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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – UNM Lobos new offensive coordinator Bryant Vincent is hoping to give his new team a boost. After finishing last in the nation in total offense the last two seasons the Lobos are hoping to have a reversal of fortune in 2023.
Vincent is in the Sports Office this week talking about his plans to revamp the Lobos offense. He also talks about some of the talent that he has to work with. The former UAB offensive coordinator did not come alone. His former UAB quarterback Dylan Hopkins and receiver Ryan Davis are along for the ride. | https://www.krqe.com/sports/local-sports/lobos-oc-bryant-vincent-is-in-van-tates-sports-office/ | 2023-01-19 15:59:02 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/sports/local-sports/lobos-oc-bryant-vincent-is-in-van-tates-sports-office/ |
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a new incontinence product for men who suffer from leakage or incontinence issues," said an inventor, from New Caney, Texas, "so I invented the MALE URINARY DIAPER. My comfortable design would be less bulky and it would create less solid waste for landfills than standard diapers or incontinence briefs."
The invention provides an improved incontinence product for men. In doing so, it offers an alternative to traditional incontinence products. As a result, it prevents leakage onto clothing, pajamas and bedding and it increases comfort and hygiene. The invention features an effective design that is easy to wear and change so it is ideal for incontinent men, nursing homes, hospitals, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Houston sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-HOF-275, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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BEIJING (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden is planning to speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in four months, with a wide range of bilateral and international issues on the table.
But a potential visit to Taiwan by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is looming over the conversation set for Thursday, with China warning of a severe response if she travels to the self-governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory.
On Wednesday, China’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the presidential phone call. However, spokesperson Zhao Lijian reiterated China’s warnings over a Pelosi visit.
“If the U.S. insists on going its own way and challenging China’s bottom line, it will surely be met with forceful responses,” Zhao told reporters at a daily briefing. “All ensuing consequences shall be borne by the U.S.”
Pelosi’s office has yet to say when, or even if, she will proceed with the visit, but the timing is especially sensitive amid heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington over trade, human rights and Taiwan.
While the U.S. has in recent years sent a Cabinet secretary and high-ranking former officials to Taiwan, Pelosi’s status as the top congressional Democrat and second in line of succession to the presidency puts her in a separate category. The speaker has made standing up to China a key feature of her more than three decades in Congress.
While Biden has no authority to prevent Pelosi visiting, China’s authoritarian Communist government chooses to ignore the separation of powers in the U.S., saying Congress is beholden to the administration. In Beijing’s perception, the fact both belong to the Democratic Party reinforces the notion that Pelosi is somehow working with Biden’s assent.
Despite that, Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed it was “not a good idea” for the speaker to visit the island at the moment. The Financial Times reported last week that Pelosi planned to visit Taiwan in August, a trip that had originally been planned for April but was postponed after she tested positive for COVID-19.
Pelosi would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to travel to Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he served as House speaker. Gingrich and other prominent Republicans who are normally highly critical of Pelosi have offered their encouragement, saying China has no right to dictate where Americans can travel to.
China has given no details on what specific actions it would take in response, but experts say it could launch additional incursions into waters and airspace near Taiwan, or even cross the center line of the Taiwan Strait dividing the two. Some have speculated China might even attempt to prevent her plane from landing, something that would spark a major crisis and is generally considered unlikely.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press that if Pelosi goes to Taiwan, the military will increase movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region.
They declined to provide details, but said that fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets and other military systems would likely be used to provide overlapping rings of protection for her flight to Taiwan and any time on the ground there.
A possible Pelosi visit makes it even more important that Xi and Biden hold a meaningful discussion, said Yu Wanli, a professor of international relations at Beijing Language and Culture University.
Although both their administrations are opposed to it, Pelosi’s visit “has been hijacked by U.S. domestic politics, with Republicans and other forces exerting pressure not to show weakness to China,” Yu said.
“The issue of how China and the U.S. manage and control the Taiwan issue has become an urgent matter, and therefore the talk between the two leaders is very timely and necessary,” he said.
The U.S. has only informal relations and defense ties with Taipei in deference to China, but remains the island’s most important source of military and political support. Legally, the U.S. is obligated to ensure Taiwan can defend itself and regard threats to it as matters of “grave concern.”
China, which in recent years has boosted its threat to use force to annex Taiwan if necessary, objects to all U.S. arms sales and contacts with the island’s government.
It regularly stages military exercises and flies warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, in what it calls warnings to supporters of the island’s formal independence and their foreign allies.
The sides split amid civil war in 1949 and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has refused Beijing’s demand that she recognize the island as a part of China. Public sentiment in Taiwan strongly favors maintaining the status quo of de-facto independence without further antagonizing Beijing.
Along with Taiwan, North Korea’s nuclear program, Beijing’s close ties to Russia, efforts by Biden to revive the Iran nuclear deal and the status of the U.S. administration’s review of tough tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration are likely to feature in discussions between the leaders.
Taiwan was a central topic during Biden and Xi’s last call in March, about three weeks after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. China has refused to criticize Russia’s move, blames the U.S. and NATO for provoking Moscow and has blasted punishing sanctions imposed on Vladimir Putin’s government and political cronies. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/xi-biden-to-speak-as-possible-pelosi-taiwan-visit-looms/ | 2022-07-27 20:23:05 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/xi-biden-to-speak-as-possible-pelosi-taiwan-visit-looms/ |
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered at least half a dozen pumpkin pies to Massachusetts firefighters during a Thanksgiving Day show of appreciation and his toddler grandson walked away with a red fire hat topping his blond curls.
“Oh wow,” Biden was heard to say upon seeing Beau Biden, who is nearly 3, emerge from the headquarters building wearing the hat. The president was with the firefighters who had lined up outside the building to welcome him.
Biden had expressed appreciation for firefighters and other emergency personnel earlier in the day when he and his wife, Jill, spoke by telephone to the hosts of NBC's broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
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“I want to say thanks to the firefighters and police officers, first responders. They never take a break,” he said during the call. The Bidens spoke later Thursday with units from each of the six branches of the U.S. military, stationed in Europe, at sea, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, the White House said.
“We remember them every single day,” he said during the broadcast. “God bless our troops.”
Jill Biden appeared to try to get her grandson to talk to the firefighters, but Beau would not look up. She was overheard saying she did not know why he was being so quiet.
During a brief conversation with reporters, Biden said he hopes the upcoming Republican-controlled House will continue U.S. aid to Ukraine. He also said his team is involved in negotiations to avoid a freight rail strike in early December that could further disrupt the economy.
After the visit, Biden returned to the Nantucket home where he is taking in the holiday with family, including son Hunter and his wife, Melissa — who are Beau's parents — and daughter Ashley.
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They are camping out at a sprawling waterfront compound along Nantucket Harbor owned by David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm. Biden celebrated Thanksgiving at the home in 2021.
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Marc Provencher was in mid-conversation Wednesday when he saw the angel who saved his life last summer.
Wearing a smile big enough to chase away the dark clouds overhead and holding back a few tears, Provencher embraced his hero, Christine Shaw, in a powerful and emotional hug.
“I’ve been waiting for that,” Provencher said. “Without her, I wouldn’t be here.”
Shaw was among 15 people honored with New Hampshire Hero Awards during an afternoon ceremony Wednesday outside the State House. The program is sponsored by Citizens and presented by the New Hampshire Union Leader.
The awards honor New Hampshire residents who have risked their lives to save or attempt to save the life of another person.
Provencher was riding his wife’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle north on Interstate 93, heading to their home in Pittsburg last July when something happened to the bike, pulling it left into the guardrail and scraping Provencher against the metal.
Provencher, seeing blood spurting from his shattered left arm, thought he was going to die. That’s when Shaw, an advanced EMT with Linwood Ambulance Service, appeared next to him and applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding while fellow EMT A.J. Sousa worked to stabilize him.
Both happened to be passing by on the highway when they came upon the accident scene. Both Sousa and Shaw received New Hampshire Hero Awards for their actions.
As Shaw received her award, Provencher made his way to the front of the crowd to present her with a bouquet of flowers.
“These two saved my life,” Provencher said. “It’s great to see them again. I wasn’t ready to go. This event is awesome. They deserve this.”
Shaw said “it’s way better” to see Provencher “like this.”
“He’s standing — I like seeing him in the vertical, instead of horizontal,” Shaw said.
Sousa said he liked the fact the Hero Awards offered so many like him a chance to feel a sense of closure.
“To see someone that was on the brink of death, hanging on for dear life, and a year later he’s thriving and smiling,” Sousa said. “It’s really awesome to see that.”
Union Leader President and Publisher Brendan McQuaid told the stories of each life-saving event before calling on recipients to receive their plaques.
“To be recognized here today, an individual must risk their life to save the life or attempt to save the life of another,” McQuaid said. “We are excited to present this year’s heroes today, and honor them as they should be for their heroic efforts.”
Joe Carelli, president of Citizens in New Hampshire and Vermont, said his bank has been a sponsor of the awards since 2008.
“I personally look forward to this day every year,” Carelli said. “It’s an opportunity for us and our friends at the Union Leader to shine a spotlight on individuals who, in that one particular moment they came across someone in need, put themselves, their families and their futures aside to be able to take care of that individual. Those selfless acts should not go unrecognized.”
Last May, Portsmouth Detective Rochelle Jones responded to a report of a despondent man threatening to jump from the Piscataqua River Bridge. Her actions at the scene saved his life.
She was grateful she didn’t have to make a speech as she accepted the award. But she spoke afterward about what the day meant to her.
“People use the word hero a lot,” Jones said. “I think it’s good that we’re acknowledged because I think it can inspire others to do the same. Just to be sitting here and hear the other stories too, it’s inspiring.”
Shaw had some wisdom for people reading the stories of those honored at this year’s ceremony.
“I tell people you don’t even know the amazing things you can do.”
The NH Heroes
The 15 honorees at Wednesday’s event were:
Portsmouth Police Detective Rochelle Jones
Christine Shaw, North Woodstock
A.J. Sousa, North Woodstock
Hampton Police Officer Haley Magee
Dover Police Sgt. Juel Cooper
Dover Det. Molly Martuscello
Tiffany White, Bedford
Michelle Cleary, Derry
Jose Carrasquillo
Ben Carrasquillo
New Hampshire Air National Guard Lt. Col. Tori Scearbo, R.N.
Jeff Neil, Exeter
Jay Pichardo, Nashua
Tom Kehoe, Nashua
Corrections Officer Sgt. Jeffrey Kelley
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It’ll take longer for first-class packages to be delivered
(CNN) - It may take the post office a little longer to deliver your small packages.
The United States Postal Service announced Monday it is updating its first-class delivery standards, but the service is not getting faster.
Instead, the USPS will add one to two days on the delivery of nearly a third of its first class small packages.
The postal service says the additional days will allow them to have more time to deliver long distance and to increase the efficiency of their network.
They even say about 4% of customers may see their packages get delivered a day earlier.
The postal service also plans to change its priority mail delivery, but this time it is dropping the additional day it added in 2020.
The slightly faster service will only be for mail delivered over its ground network.
The new changes take effect May 1.
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Mississippi deputy fatally shoots man who approached vehicle holding weapon
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation probing the shooting
A sheriff's deputy in south Mississippi on Sunday shot and killed a person who approached the deputy's parked vehicle while holding a weapon, a state agency said.
A news release from the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said the Lincoln County deputy was parked on the side of a state highway when the shooting happened at about 10:30 a.m.
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The news release did not name the deputy or the person who was killed. It said no officers were injured.
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OPINION: Sarasota's citizens deserve proof on need for new arts center
Recently the city of Sarasota and a newly formed nonprofit agreed on a contract to build a new performing arts center to replace the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. But it was clearly far too premature for the city to sign such a deal.
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The contract, which creates significant obligations for the city, was not competitively sought – and there was inadequate public scrutiny and debate before it was hurriedly approved by the Sarasota City Commission on a split 3-2 vote. In reality, an undertaking of this magnitude should only occur with a community that is solidly united behind a demonstrably feasible plan.
The recent Sarasota Orchestra initiative to build a large new performing arts facility near Interstate 75 has changed the environment significantly from what it might have been a few years ago. Previously, building a new city-owned venue to replace the Van Wezel could have been conditioned on securing collaborative joint use with the Sarasota Orchestra and others in need of a large venue. In addition, there could have been conditions in place to avoid constructing that large venue on the bayfront, notwithstanding that location’s aesthetic appeal to high-end patrons.
That was then, however, and this is now. And right now a “no build” option is a more prudent path.
There is nothing in law or custom that says a city government the size of Sarasota should be in the business of owning or operating a performing arts hall. This is particularly true given that the current competitive environment could create huge constraints on both initial fundraising and future operations.
The Sarasota Orchestra plans to build a facility that will serve the Greater Sarasota community, and it will undoubtedly seek to maximize its return on investment by trying to attract the kind of events for non-orchestra dates that would overlap with the Van Wezel's preferred programming.
There is also a real chance that competing for the resources needed to simultaneously build two large local venues could cause the orchestra and the new performing arts center to cannibalize each other’s efforts – and seriously affect the ability of either to thrive on a long-term basis.
Finally, and most appealing to me, the good work by the Bay Park Conservancy that is emerging on the bayfront is poised to produce a viable and defining feature of downtown – and one without a huge new building overwhelming the site. It will be a wonderful green space that will attract and sustain a lot of community use by regular folks. And it won't be a merely business-oriented site that could be facing an uncertain future.
I have a great deal of respect for the leadership of the Conservancy, but it is continuing to march on a path it was made to take several years ago by a city commission that wanted the Van Wezel to be replaced. Now, however, there must be a realization that things have changed since then – and dramatically so.
It would be tantamount to civic misfeasance for the city to downplay the numerous and serious challenges that could hurt the feasibility of a new performing arts center – and, even worse, for the city to not have a strategic plan in place to address such concerns.
It’s time to reassess things.
If such an undertaking is genuinely feasible, the city should show the public what detailed strategies it has developed to ensure this plan will succeed. It is not a strategy to simply say, “We’ll work it out someday."
John Wesley White is a former county administrator for Sarasota County. He resides in Sarasota. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2022/05/28/citizens-deserve-real-answers-why-sarasota-needs-new-arts-center/9922593002/ | 2022-05-28 20:53:58 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2022/05/28/citizens-deserve-real-answers-why-sarasota-needs-new-arts-center/9922593002/ |
Acquisition of Leading Leisure Sector Ticketing & Visitor Management Solution Provider Deepens Global Footprint
TWYFORD, UK, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- accesso Technology Group (AIM: ACSO), the premier technology solutions provider for attractions and venues worldwide, today announced the acquisition of VGS – a leading ticketing and visitor management system provider for leisure, entertainment and cultural businesses around the globe. VGS' award-winning SnApp platform will be rebranded as accesso Horizon and operate as part of the accesso product set.
Founded by a team with decades of combined experience, VGS has supported renowned visitor attractions in all aspects of the selling, distribution and redemption of tickets and entitlements since its establishment in 2011. Its client roster of more than 100 venues includes the world's largest theme park resort destination in Orlando, Florida, as well as leading theme park brands in Dubai, Singapore, Japan and China. Beyond theme parks, the ticketing and visitor management platform supports zoos, observation towers and other unique attractions in a total of 11 countries around the globe, including one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
With an expansive feature set, globalised functionality and robust scaling capabilities, the VGS platform empowers venue operators to manage all benefits, services and entitlements available to guests with one unified platform. Hosted either on-premise or in the cloud, the solution offers customers an open API to enable direct integration with other systems. The VGS platform provides guests a seamless, consistent experience across all entitlements and on any device. Real-time intelligence allows operators to optimise sales with dynamic pricing, availability management and sales channel management. Multi-venue support allows for seamless cross-promotion and cross-packaging of offers, improving visibility and enhancing the complete guest experience. Plus, the solution provides seamless linguistic support for venues across the globe with fully flexible, multi-lingual user interface support.
"I am beyond excited to announce the transformative acquisition of VGS. Its solution fits squarely into our technology roadmap and its top-tier customer base speaks volumes for the quality, scalability and functionality of the platform," said accesso CEO Steve Brown. "This acquisition will allow us to provide our clients and future partners with technology that has the capacity to scale with their business long into the future and keep up with the growing demands of the modern consumer."
Under the terms of the deal, VGS' talented global team of 33 – with offices in Milan, Dubai, Singapore and Orlando – will join accesso.
"I'm delighted for VGS to join forces with Accesso. Our technology is complementary with Accesso's offering. We share the same absolute commitment to providing the best possible unified solutions to optimise our customers' operations and enhance their guests' experience before, during and after their visit," shared VGS CEO Paolo Moro. "We look forward to working together as we move ahead to this exciting next chapter."
"This is particularly meaningful for me and Paolo, as our working relationship dates back more than two decades to the early days of the original VGS ticketing and visitor management solution," continued Brown. "Paolo is a long-admired leader in this space, and one for whom I've had tremendous respect. I have watched his expertise and innovation shape the industry, and I look forward to our combined group continuing to bring innovative solutions to the leisure industry."
To learn more, visit https://www.accesso.com/solutions/ticketing/ticketing-visitor-management.
About accesso Technology Group plc
accesso is the leading global provider of patented and award-winning technology solutions that redefine the guest experience, drive increased revenue, streamline operations and support data-driven business decisions for leisure & entertainment operators. Currently serving over 1,000 venues worldwide, accesso invests heavily in research and development to provide venues with technology that empowers them to deliver unforgettable guest experiences. Staffed by a team of attractions, cultural venue and ski industry veterans, accesso partners with venues to increase their range of on- and off-site guest engagement to drive increased revenue through intuitive ticketing, point-of-sale, virtual queuing, distribution and experience management technology.
accesso is a public company, listed on AIM: a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. Learn more at accesso.com or follow accesso on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The University of Virginia shooting suspect, Chris Jones, appeared in court for the first time Wednesday morning, and during the hearing, the Commonwealth’s Attorney says a witness said the attack wasn’t random.
The Commonwealth’s Attorney made a statement, saying that a witness said that Jones pointed a gun at Devin Chandler, shot him in his sleep and watched him slide to the floor.
The tragedy happened on Sunday at about 10:30 p.m. on UVA grounds and claimed the lives of three students, including UVA linebacker and defensive end D’Sean Perry and Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler, both wide receivers. Authorities said there were two survivors, one who has been identified as Michael Hollins, Jr and Marlee Morgan.
The incident unfolded on a charter bus full of students returning to Charlottesville after seeing a play in Washington, D.C., a little over 30 hours after Saturday’s game against the Pittsburgh Panthers, according to the Associated Press. Officials say Jones was able to run from the scene, prompting a 12-hour manhunt. He was arrested at about 11 a.m. Monday.
On Wednesday morning (Nov.16), during Jones’s first court appearance, he appeared via video straight-faced.
Jones has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder, two counts of malicious wounding and additional gun-related charges.
He’s set to appear in court again on Dec. 8 at 9:30 a.m.
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- An estimated $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawing Tuesday night has people lined up at convenience stores nationwide to buy tickets in longshot hopes of winning a massive prize, but shop and gas station owners selling the tickets also have a chance at a big-figure bonus.
State lotteries usually reward the owners of business that sell winning jackpot tickets thousands of dollars or even up to $1 million, even before those giant prizes are claimed.
FIRST THINGS FIRST, WHAT'S THE LATEST ON THE JACKPOT?
It seems no one can win the Mega Millions jackpot, so it keeps getting larger. The last time someone overcame the odds of 1 in 302.6 million and won the top prize was on Oct. 14. Since then there have been 24 straight drawings without anyone snagging the jackpot. The prize now ranks as the fifth-largest, though it's still only about half the size of a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot, won only a couple months ago by someone in California.
While it seems like forever since someone won, it's quite a ways from the record of 41 straight drawings that has occurred a couple of times, most recently leading up to that $2.04 billion California prize.
AND WHO IS THE LUCKY CALIFORNIAN?
That remains a mystery. The California Lottery hasn't announced a winner and says its policy is to not acknowledge whether anyone has claimed a prize until a supposedly winning ticket is vetted. All that's clear is that a ticket matching all six numbers drawn Nov. 9 was sold at Joe's Service Center in Altadena, an unincorporated community northeast of Los Angeles.
ONE WINNER IN ALTADENA IS CLEAR.
Even if we don't know anything about the Powerball winner, we know the service center owner, Joe Chahayed, was paid his $1 million bonus by lottery officials. Standing under a sign hoisted by the lottery that read, Billionaire Made Here, and surrounded by dozens of media representatives and well-wishers, Chahayed said he planned to spend the money on his five children and would donate some of it to help his community. He didn't have a clue who had purchased the winning ticket.
"I wish I knew the person but most people who buy tickets from me are from the neighborhood. I hope one of them will be the winner," he said.
HOW DOES THE RETAILER BONUS SYSTEM WORK?
The rules vary from state to state. Ohio, for example, pays up to $100,000 to retailers who sell jackpot-winning tickets. In Illinois, retailers can get up to a $500,000 bonus and in California, that benefit tops out at $1 million. The state lotteries say it's part of their efforts to encourage retailers to promote ticket sales. Some business owners say they also often see at least a temporary surge in business, as superstitious players stop off to buy their tickets at a spot where someone hit it big.
POWERBALL GETTING LARGER, TOO
Even as the Mega Millions jackpot grows ever larger, the top prize for the Powerball game is also nearing massive status. Ahead of a drawing Monday night, that prize stands at $340 million for players who opt to be paid through an annuity, doled out over 29 years.
IF YOU BUY A TICKET, DON'T FORGET ...
Whether you spend $2 or $200 on Mega Millions or Powerball tickets, your chance of winning are incredibly small. Powerball's odds of 1 in 292.2 million are a little better than those offered by Mega Millions, but they're still miserable. Can't get your mind around that? Andrew Swift, a mathematics professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, described it another way, noting the odds of winning for a person who buys a single ticket in either game are a little worse than flipping a coin and getting heads 28 straight times.
AND DON'T FORGET THIS, EITHER
Although the publicized annuity prize of $1.1 billion for winning Mega Millions or $340 million for Powerball jackpot get all the attention, winners rarely choose such a long-term payment option. They want their money right now. The cash payout is much smaller, at $568.7 million for Mega Millions and $178.2 million for Powerball.
So as you dream of buying a yacht, maybe for settle for just one rather than two.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. | https://abc30.com/mega-millions-jackpot-drawing-days-next/12683682/ | 2023-01-10 11:25:09 | 1 | https://abc30.com/mega-millions-jackpot-drawing-days-next/12683682/ |
More than 100 animals removed from Wisconsin home
MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) - More than a hundred animals in Milwaukee are looking for a permanent home after they were removed from a house with unsafe living conditions.
The Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission was called to take in 112 animals from a single home over the weekend.
Now, workers are focused on getting many of them to the right organization where they can thrive.
“There was just animals everywhere,” Karen Sparapani, the executive director of the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission. “And it was very unusual in the aspect that it was so many different kinds of animals.”
Sparapani, who is also a humane officer, said among the animals seized were parrots, a goat, alligators and dogs.
“They were friendly, socialized, they’re all placeable and that’s not typical with the traditional type of case,” Sparapani said.
Milwaukee police called her team during an animal cruelty investigation at a home. Sparapani said the living conditions were poor and they found some dead animals at the house.
However, it still appeared the owner cared for the animals.
“Understand your home is not a great place for large quantities of animals. It just isn’t,” Sparapani said.
The home is boarded up now, with a notice on the door from the city that the home is unfit to live in and cited unsanitary conditions.
Milwaukee police took a 46-year-old man into custody in connection to the case. The district attorney is reviewing potential charges.
There is no word yet on the man’s identity or how he collected all those different animals.
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HOUSTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breakwater Energy Partners, LLC ("Breakwater") is pleased to announce that it has further developed its commercial and noncommercial recycling network across the Midland Basin to meet rising customer demand for sustainable water solutions.
Breakwater expanded its Big Spring Recycling System ("BSRS") in Howard and Martin counties with two additional multi-year produced water offtake and recycling agreements. BSRS is one of the largest recycling networks in the Permian Basin, currently recycling more than four million barrels of produced water per month with aggregation, distribution, and recycling capacity of up to 300,000 barrels per day.
The BSRS facility connects seven separate operator-owned produced water disposal networks into a central hub-and-spoke model to aggregate produced water and distribute recycled water through large diameter pipelines. Breakwater paired this physical network with advanced cloud-based data-management and GIS tools which are vital for water balancing and optimization across the multi-operator network. BSRS physically serves two seismically sensitive areas of the Midland Basin near the cities of Stanton and Knott with sustainable water management solutions.
Breakwater is also pleased to announce it has begun commercial operation at its Morita Commercial Recycling System which serves southern Howard and northern Glasscock counties. Morita is Breakwater's second Texas Railroad Commission Division 6 H-11 commercially permitted facility built for the receipt, storage, handling, treatment, and transportation of produced and recycled water. Breakwater is also actively developing two additional commercial recycling facilities in the Midland Basin to serve central Midland, Glasscock, and northern Upton counties. Breakwater currently owns or operates 14 recycling facilities and recycles about 500,000 barrels of produced water per day in the Midland Basin.
"Operators are looking for more sustainable alternatives to high pressure wastewater injection within seismically sensitive areas." said Jason Jennaro, Chief Executive Officer of Breakwater. "Breakwater's hub-and-spoke water model concurrently provides operators access to high volumes of recycled water within SRAs and disposal outlets outside of them, whichever is more efficient."
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Breakwater is a leading provider of sustainable water supply chain solutions to the oilfield. Breakwater's management team has been providing environmentally focused water management solutions to customers across the United States since 1994 including large-scale sewer rehabilitation projects, wastewater treatments plants and related services for major municipalities.
Breakwater's water recycling segment is the market-leading provider of water reuse services in the Permian Basin. Breakwater formed its water recycling segment in 2016 by acquiring Waterstone Resources, which began operations in 2013. Breakwater's water recycling operations in the Permian Basin have the installed capacity to process more than three million barrels of water per day for a customer base comprised mostly of large E&P operators.
Breakwater's midstream division develops and operates large-scale recycling systems across the Permian Basin and integrates them into its water supply, transfer, and recycling capabilities. Breakwater operates two commercial and numerous separate noncommercial recycling facilities in the Midland Basin.
Breakwater's water transfer division owns more than 350 miles of lay flat hose, 150 water transfer pumps and in-basin accommodations for 300 employees. It has become one of the largest providers of transfer services in the Eagle Ford and Permian basins.
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MILAN (AP) — A survivor of a weekend landslide that killed eight people and left four missing on the Italian resort island of Ischia described Tuesday the horror of awakening to a “thunderous roar” as the mass of loosened earth approached.
Firefighters dug out buried homes with shovels just below tree line on Mount Epomeo while searching for people still missing, including the parents of three siblings, ages 5-15, who were confirmed as being among the dead. The dead also included a 3-week-old boy and his parents.
The landslide has so far displaced about 270 people from their homes in the port town of Casamicciola. Triggered by exceptional rainfall, the slide before dawn on Saturday filled homes with mud, water and debris, and pushed vehicles down into the sea.
Authorities warned that more residents may need to be evacuated if rain returns to the island in the coming days, as forecast.
Witness accounts suggest the landslide was loud enough to alert sleeping residents of the impending danger.
The first victim recovered, 31-year-old Eleonora Sirabella called her father, living nearby in Lacco Ameno, to ask for help, but a river of mud blocked him from reaching her, Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica reported.
One resident told Italian state broadcaster RAI that she found mud and water in the hallway of her home, and that she and her husband had to climb out of the bedroom window, and use their cellphones to light the way through the darkness and pouring rain.
“We had to throw ourselves down into abandoned land,’’ the woman, who was not identified, told RAI radio. “I fell. I said I won’t make it anymore. I felt dead. I heard from behind a thunderous roar that was coming down. He grabbed me and said, ‘Run, run.’ I am terrorized.”
A dog rescued Monday after 72 hours inside an overturned car belonged to a family with an infant boy confirmed among the dead, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported on Tuesday.
Naples prosecutors were investigating claims by a former mayor that he had warned of a landslide risk based on the weather forecast four days before the disaster, according to Italian news agency ANSA.
Environmental experts say that unauthorized building and excessive construction were major contributors to the landslide. They cited a high incidence of requests under successive government amnesties since 1985 to gain official approval for structures that in some way violated building codes.
Geologists said the pattern of the landslide also indicated construction in areas that should have been left free for runoff.
The government’s civil protection minister, Nello Musumeci, said the “tragedy of Ischia” should unite political forces to come up with a plan to counter illegal construction throughout the country.
“Illegal buildings could be confiscated and added to the domain of local governments or the state,’’ Musumeci told Sky TG24.
The mayors of the island's six towns pushed back against allegations that permissive administrations allowed unbridled overbuilding.
The mayor of Forio, Francesco Del Deo, told television channel Sky TG24 that the area hardest hit by the landslide was in a zone where construction was permitted. He said the 27,000 requests over four decades to legalize work carried out without proper permits in many cases included multiple requests for the same property, or even repeated requests for the same work.
“There are not 27,000 illegal properties on the island,'' he said, adding: “Every time they make it seem like this is the island of illegality, but that is not correlated to what happened.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Survivor-of-deadly-Ischia-landslide-describes-17617918.php | 2022-11-29 15:32:28 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Survivor-of-deadly-Ischia-landslide-describes-17617918.php |
Ex-congressman from California arrested, charged with fraud
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A former U.S. congressman from central California was arrested Tuesday by federal agents on wire fraud, money laundering, and campaign contribution fraud charges stemming from “multiple fraud schemes,” federal prosecutors said.
Terrance “T.J.” Cox was arrested by agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Fresno, where he was booked to the Fresno County jail on a U.S. Marshals hold, jail records showed. It was not immediately known if he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf. An email message sent to Cox Tuesday was not immediately answered.
Cox, a Democrat, represented the 21st Congressional District from January 2019 to January 2021. The district is in the agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley and includes Kings County and portions of Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties.
Cox, 59, was charged with 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution fraud, and one count of campaign contribution fraud, U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert said in a statement.
Talbert said that between 2013 and 2018, Cox allegedly obtained $1.7 million from funds he solicited from clients and loans he got for his companies and then stole by diverting the money to “off-the-book bank accounts.”
Cox partially owned, managed and was employed by several companies and non-profit organizations, including a business that helped companies get loans and federal tax credits, an almond processing company and a non-profit that operated Granite Park, a recreation facility in Fresno, according to the complaint.
Cox also fraudulently obtained a $1.5 million construction loan to develop Granite Park, Talbert said.
After his nonprofit could not qualify for the construction loan for the recreation facility without a party guaranteeing the loan, Cox said that one of the companies he co-owned would guarantee the loan, and submitted a fabricated board resolution that falsely stated that during a meeting all company owners had agreed to guarantee the Granite Park loan.
“No meeting took place, and the other owners did not agree to back the loan,” Talbert said.
The loan later went into default, causing a loss of more than $1.28 million, he said.
According to the indictment, when Cox was campaigning in 2017 for the U.S. House of Representatives he reimbursed family members and associates for donations to his campaign, prosecutors said. Cox arranged for over $25,000 in illegal straw or conduit donations to his campaign, Talbert said.
If convicted, Cox faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for wire fraud and money laundering, and up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine for wire fraud affecting a financial institution. The charge of campaign contribution fraud carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Multiple high-rise apartment towers in the works for downtown Tempe. Projects will alter city skyline
A slew of skyline-altering projects is in the works in Tempe, with the aim to bring housing density and capitalize on high-value real estate in the city. But some individuals who were among the first to weigh in are tiring of the similarity of proposed buildings.
Hubbard Street Group, a Chicago-based developer that has a project under construction in downtown Phoenix, submitted plans to Tempe to redevelop a site in downtown, which is home to the Salvation Army’s Tempe location. Plans call for a 300-foot-tall apartment tower with ground-floor restaurant or shop space, Ryan Levesque, deputy community development director for Tempe, said.
The project is one of five high-rises proposed in the immediate area east of Mill Avenue near University Drive, and all are on small, infill parcels planning to bring a high density of people to these few blocks of downtown Tempe.
“We are dealing with a high volume of activity,” Levesque said. “It’s unusual to have five high-rises coming to us.”
The Hubbard Group project, called Skye Tempe, is planned to include 281 units, a mix of studios, one- and two-bedrooms and one three-bedroom unit. The ground floor is planned for restaurants or shops.
The apartment complex would not seek to appeal to students, but instead young professionals who want to live near where they work in a walkable neighborhood, said Nick Wood, zoning attorney for the project, at a meeting of the Tempe Development Review Commission in June.
Apartments cannot prohibit students from renting, but the offerings aren't what students typically seek, which is more bedrooms to split the rent between people, Levesque said. Demand in Tempe is high for studios and one-bedrooms.
The 27-story development is planned on a half-acre site and is just east of restaurant and music venue Shady Park. If approved by the City Council, the development would raze the existing Salvation Army building on the site.
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“The important thing to know is that The Salvation Army is not leaving Tempe and will continue to serve the community, so we are exploring short-term and long-term options,” said Major David Yardley, general secretary of business for the Salvation Army’s Southwest Division.
