Strong RSV vaccine data lifts hopes after years of futility
New research shows vaccinating pregnant women helped protect their newborns from the common but scary respiratory virus called RSV that fills hospitals with wheezing babies each fall.
The preliminary results buoy hope that after decades of failure and frustration, vaccines against RSV may finally be getting close.
Pfizer announced Tuesday that a large international study found vaccinating moms-to-be was nearly 82% effective at preventing severe cases of RSV in their babies’ most vulnerable first 90 days of life. At age 6 months, the vaccine still was proving 69% effective against serious illness — and there were no signs of safety problems in mothers or babies.
“Moms are always giving their antibodies to their baby,” said virologist Kena Swanson, Pfizer’s vice president of viral vaccines. “The vaccine just puts them in that much better position” to form and pass on RSV-fighting antibodies.
The vaccine quest isn’t just to protect infants. RSV is dangerous for older adults, too, and both Pfizer and rival GSK recently announced that their competing shots also proved protective for seniors.
None of the findings will help this year when an early RSV surge already is crowding children’s hospitals. But they raise the prospect that one or more vaccines might become available before next fall’s RSV season.
“My fingers are crossed,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University. “We’re making inroads.”
Tuesday’s data was reported in a press release and hasn’t been vetted by independent experts.
Here’s a look at the long quest for RSV vaccines.
WHAT IS RSV?
For most healthy people, RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a cold-like nuisance. But for the very young, the elderly and people with certain health problems, it can be serious, even life-threatening. The virus can infect deep in the lungs, causing pneumonia, and in babies it can impede breathing by inflaming tiny airways.
In the U.S., about 58,000 children younger than 5 are hospitalized for RSV each year and several hundred die. Among adults 65 and older, about 177,000 are hospitalized with RSV and 14,000 die annually.
Worldwide, RSV kills about 100,000 children a year, mostly in poor countries.
WHY IS THERE NO VACCINE?
A tragedy in the 1960s set back the whole field. Using the approach that led to the first polio vaccine, scientists made an experimental RSV vaccine by growing the virus in a lab and killing it. But testing in children found not only was the vaccine not protective, youngsters who caught RSV after vaccination fared worse. Two died.
“For a period of 20 years, even though science was advancing, nobody wanted to go near development of an RSV vaccine,” Schaffner said.
Even today’s modern RSV vaccine candidates were tested first in older adults, not children, he noted.
WHAT GOT DEVELOPMENT BACK ON TRACK?
Modern vaccines tend to target the outer surface of a virus, what the immune system sees when a germ invades. For RSV, that target is the so-called F protein that helps the virus latch onto human cells. Again there was a hurdle: That protein is a shape-shifter, rearranging its form before and after it “fuses” to cells.
It turns out that the immune system only forms effective RSV-fighting antibodies when it spots what’s called the pre-fusion version of that protein, explained structural biologist Jason McLellan of the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2013, McLellan and virologist Barney Graham were working at the National Institutes of Health when they homed in on the correct shape and figured out how to freeze it in that form. That finding opened the way to today’s development of a variety of experimental RSV vaccine candidates.
(That same discovery was key to the hugely successful COVID-19 vaccines, as the coronavirus also is cloaked in a shape-shifting surface protein.)
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE?
Several companies are creating RSV vaccines but Pfizer and rival GSK are furthest along. Both companies recently reported final-stage testing in older adults. The competing vaccines are made somewhat differently but each proved strongly effective, especially against serious disease. Both companies plan to seek regulatory approval in the U.S. by the end of the year, as well as in other countries.
The older-adult data “looks fantastic,” said McLellan, who has closely followed the vaccine development. “I think we’re on the right track.”
And if vaccinating pregnant women pans out, it could be “a win for two individuals instead of just one,” by offering protection to both mom-to-be and baby, said Dr. Wilbur Chen of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Pfizer’s maternal vaccine is the same recipe that it tested successfully in older adults — and it also plans to seek Food and Drug Administration approval for those vaccinations by year’s end.
The new study included 7,400 pregnant women in 18 countries, including the U.S., and spanned multiple RSV seasons. Preliminary results reported Tuesday show the vaccine was most effective against severe disease. For milder illness, effectiveness was 51% to 57% -- short of the study’s statistical requirements but a result that Pfizer still called clinically meaningful because it could mean fewer trips to the doctor’s office.
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NEW YORK (NEXSTAR) — The Brooklyn Nets are suspending Kyrie Irving for at least five games without pay, saying they were dismayed by his failure to “unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs.”
Hours after Irving refused to issue the apology that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sought for posting a link to an antisemitic work on his Twitter feed, the Nets said that Irving is “currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.”
“We were dismayed today, when given an opportunity in a media session, that Kyrie refused to unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs, nor acknowledge specific hateful material in the film. This was not the first time he had the opportunity — but failed — to clarify,” the Nets said in a statement.
“Such failure to disavow antisemitism when given a clear opportunity to do so is deeply disturbing, is against the values of our organization, and constitutes conduct detrimental to the team. Accordingly, we are of the view that he is currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets.”
On Wednesday, Irving said he opposes all forms of hate, and he and the Brooklyn Nets would each donate $500,000 toward groups that work to eradicate it. He said he takes responsibility for “the negative impact” of his post toward the Jewish community, but declined to explicitly apologize.
Silver issued a statement earlier in the day stating that Irving “made a reckless decision to post a link to a film containing deeply offensive material.”
He continued, saying that he was “disappointed” that the NBA star hadn’t offered an “unqualified apology.”
After new broke of the suspension, the music mogul formerly known as Kanye West tweeted an image of the Nets’ statement with the message “This in not hate We are love God is love.”
He also tweeted screenshots of two headlines about former NBA greats Shaquille O’Neal and Amar’e Stoudemire criticizing Irving over the antisemitism controversy, adding “They make us bully ourselves,” and “They make us attack each other.”
On Wednesday, Ye appeared to show support for the Brooklyn point guard Wednesday, tweeting a black-and-white photo of Irving.
West himself is in the middle of widespread fallout from business partners, sponsors and fellow celebrities for his own antisemitic remarks on social media.
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The firm's research focuses on the need for effective enterprise content management strategies to navigate a complex information landscape in this digital era.
TORONTO, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - With the rise of remote work, businesses need an effective content management strategy to manage the increasingly complex information environment. Content is essential for internal workflows and external touchpoints, but many organizations lack an enterprise content management (ECM) capability to manage the quality, findability, delivery, and risk of their content across organizational processes. Therefore, to thrive in today's digital world, it is becoming increasingly apparent that organizations must develop an ECM strategy, either on its own or as part of broader information management strategies. To help businesses organize their documents and files to enhance content discoverability, global IT research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group has published its research Develop an Enterprise Content Management Strategy and Roadmap.
"As remote work becomes more common, digital formats such as videoconference recordings and online chats have become a key part of the information deposit," says Andrea Malick, research director at Info-Tech Research Group. "However, keeping records of chats, emails, and other digital communication is subject to various regulations related to record retention, audit, and e-discovery. In addition, these critical records are no longer limited to a centralized, controlled environment. To navigate this complex information landscape, businesses must understand it thoroughly and take effective measures to manage it."
Info-Tech's research explains that organizations face many obstacles when developing an effective ECM strategy. One major challenge is the exponential growth of organizational content, which can quickly become overwhelming to manage. Additionally, the digital revolution is accelerating market disruption and forcing organizations to transform or risk being left behind. Unfortunately, many businesses struggle to define a roadmap for developing ECM strategies and capabilities since there is currently no established body of knowledge in this area.
To maximize the effectiveness of the ECM initiatives, Info-Tech recommends three key steps. First, identify the root causes behind the ECM improvement opportunities and create a future-state vision for the ECM capability. Second, collaborate with stakeholders to develop an ECM roadmap. Finally, invest in change management to ensure a successful ECM implementation by consulting with and informing users and stakeholders early and often.
The firm's new blueprint defines an organization's ECM capability as six interrelated concepts working together to enable superior content access and delivery for an organization. Info-Tech recommends organizations use the following framework for an effective ECM strategy:
- Information architecture to enable content findability within ECM operations.
- Information governance to ensure content management quality assurance, security, and risk management.
- Process management to allow content to move through processes and workflows.
- System architecture to support the automation of content management.
- Change management to introduce new ECM capabilities to users.
- Capability governance to sustain and provide continuous improvement to the entire ECM operation.
Info-Tech explains in the blueprint that ECM is a vast and complex concept, so it's essential for IT leaders to be practical and not take on more than what can be handled. Therefore, it is vital to consider the organization's maturity level in ECM, the objectives, the available resources to develop a realistic plan for what it can accomplish in the current iteration, and what will have to wait for future releases.
To learn more, download the complete Develop an Enterprise Content Management Strategy and Roadmap blueprint.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — An Afghan soldier seeking U.S. asylum who was detained for months after being arrested while trying to cross the Mexico border has been freed from immigration detention and reunited with his brother, his attorney said Wednesday.
Abdul Wasi Safi’s release from custody in Eden, Texas, came after a judge dropped an immigration charge against him at the request of federal prosecutors.
Wasi Safi fled Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in August 2021, fearing reprisals from the Taliban. He was arrested in September last year near Eagle Pass, Texas, after crossing the Mexico border. He had hoped to eventually be reunited with his brother, Sami-ullah Safi, who lives in Houston.
Zachary Fertitta, one of his criminal defense attorneys, said Wednesday that Wasi Safi is receiving medical care at an undisclosed location but that he planned to speak at a news conference on Friday in Houston.
Fertitta said Wasi Safi and his brother “are overjoyed to be reunited.”
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
Federal prosecutors have dropped an immigration charge against an Afghan soldier seeking asylum in the U.S. who was arrested months ago trying to cross the Mexico border after he fled Taliban rule.
Abdul Wasi Safi remains in custody at a federal detention center in Eden, Texas, but the end of his criminal case means he will likely be released while his asylum claim is reviewed, an immigration attorney said Wednesday.
Wasi Safi fled Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in August 2021, fearing reprisals from the Taliban because he had provided U.S. forces with information on terrorists while working as an intelligence officer for the Afghan National Security Forces. In the summer of 2022, he began a treacherous journey from Brazil to the U.S.-Mexico border, where he was arrested in September near Eagle Pass, Texas. He had hoped to eventually be reunited with his brother, who lives in Houston.
On Monday, a federal judge in Del Rio, Texas, dismissed the federal immigration charge after prosecutors had filed a motion asking her to do so “in the interest of justice.”
Jennifer Cervantes, one of Wasi Safi’s immigration attorneys, said she expects him to be transferred from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She said ICE would likely interview him but has no reason to keep him in custody, especially given that the FBI has already spoken to him and found no problems.
“He’s certainly not a danger to the United States. He’s done a lot of good service for the United States,” Cervantes said Wednesday.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, belongs to a bipartisan group of lawmakers that has been working to free Wasi Safi. She said in a statement Tuesday night that she expects him to arrive in her hometown by Friday. A news conference was scheduled for Friday in Houston.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Customs and Border Protection and ICE, has not responded to an email seeking comment Wednesday.
Sami-ullah Safi, Wasi Safi’s brother, was employed by the U.S. military for several years as a translator. Sami Safi said he is pleased the criminal case has been dropped but that he remains frustrated about how his sibling has been treated in light of his family’s support for the U.S in Afghanistan.
“If we categorize my brother’s service, how many lives he has saved because of his service and how many lives I have saved because of my service being a combat translator?” Sami Safi said.
Wasi Safi’s case was first reported by The Texas Tribune.
On his journey from Brazil to the U.S., Wasi Safi suffered serious injuries from beatings, including damaged front teeth and hearing loss in his right ear.
“We are now working on his health condition, which has turned serious after months of neglect,” Zachary Fertitta, one of his criminal defense attorneys, said in an email Wednesday.
The lawyers, lawmakers and military organizations that have been working to free Wasi Safi say his case highlights how America’s chaotic military withdrawal continues to harm Afghan citizens who helped the U.S. but were left behind.
Nearly 76,000 Afghans who worked with American soldiers since 2001 as translators, interpreters and partners arrived in the U.S. on military planes after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. But their immigration status remains unclear after Congress failed to pass a proposed law, the Afghan Adjustment Act, that would have solidified their legal residency status.
Cervantes said Wasi Safi’s case is not unique and that other Afghans seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border have also faced difficulty getting their cases properly reviewed. She said she hopes her work “sheds some light on that and (helps) these guys get what I think is the right thing to do, what I think is fair for them.”
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Tieghan Gerard, best known to her 20M+ followers on Instagram, Pinterest & TikTok as Half Baked Harvest, opens their first grocery storefront on Jupiter offering new recipes, product/brand recommendations, and shopping all in one place
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In partnership with Jupiter, Half Baked Harvest, one of the most popular food content creators is launching a recipe driven grocery store to their 20M+ weekly visitors across Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. Jupiter, the creator-first recipe and grocery shopping platform, allows the followers of Half Baked Harvest to shop over 200+ recipes directly from Instagram and other social platforms. Followers go from seeing a recipe in their Instagram feed to having the ingredients delivered the same day in a couple of clicks.
Half Baked Harvest's store also presents a unique opportunity for innovative food brands to get in front of new customers in an authentic way. Brands not only benefit from increased awareness but also get exposure to a younger more engaged shopping user base from Instagram & TikTok. This could not come at a better time for brands as they are seeing rising costs for awareness ads on Meta due to iOS14 privacy changes. The partnership with Jupiter and Half Baked Harvest is a milestone in the emergence of social commerce in food in the U.S.
"We are thrilled to welcome Tieghan and the entire Half Baked Harvest family to Jupiter," said Chad Munroe CEO and Co-Founder of Jupiter. "Our goal at Jupiter has always been to offer an easy way for food lovers to make recipes from their favorite creators and offer creators a way to engage with the followers and brands they love. Jupiter storefronts create new avenues for brands to generate more authentic, long-term brand awareness with some of the best food creators in the world at a more affordable cost versus the traditional expensive one-off sponsored post."
In addition to brands launching their own stores like La Tourangelle, Jupiter makes it easy for brands to sponsor creator stores like Half Baked Harvest. A brand can be featured in a recipe and placed in prominent locations on Half Baked Harvest's Instagram shop, where millions of followers are expected to visit per month. Brands can learn more on Jupiter's brand partnerships page.
"Partnering with Jupiter brings together everything I love - making it easier for our community to create new recipes and to strengthen my relationships with brands I actually use," said Tieghan Gerard of Half Baked Harvest.
Tieghan Gerard launched Half Baked Harvest to share recipes inspired by the people and places she loves most. With the launch of her Jupiter storefront, she is able to continue sharing her love of food with any home cook looking to experiment with a new cuisine or simply adding a new recipe to their repertoire while also building stronger brand partnerships.
Jupiter is a creator-first recipe and grocery shopping platform founded out of Stanford. Using Jupiter, creators host stores where they share and monetize recipe content, maximize brand partnerships and build community. Jupiter enables brands to reach millions of users with high buying intent; and where homecooks look to be inspired and shop for groceries.
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Dino Prizmic 2023 Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag Odds
A match in the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag quarterfinals is next for Dino Prizmic, and he will go up against Alexei Popyrin. Prizmic has +1200 odds to win this tournament at Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris.
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Prizmic at the 2023 Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: July 21-30
- Venue: Stadium Goran Ivanisevic in ITC Stella Maris
- Location: Umag, Croatia
- Court Surface: Clay
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Prizmic will meet Popyrin in the quarterfinals on Friday, July 28 at 10:30 AM ET, after beating Zsombor Piros in the previous round 6-2, 6-3.
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- In the Round of 16 on Wednesday, Prizmic beat No. 124-ranked Piros, 6-2, 6-3.
- Through two tournaments over the past year, Prizmic has gone 4-1 and has yet to win a title.
- Prizmic has a record of 4-1 on clay over the last 12 months.
- Over the past 12 months (across all court types), Prizmic has played five matches and 16.8 games per match.
- On clay, Prizmic has played five matches over the past 12 months, and he has totaled 16.8 games per match while winning 63.1% of games.
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Energy management solutions can reduce operating costs while simultaneously eliminating emissions
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores opportunities for energy management solutions in the path to net neutrality.
Sustained greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are causing catastrophic damage to the environment, economy, and human health all over the world. In response, all customer segments are increasing their efforts to achieve climate neutrality in their operations. With more renewable energy capacity coming online and distributed energy resource (DER) installations increasing behind-the-meter, supply side volatility is worsening and a more complicated power flow structure on the grid is forming. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, energy management solutions like virtual power plants (VPPs) and distributed energy resource management systems (DERMSs) create an opportunity to firm up renewable generation output and enable a transition entirely away from fossil fuels.
"To maintain reliable power grid operations in a climate neutral world, utilities and grid operators will require new technologies, strategies, and solutions," says Dan Power, research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "Energy management solutions can make use of both clean supply and demand side resources connected to a territory's grid."
In addition to maximizing the value of these resources, energy management solutions can use them to displace traditional power generation technologies. By optimizing renewable generation output, energy storage resource operation, and flexible load control, energy management solutions can drastically reduce operating costs while simultaneously eliminating emissions, according to the report.
The report, Achieving Climate Neutrality with Energy Management Solutions, discusses the role that energy management solutions like VPPs, DERMSs, and demand response can play in the transition from fossil fuels. It provides recommendations to key stakeholders to increase the opportunities for, and the effectiveness of energy management solutions as the world seeks to achieve climate neutrality in the coming decades. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 13,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
* The information contained in this press release concerning the report, Achieving Climate Neutrality with Energy Management Solutions, is a summary and reflects the current expectations of Guidehouse Insights based on market data and trend analysis. Market predictions and expectations are inherently uncertain and actual results may differ materially from those contained in this press release or the report. Please refer to the full report for a complete understanding of the assumptions underlying the report's conclusions and the methodologies used to create the report. Neither Guidehouse Insights nor Guidehouse undertakes any obligation to update any of the information contained in this press release or the report.
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In her cookbook “My Two Souths,” chef Asha Gomez added an intriguing twist to the classic chocolate cookie — Nutella. It was an innovative way to introduce nutty flavor to an otherwise straightforward chocolate cookie dough.
Inspired, we wondered what other nutty spreads would work, so for this recipe from our book “Milk Street Tuesday Nights,” which limits recipes to 45 minutes or less, we tried natural almond butter. We were thrilled. Besides injecting the cookie with almond flavor, the natural ingredient gave us more control over the finished texture — moist, fudgy and almost brownie-like.
We made a few other small tweaks — adding cocoa powder and semisweet chocolate to deepen the cookie’s flavor and color without overwhelming the lighter milk chocolate — but otherwise kept the recipe simple and straightforward.
Sliced almonds pressed onto the tops added crunch, and a final sprinkle of flaky sea salt heightened the other flavors. The result was delicious but intense, so we scaled down the cookie’s size, making it a decadent two-bite treat.
When you’re forming the cookies, if the dough is very sticky, allow it to sit for 5 to 10 minutes. As the milk chocolate solidifies, the dough becomes easier to work with.
Triple-Chocolate Almond Cookies
https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/double-chocolate-almond-cookies
Start to finish: 30 minutes (20 minutes active)
Makes 30 cookies
8 ounces milk chocolate, chopped
130 grams (1 cup) all-purpose flour
160 grams (¾ cup packed) brown sugar
16 grams (3 tablespoons) cocoa powder
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
3 large eggs
⅔ cup roasted almond butter, stirred well
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
¾ cup sliced almonds, lightly toasted
1 large egg white, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons flaky sea salt (such as Maldon Sea Salt Flakes)
Heat the oven to 350°F with racks in the upper- and lower-middle positions. Line 2 baking sheets with kitchen parchment.
Put the milk chocolate in a medium microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at 50 percent power, stirring every 30 seconds, until completely smooth and melted. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder and salt. Add eggs and mix thoroughly with a rubber spatula. Stir in the melted chocolate, almond butter, vanilla and chopped semisweet chocolate.
Spread the almonds on a large plate. Divide the dough into 1-tablespoon balls, then lightly press into the almonds, coating one side and slightly flattening them. Arrange 15 of the balls, almond side up, on each of the prepared baking sheets, spaced about 2 inches apart. Brush the tops lightly with the egg white and sprinkle with sea salt.
Bake until the center is set and the edges are no longer glossy, 10 to 13 minutes, rotating the sheets and switching racks halfway through. Let cool completely on the sheets. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to five days.
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FREMONT, Calif. (WXIN) – Two versions of USB-C chargers are being recalled following reports of overheating while in use.
The recalls involve Hyper Products HyperJuice 130W USB-C Battery Pack and HyperJuice Stackable GaN 65W and 100W USB-C chargers.
Hyper Products says it received two reports of the 130W battery packs overheating, resulting in smoke, melting and property damage. It received seven reports of the stackable chargers overheating, resulting in damage to the charging units. So far, no injuries have been reported.
The 130W battery packs were sold in gray and silver and have the same model number – HJ307. The battery packs measure about 3 inches wide and 7 inches long. The model number is printed on a label located at bottom of the battery pack.
The stackable battery packs were sold in black and measure about 2 inches wide and 3 inches long. The 65W charger has the model number HJ414 and the 100W charger has the model number HJ417. The model numbers are printed on a label located at the bottom of the charger.
Anyone with the recalled chargers should stop using them and contact Hyper Products for a refund in the form of a www.Hypershop.com store credit for the purchase price of the product. People can contact Hyper Products toll-free at 866-203-5570 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, or go online to fill out a recall form. | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/usb-c-chargers-recalled-over-fire-hazard/ | 2022-09-29 16:32:36 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/usb-c-chargers-recalled-over-fire-hazard/ |
WARSAW, Ind., March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE and SIX: ZBH), a global medical technology leader, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a quarterly cash dividend to stockholders for the first quarter of 2023. The cash dividend of $0.24 per share is payable on or about April 28, 2023 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 29, 2023.
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Will Grayson struck out 11 batters in an six-inning, one-hit 11-0 Oakcrest home win over Middle Township in Mays Landing. Grayson added two hits, three RBIs and a runs scored to the offensive effort.
Gunnar Smith had a single, a double and three runs in the win. Mason Kurtz triples and scored twice.
Andre Nelson drove home Greg Hrynowski for Middle to spoil the shutout bid.
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DALLAS (AP) — More than 8,000 customer-service workers at Southwest Airlines would get raises of 16% to 25% over four years under a tentative contract, a sign of cost pressures facing airlines in a tight labor market.
The agreement announced Monday faces a ratification vote, however, and the same workers rejected a previous deal that union leaders negotiated in May.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said the new deal has better terms than the rejected agreement and would put people who work at Southwest ticket counters and airport gates at the top of the industry’s pay scale.
Under the agreement, a top-scale customer-service representative would get a 13.1% raise upon ratification and 25.1% over four years. The rejected deal would have given them a 17.5% raise over that period. The union said less-senior workers would receive slightly smaller raises but more than under the May proposal.
The union said the deal also includes bonuses – a minimum $1,000, running into several thousand dollars for the most-senior workers –stronger protections when employees are ordered to work overtime, and improvements if similar workers at other airlines get better deals.
Southwest’s vice president of labor relations, Adam Carlisle, said the deal would reward employees while keeping the airline competitive.
Airlines are under intense pressure to raise pay as air travel rebounds from the pandemic. The industry has lost tens of thousands of workers since the pandemic struck, many of whom took early retirement. Pilots at smaller regional airports have recently won large pay increases, and other workers have been in short supply. Southwest CEO Robert Jordan said last year that the airline was getting fewer applicants per job than it did before the pandemic. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-tentative-deal-would-boost-pay-for-8000-southwest-workers/ | 2022-10-25 11:18:09 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/ap-tentative-deal-would-boost-pay-for-8000-southwest-workers/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
03-05-08-10-11-12-13-18-19-20-21-24
(three, five, eight, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Night-17534703.php | 2022-10-26 03:41:52 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Night-17534703.php |
WASHINGTON — For the Biden White House, a quartet of four female judges in Colorado encapsulates its mission when it comes to the federal judiciary.
Regina Rodriguez, who is Latina and Asian American, served in a U.S. attorney’s office. Veronica Rossman, who came from the former Soviet Union with her family as refugees, is the first former federal public defender to be a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
With these four women, who were confirmed during the first two years of President Joe Biden's term, there is a breadth of personal and professional diversity that the White House and Democratic senators have promoted in their push to transform the judiciary.
“The nominations send a powerful message to the legal community that this kind of public service is open to a lot of people it wasn’t open to before,” Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff, told The Associated Press. “What it says to the public at large is that if you wind up in federal court for whatever reason, you’re much more likely to have a judge who understands where you came from, who you are, and what you’ve been through.”
Klain said that “having a more diverse federal bench in every single respect shows more respect for the American people.”
The White House and Democratic senators are closing out the first two years of Biden’s presidency having installed more federal judges than did Biden’s two immediate predecessors. The rapid clip reflects a zeal to offset Donald Trump’s legacy of stacking the judiciary with young conservatives who often lacked in racial diversity.
So far, 97 lifetime federal judges have been confirmed under Biden, a figure that outpaces both Trump (85) and Barack Obama (62) at this point in their presidencies, according to data from the White House and the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. D-N.Y. The 97 from the Biden presidency includes Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, that court’s first Black woman, as well as 28 circuit court judges and 68 district court judges.
Three out of every four judges tapped by Biden and confirmed by the Senate in the past two years were women. About two-thirds were people of color. The Biden list includes 11 Black women to the powerful circuit courts, more than those installed under all previous presidents combined. There were also 11 former public defenders named to the circuit courts, also more than all of Biden’s predecessors combined.
“It’s a story of writing a new chapter for the federal judiciary, with truly extraordinary folks representing the broadest possible types of diversity,” said Paige Herwig, a senior White House counsel.
The White House prioritized judicial nominations from the start, with Biden transition officials soliciting names of potential picks from Democratic senators in late 2020. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, swiftly moved nominees through hearings and Schumer set aside floor time for votes.
Particular focus was placed on nominees for the appellate courts, where the vast majority of federal cases end, and those coming from states with two Democratic senators, who could find easier consensus in a process where there’s still significant deference given to home-state officials.
Democrats hope to speed up the tempo of confirmations next year, a goal more easily accomplished by a 51-49 Senate that will give them a slim majority on committees. In the past two years, votes on some of Biden’s more contested judicial nominees would deadlock in committee votes, requiring more procedural steps that ate up valuable Senate floor time.
Schumer said he also hopes to install more judges in appeals courts that shifted rightward under Trump, an effort that the majority leader described as rebalancing those courts.
“Trump loaded up the bench with hard right ‘MAGA’ type judges who are not only out of step with the American people, they were even out of step with the Republican Party,” Schumer said in an interview, using shorthand for Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
Schumer added: “We had a mission, it’s not just a predilection. It was a mission to try and redress that balance.”
Despite their limited power to actually derail Biden’s judicial picks, some Republicans have fought ferociously against many of them, arguing that their views were out of the legal mainstream despite Democratic arguments otherwise. The precarious 50-50 Senate, where Schumer’s plans were often thwarted by ailments or absences, meant several Biden nominees languished for months and were never confirmed before the Senate wrapped up its work this year.
Democrats also say certain judicial nominees, particularly women of color, were unfairly targeted by their GOP critics, leading to tense fights in the Judiciary Committee.
“The Republicans have just got a problem with this. Not all of them, some do,” Durbin said in an interview. “And when you call them out on it ... ‘Why is it consistently women of color that are the object of your wrath?’ and they can’t answer.”
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a committee member, said Biden’s picks were “very, very left, but unapologetically so.” He said Durbin’s assertions about Republicans were “absurd.”
“I think the president made a commitment to his base that he was going to put people who shared a very left-wing worldview, who are generally quite critical of, for instance, the criminal justice system, think that it is systemically racist,” Hawley said.
Despite the strengthened Democratic majority, the White House could nonetheless confront some challenges when it comes to nominating and confirming judges over the next two years.
For instance, Biden has made barely a dent in the number of vacancies for district court judges in states that have two Republican senators, confirming just one such person: Stephen Locher, now a judge in the Southern District of Iowa. Senators still adhere to a practice that allows home-state senators virtual veto power over district court picks — a process known colloquially as the “blue slip” — and Democrats are facing an increased push from advocates to discard the tradition, arguing that it only allows for Republican obstructionism.
For instance, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin earlier this year blocked action on William Pocan, nominated to serve in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, after initially recommending him as part of a bloc of nominees to the White House. Durbin has said he would reconsider the current “blue slip” practice if he sees systematic abuse by senators, especially based on a nominee’s race, gender or sexual orientation.
But cases like Pocan’s have been rare, Durbin said, and other influential Republicans are affording some level of deference to the Biden White House when it comes to judges.
“I can’t think of a system where Republicans get all their judges and Democrats get none of theirs,” said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who will be the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee next year. “That’s not a viable system.”
One matter Biden has not been willing to address: the structure of the Supreme Court.
Any push to change the highest court in the land, even in small ways, has found little footing at the White House, with Biden aides instead highlighting the president’s push to nominate federal judges as the best and most substantial way to secure a Democratic legacy in the judiciary.
As Biden took office in 2021, calls for changes to the Supreme Court were growing louder, after Trump named three new justices that tilted the court’s makeup far to the right.
In June, the 6-3 conservative majority overturned the landmark decision Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional protections for abortion that had existed for nearly 50 years. It did so despite a majority of people in the United States believing abortion should be legal. In the same term, the justices also weakened gun control and curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to manage climate change.
Polls have shown a dip in approval for the court and respect for it. A Gallup Poll found Americans had the lowest level of trust in the court in 50 years.
Biden has spoken out about the rulings, and argued the court is more of an “advocacy group these days.” But he has not embraced calls to expand the court or even to subject justices to a code of conduct that binds other federal judges. He has not spoken publicly about a study he commissioned on the future of the Supreme Court that finished last year and suggested term limits, mandatory retirement and judicial ethics codes as ways to restore trust in the institution.
White House officials similarly have declined to weigh in on potential changes, even as those advocating for change believe the push will grow stronger this term, as voting rights, clean water, immigration and student loan forgiveness come before the justices.
“I wouldn’t, in any way minimize the progress and the importance of what President Biden is doing on the lower courts,” said Chris Kang of Demand Justice, an advocacy group leading the push to expand the court. “But at the same time, we need to look at the core problem, which is the Supreme Court, and what can be done to fix the issues.”
For now, the White House's focus will remain on the people who sit on the courts.
It’s a particularly meaningful achievement for Biden, a former Judiciary Committee chairman himself, and for Klain, who was chief counsel for Biden on that committee and a lawyer who worked on judicial nominations in the Clinton White House.
“With all due respect to my predecessors, I’m sure this is a higher priority for me,” said Klain, who meets weekly with the judicial nominations team. But, referring to Biden, Klain added: “The fact that he makes it such a priority, makes it a big priority for me.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-outpacing-trump-obama-with-diverse-judicial-nominees/2022/12/29/5690f072-8780-11ed-b5ac-411280b122ef_story.html | 2022-12-29 14:26:07 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-outpacing-trump-obama-with-diverse-judicial-nominees/2022/12/29/5690f072-8780-11ed-b5ac-411280b122ef_story.html |
Hundreds turn out in protest against proposed 76ers arena near Chinatown
CHINATOWN - Protesters turned out to demonstrate in Chinatown and send one very clear message to the city and the developers who want to bring a basketball arena – they don’t want it.
"This place holds a special place in my heart!" exclaimed Stacy Liang, as she and hundreds of others expressed that sentiment Saturday afternoon, gathering to push back against the Philadelphia 76ers’ plans to build a brand new, multiuse basketball arena in Center City.
Residents here say if that comes to fruition, it will be devastating for the Chinatown community.
"Chinatown is a very important place to me and the threat to it is astonishing, because it’s so frequent and so continual every 10 years," Lily Fisher said.
Deborah Wei is the founder of Asian Americans United, a group that fights to preserve and protect Asian culture and combat Asian hate and violence.
She says not only are those in attendance at Saturday’s protest against the arena, she believes a majority of people in the city oppose it. "Chinatown is united against this arena. The city is united against this arena. We’re moved and grateful for the support we’re receiving from thousands of people across the city."
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The new arena would be called 76 Place and Molly McEndy, with the 76ers, released a statement pushing back against what they claim is false information:
"It is disappointing to see some groups claiming to represent the broader interests of the city irresponsibly spreading misinformation about our proposed plans. Firstly, the arena will not be built in Chinatown – this project will be built in the Fashion District, at Market East."
Even the next generation of activists were in full force as hundreds of students came out in support of the protest, including Central High School students Celine To and Sandy Nguyen.
"We find it really unfair that people of color, they live here their whole entire lives and people that are rich and their corporations are coming in and taking over," Nguyen stated.
"We’ve been here for so long and we deserve respect and recognition from Philadelphia and Philadelphians, especially considering a 76 Arena doesn’t make sense logistically or in preserving Asian Americans and their racial identities," Maya Mischler said. | https://www.fox29.com/news/hundreds-turn-out-in-protest-against-proposed-76ers-arena-near-chinatown | 2023-06-11 04:46:07 | 0 | https://www.fox29.com/news/hundreds-turn-out-in-protest-against-proposed-76ers-arena-near-chinatown |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Texas A&M Aggies are a win away from finishing off a rebound few saw coming in mid-December.
After starting the season 6-5 with losses to Murray State, Colorado and Memphis, the Aggies are back in the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship game for a second straight year.
Wade Taylor IV scored 25 points as No. 18 Texas A&M dominated from the opening tip in beating Vanderbilt 87-75 Saturday to put the Aggies back in the SEC Tournament final for the third time in program history.
“It’s a blessing,” Taylor said of getting back to the SEC tourney final. "We worked very hard to get back to this point. On December 25th, being 6-5, nobody thought we would be here. A blessing. We just got to complete the job."
The Aggies (25-8) were routed by Tennessee last season in Tampa and lost in overtime to Kentucky in 2016 in Nashville.
Tyrece Radford added 16 points and Julius Marble had 13 for the Aggies, who won their fourth straight.
Now they will try to beat No. 4 Alabama, a 72-61 winner over No. 25 Missouri in the first semifinal, for the second time in nine days. The Aggies beat Alabama 67-61 to wrap the regular season March 4.
“Just another chance to make history,” Taylor said of the rematch.
Texas A&M coach Buzz Williams said Alabama's success speaks for itself.
“The No. 1 seed, for sure. Are they the No. 1 No. 1?” Williams said. “I don’t know. You’d have to ask whoever is on the committee this year.”
Vanderbilt (20-14) reached the SEC semifinals for the first time since 2017 and was looking for its first berth in the tournament title game since 2012. That's when the Commodores upset eventual national champion Kentucky.
Tyrin Lawrence led Vanderbilt with 18 points. Jordan Wright had 17, and Ezra Manjon 16.
These sixth-seeded Commodores came in having played the late game each of the past two nights, including an 80-73 upset of No. 23 Kentucky on Friday night to notch the program's first 20-win season since 2014-15.
The quick turnaround took a toll on Vanderbilt, which had won 10 of its last 11 looking for its third SEC Tournament title. Coach Jerry Stackhouse said the Aggies also hit them with “a haymaker” early, but he was proud of how his Commodores fought back.
“We got back into the game after being down big,” Stackhouse said. “I think that’s the sign of a good team, the sign of a team that could do something special with the opportunity on the one-and-out format.”
Texas A&M, which beat Vanderbilt 72-66 on Jan. 28 in College Station, forced three turnovers in the first two minutes. The Aggies scored the first seven points and never looked back.
They led 49-25 at halftime, setting a program record for points in the first half at the SEC tourney. The Aggies pushed that to 52-25 on a Taylor jumper with 18:25 to go.
Vanderbilt refused to go away. The Commodores, who had won three straight over Top 25 teams for the first time since 2010-11, fought back with a 21-6 run. Wright capped the run with seven straight, and his free throw with 13:08 pulled the Dores within 58-46.
Taylor scored the next five for the Aggies, who quickly pushed the lead back to 21.
BIG PICTURE Vanderbilt: The Commodores just couldn't slow down the Aggies, and the 3-point shots that have bailed them out so often this season didn't fall. They were 4 of 12 in the first half and finished 64.3% overall in the second half (18 of 28).
Texas A&M: The Aggies couldn't have shot much better over the first 20 minutes, hitting 69% (20 of 29) overall and 58.3% from 3-point range (7 of 12). They finished 59.6% (31 of 52) for the game.
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Vanderbilt waits to see if its season continues in the NCAA Tournament or the NIT. The Commodores played the nation's 19th-toughest schedule with the SEC's fourth-most games against Quad 1 and 2 teams at 20. They also played Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky twice during the regular season.
“Yeah, we belong in the NCAA Tournament," Stackhouse said. "Ain’t no doubt in my mind about that.”
Texas A&M faces Alabama hoping the third time in the SEC Tournament championship game is the charm.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
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For several weeks prior to the annual Wagon Days celebration in Ketchum, a line of historic ore wagons is lined up outside the Ore Wagon Museum, allowing passersby the chance to inspect these storied vehicles up close before seeing them pulled by a 20-mule team for the “Big Hitch” parade over Labor Day weekend. Since 1958, Ketchum has celebrated its mining history through the Big Hitch, the largest non-motorized parade in the West which features, in addition to the ore wagons and mule team, buggies, carriages, carts, and stagecoaches. Since then, the weekend-long event has grown to include other events like live music, pancake breakfast, and other fun unique cultural demonstrations.
One of this year’s draws is a performance by 2021 American Idol winner Chayce Beckham, who will perform on Saturday, Sept. 3, following the Big Hitch parade in a street party on East Avenue. The 24-year-old country music singer/songwriter will perform a set featuring songs from his EP “Doin’ It Right,” as well as some new, unreleased songs. This is Beckham’s first time performing at Wagon Days and in the state of Idaho. “The city reached out and we couldn’t pass on an opportunity to visit and take part in this year’s celebration!” says Beckham. “I cannot wait to see the beauty of Idaho and learn more about the history of Ketchum.”
The Wagon Days event schedule starts Friday, Sept. 2, with a Sun Valley story tour where you’ll be guided on bus for a one-hour tour past local historical sites like the Horace Lewis home, the Union Pacific Terminal, and more.
In the afternoon, join seven Idaho cowboy poets at the Ore Wagon Museum as they recite poetic tales from the land and their way of life.
This is followed by a reception in Town Square for this year’s parade Grand Marshalls, Paula and Keith Perry of the recently closed long-time Ketchum establishment Perry’s. Following the reception, Boise band Tylor & the Train Robbers will play a live set on East Avenue at 7 p.m. with food served by Despos and drinks by Roadbars.
On Saturday (and Sunday) morning, join the Papoose Club pancake breakfast in Town Square, a Wagon Days tradition of all-you-can-eat breakfast of pancakes and sausage. All day at East Avenue and Fourth Street, there will be an assortment of activities including kids’ activities, local food vendors, and Wagons Ho, an interactive pioneer exhibit that offers children a hands-on experience to understand how pioneers lived. Head to Festival Meadows on Sun Valley Road at 10:30 a.m. for horsemanship and culture demonstrations from the Eh-Capa Bareback riders and Escaramuza Charra riding. The Eh-Capa style of riding mirrors that of the Native American culture. Escaramuza is the only female equestrian event in Mexican charreria, a Mexican cultural tradition stemming from the Spanish-inspired charreada, a festival event similar to American rodeo.
Then it’s the main event: the Big Hitch Parade at 1 p.m., followed by the after-party featuring Beckham.
For those looking to take in more of the area’s history, the Ore Wagon Museum — festival HQ for the weekend — is open daily from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. You can view historical items from Ketchum’s founding, mining history, and Wagon Days, an exhibit developed in partnership with the City of Ketchum, Blaine County Historical Museum, and The Community Library’s Regional History Department. Wagon Days souvenirs will be available for sale. Next door is the Bonning Cabin, Ketchum’s oldest surviving building, open for touring. | https://www.idahopress.com/community/life/head-em-up-move-em-out/article_a7e52d7e-23f5-11ed-96e9-135278162878.html | 2022-08-28 07:52:15 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/community/life/head-em-up-move-em-out/article_a7e52d7e-23f5-11ed-96e9-135278162878.html |
University of Maryland's business school has published a comprehensive new report
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Center for Social Value Creation (CSVC) at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business published an extensive report on the most effective strategies for driving environmental and social value creation (ESVC). The report sets out a new framework for understanding how companies, across nine industries, can generate meaningful, measurable improvement in environmental and social performance across industries.
CSVC identified six concrete ways, or "levers," that companies can use to drive ESVC outcomes: product research, development and innovation, sustainable production, supply chain management, coalitions, financial and in-kind support, talent management. CSVC also identified which levers are most effective for each of the nine industries under review. The report set out three types of institutional change that enables effective use of ESVC levers: operational structure, financing, and measurement/reporting.
More than ever before, consumers demand values-based commitments to sustainability and social good from brands across every industry. CSVC's research found that 80% of ESVC commitments are driven by increased consumer demand. These commitments appear in formal announcements and press coverage under many names: CSR, ESG, sustainability, and more. CVSC has developed the term "environmental and social value creation," or ESVC, to encompass the wide range of actions and initiatives that seek to benefit the bottom line and the broader world.
"CSVC is excited to offer this groundbreaking survey of how corporations are responding to the upsurge of consumer demand for ESVC initiatives," said Nima Farshchi, Director of CSVC. He added, "While the report is comprehensive, it marks a beginning not a conclusion. We hope to convene an ongoing conversation about how businesses can simultaneously drive financial growth and social and environmental value. In fact, the bottom line and ESVC efforts reinforce one another."
In order to come closer to a working definition of ESVC in North America, CSVC and Sattva Consulting undertook a research study between January and July 2022. The team examined ESVC initiatives of companies across nine industries: Consumer Goods and Retail, Energy, Healthcare, Technology, Financial Service, Automobile, Hospitality, Telecom, and Entertainment. The study's findings were substantiated by interviews with senior sustainability/ESG executives of 13 companies and 15 industry experts, and an in-depth review of over 150 academic and corporate reports.
"The need for ESVC initiatives is clear across industries," says Kristin Fallon, Head of Global Brand GE Healthcare and CSVC Board Member. "However, every company faces their own challenges and has their own unique interests. So it's important to deploy the ESVC strategies that best fit your business. We have a chance to move collectively into a new phase of social value creation. But companies need to know what's possible, and what steps they can take."
To download these new materials and learn more about CSVC, visit their website here.
The Robert H. Smith School is the University of Maryland's business school. One of 12 colleges and schools at the University, the Smith School is plugged into the business, government, nonprofit, and professional networks of the Washington, D.C., metroplex.
The Center for Social Value Creation is the Smith School's dedicated program for driving positive social and environmental outcomes in tandem with strong business performance. CSVC sponsors original research, events, and fellowships for Smith School students, alumni, corporate partners, and our greater community looking to apply their business degree in the ESVC realm.
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The Biden administration next month will place new restrictions on U.S. shipments of semiconductor chips and chipmaking equipment to China, according to Reuters.
The Commerce Department will formalize new rules prohibiting the shipment of chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories that produce advanced semiconductors, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
U.S. companies seeking to export the equipment must obtain a Commerce Department license.
Three U.S. companies — KLA Corp., Lam Research Corp., and Applied Materials Inc. — already operate under the restrictions as directed by the Commerce Department.
The Hill has reached out to the Commerce Department for comment.
Semiconductor chips power most electrical systems and machines, from appliances to computers, vehicles and modern weapons.
Over the summer, the U.S. passed the Chips and Science Act, seeking to increase America’s competitive with China in the semiconductor industry with $50 billion in funding for the industry.
Last month, as tensions soared between the U.S. and China over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)’s visit to Taiwan, the U.S. began restricting the export of high-end graphics computer chips to Russia, China and Hong Kong.
Chipmaking company Nvidia, based in California, said the U.S. began requiring a license to export chips that are better than or equal to its A100 graphics card to those three countries. A similar restriction was reportedly applied to the company Advanced Micro Devices.
According to Reuters, the Commerce Department will formalize the licensing rule for exporting the highly advanced semiconductor chips next month.
China has demanded the U.S. drop the requirement, which affects data centers, artificial intelligence systems and other equipment that requires highly advanced chips.
The U.S. was once responsible for producing 37 percent of global semiconductor chips, but is now responsible for just 12 percent of production, according to the White House.
The Commerce Department announced last week it was planning to spend about $28 billion of the newly approved funding for grants, subsidies and loans to boost domestic production of key computer chips. | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/us-to-ramp-up-restrictions-on-semiconductor-exports-to-china-report/ | 2022-09-14 14:39:03 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/us-to-ramp-up-restrictions-on-semiconductor-exports-to-china-report/ |
Santa Monica, Calif. (KTLA) — A California teenager became an amputee and remains hospitalized after a suspected drunk driver slammed into him.
On June 2, 18-year-old Gelvy Ortiz was sitting at a bus stop in Santa Monica when he was struck by a suspected DUI driver.
The collision left Gelvy with injuries resulting in the amputation of his left leg.
Doctors were still working to save his right leg as the teen remained hospitalized at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Gelvy is the youngest of four brothers who immigrated together to the U.S. from Guatemala in search of a better life. The siblings became orphaned at a young age when they lost their mother to breast cancer.
As a student at West Adams Preparatory High School, Gelvy thrived in academics and was an avid soccer player. He planned to enlist in the U.S. Army after high school.
Now, those dreams have been put on hold.
David Ortiz, Gelvy’s oldest brother, told Nexstar’s KTLA that life has not been easy since their mother’s death, but they hope their fighting spirit will help them overcome any obstacles that life throws their way.
The Oritz family is also hoping for justice for Gelvy.
The drunken driving suspect, identified as John Edward Alevizos, posted bail shortly after he was arrested in the crash.
Gelvy was able to thrive in school because his brothers worked hard to support their family, but now they’re unable to work since they’ve dedicated their time to caring for their brother as he recovers.
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Elon Musk has emailed Twitter employees, most working remotely, ordering them to return to the office immediately for at least 40 hours a week and warning of “difficult times ahead.”
A pair of Wednesday night missives seen by The Associated Press marked Musk's first companywide message to employees who survived last week's mass layoffs. Many have had to rely on the billionaire Tesla CEO's public tweets for clues about Twitter's future.
“Sorry that this is my first email to the whole company, but there is no way to sugarcoat the message," wrote Musk, before he described a dire economic climate for businesses like Twitter that rely almost entirely on advertising to make money.
“Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn,” Musk said. “We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription.”
Musk’s memo followed a livestreamed conversation trying to assuage major advertisers Wednesday, his most expansive public comments about Twitter’s direction since he closed a $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform late last month and dismissed its top executives. A number of well-known brands have paused advertising on Twitter as they wait to see how Musk's proposals to relax content rules against hate and misinformation affect the tenor of the platform.
Musk told employees “the priority over the past 10 days" was to develop and launch Twitter's new subscription service for $7.99 a month that includes a blue check mark next to the name of paid members — the mark was previously only for verified accounts.
An executive last week said Twitter was cutting roughly 50% of its workforce, which numbered 7,500 earlier this year.
Musk had previously expressed distaste for Twitter's pandemic-era remote work policies that enabled team leaders to decide if employees had to show up in the office. On Wednesday, he ordered all employees to return to the office Thursday.
Musk told employees in the email that “remote work is no longer allowed" and the road ahead is “arduous and will require intense work to succeed." He said he would personally review any request for an exception.
Twitter hasn’t disclosed the total number of layoffs across its global workforce but told local and state officials in the U.S. that it was cutting 784 workers at its San Francisco headquarters, about 200 elsewhere in California, and more than 400 in New York City, more than 200 in Seattle and about 80 in Atlanta.
The exodus at Twitter is ongoing, including the company's chief information security officer Lea Kissner, who tweeted Thursday that “I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twitter.”
Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos, a former Facebook security chief, tweeted Thursday that there is a “serious risk of a breach with drastically reduced staff” that could also put Twitter at odds with a 2011 order from the Federal Trade Commission that required it to address serious data security lapses.
“Twitter made huge strides towards a more rational internal security model and backsliding will put them in trouble with the FTC” and other regulators in the U.S. and Europe, Stamos said.
The FTC said in a statement Thursday that it is “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern."
“No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees," said the agency's statement. “Our revised consent order gives us new tools to ensure compliance, and we are prepared to use them.”
The FTC would not say whether it was investigating Twitter for potential violations. If it were, it is empowered to demand documents and depose employees.
Twitter paid a $150 million penalty in May for violating the 2011 consent order and its updated version established new procedures requiring the company to implement an enhanced privacy protection program as well as beefing up info security.
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Projections from Australian television stations show the Labor Party will stand in the way of the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive term. Climate change and inflation were some of the key issues in the race.
Australia's Labor Party has emerged victorious in federal elections on Saturday, ousting Prime Minister Scott Morrison's coalition, according to projections by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Labor Anthony Albanese is expected to become the country's new prime minister, however it is still not clear whether his party will command a majority in its own right or whether it will need to form a minority government.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison admitted defeat after what he called a "difficult night" for his conservative government.