Levesque said the city’s downtown is a target area for housing density, but city leaders also want to preserve the historic character of Mill Avenue, so taller buildings require further set back from the street, where most structures are one to three stories tall.
“We want the right projects in the right locations,” he said.
In most areas of the city, 300 feet is the tallest that buildings can reach, Levesque said.
There is a taller tower in downtown Tempe, but that building did cause concern in case of an emergency of a plane landing or taking off at Sky Harbor, so the city is “cognizant” of the issue and limiting future building heights, he said.
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Several other towers approved, in the works
In addition to Skye, there are a handful of other, high-rise apartment towers in various stages of approval in the area, on similarly sized parcels.
One of those high-rises, a 25-story apartment building with ground-level commercial space, was approved by the City Council in May just to the west of Skye, on the other side of Shady Park. That project, a redevelopment of the Wells Fargo building at 16 E. University, plans to have 453 units on a 0.67-acre site. The development is proposed by a joint venture of Wexford Developments and CA Ventures.
Other projects in the hearing process include a similar-sized development near Seventh Street and Forest Avenue, where an apartment developer that already has a building is planning to build a second one, Levesque said. Another is proposed near Seventh Street and College Avenue. And a proposal for a project at Seventh Street and Mill Avenue already received approval, but the developer is considering adding to that plan, Levesque said.
A hotel tower also was approved but has yet to start construction as part of the 100 Mill development at Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway. An office tower that was part of that project is already open.
Committee members worry about traffic, building size
The surge of new apartment towers, and the vehicles and transportation needs that will come with the new residents, had some members of the city's Development Review Commission questioning whether they were a good idea.
Commissioner Barbara Lloyd said she had concerns with the project, and the many that are similar to it that either are proposed or are built. Lloyd said some of the buildings have a "lack of character," and the traffic and other congestion can have a negative effect on the area.
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"I understand we need the units, but at the same point, sometime we have to say, when is enough, enough with this product type?" she said.
At the June 13 meeting, some members of the commission expressed worry that the tall buildings on smaller parcels don’t leave much room for flexibility, like a food delivery driver parking or for a rideshare driver waiting for a passenger. While the commission was only considering the Skye project, members said the decisions could not happen “in a vacuum,” without considering the context of what already was approved.
Other members of the commission said the city’s downtown is the proper place for density, with easy access to public transportation like the light rail or the Tempe streetcar, and the area is walkable to many restaurants and places of employment.
Ultimately, the commission narrowly voted against recommending approval of the project to the City Council, with those voting against it citing concerns about increased traffic and the high volume of projects in a small geographic area.
The commission serves as an advisory body to the city council, and its recommendations are not binding. The council is scheduled to discuss the project at meetings later this summer.
Levesque said the number of new projects proposed at the same time could be a lingering effect of the pandemic, when proposals slowed greatly. But the demand for housing in Tempe remains high, and some of the developers planning new buildings already have projects in the city.
“People want to be here,” he said. “It’s always been a destination location.”
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Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, is set to appear in person in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to face charges that include cheating investors out of billions of dollars.
Bankman-Fried, known as SBF, is charged with eight criminal counts ranging from wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, to conspiracy by misusing customer funds. He is expected to plead not guilty and could face up to 115 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
Last month, a US judge released him on a $250 million bond in his first appearance on American soil since his arrest in the Bahamas, where he lived and ran his businesses. The judge agreed to a bail package proposed by federal prosecutors and lawyers for Bankman-Fried that also requires the former so-called "crypto king" to wear an electronic ankle monitor and remain under house arrest at his parents' home in Palo Alto, California.
Prosecutors allege that Bankman-Fried orchestrated "one of the biggest financial frauds in American history," stealing billions of dollars from FTX customers to cover losses at its sister hedge fund, Alameda Research.
FTX and Alameda both filed for bankruptcy in December after investors rushed to pull their deposits from the exchange, sparking a liquidity crisis and triggering contagion and panic across the crypto industry.
Two senior executives associated with the collapse — Gary Wang, the co-founder of FTX, and Caroline Ellison, who served as Alameda's CEO — have since pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges and are cooperating with federal prosecutors, according to unsealed court records. In addition, the pair face civil fraud charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Wang faces up to 50 years in prison in accordance with federal sentencing guidelines referenced in court. Ellison faces up to 110 years in prison for the seven criminal counts she's pleaded guilty to, per federal sentencing guidelines.
FTX's new CEO, John Ray, who made his name overseeing the liquidation of Enron in the early 2000s, said in a congressional hearing that customer funds deposited on the FTX site were commingled with funds at Alameda, which made a number of speculative, high-risk bets.
Ray described the situation at the two companies as "old-fashioned embezzlement" at the hands of a small group of "grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals."
— CNN's Allison Morrow and Kara Scannell contributed to this report. | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/business/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-to-appear-in-court-tuesday/article_8b693cc7-d16f-56da-8814-0752d4e3a6fe.html | 2023-01-03 11:55:31 | 1 | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/business/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-to-appear-in-court-tuesday/article_8b693cc7-d16f-56da-8814-0752d4e3a6fe.html |
RICHMOND, Va., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to increase understanding of the importance of mental health and to break the stigma associated with mental illness. Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is one type of mental illness that affects a person's brain and behavior, leading to their inability to control their use of substances such as legal or illegal drugs, alcohol, or medications.1 In addition, some people with SUD have co-occuring mental illnesses.2 As SUD and overdose deaths reach an unprecedented high across America, one man's story provide a reason for hope.3
The number of people suffering from mental illness has been increasing in the U.S. with almost 1 in 5 adults experiencing some sort of mental illness in 2020, a problem that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.4,5 According to the 2021 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration report, approximately 5.7 million adults aged 18 or older with serious mental illnesses are affected by substance abuse, and 47.8% of illicit drug users have at least one serious mental illness.6 The need for access to effective treatments for both mental illness and SUD has never been more urgent.
Despite the increasing number of people struggling with SUD and opioid use disorder (OUD), Indivior seeks to project hope by sharing one man's personal journey to recovery. Through his story, Kyle of Kansas City wants to inspire others to seek help from family, friends, and healthcare professionals.
"After several years and recovery attempts, I was able to find a treatment plan that worked well for me, and I'm proud to say that I have not touched an illegal drug in over three years," said Kyle. "I tell my story to let other people suffering from OUD know that there is hope and a path forward. Don't be afraid to ask for help. You will be amazed at what you can do if you stay on the road to recovery."
"Patient stories like that of Kyle fuel our passion and remind us of the importance of the work that we do each day. Through research, advocacy and education, we can help foster hope among patients and their families and help move more patients toward long-term recovery," said Christian Heidbreder, Chief Scientific Officer, Indivior.
About Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a chronic disease in which people develop a pattern of using opioids that can lead to negative consequences. OUD may affect the parts of the brain that are necessary for life-sustaining functions.7
About Indivior
Indivior is a global pharmaceutical company working to help change patients' lives by developing medicines to treat substance use disorders (SUD) and serious mental illnesses. Our vision is that all patients around the world will have access to evidence-based treatment for the chronic conditions and co-occurring disorders of SUD. Indivior is dedicated to transforming SUD from a global human crisis to a recognized and treated chronic disease. Building on its global portfolio of OUD treatments, Indivior has a pipeline of product candidates designed to both expand on its heritage in this category and potentially address other chronic conditions and co-occurring disorders of SUD, including alcohol use disorder and cannabis use disorder. Headquartered in the United States in Richmond, VA, Indivior employs more than 900 individuals globally and its portfolio of products is available in over 40 countries worldwide. Visit www.indivior.com to learn more. Connect with Indivior on LinkedIn by visiting www.linkedin.com/company/indivior.
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- Substance Use and Co-Occurring Mental Disorders. (n.d.). National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/substance-use-and-mental-health#:%7E:text=A%20substance%20use%20disorder%20(SUD,drugs%2C%20alcohol%2C%20or%20medications.
- The Connection Between Substance Use Disorders and Mental Illness. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Part 1. Part 1: The Connection Between Substance Use Disorders and Mental Illness | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (nih.gov)
- American Medical Association. (2022, January 11). 2022 a critical year to address worsening drug-overdose crisis. https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/2022-critical-year-address-worsening-drug-overdose-crisis
- Mental Illness. (2020). National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness
- COVID's mental-health toll: how scientists are tracking a surge in depression. (2021, February 3). Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00175-z?error=cookies_not_supported&code=657755a1-ee16-41be-b635-72d62d3d4931
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2021). Key substance use and mental health indicators in the United States: Results from the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS Publication No. PEP21-07-01-003, NSDUH Series H-56). Rockville, MD: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Retrieved from https://www.samhsa.gov/data/
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IRBIL, Baghdad — A Turkish drone targeted a vehicle traveling in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Friday, killing four Kurdish militants, Iraq’s Kurdistan’s counter-terrorism service said.
The militants were from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, and has led an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 which has killed tens of thousands of people.
Turkey regularly carries out airstrikes into northern Iraq and has sent commandos to support its offensives. In April, it launched its latest offensive, named Operation Claw Lock in parts of northern Iraq - part of a series of cross-border operations which it started in 2019 to combat the outlawed PKK who are based in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq.
The Turkish defense ministry said in a tweet Friday that 6 PKK “terrorists” were neutralized in Iraq as part of an ongoing military campaign, but did not offer more details. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/turkish-drone-strike-in-north-iraq-said-to-kill-4-militants/2022/06/17/a1aaa7ce-ee2e-11ec-9f90-79df1fb28296_story.html | 2022-06-17 12:54:33 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/turkish-drone-strike-in-north-iraq-said-to-kill-4-militants/2022/06/17/a1aaa7ce-ee2e-11ec-9f90-79df1fb28296_story.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is on track to max out on its $31.4 trillion borrowing authority as soon as this month, starting the clock on an expected standoff between President Joe Biden and the new House Republican majority that will test both parties' ability to navigate a divided Washington, with the fragile global economy at stake.
Once the government bumps up against the cap — it could happen any time in the next few weeks or longer — the Treasury Department will be unable to issue new debt without congressional action. The department plans to deploy what are known as “extraordinary measures” to keep the government operating. But once those measures run out, probably mid-summer, the government could be at risk of defaulting unless lawmakers and the president agree to lift the limit on the U.S. government's ability to borrow.
The expected showdown over the debt limit would be a stark display of the new reality for Biden and his fellow Democrats, who enjoyed one-party control of Washington for the past two years. It would presage the challenges to come in achieving even the modest ambitions that Democrats are bringing to the task of legislating in a divided Capitol.
The White House has insisted that it won't allow the nation's credit to be held captive to the demands of newly empowered GOP lawmakers. But the concessions made by new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in his arduous path to securing the job raise questions about whether he has the ability to cut any kind of deal to resolve a standoff.
McCarthy, who secured his post after 15 rounds of voting and major compromises with hard-line members of his caucus, has said that his fellow Republicans will only agree to increase the debt ceiling in return for spending cuts of unspecified magnitude. And a new rule that allows any lawmaker to trigger a vote for McCarthy's removal could make even the most urgent of votes a dicey matter.
McCarthy said he’s spoken with Biden about the coming debt ceiling and told the president “it doesn’t have to come to that” — meaning a federal government shutdown over spending levels.
“This is our moment to change the behavior,” McCarthy said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.”
But the new speaker stopped short of saying Republicans now in charge of the House would go so far as to refuse to pass the annual spending bills needed to fund the government, as happened more than a decade ago during an earlier debt ceiling showdown in Congress.
“We’re going to look at every single dollar spent,” McCarthy said.
The stakes are treacherous. Past forecasts suggest a default could instantly bury the country in a deep recession, right at a moment of slowing global growth as the U.S. and much of the world face high inflation because of the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The White House has ruled out executive action to stave off a default.
“Congress is going to need to raise the debt limit without — without — conditions, and it’s just that simple,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said recently. “Attempts to exploit the debt ceiling as leverage will not work. There will be no hostage taking.”
On Capitol Hill, Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, one of the McCarthy holdouts and an outspoken critic of government spending, wouldn't rule out trying to oust McCarthy if he fails to live up to his pledge to seek spending cuts along with any debt limit increase.
“We will use the tools of the House to enforce the terms of the agreement,” Roy told CNN on Sunday.
Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., said in a Fox News interview on Monday that the debt limit will be “the real test” for conservatives. Republicans have to begin “leveraging power to accomplish what you need to accomplish," he said. Good fought McCarthy’s bid to become speaker until the final vote, when he responded “present.”
The debt ceiling debate is a form of political theater — it encourages lawmakers to engage in brinkmanship in the name of fiscal responsibility — though past showdowns have done little to meaningfully alter the long-term rise in federal debt.
House Republican leaders liken the debt ceiling to a credit card limit, promising to put “mechanisms in place so that you don’t keep maxing it out,” in the words of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana.
“We’re going to confront this, and I think the American people have called on us to confront this,” Scalise said.
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida pointed to his 2021 proposed amendment to the Senate Republican Conference that commits to only raising the debt ceiling if it also secures spending reform.
“I’ll be fighting with every tool at my disposal to enforce this rule that every Republican in the Senate agreed to follow,” Scott said. “A day of reckoning is coming.”
Any effort to compromise with House Republicans could force Biden to bend on his own priorities, whether that's the funding of the IRS to ensure that wealthier Americans pay what they owe or domestic programs for children and the poor.
It's hard to peg the date when the government will hit its debt ceiling, because payments and receipts vary from day to day, especially with the April filing deadline for income taxes. The current balance suggests the debt ceiling could be reached as early as this week or as late as March.
When Treasury takes extraordinary measures to keep the government running, it can halt contributions to pension funds and borrow from accounts to manage changes in the foreign exchange rate, freeing up cash to meet its other obligations.
Treasury first used these measures in 1985 and has used them at least 16 times since, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog. But the extraordinary measures only work for so long, and would likely run out — and put the U.S. at risk of default — sometime around the summer.
If the government were to default, financial markets could be expected to crash. Several million workers could be laid off. The world could feel the aftershocks of the crisis for years to come. Moody's Analytics called this risk “cataclysmic” in a 2021 forecast ahead of the previous debt ceiling increase, suggesting that the resulting chaos would be due to government dysfunction, rather than the underlying health of the U.S. economy.
“Debt limit negotiations are always protracted and almost always contentious, and the political trends seem to make it likely that they will exacerbate those tendencies and will create a volatile situation," said Shai Akabas, director of economic policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, which forecasts the so-called X-date when the government exhausts its extraordinary measures.
Akabas told The Associated Press the X-date has "likely moved forward" from this year's third quarter due to rising interest rates and a pause on student loan repayments recently extended by the Biden administration. A more precise date will become available when the Congressional Budget Office updates its outlook later this month.
Either way, lawmakers know the risks that they're taking with the livelihoods of people across the country by having this dispute. Economists have warned them plenty of times.
A 2013 Treasury report drew on the debt ceiling impasse in 2011, when Republicans had also just won a House majority. It outlined how impasses contribute to long-lasting scars on financial markets, noting that business and household confidence fell to levels that are typically only seen during recessions.
"It took months before confidence recovered, even though, ultimately, there was no default," the report said.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking, Zeke Miller and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report. | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/US-to-max-out-on-debt-soon-setting-up-political-17709660.php | 2023-01-11 15:43:01 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/US-to-max-out-on-debt-soon-setting-up-political-17709660.php |
NY Albany NY Zone Forecast for Friday, July 1, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Eastern New York and Western New England
National Weather Service Albany NY
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
NYZ033-022000-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Speculator and Indian Lake
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then sunny this afternoon. Highs in the
mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs around 70. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
$$
NYZ052-022000-
Eastern Albany-
Including the city of ALBANY
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance
of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ058-022000-
Western Greene-
Including the cities of Hunter, Tannersville, and Windham
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance
of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the
upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ065-022000-
Western Dutchess-
Including the cities of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, and Arlington
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Hot with
highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds around 5 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ041-022000-
Northern Saratoga-
Including the city of Saratoga Springs
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then partly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds around
5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows around
60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ038-022000-
Southern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mohawk,
Frankfort, and Doldgeville
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Highs
around 80. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs around 80.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ032-022000-
Northern Herkimer-
Including the cities of Atwell, Big Moose, Eagle Bay, Mckeever,
Nobleboro, Northwood, and Old Forge
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
this morning, then sunny this afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs around 70. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ042-022000-
Northern Warren-
Including the cities of North Creek, Warrensburg, and Chestertown
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then sunny this afternoon. Highs in the
lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ083-022000-
Southeast Warren-
Including the city of Glens Falls
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 80s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows around 60. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds around
5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ043-022000-
Northern Washington-
Including the cities of Whitehall and Granville
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Hot with highs in the
mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming west around 5 mph after midnight.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ084-022000-
Southern Washington-
Including the cities of Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Cambridge,
and Greenwich
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the lower
80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Less humid with lows around 60. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest around 5 mph after midnight.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows around 60. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ082-022000-
Northern Fulton-
Including the cities of Caroga Lake, Northville, and Mayfield
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny this afternoon. Highs
in the mid 70s. West winds around 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ039-022000-
Southern Fulton-
Including the cities of Gloversville and Johnstown
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with showers likely with a chance of
thunderstorms this morning, then mostly sunny with a slight chance
of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs around 80. West
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ040-022000-
Montgomery-
Including the cities of Amsterdam, Wellsville, and Fonda
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then partly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs around 80. West winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs around 80.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ047-022000-
Schoharie-
Including the cities of Cobleskill and Middleburgh
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper
70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ048-022000-
Western Schenectady-
Including the cities of Delanson, Esperance, and Duanesburg
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms
this morning, then partly sunny with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper
70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ049-022000-
Eastern Schenectady-
Including the cities of Schenectady and Rotterdam
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance
of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the
lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ050-022000-
Southern Saratoga-
Including the cities of Ballston Spa, Clifton Park, Mechanicville,
and Waterford
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance
of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows around 60. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows around
60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ051-022000-
Western Albany-
Including the cities of Altamont and Berne
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance
of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the
upper 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after midnight.
Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ053-022000-
Western Rensselaer-
Including the city of Troy
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance
of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Not as warm
with highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the lower 60s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows around 60. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. Lows around 60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs around 80.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ054-022000-
Eastern Rensselaer-
Including the cities of Grafton and Hoosick Falls
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance
of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Not as warm
with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ060-022000-
Western Columbia-
Including the city of Hudson
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. Showers
likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable
winds, becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows around 60. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows around
60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ061-022000-
Eastern Columbia-
Including the city of Chatham
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance
of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly this morning. Highs around
80. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Less humid with lows in the upper 50s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs around 80.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ059-022000-
Eastern Greene-
Including the cities of Catskill, Coxsackie, Athens, Cairo,
and Jefferson Heights
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. Showers
likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Light and variable
winds, becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs around 80.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ063-022000-
Western Ulster-
Including the cities of Ellenville, Woodstock, West Hurley,
Kerhonkson, Napanoch, and Phoenicia
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. Showers
likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows
in the upper 50s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid
70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers.
Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the mid 70s.
Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ064-022000-
Eastern Ulster-
Including the cities of Kingston and New Paltz
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. Showers
likely, mainly this morning. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid
60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the mid 80s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance
of rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower
80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the lower
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
NYZ066-022000-
Eastern Dutchess-
Including the cities of Pawling, Dover Plains, Millbrook,
Pine Plains, Amenia, and Millerton
335 AM EDT Sat Jul 2 2022
.TODAY...Showers likely with a chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the
lower 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds around
5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s.
Lows in the upper 50s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Lows around
60. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny with scattered showers. Highs in the upper
70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
$$
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Spud Kings explode for three third period goals in 4-1 win against Pueblo
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - In a defensive battle, the Idaho Falls Spud Kings took over in the third period against the Pueblo Bulls Thursday night, scoring three goals in the frame to win it 4-1.
George Goodwin tallied his 13th goal in 13 games with the Spud Kings to open the scoring, but 43 seconds later, Albin Augustsson tied it for Pueblo.
Then, in the third, Justin Davis scored the go-ahead goal, Austin Osborn found twine on a feed from his brother Dawson, and SJ LeComte added a late insurance goal for the big win, IF's second win in three games.
Next up, game two of the weekend series is set for Friday night at 7:05 p.m. inside Hero Arena at the Mountain America Center. | https://localnews8.com/sports/local-sports/2022/12/08/spud-kings-explode-for-three-third-period-goals-in-4-1-win-against-pueblo/ | 2022-12-09 05:25:21 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/local-sports/2022/12/08/spud-kings-explode-for-three-third-period-goals-in-4-1-win-against-pueblo/ |
A Texas man allegedly killed his girlfriend for refusing to have a baby with him, according to an arrest report obtained by local news.
Adam Byrd, 23, is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend, 22-year-old Jade Alyssa Alvarez, several times on April 6, FOX 29 reported, citing a San Antonio Police Department incident report.
The night before her murder, Alvarez had been using a witness's phone to speak with Byrd when Byrd asked the witness to drop her off at his home between 10:30 and 11 p.m., which is the last time the victim was seen alive, according to the outlet.
The witness later identified Byrd in a photo and said she and Alvarez had been in a relationship, the arrest report states, according to FOX 29.
TEXAS MAN WHO SPIT AT POLICE SEES ‘LIFE OF CRIME’ CRUMBLE, SLAPPED WITH 70 YEARS IN PRISON TO ‘SEND A MESSAGE’
Byrd has a lengthy arrest history, mostly for drug possession, though he was most recently charged with two counts of aggregated robbery on April 1.
TEXAS WOMAN KILLED IN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE: DALLAS POLICE
He was questioned by authorities in the robbery incident on April 12, at which point he admitted to investigators that he used the same gun in the alleged robbery to kill Alvarez, FOX 29 reported.
He had apparently asked her to have a baby with him, and she refused.
Alvarez has a 3-year-old son and graduated from high school in 2018. She worked in the food industry and planned to attend college in the fall, according to her obituary.
Byrd is currently being held on $400,000 bond. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/texas-man-allegedly-killed-girlfriend-for-refusing-to-have-his-baby-report/article_e68fa1d2-7bd7-5a9d-82db-ce8ec87df6ee.html | 2023-04-17 19:27:50 | 1 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/texas-man-allegedly-killed-girlfriend-for-refusing-to-have-his-baby-report/article_e68fa1d2-7bd7-5a9d-82db-ce8ec87df6ee.html |
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pediatric Brain Foundation, under the directorship of Rochette Dahler, founder of Little Sunshine's Playhouse & Preschool, has awarded $50,000 to the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. This donation will support the work of Evan Y. Snyder, M.D, Ph.D., FAAP, a professor at the Institute in the Sanford Children's Health Research Center.
"This generous gift will greatly impact our work in understanding the biological basis of neurological disorders and devising novel therapies to provide early intervention – perhaps even prevention – of such disorders," said Dr. Snyder.
This award is made in loving memory of Palmer Richmond and honors the work of the Children's Neurobiological Solutions. The intent is to use these funds to carry on the missions of the Pediatric Brain Foundation and Children's Neurobiological Solutions in terms of supporting the work of many investigators who are devoted to understanding and optimizing the function of the young nervous system.
Contributions to support this cause can be made to:
Sanford Burnham Prebys
C/O Evan Snyder MD, PhD
Philanthropy Department
10901 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
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Top-ranked Novak Djokovic will miss the Madrid Open, apparently due to a fitness issue, the Spanish event said Saturday.
The Madrid Open said on Twitter: “Wishing you a speedy recovery, we hope to see you back on court as soon as possible, Nole.”
While no specific reason was given for Djokovic’s withdrawal, he did discuss issues with his elbow recently, mostly downplaying the extent of the problem.
Rafael Nadal, who shares the record of 22 Grand Slam titles with Djokovic, said this week that he would miss the Madrid tournament due to a nagging hip injury that has sidelined him since the Australian Open in January.
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The next major is the French Open starting on May 28.
The 35-year-old Djokovic has had back-to-back early exits from tournaments. He lost in the round of 16 at Monte Carlo to Lorenzo Musetti. Then, on Friday, Dusan Lajovic beat Djokovic in the quarterfinals of the Srpska Open, dealing him his first loss to a Serb countryman in 11 years.
The Madrid Open starts on Monday. Djokovic has won the tournament three times. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/novak-djokovic-to-miss-madrid-open-along-with-rafael-nadal/4266161/ | 2023-04-22 19:15:30 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/novak-djokovic-to-miss-madrid-open-along-with-rafael-nadal/4266161/ |
ANDERSON, Ind. — An Indiana State Police investigation is underway after a Madison County Sheriff’s deputy became briefly involved in a shootout at an Anderson gas station early Friday.
According to state police, the deputy was patrolling in the area of 5th Street and Jackson Street shortly after midnight when he observed shots being fired in his general direction from the Jackson Mart gas station.
The deputy reportedly exited his vehicle and fired at least one shot back in the direction of the perceived shooters.
State police said investigators later determined that the original shots were fired from a vehicle that drove past the gas station and fired shots at individuals located at the gas pumps.
A 20-year-old from Anderson was struck by a bullet during the exchange of gunfire. He was treated at a hospital and released.
State police said it is unclear at this time if the 20-year-old was struck by gunfire from the deputy or from the individual(s) who fired their guns toward the gas pumps.
The investigation into the case remains ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact ISP Detective Tony Klettheimer at (765) 778-2121. | https://www.wane.com/news/isp-madison-county-deputy-involved-in-shootout-in-anderson/ | 2023-07-14 16:29:21 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/isp-madison-county-deputy-involved-in-shootout-in-anderson/ |
Scott Disick is still in a partying mood days after Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker tied the knot in Italy as he tries to keep himself distracted.
An eyewitness tells ET that the 38-year-old reality TV star hit up Sapphire New York with friends at around 2:30 a.m. on Monday. The eyewitness added that Disick hung out in the VIP section and kept things pretty low key. Disick, the eyewitness added, mainly hung out with the group he came with and stayed at the club for about an hour.
And it seems there's more pleasure -- mixed with a little business -- on the horizon. A source tells ET that Disick is headed to the Hamptons this week "for some work commitments and to hang out with friends for Memorial Day weekend."
The source added, "Scott is trying to distract himself from Kourtney and Travis' wedding and wants to have a fun time. He's still dating around and doing his thing."
While Kardashian and Barker hosted a star-studded affair for their third wedding in Italy, Disick hit up dinner with rock legend Rod Stewart before heading to the beach.
"Scott dined with Rod, Rod's children as well as Rod's long-time love, Penny Lancaster, at the Los Angeles hot spot," an eyewitness tells ET. "Scott seemed to be in a good mood."
The next day, Disick took to Instagram and teased he was headed to warmer weather. "Next stop, the beach," he posted on his Story. The picture also showed his flight details, a quick four hour and 19-minute flight, too short to make it to Italy.
A source previously told ET that Disick did not want to cause any drama with his ex and the Blink-182 drummer. The source said Disick "has been trying to be respectful of Kourtney and Travis and let them have their moment."
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CINCINNATI, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A year after being hired as chief marketing officer for the Scripps Networks division, Keisha Taylor Starr has been named chief marketing officer for The E.W. Scripps Company (Nasdaq: SSP) – a newly created position – and has joined the senior leadership team.
Taylor Starr has led marketing strategies for Scripps' national networks, including the rebranding of Scripps News from Newsy, which took effect Jan. 1.
"Keisha's experience in news, sports and entertainment verticals makes her the ideal chief marketing officer for our company at this pivotal moment," said Adam Symson, Scripps president and CEO. "Now, as we focus our company resources even more on these enduringly popular content categories across all TV viewing platforms, Keisha will be charged with raising the visibility of the Scripps company's family of brands with audiences and advertisers."
Before joining Scripps, Taylor Starr served as senior vice president of marketing and public relations for the digital news outlet The Recount. Before that, as senior VP of integrated marketing at Learfield IMG College, she oversaw all marketing, including graphic design, research and analytics, client insights and innovation and events at the sports marketing agency. Taylor Starr spent a decade with WarnerMedia (formerly Turner Broadcasting), leading award-winning teams across entertainment (TNT/tbs) and news (CNN) networks.
"There is tremendous energy throughout Scripps – we are constantly reinventing ourselves," Taylor Starr said. "But our one constant is community, and as a marketer, I feel privileged that I will be able to help our local stations, our national networks, the Scripps National Spelling Bee and the Scripps Howard Fund tell our stories to the many geographic and demographic communities we serve."
Taylor Starr will be based in Atlanta and report to Lisa Knutson, who was recently promoted to chief operating officer. Taylor Starr holds a bachelor's degree in mass communications/media studies from Hampton University.
Media contact: Michael Perry, (513) 259-4718, michael.perry@scripps.com
About Scripps
The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As one of the nation's largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through national news outlets Court TV and Scripps News and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Defy TV, Grit, ION Mystery, Laff and TrueReal. Scripps is the nation's largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, "Give light and the people will find their own way."
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey on Friday left 14 people dead, at least 28 injured and nearly 50 trapped underground, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
The explosion occurred at the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in the town of Amasra, in the Black Sea coastal province of Bartin. Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said the explosion is likely to have been caused by firedamp, a reference to flammable gases found in coal mines.
There were 110 people inside the mine at the time of the explosion, Soylu, who traveled to Amasra to coordinate the rescue operation told reporters. Most of the workers were able to vacate the mine following the blast but 49 were trapped in a “high risk” area of the facility, the minister said.
Several rescue teams were dispatched to the area, including from neighboring provinces, Turkey’s disaster management agency, AFAD, said. Media reports said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan canceled a planned visit to southeast Turkey and would travel to Amasra instead.
The private DHA news agency quoted one worker as telling Gov. Arslan that he came out of the mine by his own means. He described feeling a “pressure” but said he could not see anything due to the dust and dirt.
People rushed to the mine for news of trapped friends or colleagues, DHA reported.
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American Airlines places deposit on 20 supersonic planes
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines has agreed to buy up to 20 supersonic jets and put down a non-refundable deposit on the planes that are still on the drawing board and years away from flying.
Neither American nor the manufacturer Boom Supersonic would provide financial details Tuesday, including the size of American’s deposit. American becomes the second U.S. customer for Boom after a similar announcement last year from United Airlines for 15 of the planes, called the Overture.
It has been nearly 20 years since the last supersonic passenger flight by Concorde, the British-French plane that failed to catch on because of the high cost of flights.
Boom CEO Blake Scholl insists his company’s plane will be different when it debuts in 2029, with tickets costing about $4,000 to $5,000 to fly from New York to London in about three and one-half hours.
“There are tens of millions of passengers every year flying in business class on routes where Overture will give a big speed-up,” Scholl said in an interview, “and airlines will be able to do it profitably.”
Skeptics have questioned Boom’s ambitious timetable, especially in light of the many years it has taken Boeing, an established manufacturer, to get planes or even retrofits to planes approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Also, Boom does not yet have an engine manufacturer lined up. It is talking with Rolls Royce and others.
Boom says the plane will fly entirely on sustainable aviation fuel, often made from plant material, which is currently in short supply and very expensive.
Boom says the Overture program will cost between $6 billion and $8 billion. The plane carries a list price of $200 million, although other manufacturers routinely give airlines deep discounts.
Last month, Boom announced changes to the plane’s design to make it simpler and less expensive to build and maintain. The most striking change was going from three engines, including a different type on the tail, to four identical engines under the delta-shaped wings.
The union representing American’s pilots questioned the timing of the airline’s investment in planes that won’t be available for several years at best. American has struggled this summer, canceling more than 9,300 flights since June 1 — more than double the cancellations at United, Delta or Southwest — according to FlightAware.
“Investing in today’s operation should be management’s sole focus,” said Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the union. “If there aren’t any changes to how management schedules this airline and its pilots, these will just be supersonic cancellations.”
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Amazing! The absolute richest town in New Jersey
Looking at data for this article I found that no town in Ocean County or Burlington County made the list and three towns in Monmouth County (Rumson, Fair Haven, and Little Silver) made the list of Top 11 "Richest Towns" in New Jersey.
In a recent article from Property Club, they listed the Top 11 "Richest Towns" and among that list is only one that I am familiar with and that is Chatham, located in Morris County. We lived in Madison when I was very young and my Uncle Jimmy (Dad's Brother) lived in Chatham where he ran a local coffee company, and yes if I had been older would have loved to have been a part of lol. I remember Chatham as a kid and it was nice and quiet and small. Chatham came in on Property Clubs' list, but I never knew it as a child going there, it was just a nice neighborhood where Uncle Jimmy lived lol
As far as the "Richest" of the Top 11 according to Property Club, the town of Short Hills takes the top honors. "Short Hills is the richest town in New Jersey and one of the country’s wealthiest, with a median household income of $250,000. This places it in the top 1 percent of all cities in the United States when it comes to income, and many allege it’s far wealthier than its $250,000 price tag."
Short Hills is known for its great schools and its "high-end" mall. According to Niche, the median home price is $1,389,900 and the median rent is $3,279. Both are well above the national average.
Here are the Top 11 "Wealthiest Towns" in New Jersey from Property Club:
- Short Hills
- Alpine
- Ho Ho Kus
- Essex Fells
- Saddle River
- Fair Haven
- Little Silver
- Glen Ridge
- Chatham
- Rumson
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Octopuses are curious and clever. They can solve mazes and puzzles, use tools, and are masters of camouflage. These complex abilities are powered by their sophisticated and giant brains.