"Tonight I have spoken to the leader of the opposition and the incoming prime minister, Antony Albanese, and I have congratulated him on his election victory," Morrison said.
Australia, a federation of six states, follows the parliamentary system. It has 151 seats in the House of Representatives.
Minor parties and independents were scoring unusually well, increasing the chances of a hung parliament and minority government. A record number of postal ballots, owing to the COVID pandemic, will also not be counted until Sunday, which could become a factor in close local races.
The Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese urged people to turn away from a "divisive" Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
"Give Labor a crack. We have plans for this country. We have plans to embrace the opportunities that are there from acting on climate change," he told voters at the beginning of voting day.
Albanese has pledged to tackle climate change, inflation and promised to hold a referendum on giving indigenous people an institutional voice in national policymaking.
Morrison has also vowed to tackle inflation and promised better interest rates and cost of living. "It's a choice about who can best manage our economy and our finances because a strong economy is what guarantees your future," he told voters.
The third candidate is Adam Bandt of the Greens Party.
The recent bushfires, floods, and droughts were on the minds of many voters as they went in to cast the ballot.
"I grew up in a community that's been really heavily affected by the fires and the floods over the past five years," first-time voter Jordan Neville told the AFP news agency in Melbourne.
Both leaders are campaigning in Melbourne on Saturday before voting in their hometown of Sydney. In-person voting opened at 8 a.m. local time (2200 GMT on Friday). The first polling stations closed on the country's east coast at 6 p.m. local time (0800 GMT on Saturday). The west coast is two hours behind.
Voting is compulsory for adults in Australia.
Whoever wins the election is expected at a Tokyo summit on Tuesday with US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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New process for MEMS scanning mirror produces large field of view, speeds mass production
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnitron Sensors, the pioneer in MEMS sensing technology for high-volume, low-cost markets, today validated its process for a fast, rugged, low-cost microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) scanning mirror, a new optical subsystem that meets the most demanding requirements of the LiDARs used in automotive advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), drones and robotics.
Targeting a LiDAR subsystems market predicted by Yole Intelligence to reach $2.3B by 2026[i], Omnitron's MEMS mirror will produce a 2-3X larger field of view than other MEMS mirrors used in long-range LiDARs. As a step-scanning mirror, Omnitron's device is designed for rugged high-vibration automotive and aerial environments—a competitive advantage over the spinning mirrors offered by other vendors. In addition, Omnitron's MEMS mirror is built to outperform older optical subsystems, including voice coils, spinning polygons, and Galvos—all of which are slower, bulkier, 10x-100x more expensive, and prone to failure.
"Our executive team has spent decades in sensor design, working on projects at Google (X) Wing avionics, Google Quantum, Tesla Model 3, US Navy Research Labs, and Lumedyne—which Google acquired during my tenure," said Eric Aguilar, co-founder and CEO, Omnitron Sensors. "With so much untapped potential in MEMS sensors still before us, we saw how changing the process technology and packaging techniques—which we call a new topology for MEMS—produces measurable improvements in size, cost, robustness, reliability, manufacturability and time to market. Our MEMS scanning mirror for LiDARs proves out our IP, solving the most serious issues that plague today's LiDARs for autonomous navigation. And based on the positive market reception we have received, we're meeting a vital need for long-lasting, high-performing, rugged and cost-effective LiDAR platforms."
With its MEMS process verified through fabrication, Omnitron Sensors is gaining the attention of investors. In Q4 2021, L'ATTITUDE Ventures invested $1.6M in seed-round funding to Omnitron and named the company L'ATTITUDE Latino Startup of the Year.
"I've spent 20 years in the wireless chip and sensors space, so I recognize an impressive technology when I see it," said Sol Trujillo, general partner of L'ATTITUDE Ventures, an investment firm noted for its steadfast support of talented Latino/Latina entrepreneurs. "Omnitron's starting point—the delivery of a step-scanning mirror with the potential to transform LiDARs for autonomous cars, drones, and mobile devices—is definitely impressive.
"Shaped by Eric Aguilar's vision and technical acumen, Omnitron's foundational IP in MEMS also has the potential to become a key enabler of robust and reliable smart-everything devices. These varied attributes illustrate why L'ATTITUDE believes in Omnitron's growth potential."
Manufacturing MEMS devices is notoriously difficult. Problems with size, reliability, durability and repeatability—and the fact that process technology is unique for each new MEMS device—make MEMS manufacturing expensive and slow design-to-delivery cycles. Omnitron's core IP solves these challenges. As a new topology for MEMS, Omnitron's IP rearranges manufacturing processes and supports them with new packaging techniques. This speeds volume production of a wide range of small, low-cost, precise MEMS sensors—from scanning mirrors and inertial measurement units (IMUs) to microphones, pressure sensors, and telecom switches—through established MEMS foundries.
To learn more about Omnitron's new MEMS scanning mirror for LiDARs—as well as its new topology for MEMS, which solves the fundamental manufacturing challenges that have hindered the rapid mass-production of MEMS sensors—please contact us by email: info@omnitronsensors.com.
L'ATTITUDE Ventures invests in early-stage (Seed to Series A) U.S. Latina(o) entrepreneurs who leverage technology to scale. The General Partners are Sol Trujillo, Oscar Munoz, Gary Acosta, Kennie Blanco, and Laura Moreno Lucas. Learn more at https://lat.vc/.
Founded in 2019 by a core group of MEMS industry innovators, Omnitron Sensors has invented a new topology for MEMS—IP that improves device performance and reliability, and that streamlines assembly to produce MEMS sensors for price-sensitive, high-volume markets, such as ADAS, drones, robotics, smartphones, internet of things (IoT), and other intelligent connected electronics that are shipping by the hundreds of millions. Learn more at https://omnitronsensors.com.
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This story starts — but certainly doesn't end — in 19th century Maryland, when John Townshend updated his will.
Townshend grew convinced at the end of his life that God would punish him if he did not free the enslaved people he owned and give them all of his property. But Townshend's relatives challenged his final wishes in court, arguing that his decision had been the result of a delusion.
That 1848 case was the first U.S. appearance of what became known as the "insane delusion rule," which remains grounds for contesting wills to this day. And Townshend v. Townshend itself has been cited in at least 70 other cases across the country — from New Hampshire to California — over the years, as recently as 2007.
It's one of thousands of cases involving enslaved people that lawyers and judges continue to cite as good precedent, more than a century after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
Justin Simard, an assistant professor at Michigan State University's College of Law, estimates there are about 11,000 such cases out there — and about one million more that use them to back up their arguments.
"I've done some analysis just with a sample of cases and concluded that 18% of all published American cases are within two steps of a slave case, so they either cite the slave case or cite a case that cites a slave case," Simard tells NPR. "The influence is really, really extensive."
Simard has spent years documenting them, with the help of some two dozen law students.
The result is the Citing Slavery Project, a comprehensive online database (and map) of slave cases and the modern cases that cite them as precedent. They expect to add the last of their nearly 9,000 collected cases to the website this summer.
The project aims to push the legal profession to grapple with its links to slavery, an overdue reckoning that Simard hopes will start with lawyers and judges acknowledging their use of the troubling precedents.
He says 80% of the time judges don't mention that these cases involve slavery at all, either because they're unaware or uncomfortable.
"We're not saying don't cite them," he explains. "All I'm asking people to do is just don't cite them without acknowledgement, without thinking through whether it actually makes sense to cite them, which I think is a pretty reasonable thing to ask."
NPR has reached out to the American Bar Association and American Judges Association for comment.
As part of that effort, Simard successfully advocated for the Bluebook — the country's legal citation style guide — to add a rule requiring cases involving enslaved people to be labeled with a parenthetical, just as moot or overturned cases are.
Where enslaved people were parties in a case, the citation will read "(enslaved party)." Where they were the subject of a property or legal dispute, the footnote should include "(enslaved person at issue)."
Simard says the feature has been used some 70 times in secondary sources and by four different judges since the change took effect in the 2021 edition, which he sees as an exciting first step.
The project also has an education and outreach component, including a pilot program with a high school outside of Detroit.
"How do you fix this? It's not one simple thing, but I do think one thing we can do that ... certainly is helpful is to make the profession more diverse," he adds. "And so we're trying to use our research and engagement to do that as well. But yeah, it's also making it possible just to expose the problems so lawyers who want to engage with it can and lawyers who don't want to might be forced to."
That, says those involved in the project, will help make the justice system better for all who interact with it.
How they do it
Simard first stumbled into this work by accident about a decade ago while working on his dissertation, which was about the debt collection work of a Georgia lawyer.
He wanted to argue that laws in the North and South share more in common than we tend to think, by showing that Northern judges cited this lawyer's cases even at the height of sectional tensions in the 1850s and 1860s. He found lots of examples of that — and of such cases being cited as recently as the 2010s, which struck him as strange.
"So I started doing more research and I thought I'd find just a couple examples, but ended up finding [that] the more I looked, the more I found," he says, adding that within a few months he'd found more than 300 examples of judges citing slave cases within the last 35 years.
The project grew over the years, especially as his students got involved.
Together they comb through commercial legal databases, using basic searches to pull out any cases that mention slavery, then reading them in full, collecting relevant information — including the names of the enslaved people — and inputting it into their database.
The team uses Harvard's Caselaw Access Project to connect their cases to all of the others that cite them later on, painting a picture of their lasting influence.
For example: The concept of adverse possession, or squatter's rights, was first extended to personal property in the form of enslaved people. Separately, a 19th-century case in which a slave-owner sued for damages over injury to his personal property was invoked in 1999 by a tire shredding company after its machinery was damaged by a third party.
"Slavery is all over the place," Simard says. "Part of the goal of our project is to make sure that influence is accounted for."
He says it's interesting to see how many cases from outside the South are linked to these slave cases, and how frequently they appear in private law — things like contracts, trusts and estates, mortgages and so on.
The collection shows that many of these cases involve regular commercial transactions, which Simard says is part of the reason they've been ignored.
Recent Michigan State law graduate Bret Bicoy estimates that he's personally collected somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 cases during his time working on the project.
He told NPR over email that his biggest takeaway is simple: While many people might associate the word "slave case" with Dred Scott or rulings on the institution of slavery itself, the vast majority of cases aren't that at all.
"You see enslaved persons having been listed in someone's will right alongside their cattle, or their horses. You see people who took out mortgages on human beings the way we do with homes. You see people who sued the person who sold them an enslaved person because they deemed said enslaved person to have been 'faulty,' just like you may sue someone for dishonestly selling you a faulty car," he wrote. "They are, unequivocally, the most dehumanizing and despicable documents I have ever read."
He said sometimes he'd have to "slap and remind" himself that all of these were real human beings, not just words on a will.
"I hope our work can help break the legal profession out of that very same trance," he added.
Why it matters
There are other troubling areas of law that need to be similarly investigated, Simard says, pointing to racist opinions that are cited as a matter of fact in many immigration and Native American law cases today.
But, he points out, their problematic foundations are not necessarily a big secret.
"What's unique about slavery is that many of these cases are still just considered basic commercial law cases ... they've kind of permeated into nearly every area of law, and no one has really accounted for that," he says.
Many other countries have gone through some sort of truth and reconciliation process to address similar harms, he adds, like South Africa after apartheid and Germany after World War II.
The U.S. hasn't done that, Simard says. The country has continued to cite and normalize slave cases long after the Civil War and even after the racial reckoning of 2020, which spurred many institutions to grapple with the darker parts of their histories.
"It's very strange if people are tearing down a monument to a slave owner across the street from a courthouse where some judge is secretly citing cases that were designed to [benefit them]," Simard says. "It's like these little monuments all left scattered across our case reporters."
He says the project has been generally well-received, though is not without its critics.
Some law professors have criticized the Bluebook rule for being "unscholarly" and violating academic freedom, while certain scholars have questioned whether the context of the cases really matters (as opposed to the law that's decided by them) and argued that the impact of slavery should be left up to judges' discretion.
Simard says his research proves otherwise. Lawyers and judges have a tremendous amount of power in society, he says, arguing that it makes sense for the public to stop and think about how their authority is constituted through slave cases and what that suggests about their ability to be fair.
"It's no secret that outcomes for Black people are worse in our legal system, and I think people are attuned to that," he adds. "And this gives people another reason to question whether the legal system is actually providing justice."
And while many people describe Simard's work as timely, he doesn't necessarily agree.
"I think it would have been timely 50 years ago, and I'm afraid it'll probably still be timely in 50 years," he says.
What comes next
The team is aiming to complete their final round of data entry in July, but Simard says that won't be the end of their efforts.
"Some Black studies scholars argue that emancipation has never really happened yet, and I think maybe I think about that the same way," he adds. "The Citing Slavery Project will be done when the project of emancipation is done, which may not be in my lifetime."
Simard wants more legal authorities to identify slave cases as such, and has started reaching out to Westlaw and LexisNexis, the main databases used for case research, to lobby for some kind of symbol.
He says their next big frontier is legal education. They've just started a project that involves analyzing the textbooks used by law professors to examine how much slavery has shaped the cases within them and, they hope, eventually help authors and professors to rethink how they discuss race in their curriculum.
And of course, there's the grant-funded pilot program that enabled Simard and several students to meet with high school juniors and seniors, teaching them about precedent and encouraging them to consider law school for themselves.
They also bused a group of high-schoolers to the law school for an event, and hope to continue reaching grade school students and teachers through similar programming.
Taylor Hall, who was involved in the project before graduating this spring, organized and helped lead the workshop at her own alma mater. She told NPR in a phone interview a handful of students seemed interested in becoming lawyers after the presentation.
"We're showing you this not to be like, 'Now it's your turn to become a lawyer and solve all this or whatever in 10 years,' " she said. "But hopefully the connection is students are able to say, 'What is the legal field shaping now that we should be involved in?' "
African Americans make up 5% of the legal profession despite accounting for 13% of the U.S. population, Hall said — a bigger gap than that of other minorities like Asians and Native Americans, who are also underrepresented in law.
"When you meet new people, your perspective changes and you just learn more and you start to see people as people," she added. "That's what diversity and inclusion could do if we had more Black lawyers."
Hall says her experience with the Citing Slavery Project will stay with her as she begins her career, with a job in corporate law.
"A lot of the laws I'll be dealing with are related to slave law and case law," she adds. "I think moving forward, now that I have this in mind, I'll be able to bring this perspective to a place where I'll be like the only Black person in the room. I also know that's not my complete burden to bear, but it's good to know I'll have that in the back of my mind."
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Women’s Experiences with Provider Communication and Interactions in Health Care Settings: Findings from the 2022 KFF Women’s Health Survey
Introduction
Women’s health outcomes are shaped not only by access to care, health insurance, and affordability, but also by the social and economic factors that drive health, discrimination, and experiences within the health care system, which have become a larger focus in providing equitable health care in recent years. One of the Institute of Medicine’s six domains of healthcare quality is patient-centered care: providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions. Measures of patient experience and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Surveys have also become more widely used among health care organizations and clinics interested in assessing the patient-centeredness of the care they deliver and areas of improvement. in the health care system, which have become a larger focus in providing equitable health care in recent years.
This brief presents findings from the 2022 KFF Women’s Health Survey (WHS) on women’s experiences with the health care system including screening for social determinants of health, provider communication and interactions, and discrimination. The KFF WHS is a nationally representative survey of 5,145 self-identified women ages 18 to 64, conducted May 10 – June 7, 2022. See the Methodology section for more details.
Summary of Findings
- Among women ages 18-64 who have seen a health care provider in the past two years:
- Twenty-nine percent report that their doctor had dismissed their concerns in that time period, 15% reported that a provider did not believe they were telling the truth, 19% say their doctor assumed something about them without asking, and 13% say that a provider suggested they were personally to blame for a health problem. A higher share of women (38%) than men (32%) report having had at least one of these negative experiences with a health care provider.
- One in ten (9%) women ages 18-64 say that they have experienced discrimination because of their age, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or some other personal characteristic during a health care visit in the past two years.
- Few women report being asked about social and economic factors that may influence health. While 58% report that in the past two years their provider asked them about what kind of work they do, far fewer report having been asked about their housing situation (30%), their ability to afford food (20%), or access to reliable transportation (20%). Women with Medicaid and those with low incomes are more likely to say they have been asked about these last three indicators than women with private insurance and those with higher incomes.
- Communication is an important component of health care quality; however, 21% of women (including 38% of uninsured women), say it is difficult to find a doctor who explains things in a way that is easy to understand.
- Just over one-third (35%) of women ages 40-64 say their health care provider ever talked to them about what to expect in menopause.
Screening for Social Determinants of Health
In recent years, the social determinants of health have been recognized as critical factors that shape health outcomes. These factors include housing, transportation, nutrition, and financial well-being. Although there are no formal recommendations for routine screening for social determinants of health, a recent review conducted for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found that screening for risk factors including housing, food security, and transportation shows positive effects on health outcomes. In fact, six health professional organizations specifically encourage social risk screening and referrals in clinical settings (American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Physicians, American Diabetes Association, and American Osteopathic Association).
HRSA-funded federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), which provide primary care services in underserved areas, must report whether they screen patients for social risk factors and if so, the total number of patients that screened positive for food insecurity, housing insecurity, financial strain, and lack of transportation/access to public transportation. One study found that the majority of FQHCs collected this type of information, but some evidence suggests these screenings may be less common in other health care settings. Medicaid contracts are also increasingly requiring managed care plans to screen for the social determinants of health and many plans report being engaged in activities to address enrollees’ social needs.
Nearly three in five (58%) women who have visited a doctor in the past two years say they were asked about the kind of work they do, but only one in five were asked about their ability to afford food (20%) or access to reliable transportation (20%).
Fifty-eight percent of women who have seen a health care provider in the past two years report that their provider asked about what kind of work they do in the past two years (Table 1).
Three in ten (30%) women who have seen a health care provider in the past two years report having been asked about their housing situation, with higher shares among uninsured women (32%), women with Medicaid coverage (44%), and women with low incomes (37%).
Fewer women report that their provider asked them about their ability to afford food (20%) or access to reliable transportation (20%). A larger share of uninsured women (27% and 23%, respectively) and women with Medicaid (34% and 33%, respectively) say they were asked about these two topics than women with private insurance (15% and 14%, respectively).
Black and Hispanic women are more likely than White women to say they were asked about their housing situation, ability to afford food, and access to reliable transportation. Women ages 18-35 are more likely than women ages 50-64 to say they have been asked about all of these topics by their provider in the past two years.
A higher share of women in 2022 say that in the past two years their health care provider asked them about their housing, ability to afford food, and access to transportation than did in 2020 (19%, 13%, and 13%, respectively).
Provider Communication
Communication is an important component of health care quality but one in five (21%) women say it is difficult to find a doctor who explains things in a way that is easy to understand.
Approximately one in four younger women (23%), women with a high school degree or less (23%), Hispanic women (24%), and women with low incomes (26%) have found it difficult to find a doctor who explains things in a way that is easy to understand (Figure 1). This share was highest among uninsured women, where more than one-third (36%) say it is difficult. These findings could reflect language barriers experienced by people with limited English proficiency, and difficulties faced by people with lower health literacy.
Menopause is a topic that has received little attention and there is a lack of information about what to expect during menopause.
One aspect of women’s health that is often not discussed with clinicians is menopause and what women can expect during this transition. Just over one-third (35%) of women ages 40-64 say their health care provider ever talked to them about what to expect in menopause (Figure 2), with wide variation by current menstrual status. Forty-two percent of women who have gone through menopause, 39% of those currently going through menopause, and 19% of premenopausal women say a provider has ever talked to them about what to expect in menopause. Providing information about what to expect during menopause can ease women’s concerns about the changes they may experience after their reproductive years and offer women options for clinical interventions.
Provider Interactions
Women are more likely than men to report experiencing certain negative provider interactions.
Negative interactions within the health care system can contribute to poorer health outcomes, distrust of the health care system, and health inequities. Among women and men ages 18-64 who have visited a health care provider in the past two years, 29% of women ages 18-64 report that their doctor had dismissed their concerns during that time, compared to 21% of men (Figure 3). Fifteen percent of women said they have had a provider not believe they were telling the truth, compared to 12% of men. Nine percent of women who have visited a health care provider in the past two years said they had experienced discrimination because of their age, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or some other personal characteristic, compared to 5% of men.
A similar share of women (19%) and men (16%) who have been to a doctor in the past two years say their doctor assumed something about them without asking in the past two years. The same share of women and men say that a provider suggested they were personally to blame for a health problem (13%). Overall, a higher share of women than men say they have had at least one of these experiences in the past two years (38% vs. 32%).
Among women who have visited a health care provider in the past two years, larger shares of those who are covered by Medicaid or uninsured, or who have low incomes, or a disability or ongoing health condition report having had each of these four negative experiences with their provider during that time period.
Thirty-six percent of women with a disability or ongoing health condition report that a health care provider had dismissed their concerns in the past two years compared to 22% of women who do not (Table 2). A higher share of Black women (18%) who have seen a provider in the past two years say that their provider did not believe they were telling the truth than White women (15%), and a higher share of White women than Asian/Pacific Islander (7%) women say the same. More than four in ten women ages 18-35 (46%), uninsured (46%), with Medicaid coverage (44%), or with a disability or ongoing health condition (45%) who have been to a doctor in the past two years report having had at least one of these interactions.
The impacts of bias, racism, and discrimination in health care has garnered increased attention in recent years and is recognized as having detrimental effects on women’s health. Some women report experiencing discrimination at higher rates than others. Twice as many women (10%) ages 18-49 say they have experienced discrimination during a health care visit as women ages 50-64 (5%) (Table 2). A larger share of Black women ages 18-64 who have visited a health care provider in the past two years reports experiencing discrimination than White women (13% vs. 7%). Women with low incomes and those with Medicaid or who are uninsured also report experiencing discrimination because of their age, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or some other personal characteristic at higher rates than their counterparts.
Our discrimination survey question aims to understand people’s perceptions of various actions and experiences as discrimination. Whereas some other surveys have asked respondents about experiencing “unfair treatment” in a variety of different settings or in general, our survey takes a different approach by asking one specific question about perceived discrimination in the context of a health care visit in the past two years. People may experience different types of unfair treatment but not necessarily describe it as discrimination. As a result, surveys that ask about unfair treatment more broadly tend to have higher shares of respondents who say they have experienced that.
Conclusion
The role of social determinants on health outcomes has garnered increased recognition in recent years. Providers are increasingly discussing factors with their patients that shape access to health care and health outcomes such as food insecurity and transportation challenges, although ensuring providers have resources with which to connect patients to address these social determinants is still a challenge. Gender bias and racial discrimination in the health care system can contribute to health disparities and poorer health outcomes. Women are more likely than men to report having experienced some type of health care bias, particularly those who are in poorer health, younger, or have low incomes.
Efforts to improve provider communication and interactions and address discrimination could improve women’s experiences with the health care system, alleviate some of the barriers many women still experience when they seek care, and reduce health disparities. | https://www.kff.org/report-section/womens-experiences-with-provider-communication-and-interactions-in-health-care-settings-findings-from-the-2022-kff-womens-health-survey-issue-brief/ | 2023-02-23 22:22:26 | 0 | https://www.kff.org/report-section/womens-experiences-with-provider-communication-and-interactions-in-health-care-settings-findings-from-the-2022-kff-womens-health-survey-issue-brief/ |
Stocks swayed between small gains and losses on Wall Street Monday as investors brace for another big interest rate increase this week from the Federal Reserve.
The S&P 500 was down less than 0.1% as of 1:56 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 8 points, or less than 0.1%, to 30,813 and the Nasdaq edged down less than 0.1%.
Wall Street remains focused on inflation and the Federal Reserve's attempt to lower prices by aggressively raising interest rates. On Wednesday, the central bank will announce its latest decision on rates and is expected to raise its benchmark rate, which influences interest rates throughout the economy, another three-quarters of a percentage point.
Retailers and banks gained ground. Home Depot rose 0.9% and Bank of America rose 0.9%. Health care stocks slipped and tempered gains elsewhere in the market. Pfizer fell 1.7%.
The yield on the 2-year Treasury, which tends to follow expectations for Fed action, rose to 3.94% from 3.87% late Friday. The 10-year yield, which influences mortgage rates, rose to 3.47% from 3.45%.
The broader market is coming off of its worst week in three months following a surprisingly hot report on inflation and big companies, including FedEx, warning about worsening trends in the economy.
Wall Street has been worried that the Fed's plan to cool the hottest inflation in four decades could be too aggressive and throw the economy into a recession by pumping the brakes on growth too hard. The higher rates also tend to weigh on stocks, especially the pricier technology sector.
Investors will get another update on the housing sector on Wednesday when the National Association of Realtors releases August figures for sales of previously occupied homes.
Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed above 6% last week for the first time since the housing crash of 2008. The higher rates could make an already tight housing market even more expensive for American homebuyers.
Britain was observing a day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II. Germany's DAX rose 0.5% while the CAC 40 in Paris fell 0.3%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 1% while the Shanghai Composite index shed 0.3%. Japan's markets were closed for a holiday.
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Sheriff’s office looking for suspect in armed robbery in Gilman
Published: Dec. 24, 2022 at 10:34 PM CST|Updated: 13 hours ago
GILMAN, Wis. (WSAW) - The Taylor County Sherrif’s Office is investigating an armed robbery in Gilman.
The incident occurred at the Cenex gas station. According to a press release, authorities are currently looking for the suspect. They say the public is not in danger.
This is an active investigation. The sheriff’s office says more details will be released as soon as possible.
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Updated July 14, 2023 at 12:36 PM ET
President Biden is starting his reelection campaign with tens of millions of dollars in the bank, dwarfing second-quarter fundraising totals already announced by the campaigns of former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
According to an announcement from the campaign ahead of a Federal Elections Commission reporting deadline this weekend, the Biden-Harris campaign, Democratic National Committee and their joint fundraising committees combined to raise $72 million from April to the end of June. They have $77 million cash on hand.
Because Biden is the incumbent president and his campaign is fully integrated with the DNC, the combined fundraising total represents all the funds the reelect could draw upon.
Despite higher donation limits this election cycle, these totals are actually lower than the numbers posted by former Presidents Barack Obama and Trump at a similar point in their campaigns. Trump and the Republican National Committee raised $105 million in the second quarter of 2019, while Obama and the DNC raised $86 million.
A Biden campaign official pointed out Obama got into the race in early April in 2011, while Biden waited until late April, so on a per-day-of-campaign basis Biden raised slightly more. The official also argued that Biden isn't running against the Obama of 2011 or the Trump of 2019.
For Republican candidates in this cycle, there is a competitive primary, so Republican National Committee fundraising totals don't help them yet.
Earlier this month, the Trump campaign announced the former president and his affiliated political action committee had raised more than $35 million in the second quarter.
DeSantis' campaign said he had brought in $20 million since launching his candidacy in late June. DeSantis' super PAC, Never Back Down, says it has raised $130 million since early March. While super PACs work in support of the candidate, they can't coordinate with them.
In an online message shared with small-dollar donors via email and text, Biden-Harris campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez touted Biden's advantage over the GOP field.
"While Republicans are burning through resources in a divisive primary focused on who can take the most extreme MAGA positions, we are significantly outraising every single one of them — because our team's strength is our grassroots supporters," Chávez Rodríguez said.
More details will be available this weekend when campaigns file detailed reports with the FEC. What they release in advance of that reporting deadline tends to accentuate the data points that the campaign wants people to focus on.
In the case of the Biden campaign, they point to donations coming from nearly 400,000 donors, with an average donation of $39. A lower average donation shows grassroots enthusiasm and not just the support of deep-pocketed mega-donors. At this point in 2011, the Obama reelect had donations from more than 550,000 individuals.
The Biden campaign says 30% of its donations this past quarter came from new donors, who didn't give Biden money in 2020.
"There's only one word: blockbuster," said Jeffrey Katzenberg, a Biden campaign co-chair, who knows a thing or two about blockbusters. He co-founded the movie studio DreamWorks and now leads WndrCo.
Katzenberg hasn't hosted a fundraiser for Biden yet this election cycle, though he has attended several high-dollar fundraisers with the president in his role as campaign co-chair.
As the quarter was nearing its end, some donors expressed concern to journalists that Biden's fundraising numbers would be weak and that his events weren't well attended. In the end, though, Katzenberg told NPR that Biden raised more than $10 million in two days of attending fundraisers in San Francisco in June.
"These numbers are just, you know, they're undeniable," said Katzenberg. "No one has ever raised more money faster, more diversely than President Biden. So to the doubters and the naysayers, numbers speak, numbers talk."
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The demands for climate reparations from wealthy countries are so absurd, so unscientific, and so offensive to natural justice that it is difficult to know where the criticism should begin.
The argument is that, since countries that industrialized earlier produced a lot of carbon a hundred years ago, they now owe a debt to poorer states. Naturally, this argument appeals to assorted Marxists, anti-colonialists and shakedown artists, and COP27 has been dominated by insolent demands for well-run states to pony up.
Some, including Austria, Belgium and Denmark, have capitulated. No doubt others will follow. These days, once something is framed as poor-versus-rich or darker-skinned-versus-lighter-skinned or ex-colony-versus-ex-colonizer, the pressure becomes irresistible. Nevertheless, it is worth running through the absurdities in play.
First, the claims are rooted in indignation rather than science. For example, Pakistan, which leads the G-77 group of poorer states and is leading the campaign, claims that its floods are a product of climate change. But might Pakistan look a little closer to home? Although Europe and North America have seen significant reforestation over the past half-century, Pakistan has gone in the other direction. A third of its landmass was forest when it became independent in 1947. Now, it is one-twentieth, and the rains run straight off the mountains into silted-up reservoirs that then overflow, whence the floods.
But never mind all that — blame the colonialists, eh?
Second, there is the utter refusal to acknowledge what wealthier countries are already doing. I don’t just mean in terms of making direct monetary transfers — though, sticking with Pakistan for a moment, Britain has been borrowing around $400 million a year to give to that country, which pleads poverty while funding a nuclear weapons program. No, I mean in terms of impoverishing themselves through drastic action on carbon emissions. Britain has cut its carbon dioxide production by nearly half since 1990, largely by closing down its coal mines. Pakistan has more than 100 coal mines in operation.
But, again, blame the colonialists, eh?
Third, there is the ingratitude. One of the things I used to resent about the European Parliament was the entitled and hectoring way in which representatives of poorer countries (they were usually very rich people) would call for bigger transfers. “This is unacceptable,” they would say of whatever offer the Brits, the Dutch or the Germans put on the table. Fine, I’d think, don’t accept it, then. Yet the numbers only ever got bigger. Look, I’m sorry to be blunt about this, but a 2-degree rise in temperature is far less menacing for Britain or Canada than it is for most countries. The least-threatened countries are doing the heaviest lifting by far. But don’t expect any gratitude.
Fourth, there is the implication that industrialization, the miracle that released our species from 10,000 years of backbreaking labor, is regrettable. In truth, as well as giving us longer, healthier and freer lives, the wealth released over the past 200 years of specialization and exchange is cleaning up the environment. The air and water are purer in London than in Lahore because GDP is higher. For the same reason, natural disasters have become far less lethal. The 1950 floods in Pakistan killed many more people than this year’s, because they hit a poorer country.
Fifth, there is the related assumption that rich countries owe their wealth to exploitation, that one nation’s gain must mean another’s loss. This is palpable nonsense. The enrichment of a country, other things being equal, is good news for all of its trading partners. And countries get wealthy not by conquering others (a process that is always expensive) but by pursuing the right policies, such as secure property rights, low taxes, independent courts, light regulations and free trade. If you tax successful countries to pay unsuccessful ones, you will end up with fewer of the former and more of the latter.
Sixth, and most preposterously, there is the ugly collectivism that lurks behind every shakedown attempt, from the return of artworks to slavery reparations. Our criminal justice system, like every Abrahamic religion, is based on the idea that we are individually responsible for our actions. But when it comes to these scams, we are all suddenly defined by ancestry or skin color.
It is precisely because Western nations broke out of that dispensation that they became rich in the first place. And it was by copying their individualist outlook that other countries were able to catch them up. Far from complaining about industrialization, the rest of the world should thank us for having developed capitalism, and they should seek to emulate it.
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Annual list recognizes excellence in clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience, and financial health
TAMPA, Fla., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tampa General Hospital is the only Major Teaching Hospital in Florida – and one of only 15 in the country – to be named to the 2022 Fortune/Merative (formerly IBM Watson Health) 100 Top Hospitals® list.
Tampa General was not only ranked among the top 15 Major Teaching Hospitals nationally, but it was also one of 25 hospitals selected by Fortune/Merative to receive the 2022 Everest Award, which honors hospitals that have demonstrated both the highest current performance and the fastest long-term improvement.
The Everest Award recognizes the boards, executives and medical staff leaders at hospitals who developed and executed the strategies that drove the highest rates of improvement, resulting in the highest performance in the U.S. at the end of five years.
"We are proud of this recognition, as it not only reflects our team members' and physicians' commitment to patient safety, experience and clinical outcomes, but also emphasizes Tampa General's focus on designing the future of healthcare," said John Couris, Tampa General's President and CEO. "We are committed to enhancing the quality of healthcare while making it more accessible and affordable to everyone. As a leading academic medical center in the United States, we are also committed to providing world class training to the next generation of doctors, nurses, and specialists, as well as transforming the way our hospital operates to provide better care for our patients in the future."
Merative, a data, analytics and technology partner for the health industry, identified the nation's top hospitals through a rigorous evaluation of 2,650 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals in the U.S. This recognition highlights Tampa General's ongoing commitment to prioritizing patient-centered care and is based on its results of key clinical and operational performance indicators. These include survival rates, patient complications, healthcare associated infections, 30-day mortality and 30-day hospital-wide readmission rates, length of stay, throughput in emergency departments, inpatient expenses, profitability and ratings from patients.
The Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list also incorporates a community health measure into its ranking process. For this measure, hospitals were surveyed across three components: 1) assessing hospital contributions to community health as a provider of critical services for community health and preventive care; 2) identifying ways that hospitals contribute to community health as a community partner teaming up with local organizations to implement critical programs; and 3) focusing on ways that hospitals promote community health through their practices as anchor institutions supporting local economic and social progress. The community health measure is weighted equally with other ranking measures.
Tampa General recently activated a major, multi-year community health and wellness initiative, TampaWell, in partnership with the City of Tampa. TampaWell is focused on engaging the entire community in preventative health efforts and creating a unique and holistic wellness ecosystem for residents. The partnership will focus on three initiatives in 2022 – routinely prescribing exercise and healthy food as medicine, enhancing fitness trails and parks in the downtown and adjacent areas, and developing a community garden and food pantry in East Tampa. Tampa General is dedicated to empowering communities and transforming lives, and TampaWell is an embodiment of that.
Tampa General is affiliated with the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and serves as the primary teaching hospital for the university. Over 300 residents and fellows are assigned to Tampa General for specialty training in areas ranging from general internal medicine to neurosurgery.
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Tampa General Hospital, a 1,041-bed, not-for-profit, academic medical center, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2021-22 Best Hospitals, and one of the top four hospitals in Florida, with five specialties ranking among the best programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic medical center's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious 2021 Forbes magazine rankings – America's Best Employers by State, third out of 100 Florida companies and first among health care and social organizations, and 13th nationally in America's Best Employers for Women. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2020, provided a net community benefit worth more than $182.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Brandon Healthplex, TGH Virtual Health, and 19 outpatient Radiology Centers. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics, and they can even receive home visits in select areas through TGH Urgent Care at Home, powered by Fast Track. As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
The Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list is determined using independent and objective research to analyze hospital performance. Organizations do not apply or pay for this honor or pay to promote their award. Award-winning hospitals serve as a model of excellence for the industry.
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — British Open champion Cameron Smith pulled out of the BMW Championship on Monday with what his manager described as a “hip discomfort” that Smith had been feeling the last few months.
Smith is No. 3 in the FedEx Cup, assured of a spot in the Tour Championship next week in Atlanta, though the withdrawal will mean he starts at least three shots behind when the FedEx Cup finale begin.
“He has been dealing with some on and off hip discomfort for several months and thought it best he rest this week in his pursuit of the FedEx Cup,” Bud Martin, his agent at Wasserman, said in a statement.
The Australian, who turns 29 this week, was the center of attention last week in Memphis, Tennessee, that went beyond his golf.
First, The Daily Telegraph reported Smith was joining Saudi-funded LIV Golf after the FedEx Cup playoffs, which Smith again chose not to discuss. The report came on the same day a federal judge in California ruled against three LIV Golf players seeking a temporary restraining order to let them compete in the tour’s postseason.
Then, Smith trailed by two shots after the third round and needed to win to reach No. 1 in the world ranking. But a little more than an hour before his start to the final round, Smith was penalized two shots for playing a shot after a penalty drop when the ball was still touching the hazard line.
Smith confirmed the ball was touching the line. The timing was awkward because the violation came a day later than it could have.
Smith was playing for the first time since his 64 on the final day at St. Andrews to win his first major. He told Golf Digest his hip can act up in soft conditions. The TPC Southwind was pounded by rain early in the week.
“My hip flared up yesterday. It seems to happen when there’s softer fairways like there were earlier in the week,” Smith told Golf Digest. ”I’ve had a couple of MRIs around it, and I will check with my team to see if we need another one.”
He plans to be at East Lake next week in the chase for the $18 million prize for winning the FedEx Cup.
The top seed start the Tour Championship at 10-under par and a two-shot lead. The No. 3 seed starts at 7-under par, the No. 4 seed is at 6 under and the No. 5 seed starts five shots behind.
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Alexandria repairs vandalized bathrooms at Johnny Downs
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - On the evening of Sunday, June, 12, the bathrooms at the soccer fields at the Johnny Downs Sports Complex in Alexandria were vandalized.
The vandals destroyed sinks, mirrors and paper towel dispensers and threw garbage all over the place. Investigators with the Alexandria Police Department said the doors to the restrooms were left unlocked, which gave the vandals access to the building.
Johnny Downs recently underwent a nearly $7 million renovation project completed last July after an EF-3 tornado heavily damaged the facility back in December of 2019. The sports complex is now known to be one of the best in the state.
Police suspect the restroom vandals are juveniles and are asking the public to help identify them.
“We are definitely asking the public if they have seen anything or heard anything or they find out something later, even if it is a day or two later or a month from now, we do not care the timeline. If they can find out something for us, we would greatly appreciate it,” said Lt. Lane Windham with the Alexandria Police Department. “That is something we are not going to put up with. That complex was built for the community, and the last thing we want is people going out there and tearing it up.”
District 5 Alexandria City Councilman Chuck Fowler said vandalism similar to this incident is one of the reasons the City has to lock public parks.
“Things like this happen, over and over again in our parks all over town. Bathrooms are vandalized, press boxes are vandalized whatever, and it is just a fact. We try to protect them as best as we can but you can not have a guard out there 24 hours a day,” said Fowler.
Since the incident, the damages have been repaired, including replacing the broken sink - something Fowler commends the city for making quick work of.
“My solutes to the public works people who go out there and do those types of things,” he said. “We have a carpenter on staff, plumbers on staff and people who know what they are doing. It is a great thing that we are able to do that. It is a horrible thing that it is necessary to do it.”
If anyone has information regarding the vandalism, you are asked to contact the Alexandria Police Department - (318) 449-5099.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A racist ideology seeping from the Internet’s fringes into the mainstream is being investigated as a motivating factor in the supermarket shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York. Most of the victims were Black.
Ideas from “The Great Replacement Theory” filled a racist manifesto supposedly posted online by the white 18-year-old man accused of targeting Black people in Saturday’s rampage. Authorities were still working to confirm its authenticity.
Certainly, there was no mistaking the racist intent of the shooter.
WHAT IS THE GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY?
Simply put, it says there’s a conspiracy afoot to diminish the influence of white people.
Believers say this goal is being achieved both through immigration of nonwhite people into societies that have largely been dominated by white people, as well as through simple demographics, with white people having lower birth rates than others.
The theory’s more racist adherents believe Jews are behind the so-called replacement conspiracy. When white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, their chants included “you will not replace us” and “Jews will not replace us.”
A more mainstream view in the U.S. suggests Democrats are encouraging immigration from Latin America so more like-minded potential voters replace “traditional” Americans, said Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.
WHAT ARE ITS ROOTS?
How long has racism existed? Broadly speaking, its roots are that deep. In the U.S., you can point to efforts to intimidate and discourage Black people from voting — from replacing white voters at the polls — that date to the post-Civil War era.
In the modern era, most experts point to two influential books. “The Turner Diaries,” a 1978 novel written by William Luther Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, is about a violent revolution in the United States with a race war that leads to the extermination of nonwhites.
The FBI called it a “bible of the racist right,” said Kurt Braddock, an American University professor and a researcher at the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab.
A 2012 book by Frenchman Renaud Camus, about Europe being invaded by Black and brown immigrants from Africa, was called “Le Grand Remplacement” and a name was born.
WHO ARE ITS ADHERENTS?
To some of the more extreme believers, certain white supremacist mass killers — in Norway in 2011, two New Zealand mosques in 2019, a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a Black church in South Carolina — are considered saints, Pitcavage said.
Those “accelerationist white supremacists” believe small societal changes won’t achieve much, so the only option is tearing down society, he said.
The Buffalo shooter’s alleged diatribe and some of his apparent methods indicate he closely studied the New Zealand shooter, particularly the effort to livestream his rampage. He reportedly inscribed the number 14 on his gun, which Pitcavage said is shorthand for a 14-word white supremacist slogan.
A “manifesto” by the New Zealand shooter was widely spread online. If the message from the Buffalo shooter proves authentic, it seems designed to also spread his philosophy and methods to a large audience.
IS THE THEORY MAKING WIDER INROADS?
While more extreme forms of racism are clearly scorned, many experts are concerned about a mainstreaming of some views.
In a poll released last week, The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 1 in 3 Americans believe an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gain.
On a regular basis, many adherents to the more extreme versions of The Great Replacement Theory converse through encrypted apps online and tend to be careful. They know they’re being watched.
“They are very clever,” Braddock said. “They don’t make overt calls to arms.”
WHO’S TALKING ABOUT REPLACEMENT?
In particular, Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ most popular personality, has pushed false but more politically palatable views that are seen as sympathetic by some white people who are concerned about a loss of power.
“I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World,” he said on his show last year. “But they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually, let’s just say it. That’s true.”
A study of five years’ worth of Carlson’s show by The New York Times found 400 instances where he talked about Democratic politicians and others seeking to force demographic change through immigration.
Fox News pointed to repeated statements that Carlson has made denouncing political violence of all kinds.
The attention paid by many Republican politicians to what they see as a leaky southern border along the United States has been interpreted, at least by some, as a nod to the concern of white people who worry about being “replaced.”
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik’s campaign committee was criticized last year for an advertisement that said “radical Democrats” were planning a “permanent election insurrection” by granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants who would create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.
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KALISPELL - A man has been charged with two counts of murder for the deaths of two Bigfork residents in October of 2022.
Prosecutors have charged Derrick James Jackson with the murders of 65-year-old Stanley Allen Grotberg and 62-year-old Tricia Lynn Demotts at their home in Bigfork.
Jackson has been charged with two counts of deliberate homicide and one count each of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and criminal possession of dangerous drugs.
According to charging documents, Flathead County Sheriff deputies took Jackson into custody on Oct. 28, 2022, after numerous reports of an armed man breaking into homes on Esteban Lane in Bigfork.
Deputies found Jackson holding a power drill on the Esteban Lane property. He told deputies he was looking for relatives in the area but couldn't say why he was in that specific area.
A search found a loaded magazine for a Smith and Wesson .40 caliber pistol and a prescription bottle with Grotberg's name on it.
Deputies said in charging documents they returned to Esteban lane to track down Grotberg.
They found Grotberg's vehicle in the driveway and saw lights on in the home, but no one answered the door.
Deputies then discovered the bodies of Grotberg and Demotts in a bedroom, surrounded by blood and .40 caliber casings.
An autopsy determined both people died after being shot in the head.
Throughout the investigation, Jackson told detectives he lived with Grotberg and Demotts but declined to speak further with authorities.
Jackson is currently being held in the Flathead County Detention Center on $1.5 million bond.
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CITIZENS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. REPORTS UNAUDITED SECOND QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL RESULTS
Published: Jul. 21, 2022 at 3:48 PM MST|Updated: 57 minutes ago
MANSFIELD, Pa., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizens Financial Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: CZFS), parent company of First Citizens Community Bank, released today its unaudited consolidated financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Highlights
- During the second quarter, the Company uplisted to the Nasdaq capital market.
- Net loan growth for the quarter was $116.7 million and for the year was $153.6 million or 21.6% on an annualized basis.
- Net income was $13.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022, which is 9.7% less than the net income for 2021's comparable period. The decrease was due to life insurance proceeds received in the first quarter of 2021 due to the passing of two former employees and decreased gains on loans sold due to the rise in mortgage rates in 2022. The effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was 17.8% compared to 16.9% in the comparable period in 2021, with the increase being due to life insurance proceeds being exempt from taxable income.
- Net income was $6.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, which is 3.8% higher than the net income for 2021's comparable period. The effective tax rate for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was 17.7% compared to 17.9% in the comparable period in 2021.
- Net interest income before the provision for loan losses was $34.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022, an increase of $1.3 million, or 4.1%, over the same period a year ago. Amortization associated with PPP loans was $902,000 less in 2022 than 2021.
- Non-performing assets decreased $2,580,000 since June 30, 2021 and totaled $8,362,000 as of June 30, 2022, which is $480,000 less than the balance at December 31, 2021. As a percent of loans, non-performing assets totaled 0.52%, 0.61% and 0.77% as of June 30, 2022, December 31, 2021 and June 30, 2021.
- Return on average equity for the three and six months (annualized) ended June 30, 2022 was 12.49% and 12.48% compared to 13.19% and 15.19% for the three and six months (annualized) ended June 30, 2021.
- Return on average tangible equity for the three and six months (annualized) ended June 30, 2022 was 14.68% and 14.69% compared to 15.77% and 18.22% for the three and six months (annualized) ended June 30, 2021 (non-GAAP). (1)
- Return on average assets for the three and six months (annualized) ended June 30, 2022 was 1.25% for both periods compared to 1.32% and 1.54% for the three and six months (annualized) ended June 30, 2021.
- If the life insurance proceeds on a former employees are excluded, the return on average equity and average assets would be 14.03% and 1.42%, respectively, for six months (annualized) ended June 30, 2021 (non-GAAP). (1)
Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 Compared to 2021
- For the six months ended June 30, 2022, net income totaled $13,641,000 which compares to net income of $15,110,000 for the first six months of 2021, a decrease of $1,469,000 or 9.7%. Basic earnings per share of $3.43 for the first six months of 2022 compares to $3.79 for the first six months last year. Annualized return on equity for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 was 12.48% and 15.19%, while annualized return on assets was 1.25% and 1.54%, respectively, with ratios in 2021 benefitting from life insurance proceeds on two former employees. If the activity associated with the passing of the former employees in 2021 are excluded, basic earnings per share in 2021 would have been $3.42 compared to $3.43 for the first six months of 2022 (non-GAAP) (1).
- Net interest income before the provision for loan loss for the six months ended June 30, 2022 totaled $33,991,000 compared to $32,653,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2021, resulting in an increase of $1,338,000, or 4.1%. Amortization on PPP loans decreased $902,000 during 2022 compared to 2021. Average interest earning assets increased $211.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to the same period last year, as a result of growth in investments and organic loan growth funded by deposit growth and borrowings. Average loans increased $79.8 million while average investment securities increased $151.0 million. The yield on interest earning assets decreased 32 basis points to 3.67%, while the cost of interest-bearing liabilities decreased 12 basis points to 0.41%. The decrease in amortization on PPP loans accounts for 9 bps of the decrease in margin and the yield on interest earning assets. A large component of the remaining decrease is due to the percentage of interest earning assets in investments in 2022 that were purchased during a lower interest rate environment.
- The provision for loan losses for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $700,000, a $450,000 decrease to the comparable period in 2021. The decrease in the provision is attributable to the improved credit metrics of the loan portfolio in comparison to June 30, 2021 and less impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, both of which helped offset the impact of the organic loan growth experienced.
- Total non-interest income was $4,735,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2022, which is $2,206,000 less than the non-interest income of $6,941,000 for the same period last year. The primary drivers were the earnings of bank owned life insurance, which decreased $1,059,000 as the result of the passing of two former employees in 2021, gains on loans sold which decreased $668,000 due to a decrease in refinancing activity with the rise in rates that occurred in the first half of 2022, a loss on equity securities of $395,000 as a result of market performance when comparing 2022 to 2021. Other income decreased $478,000 due to fee income on derivative transactions for customers recorded in 2021. There were no corresponding fees in 2022.
- Total non-interest expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2022 totaled $21,431,000 compared to $20,267,000 for the same period last year, which is an increase of $1,164,000. Salary and benefit costs increased $1,287,000 due to an addition 12.4 FTEs and merit increases for 2022. Additionally, salary and benefit costs for 2021 benefitted from a $400,000 reduction in deferred compensation due to the passing of a former executive in the first quarter of 2021. The decrease in ORE expenses of $500,000 is due to gains on the sale of ORE properties that totaled $491,000, compared to minimal gains in 2021.
- The provision for income taxes decreased $113,000 when comparing the six months ended June 30, 2022 to the same period in 2021 as a result of a decrease in income before income tax of $1,582,000. The effective tax rate was 17.8% and 16.9% for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively. It should be noted the earnings on bank owned life insurance are exempt from Federal income tax and accounts for the difference in tax rates between 2021 and 2022.
Second Quarter of 2022 Compared to the Second Quarter of 2021
- For the three months ended June 30, 2022, net income totaled $6,901,000 which compares to net income of $6,647,000 for the comparable period of 2021, an increase of $254,000 or 3.8%. Basic earnings per share of $1.74 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compares to $1.67 for the 2021 comparable period. Annualized return on equity for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 was 12.49% and 13.19%, while annualized return on assets was 1.25% and 1.32%, respectively.
- Net interest income before the provision for loan losses for the three months ended June 30, 2022 totaled $17,729,000 compared to $16,212,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021, resulting in an increase of $1,517,000. Average interest earning assets increased $192.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to the same period last year as a result of the organic loan and deposit growth. Average loans increased $107.9 million while average investment securities increased $148.7 million and average interest bearing cash holdings decreased $61.4 million. The tax effected net interest margin for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was 3.43% compared to 3.46% for the same period last year. The margin was impacted by the decrease in the average yield on interest earning assets of 10 basis points to 3.75% of which 5 basis points was due to $227,000 of decreased amortization on PPP loans.
- The provision for loan losses for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $450,000, a $50,000 decrease to the comparable period in 2021. The decrease in the provision is attributable to the solid credit metrics of the loan portfolio and less impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy.
- Total non-interest income was $2,304,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022, which is $402,000 less than the comparable period last year. The primary drivers were gains on loans sold which decreased $270,000 due to a decrease in refinancing activity with the rise in rates that occurred in 2022, and a loss on equity securities of $163,000 as a result of market performance when comparing 2022 to 2021. Other income decreased $273,000 due to fee income on derivative transactions for customers recorded in 2021. There were no corresponding fees in 2022. Service charges increased $161,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to the same period in 2021.
- Total non-interest expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2022 totaled $11,200,000 compared to $10,320,000 for the same period last year, which is an increase of $880,000, or 8.5%. Salary and benefit costs increased $637,000 due to an addition 17.4 FTEs and merit increases for 2022.
- The provision for income taxes increased $31,000 when comparing the three months ended June 30, 2022 to the same period in 2021 as a result of an increase in income before income tax of $285,000. The effective tax rate was 17.7% and 17.9% for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Balance Sheet and Other Information:
- At June 30, 2022, total assets were $2.21 billion compared to $2.14 billion at December 31, 2021 and $2.00 billion at June 30, 2021. The loan to deposit ratio as of June 30, 2022 was 84.92% compared to 78.51% as of December 31, 2021 and 84.11% as of June 30, 2021.
- Available for sale securities of $462.9 million at June 30, 2022 increased $50.5 million from December 31, 2021 and $93.9 million from June 30, 2021. The yield on the investment portfolio decreased from 2.07% to 1.77% on a tax equivalent basis due to the amount of securities purchased in 2020 and 2021, which was a low rate environment due to the pandemic. Purchases made in the first half of 2022 have been at higher rates than those made in 2020 and 2021.
- Net loans as of June 30, 2022 totaled $1.58 billion and increased $153.6 million from December 31, 2021, which is 21.6% on an annualized basis. In comparison to June 30, 2021, net loans have grown $179.6 million, or 12.8%, and, if PPP loans are excluded, loans increased $202.8 million or 14.8%.
- The allowance for loan losses totaled $17,570,000 at June 30, 2022 which is an increase of $266,000 from December 31, 2021. The increase is due to recording a provision for loan losses of $700,000 and recoveries of $17,000, offset by charge-offs of $451,000. The allowance as a percent of total loans was 1.10% as of June 30, 2022 and 1.20% as of December 31, 2021.
- Deposits increased $42.6 million from December 31, 2021, to $1.88 billion at June 30, 2022, primarily due to customers holding more cash and new customer relationships in the Delaware market.
- Borrowings increased $36.6 million from December 31, 2021 to $110.5 million at June 30, 2022 to fund organic loan growth.
- Stockholders' equity totaled $195.0 million at June 30, 2022, compared to $212.5 million at December 31, 2021, a decrease of $17.5 million. Excluding accumulated other comprehensive loss (AOCI), stockholders equity increased $8.9 million and totals $221.6 million. The increase in stockholders equity, excluding AOCI, was attributable to net income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 totaling $13.6 million, offset by cash dividends for the first two quarters of 2022 totaling $3.8 million and net treasury stock activity of $897,000. As a result of increases in market interest rates impacting the fair value of investment securities, the unrealized loss on available for sale investment securities, net of tax, increased $29.2 million from December 31, 2021.
Dividend Declared
On May 31, 2022, the Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.475 per share, which was paid on June 24, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 10, 2022. This quarterly cash dividend is an increase of 3.20% over the regular cash dividend of $0.456 per share declared one year ago, as adjusted for the 1% stock dividend declared in June 2022. The Board declared a 1% stock dividend, payable on June 24, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 10, 2022.
Citizens Financial Services, Inc. has nearly 1,900 shareholders, the majority of whom reside in markets where its offices are located.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulip lovers have a new variety to choose from and it’s named for Jill Biden.
The first lady accepted her “Jill Biden” tulip from André Haspels, ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United States, during a ceremony at his official residence on Wednesday. The flower is reddish orange with fringed petals.
Biden delivered a toast and said she was honored to participate in the tradition.
“In this happy time, let these tulips’ dazzling orange be a reminder of the many springs our nations have shared, and be a beacon for the friendships we continue to strengthen today,” she said, according to her office.
The Dutch have named tulips after seven U.S. first ladies, starting in the late 1800s with Frances Folsom Cleveland, the wife of President Grover Cleveland.
Most recently, President George W. Bush’s wife, Laura, accepted her tulip in 2004.
“It was a very special ceremony because it doesn’t happen every day,” Haspels told The Associated Press in a telephone interview after the presentation.
Jill Biden is known to enjoy freshly cut flowers; she has a flower “cutting” garden at the White House.
The Dutch fondness for tulips dates to 1594, when botanist Carolus Clusius planted tulip bulbs in the garden at the University of Leiden, Haspels said. Since then, the Dutch have mastered the art of cultivating and growing many varieties of tulips.
The country also exports more than 450 million tulip bulbs to the U.S. annually, he said.
The tulip presentation ceremony was part of a Dutch Tulip Days celebration at the ambassador’s residence featuring tulips and bicycles, two things his country’s people are known for.
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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are requesting documents that include communications between the Biden administration and social media companies as part of the panel’s investigation into what the GOP says were efforts to “suppress free speech and censor content online.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday penned a letter to Brian Boynton, the principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Division, requesting that the Justice Department turn over documents that it provided in an earlier lawsuit filed by GOP-led states involving purported free-speech violations.
The Hill obtained a copy of the letter, which requests that the materials are handed over by Feb. 22.
“The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of the Executive Branch’s efforts to sidestep the First Amendment by coercing and coordinating with private companies, including social media platforms, to suppress free speech and censor content online,” Jordan wrote.
“As part of our oversight, we write to request a discrete set of documents and information that the Department of Justice has produced as part of discovery in federal litigation over the same subject matter,” he added.
The attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri filed a lawsuit against President Biden and other administration officials in May for “allegedly working” with social media companies — including Meta, Twitter and Youtube — to censor and suppress free speech on topics such as COVID-19 and election integrity.
The lawsuit — brought by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) and then-Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) — named Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Heath and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, among others. It lists a number of stories the Republicans say were suppressed on social media, including the Hunter Biden laptop story and information about the origins of COVID-19.
Last month, Landry released a thread of emails from April 2021 between White House employees and Facebook discussing a video posted by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson which, according to Landry, criticized the COVID-19 vaccine. In the communications, then-White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Andy Slavitt asked about Carlson’s video, and White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty questioned why it did not violate the platform’s regulations.
Landry zeroed in on an email from a Facebook representative, whose email address is redacted, that said “the video received 50% demotion for seven days while in the queue to be fact checked, and will continue to be demoted even though it was not ultimately fact checked.”
Jordan is now requesting that the Justice Department produce the documents it has provided in the Missouri and Louisiana litigation.
“These documents appear to reveal that the Executive Branch repeatedly pressured social media platforms to censor certain viewpoints,” Jordan wrote. “Congress has an important interest in protecting and advancing fundamental free speech principles, including by examining how the Executive Branch coordinates with or coerces private actors to suppress First Amendment-protected speech.”
“As Congress continues to examine how to best protect Americans’ fundamental freedoms, the documents discovered and produced during the Missouri v. Biden litigation are necessary to assist Congress in understanding the problem and evaluating potential legislative reforms,” he added.
The Hill reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
Jordan’s letter is the latest example of increased scrutiny House Republicans are placing on the suppression of information on social media platforms. On Wednesday, the same day Jordan sent his letter, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing that looked into Twitter’s decisions regarding a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden.
It comes after Republicans have claimed that the social media company suppressed circulation of the story for political purposes in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election. | https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/jim-jordan-requests-communications-between-biden-administration-social-media-companies/ | 2023-02-08 20:51:54 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/jim-jordan-requests-communications-between-biden-administration-social-media-companies/ |
The 24th Banking Technology Awards recognizes excellence and innovation in the use of IT in financial services worldwide, and the people who make it happen.
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Moxo was named a finalist for the category of "Workflow Tech of the Future" at the 2023 Banking Tech Awards by FinTech Futures.
"We are very proud of our collaboration with financial institutions to deliver digital interaction workflows for accelerating business with clients, partners and vendors," said Leena Iyar, Chief Brand Officer of Moxo. "Moxo's digital interaction workspaces support the entire business lifecycle from onboarding to account servicing - and significantly improve the efficiency, privacy, and experience of completing transactions."
Moxo was selected as a finalist in the "Workflow Tech of the Future" category. A full listing of the 2023 Banking Tech Award finalists can be found here.
Moxo's platform has been built over several years in partnership with some of the world's leading financial institutions. Moxo has powered digital client interaction processes for global financial organizations such as Standard Chartered, Citibank, MUFG, Van Lanschot, and Raiffeisen Bank International. The solution drives operational efficiency for traditionally manual & expensive processes across the client lifecycle. By leveraging Moxo's digital interaction workspaces, banks can provide customers with a secure, convenient experience across all digital touch-points — while managing their distributed organization.
To learn more about Moxo, visit https://www.moxo.com/.
About Moxo
Control the chaos of managing client business with Moxo. Streamline external projects with digital interaction workflows — from account acquisition, to onboarding, and servicing. Coordinate with customers, vendors, and partners to achieve joint deliverables, track milestones, exchange documents, gather approvals, and more.
Moxo employs a multi-layered security framework that combines a robust back-end infrastructure, end-to-end data security, network protections, access controls, and a full suite of security policies.
Our team has a rich history of pioneering in the engagement space: Moxo's co-founder and CEO, Subrah Iyar, was the co-founder and CEO of Webex, and Moxo's co-founder and CTO, Stanley Huang, held senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems and WebEx. To learn more, visit moxo.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
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(NewsNation) — Chris Cuomo returns to primetime television with the debut of “CUOMO,” his new talk show on NewsNation, starting 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on Monday.
Cuomo’s guests in the show’s premiere week include Bill Maher, Dan Rather, Stephen A. Smith, Andrew Yang, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Tulsi Gabbard and Whoopi Goldberg.
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“CUOMO”
Maher, host of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” will join Cuomo as his first guest Monday night. Maher and Cuomo will discuss politics from a comedian’s perspective, with Maher explaining how he chooses his comedic targets and why.
In a preview of tonight’s episode, Maher says he found it easier to target right-wing politicians in the past. But now, it’s easier to target both parties. He explains that there is now an “equivalent of insanity” with members of both parties.
Maher will also discuss his views on the word “conservative.”
“We have to get over this hatred of the other side because their politics are different,” Maher says.
He will explain what a “good-as-it-gets Republican” is and why those politicians have gained respect from the other side of their political party.
“You’re not going to get them to agree with you on most things,” Maher says. “If you went down a list of the things Liz Cheney believes, most liberals would be booing her out of the room, but she gets cheers now because of that one issue — which is the most fundamental issue right now — he did the right thing.”
That key issue refers to whether former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election against President Joe Biden.
Cuomo, an award-winning broadcast anchor and attorney, announced in July he would join NewsNation. He told NewsNation’s Dan Abrams he saw a need for more down-the-middle political coverage during his break from national TV.
“We need this right now because this binary system is killing us. And the media is trapped in it very often. You can’t be criticizing the game that you are a part of,” Cuomo said.
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Federal investigators said Friday they have issued subpoenas to force the pilots of an American Airlines jet to sit for recorded interviews about a close call on a runway at New York’s Kennedy Airport last month.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it attempted to interview the crew members three times, but a union representative said the pilots refused to have their statements recorded.
“NTSB has determined that this investigation requires that the flight crew interviews be audio recorded and transcribed by a court reporter to ensure the highest degree of accuracy, completeness, and efficiency,” the agency said in a preliminary report. “As a result of the flight crew’s repeated unwillingness to proceed with a recorded interview, subpoenas for their testimony have been issued.”
The NTSB also won’t hear any conversation that took place among the three pilots in the cockpit during the incident — in some cases, a very valuable investigative tool. The recording was taped over when the crew took off for London shortly after the close call.
The NTSB said the American Airlines Boeing 777 crossed an active runway on Jan. 13 without approval from air traffic controllers, and that led to a close call with a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 that was taking off on the same runway.
Disaster was averted when an air traffic controller, using an expletive, urgently told pilots of the Delta jet to stop their takeoff. Audio recordings show that the controller immediately communicated the severity of the situation to the American Airlines crew.
The pilots have not been identified. The union that advised them not to sit for interviews said it objects that NTSB now records such interviews instead of merely taking notes, which the union says is accurate enough.
“NTSB investigations are intended to be fact-finding proceedings with no adverse parties. We do not believe that this should be an adversarial issue,” the Allied Pilots Association said in a statement.
The union said that changing the interviews from notes to recordings “discourages otherwise cooperative witnesses from participating in the fact-finding process” and runs against the purpose of promoting safety.
American, which is based in Fort Worth, Texas, said it was cooperating with the NTSB. It declined to say whether the pilots involved in the incident are still flying.
The American crew took off shortly after the nighttime incident and completed its scheduled flight to London. The Delta pilots returned their plane to the gate. Delta put up passengers overnight, and the plane left the next morning for the Dominican Republic.
The cockpit voice recordings in both planes were lost as a result. The devices typically capture a two-hour loop before being recorded over.
The NTSB said an air traffic controller at JFK was alerted to the danger of the American jet crossing the wrong runway by a surveillance system that lets controllers track the movement of planes and vehicles on the ground.
The board said the American Airlines Boeing 777 and the Delta Boeing 737 were separated by about 1,400 feet at the closest point — a bit farther apart than previously reported.
Another close call occurred last weekend at the airport in Austin, Texas, when a FedEx cargo plane was cleared to land on the same runway from which a Southwest Airlines plane was taking off. The FedEx pilots were able to abort their landing and avoid a collision. The NTSB is also investigating that incident. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/safety-investigators-subpoena-pilots-over-close-call-at-jfk/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-02-10 22:02:30 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/safety-investigators-subpoena-pilots-over-close-call-at-jfk/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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(The Hill) — If you ever wanted to spend a long weekend in Pittsburgh, now may be the time.
Pittsburgh ranks as one of America’s coolest cities in midsummer, with an enviable average July temperature of 73.2 degrees, according to federal weather data.
Much of the nation is enduring a dangerous heat wave, breaking records across the Southwest. The high temperature in Phoenix has reached or exceeded 110 degrees on 20 consecutive days.
In Pittsburgh, by contrast, Friday’s projected high is 78.
As an exercise in escapism, we found 10 large cities, one of them Pittsburgh, with some of the coolest July weather in America. Our average temperatures come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and span the years 1991 through 2020, so they reflect the growing reach of global warming.
San Francisco
Mark Twain once said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” (Or did he?)
With an average July temperature of 60.3 degrees, San Francisco puts up some of the coolest summers in the Western Hemisphere.
The chill comes from the city’s coastal location along the Pacific Ocean. California’s Central Valley, to the east, works like a vacuum, pulling cool marine air across the city, by one forecaster’s account.
“Today’s high is 62 degrees,” said Dan Luscher, an urbanist and longtime San Franciscan, speaking Wednesday. “If I didn’t read the news, I wouldn’t even be aware there was a heat wave.
“I think San Francisco should start positioning itself as a climate haven or climate sanctuary,” he said, “as these kinds of heat events are only going to get more common.”
Seattle
With an average July temperature of 66.5 degrees, Seattle ranks as one of the nation’s coolest cities in midsummer.
Seattle sits on the same chilly swath of the Pacific Coast as San Francisco, but about 800 miles farther north. To the east lie the Cascade Mountains, a range that shields the city from the cold air of the American interior in winter and from the extremes of heat in summer. There’s a reason why television’s Frasier Crane always wore that suit.
Seattle gets 90-degree weather on roughly four days a year, one local news site boasts. When a heat dome settled over the city in 2021, producing eight days of 90- and even 100-degree heat, the city plunged into crisis.
San Jose
While San Jose might sit on fewer vacation itineraries than the cities listed above, the Californian city boasts an enviable average temperature of 69.5 in July. For an explanation, see its northern neighbor San Francisco.
Portland
With an average July temperature of 70.2 degrees, Portland shares many climatic qualities with other Pacific Coast cities.
But Portland, too, is seeing more 90-degree days in an era of advancing climate change.
San Diego
San Diego enjoys an average temperature of 70.7 degrees in July. And unlike, say, Seattle, San Diego also gets lots of sun. The city makes many lists of American destinations with the most sunshine and objectively nice days.
Pittsburgh
We leave the West Coast now and travel to Pittsburgh, of all places, where July temperatures average a cool 73.2 degrees.
Because of its distance from the coast, Pittsburgh suffers the occasional weather extreme. Back in 2014, temperatures fell into the 40s in mid-August. Leaves began to turn.
“Pittsburgh residents have been known to wear swimsuits and winter jackets during the same week,” a local reporter wrote after an earlier summer cold snap, beneath the headline, “Weather in Pittsburgh is awful for several reasons.”
On the bright side, summers in Pittsburgh don’t get too hot.
“We are close enough to the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream to get some of the moderation associated with being more coastal,” said Neil Donahue, a chemistry professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “We are not all that far north of the Mason-Dixon line, but we are definitely not South.”
Milwaukee
With an average July temperature of 73.3 degrees, Milwaukee stays a tad cooler than Chicago, its southerly neighbor. Both cities reap gloriously cool summer breezes off of Lake Michigan.
Los Angeles
Angelenos love to gripe about the weather, but, in truth, July in Los Angeles is relatively sweet, with an average temperature of 73.3 degrees.
“The one real advantage we have is the beach,” said John Singh, an entertainment publicity consultant in the Sherman Oaks enclave. “So, when it gets uncomfortably hot, we can head out to the coast, where it’s almost always cool.”
Detroit
Detroit, like Milwaukee, benefits from its Great Lakes address and from sheer northerliness: The city sits a stone’s throw from Canada. Average July temperature: 74.1 degrees.
Boston
Among large East Coast cities, Boston seems to do the best job at resisting summer swelter. Its average July temperature is 74.1 degrees.
“What I like most about it is, at least in the early mornings, it is cool enough to walk to work, which is one of my favorite daily routines,” said Gal Wettstein, a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
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The deadline to file for part of a $10 million settlement related to recyclable Keurig K-Cups is nearing.
The settlement comes after an agreement over the labeling and advertising of K-Cups, the single serving coffee pods that were labeled as recyclable. The plaintiffs alleged consumers were misled to believe the products were widely recyclable though they “usually still end up in landfills,” the 2018 class action suit claimed.
Defendant Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. has denied all the plaintiffs’ allegations and agreed to the settlement to “avoid burdensome and costly litigation.” As part of the settlement parent company, Keurig Dr Pepper agreed to add larger-print language to packaging indicating buyers should “”Check Locally – Not Recycled in Many Communities.”
The deadline to file a claim is Jan. 9.
Who is eligible?
If you purchased K-Cup single-serve coffee pods labeled as recyclable from June 8, 2016 to Aug. 8, 2022 you could be eligible. No proof of purchase is necessary though it will impact the amount you could receive.
With proof of purchase, you can request a refund of $3.50 per 100 pods purchased with a minimum payment of $6 and a maximum of $36. Without proof of purchase, you can claim up to $5 per household.
How do I file a claim?
You can submit a claim on the settlement website or print out a form, complete and mail to:
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered Norfolk Southern on Tuesday to pay for the cleanup of the East Palestine, Ohio train wreck and chemical release as federal regulators took charge of long-term recovery efforts and promised worried residents they wouldn't be forgotten.
Using its authority under the federal Superfund law, EPA told Norfolk Southern to take all available measures to clean up contaminated air and water, and also said the company would be required to reimburse the federal government for a new program to provide cleaning services for impacted residents and businesses.
“In no way, shape or form will Norfolk Southern get off the hook for the mess they created,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan vowed at a news conference in East Palestine. “I know this order cannot undue the nightmare that families in this town have been living with, but it will begin to deliver much-needed justice for the pain that Norfolk Southern has caused.”
He warned that if Norfolk Southern fails to comply, the agency will perform the work itself and seek triple damages from the company.
EPA planned to release more details on the cleanup service for residents and businesses, which it said would “provide an additional layer of reassurance."
The agency said its order marked the end of the “emergency” phase of the Feb. 3 derailment and the beginning of long-term remediation phase in the East Palestine area.
EPA's move to compel Norfolk Southern to clean up came nearly three weeks after more than three dozen freight cars — including 11 carrying hazardous materials — derailed on the outskirts of East Palestine, near the Pennsylvania state line, prompting an evacuation as fears grew about a potential explosion of smoldering wreckage.
Officials seeking to avoid the danger of an uncontrolled blast chose to intentionally release and burn toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke again billowing high into the sky. That left people questioning the potential health impacts for residents in the area and beyond, even as authorities maintained they were doing their best to protect people.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine assured residents that they will not be left to handle the aftermath on their own once the news cameras leave and public attention turns elsewhere.
“We understand that it’s not just about today, it’s not just about two weeks from now,” he said. “People have long-term concerns. and we’re going to do everything we can to stay at this.”
Already, 4,600 yards of contaminated soil and 1.1 million gallons of contaminated water have been removed, DeWine said. But he said Norfolk Southern had failed to address the contaminated soil underneath its tracks before repairing them and running freight again. He said the company would have to take the tracks back up and remove the soil.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro blasted Norfolk Southern over what he called its “failed management of this crisis," saying the company chose not to take part in a unified incident command, and provided inaccurate information and conflicting modeling data.
“The combination of Norfolk Southern's corporate greed, incompetence, and lack of concern for our residents is absolutely unacceptable to me,” said Shapiro, appearing at the news conference in East Palestine with Regan, DeWine and other officials.
Shapiro said his administration had made a criminal referral of Norfolk Southern to the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office, while DeWine said Ohio’s attorney general had also launched an investigation.
EPA said it has tested indoor air quality at 550 homes so far, with outside air being monitored via aircraft, mobile vans and stationary instruments. ”I feel very confident in the technology that we’ve deployed,” he said.
Still, Regan said he is not sure if EPA is testing for dioxin, a carcinogen, as some lawmakers and advocates have requested.
Under the so-called Superfund law, EPA has authority to direct those responsible for contamination or hazardous waste to clean it up. EPA can fine the railway up to $70,000 a day if the work is not completed. EPA can also do the work itself if necessary and bill Norfolk Southern triple its costs.
Separately, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a package of reforms on Tuesday and called on railroad operators to take immediate steps to improve safety, such as accelerating the planned upgrade of tank cars.
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LSP: 18 suspects wanted in connection to vehicle theft investigation; 16 others arrested
Information provided by Louisiana State Police:
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - In January of 2022, detectives assigned to the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit began investigating disparities in numerous transactions at Public Tag Agencies (PTA) and Auto Title Companies (ATC) across the state. Over the course of the investigation, detectives identified 34 suspects who were found to have collectively transacted 180 vehicles using altered or fraudulent documents. The suspects used the altered or fraudulent documents to undervalue the vehicle’s actual cost to avoid taxes. Detectives also learned that some of these vehicles, previously reported stolen, were located in the civilian market with their identifiers altered or concealed. The total value of vehicles involved in this investigation is currently estimated at over $9.8 million. The total estimated amount of tax fraud is over $300,000.