Now, in the journal Cell, researchers report that octopuses are able to edit genetic information to quickly resculpt those brains when confronted with changes in their environment.
These findings cast new light on the incredible adaptability of these shape-shifting creatures and may help scientists design therapeutics for problematic mutations in our own bodies.
Octopuses are considered one of the smartest invertebrate animals on the planet, with sophisticated brains and complex nervous systems. In other animals, such big brains typically need to be treated with care.
Just think about your own fragile brain. It's encased in a skull, bathed in oxygen, and tuned to work at a relatively stable body temperature. "We spend a ton of energy maintaining a constant temperature," says Josh Rosenthal, a neurobiologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. "And a lot of that is so that our nervous system can operate more efficiently."
Too hot (with a fever) or too cold (with hypothermia) and our brains sputter and begin to fail — and that's just several degrees off the norm. So our bodies keep everything at a steady temperature.
Octopuses don't have that luxury. Their brains require just as much safekeeping as ours, but they're in squishy bodies swimming in water whose temperature can fluctuate by some 20 degrees.
"It's difficult to maintain a complex nervous system in the face of changing temperature," says Rosenthal. "And that presents challenges."
Tweaking genetic recipes on the fly
Octopuses have overcome that challenge with a unique trick hidden inside their cells. It has to do with a molecule called RNA, which is used to help translate DNA into the proteins that make up our bodies. To use an analogy, let's say you want to make a loaf of bread and you walk into a library filled with cookbooks.
"That cookbook itself, it's already printed and I can't change the book," says Matthew Birk, a biologist at Saint Francis University. "But what I can do is make a copy, take it home to my kitchen," and bake the bread there.
Here, the cookbooks are the DNA, which is hard-coded and doesn't change, the bread is the protein your body wants to make, and the RNA is the copy of the recipe that explains how to do it. RNA doesn't tend to change all that much. It's just the messenger.
But what if you're missing an ingredient — like butter?
"If those are the instructions you have, you're kinda sunk," says Rosenthal. "But if you know that oil would work just as well — if you could edit that recipe and put that in, then that gives you flexibility."
In the brains of most animals — from fish to birds to bees to people — only a few percent of the RNAs get edited. But inside the brains of octopuses and their relatives, it's happening on a massive scale, affecting more than 60%.
The researchers wondered if something in these animals' environment might be driving all this tweaking, like temperature. Birk decided to run an experiment with help from the California two-spot octopus, which, when scrunched up, is about the size of a football.
"They look very much like your typical octopus," says Birk, "although it does have two iridescent blue spots to try and scare a predator away." He says they're mischievous and good at camouflaging. And their coastal habitat in southern California and northern Mexico swings between warm summers and cool winters.
In the lab, Birk placed half his octopuses in cooler water and half in warmer water. After a few weeks, he collected RNA from their brains.
"We found that there were over 20,000 different locations on various different proteins that were edited," says Birk, with more tweaking in the cooler conditions.
That is, in response to changing temperatures, the octopuses remodeled their brains, presumably to keep them functioning properly. The same thing was true in the wild, where Birk collected individuals in the summer and winter by flushing them from their underwater dens with squirts of vinegar.
The octopuses are capable of making these edits in less than a day. Compare that to DNA, which takes generations to change. RNA provides a more flexible alternative.
Tweaking RNAs — editing the temporary copies of the recipes — leads to alterations in the proteins that they instruct the cell to make. For octopuses, there's no single, preferred version of a protein. Rather, there are multiple versions of numerous proteins in the animal's brain, each one suited to a different scenario.
"This study shows for the first time that in the same organism, under different conditions, it expresses different proteins from the same gene," says Eli Eisenberg, a physicist at Tel Aviv University. "And they have different functional behavior that is presumably suited to the external temperature."
The inner life of an octopus
It's still not clear how these changes might impact an octopus in its daily life.
"What would be nice to see in future is what types of behaviors are affected by these different types of changes — their reaction speeds, their ability to camouflage," says Robyn Crook, a neurobiologist at San Francisco State University who wasn't involved in the research.
Because the octopuses do more editing in cooler temperatures, Crook also points out the strategy may not help them in the face of a changing climate and warming oceans. Though these octopuses can operate across a range of temperatures, she says it may not be "a viable mechanism for escaping environmental change as a result of human activity."
Despite octopuses living such different lives than we do, their unique brains may one day prove useful to us.
"We're trying to figure out how to capture this ability to use it towards therapeutics," explains Birk, like pain reduction or repairing harmful mutations that cause disease.
Octopuses, he says, have a lot to teach us.
"They are fascinating and interesting, not just on the outside, where we can all see," Birk says. "But also on the inside."
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S.P.R.I.N.G. at The Beach Serves Up a Warm Welcome
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As we bid farewell to winter and welcome the longer, sun-soaked days ahead, Visit Myrtle Beach is inviting travelers of all interests, ages and abilities to take a trip to "America's Favorite Beach" this spring. With 60 miles of breathtaking Atlantic coastline and endless unforgettable experiences, including an array of brand-new offerings, there are always memories to be made at The Beach during this exciting season.
"Spring is such a beautiful season in Myrtle Beach, and we are excited to welcome all travelers to a vibrant destination that offers relaxation, adventure, and an abundance of memory-making," said Karen Riordan, President and CEO of Visit Myrtle Beach. "Whether you are traveling in a large group, as a couple, or solo, this is the perfect place to relax, unwind, and feel like you belong."
At The Beach, S.P.R.I.N.G. stands for:
S: Sunny Skies and Outdoor Activities
- Myrtle Beach enjoys over 200 days of sunshine a year, and its 60 miles of stunning shoreline are the perfect place to catch some springtime rays and enjoy the peaceful rhythm of ocean waves rolling in.
- Beyond the beach, step aboard a variety of water vessels (pontoons, riverboats, airboats, speedboats, and even catamarans!) for a relaxing or high-speed deep dive into the unique landscapes, waterways and fishing opportunities in the Myrtle Beach area. Discover a multitude of flora and fauna that call this area home and be on the lookout for Atlantic bottlenose dolphins along the way!
P: Perusing Local Art and Performances
- Launched in September 2022, the Visit Myrtle Beach Arts & Gallery Trail is an unexpected look into the destination brimming with color and culture around every corner. The trail boasts more than 100 art-filled attractions, including oceanfront sculptures, enormous photo-worthy murals, quaint working studios and even a secret underground passage filled with art. Stretching from Little River and North Myrtle Beach to Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island, visitors will be guided to many of the Grand Strand's lesser-known areas, such as historic downtown Conway, the quaint "Little Golden Town" of Aynor and the newly minted Arts & Innovation District.
- The ongoing revitalization and development in Myrtle Beach's Arts & Innovation District is gaining steam with the relocation of the new Good Vibes Surf & Skate shop and opening of the Grand Strand Brewing Company, alongside recently established restaurants, galleries and retailers. Future developments will include new stores, restaurants and even a gym, as well as the restoration of the Broadway Theater into a 300-seat performing arts center.
R: Ridiculously Fresh Seafood
- From casual eateries and fusion cuisine to fine dining without pretension, the Grand Strand boasts a plethora of mouthwatering culinary experiences. Fresh seafood abounds in the Myrtle Beach region, and there is always an opportunity to sample the catch of the day around every corner.
- A sister restaurant to the beloved Bubba's Fish Shack, Bubba's Fish Camp is a new eatery that offers a beach-inspired menu with fried and grilled seafood along with meats smoked in-house, conveniently located right across from Broadway at the Beach.
- Murrells Inlet is a small waterfront fishing village on the south end of the Grand Strand - "o-fish-ially" dubbed South Carolina's seafood capital - with one of the richest histories in South Carolina. Today, the Murrells Inlet Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and offers an array of restaurants with stunning waterfront views.
I: Incredible Family Adventures
- Ripley's Aquarium is introducing all-new experiences in Myrtle Beach this spring. These exciting, family-friendly attractions include the notable Sloth Valley habitat – bringing guests face-to-face with the adorable, two-toed species – as well as the Ripley's Illusion Lab, Ripley's Crazy Golf, Ripley's Mirror Maze expansion and Ripley's Haunted Adventure.
- Brand new to Myrtle Beach's Coastal Grand Mall, Stars and Strikes Getaway-n-Play is a 52,500 square-foot family entertainment complex that offers an immersive, augmented reality bowling experience, as well as an arcade, a multi-story laser tag arena, axe throwing and more.
N: Nighttime Entertainment
- The soundtrack found along The Beach includes much more than peaceful waves, it also thrums with beats from hundreds of live music gigs on weekends. From scenic stages and world-renowned music halls, the Grand Strand comes alive with music from up-and-coming artists. If grabbing a mic is your thing, join Julio Navarro as he tours (and sings!) at the area's best bars and restaurants on the YouTube series Myrtle Beach Karaoke.
- An immersive musical experience at The Beach wouldn't be complete without taking in one of the multitude of shows that shine along the Strand. What began with Calvin Gilmore and the Carolina Opry in 1986, has grown to include nearly two dozen theater productions.
- The Alabama Theatre of North Myrtle Beach's new production, ICONIC, is a cutting-edge, brand-new on-stage and in-air show with visual elements and a state-of-the-art video wall unlike anything the Grand Strand has ever seen. In celebration of the theater's 30th anniversary, ICONIC features widely recognized Country music chartbusters, Classic Rock anthems, Broadway, and Pop power ballads, and is a must-see this spring.
G: Great Accommodations
- Completed in late 2022, the $65 million renovation of two of Kingston Resorts' oceanfront properties (The Hilton Myrtle Beach Resort and the Embassy Suites by Hilton Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Resort) includes fully updated accommodations, two waterparks, and an island-themed outdoor pool and dining space.
- Springhill Suites Myrtle Beach Oceanfront By Marriott is a new dual-branded oceanfront resort that stands 26 stories tall and boasts beautiful rooftop amenities, including outdoor seating complete with fire pits. Additional outdoor amenities include a ground-level pool and lazy river.
Visit Myrtle Beach strives to make planning a trip to The Beach as seamless as possible, from easy accessibility for all travelers, to affordable adventures and discounted lodging to suit all needs.
- Get here fast - Myrtle Beach's accessible location makes it easy to plan a road trip from the East Coast, South or Midwest. Major cities like New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Memphis and Jackson are all less than a 12-hour drive from The Beach. In fact, nearly 50% of the U.S. population is located within a day's drive. For those who prefer to travel by air, the Myrtle Beach International Airport has been named the "Best Small Airport" in USA Today's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards – offering 50 nonstop destinations and an expanded list of new seasonal and year-round flights. Not to mention, it's also conveniently located just one mile from the ocean!
- Make the most of your vacation budget - Planning a spring getaway doesn't have to break the bank. Myrtle Beach offers unbeatable value for every traveler, with affordable prices on high-end lodging, dining, and attractions. Not to mention, an impressive list of seasonal deals at some of the area's top locales.
To start planning your spring vacation to The Beach, visit www.visitmyrtlebeach.com.
Images available to download HERE (credit: Visit Myrtle Beach).
About Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Myrtle Beach isn't just a beach. It's The Beach. Popularly known as the Grand Strand, Myrtle Beach is one destination made up of 14 unique communities that stretch 60 miles along the northeast coast of South Carolina. Families, couples and those in search of a warm welcome will find more than just a day at The Beach when they come together to connect and enjoy vibrant entertainment and family attractions, including world-class golf, shopping and fresh coastal Carolina cuisine. From the moment you arrive, you'll find you belong at The Beach – Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. For additional information on tourism offerings in the Myrtle Beach area, visit www.visitmyrtlebeach.com or call (888) Myrtle-1.
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19 First Alert Day: A second day of poor air quality
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Canada wildfire smoke remains in the area. Some good news is it will not be as thick as yesterday. An Air Quality Advisory is in effect through the day. You’ll need to take the proper precautions when outside, especially if you are sensitive to this. It will be a warmer day with afternoon temperatures above 80 degrees in most areas. A mix of sun and clouds. A cold front approaches the area tomorrow. Humidity level on the rise. It looks like this front will stall out over our area over the weekend. There could be a few early morning showers tomorrow. Scattered afternoon showers and storms will pulse up. A few of these storms could be strong. The team is monitoring this.
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Heat trapping carbon dioxide emissions from making cement, a less talked about but major source of carbon pollution, have doubled in the last 20 years, new global data shows.
In 2021, worldwide emissions from making cement for buildings, roads and other infrastructure hit nearly 2.9 billion tons (2.6 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide, which is more than 7% of the global carbon emissions, according to emissions scientist Robbie Andrew of Norway’s CICERO Center for International Climate Research and the Global Carbon Project. Twenty years ago, in 2002, cement emissions were some 1.4 billion tons (1.2 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide.
Driven by China, global cement emissions globally have more than tripled since 1992, recently growing at a rate of 2.6% a year. It’s not just that more cement is being made and used. At a time when all industries are supposed to be cleaning up their processes, cement has actually been going in the opposite direction. The carbon intensity of cement — how much pollution is emitted per ton — has increased 9.3% from 2015 to 2020, primarily because of China, according to the International Energy Agency.
“Cement emission have grown faster than most other carbon sources,” said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who leads Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists that track worldwide climate pollution and publish their work in peer reviewed journals. “Cement emissions were also unusual in that they never dropped during COVID. They didn’t grow as much, but they never declined the way oil, gas and coal did. Honestly, I think it’s because the Chinese economy never really shut down completely.”
Cement is unusual compared to other major materials, such as steel, because not only does it require a lot of heat to make, which causes emissions, but the chemical process of making cement itself produces a lot of carbon dioxide, the major human-caused long-term heat-trapping gas.
The recipe for cement requires lots of a key ingredient called clinker, the crumbly binding agent in the entire mixture. Clinker is made when limestone, calcium carbonate, is taken out of the ground and heated to 2700 to 2800 degrees (1480 to 1540 degrees Celsius) to turn it into calcium oxide. But that process strips carbon dioxide out of the limestone and it goes into the air, Andrew said.
Rick Bohan, senior vice president for sustainability at the industry group Portland Cement Association, said, “in the U.S., 60% of our CO2 is a chemical fact of life… The reality is concrete is a universal building material. There is no single construction project that doesn’t use some amount of concrete in it.”
Cement, which is the key ingredient in concrete, is in buildings, roads and bridges.
“Each person on the planet is consuming on average more than a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cement per day,” said University of California Earth systems scientist Steve Davis. “Obviously, you’re not going to, you know, Home Depot and buying a sack of cement every day. But on your behalf, the roads and buildings and bridges out there are using more than a kilogram. And that’s kind of mind boggling to me.”
Even though there are greener ways to make cement, cutting its emissions dramatically is so difficult and requires such a massive change in infrastructure and the way of doing business, the International Energy Agency doesn’t envision the cement industry getting to zero carbon emissions by 2050. Instead there will still be emissions from cement, steel and aviation that need to be balanced out with negative emissions elsewhere, said IEA researchers Tiffany Voss and Peter Levi.
“These are hard, hard to cut,” Andrew said.
But industry’s Bohan said his group is certain that they can get to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, if it gets help from governments and especially cement users to accept and use green cement properly. One of several ways to make greener cement is to mix in fly ash, which is a waste product from burning coal, in place of some of the clinker and he said there’s more than enough fly ash available even with coal use reductions.
IEA’s Voss said the switch to green cement “is not there yet” because of technology, infrastructure and other concerns. But many in and outside the industry are working on the problem.
China is key because it produced more than half of the world’s cement emissions in 2021, with India a distant second at about 9%, Andrew’s data shows. The United States spewed 2.5% of the emissions from cement, ranking fifth behind Vietnam and Turkey.
“China is a huge country and its development ramped up,” Andrew said. “It’s driven everything.”
China is not just making and using more cement, but the carbon intensity has been going up a lot lately, IEA’s Voss said. That’s because earlier in its development, China was using cheaper, weaker low-clinker cement and buildings and bridges were collapsing, so now the Chinese government is mandating stronger cement, Norway’s Andrew said.
That’s a reasonable conservatism that slows efforts at making greener cement, Davis said. People are not eager to try untested cement recipes because “these are the structural materials of our society,” he said.
For example, Portland limestone cement has 10% less emissions but customers are so worried about strength they often say they are only willing to use it if they use 10% more, industry’s Bohan said.
Different cement uses have specific needs, such as strength versus longevity but users often just want the strongest and most durable when they don’t need it and this causes unnecessary emissions, Bohan said.
And while people talk about curtailing flying, global aviation emissions are less than half of that coming from concrete, according to Global Carbon Project. There’s “flight shaming” among scientists and activists, but no building shaming, Davis said.
Cement as it ages does suck some carbon dioxide out of the air, just like trees do, in small measurable, significant amounts, Jackson said.
“Our primary focus needs to be on fossil fuel use because that’s where most emissions come from,” Stanford’s Jackson said. “I don’t think cement is on most policymakers’ radar.”
Perhaps not on most, but it is on some. California, Colorado, New Jersey and New York have all passed legislation on cleaner concrete and the trend is growing.
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LONDON — Observers of Britain’s governing structure can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as they watch the country reel through a succession of prime ministers without holding an election. While the opposition Labour Party is demanding an election, the governing conservatives are pushing on with choosing another prime minister from within their own ranks, which they have the right to do because of the way Britain’s parliamentary democracy works.
BRITONS NEVER ACTUALLY VOTE FOR THEIR PRIME MINISTER
Britain is divided into 650 local constituencies, and people tick a box for the representative they want to become their local member of parliament, or MP. In most cases, this will be a member of one of the country’s major political parties.
The party that wins the majority of seats gets to form a government, and that party’s leader automatically becomes prime minister. While coalitions are possible, Britain’s voting system favors the two largest parties and in most cases a single party will take an absolute majority of seats, as is the case for the Conservatives in the current Parliament.
HOW DO THE PARTIES CHOOSE THEIR LEADERS?
Since 1922, all of Britain’s 20 prime ministers have come from either the Labour Party or the Conservative Party. This means the members of these parties have an outsized influence on who will be the country’s prime minister. The processes the parties use to choose them can appear Byzantine.
Deep breath: For the Conservative Party, their lawmakers must first signal their support for a potential leader. If there is enough support, this person will become an official candidate. All Conservative MPs then cast a series of votes, gradually whittling down the number of candidates to two. Finally, the party’s ordinary members — around 180,000 of them — vote between these two candidates. Last time they chose Liz Truss over Rishi Sunak.
If the MPs are able to unite behind a single candidate then there is no need for the wider party members to have a vote. This last happened in 2016 when the lawmakers backed Theresa May after the resignation of David Cameron and she automatically became prime minister. This could happen again.
The Labour Party has its own process that is, arguably, even more complicated.
BUT DIDN’T BRITAIN VOTE FOR BORIS JOHNSON IN 2019?
Johnson was selected by his party following the resignation of Theresa May. He had already been prime minister for five months when electors ticked their ballot cards in December 2019. However, voters’ support for the Conservative Party did cement his position as prime minister.
Even in that election, though, it was only actually around 70,000 people who got the chance to vote directly for or against Johnson — those who happened to live in his Parliamentary constituency of Ruislip and South Uxbridge, in west London.
Since then, another prime minister, Liz Truss, has come and gone, and one more will be in place by the end of next week — all without anyone troubling the general electorate.
WILL THERE BE A GENERAL ELECTION SOON?
Constitutionally, no general election is required in Britain for two more years. But as the prime ministers come and go, selected by a tiny proportion of the population, a lot of Britons are beginning to wonder why they are not getting a chance to influence who is their next leader. The clamor for a general election in the near future is only likely to get louder. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/explainer-why-the-british-public-is-not-choosing-its-leader/2022/10/22/f4b96f78-5200-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html | 2022-10-22 12:43:14 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/explainer-why-the-british-public-is-not-choosing-its-leader/2022/10/22/f4b96f78-5200-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html |
Supreme Court skeptical of rejecting civil rights precedent
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed unlikely to agree to overturn decades of precedent in a case about civil rights lawsuits, a result that would preserve the ability of individuals to use federal law to sue.
The justices had been asked to use a case about a nursing home resident who claimed a violation of his rights to more broadly limit the right to sue. The justices were told that result could leave tens of millions of people who have rights under federal programs including Medicare and Medicaid without access to the courts.
But members of both the court’s six-justice conservative majority and three-justice liberal wing seemed to have little appetite to rule broadly in the case.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed out the repercussions of doing so. “Neither the federal government nor the states can possibly investigate and remedy every violation of these rights that are given to people,” she said, adding that federal law “speaks clearly” that people have a right to go to court. “Why shouldn’t we just respect our precedent?” she asked.
The court was being asked to say that when states agree to accept federal money to provide services — so-called spending clause legislation for programs like Medicare and Medicaid — they shouldn’t face lawsuits from individuals over civil rights violations unless the legislation itself gives states clear notice they’re subject to lawsuits.
But the court has previously said that a section of federal law — “Section 1983″ — applies universally to give people the right to sue government workers when they violate rights created by any federal statute.
The specific case the justices heard involves the interaction of Section 1983 and the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act, a 1987 law that outlines requirements for nursing homes that accept federal Medicare and Medicaid funds. The court is being asked to answer whether a person can use Section 1983 to go to court with claims their rights under the nursing home act are violated.
On that narrower question, it wasn’t clear the court would rule Section 1983 lawsuits are permitted. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that the nursing home legislation “says rights over and over again” but also noted that there’s a separate administrative process set up for people to complain when their rights are violated. “What’s wrong with an administrative process ... if it’s comprehensive and works?” He asked at one point.
Biden administration lawyer Benjamin Snyder told the court that Congress did not intend to allow Section 1983 lawsuits when it enacted the nursing home legislation. Snyder said most nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid are private facilities. That means residents of those facilities can’t sue under Section 1983 but only have access to administrative remedies. He argued it wouldn’t make sense for different rules to apply to government-run facilities.
The specific case in front of the court involves Gorgi Talevski, who was a resident of Valparaiso Care and Rehabilitation, a government nursing home in Indiana. His family says the nursing home found it difficult to care for Talevski, who had dementia, and so gave him powerful drugs to restrain him, then involuntarily transferred him to another facility.
Talevski’s family sued under Section 1983, saying his rights had been violated. A trial court dismissed the case, but a federal court of appeals said it could proceed. Talevski died in 2021. A lawyer for the family, Andrew Tutt, told the court that a Section 1983 lawsuit was the family’s “last resort” and that it is a “life-saver for people who cannot actually make effective use” of administrative remedies in the law.
The case is Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski, 21-806.
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GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Shortly after being sworn in last fall, the new majority of the Sumner County Commission in Tennessee acted to update one of its official documents. The new version said county operations would not only be orderly and efficient, but “most importantly reflective of the Judeo-Christian values inherent in the nation’s founding.”
It was an important moment for the 14 commissioners who had campaigned under the banner of the Sumner County Constitutional Republicans. The group had waged a political war on fellow Republicans in this fast-growing region north of Nashville during a bitter primary a few months before.
Since taking control, that majority has halted plans for a new building, rejected federal grants and sought to give away a historical property, actions it said were in line with its commitment to fiscal responsibility. The group also has been involved in an escalating feud with the county’s election commission.
The early moves have been cheered by their supporters, but some Republicans and community members say the commissioners are operating outside political norms, inviting lawsuits and jeopardizing elections and other county operations.
“What’s happened here is the Sumner County constitutional conservative Republican group, they don’t believe in government,” said Baker Ring, a Republican who is serving his fourth term on the county commission and is not aligned with the new majority. “They’re opposed to government. But now they are the government.”
The tensions are similar to those playing out in communities across the United States where conservative groups have been running candidates for local offices in recent years and sometimes winning majorities, upending the way local governments operate.
While their success at winning office has varied, the consequences when they do are becoming apparent in places such as Sumner County, where they can wield power — such as budgeting authority — that could have implications for how elections are run.
“If we don’t fund it, you don’t get to do it,” one county commissioner, Jeremy Mansfield, told the election administrator and chair of the election commission during a contentious meeting last fall.
In Sumner County, a 22% increase in population between 2010 and 2020 has led to a need for more government services, including schools and teachers, while providing an opportunity for the local Constitutional Republicans group to gain power.
Eight Republican commissioners were defeated in the May 2022 primary by challengers aligned with the Constitutional Republicans. That paved the way for the group to form the majority after an August general election in which less than 15% of registered voters cast ballots. A key issue that helped fuel the rise of the group were two property tax increases approved by the county commission over the past decade or so.
When the county’s election administrator came before the commission last fall seeking money to pay election workers for the November midterms, commissioners refused and pointed to money she still had in the bank.
The election administrator, Lori Atchley, has continued to ask, warning the commission that she is operating at a deficit because the workers had to be paid.
It was at that meeting that Mansfield, in his second term on the commission and an influential member of the Constitutional Republicans group, said two weeks of early voting, as required by state law, “just seems excessive for this county.” When a fellow commissioner said the county would soon be adding vote centers — polling places where anyone in the county can cast a ballot — Mansfield replied, “Well, we can always change that, too.”
Whether the county uses vote centers or has multiple early voting locations falls under the authority of the five state-appointed members of the county election commission, which hires the local election administrator. But county commissioners control funding, and the newly elected conservatives say the county’s election budget is higher than comparable counties and that vote centers are hard to justify without proof that they will increase turnout.
The election office also is seeking money to complete its move to a larger building. That move is at the center of another dispute, with some of the new county commissioners saying it was not properly authorized.
In March, county commissioners voted to require the election department to vacate the building. The election commission responded by filing a lawsuit against the county, arguing that the dispute and forced move “threaten the integrity of the 2024 election before a single vote has been cast.”
Mansfield said he would not describe elections in the U.S. as secure or trustworthy and he believes the local election administrator has contributed to an erosion of confidence in the community. Among other things, he pointed to a recent misdemeanor citation issued to Atchley over a private property dispute unrelated to her job.
“Elections should be about integrity and trust,” he said.
Atchley referred questions about the lawsuit to the election commission’s attorney and did not respond to a message seeking a comment about the citation and Mansfield’s criticism. Tom Lee, the election commission’s lawyer, said members regard the citation as a “private matter.”
There have been no reports of large-scale election problems in the county.
Members of the Constitutional Republicans group said the elections department was not being treated any differently from other county departments when asked to justify their budget requests.
“People want small government and government they can trust,” Mansfield said.
Elected to his first term last year, County Commissioner Wes Wynne is a Republican but not part of the new majority. He said he doesn’t understand why there’s been so much animosity between the county commission and election officials. He offered a motion that presented a compromise on using the larger building, but said it was ignored.
“So far, our commission has done a fabulous job at grinding every ax that they can find against people they don’t like,” he said.
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HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — Police in Hancock County are asking for the public's help in locating a 71-year-old man who hasn't been seen in two days.
Raymond Boring was last seen Wednesday morning as he headed into Marion County. His family told the Hancock County Sheriff's Department they believe him to be suicidal.
Boring is described as a 5-foot, 7-inch white male, who weighs around 160 pounds and has brown eyes and gray hair. He may have a gray goatee or beard, police said.
He is driving a red Honda CRZ. The sheriff's department shared a security camera photo that showed Boring's vehicle at Buck Creek Road and US 40 in Cumberland. The timestamp on the video says it was recorded at 10:42 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 14.
The license plate on the vehicle appears to be an Indiana plate number BQI490 (or possibly BOI490).
Boring's family also told police he took several valuables from his home before he disappeared.
Anyone who has seen Boring is urged to contact Hancock County Sheriff's Deputy Christie McFarland at 317-477-1199. If you come in contact with him, police ask that you call 911 immediately.
Amber Alert vs. Silver Alert: What's the difference?
There are specific standards a person's disappearance must meet in order for police to declare an Amber Alert or a Silver Alert.
Amber Alerts are for children under the age of 18 who are believed to have been abducted and in danger. Police also need to have information about a suspect and their car to issue an Amber Alert.
Silver Alerts are for missing and endangered adults or children. They are much more common for missing people. It was not until last year when the standards for Silver Alerts were expanded to include children.
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NASA has once again waved off an attempt to launch its massive new moon rocket on an uncrewed test mission because of technical issues.
The launch had been slated to take off Saturday afternoon, but those plans were scrubbed after the team discovered a liquid hydrogen leak that they spent the better part of the morning trying to resolve. Liquid hydrogen is one of the propellants used in the rocket's large core stage. The leak prevented the launch team from being able to fill the liquid hydrogen tank despite trying various troubleshooting procedures.
It's the second time in a week that the space agency has been forced to halt the launch countdown in the face of technical issues. The first launch attempt, on Monday, was called off after several issues arose, including with a system meant to cool the rocket's engines ahead of liftoff and various leaks that sprung up as the rocket was being fueled.
The liquid hydrogen leak was detected at 7:15 a.m. ET in the quick disconnect cavity that feeds the rocket with hydrogen in the engine section of the core stage. It was a different leak than one that occurred ahead of the scrubbed launch on Monday.
The launch controllers warmed up the line in an attempt to get a tight seal and the flow of liquid hydrogen resumed before a leak reoccurred. They stopped the flow of liquid hydrogen and proceeded to "close the valve used to fill and drain it, then increase pressure on a ground transfer line using helium to try to reseal it," according to NASA.
That troubleshooting plan was not successful. The team attempted the first plan again to warm up the line, but the leak reoccurred after they manually restarted the flow of liquid hydrogen.
The launch window opens at 2:17 p.m. ET and closes at 4:17 p.m. ET on Saturday. NASA's live coverage began at 5:45 a.m. ET on its website and TV channel.
This process has put the team behind schedule, but it's unclear how much of a delay it will cause in the countdown because they may be able to make up some time later.
Meanwhile, the core stage liquid oxygen tank is full. Both propellants need to be filled within certain proportions to one another before launch. Liquid hydrogen is currently at 9% full.
There is a 60% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch, with chances increasing to 80% favorable toward the end of the window, according to weather officer Melody Lovin.
The Artemis I stack, which includes the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, sits on Launchpad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The Artemis I mission is just the beginning of a program that will aim to return humans to the moon and eventually land crewed missions on Mars.
If the mission launches on Saturday, it will go on a journey around the moon and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on October 11. There is still a backup opportunity for the Artemis I mission to launch on September 5 as well.
In the last few days, the launch team has taken time to address issues, like hydrogen leaks, that cropped up ahead of Monday's planned launch before it was scrubbed. The team has also completed a risk assessment of an engine conditioning issue and a foam crack that also cropped up, according to NASA officials.
Both are considered to be acceptable risks heading into the launch countdown, according to Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager.
On Monday, a sensor on one of the rocket's four RS-25 engines, identified as engine #3, reflected that the engine could not reach the proper temperature range required for the engine to start at liftoff.
The engines need to be thermally conditioned before super-cold propellant flows through them before liftoff. To prevent the engines from experiencing any temperature shocks, launch controllers gradually increase the pressure of the core stage liquid hydrogen tank in the hours before launch to send a small amount of liquid hydrogen to the engines. This is known as a "bleed."
The team has since determined it was a bad sensor providing the reading -- they plan to ignore the faulty sensor moving forward, according to John Blevins, Space Launch Systems chief engineer.
The bleed, originally expected to occur around 8 a.m. ET, is currently on hold.
Mission overview
After Artemis I launches, Orion's journey will last 37 days as it travels to the moon, loops around it and returns to Earth -- traveling a total of 1.3 million miles (2.1 million kilometers).
While the passenger list doesn't include any humans, it does have passengers: three mannequins and a plush Snoopy toy will ride in Orion.
The crew aboard Artemis I may sound a little unusual, but they each serve a purpose. Snoopy will serve as the zero gravity indicator -- meaning that he will begin to float inside the capsule once it reaches the space environment.
The mannequins, named Commander Moonikin Campos, Helga and Zohar, will measure the deep space radiation future crews could experience and test out new suit and shielding technology. A biology experiment carrying seeds, algae, fungi and yeast is also tucked inside Orion to measure how life reacts to this radiation as well.
Additional science experiments and technology demonstrations are also riding in a ring on the rocket. From there, 10 small satellites, called CubeSats, will detach and go their separate ways to collect information on the moon and the deep space environment.
Cameras inside and outside of Orion will share images and video throughout the mission, including live views from the Callisto experiment, which will capture a stream of Commander Moonikin Campos sitting in the commander's seat. And if you have an Amazon Alexa-enabled device, you can ask it about the mission's location each day.
Expect to see views of Earthrise similar to what was shared for the first time during the Apollo 8 mission back in 1968, but with much better cameras and technology.
The inaugural mission of the Artemis program will kick off a phase of NASA space exploration that intends to land diverse astronaut crews at previously unexplored regions of the moon -- on the Artemis II and Artemis III missions, slated for 2024 and 2025 respectively -- and eventually delivers crewed missions to Mars.
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Patrick Fortune was walking his dog Ka’Hu in his Austin neighborhood when he spotted something long and yellow down a ravine 30 feet below him.
This had to be the snake.
Someone named Daryl Fields posted in July that his python, named Snow, was taken from his vehicle in its travel tote while he was visiting Austin from Dallas.
“She is a big gentle giant,” Fields wrote. “I’m sure whoever broke in my vehicle freaked out realizing it was a snake inside. Please give me a call if you hear or see anything.”
Fortune, 34, recalled that a few people had reported seeing the snake on a walking path near his Coronado Hills neighborhood that first week, but he hadn’t heard of any other sightings.
“The snake was big enough to take cats and pretty much anything else it wanted, so people were a little worried,” said Fortune, who did not have any experience with snakes, including pythons. “But then it disappeared, and everything calmed down. We figured it was gone.”
When Fortune realized that he had found the missing python that day — Dec. 19 — he said he took his dog home and told his girlfriend, Raven Zimmer, what he’d seen. He wasn’t sure if it was alive or dead, he said, but if it was alive, they should rescue it.
She was on board.
Fortune said he’d seen plenty of cottonmouth snakes and rattlesnakes in Texas, and he’d once come across a 5-foot bullsnake.
“I knew that pythons were tropical — they like to be warm,” he said, noting that it been cold in Austin for several weeks, and it was 45 degrees outside on the day he spotted Snow.
Both he and Zimmer have soft spots for animals in need.
“Raven and I are animal lovers, and we’ve helped rescue owls and rabbits before,” Fortune added. “Rescuing the snake seemed like the right thing to do.”
He and Zimmer, 33, said they had no idea how to care for a freezing python, but they figured that warmth and a large container to put the snake in would be key.
They quickly warmed up a heating pad in the microwave, grabbed a few towels and loaded their large dog carrier into Fortune’s truck.
When they arrived at the top of the ravine, another neighbor called the Austin Animal Center and was told it would take a couple of hours to get an animal control officer on the scene to help, Fortune said.
He figured that if the snake was still alive, it didn’t have the luxury of time, due to the cold weather.
“The embankment was pretty steep, but Raven walked on down, and I grabbed the crate and shuffled it down,” Fortune said.
“The snake looked dead to us, but Raven reached out and touched it, and we were surprised when it moved,” he added. “I thought, ‘Oh! That’s different. Now what do we do?’”
He decided to snap a few photos of the snake and text them to people he knew in the neighborhood, hoping that someone would help him and Zimmer get the 75-pound python into the dog crate and push it up the hill.
When Dillon Dority, 29, received a text from a family member that the snake had been found, he immediately rushed over from his parents’ house, across the street from the ravine.
“I like the strange and unusual, so I was all in,” he said, adding that he knew nothing about large reticulated pythons but once had a boyfriend who kept a small ball python as a pet.
The trio decided that Fortune would firmly hold the snake behind its head while Zimmer and Dority picked up its body and scooted it into the carrier.
“Because we have lots of snakes in Texas, I knew it was common practice that if you grab them behind the head, you’ll have power over them because they can’t strike you,” Fortune said.
“The snake didn’t seem to like that,” he noted. “It reared up and opened its mouth, and it gave me a ‘don’t mess with me’ look.”
Although Snow was 10 inches wide and its hiss was intimidating, Fortune said he and the others were determined to see the rescue through. They were not afraid of getting bitten or constricted, because the snake was moving slowly in the cold, Fortune said.
“We were genuinely worried about the snake — it could freeze to death in the cold,” he said. “We tried picking her up again, and she became lethargic and didn’t fight us this time. She was struggling to survive.”
“She was ice cold — it was like picking up a cold, slimy rock,” Dority added, noting from his experience with his ex-boyfriend’s snake that he knew pythons thrived in a warm climate of 80 to 90 degrees.
“When a python is exposed to the cold, its body starts to shut down,” he said. “We knew we had to get it warm.”
He and Zimmer tucked the heat pad and blanket around the snake in the carrier, then all three of them pushed and pulled the heavy crate up the embankment. They decided to take the python to Dority’s house because he lived the closest.
He also had a fireplace.
“We took the snake inside, and I got some wood and Patrick started a fire,” Dority said. “The fire started roaring and I also started up a space heater.”
Dority had an infrared digital thermometer, so he held it to the snake’s head every few minutes and took its temperature.
“The first time, it read 53 degrees,” he said. “Raven was googling for information about pythons and learned [the temperature] was supposed to be in the 70s. So we were relieved when it started going up.”
“It was a happy feeling to know that the snake was alive and coming around,” Zimmer said. “I’m really impressed that it survived in the cold as long as it did.”
About 90 minutes into their herpetology urgent care, the doorbell rang, Fortune said. JT Moorman, a senior animal protection officer with the Austin Animal Center, had arrived to pick up the snake.
When Moorman walked into the living room holding a small cat carrier, everyone burst into laughter, Dority said.
“The officer took one look and said, ‘Oh, that’s a big snake,’” Fortune said.
Moorman said he’d received a call that he needed to retrieve a python and he had no idea how massive it was.
“I’ve gone on a lot of calls like these, and they’re usually three-foot pythons,” he said. “A 16-foot, reticulated python? I was flabbergasted. This was a first.”
Snow probably survived for nearly six months in the ravine by eating mice and rabbits and the occasional possum, he said.
After the others helped him to transfer Snow into a kennel in the back of his truck, Moorman drove the snake to the Austin Zoo to be held temporarily while other animal control officers tracked down Snow’s owner.
Daryl Fields drove to Austin a few days later to pick Snow up, posting on Facebook that he was “so glad to have my baby back.”
Fields did not respond to requests from The Washington Post for comment, but he told Austin’s KXAN News that being reunited with Snow was the best Christmas present he’d ever had.
Fortune said he hopes the snake is warm and happy now that she’s back home.
“It isn’t every day that you find a 16-foot python in a creek bed,” he said. “She was probably living her best life down there until it got cold.”
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Have it All Early Booking Bonus for Alaska Cruisetours offers crew appreciation and upgraded beverage package and Wi-Fi
SEATTLE, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Holland America Line's 2024 Alaska Cruisetours are open for booking, and travelers who want to head to Denali and the Yukon can start planning their vacation with the leader in Alaska exploration. Leveraging more than 75 years of experience in the Great Land and a network of its own hotels, railcars and motorcoaches, Holland America Line is the only cruise line that extends the land tour to the heart of the Klondike Gold Rush and the unspoiled reaches of the Yukon Territory.
With 16 different Cruisetours in 2024, guests can choose whether to cruise to Alaska or go overland first, and then decide to include one, two or three nights at Denali National Park. Those who want to explore farther into Canada can add a trip to the remote landscapes of the Yukon with stops in Dawson City and Whitehorse.
"Holland America Line has dedicated decades to perfecting Alaska travel for our guests and the result is an Alaska cruise and overland experience that is unmatched in the industry," said Beth Bodensteiner, chief commercial officer, Holland America Line. "For travelers who are looking to explore somewhere new or our guests who have already done an Alaska cruise but want to see more of this region, a Holland America Line Cruisetour makes it easy and enriching. And with our Early Booking Bonus, now is the time to plan ahead and lock in that space for a trip of a lifetime."
Have It All Early Booking Bonus
For a limited time, when guests book 2024 Alaska Cruisetours with the Have It All premium package, the standard package amenities of shore excursions, specialty dining, a Signature Beverage Package and Surf Wi-Fi are included — plus the added perk of free prepaid Crew Appreciation, along with free upgrades to the Elite Beverage Package and Premium Wi-Fi.
Highlights for 2024 Denali Cruisetours:
- Nieuw Amsterdam and Noordam will offer Denali Cruisetours ranging from nine to 14 days between Vancouver, Canada, and Anchorage or Fairbanks, Alaska.
- All Denali Cruisetours include a seven-day Glacier Discovery cruise featuring Glacier Bay – Holland America Line has more permits to visit Glacier Bay than any other line -- and the Alaskan ports of Juneau, Ketchikan and Skagway, plus either College Fjord or Hubbard Glacier (depending on the direction) and Inside Passage. The land side includes up to three nights at Holland America Line's McKinley Chalet Resort at the entrance to Denali National Park.
- All Double and Triple Denali itineraries include the Tundra Wilderness Tour, which provides the best wildlife viewing through Denali National Park.
- Holland America Line owns its motorcoaches, railcars and hotels, so schedules are preferential. Each Cruisetour gets a scenic ride on the luxury-domed McKinley Explorer, including select itineraries that offer Direct-to-Denali service, taking guests from their ship to their Denali hotel room on the same day.
Highlights for 2024 Yukon & Denali Cruisetours:
- Yukon & Denali Cruisetours range from nine to 18 days and include either a three- or four-day Inside Passage cruise on Koningsdam or Zaandam, or a seven-day Glacier Discovery cruise on Nieuw Amsterdam or Noordam; a two-or three-night stay at Denali; and a journey into the Yukon.
- Every Yukon & Denali Cruisetour includes the services of a professional Tour Director, who makes time on land easy, convenient and insightful.
- All Yukon & Denali Cruisetours include a ride on the McKinley Explorer full-dome railcars, and select itineraries add on the historic White Pass & Yukon Route railroad from Skagway.
- Yukon & Denali Cruisetours features up to two nights in Dawson City, affording guests more time to relive Gold Rush history. Additional overnight experiences vary depending on the Cruisetour.
- Nearly all Yukon & Denali Cruisetours include a Gold Dredge 8 tour and many include a tour on the Klondike Spirit paddlewheeler that takes guests along the Yukon River past stunning tall pines, historic towns and wildlife. Every Yukon & Denali itinerary includes the Tundra Wilderness Tour at Denali National Park.
Holland America Line's McKinley Chalet Resort and Denali Square
Alaska Cruisetours include a stay at the McKinley Chalet Resort at the entrance to Denali National Park. The property is Holland America Line's 68-acre hotel on the Nenana River. The resort features dining facilities and guest rooms, including a 99-room complex featuring Denali Suites with balconies and larger living areas.
Centrally located between the McKinley Chalet Resort and riverfront guest rooms, Denali Square is a gathering area with restaurants, an amphitheater, fire pits, outdoor seating, retail shops offering local goods, and an artist-in-residence cabin where local artists display and discuss their works.
'Alaska Up Close' Immerses Guests in the Local Culture
Holland America Line's "Alaska Up Close" program deeply immerses guests in the local culture with authentic onboard programming, cruise activities and award-winning shore excursions. The exclusive experiences are delivered through experts leading workshops and lectures from those who know Alaska best, EXC Talks exploring the stories of real Alaskans, tours highlighting the best of each destination, and fine dining events showcasing the culinary traditions of the region.
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No other cruise line has explored Alaska longer than Holland America Line, and throughout the years the brand has collected awards and accolades from the world's most discerning travelers and cruise experts for Alaska cruising. Holland America Line was named the top pick for Alaska in the Porthole Cruise Magazine Editor-in-Chief Awards, AFAR Travelers' Choice Awards, Cruise Critic Cruisers' Choice Destination Awards and TravelAge West Wave Awards Editor's Pick.
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TAIPEI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiwanese start-up Mbran Filtra, has been recognized as a 2022 CES Innovation Award Honoree for its world's smallest water filter. With the pandemic's end still nowhere in sight, outdoor activities such as hiking and camping have exploded in popularity, and now adventure seekers have a revolutionary product to help them access potable water anywhere. The start-up will be showcasing its technology at 2022 CES.
"Mbran Filtra's water filter is just the size of a person's thumb and weighs just 21 grams, allowing it to slip into any pocket and be used in a myriad of activities such as trail runs, mountain biking, hiking, camping, or any kind of travel exploration. It allows anyone access to safe drinking water virtually anywhere," says Dr. Hsu-Hsien Chang, CEO of Mbran Filtra.
Small footprint, big features
Mbran Filtra's water filter blocks out bacteria, microorganisms, and microplastics, which is considered a necessity for any filter and it can be used without any electricity, making it very convenient for traveling. And finally, it has a high flow rate of 1.2 liters per minute, giving its users plenty of drinking water in a fast and efficient manner.
Unique process
The innovation of this product lies in the manufacturing process, which Mbran Filtra says utilizes polyethersulfone polymer while building multifunctional properties or layers into the pore structure of the hollow fiber membrane. The membrane itself is available in different sizes (0.04 - 0.4 um), allowing it to be used in various applications.
Another unique feature is the filter's highly asymmetric pore structure. Compared to traditional filters with symmetric membranes, this design offers a higher dirt loading capacity, providing better filtration performance and higher flow rates.
With this design, the portable filter has been proven to block out bacteria such as E. Coli with up to 99.9% effectiveness, reducing the colony forming unit (CFU) levels per 100 milliliters from 5700 to less than 1 in a E.Coli test conducted by one of the world's leading testing and certification companies SGS.
The thumb-sized filter also has a total filtration capacity of up to 1,000 liters depending on water quality, giving its users a durable and reliable portable filter which they can use for a long time.
An eye towards sustainability
Aside from class-leading features, the portable filter also adheres to Mbran Filtra's commitment to sustainable manufacturing. It uses environmentally friendly solvents, non-toxic materials, and green manufacturing processes. The filter's long-life cycle also ensures that it has the least impact possible to the environment, and its indirect effect of reducing the use of bottled water means it's a product that boosts sustainability efforts.
About Mbran Filtra
Established in 2019 in Taiwan, Mbran Filtra focuses on the research, manufacture, and production of filtration materials and systems. It produces a broad range of microporous membranes for use in different industries, such as hydrophobic and hydrophilic membranes made from polyethersulfone (PES), polyamide (Nylon), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), and polypropylene (PP), among others. Aside from supplying these membranes into existing filtration products and systems, Mbran Filtra also offers its own microfiltration membrane products through its asymmetrical pore structure technology.
For more information, please visit www.mbranfiltra.com
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For TAZO, making strides to becoming a regenerative company means rethinking how the brand conducts business to leave the world better than we found it, one cup of tea at a time
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, TAZO announces a multiyear transition plan of its tea portfolio to a regenerative organic approach. TAZO is taking the principles of regenerative—a centuries' old agriculture approach that gives back to soil health, the ecosystem, and the people who rely on the land—and applying them to the way the brand operates its business, from how TAZO sources ingredients and packaging to where it directs charitable giving and how it treats farmers and workers along the brand's supply chain.
As a first step in TAZO's regenerative organic transition, the brand is unveiling reformulations of four of TAZO's original best-selling blends: ZEN™, Awake® English Breakfast, Chai, and Darjeeling. These first-ever TAZO Regenerative blends are:
- USDA Organic Certified
- Made with Fair Trade USA Certified™ ingredients
- Made with Rainforest Alliance Certified teas
- Made with ingredients grown with verified regenerative organic agriculture practices that help conserve nature and protect biodiversity, such as use of cover crops, monitoring soil health and providing wildlife and pollinator habitat on farms
"TAZO has always been a brand that challenges the status quo, and this regenerative organic transition is no exception," said Laraine Miller, President, ekaterra Americas. "For too long, 'business as usual' has been killing our planet. It's time for every company, including the entire tea industry, to overhaul their means of production to combat climate change and help people and planet thrive."
One core focus of TAZO Regenerative is the Fair Trade USA certification across ingredients, which helps protect the environment and helps ensure that farmers and workers are treated equitably and receive fair wages.
"When you see our Fair Trade USA Certified™ label on a TAZO tea box, you can trust that it was made according to rigorous standards that protect the livelihoods of people growing the tea and the environment," said Paul Rice, Founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA. "Fair Trade helps ensure responsible practices and safe, healthy working conditions on the farms where TAZO products are grown, like gender equity for workers and community development funds to address local needs as decided on by the farmers and workers themselves."
TAZO is currently working toward getting its full range of products Regenerative Organic Certified™ and is a proud ally of the Regenerative Organic Alliance in its pursuit of increased soil health, improved animal welfare, and economic stability and fairness for farmers and workers around the world.
"We are thrilled to work with TAZO on their Regenerative Organic Certified™ journey," said Elizabeth Whitlow, Executive Director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance. "TAZO's dedication to invest in their supply chains and support farmers to implement practices to increase soil health and assure fairness to farm workers is completely in alignment with our mission: to heal a broken system, repair a damaged planet, and empower farmers and eaters to create a better future through regenerative organic agriculture."
Available now nationwide, TAZO Regenerative organic teas taste amazing—from the invigorating mix of green tea, spearmint, and lemongrass in TAZO Regenerative Organic ZEN™, to the rich, bold black teas, ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, and cardamon in TAZO Regenerative Organic Chai, TAZO tea experts thoughtfully dreamt up vibrant blends that'll stimulate the senses and inspire new possibilities.
To celebrate the launch of TAZO Regenerative, the brand created a video ad that shows how TAZO is taking a regenerative approach to its business – with a production that used a local crew, natural light, native plants and compostable materials. For every view of the video ad on TAZO's TikTok account, TAZO will donate $1 up to $250,000 to Rodale Institute, a non-profit and global leader in regenerative organic agriculture for 75 years. TAZO's donation will support education, research and farmer training and transition support to regenerative organic agriculture.
This donation is just one part of TAZO's year-one commitment of approximately $1.475 Million to 1% for the Planet, through which TAZO will direct 1% of its sales to mission-aligned organizations this year and every year moving forward.*
TAZO's long-term ambition is to transform not only its products, but also the brand's entire business operations, to a regenerative approach that challenges what the tea industry can do and gives back to people and the planet. The pillars of this transformation include:
- Helping to replenish the planet and its resources: TAZO is working to protect nature, including ultimately getting to net-zero emissions and helping support biodiversity, improve soil health, and protect waterways.
- Helping to build resilient communities: TAZO invests in solutions that support and are led by communities disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis. A top priority are the people growing TAZO's tea, herbs, and spices.
In coordination with sustainability consulting firm Pure Strategies, TAZO evaluated its environmental and social impact to create the following goals:
1. Human Rights & Fair Trade: Respecting the ingredients and those who grow them
- By 2026: Ensure 100% of ingredients meet our responsible sourcing and fair-trade standards
- By 2029: Ensure that direct suppliers and farm workers in our supply chain receive a living wage or income
2. Empowerment in Agriculture: Investing in the lives of tea growers and trailblazers
- By 2026: Support training and programs to help a minimum of 250,000 smallholder farmers have better lives
3. Nature: Nourishing our natural resources
- By 2023: Ensure our priority materials (e.g., tree fiber, sugar, tea) are sourced from suppliers that have eliminated deforestation from their supply chains
- By 2026: Protect, enhance, or regenerate more land, forests, and oceans than needed for our business
- By 2029: Ensure our tea and key ingredients, together comprising at least 80% of TAZO's ingredient volume, meet our regenerative agriculture standards
4. Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Steeping our business in justice
- By the end of 2022: Fully examine our business and set measurable targets to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion across our workforce and direct suppliers (new goals to be developed after this interim target met)
5. Packaging: Taking out the trash
- By 2025: 100% reusable, recyclable, or compostable packaging
- By 2026: 100% of our packaging to be made from recycled content or sustainably sourced renewable material
- By 2026: 30% reduction in TAZO's use of packaging materials
6. Climate: Racing to zero
- We are committed to setting and submitting science-based targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions for validation by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
- By 2026: Achieve carbon neutral operations and be on the path to science-based net-zero emissions
- By 2030: 45% absolute reduction of scopes 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as compared to the 2020 base year
7. Mission: Giving to those who get it
- At least 1% of sales donated to mission-aligned organizations each year
Learn more about TAZO's commitments and products at www.TAZO.com/Regen. Follow along for updates on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter.
*TAZO is a proud member of 1% for the Planet, meaning that 1% of TAZO's sales go directly to non-profit partners who are all working to further our regenerative ambition – including organizations like The Recycling Partnership, Rodale Institute, Regenerative Organic Alliance, American Forests, WE ACT For Environmental Justice and Intersectional Environmentalist.
About TAZO
TAZO exists to challenge the status quo in order to better society. Founded in 1994 by Steven Smith, TAZO has a rich history of pushing taste and blend boundaries in the specialty tea segment, with its core values rooted in supporting a sustainable and equitable future for all. Carefully crafted with the most delicious tea leaves, spices, and botanicals, TAZO's portfolio includes hot and iced tea, concentrates, k-cup pods, bottled tea, and tea bags. For more information, including where to purchase, please visit TAZO.com.
About ekaterra
ekaterra is the biggest tea business globally, with products sold in more than 100 countries. With a vision to grow a world of well-being in the tea category, ekaterra owns a portfolio of more than 30 world-class purpose-driven brands, including Lipton, PG Tips, TAZO, Brooke Bond and B-Corp certified Pukka and T2. With 11 production sites on four continents and tea estates in three countries, we are continually working to make our supply chain more sustainable. This starts with helping to improve the lives of the people who pick our tea leaves and how we blend and package our products, through to reducing the environmental impact tea production has on the planet. For more information, please visit ekaterratea.com.
About Rodale Institute
Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to growing the organic movement through rigorous research, farmer training, and consumer education. Widely recognized as a founder of the modern organic movement, Rodale Institute has been a global leader in regenerative organic agriculture for 75 years.
About the Regenerative Organic Alliance
The Regenerative Organic Alliance (ROA) exists to make regenerative organic farming the highest standard for agriculture around the world. We promote farming practices that restore and build soil, ensure animal welfare, and end unfair living and working conditions for farmers and farmworkers. By doing so, we're creating long-term solutions to some of the biggest issues of our time, including climate change, factory farming, and fractured rural economies. Learn more at Regenorganic.org.
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Partners with Cenergistic to help meet energy conservation goals
DALLAS, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As energy costs skyrocket and temperatures rise, no one feels the heat more than school districts across the U.S. — but Fort Worth ISD has a solution in place. The district has cut energy use by 26 percent, and recently received US. Department of Energy recognition.
"We know the more efficient we can be operationally, the more we can make sure assets go to our core business, which is taking care of kids in the classroom and attracting and retaining the best teachers," said Dr. Joe Coburn, COO of Fort Worth Independent School District. "In our current economic climate, looking at ways to save on energy costs is one of the most significant things we can do to maintain levels of service."
With more than 74,000 students in 81 elementary schools, 21 middle schools, 21 high schools and 17 special campuses, Fort Worth ISD is making the grade in transformative efforts, including energy conservation.
Fort Worth ISD was recently named by the U.S. Department of Energy as a Better Buildings Challenge Goal Achiever, a prestigious award that recognizes the top organizations who are leading the way in energy efficiency goals. The school district met and exceeded its 20% portfolio-wide energy reduction goal and also has earned a total of 295 ENERGY STAR building certifications.
To help meet its energy conservation goals, the school district partnered with Cenergistic, the pioneer and leading provider of technology-enabled energy conservation services. Since 2016, FWISD personnel have worked closely with Cenergistic engineers, experts and energy specialists to audit and optimize energy-using systems across the organization to achieve peak efficiency. Energy specialists track energy consumption at all campuses through state-of-the-art smart technology to identify and correct areas that need immediate attention.
"It's a huge benefit to correct things in real time, and we're able to do that with the help of the Cenergistic technology platform and energy specialists," said Dr. Coburn. "The result is a classroom environment that's always comfortable and conducive to learning and significant cost savings that help free up funds so we can redirect them to important student needs."
The energy conservation program delivers financial savings as well as an environmental benefit from reduced carbon footprint. Since 2016, the district cut energy use by 26%, saving more than 18 million dollars in expected energy costs and decreasing carbon dioxide emissions by 132,614 metric tons. According to EPA/EGrid figures, Fort Worth ISD has prevented carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to 333 million miles not driven or more than 2.1 million pine trees grown for 10 years.
This savings has a tremendous impact, considering that K-12 schools represent the nation's second largest sector of public infrastructure spending, after roads and highways. Increasing energy efficiency in the nation's K-12 schools by 20% would yield at least $1.5 billion in annual cost savings, according to a Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey conducted by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
With current market volatility and uncertain resources, Dr. Coburn says it's important the district finds efficiencies where they can.
"Unlike what businesses are doing now, we can't raise our prices, we can't increase production, we can't pass our additional costs on to our customers because that's not how school districts operate. So the more expensive things get, the more important it is for us to be efficient to maintain levels of service," said Dr. Coburn.
FWISD continues to look at ways to drive cost efficiencies. With a district that covers more than 150 square miles, Fort Worth ISD has plans in place to reduce fuel costs for both school buses and maintenance vehicles. By changing the way they route school buses, the district has eliminated the need for 65 buses from their fleet for next year and also is making sure maintenance vehicles take the most efficient route to service calls. The district also has installed more than 800 Wi-Fi thermostats to help meet its energy efficiency goals.
"Energy-related costs are the second largest budget line-item for school districts, making it critical to optimize energy performance," said Dr. William S. Spears, founder and CEO of Cenergistic. "It's our goal to help our partners manage these costs and create healthier, more efficient buildings so that schools can use the savings where they need it most."
With more than 74,000 students in 81 elementary schools, 21 middle schools, 21 high schools and 17 other campuses, Fort Worth Independent School District enjoys a diverse student population and strong community partnerships. Under the leadership of the superintendent and the Board of Education, the District is undergoing a series of initiatives that will redesign, transform and revitalize Fort Worth ISD Schools and bring the district closer to realizing their mission of preparing all students for success in college, career and community leadership.
Since 1986 Cenergistic has partnered with 1,500+ educational, local government, healthcare and faith-based organizations to achieve $6.4 billion in utility savings. These strong results come from the application of Cenergistic's science-based strategies and are enhanced by our patented Cenergistic Optimize™ software platform to drive building and equipment optimization. Our energy conservation program reduces utility consumption by an average of 24% with no capital investment while maintaining or improving the comfort and quality of building environments. For 14 consecutive years, Cenergistic has been recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency as ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year or Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence. To learn more, visit www.cenergistic.com.
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LAS VEGAS, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) today announced that the company and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), representing Allegiant dispatchers, have ratified a new contract agreement on a two-year extension to the union's initial collective bargaining agreement.
The tentative agreement, announced on May 3, 2023, was ratified by the Allegiant flight dispatchers with a 95.8% approval vote. Allegiant currently employs 50 flight dispatchers, coordinators, and instructors.
"We are pleased to see our dispatchers overwhelmingly voted to ratify the tentative agreement we presented a few weeks ago. This extension comes more than a year before the current contract's amendable date, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the negotiating teams for both Allegiant and IBT," said Allegiant President Greg Anderson. "Our team of dispatchers play a critical role in our operations, and we appreciate their overwhelming approval and commitment to this process."
The current collective bargaining agreement became effective on April 25, 2019 and was scheduled to become amendable on May 31, 2024. The parties opened off the record discussions early, resulting in a tentative agreement to replace the original rate increases scheduled for May 31 of this year, and adding two additional years addressing a change in rates only.
Allegiant – Together We FlyTM
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TORONTO, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Global IT research and advisory firm Info-Tech Research Group has released a new blueprint titled Considerations for a Move to Virtual Desktops. The industry resource was created to assist IT professionals in considering virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or desktop as a service (DaaS). These solutions can increase user satisfaction, reduce IT complexity, decrease management and storage costs, and maintain a secure and effective environment for both the end user and the business.
Info-Tech's new research analyzes the user experience data that the IT industry tracks but often doesn't use or even consider. VDI or DaaS users expect the user experience to be at least equal to that provided by a physical desktop and typically do not concern themselves with the underlying infrastructure. If the experience is less, it means IT has failed in the considerations for VDI/DaaS.
"If employees are the competitive edge and key differentiators for a business, Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) has a duty of care to ensure that the employees' digital experience enables and does not impede the value of that asset," says John Annand, principal director at Info-Tech Research Group.
Hybrid work environments and the security concerns that come with them have accelerated the move to VDI and DaaS solutions, but implementation comes with its own unique set of challenges to consider when deciding which solution is best suited for the business.
In addition to considering the user experience, IT must also ensure productivity standards throughout the process, both strategically and tactically. Common obstacles IT departments may encounter include complicated shared infrastructure, inadequate in-house training, or insufficient staff to execute migration or manage post-migration activities such as governance and retention policies and other security, compliance, legal, and data classification concerns.
Info-Tech Research Group recommends that organizations define their end goals, frame solutions based on end-user workloads, and understand the pros and cons to decide which solutions will best meet business needs. The new data-backed blueprint offers self-evaluation tools and questions IT leaders can ask themselves in order to accomplish these steps:
- Define and build your value hypothesis/proposition\
- What is the business case? Who is championing the investment?
- Identify the project management team and stakeholders.
- Set goals to be achieved based on value.
- Identify KPIs and metrics to measure success.
- Identify use cases and personas
- Identify possible user friction (e.g., emotional, cognitive, interaction).
- Understand current infrastructure shortcomings and capabilities (e.g., network, security posture and tolerance, staffing needs, qualified technicians, end-user devices, etc.).
- Articulate use cases into functional and non-functional requirements
- Separate must-haves and nice-to-haves.
- Categorize requirements into identifiable functionality capabilities.
- Review your outputs and identify "gotchas" using the MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) principle.
Conducting a self-evaluation of the business and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of in-house technical skills and business requirements will assist IT leaders in making the right decision when it comes to VDI or DaaS solutions.
For the full research-driven resource, download the Considerations for a Move to Virtual Desktops blueprint from Info-Tech Research Group.
To learn more about Info-Tech Research Group, visit www.infotech.com and connect via LinkedIn and Twitter.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. — Democrat Becca Balint on Tuesday won the race for Vermont’s lone seat in the U.S. House, becoming the first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress.
Balint, the president of the Vermont state Senate and a former middle-school teacher, beat the other major party candidate, Liam Madden, an independent who won the Republican primary. Three independents and one libertarian candidate were also in the race.
“Tonight we reaffirmed that Vermont and the nation is still a place where anything is possible. We are all so capable of change and promise and progress, and tonight, after 231 years, Vermonters are sending a woman to Congress," Balint said to cheers during a speech in Burlington Tuesday night.
"Vermont is a place where kindness and integrity and courage matter," Balint said. “Vermont is a place where the daughter of an immigrant dad and a working class mom can be the first woman and first gay person to represent Vermont" in Congress.
The rare opening in the state's three-member congressional delegation occurred after long-serving U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, announced last November that he would not seek reelection. Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter Welch ran for Leahy’s seat, opening up Vermont’s one seat in the U.S. House.
While Vermont is often considered one of the more liberal states in the country, with a higher-than-average percentage of women serving in the state Legislature, it recently became the only state to have never sent a woman to Congress.
In the Democratic primary, Balint beat Lt. Gov. Molly Gray, a more centrist candidate who was supported by the state’s Democratic establishment, including Leahy and former governors Howard Dean and Madeleine Kunin. Balint gained support from the progressive wing of the party, including independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The 54-year-old from Brattleboro has served four terms in the Vermont Senate, including as majority leader from 2017 to 2020. A former history and social studies teacher, she was elected state Senate president in 2021, becoming the first woman and first openly gay person to serve in that role.
Balint said she wants to do “a really good job on behalf of all Vermonters,” and make sure they feel they can contact her easily and have an office “that’s working hard on their behalf.”
She learned the skill of deep listening as a teacher, she said, and will take it to Washington to try to find common ground at a time when she believes democracy is at stake. Balint wants to protect voter rights, and is concerned about the U.S. Supreme Court and what she calls its lack of transparency. She would like to see term limits for the court and for federal judges, as well as for members of Congress.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IEQ Capital, an independent wealth management firm with over $20 billion in AUM1, is proud to announce the expansion of its Family Office team with the hiring of Terence "Terry" Condren, CFP. Condren will join the firm's Boston office as a Managing Director and Senior Wealth Strategist.
Condren will serve alongside Christie Olsson, Managing Director and Senior Wealth Strategist. Olsson joined IEQ Capital in 2021 to enhance its Family Office offering, and she continues to serve clients from the firm's San Francisco Bay Area office.
Olsson and Condren have over four decades of combined experience in providing estate and financial planning services to ultra-high-net-worth clients. Both are former practicing attorneys with experience at multiple financial institutions (most recently UBS and Wells Fargo Private Bank for Olsson; First Republic Bank and UBS for Condren), and the duo brings a deep understanding of the unique challenges facing ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. By leveraging their extensive experience in estate planning, family dynamics, risk management, and tax optimization, the team provides clients with enhanced bespoke planning solutions while also strengthening the firm's Family Office offering across the United States.
Alan Zafran, Co-CEO and Founder, said "We are delighted to welcome Terry to IEQ Capital. His depth of experience, reputation in the industry, and collaborative process make him a great addition to our team and an important resource for our clients."
"I admire IEQ's commitment to planning solutions along with its values-driven culture. This partnership not only enables me to establish new relationships but also provides a platform to offer my services to a wider network of ultra-high-net-worth clients," said Condren.
The addition of Olsson and Condren to IEQ Capital reflects the firm's ongoing commitment to attract top industry talent and offer an unparalleled level of expertise and service to its ultra-high-net-worth clients through its Family Office services. IEQ Capital Family Office strives to go beyond investments to identify and manage the unique needs of its clients with a holistic, integrated approach.
About IEQ
IEQ Capital was founded in 2019 as an independent advisory firm by a team of advisors and entrepreneurs who wanted to take the next step forward with a focus on clients and investment excellence, without the distractions and limitations of working in a larger organization. IEQ provides a combination of high-touch wealth advisory and family office services to ultra-high-net-worth clients throughout the country. Leveraging a broad understanding of each asset class, deep institutional relationships, and a network that provides access to exclusive private investment opportunities, IEQ focuses on sourcing, negotiating, and structuring a range of public and private investment solutions designed to meet clients' needs.