As detectives continued their investigation, it was learned that these individuals were working together as a criminal organization. Through their actions, the involved parties worked individually and collectively to commit acts of fraud and theft within the State of Louisiana for monetary gain. Louisiana State Police has obtained full extradition arrest warrants for 18 suspects still at large. See below for suspects still at large:
The following 16 individuals have been arrested for the charges of Forgery, Filing False Public Records, and Felony Theft:
- 35-year-old Errean Centeno of Covington, LA
- 35-year-old Tashia Hubbard of Willis, TX
- 30-year-old Willie Tolbert of Cleveland, TX
- 46-year-old Kenneth Redding of Houston, TX
- 33-year-old Leigha Garner of Conroe, TX
- 31-year-old Alaric Cowart of Houston, TX
- 56-year-old Raynaldo Hernandez III of Houston, TX
- 34-year-old Samuel Thompson of Conroe, TX
- 20-year-old Angel Gamino of Houston, TX
- 40-year-old Maria Cantu of Houston, TX
- 26-year-old Shawn Carden of Humble, TX
- 31-year-old Amber Archer of Belleview, FL
- 39-year-old Tabatha McMullan of Houston, TX
- 27-year-old Joshua Gipson of Humble, TX
- 34-year-old Jacquez Evans of Corpus Christi, TX
- 25-year-old Jacob Hurtado of Humble, TX
Investigations, especially at this scale, take time and a coordinated team effort. The Louisiana State Police would like to thank the following agencies for their assistance throughout this investigation; Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, Louisiana Department of Revenue, National Insurance Crime Bureau, Houston Police Department (TX), Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (TX), and numerous other local law enforcement agencies. Anyone with information related to this investigation is asked to contact the Louisiana State Police – Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit (Breaux Bridge Field Office) at (337) 332-8080 or via email at LSP.Insurance.Fraud.Unit@la.gov. This investigation is still on-going and additional charges for all involved parties may be forthcoming.
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Leading Web3 Platform Receives Two Additional Technology Patents that Empower Artists to Protect and Manage Music, Digital Media, and Creative Rights on the Blockchain
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TuneGO®, a leading Web3 music platform, was awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") two new patents for technology that protects content creators and copyright owners.
"The patented TuneGO Vault demystifies and simplifies Web3 for creators, and TuneGO's Web3 marketplace is the community gateway to the new culture of fans, collectors, and consumers," said John Kohl, Co-Founder and CEO of TuneGO. "We continue to lead with innovation and are pleased the U.S. Patent Office has once again recognized the uniqueness of our proprietary technology as we forge ahead into the future of Web3."
TuneGO operates on the Flow blockchain, the home of NBA Top Shot, NFL ALL DAY, UFC Strike, and LaLiga (coming soon). TuneGO creates a technology gateway between the creative ecosystem and consumers, and is bolstered by the ease-of-use and no gas fees of the eco-friendly Flow blockchain.
TuneGO has been granted the following two U.S. patents:
- U.S. Patent No. 11,250,111—The patent is directed toward technology for verifying, via the digital vault, a completeness of the content metadata associated with the media content in the container file and identifying a salable content item that is to be put up for sale via a non-fungible token (NFT) transaction, while prohibiting the sale of the salable content item until consent for the sale is received from each stakeholder from whom consent is required.
- U.S. Patent No. 11,256,788—The patent is directed toward technology for populating an NFT container file with a salable content item and a specification of ownership rights to the salable content item, offering the ownership rights to the salable content item for sale via an NFT transaction, and updating the NFT container file to reflect change in the ownership rights to the salable content after sale of the salable content item.
These recently granted patents enhance TuneGO's already formidable patent portfolio that includes 18 U.S. and foreign-granted and pending patent applications—covering various aspects of secure digital storage of music and digital media, creative rights administration and protection, safe and secure project collaboration, and the monetization of creative work through traditional channels and new revenue streams in the world of Web3.
"These new patents, in addition to our formidable existing patent portfolio, demonstrate that TuneGO continues to be the industry's innovator with regard to our application of proprietary Web3 technology," said Stacy Haitsuka, CTO of TuneGO. "We will continue to invest in and innovate around our revolutionary TuneGO Vault with additional patented technologies so that we can provide our customers with the best solution to securely manage and monetize their media content."
TuneGO's proprietary technology provides an industry-unique platform that establishes a digital record of the creative process, by tracking creative contributions from the inception of the project—ensuring all credits are properly recorded, creative rights are properly protected, and digital assets are properly secured. TuneGO's patented technology protects the creative community by ensuring proper credit is given for their creative work, resulting in the proper collection of royalties. For fans and collectors, TuneGO provides assurance of the authenticity of work to validate and maximize the value of Web3 collectibles.
TuneGO's mission is to secure and protect music and digital media, empower the creative community, and accelerate the world's transition to Web3. TuneGO provides a robust, global, end-to-end proprietary technology platform that demystifies and simplifies Web3, solves significant problems that plague the music industry, provides a patented safe and secure collaborative environment that facilitates and improves creative output, and establishes a community gateway for the music industry to connect to the new culture of fans, collectors, and consumers. TuneGO's proprietary technology platform is secured by 7 granted patents and 200+ intellectual property claims. To learn more please visit www.TuneGO.com or download TuneGO from the app store.
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KYIV, Ukraine — The head of U.S. intelligence says fighting in Russia's war in Ukraine is running at a "reduced tempo" and suggests Ukrainian forces could have brighter prospects in coming months.
Avril Haines alluded to past allegations by some that Russian President Vladimir Putin's advisers could be shielding him from bad news — for Russia — about war developments, and said he "is becoming more informed of the challenges that the military faces in Russia."
"But it's still not clear to us that he has a full picture of at this stage of just how challenged they are," the U.S. director of national intelligence said late Saturday at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.
Looking ahead, Haines said, "honestly we're seeing a kind of a reduced tempo already of the conflict" and her team expects that both sides will look to refit, resupply, and reconstitute for a possible Ukrainian counter-offensive in the spring.
"But we actually have a fair amount of skepticism as to whether or not the Russians will be in fact prepared to do that," she said. "And I think more optimistically for the Ukrainians in that timeframe."
On Sunday, the British Ministry of Defense, in its latest intelligence estimate, pointed to new signs from an independent Russian media outlet that public support in Russia for the military campaign was "falling significantly."
Meduza said it obtained a recent confidential opinion survey conducted by the Federal Protection Service, which is in charge of guarding the Kremlin and providing security to top government officials.
The survey, commissioned by the Kremlin, found that 55% of respondents backed peace talks with Ukraine while 25% wanted the war to go on. The report didn't mention the margin of error.
Levada Center, Russia's top independent pollster, found in a similar poll carried out in November poll that 53% of respondents supported peace talks, 41% spoke in favor of continuing the fight, and 6% were undecided. That poll of 1,600 people had a margin of error of no more than 3.4 percent.
The British Defense Ministry noted that "despite the Russian authorities' efforts to enforce pervasive control of the information environment, the conflict has become increasingly tangible for many Russians since the September 2022 'partial mobilization.'"
"With Russia unlikely to achieve major battlefield successes in the next several months, maintaining even tacit approval of the war amongst the population is likely to be increasingly difficult for the Kremlin," it said.
In recent weeks, Russia's military focus has been on striking Ukrainian infrastructure and pressing an offensive in the east, near the town of Bakhmut, while shelling sites in the city of Kherson, which Ukrainian forces liberated last month after an 8-month Russian occupation.
In his nightly address on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lashed out at Western efforts to crimp Russia's crucial oil industry, a key source of funds for Putin's war machine, saying their $60-per-barrel price cap on imports of Russian oil was insufficient.
"It is not a serious decision to set such a limit for Russian prices, which is quite comfortable for the budget of the terrorist state," Zelenskyy said, referring to Russia. He said the $60-per-barrel level would still allow Russia to bring in $100 billion in revenues per year.
"This money will go not only to the war and not only to further sponsorship by Russia of other terrorist regimes and organisations. This money will be used for further destabilisation of those countries that are now trying to avoid serious decisions," Zelenskyy said.
Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60 per barrel. The limit is set to take effect Monday, along with an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea.
Russian authorities have rejected the price cap and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it.
In yet another show of Western support for Ukraine's efforts to battle back Russian forces and cope with fallout from the war, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on Saturday visited the operations of a Ukrainian aid group that provides support for internally displaced people in Ukraine, among her other visits with top Ukrainian officials.
Nuland assembled dolls out of yarn in the blue-and-yellow colors of Ukraine's flag with youngsters from regions including northeastern Kharkiv, southern Kherson, and eastern Donetsk.
"This is psychological support for them at an absolutely crucial time," Nuland said.
"As President Putin knows best, this war could stop today, if he chose to stop it and withdrew his forces — and then negotiations can begin," she added.
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How to Watch the Bucks vs. Heat: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NBA Playoffs Game 1
Published: Apr. 16, 2023 at 11:31 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Milwaukee Bucks will meet the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs.
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Bucks vs. Heat Game Info
- When: Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 5:30 PM ET
- Where: Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- TV: Bally Sports
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Bucks Stats Insights
- This season, the Bucks have a 47.3% shooting percentage from the field, which is 0.9% lower than the 48.2% of shots the Heat's opponents have made.
- In games Milwaukee shoots higher than 48.2% from the field, it is 26-4 overall.
- The Bucks are the best rebounding team in the league, the Heat rank 27th.
- The Bucks record 116.9 points per game, 7.1 more points than the 109.8 the Heat give up.
- When Milwaukee totals more than 109.8 points, it is 47-8.
Heat Stats Insights
- The Heat have shot at a 46% rate from the field this season, 0.4 percentage points greater than the 45.6% shooting opponents of the Bucks have averaged.
- This season, Miami has a 29-14 record in games the team collectively shoots over 45.6% from the field.
- The Heat are the 27th-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Bucks sit at 11th.
- The Heat put up an average of 109.5 points per game, only 3.8 fewer points than the 113.3 the Bucks allow.
- Miami is 19-6 when it scores more than 113.3 points.
Bucks Home & Away Comparison
- The Bucks are putting up 118.8 points per game this season when playing at home, which is 3.8 more points than they're averaging on the road (115).
- In 2022-23, Milwaukee is ceding 112.5 points per game when playing at home. In away games, it is allowing 114.1.
- When playing at home, the Bucks are draining 0.1 more threes per game (14.9) than in road games (14.8). They also sport a higher three-point percentage at home (37.5%) compared to in away games (36.2%).
Heat Home & Away Comparison
- In 2022-23 the Heat are scoring more points at home (111.4 per game) than on the road (107.5). But they are also conceding more at home (110.2) than away (109.3).
- Miami concedes 110.2 points per game at home, and 109.3 on the road.
- The Heat collect 0.1 more assists per game at home (23.9) than away (23.8).
Bucks Injuries
Heat Injuries
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PITTSTON, Pa. — The chill in the air didn't stop people from going on a run Wednesday night in Luzerne County.
Allied Services hosted a launch event for the Wyoming Valley Run, a new 10-mile race.
After the announcement, runners ran four and a half miles to preview the beginning of the course.
The race will benefit five charities, including Camp Freedom and Shop with a Cop.
The Wyoming Valley Run will be held in September.
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(KTLA) – Tiger Woods’ return to action on Thursday has sparked backlash, but it’s not for his golf game.
While partaking in the Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, fans noticed he passed a Tampax tampon to fellow golfer Justin Thomas.
Woods is the tournament’s host.
On the ninth hole, Woods outdrove Thomas and gave him something as they walked down the fairway and eagle-eyed fans saw that it was the feminine product.
The photo was tweeted by Rick Gehman with the caption, “Tiger Woods had a gift for Justin Thomas after driving it past him on number nine.”
Video of the handoff showed Thomas glancing down at the item and immediately throwing it on the ground as Woods giggles and throws his arm around him.
While the move by Woods was meant to be a form of trash talk to Thomas, a close friend off the course, it landed the golfing great in hot water.
Author and Golf Digest contributor Shane Ryan took to Twitter to condemn the move.
“Tiger Woods’ humor has always been slightly lame, dumb-jock type of stuff, but becoming a prop comic? That’s a new low.”
USA Today’s For the Win writer Charles Curtis called the prank “childish” and “sexist.”
“Is the joke here to ‘stop playing like a girl’? Or that periods and tampons indicate weakness?” Curtis questioned. “It’s not funny. I’ve seen too many people laughing at this. Do better. You too, Tiger.”
For the Win Managing Editor Alex McDaniel tweeted Curtis’ article with the caption “If Tiger spent three months a year bleeding and coping with period pain, they’d make a whole-a– documentary about how champions overcome insurmountable obstacles.”
“Call me woke. Call me a snowflake. Call me ‘offended.’ Whatever. But handing another male golfer a tampon is objectively not funny. It shows the sophistication of a 14-year-old schoolboy,” tweeted videographer/photographer Josh Jeffery.
Author Julie DiCaro said the alleged prank is degrading to women.
“All the guys think this is hilarious, but the joke is denigrating women. So played out and stupid,” she tweeted. “I always cheer for Tiger and I’m so happy to see him back. But this is so cringy.”
Others felt that the move was just all in good fun.
“Tiger Woods was just joking around y’all. No, need to get all cancel culture on him, This was just a funny PERIOD in his life…lol, see what I did there?” tweeted one user.
“I love this, good fun among friends,” tweeted another.
Thursday’s return to the Riv was the golfer’s first round of competitive golf in seven months and despite an injury in his right ankle that still bothers him, he had three birdies on the last three holes to shoot a two-under 69.
Woods finished five shots behind co-leaders Max Homa and Keith Mitchell.
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Kitten found with severe burns is now up for adoption
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - A kitten found with severe burns after a fire is on the road to recovery and is up for adoption at the Arizona Humane Society.
Libby is an 11-month-old domestic shorthair cat who has been undergoing treatment for severe burns for months after she was found as an injured stray kitten.
KPHO reports the kitten was found with burned, raw pads, whiskers, ears and nose. She also had melted plastic all over her body covered in the smell of smoke.
Libby was treated intensely for a month, including several surgeries, and underwent three more months of recovery.
Rescuers said her new hair growth over the once-burned patches is white, adding some fresh color to her coat.
Pets up for adoption at the Arizona Humane Society have a $20 adoption fee until the end of July.
Visit the humane society’s website to see all of the pets available for adoption.
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The US government has a formal system of protecting information that, if disclosed, could hurt national security.
The system can apply to documents regarding intelligence activities, foreign relations, military plans and programs for safeguarding nuclear materials, for example. By classifying information, the government restricts who can see the documents and where he or she can see them.
The Justice Department recently removed some classified documents from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence while executing a search warrant for possible violations of the Espionage Act and other crimes.
Here are key things to know about how the classification system works.
What are the levels of classification?
There are three basic levels of classification, based on the damage that could be done to national security if the information was leaked.
Top Secret
This is the highest level of classification. Information is classified as Top Secret if it "reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security," according to a 2009 executive order that describes the classification system.
A subset of Top Secret documents known as SCI, or sensitive compartmented information, is reserved for certain information derived from intelligence sources. Access to an SCI document can be even further restricted to a smaller group of people with specific security clearances.
Some of the materials recovered from Trump's Florida home were marked as Top Secret SCI.
Secret
Information is classified as Secret if the information is deemed to be able to cause "serious damage" to national security if revealed.
Confidential
Confidential is the least sensitive level of classification, applied to information that is reasonably expected to cause "damage" to national security if disclosed.
What might be classified as a Top Secret document?
"The difference between Secret and Top Secret is quite significant," said Philip Mudd, a CNN counterterrorism analyst and former CIA analyst.
Nuclear codes could be classified as Top Secret, for example, as well as information from an especially sensitive human source.
But there are even more narrow classifications within the Top Secret designation. For example, intercepted communications may be classified as Top Secret SCI.
Another category of sensitive information within either Top Secret or Secret documents is known as an SAP, or special access program. Not everyone with a Top Secret security clearance may be privy to the information in an SAP.
These higher level designations further restrict who can see the information and where it can be viewed.
How is information classified?
Certain people within the government have classification authority. For less sensitive classified material, he or she may make a judgment call about the impact the information could have on national security if disclosed.
But a classification of Top Secret SCI would be automatic, said Mudd.
That may be because the information would reveal a source the United States uses or a certain method of obtaining intelligence information.
Who can see a Top Secret document and where?
People within the government must receive security clearance to have access to certain classified documents. To receive Top Secret clearance, one must generally pass an extensive background check that digs into financial history and may include interviews of friends and family.
Then, there may be extra security protocols involved in viewing Top Secret information. Some documents must be viewed in what's known as a SCIF, or a sensitive compartmented information facility.
There are technical standards that need to be met before a room or building can be designated as a SCIF, said Mudd. Multiple locks may be required, for example, and access to the room is restricted to people with specific security clearances.
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(The Hill) – Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs who traveled with Brittney Griner back to the U.S. after her detainment in Russia, said her physical health appears to be “just fine.”
“She looks great,” Carstens told co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” of Griner.
“I mean, she was full of energy,” Carstens added. “Looked fantastic. She’s in Fort Sam Houston right now undergoing some medical evaluations, but she seems to be just fine.”
President Biden on Thursday announced a prisoner swap securing Griner’s release from Russia, where she had been imprisoned since February, in exchange for the U.S. releasing infamous Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
The Biden administration for months looked to secure the release of Griner, who was arrested at a Moscow-area airport in February for carrying vape cartridges containing marijuana oil in her luggage.
The U.S. considered Griner wrongfully detained after she was arrested just prior to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. After being found guilty and losing her appeal, Griner was transferred to a Russian penal colony with a grim reputation.
Carstens, who met Griner and flew back with her to the U.S., said he offered to give Griner some space so she could decompress on the plane, but Carstens indicated Griner instead was eager to talk.
“On an 18 hour flight, she probably spent 12 hours just talking. We talked about everything under the sun,” Carstens said on CNN, adding that he will let Griner herself explain in more detail the conditions during her imprisonment.
The Biden administration has garnered criticism, however, for failing to free former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who Russia has imprisoned for four years on espionage charges that Whelan vehemently denies. Conservatives have also attacked the administration for freeing Bout, a notorious arms dealer who delivered weapons to multiple sanctioned regimes.
The White House has defended its decision, indicating Russia refused to release Whelan and portraying the move as either bringing Griner home or neither of them.
“Even as we’re welcoming someone home, we still have work to do,” Carstens told Bash. “So as I’m shaking Britney’s hands and we’re taking to the aircraft and having this great conversation. My brain is already thinking about Paul Whelan. What can we do to get him back?”
When pressed on why U.S. officials have not acted on Biden’s executive order from July allowing for sanctions against people involved in hostage taking, Carstens indicated such actions are forthcoming.
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Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin launches run for 3rd term
Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is seeking a third term in battleground Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who spearheaded legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages last year, announced on Wednesday that she is seeking a third term in battleground Wisconsin.
Baldwin, 60, said in a statement that she intends to continue fighting for the working class and families struggling with inflation, as well as opposing Wisconsin's abortion ban.
No Republicans have announced they are running for Baldwin's seat, which will be critical for Democrats to hold if they want to maintain control of the Senate.
Baldwin won her first local race at age 24 and in 1998 won a seat in the U.S. House to became the first woman whom Wisconsin voters sent to Congress. She was elected to the Senate in 2012, handing former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson his first defeat in a statewide race, in a year when Barack Obama was also on the ballot.
Baldwin will be seeking a third term in a presidential election year when turnout on both sides is likely to be high.
Baldwin won her 2012 race by nearly 6 percentage points and defeated a Republican state senator for reelection in 2018 by 11 percentage points. In that race, which came two years after Donald Trump won Wisconsin, Baldwin solidified Democratic support while attracting independent voters with her message that she was looking out for the best interests of everyone in the state.
A tireless campaigner, her victory in the swing state was closely analyzed and followed by Democratic candidates who also found success, including Gov. Tony Evers, who won reelection in 2022. Her strategy included highly targeted digital ads on a variety of issues and competing for voters outside of the Democratic strongholds in Madison and Milwaukee.
Baldwin was the first person elected to Congress after announcing they were gay and was the first openly gay person elected to the Senate. In the early 1990s, she was the first openly lesbian member of the Wisconsin Assembly and one of the first openly gay people in elected office across the country.
She has been open about her sexual orientation but did not emphasize it during her previous runs for the Senate.
“I didn’t run to make history,” Baldwin said after winning her first Senate race in 2012. “I ran to make a difference.”
But in 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion, Baldwin gained national attention for her leading role in passing a bill protecting the rights of gay couples. She spent months winning over Republicans for the measure, which passed last December with bipartisan support.
Republicans have tried to portray Baldwin as too liberal for Wisconsin, a state that reelected Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in 2022 and that Trump narrowly won in 2016 and lost by a similarly small margin in 2020. Johnson is one of the Senate's most conservative members.
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Champion distance runner Lauren Fleshman still remembers the first time she lost a race to a boy. She was in middle school, and had developed a reputation as the fastest overall runner, the one who consistently won the mile. Until one day, she wasn't fastest.
"When I first got beat by one of my male peers ... it was because he hit puberty and kind of skyrocketed his performance in the mile in a very short period of time," she says. "It was very disorienting to find out that puberty was going to create two different paths for my male peers and my female peers, and that I was on the one that I wasn't so sure I wanted to be on."
Growing up in what she calls the "girl power revolution of the '90s," Fleshman had been led to believe that she could do anything that her male peers could do. But as an athlete, puberty hit hard. She describes getting her period as an impediment, an "added burden that my male peers didn't have to deal with." The development of breasts and hips, she says, felt "scary, like they threatened the future that I wanted in sport."
Nevertheless, Fleshman went on to have a very successful running career, breaking the American junior record in the 5,000 meters race the first time she ran it, which qualified her for the Olympic trials. She was a five-time NCAA champion at Stanford University, and later, as a professional athlete, she won two national championships.
But, along the way, she noticed a surprising number of her female teammates leaving the sport. Many who did stick with it developed eating disorders or other physical or mental health problems. Fleshman says too many coaches seemed to assume — falsely — that what worked for male bodies would also benefit female bodies.
"The male body, between 18 and 22, is getting more juice out of every squeeze when it comes to training. Their hormonal profile is such that their recovery time is quicker," she says. Meanwhile, Fleshman notes, improvement times for female runners tend to slow down between those same ages.
"That's where a lot of tension is created for female athletes around their body," Fleshman says. "There's a basic level of education that coaches need to get, not just in physiology, but also in understanding socially what they're doing, culturally, the environment they're creating, that is working against their goals of having a healthy, consistent team that performs at their best."
Fleshman became a coach and is now an activist working to promote equity in sports by recognizing the differences in male and female bodies. Her new book, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World, is a memoir and a critique of how the sports world treats female athletes.
Interview highlights
On why she loves running
I loved running the way a lot of little children do, when they would just burst into run naturally. It felt like flying. It felt like freedom. ... I joined [the team] in high school, and by then what it meant to me was belonging, exploring. We would take off on these runs as a group into the foothills around our town and get to see vistas of my town from a new perspective, get to explore different neighborhoods. My world got a lot bigger through the sport of running. And I also loved that when you run alongside somebody, you can have a more vulnerable, honest conversation than you can when you're sitting across the table from one another. There's something that just opens you up with the movement. And so I just developed these deep bonds and also these deeper understandings of myself. It just felt like a natural fit.
On how menstruation is often invisible and thought of negatively
When I got my period, it was later than most of my peers, it was around age 17 and I didn't want it. ... It felt like something I had to navigate alone, and the effects that it would have on my mood or my body composition, bloating, all those things felt like this roller coaster that I had to navigate ... and my male peers didn't. And I felt resentful of that, especially since it was invisible to my coaches and to the health professionals around me. It was kind of like, "Oh, just figure out how to deal with it." So it's understandable why so many girls don't have a positive view of their period, which is really unfortunate, because our menstrual cycle is so critical to the healthy functioning of our bodies.
On how breast development in girls affects their participation in sports
All of the research currently shows that this is extremely common, it extends well beyond runners. Seventy-three percent of girls reported at least one breast-related concern related to sports in middle-school age, and half of them felt that breasts affected their participation. But the way that we talk about breasts is very sexualized or we don't talk about them. They're a little bit of a tough subject when they really should just be a factual, basic lived experience of half the population. Eighty-seven percent of girls wanted to know more about breasts and sports bras specifically. So we know that the lack of sports bras is one of the reasons why we're losing girls in sport.