1. As of 3/31/23; RAUM as of 12/31/2022 as reported in IEQ Capital's Form ADV filed in March 2023 totaled $18.5 billion.
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DALLAS — The South Carolina Gamecocks just haven’t had much trouble during the NCAA tournament thus far, leaving many wondering whether they will cruise to a championship at the Final Four in Dallas.
In a Tuesday edition of the Locked On Women’s Basketball podcast, host Howard Megdal and reporter Michelle Smith discussed the Gamecocks’ chances and their legacy as they head toward what might be repeat titles.
“I think South Carolina’s going to win this title, and I think we’re still going to have fun along the way,” Smith said.
Behind presumptive No. 1 WNBA draft pick Aliyah Boston and an experienced supporting cast, the Gamecocks boast a suffocating defense and multiple star players.
“It’s not just a struggle to score,” Megdal said. “The struggle to just get the ball back is impossible against South Carolina.”
As South Carolina competes in a third straight Final Four and vies for an undefeated season, the legacy of head coach Dawn Staley is building, too.
“The thing that keeps running through my head with this South Carolina team is it reminds me of that Georgetown team of 1982-85, which was anchored by a generational defensive talent, in this case Aliyah Boston, in that case Patrick Ewing,” Megdal said. “A team that is asserting its dominance on the national stage.”
Staley is a legend in the sport and only increasing her profile and reputation as time goes on.
“She has represented the program, she’s represented Black women coaches, she’s just represented herself in a way that is opening doors,” Smith said. “Dawn is doing something really profound for the game, for sports in general (with) that representation that she brings, that advocacy that she brings … and the quality of the teams that she’s building.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Heat wave duration records could be broken in the Pacific Northwest this week and authorities are expanding capacity at some cooling centers as temperatures near triple digits are forecast to extend into the weekend.
“For the next several days through Saturday we’re going to be within a few degrees of 100 every day,” said Colby Neuman, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Portland, Oregon.
Temperatures in Oregon’s largest city are forecast to soar to 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 Celsius) again on Friday. On Tuesday, Portland set daily record 102 F (38.9 C).
Seattle on Tuesday also reported a new record daily high of 94 F (34.4 C). The heat spell was forecast to last into Saturday in western Washington as well.
The National Weather Service has extended the excessive heat warnings from Thursday through Saturday evening.
The duration of the heat wave puts Portland “in the running” for tying its longest streak of six consecutive days of 95 F (35 C) or higher, Neuman said.
Climate change is fueling longer heat waves in the Pacific Northwest, a region where weeklong heat spells were historically rare, according to climate experts.
On Wednesday, the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office said at least two people have died from suspected hyperthermia during the heat wave, KGW reported. One death occurred in Portland on Monday, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office said. The state medical examiner’s office said the heat-related death designation is preliminary and could change after further investigation.
Heat-related 911 calls in Portland have tripled in recent days, from an estimated eight calls on Sunday to 28 calls on Tuesday, said Dan Douthit, a spokesperson for the city’s Bureau of Emergency Management. Most calls involved a medical response, Douthit added.
Multnomah County said more people have been visiting emergency departments for heat-related symptoms.
Emergency department visits “have remained elevated since Sunday,” the county said in a statement. “In the past three days, hospitals have treated 13 people for heat illness, when they would normally expect to see two or three.”
People working or exercising outside, along with older people, were among those taken to emergency departments, the statement added.
People in Portland’s iconic food cart industry are among those who work outside. Many food trucks have shut down as sidewalks sizzle.
Rico Loverde, the chef and owner of the food cart Monster Smash Burgers, said the temperature inside his cart is generally 20 degrees hotter than the outdoor temperature, making it 120 F (48.9 C) inside his tiny business this week.
Loverde said he closes down if it reaches above 95 F (35 C) because his refrigerators overheat and shut down. Last week, even with slightly cooler temperatures in the mid-90s, Loverde got heat stroke from working in his cart for hours, he said.
“It hurts; it definitely hurts. I still pay my employees when we’re closed like this because they have to pay the bills too, but for a small business it’s not good,” he said Tuesday.
Multnomah County said its four emergency overnight cooling shelters were at half capacity on Tuesday with 130 people spending the night. But anticipating more demand, officials decided to expand capacity at the four sites to accommodate nearly 300 people.
William Nonluecha, who lives in a tent in Portland, sought out shade with some friends as the temperature soared Wednesday afternoon. Nonluecha was less than a minute’s walk from a cooling shelter set up by local authorities but wasn’t aware it was open. He said the heat in his tent was almost unbearable.
His friend Mel Taylor, who was homeless last year but now has transitional housing, said during a record-breaking heat wave last summer a man in a tent near his died from heat exhaustion and no one realized it. He’s afraid the same thing might happen this summer.
“He was in his tent for like a week and the smell, that’s how they figured out that he was dead,” Taylor said. “It’s sad.”
Residents and officials in the Northwest have been trying to adjust to the likely reality of longer, hotter heat waves following last summer’s deadly “heat dome” weather phenomenon that prompted record temperatures and deaths.
About 800 people died in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia during that heat wave, which hit in late June and early July. The temperature at the time soared to an all-time high of 116 F (46.7 C) in Portland and smashed heat records in cities and towns across the region. Many of those who died were older and lived alone.
Other regions of the U.S. often experience temperatures of 100 degrees. But in regions like the Pacific Northwest, people are not as acclimated to the heat and are more susceptible to it, said Craig Crandall, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
“There’s a much greater risk for individuals in areas such as the Northwest to have higher instances of heat-related injuries and death,” Crandall said.
Officials in Seattle and Portland on Tuesday issued air quality advisories expected to last through Saturday, warning that smog may reach levels that could be unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Farther south, the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory on Wednesday for western Nevada and northeast California that is set to last from the late Thursday morning until Saturday night. Across the region, near record daytime high temperatures will range from 99 to 104 degrees F (37.22 to 40 C).
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AP reporter Gabe Stern contributed from Carson City, Nevada.
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Church of England allows blessings for same-sex couples
By DANICA KIRKA
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The Church of England’s national assembly on Thursday voted to let priests bless same-sex marriages and civil partnerships, while continuing to ban church weddings for the same couples. Bishops proposed the compromise measure after five years of discussions about the church’s position on sexuality. It was approved by the church’s General Synod, which comprises bishops, clergy and lay people from around the country, following eight hours of debate over two days at a meeting in London. The measure included an apology for the church’s failure welcome LGBTQ people. But it also endorsed the doctrine that marriage is between one man and one woman, meaning priests are still barred from marrying same-sex couples. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/09/church-of-england-allows-blessings-for-same-sex-couples/ | 2023-02-09 21:01:53 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/02/09/church-of-england-allows-blessings-for-same-sex-couples/ |
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Devastating floods in Pakistan’s worst-hit province have killed 10 more people in the past day, including four children, officials said Wednesday as the U.N. children’s agency renewed its appeal for $39 million to help the most vulnerable flood victims.
Only a third of the sum in the funding appeal has been met so far, UNICEF said in a statement. Pakistani doctors and medical workers are struggling to contain the outbreak of waterborne diseases, malaria, and dengue fever among hundreds of thousands of survivors now living in tents in southern Sindh province.
The unprecedented monsoon rains and flooding, which many experts attribute to climate change, have affected 33 million people and killed as many as 1,569 people across the country since mid-June.
Of that number, 701 people — including 293 children and 131 women — have died in Sindh, where many areas remain submerged. Hollywood actress and U.N. humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to Sindh on Tuesday, meeting with some of the flood victims.
UNICEF said more than 3.4 million children have been uprooted from their homes and the floodwaters have claimed the lives of more than 550 children across Pakistan.
“Without a significant surge in support, we fear many more children will lose their lives," UNICEF said in a statement.
In Sindh, many of the roads and bridges have been washed away or are badly damaged, and thousands of families remain cut off and desperately need support. “Families have no food, safe water or medicines," the agency said.
UNICEF has set up 71 mobile health camps and temporary schools for children in the flood-affected areas. But its $39 million appeal is still less than a third funded, UNICEF added. That sum is part of U.N.'s flash appeal for $160 million to support Pakistan's flood response.
Meanwhile, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif met with world leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, seeking more help from the international community to tackle the record-breaking floods.
In a televised message from New York, Sharif on Wednesday urged philanthropists to urgently and generously donate baby food for children affected by the floods. “God will reward you for this noble work," he said.
Pakistan's infrastructure and agriculture have also been decimated, raising concerns for a looming food crisis. Authorities say the damage caused by the floods amounts to at least $30 billion. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UNICEF-renews-Pakistan-flood-appeal-as-10-more-17456307.php | 2022-09-21 11:25:45 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UNICEF-renews-Pakistan-flood-appeal-as-10-more-17456307.php |
Are Sharpies or Crayola markers better?
Markers are great for coloring and drawing original artwork, no matter your age, but choosing the right markers isn’t always the easiest task. Crayola markers and Sharpie markers are two of the most popular options, but which is better?
Crayola markers are largely designed for kids with plenty of washable options available, while Sharpie markers are geared towards an older audience of teenagers and adults who are unlikely to scribble on the walls.
Crayola markers
You probably remember these colorful markers from your childhood and they haven’t changed a huge deal over the years. You can still buy larger broad tip Crayola markers that are great for young kids, but you’ll also find options with finer tips on the market, as well as options designed specifically for grownups.
While they certainly aren’t the best markers for serious artists, they’re decent enough if you choose the right options. Crayola markers cost roughly $4-$25, depending on the number of markers in a set. If you’re looking for more art supplies for children, check out the BestReviews guide to art sets for kids.
Crayola marker pros
- Many Crayola markers are washable so you can get marks out of fabric and off walls, which is perfect if you intend to let kids loose with them.
- Broad line markers are great for young children while fine line options are perfect for older users looking to create more detailed work.
- Crayola markers come in more shades than you might remember — around 120 in total, across different types and sets. This allows you plenty of color choice when creating works of art.
- All Crayola markers designed for kids are non-toxic, so they’re safe for even young children to use and aren’t dangerous even if little ones put them in their mouths.
Crayola marker cons
- Because they’re water-based, Crayola markers aren’t blendable or suited to layering since too many layers can saturate and damage the paper.
- The pigments in Crayola markers aren’t as vibrant as some and aren’t fade-resistant so they will become more muted over time.
Best Crayola markers
Crayola Ultra-Clean Washable Broad Line Markers
These are the classic fat Crayola markers that most kids in the U.S. have used at some point growing up. This is a basic, affordable pack containing just 10 markers. The colors are Crayola’s brightest yet but they’re completely washable so there’s no need to worry about stains.
Crayola Ultra-Clean Washable Fine Line Markers
The fine line alternative to Crayola’s classic markers, these are the better choice for older kids who want to do more detailed work. They’re also washable—from fabric, walls and skin—and come in a range of 40 colors.
Designed for adults and teens, these markers are more vibrant than the offerings designed for kids but they aren’t washable, so there’s the potential to make a mess. You get 40 shades in a box, which is more than enough for most users.
Sharpie markers
Sharpie markers are aimed towards teenagers and adults with their vibrant alcohol-based colors. They’re permanent, which can cause problems in the wrong hands, but also means users have the option to create long-lasting artwork.
They come in a decent range of colors but the tips are firmer than you’d find on high-end art markers, so they’re better for casual use and lettering than other purposes. You can expect to pay anywhere from $5-$30 depending on the package size, pen type and range of colors.
Sharpie marker pros
- Sharpie markers are known to write on practically anything, showing up well on materials like plastic and wood, so they’re great if you want to create art in non-standard places. Some are even UV-resistant for use outdoors.
- Sharpies are water-resistant and fade-resistant, so you can create art that will last for years in the same state as it was when you first drew it.
- You can buy Sharpie markers with either fine or extra fine tips, so they’re great for detail work — plus you can find chisel tip options that work well for calligraphy and other fancy lettering.
- Twin tip Sharpie markers have a fine tip on one end and an ultra fine tip on the other end and are perfect for people who can’t decide between the two options.
Sharpie marker cons
- Sharpies aren’t available in as many colors as Crayola markers — around 65 compared to 120+ for Crayola. However, this is still plenty to create a range of artwork.
- Unlike Crayola markers, there are no washable Sharpies, so they’re not suitable for children to use until you’re certain they won’t make a mess.
Best Sharpie markers
Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Marker
These fine point Sharpies come in 12 standard colors that are vibrant but not all that nuanced, so they’re best for simple art, coloring and lettering. The ink dries quickly and doesn’t fade or run.
Sharpie Electro Pop Permanent Markers
Sharpie’s classic fine point markers but in a limited edition choice of 24 colors, including ultra violet and nano blue, with some classic colors in the mix to create a versatile palette. These are great for making bold artwork but can still give you enough detail for relatively fine work.
Sharpie Ultra Fine Point Color Burst Permanent Markers
With their ultra fine points, these markers are an excellent choice for creating drawings with plenty of fine detail. In this pack, you get 24 different colors to give you plenty of choices.
Should you get Crayola markers or Sharpie markers?
Both Sharpie markers and Crayola markers are good at what they’re designed to do, but they have different key audiences. If you’re buying for a child, Crayola is the obvious choice with plenty of washable options and non-toxic pens. If you’re looking to create the boldest artwork possible or draw on surfaces other than paper, you should choose Sharpie markers with their vibrant colors and fade-resistant hues.
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Conflux Technology and GKN Additive join forces in the development, design and production of 3D printed heat exchanger solutions for European customers.
BONN, Germany , May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conflux and GKN Additive announced today that they will cooperate in the development, design and production of 3D printed heat exchanger solutions in Europe. 3D printed heat exchangers have been shown to improve cooling of critical components in the electronics, automotive, aerospace and packaged goods industries by utilizing the design freedom made possible by 3D printing.
Conflux brings expertise in the design and development of advanced thermal management solutions and GKN Additive brings extensive experience in high volume production and additive manufacturing in the automotive, aerospace, and industrial industries.
"We're excited to be able to offer our customers access to GKN Additive's manufacturing services. Its capability to manufacture large volume orders in Europe is a perfect fit for our EU customers looking for serial production near point of use. Being able to provide our technology to their vast array of top tier and technologically advanced customers is already proving fruitful" said Michael Fuller, CEO, and Founder of Conflux Technology.
"We are delighted to be partnering with Conflux Technology. Heat exchangers and thermal management are key areas where 3D printing can deliver high value solutions. Combining forces with industry application experts such as Conflux enables us to provide best-in-class solutions to our customers.", says John Dulchinos, President GKN Additive.
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Conflux Technology is a world-leading additive manufacturing (AM) company pioneering thermal and fluid applications through expert engineering and production. Conflux began in the world of F1 engineering, where founder & CEO Michael Fuller, transformed heat exchanger designs and performance outcomes. Today, Conflux is a well-established, senior-by-design team leading the advancement of AM applications. Its revolutionary heat exchange technology has transformed product and system performance across aerospace, automotive, motorsports, micro-electronics, industrial and energy industries. With vertically integrated, advanced manufacturing operations, Conflux encompass all aspects of the engineering process – from design and CFD analysis through to in-house AM serial production, post-processing and independent validation. Conflux consistently pushes AM technology to the cutting edge, deriving ground-breaking outcomes for its customers.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to environmental advocate Ed Lorenz about a toxic materials cleanup in Michigan, and how residents near an Ohio train derailment can advocate for their community.
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Chris Rock is going where no comedian has gone before — live on Netflix.
The streaming giant said Thursday that Rock will be the first artist to perform on the company’s first-ever live, global streaming event. The comedy special is set to stream in early 2023, but few other details were revealed.
“Chris Rock is one of the most iconic and important comedic voices of our generation,” Robbie Praw, Netflix vice president of stand-up and comedy formats said in a statement.
“We’re thrilled the entire world will be able to experience a live Chris Rock comedy event and be a part of Netflix history. This will be an unforgettable moment and we’re so honored that Chris is carrying this torch.”
This will be the first significant test of live streaming on Netflix, potentially opening the door for other programs to get the live treatment.
It will be Rock’s second Netflix stand-up special. His first, “Chris Rock: Tamborine,” debuted in February 2018. | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/ap-chris-rock-to-go-live-on-netflix-in-a-first-for-the-streamer/ | 2022-11-11 12:50:08 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/ap-chris-rock-to-go-live-on-netflix-in-a-first-for-the-streamer/ |
MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was 91.
The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbachev died after a long illness. No other details were given.
Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. But they quickly overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation.
His decline was humiliating. His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later.
A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev told The Associated Press that he had not considered using widespread force to try to keep the USSR together because he feared chaos in a nuclear country.
“The country was loaded to the brim with weapons. And it would have immediately pushed the country into a civil war,” he said.
Many of the changes, including the Soviet breakup, bore no resemblance to the transformation that Gorbachev had envisioned when he became the Soviet leader in March 1985.
By the end of his rule he was powerless to halt the whirlwind he had sown. Yet Gorbachev may have had a greater impact on the second half of the 20th century than any other political figure.
“I see myself as a man who started the reforms that were necessary for the country and for Europe and the world,” Gorbachev told The AP in a 1992 interview shortly after he left office.
“I am often asked, would I have started it all again if I had to repeat it? Yes, indeed. And with more persistence and determination,” he said.
Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War and spent his later years collecting accolades and awards from all corners of the world. Yet he was widely despised at home.
Russians blamed him for the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union — a once-fearsome superpower whose territory fractured into 15 separate nations. His former allies deserted him and made him a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.
His run for president in 1996 was a national joke, and he polled less than 1 percent of the vote.
In 1997, he resorted to making a TV ad for Pizza Hut to earn money for his charitable foundation, His former allies deserted him and made him a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.
“In the ad, he should take a pizza, divide it into 15 slices like he divided up our country, and then show how to put it back together again,” quipped Anatoly Lukyanov, a one-time Gorbachev supporter.
Gorbachev never set out to dismantle the Soviet system. What he wanted to do was improve it.
Soon after taking power, Gorbachev began a campaign to end his country’s economic and political stagnation, using “glasnost” or openness, to help achieve his goal of “perestroika” or restructuring.
In his memoirs, he said he had long been frustrated that in a country with immense natural resources, tens of millions were living in poverty.
“Our society was stifled in the grip of a bureaucratic command system,” Gorbachev wrote. “Doomed to serve ideology and bear the heavy burden of the arms race, it was strained to the utmost.”
Once he began, one move led to another: He freed political prisoners, allowed open debate and multi-candidate elections, gave his countrymen freedom to travel, halted religious oppression, reduced nuclear arsenals, established closer ties with the West and did not resist the fall of Communist regimes in Eastern European satellite states.
But the forces he unleashed quickly escaped his control.
Long-suppressed ethnic tensions flared, sparking wars and unrest in trouble spots such as the southern Caucasus region. Strikes and labor unrest followed price increases and shortages of consumer goods.
In one of the low points of his tenure, Gorbachev sanctioned a crackdown on the restive Baltic republics in early 1991.
The violence turned many intellectuals and reformers against him. Competitive elections also produced a new crop of populist politicians who challenged Gorbachev’s policies and authority.
Chief among them was his former protege and eventual nemesis, Boris Yeltsin, who became Russia’s first president.
“The process of renovating this country and bringing about fundamental changes in the international community proved to be much more complex than originally anticipated,” Gorbachev told the nation as he stepped down.
“However, let us acknowledge what has been achieved so far. Society has acquired freedom; it has been freed politically and spiritually. And this is the most important achievement, which we have not fully come to grips with in part because we still have not learned how to use our freedom.”
There was little in Gorbachev’s childhood to hint at the pivotal role he would play on the world stage. On many levels, he had a typical Soviet upbringing in a typical Russian village. But it was a childhood blessed with unusual strokes of good fortune.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born March 2, 1931, in the village of Privolnoye in southern Russia. Both his grandfathers were peasants, collective farm chairmen and members of the Communist Party, as was his father.
Despite stellar party credentials, Gorbachev’s family did not emerge unscathed from the terror unleashed by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin: Both grandfathers were arrested and imprisoned for allegedly anti-Soviet activities.
But, rare in that period, both were eventually freed. In 1941, when Gorbachev was 10, his father went off to war, along with most of the other men from Privolnoye.
Meanwhile, the Nazis pushed across the western steppes in their blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union; they occupied Privolnoye for five months.
When the war was over, young Gorbachev was one of the few village boys whose father returned. By age 15, Gorbachev was helping his father drive a combine harvester after school and during the region’s blistering, dusty summers.
His performance earned him the order of the Red Banner of Labor, an unusual distinction for a 17-year-old. That prize and the party background of his parents helped him land admission in 1950 to the country’s top university, Moscow State.
There, he met his wife, Raisa Maximovna Titorenko, and joined the Communist Party. The award and his family’s credentials also helped him overcome the disgrace of his grandfathers’ arrests, which were overlooked in light of his exemplary Communist conduct.
In his memoirs, Gorbachev described himself as something of a maverick as he advanced through the party ranks, sometimes bursting out with criticism of the Soviet system and its leaders.
His early career coincided with the “thaw” begun by Nikita Khrushchev. As a young Communist propaganda official, he was tasked with explaining the 20th Party Congress that revealed Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s repression of millions to local party activists. He said he was met first by “deathly silence,” then disbelief.
“They said: ‘We don’t believe it. It can’t be. You want to blame everything on Stalin now that he’s dead,’” he told The Associated Press in a 2006 interview.
He was a true if unorthodox believer in socialism. He was elected to the powerful party Central Committee in 1971, took over Soviet agricultural policy in 1978, and became a full Politburo member in 1980.
Along the way he was able to travel to the West, to Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Canada. Those trips had a profound effect on his thinking, shaking his belief in the superiority of Soviet-style socialism.
“The question haunted me: Why was the standard of living in our country lower than in other developed countries?” he recalled in his memoirs. “It seemed that our aged leaders were not especially worried about our undeniably lower living standards, our unsatisfactory way of life, and our falling behind in the field of advanced technologies.”
But Gorbachev had to wait his turn. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died in 1982, and was succeeded by two other geriatric leaders: Yuri Andropov, Gorbachev’s mentor, and Konstantin Chernenko.
It wasn’t until March 1985, when Chernenko died, that the party finally chose a younger man to lead the country: Gorbachev. He was 54 years old.
His tenure was filled with rocky periods, including a poorly conceived anti-alcohol campaign, the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
But starting in November 1985, Gorbachev began a series of attention-grabbing summit meetings with world leaders, especially U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, which led to unprecedented, deep reductions in the American and Soviet nuclear arsenals.
After years of watching a parade of stodgy leaders in the Kremlin, Western leaders practically swooned over the charming, vigorous Gorbachev and his stylish, brainy wife. But perceptions were very different at home. It was the first time since the death of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin that the wife of a Soviet leader had played such a public role, and many Russians found Raisa Gorbachev showy and arrogant.
Although the rest of the world benefited from the changes Gorbachev wrought, the rickety Soviet economy collapsed in the process, bringing with it tremendous economic hardship for the country’s 290 million people.
In the final days of the Soviet Union, the economic decline accelerated into a steep skid. Hyper-inflation robbed most older people of their life’s savings. Factories shut down. Bread lines formed.
And popular hatred for Gorbachev and his wife Raisa grew. But the couple won sympathy in summer 1999 when it was revealed that Raisa Gorbachev was dying of leukemia.
During her final days, Gorbachev spoke daily with television reporters, and the lofty-sounding, wooden politician of old was suddenly seen as an emotional family man surrendering to deep grief.
Gorbachev worked on the Gorbachev Foundation, which he created to address global priorities in the post-Cold War period, and with the Green Cross foundation, which was formed in 1993 to help cultivate “a more harmonious relationship between humans and the environment.”
Gorbachev took the helm of the small United Social Democratic Party in 2000 in hopes it could fill the vacuum left by the Communist Party, which he said had failed to reform into a modern leftist party after the breakup of the Soviet Union. He resigned from the chairmanship in 2004.
He continued to comment on Russian politics as a senior statesman — even if many of his countrymen were no longer interested in what he had to say.
“The crisis in our country will continue for some time, possibly leading to even greater upheaval,” Gorbachev wrote in a memoir in 1996. “But Russia has irrevocably chosen the path of freedom, and no one can make it turn back to totalitarianism.”
Gorbachev veered between criticism and mild praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been assailed for backtracking on the democratic achievements of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras.
He said Putin had done much to restore stability and prestige to Russia after the tumultuous decade following the Soviet collapse. He did, however, protest growing limitations on media freedom, and in 2006 bought one of Russia’s last investigative newspapers, Novaya Gazeta, with a businessman associate.
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Gorbachev also spoke out against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. A day after the Feb. 24 attack, he issued a statement calling for “an early cessation of hostilities and immediate start of peace negotiations.”
“There is nothing more precious in the world than human lives. Negotiations and dialogue on the basis of mutual respect and recognition of interests are the only possible way to resolve the most acute contradictions and problems,” he said.
“We should — this is one of our goals — promote the newspaper’s qualitative development in the interests of democratic values,” he said, tacitly criticizing the Kremlin’s efforts to bring Novaya Gazeta and other independent media outlets to heel.
Gorbachev ventured into other new areas in his 70s, winning awards and kudos around the world. He won a Grammy in 2004 along with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Italian actress Sophia Loren for their recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, and the United Nations named him a Champion of the Earth in 2006 for his environmental advocacy.
Gorbachev had a daughter, Irina, and two granddaughters.
The official news agency Tass reported that Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife.
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US reaches deal with Moderna for omicron COVID-19 vaccine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it has reached an agreement with Moderna to buy 66 million doses of the company’s next generation of COVID-19 vaccine that targets the highly transmissible omicron variant, enough supply this winter for all who want the upgraded booster.
The order of the bivalent shot follows the announcement last month that the federal government had secured 105 million doses of a similar vaccine from rival drugmaker Pfizer. Both orders are scheduled for delivery in the fall and winter, assuming regulators sign off on their effectiveness. The Pentagon said the Moderna contract was worth $1.74 billion.
The omicron strain has been dominant in the U.S. since December, with the BA.5 subvariant now causing a massive wave of infections across the country, even infecting President Joe Biden.
“We must stay vigilant in our fight against COVID-19 and continue to expand Americans’ access to the best vaccines and treatments,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “As we look to the fall and winter, we’re doing just that — ensuring Americans have the tools they need to stay safe and help keep our nation moving forward.”
The U.S. orders with Pfizer and Moderna include options to purchase 300 million doses each, but reaching that total will require more funding from Congress, the Biden administration said.
About 261 million Americans have received at least one COVID-19 shot, but only 108 million have received a booster.
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If Approved, Would Be 1st Gene Therapy in U.S. for Treatment of Severe Hemophilia A
PDUFA Target Action Date is March 31, 2023
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BMRN) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the Company's resubmission of the Biologics License Application (BLA) for its investigational AAV gene therapy, valoctocogene roxaparvovec, for adults with severe hemophilia A. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date is March 31, 2023. At this time, the FDA has not communicated any plans to hold an advisory committee meeting. If approved, valoctocogene roxaparvovec would be the first gene therapy in the U.S. for the treatment of severe hemophilia A.
"This BLA resubmission is an important step that brings us closer to delivering a gene therapy treatment choice to address the unmet needs of people with severe hemophilia A in the United States. We'd like to extend our sincere gratitude to the bleeding disorders community, study participants, and investigators who have been an integral part of this journey with BioMarin. We look forward to working closely with the Agency on our application for this potentially transformative therapy," said Hank Fuchs, M.D., President of Worldwide Research and Development at BioMarin. "In this application, we have provided a substantial body of evidence that supports the safe and effective use of valoctocogene roxaparvovec for the treatment of adults with severe hemophilia A. In addition, we have proposed 15 years of follow-up for all clinical study participants, as well as a post-approval registry study to follow patients dosed in a real-world setting, to further characterize long-term effects on safety and efficacy that will contribute to increasing the body of knowledge of AAV gene therapy in severe hemophilia A. While we recognize the potential for the Agency to extend the PDUFA action date to review additional long-term follow up data, we are pleased the FDA has initiated its review of the BLA without requesting additional data."
The BLA resubmission incorporates the Company's responses to all deficiencies identified in the FDA Complete Response (CR) Letter of August 18, 2020. The BLA includes a substantial amount of data from the valoctocogene roxaparvovec clinical development program, the most extensively studied gene therapy for severe hemophilia A, including two-year outcomes from all study participants in the global GENEr8-1 Phase 3 study. The GENEr8-1 Phase 3 study demonstrated stable and durable bleed control, including a reduction in the mean annualized bleeding rate (ABR) and the mean annualized Factor VIII infusion rate. In addition, the data package includes supportive evidence from five years of follow-up from the 6e13 vg/kg dose cohort in the ongoing Phase 1/2 dose escalation study. The BLA also includes a proposed long-term extension study following all clinical trial participants for up to 15 years, as well as a post-approval registry study to follow patients dosed in a real-world setting.
The FDA granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation to valoctocogene roxaparvovec in March 2021. RMAT is an expedited program intended to facilitate development and review of regenerative medicine therapies, such as valoctocogene roxaparvovec, that are expected to address an unmet medical need in patients with serious conditions. The RMAT designation is complementary to Breakthrough Therapy Designation, which the Company received for valoctocogene roxaparvovec in 2017.
In addition to the RMAT Designation and Breakthrough Therapy Designation, BioMarin's valoctocogene roxaparvovec also received orphan drug designation from the EMA and FDA for the treatment of severe hemophilia A. Orphan drug designation is reserved for medicines treating rare, life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases. The European Commission (EC) granted conditional marketing authorization to valoctocogene roxaparvovec gene therapy under the brand name ROCTAVIAN™ on August 24, 2022.
Robust Clinical Program
BioMarin has multiple clinical studies underway in its comprehensive gene therapy program for the treatment of severe hemophilia A. In addition to the global Phase 3 study GENEr8-1 and the ongoing Phase 1/2 dose escalation study, the Company is also conducting a Phase 3, single arm, open-label study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of valoctocogene roxaparvovec at a dose of 6e13 vg/kg with prophylactic corticosteroids in people with severe hemophilia A (Study 270-303). Also ongoing are a Phase 1/2 Study with the 6e13 vg/kg dose of valoctocogene roxaparvovec in people with severe hemophilia A with pre-existing AAV5 antibodies (Study 270-203) and a Phase 1/2 Study with the 6e13 vg/kg dose of valoctocogene roxaparvovec in people with severe hemophilia A with active or prior Factor VIII inhibitors (Study 270-205).
Safety Summary
Overall, to date, a single 6e13 vg/kg dose of valoctocogene roxaparvovec has been well tolerated with no delayed-onset treatment related adverse events. The most common adverse events (AE) associated with valoctocogene roxaparvovec have occurred early and included transient infusion associated reactions and mild to moderate rise in liver enzymes with no long-lasting clinical sequelae. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevation, a laboratory test of liver function, has remained the most common adverse drug reaction. Other adverse reactions have included aspartate aminotransferase (AST) elevation (101 participants, 63%), nausea (55 participants, 34%), headache (54 participants, 34%), and fatigue (44 participants, 28%). No participants have developed inhibitors to Factor VIII, thromboembolic events or malignancy associated with valoctocogene roxaparvovec.
About Hemophilia A
People living with hemophilia A lack sufficient functioning Factor VIII protein to help their blood clot and are at risk for painful and/or potentially life-threatening bleeds from even modest injuries. Additionally, people with the most severe form of hemophilia A (Factor VIII levels <1%) often experience painful, spontaneous bleeds into their muscles or joints. Individuals with the most severe form of hemophilia A make up approximately 50 percent of the hemophilia A population. People with hemophilia A with moderate (Factor VIII 1-5%) or mild (Factor VIII 5-40%) disease show a much-reduced propensity to bleed. Individuals with severe hemophilia A are treated with a prophylactic regimen of intravenous Factor VIII infusions administered 2-3 times per week (100-150 infusions per year) or a bispecific monoclonal antibody that mimics the activity of Factor VIII administered 1-4 times per month (12-48 injections or shots per year). Despite these regimens, many people continue to experience breakthrough bleeds, resulting in progressive and debilitating joint damage, which can have a major impact on their quality of life.
Hemophilia A, also called Factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia, is an X-linked genetic disorder caused by missing or defective Factor VIII, a clotting protein. Although it is passed down from parents to children, about 1/3 of cases are caused by a spontaneous mutation, a new mutation that was not inherited. Approximately 1 in 10,000 people have hemophilia A.