On coaching strategies related to weight that are damaging
One of the most common ones is just having an "ideal" athlete body in mind that you expect your team to work their way toward. When you consider all of the diversity in our genetics and our individuality, that's an absurd idea that everyone should mold themselves into some particular model. There are public weigh-ins that happen regularly in programs, or body-fat tests consistent enough to have athletes become fixated on it. Athletes are given very small ranges of acceptable body fat for an elite athlete that are based on 28-year-old Olympian bodies and not 20-year-old adolescent bodies that are in the thick of developing.
There's also food policing — where coaches, will not allow certain types of food for their athletes. They will make body comments on athletes in front of their teammates. Another thing they'll do is point out when someone looks "fit" and give a lot of personal attention to athletes that attain this body ideal and then withhold positive interaction from athletes that don't. And those are subtle ways of consistently telling athletes that in order to be invested in and cared about, they must change who they are. And it's not even based on real science. That's the thing. It would be wrong even if it was, because it creates such an unhealthy environment for athletes.
On both acknowledging sex-based differences in sports while also being inclusive of transgender athletes
It's obviously a very contentious, complicated issue that we're wrestling with in culture right now. And I have evolved my perspective a lot on this subject from a place of defensiveness of what I viewed as women's sports from a sex-based perspective to being very pro-inclusion of trans athletes in every aspect of life, including sports. But that took a little bit of a journey because I am so familiar with sex-based differences in sport. I've lived it. I've watched it. They exist — to have some trans-rights activists in this space denying that those exist, or being afraid of looking at that science or looking to debunk it created a lot of resistance to me, and I see it in a lot of the athletes that I have raced against over time. It's a thing that we have to acknowledge — that sex-based difference exists and hold that in one hand and hold in the other hand that inclusion is extremely important and that our definition of fairness is so narrow.
I think that's actually critical to the inclusion of trans people — not denying the science that we know, not denying the lived experiences of female bodied people, but just deciding that even given some of those things, we still choose to compete together to be an inclusive space and experience all the benefits of having trans people on our teams, in our lives and competing alongside us.
If we're only looking at fairness as who's competing in the Olympic Games and who has experienced what kind of puberty and whatever, you can do that if you want to. You can spend all your time focused on that, but fairness is about a lot more than that. And we can hold the sex, these differences and still be for inclusion. And I think that's actually critical to the inclusion of trans people --not denying the science that we know, not denying the lived experiences of female-bodied people, but just deciding that even given some of those things, we still choose to compete together to be an inclusive space and experience all the benefits of having trans people on our teams in our lives and competing alongside us.
On women's running uniforms
Male runners generally wear looser fitting shorts and a jersey that covers the entire torso. In some events in running, especially the faster sprint events, the male outfit will be a tight fitting shirt that also covers the torso. Female athlete uniforms are like a little bathing suit bottom that your butt cheeks hang out of or a very, very short short that they call cheeky bottoms or something like that. And then a crop top that exposes your midriff, that's also form fitting and tight.
If there was a true sports advantage to wearing the outfit that female athletes are bound, by rules even, to wear in sport, male athletes would do it, too. The best athletes in the world will want to do what the biggest performance advantage is. The history of female uniforms being designed as they are now started in the wake of Title IX, when there was a lot of fear that sports was masculinizing girls, that it was making them gay — all of these homophobic fears around participating in activities that were traditionally viewed as men's spaces.
On refusing to be naked for a Nike ad campaign — and instead using the ad to comment on objectification of female athletes
My first big shot at an ad campaign with Nike, I was so excited. I just couldn't believe that I was going to get this chance to be used in a commercial and poster campaign, media notice around it. But then when I got the look and feel from the creative agency, it was a picture of Brandi Chastain, the soccer player, from an old ad where she was bent over naked with a soccer ball. It was very provocative. ... And I just felt crestfallen when I saw that. ... [Just like] being in Playboy magazine as a female athlete was kind of a sign you've made it, or being on the cover of another magazine depicted in a gown or lingerie or feminized in some way. And I just thought, why are we doing this? Why? That has nothing to do with the excellence that got you the opportunity in the first place. And so I got the courage to ask them to do it differently, to not be depicted in that way.
I came up with an ad where I was standing in my running clothes that I train in every day with my arms crossed, looking directly at the camera. And the ad was in the first person voice, so I was very much in control of how I was being viewed and which added a lot of power to the ad, and it made it a very successful campaign. ... [The caption was] "objectify me," ... and it was meant to kind of grab your attention. ... And then underneath it was the fine print of, "We study the female body so that we can make them the best running shoes."
Sam Briger and Seth Kelley produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Deborah Franklin adapted it for the web.
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Madison Cunningham looked thoroughly put together behind the Tiny Desk in her white satin pantsuit and powder blue blouse, but her performance didn't seem at all buttoned-up. The clear leader of her band of crack, Southern California musicians — keyboardist Philip Krohnengold, bassist Daniel Rhine and drummer Kyle Crane — she was also our audacious guide, steering us toward exploration with the shrewd parts she played on three different guitars over the course of four songs.
A West Coast native herself, she's learned well the liberating lessons of Joni Mitchell and much more recent predecessors like Fiona Apple, Andrew Bird and Chris Thile, who welcomed her into a scene that celebrates the splintering of familiar folk, indie rock and singer-songwriter song forms.
The songs that Cunningham selected for her Tiny Desk, culled from her third album, Revealer — out in early September — are alive with new sensations. She opens with "All I've Ever Known," and makes the confession of an artist only getting started, but powerfully awake to possibility: "I'm afraid of what I don't know." "Hospital," a song whose wiry, tunefully loopy vocal lines and guitar licks stayed lodged in my head for days, transforms a setting that's become a symbol of doom into somewhere that she could face her own overstimulated extremes.
The other musicians left Cunningham alone behind the desk to conclude with her quietly riveting song "Life According To Raechel," written after her grandmother passed, she tells us. Eyes closed, Cunningham took in the loss like she knew it would be the first of many.
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Unless you were there, it's really difficult to imagine just how much damage Hurricane Katrina inflicted on the city of New Orleans in 2005.
And by damage, we don't just mean physical destruction. The people who experienced this natural disaster were forever changed by the aftermath, which left nearly 1,800 dead—as far as the authorities know. (As FiveThirtyEight wrote in 2015, officials didn't have the resources to keep track of the remains.)
Of the reported 1,800 people who died after Hurricane Katrina, 45 of the 215 deceased hospital patients recovered came from the Memorial Medical Care Center, an usually high number compared to the other hospitals, leading authorities to question just what happened.
Now, that story is being told in Apple TV+'s Five Days at Memorial, a truly heartbreaking and frustrating show which chronicles the events that led to the arrest of multiple hospital staffers. Keep reading for all you need to know...
What happened at Memorial Medical Care Center during Hurricane Katrina?
As Five Days at Memorial author Sheri Fink, whose book is the basis for the Apple TV+ series, reported for the New York Times in 2009, more than 2,000 people—including 200 patients, 600 staff members and locals—sheltered in the hospital during the hurricane, which made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005.
The hospital itself sustained little damage during the storm. The real problem came after the city's power grid went out on the morning of Aug. 29. The hospital's backup generators kicked in, but as Fink wrote, "The system was designed to power only emergency lights, certain critical equipment and a handful of outlets on each floor."
As temperatures began rising, the flood waters in the surrounding area receded and evacuations began.
How did the flood waters impact the hospital?
By Aug. 30, nurses and doctors were optimistic they had weathered the worst of the storm—until they began noticing the flood waters rising again. As CBS News reported in 2006, nearby levees and flood walls had been damaged in the storm, sending a current of water into the surrounding area.
Officials, including then-President George W. Bush, said at the time that nobody could have predicted the flooding. But a year after the disaster, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee discovered that government agencies had warned the White House about the potential damage 48 hours before the storm touched land, according to ABC. While the flood walls and levees couldn't have been fortified in time, this knowledge could've informed FEMA's response, which Congress later described in a report as "a failure of leadership."
Case in point: Memorial Medical Care Center. The hospital's power box was only a few feet above ground level, leaving it vulnerable to the rising waters. Once the water reached the box, the generators would stop working. Hospital personnel warned higher-ups of this issue in 2004 but, as Fink wrote, "Fixing the problem would be costly; a few less-expensive improvements were made."
How did doctors decide who to evacuate from Memorial Medical Care Center first?
The hospital's emergency-incident commander, Dr. Susan Mulderick, was responsible for leading the doctors, but she faced a problem when she pulled out the hospital's emergency plans. "The 246-page document offered no guidance for dealing with a complete power failure," Fink wrote, "or for how to evacuate the hospital if the streets were flooded."
While nurses tended to patients and administrators sought help from outside entities, Mulderick gathered the doctors and told them they needed to decide which of the remaining 180 patients would be evacuated first—and how. Fink wrote, "The doctors quickly agreed that babies in the neonatal intensive-care unit, pregnant mothers and critically ill adult I.C.U. patients would be at great risk from the heat and should get first priority."
They ultimately decided that patients with Do Not Resuscitate orders would be saved last.
When Fink spoke to Mulderick for the NYT, the incident commander said, "We were well prepared. We managed that situation well."
Why were LifeCare patients evacuated last?
But another group was left out of the evacuation discussions: LifeCare Hospitals, a separate rehab hospital that operated on the seventh floor of the Memorial Medical building. "LifeCare's goal was to assist patients until they improved enough to return home or to nursing facilities," Fink explained, "It was not a hospice."
Almost all of the 52 patients under LifeCare's watch, Fink noted, "were bedbound or required electric ventilators to breathe, and clearly, they would be at significant risk if the hospital lost power in its elevators."
But none of the LifeCare patients were considered in the evacuation discussions happening a few floors down, leading to further issues down the line.
How were patients rescued from Memorial Medical Care Center?
Meanwhile, the Memorial nurses and doctors worked tirelessly to find a way to transport patients from the hospital to the helipad above the parking garage. It was a long trek as staff carried patients down flights of stairs and through a 3-foot by 3-foot hole that led to the garage, where a pickup truck was waiting to drive them to the helipad. Once there, nurses had to carry patients up another two flights of stairs before they could reach transport.
Importantly, some of the patients, including newborns, still required medical attention during the transport. Nurses held the infants in their arms and manually pumped air into their lungs, hoping they'd make it through the trip to another hospital.
More than 50 patients were evacuated on Aug. 30, but it exhausted hospital staff. So when the Coast Guard said they could airlift more patients overnight, the doctors declined, according to Fink. "The helipad had minimal lighting and no guard rail," she wrote, "and the staff needed rest."
What happened when the hospital lost power?
By Aug. 31, the backup generators stopped working entirely, rendering the ventilators and other necessary medical equipment useless. Since so many patients in LifeCare were on ventilators, the nurses—who carried the patients down seven flights of stairs to await evacuation—used bags to manually pump air into patients' lungs. Fink recounted in her article that one LifeCare nurse kept an 80-year-old patient alive for more than an hour. "Finally a physician stopped by the stretcher and told her that there was no oxygen for the patient and that he was already too far gone," Fink wrote. "She hugged the man and stroked his hair as he died."
As bodies began piling up in the hospital's chapel, nurses and doctors made the difficult decision to begin triaging patients. "Those who were in fairly good health and could sit up or walk would be categorized '1's' and prioritized first for evacuation," Fink wrote. "Those who were sicker and would need more assistance were '2's.' A final group of patients were assigned '3's' and were slated to be evacuated last. That group included those whom doctors judged to be very ill and also, as doctors agreed the day before, those with D.N.R. orders."
Who stayed behind to care for the patients?
Three days into evacuations, the hospital's food and water supplies—as well as medical supplies—were dwindling, helicopters couldn't come fast enough and there was havoc on the streets of New Orleans. Because of the flood waters, sewage had backed up, adding to the stench of decay and filth.
"Down on the emergency-room ramp that morning, stone-faced State Police officers wielding shotguns barked that everyone had to be out of the hospital by 5 p.m. because of civil unrest in New Orleans," Fink wrote, "they would not stay later to protect the hospital." But there were still nine patients on the LifeCare floor, who needed medical attention to stay alive. If the doctors abandoned them, they'd likely die within hours. If they did survive, there would be no one there to provide basic care, like help them get a sip of water or a cold compress. And there was no knowing when rescue operations would resume.
As the 5 p.m. deadline drew closer, the few remaining doctors were forced to make a decision. Among those individuals were otolaryngologist Dr. Anna Pou and pulmonary specialist, Dr. Ewing Cook, who, according to Fink, "told Pou how to administer a combination of morphine and a benzodiazepine sedative. The effect, he told [Fink], was that patients would 'go to sleep and die.'"
Cook felt this was the best route of action, according to Fink, who wrote that he told her, "'The humane thing would be to put 'em out.'''
What happened after the bodies were found?
Following a state investigation into the unusual death toll from Memorial, Dr. Pou and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo were arrested in July 2006 in connection with the deaths of four LifeCare patients, as reported by the New York Times, who wrote that the charges against the nurses were later dropped in exchange for their testimony against Dr. Pou. (Landry and Budo haven't publicly commented on the case.)
At the time of Pou's arrest, her attorney Rick Simmons said she was "absolutely innocent" and asserted that Pou was just doing her job. "She volunteered for storm duty and stayed there for five days,'' Simmons told The New York Times in July 2007, "and then the State of Louisiana abandoned the patients and the hospitals and everybody else."
In July 2007, a grand jury refused to indict Dr. Pou on one count of second-degree murder and nine counts of conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, according to Fink, as they couldn't definitively say that Pou had "a specific intent to kill." The charges were expunged from Pou's criminal record.
Since then, Pou has resumed practicing medicine. "As of the summer of 2022," Fink wrote on her website, "she was practicing medicine as a head and neck oncologic surgeon in Louisiana."
E! News reached out to Dr. Pou and Dr. Cook for comment.
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Brittney Griner detention: Putin spokesman denies WNBA star being held hostage
Brittney Griner's detention was extended to July 2
Brittney Griner’s detention was not about "being a hostage," a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.
Dmitry Peskov told NBC News in an interview that Griner’s arrest was no different from anyone carrying oils derived from cannabis on them. The WNBA star has been detained in Russia since February after being accused of carrying vape cartridges containing the oils through a Moscow airport.
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The U.S. State Department would later reclassify Griner as being "wrongfully detained."
"She violated Russian law, and now she’s being prosecuted. It’s not about being a hostage. There are lots of American citizens here. They’re enjoying their freedoms… but you have to obey the laws," Peskov told the outlet.
A Moscow court extended Griner’s detention until July 2. It was the third time her detention has been extended, Russian state-run media TASS reported. She’s been held ever since with limited public appearances.
Griner has been rumored to be potentially involved in a detainee swap involving Viktor Bout, who is in the middle of a 25-year sentence in federal prison after he was convicted of conspiracy to kill Americans relating to the support of a Colombian terrorist organization.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said a prisoner swap with the U.S. was not being considered "until a court investigation into her case is completed."
Bout was dubbed the "Merchant of Death" because of his notoriety for running a fleet of aging Soviet-era cargo planes to conflict-ridden hotspots in Africa. His dealings inspired the Nicolas Cage film "Lord of War."
Russia’s TASS agency reported last month, citing a source, that talks were underway in a prisoner exchange: Griner for Bout.
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Griner could face up to 10 years in a Russian prison if she’s convicted.
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LGBTQ+ Pride month kicks off with protests, parades, parties
NEW YORK (AP) — The start of June marks the beginning of Pride month around the U.S. and some parts of the world, a season intended to celebrate the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ communities and to protest against attacks on hard-won civil rights gains.
This year’s Pride takes place in a contentious political climate in which some state legislators have sought to ban drag shows, prohibit gender-affirming care and limit how teachers can talk about sexuality and gender in the classroom.
Events have been disrupted. Performers have been harassed. And in Colorado in November, five people were killed and several injured when a gunman shot them inside a gay nightclub.
“What we’re seeing right now is probably the worst that it’s been since the early days, in terms of the demonization of our communities,” said Jay W. Walker, one of the co-founders of the Reclaim Pride Coalition, a New York City-based group.
But that won’t stop people from coming out to mark Pride this month, he said.
“You can’t keep our communities down. No one can. It’s basic human rights,” Walker said.
HOW IT STARTED
June has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement since New York City’s first Pride march — then dubbed the “Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day” march — on June 28, 1970.
That event marked an act of defiance from the year before, a 1969 uprising at New York City’s Stonewall Inn. After a police raid at the gay bar, a crowd partly led by trans women of color channeled their anger to confront authorities. It was a catalyst to what became a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights.
For more than a half-century, the annual marches have been an opportunity to demand action on specific issues such as the AIDS epidemic and same-sex marriage while also serving as a public celebration.
HOW IT’S GOING
These days, Pride celebrations and events can be found all over the country.
Many of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and Minneapolis — hold their main marches on the last weekend of June, while some cities host their events throughout the month or even at other times of the year.
Along with the marches, Pride organizers fill the month of June with events ranging from readings and performances to parties and street festivals.
In Florida this weekend, Orlando-area theme parks and hotels will play host to annual Gay Days events, which are going ahead even after Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislators passed a series of anti-LGBTQ+ laws, some of which barred classroom discussion of sexual orientation.
Pride events are happening globally as well, drawing major crowds in places including Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv, Madrid and Toronto.
At some past events, there have been concerns about commercialism and corporate presence that overshadow real issues that are still unresolved. In New York City for the past few years, there has been a second event on the same day of the larger Pride march. The Reclaim Pride Coalition says their event hearkens back to the spirit of protest that animated Stonewall.
The New York City Dyke March channels the idea that Pride is about protest, not just parades.
WHAT ARE THE FLASHPOINTS?
Pride parades had plenty to celebrate in recent years, such as in 2015, when the U.S. Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriage in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
But the last several years have been more difficult; Pride events were restricted during the pandemic, and when they returned to in-person last year, it was with a sense of urgency, given the rise of hateful rhetoric and anti-LGBTQ legislative action.
Around the country, at least 17 states have put restrictions or bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors, and transgender athletes are facing restrictions at schools in at least 20 states.
“This is a year where sentiment is going to be revolving around resistance and about finding strength and community and centering our joy and our right to exist and our right to be here,” said Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senior counsel for the Human Rights Campaign organization.
LGBTQ+ communities, Oakley said, need to “commit ourselves to continued resistance against the forces that are trying to prevent us from being our full, joyful, happy, thriving selves. ... And band together and fight back against the very oppressive forces that are coming for us.”
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Nick Saban dropped some clear markers in his Tuesday speech at SEC media days about position groups of most concern as fall camp approaches -- cornerback, offensive line and wide receiver.
Saban, though, can rest easy about his outside linebackers.
Alabama has struck gold when recruiting the position in recent years and could have its best group of pass rushers in Saban’s 16-season tenure to show for it this fall. And if the group was not already the nation’s best last season -- a strong argument could be made it was -- junior Will Anderson wants to make sure of it this season.
“As a room, that’s our ultimate goal: we’re going to be the best outside linebacker group in the nation,” he said Tuesday in Atlanta. “We’re going to prove that to everybody this year.”
The Tide finished third in the country in averaging 3.8 sacks per game last season, while Anderson led the country with 17.5 sacks. Anderson lost his bookend in fifth-year senior Christopher Allen to an injury in the opener and five-star sophomore Drew Sanders was also injured after replacing Allen. But five-star freshman Dallas Turner emerged midseason to finish with 8.5 sacks while earning freshman All-America honors.
“Dallas has always been a really good player,” Anderson said. “I remember, like, watching him in practice and everything like that. He’s always been the factor. He’s gonna be really good for us this year. He’s gonna be a big piece of our defense this year and I’m excited to watch him play.”
The duo of Anderson and Turner would likely top any coach’s list as the best pass-rushing pair in the country, but a third option has entered the picture in Chris Braswell, another former five-star recruit. Braswell made strides this spring to the point where Saban said after April’s spring game that he views the junior as a third starter at the position.
“I can’t wait to watch him flourish and bloom into the player he is going to be,” Anderson said of Braswell.
Alabama has already experimented with putting all three of its top pass rushers on the field at the same time.
“I want everybody to eat,” Anderson said. “I’m so excited for the outside linebacker room because there’s a lot of dogs in that room, and they’re hungry.”
Anderson said Saban asked him to gain weight this offseason and he now weighs about 250 pounds after spending last season at 245.
“It’s more lean, so I really don’t look like I weigh 250 pounds,” he said. “But I feel good, I’m moving good, the coaches love it, so it’s been great.”
There is also a new coach in the room in Coleman Hutzler, who also serves as the Tide’s special teams coordinator. Hutzler has coached for Ole Miss, Texas and South Carolina the past three seasons.
“He’s been doing a great job of helping us watch film of the NFL guys and all those sorts of things,” Anderson said. “Right now we’re watching Nick Bosa and Von Miller, and those two have been really the two key players we’ve been hitting on. He thinks I’m kind of similar to them in some of the stuff I do.”
Although Sanders transferred to Arkansas this offseason, Alabama added another five-star pass rusher in Jeremiah Alexander, the Thompson product who was among the nation’s top-rated recruits for 2022.
“The linebacker corps that we have at Alabama is something special,” Anderson said. “The younger guys have been doing a tremendous job learning plays and they’re so talented. I appreciate our group a lot. We all have the same mindset, all have the same mentality.
“There’s no knuckleheads in our room whatsoever. They’re 10 toes in our room. They’re always alert, attentive to detail, everything. We push each other every day at practice. We want to be great.
“We want to be the best outside linebacker group in the nation. We talk about that as a unit. Every day we go to practice, that’s something that we do. We’re gonna go out there and be the best group on the field, every game. That’s any game we play in, and that’s the whole of college football. That’s our big goal.”
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CA San Francisco Bay Area Zone Forecast for Thursday, May 26, 2022
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.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Clear. Lows around 50. Highs in
the mid 50s to upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the upper 50s to lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50.
Highs in the mid 50s to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Francisco 52 64 51 63 / 0 0 0 10
Ocean Beach 50 60 51 60 / 0 0 0 10
$$
CAZ509-280100-
San Francisco Peninsula Coast-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
$$
CAZ508-280100-
San Francisco Bay Shoreline-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds
10 to 20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs near 70. West winds around 5 mph
increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, breezy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Clear, breezy. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 50s. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Breezy. Highs in the upper 60s to mid
70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SFO Airport 54 68 54 67 / 0 0 0 10
Oakland 54 69 53 68 / 0 0 0 10
Fremont 55 74 54 70 / 0 0 0 10
Redwood City 53 76 52 73 / 0 0 0 10
Mountain View 55 73 54 70 / 0 0 0 10
$$
CAZ510-280100-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs near 80. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. West winds 10 to
20 mph...becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. West winds 10 to
20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s
to mid 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Clear. Highs in the 80s to lower
90s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 80s to lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 53 78 53 73 / 0 0 0 10
Livermore 53 78 52 72 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ513-280100-
Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the mid
50s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds around 5 mph...
becoming west 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph...
becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. West winds 10 to
20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in
the lower 50s. Highs in the mid 80s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower 80s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 55 78 54 73 / 0 0 0 10
Morgan Hill 52 80 51 74 / 0 0 0 10
$$
CAZ512-280100-
Santa Cruz Mountains-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows around 50.
Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 60s to mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows around 50. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. West
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 5 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s to upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 60s to upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near
50. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to 70s.
$$
CAZ515-280100-
East Bay Hills-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest
winds around 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. Southwest
winds 15 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper
40s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows
in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 80.
$$
CAZ514-280100-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s to upper 50s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MEMORIAL DAY...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the 40s to
mid 50s. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
CAZ529-280100-
Northern Monterey Bay-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows around 50. Northwest
winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the
mid 60s to lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming northeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s. West
winds around 5 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 10 to 20 mph in
the evening...becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid to upper 40s. Highs in the 70s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 49 72 49 71 / 0 0 0 10
$$
CAZ530-280100-
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Light
winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds 10 to
20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Monterey 53 68 52 68 / 0 0 0 10
Big Sur 49 70 51 70 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ528-280100-
Northern Salinas Valley...Hollister Valley...and Carmel Valley-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows in the lower to mid
50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s to mid
70s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs around 70. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows near 50. West winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming
5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 40s. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the
lower 70s to mid 80s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Salinas 52 68 51 68 / 0 0 0 10
Carmel Valley 50 75 49 70 / 0 0 0 10
Hollister 52 74 51 71 / 0 0 0 10
$$
CAZ516-280100-
Southern Salinas Valley...Arroyo Seco...and Lake San Antonio-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Patchy fog. Lows around 50.