About BioMarin
BioMarin is a global biotechnology company that develops and commercializes innovative therapies for people with serious and life-threatening genetic diseases and medical conditions. The Company selects product candidates for diseases and conditions that represent a significant unmet medical need, have well-understood biology and provide an opportunity to be first-to-market or offer a significant benefit over existing products. The Company's portfolio consists of eight commercial products and multiple clinical and preclinical product candidates for the treatment of various diseases. For additional information, please visit www.biomarin.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the business prospects of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (BioMarin), including without limitation, statements about: timing of a target PDUFA date, expectations regarding the need for an advisory committee meeting, the possibility of regulatory approval, BioMarin's expectations regarding the duration of the review procedure, valoctocogene roxaparvovec being the first commercially-available gene therapy in the U.S. for the treatment of severe hemophilia A, if approved, BioMarin's commitment to sharing longer-term data generated through its ongoing clinical trials and any post-approval studies. These forward-looking statements are predictions and involve risks and uncertainties such that actual results may differ materially from these statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the results and timing of current and planned preclinical studies and clinical trials of valoctocogene roxaparvovec; additional data from the continuation of the clinical trials of valoctocogene roxaparvovec, any potential adverse events observed in the continuing monitoring of the participants in the clinical trials; the content and timing of decisions by the FDA and other regulatory authorities, the content and timing of decisions by local and central ethics committees regarding the clinical trials; our ability to successfully manufacture valoctocogene roxaparvovec for the clinical trials and commercially; and those and those factors detailed in BioMarin's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including, without limitation, the factors contained under the caption "Risk Factors" in BioMarin's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 as such factors may be updated by any subsequent reports. Stockholders are urged not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. BioMarin is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
BioMarin® is a registered trademark of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc and ROCTAVIAN™ is a trademark of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
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This is the first and only single tablet combination therapy application to be submitted for review in the U.S. for this rare, progressive disease
If approved, Janssen's comprehensive PAH portfolio has the potential to cover all guidelines-recommended treatment pathways
RARITAN, N.J., May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval of an investigational single tablet combination therapy of macitentan 10mg and tadalafil 40mg (M/T STCT) for the long-term treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, World Health Organization [WHO] Group 1) in adult patients with WHO functional class (FC) II-III.1 The application is based on positive data from the Phase 3 A DUE study, which met its primary endpoint and demonstrated that M/T STCT significantly improved pulmonary hemodynamics (blood flow through pulmonary blood vessels) versus macitentan and tadalafil monotherapies in this PAH patient population.
"People with PAH are often prescribed numerous medicines to manage their condition, so the potential to offer a single tablet combination of two guideline-recommended therapies could not only decrease pill burden but may also help improve the patient treatment experience and clinical outcomes," said James F. List, M.D., Ph.D., Global Therapeutic Area Head, whose team oversees a portfolio of programs including Pulmonary Hypertension at Janssen Research & Development, LLC. "Today's submission builds on our decades-long commitment to address patient needs and bring forward medicines with the potential to offer an improved standard of PAH care."
PAH is a rare, progressive and life-threatening blood vessel disorder characterized by the constriction of small pulmonary arteries and elevated blood pressure in the pulmonary circulation that eventually leads to right heart failure.2 The latest European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society (ESC/ERS) PH guidelinesi recommend initial double combination therapy with macitentan and tadalafil for PAH patients without cardiopulmonary comorbidities. Currently, this requires patients to take multiple pills as no single tablet that combines two or more PAH-specific pathways is available for these patients.3
The NDA is based on late-breaking data from the Phase 3 A DUE study, which met its co-primary endpoints, demonstrating marked pulmonary hemodynamic improvement. The safety profile of M/T STCT was consistent with the safety profile of the individual components, macitentan and tadalafilii,iii. The open label arm of the A DUE study is ongoing.
About the single tablet combination therapy (macitentan 10mg and tadalafil 40mg)
M/T STCT is the first investigational, single tablet combination therapy that combines the endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA) macitentan and the phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor (PDE5i) tadalafil for once daily administration.
About the A DUE Study
The A DUE study is a double-blind, randomized, active-controlled, multi-center, adaptive parallel-group study designed to compare the efficacy and safety of investigational M/T STCT versus macitentan and tadalafil monotherapies in patients with PAH. A total of 187 adult PAH patients from across 148 sites in 19 countries worldwide in WHO FC II or III who were treatment naïve or on a stable dose of an ERA or a PDE5i for at least three months, were enrolled in the study. The primary endpoint is pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) measured 16 weeks following initiation of treatment expressed as the ratio of geometric means to baseline.
About tadalafil
Tadalafil is a PDE5i indicated for the treatment of PAH (WHO Group 1) to improve exercise ability. Studies establishing effectiveness included predominately patients with NYHA Functional Class II – III symptoms and etiologies of idiopathic or heritable PAH (61%) or PAH associated with connective tissue diseases (23%).
What is OPSUMIT®?
OPSUMIT® is a prescription medicine used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, WHO Group 1). PAH is high blood pressure in the arteries of your lungs. OPSUMIT® can:
- Improve your ability to exercise as measured by the 6-minute walk distance (6MWD). In a clinical study of mainly WHO FC II-III patients, those taking OPSUMIT® walked, on average, 22 meters farther at Month 6 than patients not taking it
- Improve some of your symptoms
- Help slow down the progression of your disease
- Lower your chance of being hospitalized for PAH
It is not known if OPSUMIT® is safe and effective in children.
The most important information about OPSUMIT® (macitentan)
Do not take OPSUMIT® if you are pregnant or trying to get pregnant. OPSUMIT® can cause serious birth defects if taken while pregnant.
Women who are able to get pregnant must have negative pregnancy tests:
- Before starting OPSUMIT®
- Each month while taking OPSUMIT®
- For 1 month after stopping OPSUMIT®
Your doctor will decide when you should take pregnancy tests.
You are medically able to get pregnant if you are a woman who fits all of the following guidelines:
- has started puberty, even if you have not had a menstrual period yet
- has a uterus
- has not gone through menopause (menopause means you have not had a menstrual period for at least 12 months for natural reasons, or have had your ovaries removed)
You are not medically able to get pregnant if you are a woman who fits at least 1 of the following guidelines:
- has not started puberty
- does not have a uterus
- has gone through menopause (you have not had a menstrual period for at least 12 months for natural reasons, or have had your ovaries removed)
- is infertile for other medical reasons and this infertility is permanent and cannot be reversed
While taking OPSUMIT®, and for 1 month after stopping OPSUMIT®, women who are able to get pregnant must use 2 acceptable forms of birth control. Women who have had a tubal sterilization, a progesterone implant, or have an IUD (intrauterine device) do not need a second form of birth control. Talk to your doctor or gynecologist about which birth control to use while on OPSUMIT®. If you decide to change your form of birth control, talk with your doctor or gynecologist. This way you can be sure to choose another acceptable form of birth control. Also review the Medication Guide for acceptable birth control options.
It's important not to have unprotected sex while taking OPSUMIT®. Tell your doctor right away if you have unprotected sex, think your birth control has failed, miss a menstrual period, or think you may be pregnant. He or she may recommend using a form of emergency birth control.
If you are the parent or caregiver of a female child who started taking OPSUMIT® before reaching puberty, check with your child regularly for any signs of puberty. Your child may reach puberty before having her first menstrual period. Talk to your doctor if you think your child is showing signs of puberty or if you have any questions about the signs of puberty.
Before starting OPSUMIT®, women must enroll in a program called the OPSUMIT® Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). If you are a woman who is able to get pregnant, you must talk to your doctor to learn the benefits and risks of OPSUMIT®. You must also agree to all of the instructions in the program. Men who are prescribed OPSUMIT® do not need to enroll in this program.
Who should not take OPSUMIT®?
Do not take OPSUMIT® if you are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or become pregnant during treatment with OPSUMIT®. OPSUMIT® can cause serious birth defects. See "The most important information about OPSUMIT®."
Do not take OPSUMIT® if you are allergic to macitentan or any of the ingredients in OPSUMIT®. See the Medication Guide for a complete list of ingredients in OPSUMIT®.
Talk to your doctor about all your medical conditions, as well as all the medicines, vitamins, and supplements you take. OPSUMIT® and other medicines may affect each other causing side effects. Tell your doctor right away if you take an HIV medicine. Do not start any new medicine until you check with your doctor.
What should I avoid while taking OPSUMIT®?
- Do not get pregnant. OPSUMIT® can cause serious birth defects. See "The most important information about OPSUMIT®." If you miss a menstrual period or think you may be pregnant, call your doctor right away
- You should not breastfeed if you take OPSUMIT®. It is not known if OPSUMIT® passes into your breast milk. Talk to your doctor about the best way to feed your baby
What are the possible side effects of OPSUMIT®?
OPSUMIT® can cause serious side effects, including:
- Serious birth defects. See "The most important information about OPSUMIT®"
- Some medicines that are like OPSUMIT® can cause liver problems. Your doctor should do blood tests to check your liver before you start OPSUMIT®. Tell your doctor if you have any of these symptoms, which could be a sign of liver problems while on OPSUMIT®:
- Fluid retention could happen during the first weeks after starting OPSUMIT®. Tell your doctor right away if you notice unusual weight gain or swelling in your ankles or legs. Your doctor will look for the cause
- Low red blood cell levels (anemia) can happen while taking OPSUMIT®, usually during the first weeks after starting OPSUMIT®. In some cases a blood transfusion may be needed, but this is not common. Your doctor will do blood tests to check for anemia before you start OPSUMIT®. You may also need to do these blood tests while taking OPSUMIT®
- Decreased sperm counts. OPSUMIT®, and other medicines like OPSUMIT®, may cause decreased sperm counts in men who take these medicines. If fathering a child is important to you, tell your doctor
The most common side effects are:
- Stuffy nose or sore throat
- Irritation of the airways (bronchitis)
- Headache
- Flu
- Urinary tract infection
Talk to your doctor if you have a side effect that bothers you or does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of OPSUMIT®. For more information, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
Please see full Prescribing Information and Medication Guide, including an Important Warning about Serious Birth Defects at https://www.janssenlabels.com/package-insert/product-monograph/prescribing-information/OPSUMIT-pi.pdf.
About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
At Janssen, we're creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We're the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular, Metabolism & Retina; Immunology; Infectious Diseases & Vaccines; Neuroscience; Oncology; and Pulmonary Hypertension.
Learn more at www.janssen.com. Follow us at @JanssenGlobal and @JanssenUS. Janssen Research & Development, LLC is part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
Cautions Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding product development and the potential benefits and treatment impact of macitentan/tadalafil STCT. The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen Research & Development, LLC and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research and development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and of obtaining regulatory approvals; uncertainty of commercial success; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges to patents; changes in behavior and spending patterns of purchasers of health care products and services; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including global health care reforms; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2023, including in the sections captioned "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Item 1A. Risk Factors," and in Johnson & Johnson's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. None of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies nor Johnson & Johnson undertakes to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments.
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1 WHO FC II/III is defined as slight or marked limitation of physical activity with ordinary or less than ordinary activity causing undue shortness of breath or fatigue, chest pain, or near fainting.
2 Right heart failure occurs when the heart's right ventricle is too weak to pump enough blood to the lungs.
3 OPSYNVI® (macitentan 10mg and tadalafil 40mg) was approved in Canada in October 2021 and in Argentina in October 2022 but only for substitution indication (for PAH patients who are already treated with combination of macitentan 10mg and tadalafil 40mg as separate tablets) based on bioequivalence studies.
i 2022 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension. European Heart Journal (2022) 43, 3618–3731. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac237.
ii ADCIRCA (tadalafil) Prescribing Information. https://pi.lilly.com/us/adcirca-pi.pdf
iii OPSUMIT (macitentan) Prescribing Information. https://www.janssenlabels.com/package-insert/product-monograph/prescribing-information/OPSUMIT-pi.pdf
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has gathered intelligence that shows some Russian officials have become concerned that Russian forces in the ravaged port city of Mariupol are carrying out grievous abuses, a U.S official familiar with the findings said Wednesday.
The Russian officials are concerned that the abuses will backfire and further inspire Mariupol residents to resist the Russian occupation. The U.S. official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the Russians, who were not identified, also feared that the abuses will undercut Russia’s claim that they’ve liberated the Russian-speaking city.
The abuses include beating and electrocuting city officials and robbing homes, according to the intelligence finding.
The new intelligence has been declassified and was shared by a U.S. official as some of the last Ukrainian fighters in the devastated city emerged from the ruined Azovstal steelworks. The fighters were ordered by their military to abandon the last stronghold of resistance in the now-flattened port city and face an uncertain fate.
Hundreds of the fighters had held out for months under relentless bombardment in the last bastion of resistance in the devastated city.
The city has been reduced to rubble and has seen some of the most intense fighting of the war.
The seaside city captured worldwide attention after a March 9 Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital, and then after another airstrike a week later on a theater that was serving as the city’s largest bomb shelter. At the theater, the word “CHILDREN” was written in Russian on the pavement outside to deter an attack. Nearly 600 people were killed, inside and outside the theater, by some estimates.
It was unclear the extent of the suspected abuse gleaned in the U.S. intelligence finding, but it comes on the heels of widespread human rights abuses in and around Bucha and the suburbs of Kyiv.
Evidence of the massacre in Bucha emerged early last month after Russian forces withdrew from the city.( Photographs and video from Bucha showed body bags piled in trenches, lifeless limbs protruding from hastily dug graves, and corpses scattered in streets where they fell.
Meanwhile, the first captured Russian soldier to be put on trial by Ukraine on war-crimes charges pleaded guilty on Wednesday to killing a civilian and could face life in prison.
Russian Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, a 21-year-old member of a tank unit, pleaded guilty to shooting an unarmed 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through a car window in the opening days of the war. Ukraine’s top prosecutor has said some 40 more war-crimes cases are being readied. | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/us-intel-shows-russians-fear-mariupol-abuse-will-backfire/ | 2022-05-19 18:19:41 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/us-intel-shows-russians-fear-mariupol-abuse-will-backfire/ |
ST. PAUL, Minn, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Augeo, a global leader in enterprise engagement and loyalty platform technology, announced the launch of Heaps℠—a comprehensive "crypto loyalty" platform that fuels new consumer and employee experiences by enabling the exchange of loyalty currencies for leading crypto assets.
"With Heaps, Augeo is enriching the way organizations engage with their employees and customers in light of extraordinary demand for digital experiences, including the exchange of digital assets and cryptocurrencies," said David Kristal, Augeo Founder and CEO. "Through crypto, and soon NFTs, the Heaps platform seamlessly integrates with existing loyalty and recognition programs to drive engagement and promote lasting affinity for financial institutions, employers, travel and hospitality brands, retailers and customer loyalty programs."
Heaps serves as a compelling entry point into crypto, empowering consumers to begin their journey with confidence through educational tutorials and the ability to research top coins and follow industry news, all within Heaps. The Heaps experience is centered around exploration and education versus advocacy for crypto. Heaps enables users to buy leading cryptocurrencies with points or cash, store digital assets in a secure wallet, track portfolio performance and earn additional crypto through a unique shopping experience. Within the platform, users experience an expansive marketplace, where they can earn crypto-back rewards on purchases from hundreds of popular brands nationwide.
The platform was developed in collaboration with Prime Trust, a leading digital asset infrastructure provider trusted by major institutions worldwide. The collaboration with Prime Trust includes secure financial service APIs, advanced security safeguards, and bank-level encryption to ensure a seamless, secure experience for users and organizations.
"The launch of Heaps represents a fundamental shift in the loyalty industry. Whether you are a financial institution looking to drive more card spend through crypto rewards, or an employer seeking to attract talent and enhance employee benefits through an automated Bitcoin savings plan, Heaps creates an easy pathway for organizations seeking to address the increasing demand for crypto," said Peter Schultze, Augeo Vice President, Crypto Loyalty. "Augeo is proud to continue advancing innovation for engagement solutions that serve millions of users around the globe."
For more information about the Heaps crypto loyalty engagement platform, visit getheaps.com.
Augeo is a global leader in enterprise-level engagement and loyalty strategies and technologies that deliver compelling experiences and foster meaningful connections for employees, consumers, channel partners and members across many industries. We elevate engagement and strengthen relationships for our clients through our workplace engagement, event experiences, strategic gifting, incentives, loyalty and consumer engagement solutions. With more than 45 years of experience, Augeo serves hundreds of clients including more than 65 of the top Fortune 500 companies, representing millions using our proprietary platform technology. Our mission is inspiring people to achieve more—one interaction, transaction and experience at a time.
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Gio Reyna started in his first match with the U.S. after his parents disparaged then-coach Gregg Berhalter for his lack of playing time at the World Cup, a 7-1 rout of 173rd-ranked Grenada in the CONCACAF Nationals League on Friday night at St. George’s.
Ricardo Pepi and Weston McKennie had two goals each and Alejandro Zendejas scored his first international goal. Christian Pulisic and Brenden Aaronson also scored for the No. 13 Americans, who had never won by a 7-1 score.
Pepi ended a 10-match international scoreless streak when he put the U.S. ahead with a fourth-minute header off Pulisic’s cross. Pulisic and Luca de La Torre had two assists each for the Americans, who for the first time since Major League Soccer launched in 1996 failed to field at least one MLS player.
Berhalter used Reyna sparingly at the World Cup and the 20-year-old nearly was sent home by Berhalter for lack of hustle in training. The player’s parents, former U.S. captain Claudio Reyna and former women’s player Danielle Egan Reyna, notified the U.S. Soccer Federation of a 1992 domestic violence incident involving Berhalter and the woman he later married — Danielle Egan’s former college roommate.
The USSF commissioned a law firm to investigate and appointed Anthony Hudson interim coach after Berhalter’s contract expired Dec. 31. The law firm said there was no legal impediment to retaining Berhalter, who remains a candidate, and the USSF put off a coaching decision until after a new sporting director is hired, probably this summer.
In the first competitive U.S. match since the World Cup, Reyna started in central midfield rather than his wing role under Berhalter. He played until the 64th minute.
Auston Trusty made his U.S. debut, paired in central defense with Mark McKenzie, who got his first start since October 2021. Forward Taylor Booth made his debut in the 64th.
Right back Bryan Reynolds made his first start since December 2021. The U.S. starting lineup included goalkeeper Matt Turner and, left back Joe Scally, McKennie along with Luca de la Torre, Pulisic, Reyna and Aaronson in midfield, and Pepi at striker following his omission from the World Cup roster.
The U.S. improved to 5-0 against Grenada with a 22-3 (15-2) goals advantage.
Pepi scored from 7 yards in the fourth minute, his first international goal since October 2021. Aaronson scored in the 20th minute off Pulisic’s feed, his seventh international goal. and McKennie Aaronson’s Leeds teammate, scored in the 31st, getting a head to Pulisic’s angled free kick and volleying with his weaker left foot.
Myles Hippolyte scored in the 32nd minute for Grenada in his international debut, beating Turner from 16 yards. McKennie got his 11th international goal in the 34th after Trusty headed down a cross. knocking the ball in with his right foot from short range.
Pulisic scored his 23rd international goal in the 49th minute with a shot that bounced in off goalkeeper Jason Belfon, and Pepi got his fifth international goal in the 53rd, scoring from 6 yards after running onto de la Torre’s through ball. Zendejas, who committed to the U.S. over Mexico, made his American competitive debut in the 64th minute and scored from 23 yards following a turnover in the 72nd minute.
Johnny Cardoso entered in the 76th in his American competitive debut, tying him to the U.S. program.
The Americans complete group play Monday in Orlando, Florida, against El Salvador, which has five points. and would advance to the semifinals in June with a win or draw. Grenada finished last in the group with one point.
Notes: After meeting with the U.S. team in Orlando, Reims midfielder Folarin Balogun visited New York Yankees camp in Tampa. The 21-year-old midfielder, on loan from Arsenal, is eligible to play for England, the U.S. and Nigeria. … D Miles Robinson, who hasn’t played for the U.S. since tearing his left Achilles on May 7, was a healthy scratch.
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SAN ANTONIO — A woman in her 50s was taken into custody after allegedly starting fires on the city's northwest side.
The San Antonio Police Department said they received complaints of the woman trying to set things on fire. As authorities were looking for her, they received reports of a backyard shed that was fully engulfed in flames.
The shed was built by the homeowner as a workspace. Neighbors had called for help, and a person was home, but did not see the fire.
When they went outside, they found the workspace had been completely destroyed, and the fire had spread to the fence, as well as a bathroom that was attached to the shed.
Arson investigators are now trying to determine if the woman is a suspect in this fire.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California offered fresh concessions to a hard-right band of rebels in a desperate effort to lock down the votes to become speaker, as a historic Republican deadlock that has paralyzed Congress entered its third day Thursday with no resolution.
After losing a half-dozen consecutive votes for the post over two humiliating days, McCarthy privately agreed to more demands from the right-wing rebels that he had previously refused to countenance, including allowing a single lawmaker to force a snap vote at any time to oust him from the speakership, according to The New York Times, which cited three people familiar with the negotiations who described them on the condition of anonymity, noting that they were ongoing and that no final deal had been reached.
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The Republican leader had also committed to allowing the right-wing faction to handpick a third of the party’s members on the powerful Rules Committee, which controls what legislation reaches the floor and in what form, according to one of the people, who has been involved in the talks, as well as to opening spending bills to a freewheeling debate in which any lawmaker could propose changes, including those designed to scuttle or sink the measure.
Taken together, the concessions would weaken the speaker’s power considerably and make for an unwieldy environment in the House, where the slim Republican majority already promised to make it difficult to govern. And it was not clear the offer would be enough to corral the votes for McCarthy to prevail.
The House was scheduled to return at noon and plunge back into the fight, after adjourning Wednesday night with no resolution, as McCarthy and his allies bargained into the night with defectors to try to lock down the support that has eluded him.
In a spectacle on the House floor not seen in 100 years, unrelenting hard-right lawmakers have repeatedly refused to throw their support behind McCarthy, the party leader, who on Wednesday suffered another three humiliating defeats in a grim replay of the three he endured Tuesday.
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The episode again put Republican divisions on vivid display, grinding the House to a standstill and extending an ignominious start to the new Republican majority, potentially foreshadowing an era of dysfunction and disarray.
McCarthy vowed to keep fighting, but it was unclear whether the stalemate could be broken, and even an entreaty from former President Donald Trump for the party to unite around McCarthy fell flat.
The crisis — the first of its kind since 1923, when it took nine ballots to elect a speaker — has effectively blocked the House from functioning, preventing lawmakers from being sworn in, putting off the adoption of new rules to govern the chamber and making legislative work impossible.
It has also highlighted the weakness of McCarthy, who has billed himself as the heir apparent to the speakership and the person best suited to lead his party’s razor-thin majority, raising serious questions about his ability to count votes and control his unruly rank and file.
With all members elected to the House present and voting, McCarthy needs to receive 218 votes to become speaker, leaving little room for Republican defections, as the party controls only 222 seats. He has consistently fallen well short of that level this week, drawing no more than 203 votes even as his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, has won 212, with every member of his party united behind him.
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On Wednesday, McCarthy lost a fourth, fifth and sixth ballot, with the same 20 defectors who opposed him Tuesday throwing their support behind Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, who was just elected to his second term and was the first Black man to be nominated by Republicans for the job.
Even as he and his allies scrounged to pick up the votes he would need to command a majority, McCarthy was losing ground.
Still, his supporters ended the day Wednesday in a hopeful mood, suggesting that fresh concessions McCarthy had made privately would finally sway enough holdouts to deliver him the speakership. His political action committee cut a deal with the Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group that has opposed McCarthy’s bid for speaker, agreeing not to spend money to support candidates in open primaries in safe Republican seats.
That had been a major demand of conservatives, who have been angered at the group’s efforts to bolster more mainstream candidates over hard-right ones, though it was unclear if the pledge would be enough to win over any of the rebels.
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PRISTINA, Kosovo -- NATO will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests after clashes with ethnic Serbs there left 30 international soldiers wounded, the alliance announced Tuesday.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said an additional reserve battalion would be put on high readiness in case additional troops are needed.
"These are prudent steps," said Stoltenberg, who made the announcement in Oslo after talks with the Norwegian prime minister.
The NATO-led peacekeeping mission known as KFOR currently consists of almost 3,800 troops. A battalion typically ranges from 300 to around 1,000 troops.
Earlier Tuesday, KFOR's multinational peacekeepers used metal fences and barbed-wire barriers to reinforce positions in a northern town that has become a hot spot.
The troops sealed off the municipal building in Zvecan, where unrest on Monday sent tensions soaring and raised fears of instability amid increased Western efforts to resolve a long-simmering dispute.
A former province of Serbia, Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence is not recognized by Belgrade. Ethnic Albanians make up most of the population, but Kosovo has a restive Serb minority in the north of the country bordering Serbia.
Stoltenberg condemned the violence and warned that NATO troops would "take all necessary actions to maintain a safe and secure environment for all citizens in Kosovo."
He urged both sides to refrain from "further irresponsible behavior" and to return to EU-backed talks on improving relations.
Tensions increased over the past weekend, after ethnic Albanian officials elected in votes overwhelmingly boycotted by Serbs entered municipal buildings. When the Serbs tried to block them, Kosovo police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
In response, Serbia put the country's military on the highest state of alert and sent more troops to the border with Kosovo. The Serbs protested again Monday, insisting both ethnic Albanian mayors and Kosovo police must leave northern Kosovo.
The confrontations worsened when Serbs tried to enter the municipal offices in Zvecan, 28 miles north of the capital, Pristina.
They clashed first with Kosovo police and then with the international peacekeepers who deployed in Zvecan.
In a video message issued Tuesday evening, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said the mayors elected in the April 23 voting "are the only ones who have the legitimacy to be at the municipal buildings and to the citizens' service."
Instigators of the violence have been identified, according to the prime minister, who named some Serb businessmen who oblige their employees to protest.
"In Kosovo, power is won through elections, not with violence and crime," he said.
EU PEACE EFFORTS
The flareup has triggered international efforts to calm the situation.
The United States and the EU recently stepped up their work to negotiate an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, fearing instability as Russia's war rages in Ukraine. The EU has made it clear to both Serbia and Kosovo that they must normalize relations if they're to make any progress toward joining the bloc.
"We have too much violence in Europe already today. We cannot afford another conflict," the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, told reporters Tuesday in Brussels.
As a first step to easing tensions, he said, Kosovo police should suspend the operation focusing on municipal buildings in the north, and violent protesters should "stand down."
In response to the recent unrest, NATO has decided to increase its KFOR troops with the deployment of "operational reserve forces" for the Western Balkans, a statement said, without specifying a number. Another unit will be on standby "to be ready to reinforce KFOR if necessary."
A statement issued Tuesday by KFOR said 30 soldiers -- 11 Italians and 19 Hungarians -- were hurt, including fractures and burns from improvised explosive incendiary devices.
Three Hungarian soldiers were "wounded by the use of firearms," but their injuries were not life-threatening, the statement added.
Serb officials said 52 people were injured, including three seriously. Four protesters were detained, according to Kosovo police.
"Both parties need to take full responsibility for what happened and prevent any further escalation, rather than hide behind false narratives," KFOR commander Maj.-Gen. Angelo Michele Ristuccia said.
Belgrade and Pristina have blamed each other for the escalation.
DIPLOMATS IN SERBIA
Meanwhile, ambassadors from the so-called Quint countries -- France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the U.S. -- met Monday with Kurti in Pristina and Tuesday with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade.
Vucic later also met with the ambassadors in Serbia from Russia and China.
In a statement from his office, Vucic expressed "immense dissatisfaction and strong concern" over what he described as international "tolerance" of Kurti's actions that fueled violence against Serbs.
Urgent measures to guarantee the security of the Serbs in Kosovo are a precondition for any future talks, Vucic insisted.
Kurti has thanked KFOR troops for "valiant action to preserve peace in the face of violent extremism."
"The border between Kosovo and Serbia is one of those dangerous places where a spark could set off a fire," Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said.
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Country to become unrivalled entertainment destination during tournament
DOHA, Qatar, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ticket sales for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ are approaching 3 million as the countdown continues to the first edition of the tournament in the Middle East and Arab world, which will get underway at Al Bayt Stadium on 20 November.
During a press conference in Doha, organisers announced a further 30,000 rooms had been made available to World Cup visitors as Qatar prepares to stage 64 matches at eight state-of-the-art stadiums. The biggest variety of accommodation is available from the Qatar Accommodation Agency. Rooms can be booked from $80 per person, per night based on two-person occupancy. Accommodation options include hotels, apartments and fan villages.
"We have always said that Qatar will deliver the best ever edition of the FIFA World Cup. And as you look around the country today, at the state-of-the-art stadiums, the training pitches, the metro, the wider infrastructure, everything is ready and everyone is welcome," said FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, during a video message. "The world is excited. Qatar is ready. The stage is set. Together, we will deliver the best World Cup ever on and off the field."
Organisers said 2.89 million tickets had been sold for the 64 matches to be staged in eight state-of-the-art stadiums. Demand has been highest among fans based in Qatar, the United States, Saudi Arabia, England, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, France, Brazil and Germany. The tournament has also achieved record-breaking hospitality ticket sales. Tickets for all matches will continue to be released between now and the end of the tournament, with fans encouraged to keep checking FIFA.com/tickets for the latest inventory. From this week, ticket holders will receive an email with information on how to download the ticketing app and retrieve their mobile tickets.
Tournament organisers reminded fans to apply for the mandatory Hayya Card and book their accommodation as soon as possible. The Hayya Card will act as an entry permit for international fans. It will also provide free public transport across the country and allow access to stadiums for fans with a valid match ticket.
Organisers also outlined the vast array of entertainment options being prepared for visitors during the tournament. The FIFA Fan Festival at Al Bidda Park will host up to 40,000 fans every day during the tournament. It will be free to attend and screen live matches, host globally-renowned artists and feature football activities. There will also be a range of local and international food and beverage options.
In addition, the 6km Corniche Activation from Sheraton Park to the Museum of Islamic Art will feature roving performances, retail stores and food and beverage kiosks. Other activities will include the daily 'Welcome to Qatar' show – a water and pyrotechnics display that will feature music from the Qatar 2022 Official Soundtrack, Qatari composer Wael Binali and the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra.
Theme park rides and other attractions at Al Maha Island Lusail will also be open to fans, as will the Ras Abu Aboud 974 Beach Club, the Hayya Fan Zone at Lusail South Promenade and the QetaiFAN Beach Fest. Dance music fans will flock to the 15,000-capacity Arcadia Spectacular and 5,000-capacity ARAVIA by MDL BEAST. In addition, Last-Mile Cultural Activations will feature more than 6,000 performances in 21 locations, entertaining fans on their way to stadiums.
Eng. Yasir Al Jamal, Director General, Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, said: "After more than a decade of hard work and close collaboration with stakeholders across the country, Qatar stands ready to host a memorable edition of the FIFA World Cup. The compact nature of our tournament means visitors will never be far from the action – always close to a stadium or entertainment activation. We look forward to hosting a tournament that will live long in the memory for fans from across the globe."
Nasser Al Khater, CEO, FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 LLC, said: "Qatar is ready to host a global celebration of the beautiful game. We look forward to welcoming fans and players from across the world as they sample our welcoming hospitality, vast array of entertainment options and, of course, top-class international football. It promises to be a unique edition of the FIFA World Cup – and one that will leave a lasting, positive impact on Qatar, the Middle East and the Arab world."
"We operate over 168 official sites through the compact nature of Qatar, and each one of these sites is essential to the running and successful delivery of this World Cup. Way beyond testing the eight stadiums, the volunteers and accreditation centres are fully operational, with the ticketing centre at the Doha Exhibition & Convention Centre opening tomorrow and the International Broadcast Centre and Main Media Centre to follow. I can only reiterate FIFA's confidence and deep appreciation for all the work preparing to deliver the best FIFA World Cup ever in just over one month's time," said FIFA Chief Operating Officer – World Cup, Colin Smith.
Further information about Qatar's additional cultural and entertainment fan destinations can be found at https://www.qatar2022.qa/en/live-it-all-in-qatar.
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NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — A man and his 4-year-old son died over Labor Day weekend after their car caught fire on State Road 32 creek bed following a crash in Noblesville.
28-year-old Christopher A. Edwards and his 4-year-old son were killed in the crash, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Dept. said. Edwards, police said, was likely living in Tennessee but was originally from Anderson, Indiana.
Sheriff’s deputies responded around 1 a.m. Saturday to SR-32 east of Deshane Ave. after seeing heavy black smoke in the area. There, they found a dark-colored Chevy Camaro on the creek bed where SR-32 crosses Stony Creek that was fully engulfed in flames and heavily damaged.
First responders arrived to put out the fire and eventually the bodies of an adult male, later identified as Edwards, and an unknown child were found inside the car.
An initial investigation into the crash, police said, shows Edwards’ Camaro was moving westbound on SR-32 where multiple road closure signs are posted. The bridge in the area is currently being replaced by INDOT and was taken away earlier this year.
The car continued past the signs, police said, and hit a “Road Closed” sign that was in the lane. The car then continued to where the bridge was removed and became airborne while moving at a high rate of speed, crossing the creek and hitting the abutment on the other side.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
8-9-1-7
(eight, nine, one, seven)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
8-9-1-7
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aaron Nola trudged off the mound in Game 4 with both the bases loaded and another disaster of a postseason start behind him. Unlike his first faulty World Series start, the Phillies’ bats couldn’t bail out the righty and rally for a win.
Bryce Harper, Rhys Hoskins and the rest of the Phillies sluggers couldn’t even muster a hit against Cristian Javier and three relievers in a 5-0 loss on Wednesday night. The Astros tied the series 2-2.
It was second playoff no-hitter in Citizens Bank Park history. The late Phillies ace Roy Halladay no-hit the Reds in the 2010 NLDS.
Nola, who fell to 2-2 in the postseason, failed to pitch out of the fifth inning for the third straight start and threw nothing like the ace expected to lead the top of the rotation.
He just wasn’t good enough.
Once he left, José Alvarado was worse.
The first sign of cracks in the vaunted postseason bullpen came when Alvarado on his first pitch plunked Yordan Alvarez in the rear with the bases loaded. Then the real hits came: Alex Bregman ripped a two-RBI double to right. Kyle Tucker made it 4-0 on a sacrifice fly. Yuli Gurriel poked an RBI single to left past a drawn-in infield and suddenly it was 5-0 in the fifth.
Nola, who became the fourth pitcher to make five starts in a single postseason in franchise history, allowed three runs, seven hits, hit a batter and struck out four in four-plus innings.
The Astros took a 5-0 lead for the third time in this series.
The first time, Game 1.
Nola was done in that one after 4 1/3 innings, though he retired the final six batters he faced and left in a tie game after the Phillies rallied from an early 5-0 deficit. They won 6-5.
Philadelphia’s bullpen shut down the Astros in Game 1 to aid the comeback. In fact, the relievers had combined to toss 12 2/3 scoreless innings to start the World Series, the longest scoreless streak for a bullpen in a World Series since Toronto in 1992.
The Phillies even juggled their dancing lineup, about anything to shake out of their funk, trading their postseason anthem “Dancing On My Own” for “Dancing In the Dark” in honor of Bruce Springsteen’s appearance at Game 4.
Phillies fans that turned Citizens Bank Park into the rowdiest postseason party in all of baseball — and a 6-0 postseason record at home before Wednesday — hit the exits in the eighth inning. Even some of the diehards ran on fumes.
The 29-year-old Nola, the seventh overall pick by the Phillies in the 2014 draft, made his playoff debut with 12 2/3 innings without allowing an earned run as Philadelphia swept the NL wild-card round against St. Louis and upset defending World Series champion Atlanta in the Division Series. His 11 2/3 scoreless streak to begin his playoff career is the longest in club history.
Nola, though, struggled in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series, allowing six runs on seven hits over 4 2/3 innings in a loss to San Diego. His older brother, Austin Nola, had a key RBI single off Aaron during that Padres victory.
Phillies manager Rob Thomson said before the game that Noah Syndergaard would start Game. 5. Syndergaard pitched three times this postseason — one start — and allowed one run in five innings.
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Accumulating snow is on the way tonight through Friday morning before tapering off during the afternoon. For specific timing and amounts at your location, check out this article written by Mark Torregrossa here: Winter Weather Advisory covers southern half of Lower Michigan; Storm continues to speed up.
The first half of the day Friday will be the worst time to travel, since this is when the bulk of the snow will come down. As a result, the morning commute will be the busiest travel time that is slowed down because of the snow. You are encouraged to slow down and allow extra time to reach your destination if you have travel plans anytime between late this evening and Friday around noon.
Even during the afternoon, scattered snow showers will continue, especially for the eastern side of the state, and they’ll probably last into the evening across portions of the Thumb, so some reduced travel speeds may still be necessary as plow truck drivers work to clean up the roads.
Certainly, the bulk of the snow accumulations come through overnight through the morning hours, though. Here is a loop between 10 p.m. this evening and 7 a.m. tomorrow morning, showing 3-6 inches of snow likely coming down overnight across southwestern lower Michigan.
Notice the snow will not be particularly heavy, but it will be steady and could peak with 0.5 to 1 inch per hour snowfall rates briefly in the strongest bands.
Recall that we easily saw 1″ to 2″ per hour snowfall rates with the storm last Friday evening, so this will be gentle compared to that. I would expect Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing and Jackson to have the most new snow accumulation by 7 a.m. (3 inches plus), but snow will be falling everywhere during the morning commute across the advisory area.
As we run the loop now from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the day Friday (above), we see the heaviest snow occurs until noon; after which, an inch or less remains possible throughout the remainder of the day, especially along and east of I-75.
Now, when all is said and done, many areas have 3 to 6 inches of snow. This is not a big storm for Michigan. We can handle this. Travel will be manageable. This being said, driving at posted speed limits is too fast for snowy conditions like this, which is why the National Weather Service and all meteorologists advise you to slow down and use caution while driving.
Interestingly, this is exactly what a winter weather advisory means: Winter weather will impact travel conditions that will require needing extra travel time to reach your destination safely. Since winter weather is expected — in this case, several inches of snow — we encourage you to plan those extra minutes into your Friday morning routine and be safe!
I’ll leave you with this very short loop of forecast radar between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. to illustrate what the snow will likely be doing during your morning commute tomorrow. | https://www.mlive.com/weather/2023/03/worst-times-to-be-on-the-road-during-fridays-snowstorm.html | 2023-03-09 20:03:54 | 0 | https://www.mlive.com/weather/2023/03/worst-times-to-be-on-the-road-during-fridays-snowstorm.html |
Sound Transit’s north- and southbound 1 Line light-rail train service is shut down between Rainier Beach Station and Tukwila International Boulevard Station on Sunday morning.
Link Shuttle buses are departing from each light-rail stop every 15 minutes “until further notice due to emergency response,” according to an alert from the agency about 8 a.m.
About 11 p.m. Saturday, a car hit a utility pole on South Norfolk Street near the light-rail line, according to Sound Transit spokesperson John Gallagher.
Seattle Fire requested the agency stop service Saturday night so Seattle City Light could assemble a team to remove the pole. A light-rail car was not involved in the collision, but firefighters deemed the utility pole “close enough to the alignment that it was a hazard,” Gallagher said.
The agency currently has no ETA on when light-rail service will return, Gallagher said.
North and southbound bus bridge stops are at Martin Luther King Jr Way S & S Henderson St and Tukwila International Blvd Station – Bay 2.
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With new omicron variants again driving COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths higher in recent weeks, states and cities are rethinking their responses and the White House is stepping up efforts to alert the public.
Some experts said the warnings are too little, too late.
The highly transmissible BA.5 variant now accounts for 65% of cases with its cousin BA.4 contributing another 16%. The variants have shown a remarkable ability to get around the protection offered by infection and vaccination.
“It’s well past the time when the warning could have been put out there,” said Dr. Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, who has has called BA.5 “the worst variant yet.”
Global trends for the two mutants have been apparent for weeks, experts said — they quickly out-compete older variants and push cases higher wherever they appear. Yet Americans have tossed off their masks and jumped back into travel and social gatherings. And they have largely ignored booster shots, which protect against COVID-19′s worst outcomes. Courts have blocked federal mask and vaccine mandates, tying the hands of U.S. officials.
“We learn a lot from how the virus is acting elsewhere and we should apply the knowledge here,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha appeared on morning TV on Wednesday urging booster shots and renewed vigilance. Yet Mokdad said federal health officials need to be push harder on masks indoors, early detection and prompt antiviral treatment.
“They are not doing all that they can,” Mokdad said.
The administration’s challenge, in the view of the White House, is not their messaging, but people’s willingness to hear it — due to pandemic fatigue and the politicization of the virus response.
For months, the White House has encouraged Americans to make use of free or cheap at-home rapid tests to detect the virus, as well as the free and effective antiviral treatment Paxlovid that protects against serious illness and death. On Tuesday, the White House response team called on all adults 50 and older to urgently get a booster if they haven’t yet this year — and dissuaded people from waiting for the next generation of shots expected in the fall when they can roll up their sleeves and get some protection now.
Los Angeles County, the nation’s largest by population, is facing a return to a broad indoor mask mandate if current trends in hospital admissions continue, health director Barbara Ferrer told county supervisors Tuesday.
“I do recognize that when we return to universal indoor masking to reduce high spread, for many this will feel like a step backwards,” Ferrer said. But she stressed that requiring masks “helps us to reduce risk.”
LA County has long required masks in some indoor spaces, including health care facilities, Metro trains and buses, airports, jails and homeless shelters. A universal mandate would expand the requirement to all indoor public spaces, including shared offices, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, retail stores, restaurants and bars, theaters and schools.
Sharon Fayette ripped off her mask the moment she stepped out of a Lyft ride in LA and groaned when informed another universal mask requirement might be coming. “Oh man, when will it end?” she wondered about the pandemic.
Fayette said she was exhausted by shifting regulations and dubious another mandate would be followed by most residents. “I just think people are over it, over all the rules,” she said.
The nation’s brief lull in COVID deaths has reversed. Last month, daily deaths were falling, though they never matched last year’s low, and deaths are now heading up again.
The seven-day average for daily deaths in the U.S. rose 26% over the past two weeks to 489 on July 12.
The coronavirus is not killing nearly as many as it was last fall and winter, and experts do not expect death to reach those levels again soon. But hundreds of daily deaths for a summertime respiratory illness would normally be jaw-dropping, said Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine. He noted that in Orange County, California, 46 people died of COVID-19 in June.
“That would be all hands on deck,” Noymer said. “People would be like, ‘There’s this crazy new flu that’s killing people in June.’”
Instead, simple, proven precautions are not being taken. Vaccinations, including booster shots for those eligible, lower the risk of hospitalization and death — even against the latest variants. But less than half of all eligible U.S. adults have gotten a single booster shot, and only about 1 in 4 Americans age 50 and older who are eligible for a second booster have received one.
“This has been a botched booster campaign,” Topol said, noting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still uses the term “fully vaccinated” for people with two shots of Moderna or Pfizer. “They haven’t gotten across that two shots is totally inadequate,” he said.
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Noymer said if he were in charge of the nation’s COVID response he would level with the American people in an effort to get their attention in this third year of the pandemic. He would tell Americans to take it seriously, mask indoors and “until we get better vaccines, there’s going to be a new normal of a disease that kills over 100,000 Americans a year and impacts life expectancy.”
That message probably wouldn’t fly for political reasons, Noymer acknowledged.
It also might not fly with people who are tired of taking precautions after more than two years of the pandemic. Valerie Walker of New Hope, Pennsylvania, is mindful of the latest surge but is hardly alarmed.
“I was definitely concerned back then,” she said of the pandemic’s early days, with images of body bags on nightly news broadcasts. “Now there’s fatigue, things were getting better and there was a vaccine. So I would say from a scale between one and 10, I’m probably at a four.”
Even with two friends now sick with the virus, and her husband recently recovered, Walker says she has bigger problems.
“Sometimes when I think about it I still put a mask on when I go into a store, but honestly, it is not a daily thought for me,” she said.
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Floating abortion clinic proposed in Gulf of Mexico to bypass bans
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A California doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico as a way to maintain access for people in southern states where abortion bans have been enacted.
The idea is to provide a clinic aboard a ship in federal waters, and out of reach of state laws, that would offer first trimester surgical abortions, contraception and other care, said Dr. Meg Autry, an obstetrician and gynecologist and a professor at the University of California San Francisco.
“There’s been an assault on reproductive rights in our country and I’m a lifelong advocate for reproductive health and choice. We have to create options and be thoughtful and creative to help people in restrictive states get the health care they deserve,” she told The Associated Press.
Autry said the idea is only in the fundraising stage through the nonprofit “PRROWESS” — short for “Protecting Reproductive Rights Of Women Endangered by State Statutes.”
The proposal comes as abortion access in the southern United States has been swiftly curtailed after the U.S. Supreme Court turned the issue of abortion back to the states.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas have had abortion bans take effect. A Florida law, which is in effect after a legal back-and-forth, prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, with exceptions if the procedure is necessary to save a life, prevent serious injury or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality.
Autry said their legal team believes there is a swath of federal water where licensed providers could safely and legally provide abortions out of reach of state laws. For women in southern states with abortion bans, going to the coast and boarding a boat may be closer and easier than trying to travel to a state where abortion remains legal, she said.
“This is closer and faster access for some people, particularly for working people that live in the southernmost part of these states,” she said.
Autry said they are still trying to work out many of the details such as where the boat will launch and how women would get to the ship.
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NEW YORK (AP) — COVID-19 shots should be added to the lists of recommended vaccinations for kids and adults, a panel of U.S. vaccine experts said Thursday.
The panel’s unanimous decision has no immediate effect — COVID-19 shots already are recommended for virtually all Americans. Rather, it would put the shots on the annually updated, formal lists of what vaccinations doctors should be routinely offering to their patients, alongside shots for polio, measles and hepatitis.
The expert panel’s decisions are almost always adopted by the CDC director and then sent to doctors as part of the government’s advice on how to prevent disease.
State and local officials often look to the lists in making decisions about vaccination requirements for school attendance, but local officials don’t always adopt every recommendation. Flu and HPV shots, for example, aren’t required by many schools.
Usually, vaccines placed on the schedules are fully licensed, but that has not yet happened for every COVID-19 vaccine product in every age group.
COVID-19 shots initially were approved under emergency authorization measures starting in late 2020. Over time, the government has licensed many of the shots, but full approval has not yet happened for booster doses or for shots for kids younger than 12. Because the shots have already been recommended under emergency authorization for Americans older than 6 months, however, the decision makes no real difference, federal officials say.
Earlier this week, the same expert panel voted unanimously to add COVID-19 shots to a program that provides vaccines at no cost to children who might not otherwise be vaccinated. This is in preparation for the day in the future when the federal government transitions out of paying for all COVID-19 shots, as it has been doing.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge this week appointed an outside expert to help Oregon end its practice of housing kids in foster care in hotels, years after the agency promised it would do so in a legal settlement.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane on Tuesday took the unusual step of appointing Marty Beyer to oversee the state’s Department of Human Services, noting the agency has not figured out how to stop “temporary lodging” on its own, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
Oregon has spent more than $25 million housing 462 kids in foster care in hotels since the state promised to largely end the practice as part of a legal settlement in 2018.
In the first six months of this year, 75 kids ranging in age from 6 to 19 years were placed in hotels. Twenty of those kids have lived in a hotel for more than 60 days.
“This is incredibly harmful for these kids,” said Maggie Carlson, an attorney for Youth, Rights & Justice, which was one of the groups that filed a 2016 lawsuit to stop the practice. “They are spending months and months in hotels with a rotating cast of caregivers all the while getting the message they are unwanted and can’t do well with a regular family and they are different and unlovable. It really affects their mental health in the long term.”
When the state of Oregon removes a child from their home, child welfare officials are responsible for their care. Placing vulnerable youth in hotels for extended periods of time is widely recognized — even among Department of Human Services officials responsible for kids placed in state care — as an inappropriate placement.
Attorneys and advocates with Youth, Rights & Justice and the Oregon Law Center had asked a judge earlier this year to consider appointing a special master.
Beyer, during a one-year contract with the state, will gather information before making recommendations on how to find better placements for vulnerable children. The judge could then order the state to follow Beyer’s recommendations. Beyer is a child welfare and juvenile justice consultant with a Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from Yale University, according to her website.
Oregon DHS officials said they struggle to find adequate places to house kids after removing them from families because of a lack of capacity in foster homes and residential treatment centers, the latter of which help treat kids with extensive behavioral health needs.
When the state was questioned about sending foster kids to facilities outside the state, officials initially said kids had such complex needs there was no adequate spot for them in Oregon.
In recent legal filings, advocates said the state was again relying on the same rationale to explain the need for lodging kids in hotels, writing that the agency consistently failed to undertake systemic changes.
For seven years, the state has said there was a lack of suitable placements for kids and it was working diligently to increase capacity, McShane wrote, adding, “this argument has become nothing more than a stale mantra and the Court has lost faith in ODHS’ ability to end this entrenched policy on its own.”
Jake Sunderland, a Department of Human Services spokesperson, said Wednesday in an emailed statement that the department is committed to transforming its child welfare system into one focused on prevention and safety, and that it welcomes working collaboratively with Beyer.
“We look forward to showing Dr. Beyer all of the extensive efforts ODHS (Oregon Department of Human Services) has engaged in to comply with the settlement agreement and hearing her ideas about how to address existing barriers,” Sunderland said.
He also said the department will continue to work to reduce hotel stays for kids by supporting children in their homes and expand options for placement in a facility when children need a high level of care.
Annette Smith, a public defender representing kids placed in foster care, has watched Oregon struggle to find appropriate placements for kids for years. In 2019, she represented a 9-year-old girl who was sent to a facility in Montana where she was drugged and largely abandoned by the state of Oregon. Shortly after that story became public and the child returned to Oregon, other cases of abuse were raised and the facility was shuttered.
What is truly needed in Oregon for kids placed in foster care is in short supply, Smith said.
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DENVER, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GOLFTEC, the world leader in golf improvement, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SkyTrak, golf's #1 consumer launch monitor and simulator.
The impending acquisition builds on each company's powerful reputation and shared mission to provide golfers with the data and insights needed to track performance, have more fun and play better golf. As part of the acquisition, GOLFTEC will invest in enhancing the current SkyTrak user experience as well as create new, innovative solutions that leverage coaching, data, and digital platforms to deliver a GOLFTEC improvement experience to a broader segment of golfers around the world.
"We are incredibly excited about the acquisition of SkyTrak. With this acquisition, we're combining two companies that understand how data and personalized coaching can truly accelerate a person's journey to better golf. As we look to the future, and in conjunction with our parent company GDO, we're excited about delivering an improvement experience that goes beyond the traditional GOLFTEC Training Bay and helps people improve with GOLFTEC anywhere," said Joe Assell, GOLFTEC Co-founder and CEO.
In support of this acquisition, GOLFTEC recently named longtime golf industry veteran Jeff Foster as their Chief Strategy Officer. As part of his role, Foster will be appointed CEO of SkyTrak.
"For more than two decades, GOLFTEC and SkyTrak have been included among golf's most well-respected and impactful brands," said Foster. "This is an incredible opportunity to leverage the strengths of both companies and build an experience that provides limitless opportunities."
Following record sales in 2021 as well as receiving Golf Digest's "Best in Golf" Award for the fifth consecutive year, SkyTrak remains golf's most popular consumer launch monitor that provides golfers of all skill levels with highly accurate, real-time feedback.
"GOLFTEC is the perfect partner at the perfect time," said Don Thorup of SkyTrak. "The demand for non-traditional forms of golf is at an all-time high, and after hearing GOLFTEC's vision for what we could build together, we knew this was the right direction for our brand."
With over 230 locations worldwide and over 900 Certified Personal Coaches, GOLFTEC is the world leader in golf improvement. In 2021, GOLFTEC Coaches provided over 1.5 million golf lessons to nearly 200,000 golfers with an average improvement of seven strokes. In 2022, GOLFTEC will continue its momentum by opening approximately 30 new locations and by developing new digital-first products that enhance and expand the GOLFTEC improvement experience.
Baird served as financial advisor to GOLFTEC.
Raymond James served as financial advisor to SkyTrak.
Since 1995, GOLFTEC's mission has remained the same—to help people play better golf. The GOLFTEC experience is designed for golfers of all ages and abilities to work with an expert Coach to build a game improvement plan customized to their specific needs and goals. GOLFTEC's cutting edge training systems, including the proprietary OptiMotion technology, gives Students and Coaches instant and data-driven feedback. With millions of lessons given and more than 230 locations across the world, GOLFTEC is the world leader in golf improvement.
SkyTrak is golf's most popular consumer launch monitor and simulator. SkyTrak provides golfers of all skill levels accurate, real-time feedback making it a complete practice, play and entertainment system. A great solution for consumers, teachers, club fitters and PGA Professionals, SkyTrak delivers quality ball flight simulations that reflect a golfer's actual performance.
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In Maryland, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans more than two to one, but for the past eight years, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has maintained some of the highest approval ratings of any governor in the country.
If Hogan's pick, Kelly Schulz, wins the Republican primary contest Tuesday, Democrats face a tight race in November, according to a poll conducted last month by Goucher College in partnership with WYPR and The Baltimore Banner.
Schulz served in Hogan's cabinet for seven years, most recently as secretary of the Maryland Department of Commerce and before that, as secretary of the state Department of Labor. Nearly a quarter of likely Democratic voters would consider supporting Schulz in November, respondents said.
Maryland has a lot of moderate Democrats
Democrats haven't been able to elect a governor in Maryland since 2010 with former Gov. Martin O'Malley, and Hogan has been enormously popular in the state. He's an outspoken opponent of former President Donald Trump, is bullish when it comes to cutting taxes but is moderate on most social issues.
Democrats' desire to take back the top office in the state has lead to a nine-way primary race, but some of the more progressive options may be too far to the left for many of Maryland's Democratic voters, roughly half of whom described themselves as "moderate" in the recent poll.
"For Democrats who would really like a return to single-party government in Maryland, they look at Kelly Schulz as certainly the greatest threat to that," says Mileah Kromer, the director of the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics at Goucher College.
On the other hand, Dan Cox, a Republican member of the Maryland House of Delegates who has been endorsed by Trump, seems to present an opportunity for Democrats. According to last month's poll, 84% of Democrats would not consider supporting Cox in November.
And strictly from a numbers standpoint, any candidate that hopes to become Maryland's next governor needs the backing of at least some registered Democrats to win. Dan Cox would be much easier for Democrats to beat than Schulz, says Kromer.
The DGA spends on ads for Cox
Another Goucher poll last October found something similar. Voters were asked to choose between a Republican like either Trump or Hogan and a progressive or moderate Democrat.
"And what we found is a Republican like Hogan is competitive, or even bests a moderate or progressive Democrat, and a Republican like Trump, on the other hand, gets blown out of the water," says Kromer.
That may be why the Democratic Governors Association has spent more than $1 million airing ads in the Republican contest — like the group did in Illinois. State Republican leaders say the ads are designed to help Cox win Tuesday's primary, giving Democrats a leg up in November, but the DGA says they're designed to be attack ads and that they're starting the general election fight early.
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Rockies vs. Cardinals Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - April 10
Monday's contest between the Colorado Rockies (4-6) and St. Louis Cardinals (3-6) matching up at Coors Field has a projected final score of 5-4 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of the Rockies, so expect a competitive matchup. The game will start at 8:40 PM ET on April 10.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the St. Louis Cardinals will send Steven Matz (0-1) to the mound, while German Marquez (1-1) will answer the bell for the Colorado Rockies.
Rockies vs. Cardinals Game Info & Odds
- When: Monday, April 10, 2023 at 8:40 PM ET
- Where: Coors Field in Denver, Colorado
- How to Watch on TV: SportsNet RM
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Rockies vs. Cardinals Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Rockies 5, Cardinals 4.
Total Prediction for Rockies vs. Cardinals
- Total Prediction: Under 11.5 runs
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Rockies Performance Insights
- The Rockies have come away with two wins in the six contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This year, Colorado has won two of six games when listed as at least +120 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Rockies have an implied victory probability of 45.5% according to the moneyline set by sportsbooks for this matchup.
- Colorado scores the 19th-most runs in baseball (41 total, 4.1 per game).
- The Rockies have the 26th-ranked ERA (5.55) in the majors this season.
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SANTA CLARITA, Calif., Oct. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Love Boat….promises something for everyone…proved true today as the cast members from the original scripted show "The Love Boat" met with the hosts of CBS's romantic adventure dating show "The Real Love Boat," Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell, and The Real Love Boat Crew.
"Rebecca and I grew up watching the original 'Love Boat' and our show is inspired by that beloved series so to meet the original cast was just a wonderful experience," said Jerry O'Connell, host of "The Real Love Boat."
Princess Cruises Celebrations Ambassador Jill Whelan (Vicki Stubing), is joined by fellow "Love Boat" cast members Cynthia Lauren Tewes (Julie McCoy), Bernie Kopell (Doc), Fred Grandy (Gopher) and Ted Lange (Isaac) were onboard as they departed for a specially-themed "Love Boat" cruise leaving from the Port of Los Angeles on a seven-day roundtrip Mexican Riviera cruise onboard Discovery Princess. The original ensemble cast will celebrate their friend and everyone's favorite cruise ship Captain Stubing with a tribute to Actor Gavin MacLeod. Together they will also share their favorite memories from the show and participate in various guest activities, including a renewal of vows for guests.
"The Real Love Boat," hosted by Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell, is set on a luxury Princess Cruises ship and they are joined by the ship's crew members – Captain Paolo Arrigo, Ezra Freeman (Bartender) and Matt Mitcham (Cruise Director) – bringing singles together to cruise the Mediterranean while looking for love. With over 40 combined years working in the industry, Arrigo, Freeman and Mitcham bring their real-world expertise to help the Singles find love in this adventure of a lifetime. Destination dates, challenges and surprise new singles are testing the couples' compatibility and chemistry. Like the beloved original scripted series set aboard a Princess cruise ship, the indispensable crew members play pivotal roles in the matchmaking and navigation of the romantic (and sometimes turbulent) waters ahead. "The Real Love Boat" airs on the CBS Television Network 9/8c and is available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess Cruises is the world's leading international premium cruise line and tour company operating a fleet of 15 modern cruise ships, carrying millions of guests each year to 330 destinations around the globe, including the Caribbean, Alaska, Panama Canal, Mexican Riviera, Europe, South America, Australia/New Zealand, the South Pacific, Hawaii, Asia, Canada/New England, Antarctica, and World Cruises. A team of professional destination experts have curated 170 itineraries, ranging in length from three to 111 days and Princess Cruises is continuously recognized as "Best Cruise Line for Itineraries." In 2017 Princess Cruises, with parent company Carnival Corporation, introduced MedallionClass Vacations enabled by the Medallion device, the vacation industry's most advanced wearable device, provided free to each guest sailing on a MedallionClass ship. The award-winning innovation offers the fastest way to an effortless personalized vacation, giving guests more time to do the things they love most. The company is part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE:CUK).
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Oil giant BP plans to launch a series of large EV fast-charging “Gigahubs” aimed at ride-hailing vehicles.
The first of these hubs will be built near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in collaboration with rental-car firm Hertz, and will be funded in part by a $2 million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), BP said in a press release.
BP said that 48 charging ports would be installed in this first hub, with an estimated 6,400 ride-hailing fleet EVs using the site daily by 2027.
The site is near an existing Hertz facility. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this year calling for BP, via its BP Pulse business, to oversee charging for Hertz, which plans to add tens of thousands of EVs from Tesla, Polestar, and General Motors to its fleet by 2024.
More than 25,000 Uber drivers have rented vehicles from Hertz to date, Jeff Nieman, the company’s senior vice president of operations initiatives, said in a statement. The number of those drivers using EVs should increase significantly in the coming years.
California in 2021 approved an EV mandate for Uber and Lyft that will ramp up a growing portion of their fleets to fully electric between 2023 and 2030. Ride-hailing needs to go all-electric, as 2019 data found that 39% of the miles covered by on-duty ride-hailing drivers were “deadhead miles” with no passenger.
At the same time, most charging-infrastructure programs to date have overlooked ride-hailing drivers. Many charging networks are looking to facilitate road-trip charging by spanning intercity route gaps, but to aid ride hailing urban fast-charging stations will likely be needed. That could also help city residents who use EVs as their personal cars, as they don’t currently have many charging options.
BP plans to expand its current network to 100,000 chargers globally by 2030 as it looks to diversify from fossil fuels. The company, earlier this year, said that its fast-chargers are almost as profitable as gas pumps, on a margin basis.
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Busy stretch of south Fargo road to fully reopen
Published: Jun. 20, 2022 at 6:32 AM CDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - One of the busiest roads in south Fargo is set to fully reopen after a week of repairs.
City of Fargo officials say the all lanes of the once bumpy stretch of 32nd Ave. S. from University Dr. S to 25th St. SW. will reopen by the end of the day on June 20th.
Some in the metro say 32nd Ave S. is the ‘worst road in Fargo.’ Construction crews have been filling potholes and cracks since March.
On June 14, that stretch of road was down to one lane in both directions as crews worked to repair the potholes and bumps on the surface of the street.
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A twisted tale of celebrity promotion, opaque transactions and allegations of racist tropes
By Elle Reeve and Samantha Guff, CNN
Sitting across from Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show,” Paris Hilton, wearing a sparkling neon green turtleneck dress and a high ponytail, looked at a picture of a glum cartoon ape and said it “reminds me of me.” The audience laughed. It did not look like her at all.
Hilton and Fallon were chatting about their NFTs — non-fungible tokens, typically digital art bought with cryptocurrency — from the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The camera zoomed in on framed printouts of the ape cartoons. “We’re both apes,” Fallon said. Hilton, with her signature vocal fry, replied, “Love it.”
“The Tonight Show” episode from January 2022 is a YouTube time capsule showing the temporary alliance between celebrity marketing and the crypto industry. Bored Ape Yacht Club was not the biggest crypto phenomenon, but it was one of the top beneficiaries of celebrity hype. That celebrity hype, in turn, helped draw new consumers to crypto — an industry rife with manipulation and fraud, and one that US regulators are now giving more scrutiny in the wake of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. But for a time, when crypto’s prices seemed to have no limit, the money appeared too good for some to ask questions — questions like: Why are some of those apes wearing prison clothes?
“That was a very significant moment, because the audience for that show is very different from the typical crypto person,” explained Molly White, a software engineer and a fellow at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. The Bored Apes — a computer-generated collection of 10,000 cartoons — were being presented as a status symbol, membership in an exclusive club. Hilton, Fallon, and other celebrities had joined — and viewers could join, too, if they bought an NFT.
A class action lawsuit, filed in December, alleges Hilton, Fallon, and other celebrities conspired in a “vast scheme” to artificially inflate the price of Bored Ape NFTs and enrich themselves, the crypto payments company they used to get the apes, MoonPay, and the company that made the Bored Apes, Yuga Labs.
Hilton and Fallon did not respond to requests for comment.
Rise of the apes
In April 2021, Yuga Labs released the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection of cartoon apes with a computer-generated combination of features and accessories, such as gold fur, a sailor hat, laser eyes, 3-D glasses, a cigarette, as well as “hip hop” clothes, a “pimp coat,” a prison jumpsuit, a pith helmet, and a “sushi chef” headband. The founders were anonymous, known only by their online screen names.
That fall, Hollywood agent Guy Oseary reached out to Yuga Labs, eventually investing in the company and joining its board. Soon celebrities started posting their Bored Apes on social media — including Oseary’s client Madonna, along with Steph Curry, Lil Baby, DJ Khaled, Snoop Dogg, Gwyneth Paltrow, and more. Bored Apes started selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Justin Bieber bought an ape for $1.3 million. By March 2022, Yuga got a $450 million venture capital investment, and was valued at $4 billion.
The class action lawsuit claims, “this purported interest in” Bored Apes “by high-profile taste makers was entirely manufactured by Oseary at the behest of” Yuga Labs. “In order to make the promotion of, and subsequent interest in, the BAYC NFTs appear to be organic (as opposed to being solely the result of a paid promotion), the Company needed a way to discreetly pay their celebrity cohorts.” The suit alleges they did this through MoonPay.
When Jimmy Fallon introduced his audience to crypto, he also presented a frictionless way to buy in: MoonPay, a payments company that allows customers to buy crypto through most major payment systems like with a credit card. In November 2021, Fallon said on “The Tonight Show” that he’d bought his first NFT through MoonPay. “MoonPay? MoonPay! I did my homework — Moonpay, which is like PayPal but for crypto,” Fallon said. The following January, when Hilton showed her ape on the show, she said, “You said you got it on MoonPay, so I went and I copied you.”
A few months later, in April 2022, MoonPay announced more than 60 celebrities and influencers had invested in the firm. MoonPay spokesman Justin Hamilton told CNN that Hilton became an investor, but not until after she spoke with Fallon on “The Tonight Show.” The FTC generally requires an endorser to disclose when they have a financial interest in promoting a company.
The celebrity hype and unbelievable prices generated enormous media interest. “Rolling Stone” minted NFTs of the magazine with Bored Apes on the cover. Guy Oseary was on the cover of “Variety” under the headline “NFT King.”
Inside the world of MoonPay
Independent journalists, under the names of Coffeezilla and Dirty Bubble Media, noticed blockchain ledger records suggesting not everything was as it appeared. Cryptocurrency is traded on the blockchain, a permanent and public ledger of every transaction. That means it can reveal financial relationships, if you figure out the right questions to ask.
Hours before Justin Bieber bought an ape for the equivalent of $1.3 million on January 29, 2022, Bieber received Ethereum worth about $2.5 million in his crypto wallet, the blockchain shows. A couple weeks before Post Malone released a music video in November 2021 in which he bought a Bored Ape through MoonPay, MoonPay transferred cryptocurrency then worth about $760,000 into the artist’s wallet, and sent two more payments, worth about $640,000, a couple weeks after. MoonPay admits it paid for the placement in Post Malone’s video but says other celebrities paid full price for their service in US dollars.
Many celebrities who got apes thanked MoonPay on social media. Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted, “Joined @BoredApeYC ready for the reveal? Thanks @moonpay concierge.” The rapper Gunna posted on Instagram, “I Bought A @boredapeyachtclub NFT worth 300K No Cap ! His Name is BUTTA Thanks @moonpay !” Lil Baby mentioned MoonPay in his song “Top Priority.”
The blockchain shows MoonPay paying high prices for the apes, and then transferring them to purported celebrity wallets for free. MoonPay explains this as a service that helps wealthy people buy NFTs without setting up their own crypto wallet.
The company says the “white-glove” service was created because MoonPay’s CEO, Ivan Soto-Wright, had a lot of celebrity friends, and many of them asked how they could get an NFT. Jimmy Fallon, Lil Baby — they were Soto-Wright’s friends, Hamilton said.
CNN spoke to several former MoonPay employees who said they were skeptical the celebrities paid for their NFTs, because there was no evidence on the blockchain.