Light winds.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Light
winds...becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows
around 50.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 90. Lows
in the lower 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
King City 50 81 49 76 / 0 0 0 0
$$
CAZ517-280100-
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50. East winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to upper 70s. Southeast winds up to
5 mph...becoming north in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s to mid 70s. Northwest
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. Northwest winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 50s to
lower 70s. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the mid 60s to lower
80s. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
70s to mid 80s. Lows in the 50s.
$$
CAZ518-280100-
Mountains of San Benito and Interior Monterey County including
Pinnacles National Park-
301 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid
50s. Southwest winds up to 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the 70s to lower 80s. Southwest winds up to
5 mph...becoming west 5 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. Northwest winds
10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 80s. Northwest
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MEMORIAL DAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the 60s to 70s.
Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the upper 60s to mid
80s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
50s. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 90s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pinnacles NP 49 83 49 76 / 0 0 0 0
$$
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, May 8, 2023
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
722 PM CDT Mon May 8 2023
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Coleman
County through 800 PM CDT...
At 722 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Fisk, or near Valera. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of central Coleman
County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3170 9951 3178 9945 3174 9936 3165 9940
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 120DEG 1KT 3172 9945
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Chambers, southern Liberty and east central Harris Counties through
815 PM CDT...
At 724 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Dayton, moving east at 30 mph. A wind gust of 51 mph was observed on
the south side of Lake Houston at 710 PM CDT.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea to marble size hail.
Locations impacted include...
Northern Baytown, Liberty, Dayton, Beach City, Barrett, Highlands,
Crosby, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac, Old River-Winfree, Ames, Daisetta,
Hardin, Kenefick, Cove, Devers, Dayton Lakes, Hankamer and
Wallisville.
Locally heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may
lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through
flooded roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
office in League City.
LAT...LON 2975 9505 3012 9505 3018 9462 3011 9460
3011 9450 2976 9450
TIME...MOT...LOC 0024Z 270DEG 31KT 3000 9490
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s navy located the boat of a missing American sailor off the country’s southern coast, but the Maryland man who had been piloting it solo wasn’t found, authorities said Friday.
Donald Lawson’s capsized trimaran was found Thursday night by a patrol boat involved in the search 356 nautical miles (about 410 miles or 660 kilometers) southwest of the resort city of Acapulco, according to the navy’s press office.
The navy said that it would continue its search for Lawson, 41, an experienced sailor.
A plane had reported spotting a boat similar to the description of Lawson’s on July 23 about 320 nautical miles (370 miles or 595 kilometers) south of Acapulco. The navy sent boats to the area, but it wasn’t until Thursday night that they found it.
Port authorities in Acapulco said that Lawson had arrived on Jan. 26 for repairs to a motor and hull of the boat. After the repairs were completed, Lawson left Acapulco on July 5, headed for the Panama Canal, where he planned to cross to the Caribbean Sea and continue north to Baltimore, Maryland.
His wife, Jacqueline Lawson, told local media outlets that on July 9, he had sent her a message saying he was having mechanical problems and the motor was losing power. Three days later, he told her a storm had knocked out his wind generator and he would try to return to Acapulco. The last satellite positioning message received for the Defiant was July 13.
Lawson, who is Black, grew up in Baltimore and from his first sailing opportunity at age 9, set his sights on making it his career.
“From that day forward, that was my goal – become a professional sailor,” Lawson said in a profile published by U.S. Sailing last year.
He started out cleaning boats, folding sails and stowing gear in Annapolis. Later, he and his wife founded the Dark Seas Project, an effort to increase diversity in the sport of sailing. He is the chairman of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for U.S. Sailing.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Five people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported.
Rescue teams were deployed near the epicenter, Sayeh Khosh village, which is home to around 300 people in Hormozgan province, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital, Tehran, the report said.
People went into the streets as aftershocks continued to jolt the area after the early morning quake, which also damaged buildings and infrastructure.
The earthquake was felt in many neighboring countries, the report said.
The area has seen several moderate earthquakes in recent weeks. In November, one man died following two magnitude 6.4 and 6.3 earthquakes.
Iran lies on major seismic faults and experiences one earthquake a day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people. A magnitude 7 earthquake that struck western Iran in 2017 killed more than 600 people and injured more than 9,000.
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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Professors at the New College of Florida are using personal email because they’re afraid of being subpoenaed.
Students are concerned, too. Some fear for their physical safety. Many worry their teachers will be fired en masse and their courses and books will be policed. It’s increasingly hard to focus on their studies.
For years, students have come to this public liberal arts college on the western coast of Florida because they were self-described free thinkers. Now they find themselves caught in the crosshairs of America’s culture war.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has targeted the tiny school on the shores of Sarasota Bay as a staging ground for his war on “woke.” The governor and his allies say New College, a progressive school with a prominent LGBTQ+ community, is indoctrinating students with leftist ideology and should be revamped into a more conservative institution.
Students and faculty say America should take note because the transformation at New College could become a blueprint with national implications as DeSantis gears up for a likely presidential bid.
“I’m sorry, but this isn’t an indoctrination facility. This isn’t a factory that pumps out, you know, non-binary communists,” says Viv Cargille, 20, a marine biology major from Miami.
In January, DeSantis and his allies overhauled the 13-member Board of Trustees and installed a majority of conservative figures. The new trustees promptly fired the college president and replaced her with a Republican politician. Next, they dismantled the office of diversity and equity.
Changes so far have come in tandem with a new bill DeSantis unveiled Jan. 31 aimed at overhauling higher education in Florida. The bill would ban gender studies majors and minors, eliminate diversity programs and any hiring based on diversity, weaken tenure protections and put all hiring decisions in the hands of each university’s board of trustees.
The effect at New College has been chilling and disruptive. Students and faculty compare the upheaval to a “hostile takeover." It feels even more jarring because the school is for many students a haven of open-mindedness and acceptance in a place of idyllic beauty, with palm-tree-lined paths along a stretch of white-sand coast.
“It felt very much like New College was a little bubble in Florida,” said Willem Aspinall, 19, an environmental studies major who grew up in a Chicago suburb. “Now it feels like that has kind of been burst. The campus feels a lot less safe now.”
One of the new trustees is Christopher Rufo, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and architect of the right-wing outrage against critical race theory, a legal term that has come to represent teaching about the effects of slavery. Rufo actively posts on social media about his vision for the future of New College, often in militaristic terms. He has referred to new trustees at the public institution as the “landing team,” saying, “We got over the wall,” and talking of an operation to “recapture” the college.
New College has its problems. Enrollment was declining until last year. Students complain of mold in dorms, broken elevators and other delayed maintenance. Some students say they would welcome more conservative students. DeSantis and the new trustees cite the challenges as justification for the state intervention.
Some students are fleeing, for schools that feel safer. Several professors who asked not to be named are sending out resumes.
New College has long been an anomaly in a state filled with large public universities. It has barely 700 students, no fraternities or sororities, and no football team. The average class size is 11 students. There are no letter grades; students get detailed “narrative evaluations” as part of a pass-fail system.
The academic freedom is mirrored by a student body that feels free to express itself, say students and faculty, who describe New College as a haven for brainy kids who are high-achieving and intellectually curious. Some were the quiet kids in high school, or were bullied for being queer or different, or struggled socially because of autism or other disabilities. They arrived at New College and felt welcome in a way they never had before.
“It is one of the most unique places I think that exists in American higher education,” says Elizabeth C. Leininger, a neuroscientist and associate biology professor, who knows all her students by name. She compares an education at New College to small, private liberal arts schools at a fraction of the cost. In-state tuition at New College is $7,000 and out-of-state is $30,000, but many students get scholarships that cut tuition by at least half.
Students and faculty are noticing new restrictions they worry are aimed at curtailing freedom of expression. Faculty received a memo recently with new recommended guidelines for email signatures. They say the signature “should only include” name, title, college address and phone number, which faculty see as a ruling that disallows pronouns. An event known as V.I.P. Weekend that was organized by the diversity and equity office to host prospective students was abruptly canceled. And maintenance crews were recently instructed to wash away chalk drawings and messages that covered a campus overpass. Many of the chalk messages voiced outrage at DeSantis and the new trustees or carried messages of support, such as: “Diversity is our strength.”
Faculty are advising students to concentrate on schoolwork and block out the noise, but it’s hard to shake the feeling the worst is yet to come, said Aspinall, the environmental studies major.
“I’m concerned they’re going to take a school that does not indoctrinate students and turn it into a school that does.”
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In preparation for their East Coast launch the Company has redesigned the Cause Water website focusing on education and shared resources.
WESTON, Fla., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Grail Technology (OTC: GOGY) www.GoldenGrailBeverages.com is a fast-growing company with a strategic mission to innovate, build and streamline the growth of its beverage portfolio through fiscally responsible investing announces their launch of Cause Water's new and improved website https://www.causewater.com/. In preparation for their East Coast launch the company has redesigned and improved the Cause Water website. The main objective of the site is education, providing visitors a clear tutorial on why to choose aluminum over plastic, plus shared resources to encourage further learning.
According to an article found in RecycleCoach.com, single use plastics are a leading cause of ocean pollution. Half of all plastic produced is single use only, and a lot of this plastic waste makes it into the ocean.
Vantage Market Research reports the rise in the awareness related the disadvantages of using plastics and the initiative of government in banning use of such plastics that affects the environment badly has increased the growth of metal packaging market for the food and beverages during the forecast period.
"When you actively create educational programs that inspire your communities to buy less plastic, it makes a difference. Golden Grail now has two canned water brands and intends to actively market and educate on the importance of ocean and environment preservation. As a leader in the beverage industry, we have a responsibility to our planet and our community, that we take seriously," said Erin Heit, Chief Marketing Consultant, Golden Grail Tech Beverages.
The global bottled water market size was valued at USD 283.01 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.7% from 2022 to 2030 (Source Grand View Research).
Golden Grail Technology (OTC: GOGY) www.GoldenGrailBeverages.com is a fast-growing company with a strategic mission to innovate, build and streamline the growth of its beverage portfolio through fiscally responsible investing. The company targets brands that have a proven sales history, loyal consumer following, retail presence and strong value proposition who need assistance to get to the next few levels. Golden Grail has been actively acquiring brands within emerging and growing beverage categories. Our robust product offerings include Spider Energy Drink, Trevi Fruit Essence Water, Tickle Water for kids, Sketch Can for Tweens, Cause Water & KOZ Water helping reduce global plastic pollution and Scorpion Energy Hemp/CBD.
After an acquisition, the company utilizes a series of operational technologies to apply its business expertise, fiscal techniques and various manufacturing processes know-how to improve the economics and performance of each brand while advancing marketing and distribution for its beverage brands. The company's focus on sophisticated management and development of beverage brands, coupled with its rapidly growing and recognizable portfolio of healthy, functional beverages sets Golden Grail apart as a leader in acquiring and advancing existing beverage brands.
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KOZ Water is a premium purified and pH balanced water packaged in completely plastic-free 12oz and 16oz cans. KOZ Water has had much success on Amazon and on the West Coast.
For more information visit: https://kozwater.com/
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Cause Water is Pristine Mountain Spring Water with a Cause
Cause Water has three key initiatives be a vessel for change, do your part and encouraging consumers to join the cause, by drinking Cause Water. A fully recyclable aluminum bottle and cap supports its core mission of plastic reduction and ocean preservation. Cause Water can be found in high-end, influential natural food stores along the West Coast.
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Tickle Water is a premium sparkling water company dedicated to providing honest and clean hydration. Tickle Water is the first sparkling water in the market created specifically for children, yet enjoyed by all ages, complete with delicious flavors and a recyclable can, making it the perfect beverage for any occasion. Every can of Tickle Water is simply made with premium sparkling water and natural flavors without artificial ingredients, sugar, sodium, or preservatives.
For more information visit http://www.drinkticklewater.com
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'Sketch Can' - The first and only 'sketch can' features a personalization space and a social media hash tag to invite Tickle fans to interact with the brand by drawing on the can and then sharing their custom can on Tik Tok. 'Sketch Can' provides kids with a brand they can call their own. It is a healthy premium sparkling water and natural flavors without artificial ingredients, sugar, sodium, or preservatives. 'Sketch Can' comes in a fully recyclable package, in two delicious flavors Watermelon and Sour Green Apple. Kids won't be able to resist the urge to sip and sketch.
Trevi Essence Water is a true clean-label beverage with a superior flavor that stays true to the fruit. Trevi has zero sugar, zero calories, no preservatives, no artificial ingredients, gluten free, vegan, kosher and diet friendly. Trevi comes in four delicious flavors Mango Orange, Coconut Lime, Peach and Grapefruit.
For more information visit www.DrinkTrevi.com
https://www.facebook.com/DrinkTrevi
https://www.instagram.com/drinktreviwater/
https://twitter.com/drinktreviwater
Spider Energy Drink is packed with serious energy. This formula is the perfect balance of energy boosting B-vitamins, Taurine, Guarana, Ginseng, Key Levels of Amino Acids and herbal extracts. Made with 100% real sugar, Spider Energy is known as one of the best tasting with a fresh-citrus, smooth and refreshing flavor, without the medicinal aftertaste associated with most energy drinks.
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As soon as June 1, the federal government will run out of money to pay its bills. Unless Congress raises the debt ceiling and allows the Treasury to borrow money for spending already approved by Congress, the United States will default on its financial obligations.
House Republicans passed a bill on April 26 that would raise the debt limit, but it comes with a number of stipulations, including broad cuts to federal spending.
The bill is likely to fail in the Democrat-controlled Senate, making it mostly a starting point for negotiations on the debt ceiling issue. VERIFY viewers like Tom wanted to know whether the proposed cuts would affect veterans’ benefits, administered by the federal Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA).
THE QUESTION
Does the House Republicans’ debt ceiling bill cut veterans’ benefits?
THE SOURCES
- Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.)
- Congressional Budget Office
- David Wessel, Director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings
THE ANSWER
The text of the bill as passed by the House does not specifically cut the budget of the Department of Veterans Affairs. But it does mandate broad federal spending cuts and does not exempt the VA from those cuts.
WHAT WE FOUND
The GOP proposal is called the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023. It passed the House on a narrow party-line vote, with 217 Republicans voting in favor, and four Republicans joining 211 Democrats in voting against.
Of the bill’s 316 pages, three deal with raising the debt ceiling and nine deal with capping federal spending. The rest address other Republican priorities.
The spending cuts come primarily via a cap on discretionary spending. That’s federal spending approved through the annual appropriations process. It’s called “discretionary” because it differs from mandatory spending – like Social Security – which is approved through previously existing laws. There’s also supplemental spending – like the COVID stimulus package – which is approved individually outside the annual process.
“[Discretionary appropriations] are the bills that fund government salaries, electricity for all government offices, they pay for bullets and missiles, they pay the rent on offices the government rents,” said David Wessel, a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution.
The Republican plan places an overall limit on discretionary spending. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill would require $3.6 trillion in cuts over the next decade.
For instance, the CBO calculated that currently, Congress has authorized about $1.91 trillion in discretionary spending for 2024. The CBO estimates that the GOP bill would reduce that authorization to about $1.68 trillion, a nearly $230 billion dollar cut for 2024.
So where would those cuts come from? The bill doesn’t say. Decisions about where cuts would actually be made would have to come via the appropriations process.
“It's very easy to say ‘I want to cap discretionary spending, and I'll figure out later what gets cut.’ The people who propose the caps do this on purpose because they don't want to pick and choose; they don't want to make enemies of people whose programs are going to be cut,” said Wessel. “And the people who oppose the cap say, ‘well, if you impose this across the board, XYZ is going to be cut.’ There’s no way to win that argument.”
The Biden administration says at least some of the cuts would affect veterans’ benefits; House Republicans dispute that.
Prior to the bill’s passage in the House, the Department of Veterans Affairs issued a press release containing an analysis of how the cuts could affect veterans’ benefits.
The analysis assumed a 22% cut, even though the CBO estimated the total cuts would be 15.7%. That’s because the VA assumed none of the cuts would be made to defense spending, and so other departments would have to take on an increased burden. Republicans say they will not approve cuts to defense spending, but the text of the bill does not specifically exempt the military from reductions.
The VA warned that cuts of that magnitude would reduce veterans' access to healthcare, require staff cuts, cause longer wait times for veterans, cause VA infrastructure to deteriorate, and delay needed technological updates.
The text of the bill does not, however, specifically mandate a 22 percent cut to the VA or any other department. Although, as with defense, it does not specifically exempt the VA or any other department from budget reductions either.
Following the VA’s warnings, House Republican leaders stated they would not allow cuts to veterans’ benefits or to the military, and accused the Biden administration of purposefully mischaracterizing the bill.
“As the majority leader, I will not bring a bill to the floor of the House… that cuts our veterans,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in an interview April 30 on ABC’s This Week.
Wessel says broad-but-vague caps like this one have been instituted by Congress before, with mixed results.
“In the early 1990s, this was done, and Congress did a pretty good job of living within the caps. It's a way of tying its own hands,” he said. “[The caps] can't be ignored. But they can be maneuvered around, because whatever Congress says one year, they can undo the next year.” | https://www.12news.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/republican-debt-ceiling-plan-cuts-veterans-benefits-fact-check/536-0a0349b7-d695-4d11-b8cb-4da0bd417da8 | 2023-05-04 01:21:34 | 0 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/republican-debt-ceiling-plan-cuts-veterans-benefits-fact-check/536-0a0349b7-d695-4d11-b8cb-4da0bd417da8 |
By JOHN FLESHER
AP Environmental Writer
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will study whether to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways.
EPA has not revised its rules dealing with the nation’s largest animal operations — which hold thousands of hogs, chickens and cattle — since 2008. The agency said in 2021 it planned no changes but announced Friday it had reconsidered in response to an environmental group’s lawsuit.
While not committing to stronger requirements, EPA acknowledged needing more recent data about the extent of the problem — and affordable methods to limit it.
“EPA has decided to gather additional information and conduct a detailed study on these issues in order to be able to make an informed decision as to whether to undertake rulemaking,” the agency said.
Food & Water Watch, whose lawsuit prompted the agency’s reversal, said a new approach was long overdue.
“For decades EPA’s lax rules have allowed for devastating and widespread public health and environmental impacts on vulnerable communities across the country,” Tarah Heinzen, the group’s legal director, said Monday.
Beef, poultry and pork have become more affordable staples in the American diet thanks to industry consolidation and the rise of giant farms. Yet federal and state environmental agencies often lack basic information such as where they’re located, how many animals they’re raising and how they deal with manure.
Runoff of waste and fertilizers from the operations — and from croplands where manure is spread — fouls streams, rivers and lakes. It’s a leading cause of algae blooms that create hazards in many waterways and dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Erie.
Under the Clean Water Act, EPA regulates large farms — known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs — covered by federal pollution permits. Federal law requires only those known to discharge waste to obtain permits, although some states make others do so.
EPA’s most recent tally shows 6,266 of the nation’s 21,237 CAFOs have permits.
In its plan, the agency said its rules impose “substantial and detailed requirements” on production areas — barns and feedlots where animals are held, plus manure storage facilities — as well as land where manure and wastewater are spread.
While prohibiting releases to waterways, the rules make exceptions for production area discharges caused by severe rainfall and for stormwater-related runoff from croplands where waste was applied in keeping with plans that manage factors such as timing and amounts.
In deciding whether to revise the rules, EPA said it would consider how well they’re controlling pollution and how changing them would bring improvements.
The agency conceded its data on discharges to waterways is “sparse,” with a preliminary analysis based on reports from only 16 CAFOs. In addition to seeking information from more farms, EPA said it would assess whether discharges are widespread nationally or concentrated in particular states or regions.
It also will look into practices and technologies developed since the rules were last revised, their potential effectiveness at preventing releases, and their cost to farm owners and operators. Under the law, new requirements on farms must be “technologically available and economically achievable.”
Revising water pollution rules typically takes several years, three full-time employees and $1 million per year for contractor help, EPA said. The study will determine whether “the potential environmental benefits of undertaking rulemaking justify devoting the significant resources that are required,” it said.
Livestock groups have said government regulation is strong enough and that voluntary measures such as planting off-season cover crops and buffer strips between croplands and waterways are the best way to curb runoff. The American Farm Bureau Federation declined comment Monday.
Environmental groups argue regulations should cover more farms, require better construction of manure lagoons to avoid leaks, and outlaw practices such as spreading waste on frozen ground, where it often washes away during rainstorms or thaws.
“We’re not talking about really expensive fixes here,” said Emily Miller, staff attorney with Food & Water Watch. “We need the standards to be stronger so they actually prevent discharges as they’re supposed to do.”
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Salt and Light benefit draws crowd to support Area Relief Ministries
A large crowd attended the Salt and Light Benefit Dinner for Area Relief Ministries held at the Carl Perkins Civic Center in Jackson, Tennessee on Sept. 11.
This year’s dinner featured the Jackson Symphony and included a special performance by Kellye Cash, Miss America 1987, and gospel artist Vonda Peete.
The patriotic theme of the evening was "Salute to the Big Apple," benefitting Area Relief Ministries' Room in the Inn, serving those experiencing homelessness.
The program partners with local churches and businesses to provide housing and meals each night to the homeless in Jackson.
ARM seeks to help the homeless make life changes with job training, job placement, and permanent housing. It also provides emergency services for low-income members of the community. This year marks ARM’s 45th year of serving the community.
ARM Executive Director Mike Roby expressed gratitude to supporters who attended the Salt & Light Banquet.
“We are extremely excited to bring this program to the community this year,” Roby said. “Peter Shannon and the Jackson Symphony will perform songs from the Big Apple, some gospel and patriotic songs in memory of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in our nation. We hope that the songs inspire, unite and encourage.” | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/2022/09/23/salt-and-light-benefit-draws-crowd-support-area-relief-ministries/69513160007/ | 2022-09-23 23:49:27 | 1 | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/2022/09/23/salt-and-light-benefit-draws-crowd-support-area-relief-ministries/69513160007/ |
RIP Medical Debt has found a working formula to relieve medical debt for millions of people. It still has room to grow.
The New York nonprofit uses donations to buy medical debt in bulk from hospitals and debt collectors for pennies on the dollar. It mostly targets the debt of people with low incomes and then forgives the amounts.
Founded in 2014, the organization says that it has relieved more than $8.5 billion in medical debt so far.
Researchers have estimated that there is well over $100 billion in collections in the U.S.
RIP Medical Debt named Allison Sesso CEO shortly before the pandemic hit in 2020. She wants to continue expanding the amount of debt her organization buys, especially from hospitals. She also wants to draw more attention to a system that keeps generating debt.
The 47-year-old executive spoke recently with The Associated Press. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
Q: How does most of the debt you relieve develop? Does it come from a certain type of care?
A: It can be from dental work. It can be from a hospital bill. It is more about how good your coverage is and how expensive the cost is and loopholes within the system than it is from the provider type.
Q: Has anything surprised you about the nature of the debt you relieve?
A: I had this assumption that medical debt was burdening people in large sums. And I’ve come to realize that a lot of the debt is deductible amounts, which means that people are underinsured, not uninsured.
Q: How small are these amounts that wind up in collections?
A: We relieve a lot of debts that are $500 to $5,000.
Q: You have started buying debt from hospitals that they are not trying to collect. Why bother?
A: When the hospital stops collecting, they don’t notify the patients. … So in the patient’s mind, they still owe the debt. Then the patient doesn’t get the care that they need from that hospital. There’s a mental health component to having medical debt that is significant. It creates anxiety and stress.
Q: Why do you relieve debt randomly and not take requests?
A: For efficiency and for lowering our costs. It would require a lot of individuals to look at those applications and sort through them.
Q: Are there new areas of debt collection you want to explore?
A: Our main goal is to get as much debt as possible from more and more hospitals, ideally, and other direct providers. But we also understand that our work is a stopgap. So, we’re increasingly using our ability to turn $1 into $100, on average, of medical debt relief to raise awareness about the issue and advocate for policy changes that fix this problem more fundamentally. | https://www.koin.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-rip-medical-debt-seeks-to-buy-resolve-more-hospital-debt/ | 2023-02-14 11:47:21 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-rip-medical-debt-seeks-to-buy-resolve-more-hospital-debt/ |
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A portion of Bud Henderson Road in Huntersville was closed Thursday morning after a large tree fell overnight and blocked the roadway, according to police.
Officials said the tree fell in the area of Darblay Street and covered the entire roadway.
It also pulled down power lines, police said. A Duke Energy Outage map showed that no customers had lost power.
Crews responded and removed the tree, allowing for the road to be reopened around 7 a.m. | https://www.qcnews.com/traffic/huntersville-road-closed-after-large-tree-falls-takes-down-power-lines/ | 2022-09-23 01:47:18 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/traffic/huntersville-road-closed-after-large-tree-falls-takes-down-power-lines/ |
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