The company’s ape purchases have been significant. Since 2021, one of its wallets, “MoonPayHQ,” has spent at least $25 million on NFTs — 60% or about $15 million of that was spent on Bored Apes. The company told CNN they had 14 apes in a cold storage wallet, which offers more safety. It said that five of those NFTs were “purchased by concierge clients that are in the process of being transferred.” The last ape was purchased in April 2022, 10 months ago, according to blockchain records.
One influencer has said he was approached about an ape. In a Twitter Spaces audio chat last year, celebrity jeweler Ben Baller said, “Real talk: not once, not twice, three times, I’ve been offered a Bored Ape through MoonPay. … The fact that some of these super top-tier all-star NBA players have them? And I was like, ‘Yo this is all cap [lies.]’ They didn’t buy this sh*t.” Baller did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. MoonPay’s spokesman said this didn’t happen.
Oseary, the Hollywood agent and MoonPay/Yuga investor, texted CNN in response to a question: “NO ONE is paid to join the club and Yuga do NOT and have NOT given away any apes.” He said he paid full price for his Bored Ape, and so did Madonna.
Yuga Labs declined an on-the-record interview with CNN. In a statement, the company said, “In our view, these claims are opportunistic and parasitic. We strongly believe that they are without merit, and look forward to proving as much.” Hamilton, MoonPay’s spokesman, said of the lawsuit, “We look forward to it being dismissed.”
Anonymity and accusations
“The fine art market is a scam — that’s OK, at least there’s art going on,” said Max Gail, who’s been a blockchain developer since 2010, and founded Omakasea and Eth Gobblers.com. (Gail hosted the Twitter Space in which Baller discussed Bored Apes.) The NFT market, he said, “is like a parody of the fine art market. They took the same strategies that had been employed in the fine art market, but then distorted it with some strange crypto economics.”
Anonymous buyers and sellers dealing in items whose values are difficult to calculate has made the fine art market susceptible to money laundering, a Senate investigation found in 2020. In 2022, an average of more than half of NFT trading volume on the Ethereum blockchain was “wash” trading, according to an analysis at Dune Analytics. (Most NFTs are on Ethereum.) Essentially, wash trades are a transaction in which the buyer and seller are the same person, or they’re working together. Wash trading has been illegal in traditional finance since the Great Depression, because it can distort the market by making people believe there is a high volume of interest in the investment. The ability to open many anonymous cryptocurrency wallets makes wash trading NFTs easier. A Chainalysis report found one “prolific NFT wash trader” made 830 sales to self-financed wallets in 2021.
Though NFTs have been celebrated as the future of digital art, and a way for artists to earn royalties, many NFT collections operate more like securities — a financial instrument, like stocks or bonds, that hold some monetary value. “People will say that the technology itself has provided this whole new way of creating digital art,” Harvard’s Molly White said. “It’s not that unique. The unique part of it is the speculative bubble.”
The NFT marketplace does not always make sense even to those who benefit from it. “Bored Apes have gone from $100 to $100,000 in a year. Nothing appreciates that fast,” a successful NFT artist said. The artist’s own works had gone from a couple hundred dollars to tens of thousands. One of the artist’s major collectors “treats me as a commodity and my art is a commodity and he’s always pumping and dumping it. … It’s being treated as a financial vehicle.”
But there is pressure not to raise questions about the system. The NFT artist did not want to go on the record, saying it would be career suicide. “The big collectors watch for artists that FUD. And as soon as an artist FUDs, they get cancelled,” the artist said. FUD is “fear, uncertainty, and doubt,” or criticism of crypto.
Beyond how the Bored Ape NFTs are traded, what they depict is at issue in yet another Yuga Labs legal battle.
In the fall of 2021, accusations began swirling on social media that the Bored Ape Yacht Club contained visual references to racist memes from the troll site, 4chan. The artist Ryder Ripps — who’s worked with stars like Kanye West and Tame Impala — started tweeting about the claims of racist imagery. Ripps claims Guy Oseary, the Hollywood agent on Yuga’s board, called to pressure him to stop talking about the claims. (Oseary told CNN, “I can’t speak on active litigation.”)
Ripps doubled down and made a website cataloging the claims. Then, in an act he says was meant to protest the alleged racism and comment on the idea you can’t copy an NFT, Ripps made copycat NFTs he sold as RR/BAYC. Yuga sued Ripps for trademark infringement, and argues that his maligning of the Yuga apes is nothing more than a profiteering tactic. Ripps says Yuga is trying to silence its critics, and has doubled down on his claims as part of his defense in the trademark suit.
Yuga Labs called the accusations “the incoherent ramblings of a small group of for-profit conspiracy theorists.” However, the Yuga lawsuit against Ripps could affect the class action lawsuit against Yuga. Ripps’s lawyers have issued subpoenas to Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon.
To assert its trademark rights, Yuga must show that consumers associate its logos with its products, and it did so in a legal filing, in part, by pointing to celebrity owners “including TV host Jimmy Fallon…”
Ripps’s lawyer, Louis Tompros, asserts Yuga compensated celebrities for promoting its NFTs, and they did not disclose it. “And by doing that, in our view, they have gotten this public notoriety for their brand improperly,” Tompros told CNN. “And so having gotten it improperly, they now can’t go and assert that they have these rights.”
This week Yuga co-founder Wylie Aronow published a 24-page letter explaining that he was stepping back from the company and addressing widespread rumors that the company and its products were connected to the alt-right.
“I will soon call out this utter bullsh*t under oath,” he wrote.
So what are the racist references alleged by Ripps and others? To start, there’s what’s right on the surface: some of the NFTs are pictures of apes in “hip hop” clothes, a “pimp coat,” a prison uniform, a bone necklace, gold and diamond grills. Record executive Dame Dash, a crypto enthusiast, pointed out on a podcast last year that monkeys and apes are old racist tropes.
“Think if you were a racist, like ‘Guess what I’m gonna do? I’mma get Black people to love monkeys so much that they gonna buy them, wear them on their neck… go to something called ApeFest and they’re gonna like it!’ Wouldn’t that sound funny?” Dash said on the podcast. “That’s what’s happening.”
Dash told CNN he hadn’t intended to target Yuga directly. But he’d started to wonder if he was being trolled, given the ubiquity of apes in crypto. “Racism is different these days — you can’t be so overt about it. You have to kind of troll,” Dash said.
This week Yuga agreed to settle a lawsuit with a developer who worked with Ripps, with the developer agreeing to pay them $25,000 and saying he would reject all disparaging statements against Yuga Labs.
Ryan Hickman, a software engineer who also worked with Ripps on RR/BAYC, is also being sued separately by Yuga. Hickman, who is Black, thought the Bored Apes looked like stereotypical portrayals of Black people as stupid or lazy. He said he thought this would be obvious to most people the second they saw an image of a Bored Ape. But, he said, “then somebody says, ‘Well, it’s worth $100,000.’ They say, ‘Okay well, tell me more.'”
In a statement, Yuga said, “Our company and founders strongly condemn the spread of hate, in any form, against any group.” Hollywood agent Oseary said he’d never been on the troll site 4chan.
The crypto community has adopted a lot of terms — rekt, frens, wagmi — that were popularized on 4chan, and it’s not always clear if the person using them understands where they came from. “I doubt that they were a massive alt-right troll campaign,” Harvard’s Molly White said. “I do think it’s likely that the creators of the project basically included some nods to 4chan.”
“It’s not one thing that makes it racist. It’s everything together as a package,” programmer and 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan said, looking at comparisons between Pepe the Frog memes and Bored Apes. Brennan took an interest in the claims that Yuga referenced 4chan memes, because he’d seen them so often when he was running 8chan, a similar troll site. He quit 8chan in 2016, and in 2019 pushed for it to be taken down because it had become a hub for extremist violence. He began to suspect the Yuga founders were like the people he used to know.
Take one of the apes’ characteristics, which Yuga calls a “sushi chef headband.” Brennan reads and speaks Japanese, and saw the headband actually said “kamikaze,” which has been used as a slur against Japanese people. A similar headband appeared on a Pepe meme. “That one was the most shocking,” he told CNN.
In a legal filing connected to the Ripps case, Yuga said the apes reflected a combination of many traits, “not any person’s purported racism.”
“I was hoping, in my eternal optimism,” Brennan said, “that people would become a lot more skeptical of tech bros. … And that liberal — so-called — celebrities in Hollywood would view these people with suspicion. Apparently not.”
— CORRECTION: This story has been updated to clarify when Paris Hilton invested in MoonPay. Jimmy Fallon is not an investor, a company spokesman said.
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HONOLULU (KHON) – Ala’s Mediterranean Kitchen currently sits on Leahi Avenue in Honolulu. The food truck’s owner, Ala Thavata, said he has been parked there for about four months and is paying for parking, but a wooden structure he built on the truck’s roof is drawing attention from neighbors.
Thavata said he built the wooden structure out of desperation, as he is facing eviction from his apartment, on top of health issues with his son.
“I had no other way,” Thavata said. “I have to either live in the parks, sleep, I can’t even have a tent so I am getting evicted and trying to make it.”
The food truck has a food establishment permit from the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH), along with a green placard for his business.
The HDOH said they only focus on the food safety aspect of the business, not the structure.
Thavata said, “I thought this was my truck, I have the right to do whatever I want on my spot, this is a private road this owned by a private lady so I feel like this is my first step to life, so please don’t destroy me, guys.”
The owner of the food truck said the wooden structure just went up on Monday and said he plans on adding a tarp over it.
Thavata has also started a small garden on the hood of the truck.
KHON reached out to the city with questions from neighbors. The city said it is still working to determine jurisdiction over the food truck in question and whether any action is necessary.
In the meantime, Thavata said he has faced harassment for being parked there.
Thavata said, “I love my customers but I don’t know about the rest they really have a lot of haters.”
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for XELA, GRAB, GOEV, PLUG, and JWN.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chris Van Hollen wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maryland primary election.
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Companies to Combine PLM Experts in New ITC Infotech Business Unit
BOSTON and BANGALORE, India, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) and ITC Infotech today announced an agreement to accelerate customer digital transformation initiatives, focused on the adoption of PTC's industry-leading Windchill® product lifecycle management (PLM) software as a service (SaaS). ITC Infotech will acquire a portion of PTC's PLM implementation services business and create a new business unit of ITC Infotech, called DxP Services, that will combine PLM professional services experts from both companies. Together, the two companies will work together to deliver 'in-flight' Windchill implementation services for a broad set of existing PTC customers while also enabling a growing number of customers to move from their existing, sometimes highly-customized on-premises implementation of Windchill to next-generation, best-practice SaaS.
Across all aspects of business, digital transformation and SaaS adoption have gone mainstream, with more than half of all commercial software expected to be sold as SaaS this year. In the manufacturing industry, the SaaS adoption curve is accelerating, driven in part by the COVID pandemic. To meet this fast-emerging market need, PTC is investing heavily to bring its entire product portfolio to the cloud via its PTC Atlas™ SaaS Platform. With this new agreement, PTC and ITC Infotech will bring together professionals from both companies into a unified team dedicated to creating, and jointly offering, the tooling and methodologies required to expedite a smooth transition to SaaS.
"As a global technology services and solution provider, ITC Infotech shares a common goal with our partner PTC – to enable customers to embrace SaaS as a cornerstone of their digital transformation strategies," said Sudip Singh, Managing Director and CEO, ITC Infotech. "PTC and ITC Infotech have a proven and trusting alliance formed over 20 years working together for the benefit of our mutual customers. The creation of DxP Services will take our relationship to a whole new level and will enable PTC customers to transform the way they adopt technology in the distributed, secure, and agile workplace of the future."
ITC Infotech has successfully partnered with customers and helped them transform the way they consume technology, including embracing SaaS. The firm's deep understanding of the innovation and value which is realized at the intersection of technology, domain, and industry, makes them the partner of choice to their customers. Increasingly considered the backbone of digital transformation, PLM implementation for industrial companies is one of ITC Infotech's core competencies, with the firm having successfully delivered hundreds of global PLM engagements. Such depth of domain expertise, the longevity of collaboration between the two companies, and the fact that many PTC PLM implementation experts will be joining DxP Services will help provide a smooth transition for customers as the new business unit commences operations. Over time, DxP Services expects to expand the range of services it provides.
"It has long been PTC's strategy to build a partner ecosystem that brings to bear the expertise and capacity of systems integrators to drive business transformation and technology adoption across our global customer base," said Jim Heppelmann, President & CEO, PTC. "Together with ITC Infotech, we are creating a specialized team to unlock the potential of our Windchill services business and accelerate manufacturers' ability to realize the benefits of SaaS, such as accessibility, security, and a lower total cost of ownership."
Further accelerating PTC's embrace of SaaS as a business paradigm, the company will focus its own services professionals on thought leadership related to digital thread value realization. PTC's services experts are unique in their understanding of the value that can be created at the intersection of the technologies that drive an enterprise digital thread strategy – CAD, PLM, Internet of Things (IoT), and Augmented Reality (AR). PTC will apply that expertise to continue driving digital transformation across the manufacturing landscape. PTC will continue to lead implementation services for customers with unique requirements, such as U.S. federal government security protocols, while also continuing to collaborate with its global partner ecosystem to drive digital thread initiatives and enable more customers to benefit from PTC's next-generation SaaS solutions across the company's technology portfolio.
"This new agreement with ITC Infotech will allow PTC to realign its own professional services experts to a unique thought leadership role in the industry in enabling digital transformation for industrial companies across engineering, manufacturing, and service," added Heppelmann. "PTC is investing heavily in next-generation SaaS solutions across our portfolio, and this expert team will develop the roadmaps our customers need to increase the value they realize from technology, and enable them to completely redefine the way work gets done."
Subject to applicable closing conditions, the transaction is expected to be completed in PTC's fiscal Q3. Management plans to discuss the expected impact of the agreement on PTC's financial and operating metrics during its fiscal Q2 quarterly earnings call on April 27.
About ITC Infotech
ITC Infotech is a leading global technology services and solutions provider, led by Business and Technology Consulting. ITC Infotech provides business-friendly solutions to help clients succeed and be future-ready, by seamlessly bringing together digital expertise, strong industry specific alliances and the unique ability to leverage deep domain expertise from ITC Group businesses. The company provides technology solutions and services to enterprises across industries such as Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Travel and Hospitality, through a combination of traditional and newer business models, as a long-term sustainable partner. ITC is one of India's leading private sector companies and a diversified conglomerate with businesses spanning Consumer Goods, Hotels, Paperboards and Packaging, Agri Business and Information Technology. For more information, please visit: http://www.itcinfotech.com/
About PTC
PTC enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and service innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we don't just imagine a better world, we enable it. For more information, please visit www.ptc.com.
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Statements in this press release that are not historic facts, including statements about customers' willingness to adopt SaaS solutions for their digital transformation initiatives, the development of technologies and methodologies to expedite the transition to SaaS, the effect of the transaction on customers, and the expected closing of the transaction, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. These risks include: customers may be slower to adopt SaaS than we expect or may adopt competing SaaS solutions; the development of technologies and methodologies to expedite customers' transition to SaaS may not occur when or as we expect; significant disruption could occur among employees and/or customers, causing them to terminate their relationships with PTC or ITCI; and, the closing of the transaction may not occur when or as we expect if the closing conditions are not satisfied or the transaction is otherwise terminated. Other risks and uncertainties that could cause PTC's actual results to differ materially from those projected are detailed from time to time in reports filed by PTC with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including PTC's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
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DARIEN, Ill., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine launched "Sleep Is Good Medicine," a national campaign to increase public education about the importance of sleep and its connection to health. The campaign was announced during the plenary session of the SLEEP 2022 annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Charlotte, North Carolina.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 3 adults in the United States report getting less than seven hours of sleep per day. In 2021, the AASM issued a position statement noting that sleep is essential to health and calling for greater emphasis on sleep health in education, clinical practice, inpatient and long-term care, public health promotion, and the workplace.
"This campaign will support the AASM vision that sleep is recognized as essential to health," said Dr. Raman Malhotra, a board-certified sleep medicine physician and professor in the department of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "Sleep is as important as nutrition and exercise for our health and well-being."
"Sleep Is Good Medicine" will show how getting healthy sleep helps the body boost immunity, reduce stress, and work to lower the risk for many medical conditions, like diabetes and hypertension.
"We know that chronic insufficient sleep can have a detrimental impact on personal health and increase the risk of many diseases," said Jennifer L. Martin, a licensed clinical psychologist who is a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Healthy sleep is also important for mood regulation and mental health, helping to reduce the risk of problems such as anxiety and depression."
Through "Sleep Is Good Medicine," the AASM will work to elevate sleep as a key pillar of health — equivalent to nutrition and exercise. The campaign builds upon the AASM's existing awareness efforts for the public and health care professionals, serving as a key initiative in addressing information gaps about the value of sleep.
The digital campaign will provide engaging content, including infographics and social media messages, to educate adults about healthy sleep and encourage people to talk to their doctor about their sleep concerns. The campaign also will provide tips and resources to support health care professionals in helping their patients improve their sleep health.
To learn more about the "Sleep Is Good Medicine" campaign and download its resources, visit www.sleepisgoodmedicine.com.
Established in 1975, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is advancing sleep care and enhancing sleep health to improve lives. The AASM has a combined membership of 11,000 accredited member sleep centers and individual members, including physicians, scientists and other health care professionals (aasm.org).
Contact: Jennifer Gibson, jgibson@aasm.org, 630-737-9729
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Cooper and Ace Flagg will be playing this weekend in the third annual Geico Top Flight Invite in Las Vegas, Nevada, but you can still watch the tournament in Maine.
The twin brothers are competing for the Florida Eagles, the fall team affiliated with Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida. While Montverde doesn’t officially begin until its first preseason game against Umatilla on Nov. 15, the Florida Eagles will be playing on Friday against Air Nado (Nevada).
Cooper and Ace Flagg burst onto the Maine high school basketball scene last winter with Nokomis High School, leading the Warriors to a 21-1 record and a Class A state championship.
The Flagg brothers went on to play AAU basketball for Maine United in Nike’s EYBL league, garnering national attention and leading Cooper Flagg to be ranked as the No. 2 recruit in the class of 2025, according to ESPN.
This summer, the Flagg brothers transferred to Montverde Academy to further their basketball careers. Montverde has won back-to-back championships at Geico Nationals.
All Friday and Saturday tournament games will be streamed on ESPN+. The top-ranked Florida Eagles play No. 8 Air Nado at 9 p.m. ET Friday.
On Saturday, the two consolation games will be played at 4 p.m. and 5:45 p.m., followed by the first semifinal game at 7:30 p.m. and the second at 9:15 p.m.
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Brody Minder tossed a three-hitter and struck out nine as Cherokee, No. 18 in the NJ.com Top 20, snapped a two-game losing streak with a 10-0 win over Camden Catholic in Marlton.
Danny Torres went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI and Nick DeFord had a two-run single for Cherokee, which improved to 7-3.
Liam Lyons had two hits for Camden Catholic (2-4).
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia held a dress rehearsal on Saturday for the military parade to commemorate Victory Day on May 9, when the country marks the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II.
This year’s Victory Day, which falls on Monday, won’t just honor a conflict that ended 77 years ago. Many Russians will be thinking about the thousands of troops in neighboring Ukraine. Signs of support for the military have grown across the country since Feb. 24, with the letter “Z” appearing on billboards and signs in the streets and subways, and on television and social media.
On Saturday, an RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile rolled through Red Square as part of the rehearsal in Moscow, with warplanes and helicopters flying overhead, troops marching in formation and self-propelled artillery vehicles rumbling past. | https://phl17.com/news/ap-top-headlines/russia-holds-dress-rehearsal-for-victory-day-parade/ | 2022-05-07 13:30:23 | 1 | https://phl17.com/news/ap-top-headlines/russia-holds-dress-rehearsal-for-victory-day-parade/ |
HOUSTON, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond Finance, one of the nation's most prominent debt resolution companies, partnered with OnePoll and SWNS to deliver a national Mental Health Awareness Month survey. The numbers in this Beyond Finance survey were staggering and found that acute financial stress takes on many forms in people's lives, all of which tend to cause harm in the lives of those struggling with personal debt.
For example, the 2,000 adults polled showed that 66% had avoided social events because of shame or embarrassment about their financial situation. Those "fear of missing out (FOMO)" moments include birthday parties (33%), weddings (32%), happy hours (31%), networking events (31%), dates (30%), and even church (27%).
Dr. Erika Rasure, former professor of business and financial services at Maryville University and financial therapist for Beyond Finance clients, believes those missed events and the symptoms causing those feelings all funnel into self-worth.
"Whether those individuals polled focus on what they earn or their comfort level discussing their financial stresses, these numbers shine a light on one primary thing–these days, personal finances directly impact on the view of one's worth," she said.
The rising costs of living may be one of the leading factors building financial stress in the lives of Americans. In 2022, the average U.S. household income is $74,099. Nonetheless, the survey pointed out people believe they need to earn a minimum of $86,000 to never feel stressed about their finances again.
That number may be why eight in 10 people (80%) of those reported have some form of debt. While the problem is singular, the symptoms can vary:
- 42% shared debt has negatively affected their self-esteem
- 38% noted the effects on their work productivity
- 38% also reported debt harmed their physical health
"Clients of Beyond Finance have mentioned that it is difficult to have tough conversations about money with partners. Problems fester until they feel out of control," said Beyond Finance Senior Vice President of Clients Tom Blank. "One of the services we provide are tools for having these conversations so that they can be productive instead of argumentative."
Although no Beyond Finance clients were a part of the National Mental Health Awareness Month survey, both Blank and Dr. Rasure believes the company's client's feelings would not stray from the survey numbers. Here are a few more metrics that provide a glance into the current financial stress levels of people today:
- 67% engage in "stress shopping" when feeling financially overwhelmed
- 58% feel alone when experiencing financial stress
- 51% are ashamed of their struggles to pay bills or manage their finances
- 35% blame themselves for their current economic situation
- 35% believe they are not doing enough to change it or avoid looking at their bills
"Symptoms of acute financial stress, such as finance-related avoidant behaviors, feelings of isolation, and guilt can affect anyone, regardless of how much money they earn," Rasure added. "There are options available to help diminish or refinance debt and give people greater peace of mind. It's time to applaud people for being proactive in dealing with their debt."
Dr. Rasure is a paid financial therapist for Beyond Finance's clients, whose opinions are hers. The Beyond Finance survey was a random, double-opt-in outreach conducted by OnePoll following the Market Research Society's code of conduct. Representatives collected data between April 25-26, 2022.
All participants were paid an amount depending on the length and complexity of the survey. This survey was overseen and edited by the OnePoll research team, who are MRS members and have corporate membership to ESOMAR (the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research) and AAPOR (the American Association for Public Opinion Research).
Beyond Finance, LLC is one of the nation's largest and most influential debt resolution organizations in Houston, Texas. By standing alongside clients wherever they are in their debt journey, Beyond Finance uses personalized debt reduction programs and proprietary technology to give them the clarity, confidence, and tools they need to move beyond debt. Since 2011, they have resolved more than $1 billion in client debt. In June 2020, it merged with an affiliate to become the dedicated company it is today. They have additional offices in Chicago, Illinois, San Diego, and Irvine, California. For more information, visit BeyondFinance.com.
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It is a mostly clear, mild and muggy morning across Central Alabama with some patchy fog. Temperatures are in the 70s.
The weather pattern does not change much to end the work week as Alabama remains between two areas of high pressure – one over the Western U.S. and one over Bermuda. The Bermuda high will move to the west and this will will help to keep us a little drier today with only a slight chance for a few showers and storms. Otherwise, we will be partly cloudy, hot and humid with highs in the lower 90s.
Tonight, we will be mostly clear and muggy with lows in the 70s.
Friday will remain hot and humid with only a few showers and storms – mainly over Eastern Alabama. High temperaturess will stay in the lower 90s and the heat index will be around 97-102°.
Weekend Outlook: Alabama will still be between the two ridges on Saturday, so we will have more typical summer weather. It will be partly cloudy, hot and humid with spotty showers and storms. High temperatures will be in the lower to mid 90s, and the heat index 98-103°. Sunday will have a better chance for scattered afternoon storms as a weak trough moves toward Alabama. High temperatures will be in the lower 90s and the heat index around 100°.
Next Week Outlook: The trough of low pressure will stay over the Southeast U.S Monday and Tuesday. Each day will have scattered showers and storms with some heavy rain at times. High temperatures will be in the upper 80s to around 90°. A cold front will move across Alabama on Wednesday with more numerous showers and storms. High temperatures will be in the upper 80s. The rain will end Thursday and Friday as the front stalls along the coast. We will be partly cloudy, warm and less humid each day with highs in the upper 80s.
Tracking the Tropics: Tropical development is not expected in the next 5 days thanks to wind shear across the tropics and plenty of dry dusty air.
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The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted its second-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, the renowned California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren — for having a woman pastor.
The vote by the convention’s Executive Committee culminates growing tension between the nation’s largest Protestant denomination — which officially opposes women as pastors — and a congregation whose story has been one of the biggest church-growth successes of modern times.
The committee cited Saddleback’s having “a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor,” an allusion to Stacie Wood, wife of the current lead pastor of Saddleback, Andy Wood.
But the controversy began in 2021, when Warren ordained three women as pastors, prompting discussions within the denomination about possibly expelling the megachurch.
Warren retired last year after more than 42 years at Saddleback. He made an emotional speech in June 2022 at the Southern Baptists’ annual convention in Anaheim, standing by his ordination of women. He told delegates who debated the issue, “We have to decide if we will treat each other as allies or adversaries.”
But the Executive Committee took the vote Tuesday without public discussion after meeting in executive session.
It voted to approve a recommendation from the denomination’s Credentials Committee that Saddleback be deemed “not in friendly cooperation with the Convention” — the terminology used for ousting a church. While Southern Baptists’ statement of faith officially opposes women as pastors, each congregation is self-governing, so the main enforcement mechanism is to oust it from membership.
The Executive Committee’s motion said that Saddleback “has a faith and practice that does not closely identify with the Convention’s adopted statement of faith, as demonstrated by the church having a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor.”
Saddleback has the right to appeal the decision at the Southern Baptists’ next annual meeting, scheduled for New Orleans in June. It did not respond immediately to requests for comment on the Executive Committee decision.
Mike Keahbone, an Executive Committee member and Oklahoma pastor, said an appeal “appears likely.”
“This was the heart of the room; to let the messengers (delegates) of the SBC decide,” Keahbone tweeted Tuesday.
With its main campus in Lake Forest, south of Los Angeles, Saddleback Church has grown over four to 14 locations in Southern California, with an average weekly attendance of 30,000. There are four international campuses —in Hong Kong, Germany, the Philippines and Argentina.
Wood told The Associated Press last year that the Bible “teaches that men and women were given spiritual gifts by God.” His wife has served as teaching pastor for Saddleback.
“The church should be a place where both men and women can exercise those spiritual gifts,” Wood said. “My wife has the spiritual gift of teaching and she is really good. People often tell me she’s better than me when it comes to preaching, and I’m really glad to hear that.”
The Executive Committee also voted to oust five other congregations — four over the issue of women as pastors and one over the issue of sexual abuse.
When Southern Baptists last updated their official statement of belief — The Baptist Faith and Message — in 2000, they added this clause: “While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.”
The five churches ousted for having women as pastors “have been valued, cooperating churches for many years, and this decision was not made lightly,” Committee Chairman Jared Wellman said in a statement. “However, we remain committed to upholding the theological convictions of the SBC and maintaining unity among its cooperating churches.”
Warren, with a social media following in the millions, has written multiple books, including the widely successful “The Purpose Driven Life.” In 2005, Time magazine named Warren one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” and he delivered the invocation at President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
The church grew from a startup by Rick Warren and his wife, Kay Warren. With his charisma and easy, informal preaching style, Warren attracted thousands to the megachurch. Over the past decade, Warren also launched an ambitious plan to expand the church’s reach across Southern California as well as globally, a vision his successor has promised to complete.
Warren, in a tweet, said he and Kay would “respond to #SBC in OUR time & way thru direct channels” such as social media and newsletters.
Warren remains listed as founding pastor on the Saddleback website.
The SBC has in recent years authorized the ouster of churches that don’t conform to its statement of faith. This includes churches with women pastors, LGBTQ-inclusive polices, support for racism or failure to respond adequately to child sexual abuse, such as employing offenders as pastors.
In some cases, the committee has ousted churches for allegedly failing even to cooperate in answering to such allegations, as reflected in some of the motions approved on Tuesday.
It deemed Freedom Church in Vero Beach, Florida, to be not in friendly cooperation “based on a lack of intent to cooperate in resolving concerns regarding a sexual abuse allegation.” The denomination has been roiled by allegations in recent years of sexual abusers remaining in ministry, prompting the convention to vote for stricter policies. A task force focused on the issue this week announced the hiring of a firm to oversee a new database of credibly accused ministers.
Freedom Church’s pastor, Richard Demsick, told the AP that the SBC has sent conflicting messages to the church. In a letter to national, state and local Southern Baptist entities, church leaders disputed any allegation of abuse, asked for additional information and said they planned to appeal any ouster.
The Executive Committee ousted New Faith Mission Ministry of Griffin, Georgia, and St. Timothy’s Christian Baptist in Baltimore, citing their “lack of intent to cooperate in resolving a question” arising from the churches having women senior pastors.
And it ousted Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, both for having female lead pastors, indicating they have a “faith and practice” at odds with the convention’s.
The SBC has 13.7 million members, but has seen net declines over more than a decade in members and baptisms, its key metric for spiritual vitality.
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Nonprofits able to text supporters directly through dynamic all-in-one fundraising software
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Engaging Networks, a globally-trusted online fundraising and campaigning platform, will launch new texting capabilities, specifically designed for nonprofits and charities. The tools leverage a Twilio integration to support bulk sending of SMS and MMS messages to opted-in supporters and keyword management.
"Many nonprofits can't afford the high cost to start a texting program or have to sparse data together in siloed systems to reach their supporters," said Dan Szymczak, Senior Director of Product at Engaging Networks. "Our new tools make texting more accessible and integrated for organizations to engage their supporters in seconds."
The new texting tools launch later this fall, just ahead of the 2022 year-end giving season. The tools build on innovative technology already available on the platform to enable features such as one-click donations and conditional content. In 2021, Twilio texting technology helped nonprofits send 17 billion messages across 195 countries. The addition of this important feature to Engaging Networks further positions the platform as the leading all-in-one digital engagement tool for nonprofits and charities.
The launch is part of a larger redesign of the platform's email suite to allow for multi-channel messaging, with an easy-to-use interface across technical levels. The integrated texting and email tools come in response to the evolving digital landscape and growing power of text as a key nonprofit engagement channel.
Layering rich data with advanced features, Engaging Networks' new messaging tools are designed to help nonprofits raise more money, win more campaigns, and instantly connect with their most loyal supporters.
To learn more about Engaging Networks' upcoming texting tools, please visit www.engagingnetworks.net/solutions/messaging.
About Engaging Networks: Engaging Networks is an innovative digital engagement technology platform with the ability to fully adapt to a nonprofit's fundraising and advocacy needs. Engaging Networks proudly works with a variety of important organizations such as The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, Human Rights Campaign, PETA and Amnesty International. To learn more, visit engagingnetworks.net.
Austin Dressman
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austin@engagingnetworks.net
(202) 643-4006
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Police officer involved in North Phoenix shooting: PD
PHOENIX - Phoenix Police officials say an investigation into an officer-involved shooting is underway.
The shooting, according to a brief tweet, the shooting happened in the area of 39th Avenue and Cactus Road.
"There are no injuries to officers or community members," a portion of the tweet reads.
We are working to find out what led to the shooting.
This shooting happened following a string of shootings in the Phoenix area from the night of May 13 into May 14.
Read More: Alerts in your neighborhood: Latest police, fire incidents around the Valley
This story is developing. Please check back for further updates. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/police-officer-involved-in-north-phoenix-shooting-pd | 2023-05-15 04:56:30 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/police-officer-involved-in-north-phoenix-shooting-pd |
WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Former MTV star Bam Margera punched his brother in the face during an altercation at their home in the Philadelphia suburbs, then took off on foot, Pennsylvania State Police said Monday in announcing criminal charges.
An arrest warrant was issued for Margera, 43, and police said they were looking for him.
State police said they were called to the Chester County home in response to a reported domestic disturbance shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday. Margera's brother, Jesse Margera, told police that Bam Margera had pounded on and kicked his locked bedroom door that morning, and punched him in the eye, nose and ear during a later confrontation in the kitchen, according to court documents.
Jesse Margera said he’d also found a threatening handwritten note signed “Bam," a police affidavit said.
Margera, who starred in the MTV reality series “Viva La Bam" and "Jackass," fled the property on foot through dense woods before troopers got there, the affidavit said.
Bam Margera is charged with simple assault, harassment, and four counts of terroristic threats. Court documents did not list an attorney for Margera. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/bam-margera-arrest-warrant/507-0bc39d6c-3a35-457e-9775-92180733867a | 2023-04-25 02:09:12 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/bam-margera-arrest-warrant/507-0bc39d6c-3a35-457e-9775-92180733867a |
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